another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm commissioner benedicto is in route. commissioner janez president. commissioner byrne here. commissioner yee here. vice president carter oberstein is in route. president lyons, do you have a quorum? also with us tonight are chief scott from the san francisco police department and executive director paul

henderson from the department of police accountability. thank you. welcome, everyone, to our january. seventh meeting. we can't believe we're already halfway through january. um, all right, let's get this party started. so go ahead. line line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. sergeant patrice heath star number 40 209. forensic science division csi. oh, this is your people, right. here. thank you. hi thank you. commissioners executive director and chief for this opportunity to recognize sergeant heath. uh just to tell you a little bit about what the day to day at csi is they, uh like everyone else in the department, they're short staffed. so there's a lot of on call. they're expected to respond to scenes 24 over seven. um a lot of backfill. they've um, about nine people in the unit, two of which are in

training and they've done over 1000 scenes in 2023. so they're they're very busy. and so they have to respond to scenes, but they also have to document them to the highest quality. look for evidence to make sure that it will stand up to further investigation and prosecution if necessary, or exoneration. um so it's a it's a lot of pressure a lot of stress. and so, sergeant heath really kind of exemplifies a csi officer where she's constantly, um training herself, continuing education. she's certified by the international association of identification. she's been instrumental in training our new , um, new recruits to the to the unit, both sworn and professional. and she's also at a hand in writing our standard operating procedures for how we process evidence at scenes. um in with the goal of getting the unit accredited. so it's my honor to recognize, uh, sergeant heath. and i'll read the certificate. so in recognition

of your dedication and professionalism, demonstrated through outstanding community policing practices and inspiring greatness by exemplifying the ideals of police officers as guardians of our community, such an example of dedication is worthy of the highest esteem by the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police department. thank you. sergeant heath. come on, step up to the microphone. first and foremost, i want to congratulate you and thank you for your service. um, i think being a police officer is obviously no easy feat, but the fact that you not only are a police officer, but also write standard operating procedures, which is a unique skill that not everyone has and is very difficult. i want to commend you on that because it's not easy writing policy or procedure, as i'm sure you're very familiar with. um and if you ever get bored over there, i'm sure written directives would love to have you. the chief loves people who can write, so congrats and thank

you for your service. thank you for helping. not only do your job well but train others to do it well too. so, um, chief. thank you, president elias. i echo president elias's compliments and sergeant heath. um one thing that i will say with the work that you and your entire unit. i know you have your partners here. um some of the unsung work that doesn't really get recognized is, um what this is all about with the commission really recognizing not just the medal of valor type of, uh, work that is, is definitely commendable. but the day to day heroes that we have out there that are just doing their job and making things work, and that is you and your unit. so i know it's not, uh, what people see. i mean, they see csi and they have a certain idea about how these things should work. it's a tv. we're behind the scenes. you're behind the scenes? exactly. but you're making things happen. and we

would not have any success that we have in terms of crimes we solve and the things that we do without you all and without you people like you. so thank you. thank you so much. and i just want to say this is an honor to receive. and i'm a third generation sfpd officer. my grandfather and my father before me. and i came into the department at 22. so i've basically grown up in this department, and it's an honor. yeah. and i'm grateful to be able to supervise and work alongside so many great people at csi. so did you want to introduce your unit? i mean we love giving people camera time. absolutely stand up gentlemen. let's see. please come on up here. join our party. come on up, officer aaron norquist officer raymond ortiz. hey. hello. our acting lieutenant lynn o'connor. oh hi. and our director needs no introduction. introduction mark powell. yes. thank you so much. one second. i want to give my fellow colleagues an opportunity to say a few words. commissioner walker. um i want to say

congratulations and thank you for your service. i've been out to visit your unit out there which is really, truly amazing. the work you do is so important. but, you know, there's a lot of folks who come to our meetings every week wanting their cases solved. it's so important the work you do. so, um, really thank you very much commissioner yee. uh. thank you. um, madam president, uh, cindy ellis, uh, i also want to thank you too, uh, sergeant heath, for all you've done. and throughout the years. i guess you're climbing that ladder, and we wish you continued success. uh i went to visit the csi two, and i was saying to. maybe to hollywood. maybe. should i have san francisco cs, csi on tv? so again, um, congratulations. and thank you. i want to thank you and all your members there. thank you. thank you so much. i'm the producer. okay. yes. you heard it. you heard it first.

you heard it first. it's san francisco csi with commissioner yee. all right. thank you again. thank you for taking the time to come on up. i think the chiefs want to take pictures and then we'll move to general comment. members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one. please approach the podium. i can't take it away. i'm fighting you for it. you better invite us to the red carpet. that's all i tell my sister. i mean i tell my daughter right? okay this one. right? uh, screenplays, uh, tv. i come to these all the time, and i think this is the very first one i've seen. a woman get recognized, so. bravo bravo bravo, bravo. you know, we had a female. all right, line item two. general public comment at

this time. the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission. rules of order. during public comment, neither police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. email the secretary at the police commission at sfpd. commission at sf gov. org or written comments may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building, located at 1245 third street san francisco california 94158. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. happy new year! this commission was rightly created to ensure that our police don't exploit their power or overstep their jurisdiction to achieve that serious goal. the commission of years past was comprised of lawyers with actual experience working on both sides of and in the criminal justice system. those commissioners were genuinely interested in being partners with law enforcement and not only did they have crucial firsthand knowledge of

the system they honored and respected the complexities danger and nuances of enforcing the law. like the public, they wanted reform to policing, not solely punishment of police officers. the composition of the commission today seems to be a stark contrast. perhaps. maybe one of you has the experience within the criminal justice system that should be required for the honor of sitting in your seat rather than partner with sfpd. this current commission's actions seem to reflect a desire to abolish it a mission to blame, not support, and a fatal ignorance of the complexities of ensuring public safety. sadly today's commission has become the very thing it rails against. a government agency that seems to overstep its scope of legal authority. as set out in the city charter and state constitution and system abuses its authority with bias. in contrast to hearing ex-communication commissioners speak with respect and humility about the solemnity of say attending officer funerals, this commission uses a cheap version of the socratic method to grill. chief scott is accused of leaking confidential information

during investigations of officers, denying them due process, and stifles day to day operations of the sfpd by turning functional egos into disciplinary traps. this does not seem like a productive partnership. if your goal with sfpd is reform rather than elimination, and your commitment is truly to public safety, so it's time to stop this dangerous , hypocritical charade. it's time to reinstate the integrity and legitimacy of this commission so it can resume. its important, unbiased work of partnering with sfpd to ensure reform in policing while protecting public safety. thank you. hello. board members, my name is william moretz. um, i've been a resident of san francisco for 40 years, and i've been involved in social justice work for about 20. i've seen some. things. i've done some things in my testimony tonight will be of

a personal nature for 25 years, i relied heavily upon the police commission to back me up in many, uh, incidents that seemed to be unfair and full of, uh uh, illegalities. so, um, uh for that reason, i feel i it's important for me to make a couple of suggestions to the commission tonight. and i also want to thank all those who've been involved in the reforms these last ten 15 years. the effect that it's had upon the community cannot be understated. there is definitely a correlation between the protocol reforms of our police department and our crime rate. so you, each and every one of you should feel good about that. and my two suggestions are for and i should say i would not have survived the 15 years of police abuse had it not been for outside help. so

it's been a failure from my perspective. so this is important to me. so i would suggest that, like in many large metro politan areas throughout the nation, they have um, created a court for police abuse , uh, incidents that, um, doesn't. necessitate going to state court and all that involves like the money and the time, which many of us can't afford and so if san francisco were to do that, i think it would be right in line with the past. the path that we're on right now, which is victory, we're doing good. and i think we can always do better. and the second thing, um, has to do with, uh excuse me. thank you, sir. uh, we instituted qualified immunity. we can repeal. qualified immunity and anything within the mandate of the police. thank you very much. your two minutes is over. thank

you for your time. good evening. i'd like to use the overhead. i'm here. i come here every wednesday concerning my son, aubrey aberra kassa. uh, he was murdered august 14th, 2006. today his to this day his case isn't solved. and. i've come here concerning unsolved homicides for many years. now. been through many police chief and many of you that that have been up here and new people and i'm still here bringing awareness to the unsolved homicides. i have all the names of the perpetrators that murdered my son or that had something to do with murdered my son, hannibal thomas. i just had his name backwards. paris, mopic

, which is the ringleader andrew vadu. jason thomas anthony hunter, mark carter. which one is deceased? i don't know which of the anthony or marcus. one of them is deceased. so i come here every bringing awareness. i just don't talk about my son. all of these unsolved homicides. i've. i stand with these mothers. but i want you guys to see. and as you always see of me standing over my son. no mother wants to have to do that. i feel like i'm playing a record player every time i come here saying the same thing over again. but i think about emmett till's mother, who thought until the day she died when they killed her son and maimed him and burned him up and cut off all of his genitals. so why shouldn't i be that way? this is what the perpetrators left me with a lifeless body

decayed, saying, my son was full of life and they took it. so why shouldn't i give up? why i shouldn't give up? please solve my son's case. there's any further public comment. good evening. commissioner. good evening, chief scott. my name is j connor b ortega and while i'm not here as a candidate, i am here as a concerned resident. i was on my way here and at the powell station in the cable car turnaround. i saw sfpd officers handling two different situations. one outside and one inside the westfield mall and i always ask myself where would we be without sfpd? so i want to

take this time to say thank you to the men and women of our san francisco police department for all the work they do, both at the stations and on the beat. however with the downward crime trend we saw last week, we see how much sfpd has an impact on crime in our city which is why i will always implore this commission to give sfpd the tools they need in order to keep the downward trend. if this commission wants to survive, then you all must be an assistance to sfpd and not a roadblock. thank you. and that is the end of public comment. i want announcement line item seven. the discussion on dpa and ois daca comments with sfpd has been removed from the agenda for tonight, and they will be rescheduled at a later time. line item three chief's report

discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of fences, incidents or events occurring in san francisco have been an impact on public safety commission discussion on unplanned events and activities achieved describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future meeting. chief scott, thank you, sergeant youngblood. uh, good evening president elias. vice president carter stone commission and executive director henderson and the public. uh just a quick quick overview of crime trends for this week. overall all every crime category in both property and violent crime is in the negative this week. again, total the totals. there's been a 40, uh, reduction from this time last year. uh, about 800 crimes fewer than this time last year. 800 reported crimes, fewer homicides. however, we are even with last year to the, uh, year to date to this time last year. we had a homicide. this past week on the 100 block of barry.

um, the suspect has. suspects, plural. have not been taken into custody yet. so more to follow as that investigation unfolds. uh, there was another homicide, uh, earlier in the year that happened at, um, 16th street. and terry francois near the area of chase center. and that investigation is still ongoing as well. so we're at 0% change in homicides. just a couple of major incidents. i mentioned the homicide. there was also a shooting at six and shipley in southern district on the 14th at 12:38 a.m. the victim was stopped at a red light when the subject approached the driver's side. uh, the victim saw a flash of bright light and realized that he had been shot. he fled and then flagged down paramedics who were in the area. the victim was transported in stable condition. no arrest on that particular incident. we did have a couple of significant arrests. uh several significant arrests during this past week. one was from a december 28th 2023

homicide that occurred at 5:37 a.m. when officers located victims suffering from stab wounds, both victims were transported, with one victim succumbing to his injuries. investigators have identified a 29 year old san francisco resident as the suspect and obtained a warrant for the suspect's arrest on thursday, january 11th. the officers sfpd officers were in the area of eighth and mission when they observed the suspect standing on the corner. the suspect was placed under arrest for the outstanding warrants and booked on the charges of homicide. 187 pc attempted homicide and assault with a deadly weapon. so really nice job by officers who were in the right place and took us. took this homicide suspect into custody. there was a carjacking that occurred in the 500 block of bill street in the southern district on the 8th of january at 9:05 p.m two subjects carjacked the victims using the firearm. the victim advised that the vehicle had a tracking device, and the vehicle was tracked to vallejo, where

chp located and took both subjects. an 18 year old and a 16 year old into custody. chp also recovered a firearm, ski mask and clothing matching the description provided by the victim. both suspects were booked. um there was another incident at hyde and turk on the 11th of. actually this occurred at, uh november 11th 2023. november 10th, 2023. i'm sorry. the victim sustained a gunshot wound when an unknown suspect shot into the crowd in the area. the victim was transported in stable condition. the suspect was subsequently identified by our night investigative unit detectives. uh, based on the clothing worn during the incident, the subject was observed by a tenderloin plainclothes officer and detained the subject was actually wearing the same clothes that were worn during the shooting incident, and was in possession of a firearm. he admitted to the shooting and advised the gun in his possession was the same one that was used in the shooting. so

again, officers on patrol at the right time right place and they were able to make an attempt, murder, arrest, uh, just a couple of more incidents to report on january 8th at 4:25 p.m, several people were on a muni coach at geary and masonic when a few of the people were involved in a dispute, the suspect pulled out pepper spray and pepper spray, two victims, upon exiting, the suspect kicked the victims multiple times. officer detained the suspect uh, in which time the suspect assaulted the officers by biting one of the officers, kicked other officers, and that suspect was arrested both for the crime. on muni and crime against the officers robbery with a firearm occurred at the unit block of niagara and the ingleside district on the 13th of january at 3:34 a.m, as two victims parked their vehicle in the driveway, they observed a suspicious vehicle parked two houses away. one of the victims exited his car when two subjects

approached, opened the car door and forcibly took the victim's purse and, uh, from from the car as the other victim attempted to intervene. one of the suspects pointed a firearm at him and then struck him in the head. suspects fled with the property and no victims. i mean no suspects have been arrested at this time that investigate is ongoing. um, there was a major air, um, stunt driving event on the 14th of january, three at about noon at the 900 block of sansom. there were about 200 motorcycle riders who gathered in the area. officers were able to, uh, respond and disrupt this activity. no arrests at this time but it did cause a major major traffic congestion. and this is an ongoing thing that we are looking to, uh, enhance the way we address these issues with motorcycles and mainly their dirt bike riders when this happens. but it's been an

ongoing issue for our city. last thing to report is a vehicle versus pedestrian hit and run that occurred at rutland and visitacion in the bayview on the 13th of january at 6:28 a.m. the victim was actually located in the middle of the intersection, suffering from injuries and unable to provide information. so that is an ongoing investigation handled by our traffic investigators. as far as the drug market enforcement. this week, 78 arrests were made in and 5335g of narcotics. the majority of that fentanyl have been seized over this past week since the inception of dmac, 127,091g of narcotics have been seized and about 7,080% of that is fentanyl. and that is my report for today. thank you. thank you. chief commissioner yee. uh, yes. thank you very

much president. um, elias, i just want to follow up with jim barnes. what? he asked you last week, uh, in regards to the richmond. um, i guess the storage break and, um, i guess it's it looks like it's one one person is doing all this action or. uh. yes, we believe that it's the same suspect there were five incidents that we believe are all related. um, the good news is that out of the five there was only one store that was actually broken. broken into successfully. and that was on the 800 block of clement. there was property taken from that. there was one on the 200 block of clement, which each store was damaged. but no loss reported. there was another one on the 100 block of clement. store was damaged. no loss reported. there was another one on the 400 block of clement storage damaged. no loss reports and then on the last one was an attempted

burglary of a cannabis dispensary and that was on the 200 block of clement. and there was no entry. suspects actually fled before they were able to enter and no loss report. these happen in within the stretch of a week. and three of them were on the 8th of january. we. stretching from about 6 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at night. so we do believe that they are connected and we believe it's the same person or arrest has been made at this time but that investigation is still ongoing. uh, thank you very much, chief. i have another one. two over on this was last year in december 26th or seventh. down by, uh mission. uh, parking lot where there was, uh, i guess, uh, a worker from the sfmt that was attacked over there. she was cleaning. so. um, just want to

see if there's any updates on there. yeah, i'll follow up with these. i believe we did make an arrest on that. um but let me follow up and verify that. and i could, if it's okay with you, commissioner, i can come back to you next week on that. thank you very much. and thank you for all the officers making the all these arrests here it is, um keeping us safe. thank you to you. thank you. commissioner thank you. thank. you, president elias. thank you, chief, for that report. um, just a quick question about, uh policing down the 16th street and 24th street corridors. i know that after, um, border supervisor myers had made some modifications to, uh, the allowance. right, for people to no longer sell, i guess along. bart there's been an improvement in those sections. i understand that that was only supposed to be a six month or two month, uh, kind of pilot. is there plan are there plans to continue? uh, the community policing strategies that have been set in place for the last

couple of months, which have had, i think a significant impact? yes and, you know, our department is committed and we're working very closely with public works on that. um, i don't know which way the if the band will be the vending band will be continued. uh, i'm hopeful that it will, because i do think it has had an had an impact. but i do know there there are things to work out with the community from that standpoint with, uh, with the vending ban. but it has been successful. uh, and things are better. um, there was some displaced and we're addressing that, you know, um to try to make sure that we don't push a problem on somebody else's block, but definitely there has been some, some good progress with that. uh. and it's been a collaborative effort with public works and our mission station officers, uh, tom harvey, the captain of mission, has committed to have officers deployed in this team. um, it's really hard for dpw to do their work without us because they get attacked and assaulted and those types of things. so it's been

it's been good. and we're committed to continue it. and we're going to try to sustain this as long as we can. i mean, ultimately we hopefully we can find some solutions. so it's not as personnel heavy. hopefully we can change some of the dynamics of that on that block where if um, there are opportunities for people to vent legally and do it through the permit process, i think we'll be better off as a community. so that's what we're working with. the electeds and dpw on. but our our real i think value has been to be there just in case. um, they are attacks or hostilities for the public works workers who actually are the ones who can do the enforcement on this. correct. um i did notice that, uh, on monday. there was a little bit less enforcement on the 16th street bart station. um, i'm assuming there were some activities maybe, uh, correlating with martin luther king junior

birthday or day. um and immediately the 16th street bart station was full of vendors, and it was a free for all. once again, what do we do to contain that and make sure that that there is no gap in service? because as soon as, uh, the presence is no longer there there is a recurrence that is exactly, uh, one of our issues is, i mean, monday was a holiday, so deployment was a little bit lighter. um, and that's something that we're going to have to figure out in terms of making sure that that deployment is consistent. it's been pretty consistent. but money was a holiday. we also saw that uh, with some of the days during the christmas and new year holiday where deployment was a little bit lighter, and what you just described is what we're seeing when city workers aren't there, both public works and us. it just yeah, like we were never there. so we're going to have to be consistent. that's the bottom line with the deployment. and we've kind of mixed on duty with some of our overtime shifts to try to help

make that consistency, uh happen across all days. but that is a real issue for us. and monday we just got we didn't have enough people there. any updates on staffing? the, uh the captains have done, they're doing a good job using the resources that they have. i mean, we do have an academy class graduating next month. i believe we're at i think it's 22. um, we just hired four lateral officers about a week and a half ago. that was another four. we have more laterals in the pipeline. so you know, the combination of the laterals and the academy class, that'll be some relief. you know, it's not. of course, is going to be we're going to need a lot of that to turn this around. but 22 officers in the field is it doesn't sound like a lot, but it helps. thank you. okay. public comment for members of the public like to make public comment regarding line item three, the chief's report.

please approach the podium. uh good evening again. i'm just, uh, again bringing up, um concerning the unsolved homicides and, um, how last week, when i was here, we brought up that, um $0 has been paid out for unsolved homicides and that we were finding a way for tipsters to be paid. and i'm bringing that up again because i was taken outside and the person that took me outside didn't know what the hell i was talking about, you know? so um, i was wondering, is there a way what are we doing? when are we going to put it on the agendas about how we're going to bring up, um ways for tipsters to be paid for people to come and solve these unsolved homicides? i'm still worried about when i came last time they said that they would get, uh, the, um, paul henderson's end of, um investigators to solve to be one

of the persons to solve the unsolved cases to come and investigate. i'm still not understanding about that, because when i was here, it's on sf gov television. go back and find it because it was mentioned . so why isn't any of that happening? you know, um, please make that happen so that mothers like myself cases can get solved and i don't have to keep coming here about my son. i mean, i'm still going to come even if the case gets solved. i'm still helping other mothers and fathers out there. we have a healing circle every second and fourth thursday where mothers and fathers still come on. there because the holidays, my son's birthday is coming up on april 6th, so. so we come here. we come to the circle on this area when the birthdays comes and when the anniversary parties come, you know here coming another year, there's going to be 18 years august 14th, it'll

be 18 years. so so please put it on the agenda or find somebody to solve these unsolved homicides. please members of the public that have any information regarding the murder of aubrey abacus. you can call the anonymous 24/7 tip line at (415) 575-4444. there's any public comment? please approach the podium and present. that is the end of public comment. thank you. sorry. line item for dpa director's report discussion report on recent dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. executive director henderson thank you. uh, we are currently at, uh 20 cases that have been opened, so far this year, and we've closed 16 cases, uh, on the current caseload and docket at dpa. we have 317 cases that are open and we have sustained three cases so far this year. uh, in terms of cases who have

investigations that have gone on beyond, uh nine month period and are continuing, we have 26 cases and of those 26 cases 19 of the cases are told, uh currently we have eight cases whose decisions are pending that are with the commission. and we have 87 cases whose decisions are pending, uh, with the chief terms of the weekly trends. uh this week we received 51 cases that have come in, uh, and the highest percentage of those cases have been for an allegation for allegations of conduct unbecoming of an officer. uh, again, the full breakdown of the 100% of the cases that have come in are on the website, and folks can find them there if they want those details. uh, in terms of the district breakdown uh, the highest allegations have come this week from central station where there are two allegations made, two cases that came from uh, central precinct. uh, and

again, the full breakdown of every precinct, uh, and the numbers are listed on site on the website, uh, in terms of outreach, uh, just want to thank the folks that have shared the information about our dpa 101 with an overview view of both reform and accountability. the presentation that we made at manny's, uh, last week, uh where folks came in and we answered questions about the office and accountability. uh we've also, uh, poured more into , uh, our social media. so a lot of the information that i'm presenting, in addition to being shared on our website, is also being shared, uh, on the youtube or x as well. so that's a new addition to make sure that the public is informed about the work and what we're doing. uh, i don't have, uh, information about the audits. this week. uh, but i gave an formed information in that, uh, is scheduled on the agenda coming up. so we'll have more to say. uh, when we make

that presentation. uh, we do have a case this week that's in closed session. uh item nine e. uh, the attorneys are here for that, so we'll be ready on that. uh, also here in the courtroom today is chris chisnall. in case there are issues that come up that need to be addressed. uh, while we're at the meeting, also present and today with us, in addition to city attorney stephanie wargo, wilson is, uh also our chief, deanna rosen. stein i thought i saw jermaine in here as well earlier. i don't know where he went, but he was here. jermaine jones, uh, and nicole armstrong is here as well , who will be presenting later on on the agenda items. uh, for folks that have information, uh or want to get in contact with dpa, uh, the website is sf gov .org forward slash dpa, or you can contact us at

(415) 241-7711. uh, i have commentary on subsequent agenda items, but i will save my comments until those agenda items come up. and that concludes my weekly update of the report for dpa. thank you. i look forward to your annual report and you making time. so ten minutes is. uh, vice president carter. all right. it's getting tied up here. thank you, president elias. uh, thank you, director henderson, for the report. just one question. and i know you said the audits would be discussed. uh, later on the agenda, so feel free to postpone this until that agenda item. but i did want to ask if there was. well specifically, i think it was mid-december. correct me if i'm wrong that i got the email announcing that the dpa would be doing a preliminary audit of the

department stop data. i just wanted to ask if dpa has gotten the data from the department yet to initiate its audit. i think that's a yes or no. it is a yes or no question, but it's a not a yes or no answer because i think we've had conversations back and forth about who's going to be responsible for disseminating the information and i don't know if answering that question in the affirmative means that the information has been turned over, because i know there's back and forth and it was changing. oh, i see my staff might be indicating no. is that right? i don't want to say it wrong. i know that we've been going back and forth with the department, and i know i see katherine maguire here, and i know the chief may know this. i think we the initial big issue was to avoid some of the

problems that we've had in the past that we've agreed both the agency and the chief directly to have a designated person so that we can exchange information back and forth. and i think that was the first step. i think that got resolved. but i know there was back and forth about that as well. it's just hard for me to answer a yes or no way. sure sorry. thank you. yeah, we know you don't have it yet. um, i know our team has been working with steve flaherty from your team, and we asked for that information. um and what's the date? 17 at the end of this month. so in a week and a half to start getting everything to you all, i can give you an update and i'm happy to give a weekly update on those issues. i just because i think i alluded to it last week, i just i didn't know if something had changed. i don't want to say it wrong between last week and this week. that's why i didn't want to just give you a yes or no, but to be clear, dpa has requested the

data. absolutely. okay. and if your understanding is that the data will be made available in a week and a half, did i understand that correctly? yeah, i know we will start the request. i don't know how fast the data request is, but i know we plan on fulfilling that request beginning in about a week and a half. so the data will be turned over on a rolling basis. i don't know how much data it is, but we will if we need to do it on a rolling basis. we'll work with steve to do that. but but just so i understand, just so i'm clear, what was the significance of the date when you said a week and a half. what will happen in a week and a half? exactly. so we lost our cfos and director mcguire and her team have been kind of doing double duty, basically we're hiring five people in our fiscal office. so some of her team have been doing kind of double duties, including her. so we just asked for time. our cfo will, we hope, be on track to start at the beginning of february or the second week in february. but um, that was the reason for the delay. i can say that i know in part of the back

and forth, one of the principal issue was, which is the conversations that i was involved with was the person that was designated to be turning over. the information was out of the office and that was the issue. i don't remember the very specifics of what had been turned over, what the volume was and where we were on that. that's i can get that information, but i was more focused on on the operations, which is what i have information about. but i know katherine maguire, director mcguire, do you have an additional information for us? uh, we've been in communication with steve flaherty and the. uh, the communications have been sort of surrounding the scheduling piece , but also he did send a full, uh, much bigger than just the data set. um information request and so we started poring through that a little bit. but i did give him some background information and some additional um, information that can kind of get him started on scoping and building queries and things like

that with respect to actually running the data. so all of our sops, data like to tell the public as this as well, uh, all of our sops data is online and all of our documentation and about what is there and what is not, um, is also online and on open data sf and so do you have an estimate of how long it will be before you turn over the requested information? i don't have an estimate for the full package of all of the materials requested. i don't have an estimate tonight, but i can get back to you on that. and when the chief said in a week and a half, roughly something would happen. yeah, we'll be further. we'll have more discussions to kind of like parse out that plan and data transmission. and is there a lot of data? part of the reason i'm asking is because as you just noted, you know, most stop data is by law has to be publicly available. there's a lot of nonpublic data that's been requested. is that your understanding? well if the data

set nonpublic data, um, sorry. um, so the nonpublic data is juvenile data, for instance. so we have to make sure that we're going through our stops and making sure that those, uh those records are pulled out um, and other there's just other sort of governing information. we're happy to come and talk about this a little bit more in detail. um, but that's the stuff that gets redacted from the online, uh, data set and narrative fields and can i ask a question? has any of the data that's innocuous been turned over? any of it? i'm sorry, is any of the data been turned over that was requested? uh. not yet. no. we're we commenced those discussions in a week and a half . okay. i'm going to ask for an update about this next meeting. and every meeting going forward. i just i think that you'll

recall, director, that when i first started on this commission , i requested stop data from the department and i requested all only public data specifically. and um, i think you'll recall we had a very, very, um impassioned back and forth about the representations that were made to me about whether or not data was available how long it would take to furnish data, how long it would take to do certain analyzes and i guess, let's just say, like, i didn't think that that the department was completely honest, to put it very politely, about those things, namely, whether the data was available, how long it would take to analyze it, and whether analysis was even possible in the first instance, i think it was. i was told it would take several months to do something that i was able to do in 20 minutes. most of that time i was spending googling how to do it on excel. so so, um, maybe these

delays are totally understandable and appropriate given the request. i don't know what the request has been, but but it certainly gives me, um nostalgia and not in a good way for those requests that i made early on. uh in my tenure on this commission. so i'm going to keep asking about it. commissioner yanez, thank you. uh, director henderson, for your report. i, uh, i met with steve flaherty from your office, and commissioner benedict, though because i was inquiring about about the data collection and the potential for including, um the expected motion to also collect language access, uh needs. right for, uh, stop data. and i am still hoping that we can incorporate that element since it is a rippa data point that we're supposed to collect. would you be able to, um, inform us on whether that is, uh, whether we have the capacity to

include that in your audit? yeah, i think it's, uh difficult, given our current budget restrictions in terms of how streamlined we've made the audits that we have ongoing right now. and my understanding from talking to the audit team on that specific issue, i think there was an issue about jurisdiction in additional in addition to the capacity of the work that we're already doing. i'm happy to raise the issue again and talk directly with the folks, but i really i really have to balance it against, uh the open audits that are already in the pipeline that we're working on to make sure that we're able to deliver what we've promised in terms of the scope of the audits that we already have right now. that doesn't mean that it's not relevant to us. it absolutely is, especially as it relates to the complaints that come in to the department. uh because we think, you know language access is a very

important thing. and we've done a lot of policy around that work in the past. and making sure that that policy is implemented. there are boundaries in terms of rules that have been, uh, passed by this commission that we are absolutely following. that said, i'm happy to raise the issue again. um, to see from my team. but i believe when i met with them recently about this issue it was beyond the scope of the audits that we had ongoing, and there wasn't, uh, bandwidth, budget and personnel to address it directly. thank you for that. i will follow up with commissioner benedict because i think he also had some interest in this. um, but thank you commissioner walker. uh, thank you. thank you for the report. um, just as a an addition to the conversation that we're having around the stop data and that whole process there, there remains for me. um, some concerns i have about how information was leaked ahead of

time. so as we do this process and as we do these reports, can we have a report on the investigation on how information was leaked confidential information was leaked because i've not i haven't heard back anything official. so just as part of the reporting process, i would like to have that answered . i'd love to see that. but since it wasn't our leak, we had nothing to do with it. well, i know nothing for somebody is investigating something and nobody seems to know how that happened. and quite frankly, it makes everything suspect. if we don't include that information. i agree 100, but since we had nothing to do with it, i don't know what. how do we know? so i understand that. i know you're saying that, but. i think that that the evidence and the leak speaks for itself. but i don't see the evidence in the leak. so it's somehow in the data that was provided to the press is

information that shouldn't have been. so we want to make sure that that doesn't happen again. i agree, i think it's for us it's hard for us to prove, uh, the negative. i can show you emails that show that it didn't come from us, but it doesn't do it. you know what i mean? i think you should talk to the chief about that, because the chief can. yeah, or just make it as part of this report. i mean, it's part of the process. yeah making sure everything's confidential. and the chief will have information on the leak and what's happening, so. okay. perfect. great um, because i don't think dpa can report on something. they weren't involved in. but i do agree with commissioner walker. we should have any of that. if there's any information as to possible areas . absolutely. i mean, you do a thorough job on the audit. that's why you're a four time award winning, grammy nominated whatever. yeah. right. yeah. oh, there's more awards you're going to hear about. sure. in the agenda. don't you worry. we just need the department to catch up to that four time award winning right. chief oh we will okay. all right. no, no other, uh, no

one else on the queue. so can we go to public comment for members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item for dpa director's report. please approach the podium. okay so there's a lot of statistics. they keep getting bigger. either the dgo tweaking the commission is doing is such a colossal failure that no officer can comply without generating a complaint or somehow the agency's padding the numbers. i kind of think it's both. it's also common knowledge that the public defender's office encourages its clients to file complaints against their arresting officers, but that practice has been going on since the dawn of time, and we all know about it actually, though what's not cool is there asking their clients to file fourth amendment charges against officers when their clients motions to suppress are being denied? that's uncool, but anyway, here are the questions that i have after looking at the dpa's website that i think that the questions are for the public , that they have the right to know under what authority does

the dpa believe it has the right to file complaints against officers? in other words, where was the dpa granted the authority to add on allegations that are not part of the original complaint? how many officers are taken off the street to prepare for and respond to appear in person, to answer the dpa's added allegations. what percentage of complaints did not originate from citizen complaints but were from dpa instead? do you report the findings of the complaints? i think i know what the henderson report is now because i see your last name. that's probably your annual report. um who are the people working for the dpa? why are there no bios on the website? and where are your policy is listed for the public? like where are your public facing policies? it seemed to me that an audit, at the very least, should be done of the dpa and its inner workings. it appears, using its own bloated data, that the agency is not functioning properly and that dysfunction is having material and impactful real world consequences, not only on individual officers, but also on overall public safety. this can't continue, so. so, you

know, who do i make this request to like the board of supervisors, public safety committee. you know, i don't know. but i, i find it. i don't know where the authority for the dpa to add on allegations is. and that's something i'd like answered. director henderson. i i believe there's people in the audience here from dpa that can answer these questions for the um, absolutely public. so i think that you should probably utilize that as well as perhaps we can agendize in the future. the trainings the dpa has been doing with internal affairs at the department going around to each district station, educating officers on how the discipline process works, and this misnomer of dpa added allegations. um because it's not true. so perhaps we can agendize that. but if you can point out your staff to this person so that they can have a conversation 100, i think that's about to

take place right now. so sorry about that, sir. one minute comment. no, no, you get to oh thank you very much. yeah as in order to be uh, completely transparent, um, i would suggest that, uh, this dragging of the feet in the audit might have something to do with the state. law having a required all counties to report these complaints because what would happen is those complaints go back to the officers and might i suggest that this is an effort by the san francisco police department to shield certain police officers that they consider to be, uh, essential um, in their performance of protecting our community. and if that is so, let's make that clear to the people. uh so, uh um, because the law is the law we san francisco should adhere to the law too. i hope we can work this issue out. it's an important one. and i think it protects all californians. thank

you. you were right. you were under a minute. yeah, it was a short thought. and i don't want to get going. sergeant. and there is no further public comment. line item five. commission reports, discussion and possible action. commissioner president's report. commissioner's reports and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. thank you. um just one thing to announce and sort of request from my fellow commissioners. we are starting to backlog on discipline cases. and so i'm going to ask, i know that several commissioners have upcoming hearings scheduled. um, and there was an influx of cases that were recently assigned. um so that we can tackle or prevent a backlog like we had before. i am going to ask each commissioner to review their discipline on docket and get these cases moving. officers need to know or have their cases resolved as soon as possible. i don't know if i missed this number. uh director henderson or chief. what the status of the chief's appeals are and where we

are in terms of numbers. um, if at the next commission, we can report back and i'd like some solutions so that we can present to, um, the that you can present to the commission to get that backlog under control, because i know that was an issue. um since last year, i did report on them, i missed it. i'm sorry. no. that's okay. there were there were eight that are pending with the commission and 87 that are pending with the chiefs. okay thank you. any other commissioner on the queue commissioner yanez? thank you. uh, president elias, i, uh, wanted to announce that i am going to be away from the 25th through the 12th, so i will not be here. um at the first meeting in february, uh, i also i've been in contact. i do oversee the language access. uh, tgo which, um, i've been having conversations with, uh, the

director from, um, the community engagement and immigrant affairs department who provided some information and, and, uh, i think we are up to agendize this, uh, this tgo as a it's it really needs some improvement. i also have some questions for you, chief. uh, about the reason why we haven't been receiving the annual and bi annual reports that are part of the mandatory expectations from the city's ordinance, uh, when it comes to language access, less resources. i looked for it on the website. i believe of folks from dpa were also searching for these reports and i've never received one. in the two years that i've been here. i don't know that they've been presented to the commission. um, so it is something that i think is of concern, uh, if we're not

compliant with this, uh expectation, i'll follow up and report back. commissioner thank you. um i also received some information on, uh, that i'd requested from, uh, janelle k wood. uh, as a result of the presentation last week, there was a question about the number of incidents that resulted in collisions after, um, officer involved, uh, car chases or car, um. vehicle pursuits. there we go. uh, and i had inquired about the number, the percentage that had resulted in impacting people that were innocent bystanders and out of the 25% of the total vehicle pursuits that resulted in collisions, 25% of all pursuits resulted in collisions. and it's a constant number both across california and san francisco. uh, in los angeles at least, those numbers, 50% of

those involved, uh, people that were not part of the vehicle pursuit. and so i think that that was a very important number for, um, as we're consider bring, uh, modifying our, our policy in this area. chief would you, would you say that an increase in vehicle pursuits would continue to impact an increased number of unexpected or uninvolved drivers? if we were to increase our pursuits without the use of police helicopters, the way they historically, the trend has looked across the state. and, you know, it's really hard to say. i mean, statistically, the more pursuits there's always risks with pursuits. so statistically there might that might pan out. but it's really hard to say. it's you know, it's really hard to predict that because each situation is different. and a lot of it is

dictated by the, you know, all the factors that play in the person who's being pursued. how desperate are they to get away? the officers and even at times where pursuits are called off that driving by the person being pursued continues. so we've had that to happen in our city, where it ended up in a horrific accident when there was no pursuit. so it's really hard to say. commissioner, i don't think it's fair to say that that's a absolute certainty. i think i don't think we know and do we know whether san francisco will ever be able to utilize helicopters? um, it's both a funding and a policy issue of whether the city wants to invest their really expensive, very expensive, um, great tool particularly for this type of, uh, this type of issue. it's a great tool to have. it's a great thing to manage pursuits, uh, safer. it still doesn't

guarantee that these things won't happen as far as collisions and third parties uninvolved third parties. but it's a great tool. it's a policy issue. you know, our helicopter unit was disbanded after really terrible crash that where we lost two of our members. i don't know, i mean, i've had conversations with people, but i don't know if there's a real interest to revitalize that. and i think, um, having uh, you know, grown up in south central and the, uh, very, very, uh kind of ever present sound of the ghetto bird as it's known. uh, i don't think it's something that san francisco really, you know i think it's something we need to explore if we're ever going to go in that direction. i personally would not want to encourage that. um, i do want to also also just, uh, agendize. once again, i asked for this last year, and i know we have a lot of items to deal with, but

uh, the ripper best practices for both 22 and 23, uh have been released. and i would like for us to have a conversation about what it will take for this department to adopt some of these best practices that are being recommended by the state board. uh. thank you. those are my updates. thank you. vice president carter. thank you, president elias. i just wanted to respond to miss brown's public comment today. um, i, i made these comments late last year, but just wanted to reiterate them in light of her recent comment, which is that, um, the police commission in was in the process of interviewing a policy analyst, and i had made a public promise to miss brown that upon hiring this policy analyst, the first thing i would ask this person to do would be to put together a report of what other law enforcement jurisdictions do to in to incentivize people to come forward with tips for unsolved,

uh, homicide and other serious crimes. uh, we had identified an excellent candidate who we wanted to hire the next day mayor breed froze the position so we were unable to hire that person. um, so given that that will no longer be possible in as an alternative, um, i requested that that the department at that sfpd and epa do a joint presentation wherein they, they do a review of what other law enforcement agencies are doing on this issue, perhaps identify best practices, perhaps identify recommendations for amendments to our own policy here at home. so i will just renew that request that that we agendize that matter. that's all for me commissioner walker. thank you president elias. um i have been meeting ongoingly for the past few months with, um, community members and department staff

around the patrol specials issue, and we should be bringing that forward. i think in february with some recommendations, um, that hopefully we can discuss and and go over. it's really, um, it's something that the community really wants. um, sort of every neighborhood i've talked to, every supervisor i've talked to is really interested in better partnerships with the private sector, security. so um, i'm looking forward to that. i also am going tomorrow to, um, tour with the, um, tenderloin folks who are really becoming an integral part of the tenderloin. yeah and, um, and so looking to see what the infrastructure needs are for those, those programs that are happening in the tenderloin. so um, i'm really excited about that. that's great. yeah. thank you sergeant, for members of the public, i'd like to make public comment regarding line item five commission reports. please approach the podium. and there

is no public comment. line item six, presentation on sfpd's budget priorities discussion on. okay. well executive director mcguire is setting up the powerpoint. are you taking her ten minutes? i'm just. no i'm a part of her ten minutes. i'm kidding. i'm nicer in 2024, chief. so we'll give you 12. how about that? well, we have, uh, i think 14 slides in ten minutes, so i'm going to talk fast. so. good evening. ready? uh. good evening, president elias. good to see you. happy new year, everyone. members of the commission, director henderson chief scott, members of the public. i'm catherine mcguire. i'm the executive director of the strategic management bureau, which oversees, uh, fiscal

technology and our change management efforts. um, i do have a cameo appearance from patrick liang. and that is in case you all start grilling me with questions i don't know the answers to, but patrick does. patrick has left the department. we lost you, and you reappear like an angel. yeah. now we can say all the things. he may be shy. couldn't say. um, no. he uh. yeah. so he's. he's here assisting tonight. um, but i'm going to walk through the presentation as best i can, and i know the chief. was going to start us off. okay, let's go to the first slide. um i just want to start off by, um, telling the public and the commission how we are setting our policy priorities and our budget priorities. really. and this first slide is just a really high level snapshot of a process. the outcome of this

slide was from a process where we got input from our command staff, from our, uh, captains and all members of the department to really line up what's driving our work. and this is high level. it's not all inclusive, but the big three for actually are improving safety and public spaces. that includes street conditions, violent crime, organized retail theft which is a big deal in our city. sustaining our reform efforts through policy and policy impact . policing infrastructure, which includes tools and technology vehicles, that thing that those types of things really that drives our efficiencies. and then our employees staffing, wellness and deployment. uh, one bullet that i want to highlight is the operationalizing sworn. and really what that amounts to is a fancy way of saying where we can civilianize and we will civilianize to get as many sworn officers in the field as possible. and then of course recruitment and retention is the

key to our overcoming our staffing shortages. next slide. and the communications how we message i just want to say this last, you know a couple of months in the year, there was a lot of uh, really good message from the department in terms of how we were addressing the retail theft issue in the city, and we had some good outcomes. but also, i think it really lifted up this department and the public of how we're trying to overcome what is really a difficult and pervasive issue in our city. so next slide is really go back to uh, there you go. yes system. the mayor's policy priorities. now this is not just public safety. this is across all departments in the city. i just want to point out that improving public safety and street conditions is the first bullet point that intersects with the sfpd. uh, and all all of her main four policy priorities. there are some intersection in but some of these don't necessarily, uh apply to us in terms of

operationalizing this. reducing homelessness is not a police department thing, although we do work in that space with our soc and some of the work that we do with, uh, public works and public health and the main thing is we wanted to make sure that our priorities are in line with what the city's the mayor's priorities are. and they are. next slide. staffing is going to be a big part of our priorities. trying to retain and hire new officers. and this slide just is a reminder of, um, really where that where the rubber meets the road on this issue. if you look at our response time since 2018, it really correlates to the staffing issue that we're facing. our response times have ticked up in all three of our a, b, and c priority calls, and there is a correlation with staffing. you know, our goal with a priority is eight minutes and we're above eight. we've been above eight since uh mid 2021. and that's when we were really at the height of this the

staffing situation we're in. and should be priorities and c priority calls. it's the same issue. we are far above where we need to go. but if you look at what's consistent with all three of those graphs, it's 2020. um right after the george floyd incident. and that changed policing forever. you start to see it tick up. and i do think there's some correlations with what we saw in terms of people leaving the profession, leaving the department, a spike in resignations and retirement. and this graph. so that's going to be one of our focuses in terms of priorities, is to really continue to work to change that. and turn that around. and with that, i'll catherine. okay next slide please. so just a reminder of the budget process timeline. uh, as you know, uh, the mayor's office released their budget instructions last month. uh, and the budget system is opened. um the and tonight, we're presenting our our budget

priorities to the commission giving you, uh, refreshing everyone's memory on what the budget looks like. uh, the, uh in this month and next month we'll have follow up meetings regarding the fy 25 and 26 budget. um, and commissioner byrne being our point of contact on budget things. um, february seventh will be back here to present our budget proposal for action. and then on the 21st, as the due date for the department. uh budget submission to the mayor's office, the mayor publishes her budget at the end of may or june 1st. and the budget and legislative analyst reviews that and makes recommendations for adjustments to all departments budgets as appropriate or as they feel is appropriate. and then in june the budget and finance committee holds budget hearings and the board of supervisors must adopt the full, uh, the final budget

by july 31st. next slide. um so the budget instructions is that the mayor released last month really? um, as you all are probably aware, the city is facing a very large deficit over the next two years of about $800 million. and that those rival. 2010 numbers, as i recall, as well. so, uh, this is a significant dip in, in the city's resources. so the mayor is proposing, as a result, a 10% reduction of adjusted general fund support. um, and uh, in both in each of the next two fiscal years. she's also requesting a 5% contingent nc for each of those years that we

are not allowed to add any new ftes. and that we should be prioritizing staffing in key areas and essential operations, and eliminate remaining vacancies for savings. um, we should also be focused on core department operations and eliminating costs and non-essential discretionary or redundant service areas. i'm sorry. full time equivalent equivalents positions. looks like. so uh, for this slide, we're just really showing the last four years budget plus the proposed, uh, fy 25. that's sort of the base budget. that's what we what carries forward some assumptions already existing um, salary increases. it carries forward any other sort of as the budget was proposed last year. that's what's in the fy 25

budget. essentially and then and so with this this slide shows is a by fund, uh, breakdown of where the budget is. so this is basically is this general fund annually appropriated. you only get it in one year. and that's what general annual operating budget is, is it annual project budget which is usually a specific thing that we're going to do in one year. and then a continuing project is something that might be a multi year project. um, and then work order funds and airport funds and special revenue funds are sort of, um work order fund is a general fund. uh, line. but the airport fund and special revenue fund, those are, are um, monies from outside of the city's general fund. so airport is the work you know, our officers down at the airport and special revenues are mostly grants. and tenby, um, so on to the next

slide. so so this is the expenditure side. so expenditures as you know you have funds and then there will be personnel non personnel materials and supplies across each of those funds depending. but essentially that this is a further breakdown of the totality of those general fund funds. uh personnel costs as you can see are our largest expense. um followed by services by other departments to the police department and then non personnel services and materials and supplies. um, still proposed to be similar to this year. now again, this is the base budget, but this is where we start. and what we would need to be cutting going to the next slide. uh, so to give you a sense of where we've spent our money, uh, this slide really gives you a sense

of on the budget side, this is the actual. so after the budget set, then we go about spending the money each year and this is the results of the last three years, plus the current year to date. so we can talk about overtime. but as you can see that overtime line is, is uh out of out of, uh, out of alignment with our budget. and that really has to do with the vacancies that we have in personnel and so we take the savings that we have from the personnel budget and apply it to overtime. budget and full time equivalent positions ftes. so this represents, uh what we have in our budget for the purposes of staffing. um as you can see, um, our staffing funding is rather is high and pretty stable for the last few years. um, again, we have a lot

of vacancies and that goes to pay for overtime. that that we are not budgeted for or to the level. and degree that we need. next slide please. and this represents our sworn attrition. uh, really giving you a little bit more sense of the detail on uh, where, uh, how many people were losing each year. as you can see, uh in 2024 fiscal year the current fiscal year the number has come down. so that rate that we're seeing of exit we were seeing seems to have slowed a little bit. we'll see what happens come june. but it does seem to maybe have tapered off a little while. we're hopeful for that. and paired with additional, uh incoming classes, academy classes. um maybe the picture starts to look a little bit brighter for those overtime lines and other things. um, next slide, the previous slide did

show officers that are at the the usual sort of what winds up being the common point at which people retire. and we have 197 officers that have over 25 years of service and 153 who are between that 20 and 25 year, uh time span. so, um, onto the sworn retirement eligibility. you'll see that there. you know folks are eligible to much earlier time than we even, uh sort of then the common retirement age and time. but, uh, but because, as you know, just generally we, we have a sense of when that eligibility happens. so all of these folks are eligible, but most of them or many folks wait to retire until it's more opportune or more beneficial. so so city sworn staffing again, just

really, um, reiterating the staffing concerns as you can see. thank you. yeah. um the 2023 number did continue to decline. and again, that is really just losing more folks than we can, uh, hire in onto overtime. um, then this just shows our overtime expenses. this is our last slide. so this shows the hours that were used both in fy. we did use in fy 23 and then again in the current year. um this amount um, through the first half of the fiscal year and fy 23, about 37 million wound up being much higher at the end of the year. and then fy 24, uh is 45.8 million now, uh good amount of that money is. 68,000 hours of overtime. related to apd. and we will be getting uh or there will be a

budget supplemental in front of the board of supervisors to, to will reserve release, really to shift, uh, some city wide funds over to cover the costs that are represented by those 68,000 hours. okay. happy to answer any questions. thank you. i had a few questions. uh, chief, on, uh , the. i think it was the first slide. when you talk about organized retail theft, the city recently applied for a grant and i think i can't remember if you can remind me the amount is a couple of million. 15.0. sorry. 15.3 million, 15.3 million. so how does that figure into this budget and how is that allocated and where does it go and how is it used? is it all at one time? is it for fiscal year 24? can you give us some insight on that. yeah. so the allocation will be for equipment, personnel

costs, training. um there are some funds called out for community policing like putting on organized retail theft, you know, seminars with retailers and other partner agencies those types of things. the majority of it will be equipment and personnel costs, like the camera program that has been, uh , that that has been um, talked about this grant will pay for all the, the cameras and whatever else supporting equipment. i think the majority of them, not all of it to get that initiated personnel costs. it covers some of our overtime uh, the blitz operations that we're doing. that's a is the amount all in just 2024. do you span it. spread it out. no it's not. uh, patrick what's the grant period or. i told you i'd ask questions to get you back. if the grant is over three years. uh, i believe it starts october or october of last year

and it runs, uh, it runs for three years, and i think it's through this. if i'm not mistaken, it runs through december 2026. so is it each year they allocate the a specific amount for the three years or, you know it's you can spend it all in one year. okay. um or over the spread it out. it's up to the city's discretion . we do have a budget and it's more for, um, spread out across each year. uh, but we do have to kind of finalize that budget plan. and, uh, the there is an accept and expend that's going through the board process. uh what necessary an accept and expend ordinance that is going through. oh to accept the grant. okay. right okay. so it hasn't been allocated or, um, the budget included in. yeah. in the, the numbers you're giving us tonight. right correct. yeah. once the ordinance has been adopted, then it would be added to the department budget. yeah.

and so if you see on page seven of the presentation on that special revenue fund will go up with our submission on. okay. and and, you know, for whatever we're spending in the current fiscal year, that accept and expend is the mechanism, um that authorizes us to spend it. okay. and then um, on page six you, uh, first prong, uh, proposed ongoing reductions of adjusted general fund support of 10. what does that mean? um that means that it that means that the mayor's office is requesting us to find ongoing costs whether it be personnel or or, like vacant positions is a good example. so vacant positions, if we're if we cannot hire them, if they aren't critical to as they gave us this guidance of operational core operations, then we should consider cutting

them. is that that's what they're asking. and so then that would represent, um, that 10% that would represent, you know let's say $150,000 for a position that would be $150,000 in this year. and $150,000 next year, plus colas. so it's my understanding that the mayor's asked each department to cut their budget by 10, or even more , except for the police department. so vacancy vacant. we've been given a target that what's a target? i think it's 15. i don't remember, i don't remember off the top of my head. i'm so sorry. um, but but it the police department has this maintenance of operations consideration that the mayor's office has to pull out this maintenance of operations amount. and then our target is calculated on the on the remaining. okay. and you don't know what that target is. don't. i'm sorry. we can look it up. i believe it was 19 million, but so how they come up with that target. there is a maintenance of effort, uh, that the city has

to continue. part of that is based on, um, public safety dollars that the city is able to receive. but in order to receive that, they have to maintain a certain level of staff of funding to the police department. and that gets calculated in the adjusted general fund support. so the 10, uh, reduction target for the police department, the mayor's office provides that target to each department. i don't remember off the top of my head what that amount is. i believe it was 19 million, but we can circle back and provide that correct number. so if the target is 19 million, then how come on page eight where it has the general fund budget comparison and even all budget comparison all funds on page seven each year the budget for the police department is increasing part part of that part of the math on all of these is based on the city's seems like funny math. so

what's it based on? so part of the calculation is also based on on what the city has already committed. so if you take uh, for the police department, a significant amount of the police department budget is, is personnel costs, personnel costs, um, the amount of costs that the city that the department incurs, a lot of it is based on the mou agreements that the city has with each of the different unions. right and a lot of that happens outside of the department's purview. so so those while the reduction target is, is, um. while the mayor is asking each department to, um meet the reduction target, it doesn't necessarily mean that the department's budget is going to reduce simply because as the cola cost of living adjustment increases, benefit increases any type of mou requirements may end up increasing the department budget. the reduction target am

i is it fair to say my understanding then is because each year you come to us and you say that a majority of this police department budget is basically personnel and there's nothing you you know, when you were asked to trim costs and cut costs, there was not a lot of area for you to do that because a majority of your budget was in personnel, right? correct. so this 19 million or this target that you're the mayor's office wants you to cut that's not going to come from the personnel, but the other areas. is that fair or does it come from personnel vacant positions for instance. but also the 19 million is based on what the base budget is. so when you look at on page eight, you see that base budget is not based on the current year budget that we have to cut. we cut whatever's in the upcoming budget. and so then the 19 million comes off of there. okay and then my other question turning back to page six is focus on core department operations and services. eliminate costs in non-essential discretionary or redundant service areas. what are those? define non-essential discretionary and redundant

service areas. if you find them we'll cut them. um, the i mean in our budget. hold on one second. hold on one second. go ahead chief i'll so part of what we're trying to do in terms of, let's say, the work that i think it was, commissioner yang has talked about with the um, what we're doing on mission street. so you have two city departments. one is responsive for basically enforcement, which is dpw. other is responsible for um, safety. the public safety side of that. there have been times where i think departments were duplicating work, and that's why we started a sop where if there's if h'sh homelessness and supportive housing is addressing an encampment area, and then we get called to that same call, it's not the most efficient way to do business. so it's let's partner up and we do what we do. they do what they do, but let's do it together. so we're not repeating the work. so some of that is

outside the department. um, internally i mentioned operationalizing um, the work. um, there is a proposal actually a plan on the table right now to increase our police service aides to hopefully start taking some of the risk sports that they can take in the field. and this is going to be a change in policy to do this. so there's a whole, you know, meeting process is going on. but the idea behind it is if police service aides can take, let's say, a vandalism report in the field, it will free that officer up from having to do it. so it's really specialization of efficiency to avoid duplication. working with other departments, which is one of our reform initiatives, you know, collaborating and working with other departments to be more efficient. so all those things are really what we're we're aiming what we're trying to do anyway. so my other question is, so when last week we had a robust discussion about technology and tools that the department needs to better do

their job. and one of the issues that came up there were two issues. one was the drones and the other one was the star chaser. star chaser software. so where in your budget is the request for drones? so there's some steps that we still have to do that are yet to do. and that that's where the timeline becomes tomorrow we have a meeting and there are some things that we have to call out. for instance, we have a list of requests throughout the department and then we have to prioritize it. and a lot of that is equipment. uh, drones is something that if, if we're able to get through the process that what we plan to do and we haven't identified how much we haven't identified vendors or any of that yet, but just to have a general idea of if we pilot a program or start a program, what will we need this year and try to put that in the budget. there's still some discussions that we have to have internally, including tomorrow's discussion. we're meeting with

all the captains and command staff, uh, on this and other issues to further call that out. so how we've done it in the past if i could just say if we knew equipment was coming, we had requested funding. uh, even though the all the contract process hadn't gone, we gave our best estimate and then everything else has to catch up to that. so that's how we would have to do drones or any other policy. thank you for clarifying because that was my second question, because in prior years i've never heard you or the in any of the budget presentations request drones or other technology that are, um as that are required or essential to officers in doing their job. so i'm trying to figure out when did you put it in your budget proposal in prior years, if tasers was was a good example of where we actually got before we even got through the process? uh, because the commission at that time had passed, at least voted to allow

the department to have tasers. we actually got funding for it. it never we got defunded, but it never came to fruition. right. but that's so 2018. we're in 20. we're in 2024. now just giving you an example. there's another example. and this is not equipment but we uh this is also 2018 when we started doing the violence reduction work with the california partnerships. we had an idea what that would cost . we actually got approval for that funding, and it took us two years to get through the rfq process. about two years. but we had the funding already locked down. so it's not unprecedented for us to do it. this way. but what i'm saying is, when is the is it fair for me to assume then or say that in last year's budget or the year before, there wasn't a request or allocation for money for drones to the department? is that fair to say? that is fair to say. but let me put some context to that. you know, there were many discussions behind the scenes about drones. it never got to the commission. so there was we didn't feel that we had the

support to do it at that time, to actually put it to get down the road that far. right now things have turned around. there's a lot of interest in drones and there's a lot of support for drones. okay. when you say there wasn't support what do you mean by that support both politically support the it got put on hold. just let me say it that way okay. but there was no there was no request by you by the department to the commission for this technology meaning you didn't come to the commission and say, hey, we need these drones. and the commission said no, that is correct. that's the truth. but i just want to say this usually, you know how we try to do business is particularly, um, equipment that might bring controversy. we try to get support. so we're not . spinning our wheels and you know that there's a lot of behind the scenes conversations to try to get that support. drones has been one of the things that we have has been on our radar for about five years, actually, and just testing the waters there, there wasn't an

interest to give it to the police department. there are other city departments that use drones. uh, we've had to go outside of the city in the times where we've used them, like for search and search and rescue type of stuff. alameda county and other departments to, to get them to bring their drones in to do what we needed to do. so there has been an interest it we just timing is a big part of this is anything else. so we didn't want to put something on the budget that we knew we didn't think we had the support to do okay. and what prevents you from getting drones today aside from money? hopefully nothing. can i add some context? so try that in order for us to purchase a drone or even to ask for funds for a drone there has it. drones are subject to the 19 b ordinance, and so there has to be an approved policy by both court and also approval by the board of supervisors before the department can proceed with that . um, but the department just

started that about last year requesting that we've been working on on the drone policy for quite some off and on for quite 2019 was when that started . what about the star chasers? star chaser? um we have because you said last week that you had looked into it. you have explored it. but there was nothing. again, there was no request or any itemization in your prior budget requests before us requesting that technology be or asking us to help support that, right? yeah. so that we haven't gotten past looking into it in star chaser or something that came to my attention probably a year and a half. two years ago from one of our members, actually. and um, did some research and we haven't moved it forward. i mean, there's pluses and minuses to star chaser and i know that's not on the agenda, but there are, um, there are some policy concerns that we have to get

past, you know, in order to get close enough to deploy that technology, you got to chase the car. uh for the most part. so you know, there there are some things that we got to work out with the star chaser. and i know that's another discussion, but it's something that we're aware of that it was brought to our attention by a member, and we researched it. we haven't moved forward on implementing. okay. and so what other equipment? um is needed or beneficial to the department, but that is not in the budget right now. so so that is a part of what the next couple of weeks of discussion for instance redaction technology is something that we i don't know if we ever got to the budget on redaction technology, but redaction technology is a huge deal. we get a lot of public records requests. um there's a lot of personnel hours spent redacting these files before they go out and it's something that's been on on discussion. we've we've

researched it. we've don't remember whether we ever got even some things that we asked for get cut before they even get to that process. so we got to be clear because you say you keep asking, but it's you're not asking the police commission for this stuff. you're asking board the mayor's office and board of supervisors. right so with for instance, redaction technology we never even were able to move it far enough to get it to a formal in the budget. it's something that we know we need. it's something that is still in our discussions. we just talked about this the other day, so there are other things out there. but at the end of the day, we have to prioritize too. so when we get budget instructions and we're told to cut or we're told x amount of dollars is all you got, we have to decide where we're going to spend those dollars. you know, if it comes between our fleet was not in good shape. you know it's in better shape now. but there have been times where we had to really, really fight to

keep that fleet budget from being cut. and that came at the expense of, well, we can't do that if we want cars. exactly. right. so we have to make some tough choices and some, some things that we want that doesn't. we doesn't make any sense to ask because we don't have the room to even ask for it in our budget. because i like i said, in prior budget discussions, it's a majority of your budget is personnel and all the extras are where you try to cut and make those numbers work. um, but i think that's a great explanation of you're the one that has to figure out what to ask, what to ask for, what to cut. yeah, because the technology and these tools haven't reached us because you you know you're trying to make this number work, right? um the other thing that i have is, or question i have is my understanding based on what you just said, is that you're going to begin discussions internally within the department for the technology that you need and want to include in this budget,

right? or are we've already begun those discussions. now we have to narrow down. so how long is the list of the is it should we call it your wish list? how long is the wish list now? some of it, some of it will. i'm sure we'll be able to do it. some of them aren't that expensive. i think it was nine pages of, uh requests. if i recall. yeah. um. um 80 something or 100 and. yeah and so there's a lot of items but and some of them are doable easily doable. some of them not so much like there's some big ticket items on there. uh technology to help us be more efficient with our when we seize a cell phone for you know, in a search warrant and we have to unlock the phone to get data out of it, um, we're trying to improve the infrastructure there. that's a $4 million. ask so you know, you can only have so many of those. yeah well, i think that this wish list that you're talking about, that we know about now i think that the next budget, um, presentation

that's scheduled at our next, uh, police commission, you should include that because it would be good to know. so for the commission what is on your wish list and what you're not getting? because we have no idea . um because we get these general numbers, but they don't tell us exactly what what the number is comprised of. yeah right. um and then my second question, i'm going to turn it over to my colleagues is what has been the wish list for the prior years? 20 1920 20, 2021, 2022? because i mean, i'm sure there's technologies that you've wanted or that the department has needed but they haven't in all of these budget discussions, i've you know, we haven't heard, okay, hey, this is what we need in order to, you know, whether it's drones, whether it's the star chase, whether it's some other technology we're not familiar with that you haven't told us. so maybe you can give us some of the top two wish, you know, items on the wish list from prior years. so one of the one of the big items that has

been and we're down the road on this now but our records management system, that's a huge huge budget item. right. which in order to get support on that, we had to give up some other things that we might want. so now that, you know, we have been funded and i think we need additional funding to finish the project, correct me if i'm wrong, but that's, uh, how many million? 17, 12 million annual for the next couple of years? about 4 million a year. yeah so, i mean, that's it was a huge it was a big ticket item. so that's a great example because i think that you actually mentioned that at a prior commission about how how the community had wanted more of the, um, the, the data that you post on the police, the police department website with all the stats, but you couldn't provide more information because you didn't have the resources right? yeah. so and i lied. i have one more question. my other question is if you don't have if you have to cut things like

finishing projects for data management because there's no money there and we're going into a huge deficit both locally and statewide, where are you going to get the money for these wish lists and big ticket items that you're about to propose and outline to us, like drones or the star chasers or the redaction technology? where's the money going to come from? um well, when we're fortunate we've been able to do fairly well with some of the grants and like for the organized retail theft grant, um, we've got another. when we started, uh the, the crime gun investigation center, i think that was the $800,000 grant that helped us fund some of the infrastructure needs. so we've we've done okay with grants. um, it's not the end all, but we searched for grant money to get it started on the record. the neighbors switch over. we received a five plus, i think $5.7 million grant. so you know, we are aggressive about

looking to see what's out there to help fund some of this, uh some of our needs. great. so why don't you include that also in your presentation? next commission meeting with the grants that you anticipate because the retail grants, you said 15 million over three year period. so it'd be interesting to what, other grants or where you think the money is going to come from to fund these, uh, wish list, big ticket items that you described. we'll do. thanks. thank you commissioner byrne. thank you, president elias. um i had an opportunity, uh obviously, to meet, uh, with members of the police before this presentation tonight. and, uh first off, i want to thank, uh, um the, uh, the presentation for making it clear as to how much of the overtime time is taken from, uh, um positions in the police department that are funded but that aren't filled. i think it's important for the public to know that that, you know between 15 and 20% of the personnel costs

of, uh, sworn officers is now going in overtime, which is an incredible amount of money. when you think about it. um, the second point that, uh, that i wanted to bring and i think needs to be highlighted, isn't it correct that the, um the airport police are funded by the airport from the, uh, revenue that they take in for the people that fly to and from san francisco. so. and that at least that part is a, uh, is not something that's a drain on the san francisco taxpayer. yeah. unless he's flying all the time out of sfo, would that be fair to say yes? that's correct. now, the next thing i want to highlight is, is page 19. um this is the non um this is the funding that uh, the police department has to pay to other departments. uh, you listed the the top ten items on the list

and most of the where that money is going to is going to other, uh, other agencies. rs of city government of san francisco. is that true? yes. that's correct. and in fact, uh, how if you could help the public understand, how does the san francisco police department have to pay $23 million in in technology and info services? sorry. thank you. commissioner. yes. so there's a centralized department of technology, uh, in the city of san francisco. they handle the city's network. they handle all of our enterprise agreements with respect to, say, microsoft and or the microsoft platform of and suite of applications that we have at our disposal. word excel powerpoint, etc. um, the, um they also so they provide those

things they also provide died. uh, they provide a san francisco cloud service as well. and and support in setting up any number of access points and, and exchanges with respect to communications across departments. so justice for example, that is the initiative originally and now it's a program that really manages the intake of all of the various criminal justice data inputs. and they compile it so that then each criminal justice agency can talk to each other, um, about individuals that are passing through the system and you're getting billed $23 million a year. yeah okay. and who's billing you the 22 million from the department of human resources? uh, the bulk of that is our workers comp. um, so that is the worker's comp. yeah, a lot of that is work. that's important to people. understand

um, um, there's also some training and other things that are in there, but not not too much. okay. now i get the more the more sort of curious questions. what would the department of public works bill the san francisco police department $1.5 million. that's for maintenance of our facilities. so for the most part and what do you mean by maintenance of the facility? so so, for instance, um, any of the facilities that are under the police umbrella. so the ingleside station, for instance or park station, the um headquarters is managed by real estate and so that's sort of a separate bucket of of money. but uh, with respect to department of public works and the actual repair work, maintenance, roof maintenance hvac maintenance all of those things that have to happen to keep a building running, that's dpw. that would also be, among other things um, the public utilities commission as well. then i assume, um, almost $1 million. that's our that's

electricity. yeah. okay. um, and then one other question. i want to move on. the medical examiner . i was curious about that. i mean, normally, wouldn't you be working hand in hand? so why would the medical medical examiner bill the city you know, that one? okay. um, there are some testing that the medical examiner does. uh, i know that they get it, like, let's say some toxicology. i think it's toxicology tests. uh, we even though they would be investigating the same thing. yeah, but but they would still bill you. they do. all right well that's not a really good question. okay and then, um obviously there's 16 million paid in real estate. and i know from the previous, um, uh, since i was involved last year from the previous budget, um, you listed, uh, the real estate, uh entities where, uh, this money was going to and you also listed

some of the suppliers as, say for instance of uniforms and and ammunition or ordnance to be particular. and i'm, i'm hoping and request ing uh that that uh, list be included in the second uh part of the presentation so that we can see what subcontract eaters are getting money off the san francisco police department and in particular, um, i know that, um, what is it? the big uh, facility over in the potrero . there's a huge amount of rent going over there for, uh, you know, uh, they hide behind these llcs. it'd be important that that at least the principal be listed so that the people of san francisco know where their money is going. um, uh, and, you know software companies and copier machines and that sort of thing that they're more or less obvious, but there's a huge amount of money spent by the san

francisco police department on rent, uh, to various um, entities in san francisco. and i think it's, uh, incumbent upon the police department to be transparent as to where that money is going. and what it's going for. and when the second part of the presentation comes i hope to see that list. um uh, because, yes, people complain um, that a lot of money for the san francisco police department gets a lot of money. but as you correctly pointed out, a lot of that money you're governed by, uh union contracts. uh there are so many positions. and then there is this money that's spent on non personnel that goes to various entities and i think it's important uh, that, that um, the people of san francisco are aware of who's getting that money particularly um um, the real estate stuff. because it's

a huge figure, $16 million in rent or varies things like that is a lot of money. anyway. thank you. uh, can i just add one little thing? i will i will let the public know. and you all as well, that um, all, uh, all payments by the entire city, uh, on all vendors are on the controller's website, and you can go and drill down to the police department and see who all were paying directly. that doesn't show sort of the any. i was going to say, like real estate pays things on our behalf, but that's actually not not true. so uh, the real estate costs are really about uh, keeping facilities as clean and, and that's really custodial services and other. but, but a huge part of that is rent. yeah. this department is renting. yeah. like the, uh, that's the big facility in the potrero district. uh, i understand there's rent on the on the pier in san francisco, uh, where

officers are trained. and i think that it's important as to, you know, the amount of money and who it's going to and the other ones because, uh, i, you know, in this era of transparency, uh, i think that that's, you know, it's very important and let alone if it's some llc that no one ever heard of to put the name of the individual that signed it so that so that it is transparent. uh, and, and, um, because it is a huge bit of money and it's something that, um, as i said, the, the people of san francisco, i believe, are entitled to know. thank you. thank you, commissioner. thank you very much. there, uh president. uh, elias. um thank you for the report. uh executive director kathryn mcguire and cfo patrick leung um, just had a couple questions. uh, i guess, uh, you went through, uh, jim, so is pretty much growing on that part. i

just got a question on the budget and the actual in 2023. uh you have a difference of about 30 something million, and it's a drop in actual. is that due to the drop in, um, officers in in the department. right. so if you look at page eight and nine i guess, um, eight is the budget and then actual is, uh for 2023 budget year. so i see there there's a, you know you have to drop in there. but i see your overtime makes up for it too. but you're still under about 30,000 thereabouts. right oh, no. you're you're. yeah, about 30 30 something thousand thereabouts. he added all up. so i just see if you have any answer for that. so some of these um general fund sometimes

we get budget in one year for a cost that extends over years. okay. excuse me, is the personnel cost. oh, okay. so yeah. so just seeing if, uh, that correlates to the drop of uh, officers on the. yeah. out there. yeah. and. yeah. so you'll see on the actual slide on page nine, made up on the overtime end. exactly. um and then um, looking at page, um. page 19. well, actually, jim already went through that 19. um my question on that page 19 is your department, telecom and info is this $23 million in annual, uh, budget that we have or actual budget? yeah, this is

our annual cost. it is an act. so. oh, this was was this the budget for 23? this is actuals for 23. so the laství three years we're at 2020 something million. um, no. for fiscal year 23 the what about the prior. do you have actuals for prior years. we can get those. yeah okay. uh that that's okay. but you report back. probably back in, uh when you do do the budget presentation. um, i had one last one is, um, do you know your uh, i guess the cost per, uh officer on an annual basis include the. i don't want to say the loaded cost, but, you know the cost per per officer. so breakdown, including the benefits and the pay base salary benefits. and you're asking about overtime, too. yeah yeah,

we have to go in to get it. yeah, we'd probably have to have a cost on that. it is broken out by position. yeah. what's what's your what's your cost of a new hire coming in. and then what is your we call it your average cost because the first first i guess the new hires would drop your cost of your or i guess some of your older i mean, the more senior, uh, members in there, we do you have an average cost or or. we'll have to get that. i know we have. um, we did have a breakdown before for, say , new recruits for the academies, because we provide that information to the mayor's office. it includes not just, uh, the salary costsrecruit, but also the ancillary costs associated with hiring the person. for example, the training cost, um, all the background, the training costs that we have to pay, uh, the equipment that we have to outfit them, and we do compile that information for the mayor's office. however for our

specific classification or specific individuals for the department, we'd have to go back and run the numbers for you and then on your page 14, uh, those are the general funds, uh overtime. um did we recoup any of the costs from, i guess, the apec events, whether it's the state, federal, uh, for apec there is no, uh, state or federal reimbursement for that. uh, the city did do some fundraising for apec and, uh that's administered by the mayor's office. uh, what you see on page, i. think 19 or 18, uh, on the sorry, the pages cut out for the general fund overtime comparison. what you see there is, is, uh, the amount that we spent for apec about 68. slide

14. sorry. slide 14. uh, the 68,000 hours is what the department incurred in terms of overtime hours. that spot. okay. uh looking at page 19, as jim said, we're getting billed back. there's a way for our department to bill back to other departments as, like, say, uh we do that, we do do that. we do have we do have work orders for various departments. all right. uh if you can show it the next time, i'd be great. yeah. uh, that's a lie. thank you. thank you. thank you. president. i'll make this quick. i just, uh some questions on page 14 on, um . what do violence reduction activities entail? that covers a

lot of different areas. um for instance, when there's a, a, um, shoot, there's a shooting across the city. they the department as part of its violence reduction strategy might have additional officers to provide extra patrols to make sure that there isn't any retaliation or, uh, a uh, escalation of gun violence. um, there's, uh, other instances . may it depend upon specific districts, stations, uh operationally, there are strategies throughout the department that, um, where each district station is provided an overtime allocation and depending upon the types of crimes that are occurring in that district, they may use overtime hours to try to address crimes within those areas. and

uh, for at least a portion of those hours, it would be included within that violence reduction strategy. can something on that? um just more specifically, i'll give you a good example of how what patrick just described, um several months ago during the summer, there was a series of murders in oakland. i think they had like 12 and ten days or something. it was really really bad. a lot of through working with oakland pd, we realized that there were some connections with san francisco, so we tried to get in front of that by deploying in areas where we thought there might be retaliation. also the community side from what our, uh, a whole violence reduction strategy and our gun violence reduction strategy, trying to all the community outreach and things that to prevent the next shooting from happening and at least with that spell, we were very successful. uh, there was predictions that it was going to be pretty, pretty bad with the retaliation. but we didn't we

didn't have any here. so those are the types of things that we try to do to get in front of it and prevent, you know particularly retaliatory shootings, which, as you know can be pretty nasty and aren't some of those also obtained through grants that that the city has obtained for specific interventions? so we have the the uh, the grant, the state grant for violence reduction. it was a $6 million grant. uh, there are some personnel costs in that, but it really goes beyond in that work. you know, other things like robberies. you know we ended up the year with a pretty significant increase in robberies. so we run overtime detail surveillance details, uh robbery abatement details to try to try to deal with that issue. and we've had some success there . so it's not just the shootings, but shootings are a big part of it. but the robberies that we're seeing, a lot of our unfortunately, a lot of our car breaking is now

turning into violent crimes because so many of our people that are committing those crimes are armed. they get confronted by a witness gun comes out, and now it's a robbery. so, you know, we're putting we're putting efforts into those types of methods of policing. and really we're trying to get in front of it and prevent if we can. but if we if we can't either catch people when they're doing it or let them know that we're out there. and so for me is, aren't these part of standard expectation for policing duties? um, and when they are specific to, you know, violence containment, de-escalation, um why would we need to utilize overtime for these activities when oftentimes i know they're unplanned, but some of these efforts are part of an investigation or part of an expanded kind of activity led by the department. right. so why are we tapping into overtime when these things could be scheduled? i guess? yeah. so in an ideal world, if we had, you know the 500 people that were

short, we could probably do most of this on duty, um, when every one of our stations, with the exception of tenderloin is, is quite a bit below where they should be, where we would like them to be. so when these things happen, if we don't have on duty staffing the bridge is overtime. so yeah, in an ideal world it's a lot easier. and even when we had, you know, staffing levels of 2018, there were times where these things, they're spontaneous. you don't know when they're going to happen. and if you're staffing is low, we want to make sure we get in front of it. so we'll step up in overtime detail to be in a certain area or, or our community violence protection reduction team, give them overtime so they can work. the problem. ideally, yeah, we could do we would do it on duty. but part of this is that we're so short staffed that we don't have the people to do it on duty. a perfect example of that if you look on that same page, there's citywide events. if you look at last year, we had 14,000 overtime hours and for those same events in fiscal year 24,

we're at over 16,000 hours. so a lot of the required work, because we don't have the bodies , we don't have a choice but to use overtime. and so how do your personnel capture this information? i guess i know that there is a question about how people are spending policing, containing de-escalating and then documenting their work. how do we assess this and how do we quantify by, you know, how much time is going into direct service activities versus administrative or community engagement or utc with the overtime? it's coded. so they put a code on the overtime cards called salman cards. so that's easier. you know the full duty time officers, when they were report to dispatch what they're doing, they also have dispatch codes. so we're able to see, for instance, uh, if an officer is working a foot beat and they and

they go on the air and say they're working a foot beat we were able to capture that, you know, certain locations where we ask for our officers to do passing calls of extra patrol. we ask them to make sure you get on the dispatch or through your car, computer and log what you're doing, so we can go back and look at those things. it's not a perfect science, but, um when officers log it, we can quantify and assess what we're doing, what kind of impact that is making. so that's that's one of the ways that we do it. and i've asked this question in the past, um, is there a time analysis taking place for our officer activities to determine how much time is being spent on actual policing versus, i don't know, documentation or whatever else they may be engaged in. so we don't time study as you're kind of alluding to a world, you know, juvenile probation. when

we used to time study for the probation officers, at that time, when i was at juvenile probation, the we don't do that kind of thing where officers like log it really the radio is our the radio codes is the chief was mentioning really our um the best source of that information in and really tells us how long, you know an officer was on a call and because they have to for officer safety reasons at minimum have to tell us when they get there and when they leave, when they clear the call and then, uh, for the purposes of, um, other types of time time. there are other sort of administrative and, and um, and not not available codes. now administrative time is a little bit different, like report writing and that kind of thing is not considered not available. but it's also this funny gray area where an officer's writing a report and not available, but they are. and so we need to get

better about how that's logged. but um, that kind of thing. the radios really are our best friend and cad system is really helping us with that. and we'll explore a little bit more what's going to be possible with respect to the new cad system that the department of emergency management is working on deploying? um, and that's a couple of years down the road though we did work with the controller's office to take a look at the types of calls through the cad system. um, the types of calls, the priorities and, uh, how much time the officers have been spending on those types of calls. and part of that was on what caused can be taken by alternative methods for enforcement. and uh, the other part of it is trying to come up with strategies on how the department can perform better with the resources that we have, but that's an ongoing. so right now there's an aggregate. it's not station or precinct or department specific.

you know, we can look down to the individual level. yeah. and the staffing analysis that we've submitted to the commission, some of that data is in there. you know, breakdowns of how we do our workload analysis. you know, what calls for service how much, uh, community policing time or available time officers have, how much administrative time like i said, it's not a perfect science due to some of the things that director maguire mentioned, but it is a very good indication of where we spend our time. and that is where we need to improve. right? because we have these projections. we have, in a perfect world, scenarios with formulas for how much time we're going to spend in community engagement, how much time we're going to spend administratively. but on a granular level, we're not necessarily looking at that in a in a systemic fashion. right. and that's something that i think we do need to spend some time on, especially with budget shortfalls and with some of the expectations that may be placed on this department moving forward. so i really think, uh um, it behooves us to to really focus on what structure is going

to be set in place to really evaluate, you know, how we're going to distribute our our time, right, and allocate our funds. but thank you for that clarity. i i took my name off. yeah uh, thank you, president. um, i just. commissioner, you brought up a good point. so i was looking at the figures. so basically, um, in fiscal, uh 23, there was about $540 million worth of, um, uh, it a little bit more than that, a worth of, uh, uh, personnel. i got that from, uh page ten at and, uh, i mean, sorry, i got that from page uh, nine. um if you take the personnel costs plus the overtime costs, and then if you take the number of employees and round up, which i got from page

ten. so i rounded it up to 3000 and you do the math. is that an accurate way to do the math? to come out with the average salary of a san francisco police department employee? unfortunately no. and how is it not? is it it it gives you a high figure? uh huh, yeah. um the personnel costs would include, um, soer thing you should note include pension. the overtime line is included in that 483 million or the 599 million. so that's number one. uh, number two attrition is included. if there is a budget line in the budget that says attrition negative number. um, and then there are uh, step savings. and so that is entire hourly. that is all encompassing for all civilian in all sworn. no, i got it. and i got the figure. so there was 540 million in a little bit more than 540 million in fiscal uh,

23. and there's no. so again, you would actually if you're taking overtime into consideration, it's included in the 466.7 million. wait now. yeah it's yeah it's 466. oh. an of that 80 million is in included in that. it's not on top of that. no. that's why we said in personnel. oh okay. okay. right. yeah. all right. it's this figure is still quite high. it's over. 100 and. over $150,000 a year. for the average employee sworn in unsworn at the sa police department. and that's not including workers comp, because you have that somewhere else. you also have to consider that it includes benefits. is back. and i understand is 40. i understand and i understand

there's, uh, people that make 150,000, uh, and there's people that don't, but the average is 150 over $150,000. so i will be clear that, uh, q2 entering the police department, um makes $112,000 at step one. right. but there's a huge amount of civilian employees. yeah. and the police department aren't going back. some of them are paid very well, but some of them aren't paid very well, and they're included as well. okay. thank you. for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item six, please approach the podium. president, there is no public comment. line item eight present on dpa's annual report discussion. good to see you

again. will you be here at the next. i'm going to be back again , i think right after your guys's presentation for budget. oh, sorry for them. my bad. apologize we'll see. sorry my bad. i thought you meant me. really good question. apologies. okay, now, from number money. you know. for the record, that was an hour and 15 minutes. i don't know if we're counting the ten minute here for. but i was just in case someone just curious. they did go over time, so i can't really

say anything. you did so only by 27.5 minutes in 2020. yeah great. temperamental. not that i was counting. i'm just. just saying. it's. i see the mountain. i'm excited that we still have a ten minute. yeah. hey i understand, all right. good evening armstrong. i am the director of operations at dpa. um, i promise i won't make this very long so you guys can ask questions, or we can move on with the night. um so first, this is our dpa 2022 annual report. um, somebody get started? uh first, i want to thank you guys for allowing me to come up here and talk about all the hard work that dpa has done. um it's really interesting with talking about the budget and everything. i want you all to keep in mind, i'm going to show a slide that's going to show our budget and the difference between dpa and sfpd's budget and what we're able to accomplish on such an unlimited one. so all right versus a glance of what our numbers are, we always like just

giving bottom line numbers up front so you can see how many complaints received, how many we close, how many cumulative pages were released for sb 1421 policy. and our sustained report . all right. so first, just we'd like to give a comparison of what our five year numbers are. and you'll notice that we have new cases have increased from 2018 to 2022. um, but our new cases did decrease in 2022. um and we did complete a study on it. and as we looked at other oversight agencies, a lot of the numbers actually went down across the board for everyone. um, and what our investigation showed, and we actually have it in the report, is that those that had that were in the news that there had new policies that were new development of oversight agencies were actually having new numbers, ones that were well known, decreased. um you will notice that we do still have an increase, part of our increase from 2018 to 2022. numbers are because in that time frame we had an online complaint form that was created as well as a portal. um, and we have new

outreach materials all. right. so as we keep going, one of the things that our goals are at dpa is to keep making our cases close. we increase closures from 2018 to 2020 46. howevffa÷er last year our numbers are decreasing. and part of that is going to be because of our budget related issues. all right. so demographics one of the things i want you to recognize on this slide, um, is who our demographics are. um, actually we're really proud ofhe fact that at least 99% of our complaint is provided some information previously reported a different number on that. it's really big for us because we worked really hard on trying to get complainants to provide us with information they're not required, required to. but it's really helpful to get that information. um dpa's primary demographic is black african american white males ages between 31 and 51. we are trying to increase those numbers for other communities, which is what our operation, our outreach director, is trying to do. so

that way we get a wider range of complainants. uh, we also received most of our complaints either by phone or online. but we are starting to see a significant number of people coming into our office now in person. all right. case findings . so in 2022, dpa made findings in 728 cases totaling 2487 allegations. now, when you think about our cases, you have a case, but you can have a number of officers on each allegations. so the allegations are really the meat and potato about how our work is done. the most common allegations are neglect of duty conduct unbecoming an officer, an unwanted action which make about 89% of those allegations uh, improper conduct. so we had 63 improper conduct cases, which had 131 allegations total. the most common allegations were neglect of duty and conduct unbecoming an officer. and i break that down a little bit more on the report. we go down even more finite detail. but on here, as you can see, the number

one we have is an officer failed to comply with the dgo. um and then the officer behaved or spoke inappropriately and then improper seizure, uh, search or seizure. so as i mentioned with the budget highlights, this is just a quick snapshot, a picture to show the difference between dpa and sfpd's budget. um, dpa's budget continues to decrease as well as our personnel because of the attrition that's required or the cuts that are continue to be made by the mayor's budget office. um so with this, the dpa is starting to focus and narrowing our focus on major charter mandates of the ois. ois audits and investigations. we have to narrow our focus because we have less personnel and less money to be able to focus on things in the future, but still maintain what we're doing now. with this being said, we are still creating new efficiencies at. no cost. and now what i'm talking about is as we move forward, dpa is about to launch new dashboards that are going to

allow interactive, um, people to stakeholders to actually interact with our data online. we're in our final process of making sure that data and that information works, and it connects. that data will be live and will be accessible, and it will be done in three different formats. so that way different types of stakeholders will actually be able to find this information, use it and have access to it as a live document and as director henderson likes to say, the best things that we can do are free. and we actually developed this in-house. and when i say in-house, i mean of a team of two people. so that's what can be done with two people and that's myself and my tech guy, eric ho, who also does all of these numbers. there's only two of us that do all of these numbers and data, as well as the technology in our office. um, the budget impacts are also going to be impacting our reporting, staffing and our cybersecurity. potentially we're trying to focus on increasing these things, but reality sets in when you're cut and your budget is mainly people. and so we're going to keep working hard

on making sure we meet all of our mandated tasks. but we're going to expect some delays and audits and investigations, making sure we still hit our required 3304 dates. but things will take longer as we have a decrease of staff, and these issues are kind of slightly old. but you know, our audit team is an award winning audit. we're hoping to win another audit coming this year. um, but but in the 2020 report, we have the implementation of the audit report about the proactive guidance for use of force data. i think you guys are well aware of this audit policy. highlights. we had 92 policy recommendations on 18 existing dgos. our our policy team is focused on making sure we update policies. um, and policies are actually one of my favorite areas at dpa. i think it's one of our main areas where we can affect true change for the department. so it's actually one of my favorite highlights of how they do it how they work. and i've actually been honored to be actually be part of some of the policy recommendations that have

actually some of you have voted on here. so sb 1421 we have released 21 cases in over 448,046 pages. and of course, that number has increased over time. now i can say that now we have well, we already did, but now we i think we recently director henderson received an award for our law and justice reform fellowship program. um recently being recognized. and we are really proud of this program. and there's some exciting stuff that's going to come out very shortly. i got to sit in a meeting today to figure out housing for our interns that are coming in, and i'm really excited to see what's going to go in the future. but they do. last year we did this. they did 24 hours of research, 26 hours of investigative interviews, and the cohort was 50% women. uh one of the other things that we do we try to do every two years is a discipline study where we look at how sfpd, um, uh, reviewed our improper conduct cases as well as dpa, and compare that information. um, these are the results of the study. just some of the highlights we found. the chief of police agreed with 72% of dpa's improper conduct

and discipline the officers 31% of the time. um we found that discipline posed by the chief followed dpa's recommendation 42% of the time and 50% of the officers received a lower level discipline and 9% received a higher level, and 8% officers resigned or retired before being disciplined. um, so every year we try to do these discipline studies, but it does take a lot of work. um, i hope you guys take the time to be able to review the data and see all the effort that my team has put into this and the team at dpa. this is not a small shot. you know, it's a very small shop, but each person at dpa takes a great effort to make sure this information is to the best of our ability, provided to each and every one of you and that is all i have for you. impressive. uh i think you're probably the best time yet. i didn't finish yet. oh you're going to take up. i want to take her remaining. suck the oxygen out and 34 seconds. just to outline a couple of things that i want to make sure don't get

lost. this is a lot of work that went into this report. i want to thank, uh, nicole and eric for so much of what you see is what they've put together and we really appreciate not just that um, so much work went into this audit, but how much work went into creating this annual report, which is every year i believe the audit gets i mean the annual report gets better and better. this is one one of the best that i've seen produced from and through dpa. and there's a couple of things that i just wanted to highlight for you guys in your review. uh one, uh, and part this, uh, report was pushed back a little bit, would have come in sooner, but we had budget restrictions and it's been moved from the calendar a couple of times. and so i'm trying to be as conscious as i can about how quickly i can get this data processed. and presented, not just to the commission, but to the public as well. nicole, i know you mentioned that there are a

couple of awards from the audit uh, team and the audits that have been produced from dpa. it's actually not a couple. it's three already. i just in case there is a misunderstanding, three annual. uh national awards that it's been awarded. um, in terms of the there's a couple of things that i'm particularly proud of. the in addition to more of the details about policy , which the commission had asked me to provide, this annual report outlines the volume of policy recommendations that were made during the year, as well as specifics to where those policies, uh, applied in the policy recommendations. uh the other thing that i think is really relevant is the volume of documents that have been released, uh, both related to and associated with the 1421, the over 48,000 uh, pages of documents that have been produced from dpa. and again uh, a highlight and an outline that still no, 33 or 4 deadlines

have been missed or passed, and loss of jurisdiction for any of our cases on page 11, this is something new, uh, that we have a three year comparison of case outcomes. that is now broken down by quarter. and includes a five year analysis as well. in terms of page 13, another new factor is that there's a i think president ellis, you had asked us a few years ago to compare what, uh dpa was doing, uh, compared to other counties in california. and we've expanded that so that you can see some of the national trends as well. uh, in terms of what's going on, uh, based on your feedback, i think that makes the report clearer and easier to read and understand just in context, how dpa is doing. uh one of the things that i'm particularly proud of on page 15 are some of the complaint demographics. so for the first time you are seeing dpa, as we promised to do, be

very intentional about race internally for what we're measuring, for folks that are interacting with our agency. and we've included both lgbt statistics and gender statistics. that's both internal and external, because we've referenced some of our own staff in terms of these analytics that are provided in the annual report. uh, on page 16, this is something that's asked frequently, and we try to highlight it to make it clear uh, what are the highest allegations of the things that are requested or complained about to dpa so that information is available as well? uh, and on page 25, uh, the law and justice reform fellowship, uh, i think nicole alluded to it, but just so we're clear we did receive an award, uh, for that program as well. so now you'll be hearing about our intern and fellowship program as award winning hereinafter as well. don't worry, i'll mention it again in case you forget, uh the other new addition that you

had not seen before, that i think is really important, is on page 30. the racial equity report. we're really trying to be intentional. uh, and you're i think you you're intentional about the things that you record and what you report and what you display. so we wanted to make sure that that received a prominent role in our annual report. and you'll continue to see information about our racial equity report in terms of the work that we're doing at dpa. and the last two things that i want to mention that i think stand out are some of the summary work that takes place with coa, and that's the statewide organization that involves all of the civil oversight groups inside of california, because that work is very important as well. and dpa plays a prominent role in making sure that we are active participants, if not displaying a lot of leadership in terms of what goes on with civilian oversight in the state. and there is a summary as well of some of the sheriff's work for

folks that had questions about what's going on there. we don't need to focus on it for this commission, but i wanted to make sure that folks know that it's included in the annual report because this, again, as i s beginning, is the most thorough annual report that we've ever produced. and there's a lot of new things in here that i just didn't want missed. and so with that, i'll conclude my conversations. and once again, thank nicole for all of the hard work that went into organizing all of this and being able to present it in a way that is absolutely readable from my perspective. live and highlights so much of how well the agency is doing and where we're trying to go. moving into these very difficult budget times in terms of our efficiencies and execution of our roles. thank you, director henderson. i, i too am really blown away by your annual report. you did a great job. i think that the amount of information that you provide, not only the amount of information, but the sort of the

analysis that also, i think, um, a cmation and data you provide is really, um helpful. and i really do appreciate on page 32 and page 33 the discipline study, which i noticed this time in uh, was not in prior, um, report thoughts, but i think it's really, um, important to include that because so many times um fortunately, discipline, uh cases are confidential and things that we do, um, in closed session cannot be, um. the public doesn't get access to that information and only in certain circumstances. and through 1421, um are are they able to see the small glimpse of what we see, uh, when it comes to discipline and the closed session items? so that was really, i think, helpful, um and informative. uh, my question is, i'm seeing that with the respect to the case findings and the improper findings that the

majority of the complaint, it's um, and it's been this for quite some time has been neglect of duty, um, along with conduct unbecoming an officer. do does dpa have any policy recommends actions for the department with respect to lowering or how to lower that number or lower that type of complaint that's coming in? it's hard to say generally because each case is so specific , but as you raise that's 40 46. and the highest allegation that gets made and that neglect of duty is most often what we see of failure to take action. and these are, i think this i presume this is part of the reasons why the commission asked me to be reporting weekly about the allegations that come in to show where those allegations are coming from and how they come into the agency. there's so many policy recommendations that sort of speak around that. i don't know if there's anything that is specific that speaks to the

public's perception about the department failing to take action about complaints that are made or allegations that get made directly to them. um, it probably is a better question for the chief to address, but i would be happy to sit down to come up with some suggestions. evans. uh or ideas about what that could look like for the department. it's not an easy solution. uh to come up with an answer for how the public perceives requests being made to the police are, even though that's the core, the core issue. and you know what i mean? it i will say that that those allegations, even as they come in, are each individually investigated to see if there's wrongdoing. and so that's if that offers the commission or the public some amount of well-being that each allegation

that is made is individually investigated to see if there's misconduct or if there's inappropriate behavior. uh, can i add i'm sorry, i just have just a couple additions to add on to it. so one, as i said one of my favorite things is the policy section. and part of it's because we do use our case data. all of the information we get for our cases goes to our policy team, and they review it. and that's how they actually come up with a lot of their ideas on policy recommendations. they make. it's not, you know, like the evidence, uh, i mean, those came from some of the cases that i actually worked on when i was an investigator. so these items that we're actually investigating, they do are directly impacted and are actually some of the policies that you've worked on. you guys did know that they may have originated with us identifying a trend over time and then being able to a new policy with sfpd. and that's why data and data collection is so important. um, i think to help guide. right how policy is made and what practices should be implemented and which ones work

and which ones don't. right. yeah, yeah, i agree with that. uh, i think in supporting what? nicole. nicole. yes. sorry it's okay. um the discipline review board that director henderson's, uh, i think chief of staff sits on along with the, um, our chief of staff and internal affairs. there have been recommendations, and they always come to the commission with recommendations, with policy improvements. when we find trends that are actionable. you know, if an officer just didn't take a report, for instance sometimes that's just training and reinforcing, um, good behavior. but if there are policy issues, the discipline review board, uh, the recommendations come from both sides of the discussion. sometimes dpa will recommend that an item goes to the discipline review board, or when i'm doing case reviews with internal affairs, they'll say this needs to go to the discipline review board. and then we work on them together before we present to the commission. so we do have a good process. i think for what you ask, in terms of making recommendations to move the

needle on things that are actionable and i sit on the disciplinary review board, so i know that we do have policy recommendations, but i think this is still the numbers are still there. so i think perhaps maybe we need to go back to the drawing board and figure out another game plan for sort of addressing the fact that this is the highest, um, type of complaint and how do we address it? so, yeah. thank you, commissioner. um, i mean, i guess that would include when the public asks the police to do something that may not be what may not be a police responsibility, which i imagine is a lot of it, because that's what i hear a lot. well, don't you break that down in the data, too. yeah. we break down all that data. um, and we have it all to even if we don't have it in here at dpa, we internally have a lot of that data to look at it. um, i mean, so we had 131 allegations that were improper conduct, which means the other ones all fall into those

categories of proper cu know unfounded, withdrawn, like there's a whole other categories of them. so the main ones that we have are the 130 ones, and those are the ones that are broken down. um, but more than happy to dive through the data with any of you to look at it, to see if we can find trends or anything. but that's also exactly why we wanted to put the total of everything in there, and also to address a lot of the common questions that we get frequently which is why that the annual report keeps containing more and more information, because a lot of times we get, um, complaints that, for instance, like these uh, neglect of duty are the added allegations when in fact they are the specific allegations that are coming in, which is why we track and record all of it. so that you see overall, not talking about specific cases, but about what the public is concerned about and what folks are talking to us about and what and what is initiating the investigations that we start at dpa. and that's really helpful, too, because i

think that it also has expanded the communication that the department is doing with other departments who are because it almost doesn't matter if the public isn't getting what they want. but at least we should be able to direct them. if it's not us. yes. yeah. and we do that at dpa as well. so we do get a lot of calls. we call them referrals, where people will think that we're or three one, one us and we actually will provide them either sfpd's information for an incident report to dem to all across the board. we want to make sure that anybody that calls us finds the right resource to do it and to find it right away. great. um, you know our our goal is really just help people. and that's what we try to do to the best of our ability. all of that gets measured as well because there's so much time that goes into our front desk with those calls, and it's chp or those calls come in and it's the fire department or it's some other agency that people have questions about that need referral to and that it really is why we track all of it so that you can see the

numbers. and there there's no ambiguity about who is coming to dpa, what they're requesting of dpa, and how those requests and investigations get resolved. that's to me this is the most thorough capture, the most thorough report that captures that process that i've seen or that we presented, not because we didn't have all of the data but because we've been able to analyze it more in depth. the data and present the summaries to you and to the public in a manner that is clearnd tells you exactly, uh, what work dpa has been doing and how it's been how what the results of that work has been. again, that's not to compare the budgets again but compare those budgets again for our little budget and what we're able to do and get done. all right. thank you so much for the report, nicole and director henderson, sergeant, could we please go to public comment for members of the public that would like to make public comment

regarding line item eight dpa's annual report, please approach the podium. if it's just clapping, can you just put it on audio for and there is no public comment? line item nine public comment on all matters pertaining to item 11 below. closed session, including public comment on item ten. vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session. if you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line item ten vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session, including a vote on whether to assert the attorney client privilege with regards to item 11, c through 11 f san francisco administrative code section 67.10 action moved to go into closed session. second. and on the motion commissioner walker, how do you vote? i commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. yes. commissioner janez is. yes.

commissioner. byrne. yes commissioner byrne is. yes. commissioner. yee. yes, commissioner yee is yes. and vice president carter overstone. yes. vice president carter is. yes all right. you have five yeses. we are going into closed session yes the motion carries line.

item 13. adjournment go! one one. no. out there. right can't have unanimous. vote. going 90 charlie. go ahead. we

moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids. nathan jessica. going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary

school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a

cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive

influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a

moment. i'm very proud of him.

television. >> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a firefighter and came in- in

1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream store we decided to take that business on.

>> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad

said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know going into k1 the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

>> i'm connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the

richmond. >> i'm an immigrant and came to san francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. my first job is at the community organizer for public safety with san francisco state. and land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. went through city departments when kamala harris was our district attorney i'm proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great

neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. the reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. we have the legacy business program the business around for 30 years or more and thought you know we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. am i'm ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. we were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. >> originally was just a burger joint. open late nights. then it changed over the years

and became the breakfast staple. we specialize in breakfast brunch come lunch now. i love this neighborhood. i grew up here. and it feels like home. i walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. you say hello you talk and joke. has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. there are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our small business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root stay and thrive. >> i'm proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. everyone loch its we got

farmer's market every sunday there. the you see really business at the noaa. ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. and that's when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. you will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. >> and that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. what is love is the theatre. >> i mean adam and with my wife jamie, own little company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. the vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. >> balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this outer richmond neighborhood since

then. and close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. >> when you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. but you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made you. that is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. it is a shared human experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. >> a shared experience is the most precious. and the popcorn. [laughter]. at the balboa especially we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings for families and kids. this is for everybody of all

ages. >> what is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a huge population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. and cinderella bakery is another legacy business. if you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. the first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. you will see the unity in the richmond i'm so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. >> my dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant.

has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. when he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and san francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. >> another moment i'm proud to be supporting the richmond and the only asian american woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. you see it is my ability to represent especially the asian-american community. in my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. i'm program director of adult day centers. i have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and

help and the people with disability. i foal a connection with them. i am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. >> if you want nature richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. >> i love the outer richmond. for me this is the single best neighborhood in san francisco. everybody knows each other. people have been living here forever. it is young and old. the ocean is really near by. and so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. there are places to seat golden gate bridge it is amazing. businesses are all small mom and

pop businesses. houses get passed down generation to generation. it has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. it's got a unique flavor i don't see in other neighborhoods j. it is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. we believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. it is passing on kinds knows. that's when richmond is about that we are together at once. welcome to the richmond. [music]

>> francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, january 23, 2024.)

>> francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, january 23, 2024.)

>> >> welcome to the san francisco city and county board of supervisors regular meeting this afternoon at 2:00 pm., tuesday, january 23, 2024. >> madam clerk call the roll. >> supervisor chan present and supervisor dorsey present and supervisor engardio present and mid-block not present. >> supervisor melgar present and president peskin present. >> converted present and supervisor ronen present. >> supervisor safai present. >> supervisor stefani present.

>> xrndz present and supervisor mandelman present mr. president all members are present. >> thank you, madam clerk >> thank you, madam clerk unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> colleagues, please join me in 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. >> madam clerk do we have any communications. >> yes. board of supervisors welcomed out interested person in the chambers in city hall second floor lomas encantadas or view the live stream sfgovtv to submit your public comment in writing sends to the sfgov or u.s. postal serve to the board of supervisors after one city hall room 244 san francisco, california and to make reasonable accommodation request under adu or language assistance

connect the >> phone number: +1 (415) 655-0001 to raise your hand, press *3 (coughing) today through a previous arrangement we're prepared to provide accomodation mr. presidentadam clerk start right now. >> all right. to my staff let's hear in the individuals like to provide public comment through the previous adu arrangement. >> welcome. >> hi, thank you. >> this is at disability attaching sf that is at you thank you for the and to talk about the brave effort to the board that voted flavor of a ceasefire

against palestine the bombing starvation have been a disabling event of unfathomable scale in the gaza and has a shadow whether the federal government genocide and the failure of israel government to not return hostages and just last week two hostages were killed in israel bombing and more than to 2000 deaths and also the deadly conflict on record for journalists this board had the courage to enact the will and in this time i know not would you

potential political sacrifice you've taken upon yourselves (bell ringing) only more just thing at that time i thank supervisor preston for a ceasefire and the board members have joined him on this side of history. thank you. >> thank you for your comments mr. president and madam clerk to the approval of our. >> approval of the december 5, 2023, and december 12, 2023, board meeting minutes. motion by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor walton a roll call. >> on the minutes president peskin, aye. >> supervisor preston, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor stefani, aye.

>> supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor , aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> and supervisor dorsey i. >> mdc call the9 and considered to be routine if a member objects an item maybe removed. >> same house, same call. those ordinances are finally passed (gavel). >> next waivers of specified contract-related requirements in the administrative code for this transaction. (department of technology) >> seeing no names other than is roster.

>> same house, same call. this ordinance passed ordinance passed first reading. >> >> 5. [appropriation - $1,350,239 in tax increment revenue bond proceeds in treasure island infrastructure and revitalization financing district -fy2023-2024]sponsors: mayor; dorsey ordinance appropriating $1,350,239 from the issuance of treasure island infrastructure and revitalization financing district (irfd) series 2023b tax increment revenue bonds to the affordable housing project in the mayor's office of housing and community development;and placing these amounts on controller's reserve in fiscal year (fy) 2023-2024. >> same house, same call. the ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk please read items 6 items 6 and 7 together. >> >> >> the state of california, board of state and community corrections, to fund the organized retail theft vertical prosecution grant

prosecution grant (fte (fte (fte (fte district attorney for the grant agreement period of october 1, 2023, through june 1, 2027.(district attorney) (clearing grant in the amount of $1,200,000 from the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, for the grant period of january 1, ethnic disparities in jail usage as a site in the safety and justice challenge. (district attorney). >> same house, same call. the ordinance is passed think first reading and the resolution adopted adopted (gavel)

next item please. >> 8. [organized retail theft prevention grant program - waiving competitive procurement requirements under administrative code]sponsors: mayor; safai and mandelman ordinance authorizing the police department to expend grant funds received from the board of state and community corrections organized retail theft grant program to procure equipment and services without competitive bidding under administrative code,chapter 21. >> same house, same call. the ordinance is passed on first reading online,automated solar permitting platform, for the period of september 1, 2023, through may 31,2027. (building inspection department). >> same house, same call. the resolution ask adopted $1,000,000 from the united states department of justice, office of justice programs, bureau of justice assistance, for

district's school climate. (department of children, youth & their families). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted next park department to accept and expend a grant from the california state coastal ji conservancy for a term effective upon

obligations or liabilities of the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the project or this resolution. (recreation and park department). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted to support the jail and reentry services program for the performance period of october 1, 2023, through december 31, 2024. (public library). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted (gavel) next next departments:airport, port, and public utilities commission for fiscal years (fy) 2024-2025 and2025-2026; defining terms and setting deadlines. >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted

treasure island development authority and the united states navy to extend the term for one year to commence december 1, 2023, for a effectuate the purposes and intent of this resolution. (treasure island development authority). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted period of october 1, 2021, through september 30, 2026, for intensive foster care and family preservation services. (juvenile probation department). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted (gavel) next

april 1, 2023,through march 31, 2024, for the leveraging collaboratives to end domestic violence program. (department on the status of women). >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted resolution is adopted (gavel) next item next item declaration of emergency under administrative code, section

planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. >> dmrnd. >> thank you are not on today's agenda. >> colleagues he you go for your supportem it is truly an emergency at zuckerberg general hospital the repair no one was hurt when this boiler and cooling tower was broken but it really was because this happened due to deferred maintenance maintenance now we need to repair this system. but i just want to point out emergency declarations come to us will indicate a dollar amount to the legislation this is the first only if it exceeds

$250,000 a cost estimate of roughly $47 million. um if we approve this day and in the repair and ends up costing yonder $47 million will not return back to the board for further review we said this is because we do need to reevaluate the administrator code and looking to see how we identify the in an amount not to exceed at the point of emergency declaration but that requires additional money for the repair to make sure there is a accountability for it to return to the board for further evaluation we know when the emergency declaration comes to use it means an emergency has

happened that requires repair immediate repair without going to bid or k3e6 bidding it is starting to do repair work that is necessary we really want to insure we keep people safe in the city and see their problems like water pipes and sink holes and issues arise require us to react immediately having said that i am working on the administrator code with our deputy city attorney and that decision will come before you later on whenever we get this ready hoping soon sloort and hope to have your support but as of today it came out with recommendation so we can review the problem we're seeing

roadway. thank you. >> okay. in that cases. >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted (gavel) glass failure; and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. >> thank you, madam clerk colleagues thank you to the land use committee for bringing this to the full prosecuted our wind last year building in and around our downtown had a half a dozen cases of high-rise window failures and glass crashing down

no one was injured but this it will have inspections every 5 years and thank you for the building of inspector and moving quickly with that no names on the roster. >> same house, same call. this ordinance is passed on first reading agreement for the conditional exchange of vacant land located on edgehill mountain for city's property on paper street areas near moraga avenue and property to be exempt surplus land under california government code,section 54221(f)(1)(c); and authorizing the director of property to execute docume liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the exchange agreement or this resolution. >> all right. congratulations. >> same house, same call. the resolution is adopted madam

clerk read the next item referred without recommendation to the land use to the land use code to designate the westwood park entrance gateways and pillars, located at the intersections of miramar avenue and monterey with the standards set forth in article 10 of the planning code;affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental the california environmental plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1. (historic preservation commission). >> supervisor melgar. >> thank you president peskin this is an item that is in district 7 it is the landmarking was promoted by the community that they are the archway at the top of the hill on monterey and miramar was one, you know, similar structure on miramar that disappeared in 1980 hoping

to protect those structures on the public right-of-way of marking the entrance to the park that passed without recommendation it was unanimously approved for the landmarking of historic preservation commission and i am hoping to get this support of the supervisors. thank you. >> thank you. land use chair supervisor melgar i note for the record that before i ask for a roll call vote this was a submission in the file after the hearing in the land use committee by the form commissioner annette harris that and so forth a facilitating piece of modern history that indicates the form president and

the board of supervisors other than norman yee moved into westward park and found in the ccrs had been illegal but still in the ccrs and went to the homeowners' association and all so forth in annette's communication to the board and the votes and changed the ccrs to remove the racial language and the only association to have done so the covenants restrictions e-mailed but the only organization that $ went through the legal process to approve. so my hats off to harris that went to the records

office and filed with the former president norman yee is read that language with that colleagues supervisor safai i want to add my name as a co-sponsor i appreciate supervisor dorsey support with the transition of the neighborhoods i think they 4 a lot of character in the community we have a few in our district areas as well add on to them but the idea that racial cove signage will be addressed in a proper way it shows you the power of the community level i appreciate that thank you supervisor. >> roll call. >> on item 20 president peskin. >> no. >> supervisor preston, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye.

>> supervisor stefani, aye. >> commissioner chan, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor engardio, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> and supervisor melgar, aye. >> there are 10 i's and one no with president peskin voting, no. >> the ordinance is passed on first collect medical specimens on behalf of clinical laboratories partner with either a governmental entity, a licensed health individuals to take a medical test; and providing that a violation of the specimen collection standards is a misdemeanor administrative penalty that may be imposed by the department of public health. seeing none, names. >> item address the commission on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction aye. >> supervisor preston, aye.

>> supervisor nen, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> xhrjdz, aye. >> supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor engardio, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> supervisor melgar, aye. >> there are 11 i's. >> this ordinance is passed on next item, please. >> >> permanent cultural monument for the filipino cultural heritage district; urging the arts commission to commission new works that center voices and identity; and finding that the soma pilipinas gateway project could provide a model for the city to advance social and racial equity by producing

triumphs of people of color and immigrant communities who are an important part of san francisco's diversity and soul as a city. >> supervisor dorsey thank you, president peskin and thank you, colleagues you're unanimous co-sponsorship of this important item because of administrator error in the maximums i'll work on this to make a motion to continue this item for one week. >> motion to continue by supervisor dorsey without objection the item is continued for one week. >> madam clerk. >> for the record put january 30th. >> yes. item >> yes. item >> yes. item

>> yes. item >> yes. item >> yes. item 23 and this. >> 23. [liquor license transfer - 690 sacramento street - 690 sacramento street - 690 sacramento street - 690 sacramento street - rm212]resolution determining that the person-to-person, premise-to-premise transfer of a type-48on-sale general public premises liquor license to triple chan enterprises, to do business as the rm212, located at 690 sacramento street (district 3), will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county of san francisco, in accordance with california business and professions code, section 23958.4; and requesting that the california department of alcoholic beverage control impose conditions on the issuance of the license. (public safety and neighborhood services committee) >> 24. [liquor license issuance - 177 eddy street impose conditions on the issuance of the license. (public safety and neighborhood services committee). >> seeing no names on the roster. >> same house, same call. those resolutions a adopted next requirements for officers and employees in the general services agency under the city administrator. (city administrator)

administrator). >> same house, same call. the ordinance is passed on first reading (gavel) madam clerk to committee reports item thirty forgive my item thirty forgive my approve settlements of claims arising out of the september 10, 2023, break of the sfpuc's water transmission pipeline at the intersection of fillmore but not to exceed $1,000,000 per claim, and delegating authority under charter, section under charter, section under charter, section under charter, section

under charter, section the board of supervisors government audit and oversight committee.(public utilities commission). >> same house, same call. the ordinance is passed on first reading (gavel) next nomination for appointment of janet tarlov, term ending march 1, 2024, to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. (clerk of the board) supervisor preston thank you president peskin and to item three 1 and first wanted to thank supervisor ronen and others on the rules committee that heard janette postponed yesterday had the opportunity to meet with her yesterday and

licenses to here comment and start by saying i'm confident has an open mind and bring a perspective and work collaborating on the mta board i appreciate her willingness to serve i'll not be voting for her today but 140e claims no expertise or deems interest in transit i said this before and say it again, i urge our mayor has appointed the power over every member of mta commission to nominate people in the critical time the future of the public trams demonstrates a commitment to public transportation and our city transit first zero and as small business owner i appreciate the value of having a small business

advocate on the mta board, however no mention in the charter three this or any seat of mfa board be designated for a small business owner person what is said the four boards must be rider and that they must accept knowledge or professional xrerng in one or more of finance and labor relations and two of the director wheeler must have knowledge or experience in the public of the public transportation it is my finding from our conversations and through her comments to the rules committee she didn't have the expertise. so our transit agency is at a uniquely challenging moment we need mta board of with a vision of experience and demonstrated commitment to a robust public

transportation system and equity and to our most marginalized community i don't question whether she will eventually provide that kind of leadership i hope in postponed will but i issue now is not the time tor on-the-job training for the commission by the time to appoint experts to the leadership from today one and once again urge the mayor to consider that when making appointments that are brought before this bound for the mfa consistent with my prior vote on mta commissioners i'll not support her today but make that a priority and vision zero goal and need for leadership from the mta board only grown since my prior vote i look forward to

working with her she's approved but voting no, today. >> thank you supervisor preston i wanted to mention i had similar concerns with her. and was surprised by the lack of knowledge on many of the questions that i had though the time i poke with her individually and in the committee had learned quite a bit. and this position is for a few months and then she'll have to be repostponed to be on the board this is just the smalltime left in the term when she steps down i in a chance and we'll be watching closely and see how

they contributor and have another chance to look at it in march. >> and i'll be supporting her today. >> thank you supervisor ronen and supervisor safai thank you president peskin. >> i understand some of the things that xergd said one of the things that underscores is finance you mentioned three categories of professional training. she actually started probably one of the most successful grocery stores in the city 17 years ago with her husband and dedicated every day of her life i was a frequent customer and show didn't know me from anyone she intrashthd probably more than any other

agency that we heard become and in committee and you're right it need to have a small business seat but because of impacts many of the decisions that the mta has made and continues to make along the commercial corridors it is important to have that voice she's a frequent someone that rides a bike and has a family. she ones a car and rides public transportation she'll bring a broad perspective and other commissioners don't have professional city planning training and transportation training and i think that is okay. i think that is okay to have a broad range of perspective i feel comfortable supporting her after talking about with her and in the committee but agree with the spirit of what you're saying supervisor preston we want a

level of qualifications consistent in the cross hairs with the community i can tell you that was the one question i asked a top priority and her number one, priority to make gency does a better job in xhuvenlt outreach and communication and interacting with businesses all the decisions they make i think that for me is what sold mow terms of what kind of commissioner, i think she'll be i feel comfortable supporting her day. >> thank you supervisor mandelman. >> i'll second i'm not unbiased but worked with janet the time i've been own the board of supervisors in her capacity in the small business leader in glen park and in my district areas. i see her go above and

beyond in that area working citywide and in a moment when merchant citywide is put upon by the city if all sort of was including the mta. it is important to have strong representation so i strongly support this appointment. >> supervisor stefani i want to add my voice i believe a bridge between the state of florida and the small business commission and this nominate has all points of transportation and appointed people and understand the state of florida on small businesses and their performance and well-connected to the merchant across the city knew a lot of the merchants in district

two and impressed with her i feel this is a seat needs the experience of someone that ones a small business and no reason not to support her also, you know, i want to thank her for public health her name forward not easy given some of the things that can be said about one when they're trying to serve their city and county i'm happy to support her. thank you. supervisor stefani and supervisor chan. >> i concur with supervisor preston not having a deep findings about transit and operations. and the fact that when i asked her when it was last time she attend a state of florida board of directors

meeting she mentioned december 5th when they realized she could are appointed to the commission i asked question around perspective around streets and critical issues pertaining to the richmond but i agree also as commissioners mentioned how important to have a small business perspective and most definitely the richmond has a small business representation and perspective when we especially brt and issues how critical for the small business owners to voice their opinions and so and i really want to thank supervisor ronen on this and i agree that a few months let's give it a chance to see how we can learn more about janet and

really and it is critical few months and look at their budget that is coming before us an agency has a deficit but a long-standing deficit i look forward to having her not having a deep understanding of the agency but a perspective. one more thing i want to say about her that actually makes sense for me is she mentioned the workers in her business and how challenging for her workers to get to work and that's part of our considers supporting the workers and this is write like to hear more on the board of directors. so i will be many support of her appointment today. >> on the item roll call.

>> on item three 1 president peskin, aye. >> converted, no. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> supervisor stefani, aye. >> commissioner chan, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor engardio, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> supervisor dorsey there be 10 i's why not the. >> special order 2:30 p.m. - recognition of commendations. supervisor ronen if i can call up. >> dr. hammer.

>> (clapping). >> hello colleagues it is my absolute pleasure and honored to be recognizing dr.r retire in the department of health after 3 decades of service. after graduating from the college dr. hammer got a degree in medication and served the community the community as a family physician at general hospital watching this grow and her involvement at zuckerberg general hospital thought and rose to medical director of the family health center and dr. hammer has dedicated her career for the department of health. thank you, so much for this and served in leadership positions. and include most recently the

ambulatory care what the public health a jail house. >> primary care and hiv services and integrated care and dr.9. hammer received all the support from the clinics. during her time as director dr. hammer oversee the successful pc clinic and district 5 and the heat center in district 10 and 8 those renovations are a wider scope of services. dr. hammer has been a person for the affordable act by dph and three led to the health network as to

meet the demands she - during covid she was integral in setting up the care and helped expand the ambulatory costs and bringing vaccinations. and draw hearing examiner has been a guiding force for the behavorial health and supporting hillary and joined dph and dr. hammer has served on the steering committee's for management for 5 years where i began to get to know her and a strong admire of her. not only is her knowledge and experience of staff but deeply compassionate one of the harder workers and has a

commitment to the patient in our city system and her coworkers say she's a public health leader and strengthening health services for san franciscans has led so and served the city we love for thirty years i can tell you that her many contributions have been a latin impact on the residents and proud to have worked with you dr. hammer and i hope you are very excited and have a very fulfilling retirement and thank you so much. >> (clapping) and if i don't mind before you say some remarks i wanted to

invite up dr. colfax was like to say a few words about if you oblige. >> associate myself with the comments of monroe county you deserve retirement. >> good afternoon dr. colfax thank you for the incredible narrative with dr. hammer accomplishments and made incredible contributions to the health and wellness of her service i got to know her but i didn't that we'd be in the room together but to really in the 5 years dr. hammers role where

they stepped in with the additions to the ambulatory services her incredible contributions during covid and the work she's done and really 15 and driving changes in the infrastructure in the clinic people the families the community we serve can receive the most it's been a long time coming. care so her legacy will resonate for decades to come. to the emphasize i appreciate dr. hammer she continues to have her weekly clinic every week as a primary care physician molding for all of us to insure we keep the patients for the most part in our minds so dr. hammer and on behalf of your patients that you seen i thank you for your

service. >> thank you dr. colfax (clapping). >> dr. hammer. >> thank you supervisor ronen and all the members of board of supervisors for this incredible honor thank you to my friends and colleague director colorado fox o colfax i have to say serving the people of san francisco working in the department of public health since i started any residency to hospital thirty years ago has been an incredibly fulfilling rewarding inspiring and sometimes exhausting professional journey was my dream when i first set foot as

san francisco general to be a family doctor working in the public health system and it is hard to come to the end of this part of my professional journal especially, as dr. colfax mentioned saying goodbye to my patients since they were born in the nursery and many patients have been taken care of for almost thirty years. so i'm so grateful for this rewarding work i've been left to work long does the compassionate and just oriented public servant throughout my career i couldn't

have imagined what that means to be a family dr. when i embarked on this journey 3 decades ago and amazing to look at a what we've done not just in the pandemic but really just building infrastructure and building systems all intend to improve the lives and well-being and working with supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton that was our envision transforming that to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness and having health issues and other medical

problems we envisions and the hard work this been one of the most fulfilling part of my career and couldn't be more grateful for your partnership and all the boards commitment to behavorial health and well-being of all san franciscans especially san franciscans with the biggest health challenges and biggest barriers to healthcare and people facing homelessness and all san franciscans that rely on us well over one hundred thousand san franciscans come to us for the hospitals and clinics and improving the heat and well-being of everyone that lives in the city and works in the city and lives in the city and i really appreciate the opportunity to serve the city i

love so many so thank you so much for is this honor. thank you. dr. hammer (clapping.) madam clerk call item three the controller for the city and county of san francisco, for a ten-year term, pursuant to charter, section 3.105. (clerk of the board) >> colleagues

this is one of the more momentous votes that any of us will take as the members of board of supervisors i want to thank supervisor ronen and the rules committee for forwarding mr. approval to the board of supervisors this is the third controller i've had the opportunity to serve with and mr. wagner is feeling very large shoes left by mr. rosenfeld and before him ed harrington and after mrnldz speaks i'd like to give mr. wagner to say and few words. >> thank you very much. i really want to repeat what i said they rules committee because this is one of the most important appointments for we're

going to make. and what i said and repeat when we all got news that colonel rosenfeld was stepping down from his job my heater /* heart sank that stayed there until the mayor announced her appointment of greg wagner and immediately i got the news and freaked out we're going to be. okay. i really think one of the best appointments that the mayor has ever made. i have worked with greg for 14 years um and from the moment i began working with him it's been a

star 3 shines but it is easy to work with a creative and had the integrity all of the important essential personalities of the good controller and remind me of the great controller so colleagues, we are in good hands and going to be okay and survive and continue to thrive. and i just wanted to once again thank the mayor for making a fantastic appointment that i could not be mar excited about. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor ronen not mr. recology fields day save that for another day and greg

wagner. >> thank you members of before mentioned and supervisor ronen thank you for your kind words i appreciate it i really. deeply honored to be nominated and considered by the board for this position. um, it is an inspiring opportunity for me to serve the city i love and write live and where we're raising our family. and you know i've spent the last 17 years in the departmental management working on improving the city services and i really have a deep replace for the role of a controller an institution under the city charter and in the city government and have any commitment if you approve my nomination for this position to center my integrity i accountability and respect for others and you think biased data driven position. we all know like many other cities have

challenging financial times ahead i. committed to - to working with the city government to help guide us there and truly am optimistic about san francisco a our ability to tackle those challenges. i'm really eager to work with the incredible team in the controller's office and bring the effort of that team to bear on the issues fasz the city from putting to homelessness and behavorial health to the conditions own our street and we're clearly in a moment of economic transition and eager to get in and jump into the conversations i have data driven service and we also, of course, need to continue the work of bringing earths and entity to our city government. and

acknowledge ben he'll get his day but i worked with ed harrington and lessons about how to run the office and conduct oneself i'll take those lessons with me, if i have the honor of being appointed. >> thank you my colleagues of the department of public health and dr. colfax great, great supporters so with that, i'll leave it to say thank you so much for the great honor of being considered for this position. and i'm eager to get to work and eager to work in partnerships with all of you and the other stakeholders to move the city forward. thank you. >> thank you, mr. wagner on the motion colleagues roll call

please. >> president peskin, aye. >> you converted, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> commissioner chambers, aye. >> supervisor stefani, aye. >> supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor engardio, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> 11 i's. >> congratulations we'll soon have our (unintelligible). >> thank you very much.. thank you. (clapping.) and downhill from here greg (laughter). >> madam clerk can we go to our. >> special order 3:00 p.m. >> yes. 26 through 29 in the

>> yes. 26 through 29 in the environmental the california environmental quality act issued as a general plan evaluation by the planning department on october 23, department on october 23, department on october 23, department on october 23, 2023, for the proposed project at 2395 sacramento 2395 sacramento 2395 sacramento three-bedroom, and 4 four-bedroom),26 below-grade vehicle parking spaces and 38 class 1 bicycle parking spaces, seeking (appellant: richard toshiyuki drury of lozeau drury llp, on behalf of jonathan clark) (filed december 11, 2023,) (clerk of the board) and 27 through 29 are

the months ago pertaining to this a continue item 26 to 29 at the february meeting for the status of women the new schedule date between now and the new scheduled date meeting with the planning department for this and the stakeholders to team to find a path forward. >> thank you 2350r support in continuing this support and allowing discussions to occur. >> thank you you existed and i've been connected by those folks and motion to continue 26

through 29 was seconded by supervisor dorsey. >> subject to public comment on the continuous any members of the public who would like to speak to the continuous for 26 through 29? >> seeing none, public comment is closed. (gavel) and without objection. >> same house, same call. if you will these items are continued to february 6th (gavel). >> madam clerk let's go to roll call for introductions. >> >> 33. roll call for introductions. to speak is you. >> colleagues, i have a relatively roll call for introductions um let me start by saying that well, we penciled out things we can agree that the rent is too damn high. though

been an intentionally incorrect narrative that rents are high because the city has not i'd like to enough market-rate housing this despite this board seemingly endlessable to streamline and pass legislation of zoning thank you, supervisor mandelman to change our inclusionary housing laws. no the same thing that requires the efforts for the department responsible for the streamlining i was having this congestive heart failures with the chronology chronicle this

narrative it happening despite the city's date documenting tens of thousands of vacant units across the city and 70 thousand lack the financing this this environment from private lenders to build we said before we do control the interest rates and the cost of construction. and objective those are the very things that like i said we don't control but real estate from in sacramento and elected officials that support those are a convenient way to mask the private market financing they're experiencing and special interesting like the housing action coalition don't prevent

they want the rent to go down and one appears in this chambers that document equating the planning commission last thursday for hire rents to drive and this is a regional highest rents in the united states of america and at the same time the institutional ownership of our precious rent controls housing stock with the company brick fields despite pubically having financial problems and giving back to the keys of buildings in southern california has overnight san francisco's laboratory ldr by aand in the renters out of constituents and i'm concerned this kind of

consolidation will lead to hire rates of and most of software used by landowner been used in recent federal craze action lawsuits that continually or troirnl and the city and county of san francisco didn't have control over the private market go offer interest rate we can do things and should do to push back on the narrating today i'm now and then my announcement for this anti practice of using software to price fix and contributing inflate rents and encourage the city attorney to

initiate lawsuits against such practices and companies i'm also now and then legislation to amend our community purchase act called coping to 90s to nonprofits under in-lieu uh-huh foreclosures we anticipate seeing more of in this alternating if there are opportunities to partner with small site acquisitions and keep people in their homes those are the types of investments the city should be planning for now and having notice and introducing a resolution up to date san francisco on the record as formally opposing sb 951 introduced by our own senator scott wiener last thursday an attempt to carve san francisco or the sliver of san francisco i

should say out of its half century inclusion in the coastal commission as a former member of coastal commission where we approved countless coastal plans and dedicated state authority to cities and counties up and down from the mexican border to the or began bored include san francisco's as a matter of fact supervisor engardio predecessor katie tang worked on that to amend this plan approved by the coastal commission when i was a member and frankly shocked by senator wieners a disregard planning effort by the city and county of san francisco and environmental and i was particularly shocked to see in

this legislation that the city and county of san francisco is listed as the legislative sponsor the policy body of san francisco that is the board of supervisors had never heard of this cave out nor taken a position and it bill carves out the high-rise office on the boulevard from any reasonable oversight i thank you co-sponsor o co-sponsors for drawing a precedent not three oversight but rather that real estate interests the single biggest lobby in sacramento we can invest in senators and the assembly people and there is an appetite in sacramento to start eroding this act and like the thank the surf rider charter and

the california coastal protection work to stand up to real estate interests in the face of this pour grab and making them supporters and after the disturbing result of the audit of the san francisco police department grant with a nonprofit group sf safe as well as seeing chief scott's remarks in the press not squarely addressing this taxpayer fund i'm calling for a government audit and oversight committee to talk about the lack of the accounting practices for sf safe and they are board members and

from the economic development made grant to sf safe and finally board members i'd like to adjourn in memory of tireless working ruben that passed at the young age of 49 a family member of tight restaurant community in san francisco serving is a waiter at the cafe for 3 decades and walked from his home and his warm smile were a welcome site and loving husband and father and son and colleague as a good friend to many people and willing to give a helping hand and sparc laughter to those around him condolences to his wife and daughter and hope can

be comforted knowing how many lives ruben touched and adjourn in a true san francisco lend the great joan long time playwrite passed at the age of 85 in cancer now just a receipt playwrite for three two years with political but influence the vietnam war and women's liberation and civil rights a position can call it's a therapy pen of the free speech momentum and is engines as a whole and what defined her summed up i never wrote anything that was not produced i felt i had the best job in the world and as

company leaders don't get all their work produced rather than ask how many workers get their work produced we should joy this and joan had scores of plays and during her tenure through the company in 1987 tony award the highest award outside and joan and i shared a common background liable jewish background though she is of born before me and through her actor she married her husband and performed at a fearful she recalled smog

clicked an amount of energy that people seemed to be having and in her case moved her back to berkley i want to extend any condolence to her family and those who she inspired and finally with heavy hearts honor of live of jim hurley passed away on the 9 of january 2nd and jim lived on the west side and embarked to restore the victorian and the property lost most of its charm with the facade removed and after they purchased and set out to return it to its victorian and

restoring it transformed it into a larger property around rights and the i was speaking about this and tenant protections end up having him play and pill point of privilege tally role served for many years and point of privilege tally in the transformation into - appointed by governor gavin newsom as a commissioner on the rent board where we served for many years and i want to personally note his friendship with the great norm a fellow people had the commitment to the apartment associations but his support for lgbtq in a city known for his diversity known for activism and

the made a difference and a lot of friends the rest i will submit. >> thank you, mr. president. and supervisor preston thank you, madam clerk. >> we were joined this morning by over 200 people in the fillmore to celebrate the oring and the safe way to postpone to close site i want to start by that thanking president peskin and supervisor walton and supervisor safai for joining this morning and standing with the community and i want to thank and recognition all the advocates and neighbors who stood up against save safeway

plans and i'm relieved that the community overseeing and combined with the support if elected leaders led safeway to change their plans. i want to note the following fact safeway has not held a single a single community meeting. with fillmore residents with the residents of japan town and regarding their closure plan delayed for the sites to sell the site. or any planning for ultimate groceries and banking services their all currently provided at the location. and what will happen in the event of an eventual closure of this store later on

in the meeting i know many have co-sponsored the resolution own january 9th your honor safeway to delay the closure of store and meet with the community and plans for the site that resolution helped to amplify the voices of residents and played a point in that press requiring not your honor but requiring notification and community involvement when neighborhood serving grocery stores close. back on january 4th colleagues you'll recall that safeway announced their closures with less than two months notice of this grocery that serve fillmore

for 40 years i won't repeat myself here. i'll say that they announced the closure less than 60 days notice with many communities plan and no transition plan and they claimed after initial pressure infrastructure our office that their plans were would not change they were indeed going to close in march. after response on january 22nd yesterday following tremendous community unity and pressure on the overview of our vote on the resolution safeway will stand extend to january 25th to give the city time to establish and

transition plan i applaud that announcement. and welcome the good news. but we note that safeway has not provided details with their commitment to the community and not provide that to community leaders nor condominium to meet with the community in any way, shape, or form. i have no doubt whatsoever this safeway will not have condominium to remain open until january of next year without the organizing effort of hundreds of residents in the knew thank you to the leaders and vinyl resident and small businesses and others who pushed for safe way to reverse course but i want to just to be clear that what safeway did here show never have happened in the first place. and

this is why i've directed i'm directing the city attorney to draft the neighborhood grocery store protection as a legislative effort that is both old and new and what i mean by that our law will seek 0 mirror a law from back in 1984. a law passed in those chambers by the board of supervisors but vetoed by the late dianne feinstein and that law facing closure of a safe way that is an larkin i believe that law would have required six months notification six months not 60 days six months notification to the community pubically public involvement when a neighborhood

serving grocery store closes and other aspects so our ordinance similarly will require six months no prior to closing a neighborhood serving grocery to meet with the community members. and well in advance of closure. and a requirement and this is in the 1984 law as well a requirement to explore a reminded supermarket is not acceptable not to have a discussion with the city and community. about alternatives you want to close you're grocery store that's fine you're a business let's find someone to run that or if we're building housing let's the that a going once, going twice grocery store we should doing to let the

neighborhood to know about and on more sites we'll have that opportunity but need this legislation needs this to force safeway to engage with the community and protect the residents that rely on grocery stores in our districts across the city and we need to be clear that that legislation back from the 80s was a great idea then and a better idea now giving these catting food prices and cuts to food banks and rising food insecurity and the increase consolidation of grocery stores that are increasing owned by multiple-generational billion nrpz instead of mom and pop that many grew up on in a different generation. >> we need to be clear giving

the community two months notice the often full service grocery store will be closing in unacceptable under any circumstances we need notice and this law will provide transparent and community input and a transition plan when a major neighborhood grocery store plans to shuts its doors and can't nufltz this enough we need grocery stores like safeway to attend a community meeting. i can't building we have to ask for that in a legislative chambers it is common decency and attended the meetings that open to the public and listen to the people in the community and discuss the plans for the property and answer the residents questions and come up with a plan to make sure that the closure didn't harm the community i'm looking forward working with the city attorney

on working group that 1984 law and working with all of you colleagues on to to make sure the turmoil in the last weeks of the fillmore and western edition never happens again. and as to the fillmore site we move if your honor, them to meet with the community and involving the community to requiring it. them to meet with the community and have a community led plan for this property. madam clerk i'd like also like to offer could i in in memoriam for richard darnell a human rights activist and friend richard may passed away at the age of 58 and

preceded in death by his too brothers and survived by his mother and moreno. he leaves behind many friends and loved ones and richard was born on july 8, 1958 in bronx of negotiations and attend christopher columbus and in the 2 get his degrees in drama and at grounding field and attended westfield pioneer valley and the received his bachelor in skies in 2009 attend san francisco state university and a certified occupancy specialist ifn 2012 and

richard was an artist and playwrite and author and the could find him reading poetry or performing under the name of the actor and pushed short stories called the colorado well index a fly on the wall of a psychiatrist and set up his plays i quote i hope the audience will leave the play they need to be more careful with what they say to one affordable housing understanding the pain can be inflicted by a single word or phrase. richard understood what it meant to hurt and heal and at points in his

life owe struggled with addiction and experiencing homelessness and the on the streets and richard work for the homeless coalition and a long time person putting people to the in the housing rights and an organizer and the human rights committee working closely with richard and said this after richard passing richard was homeless when owe cvo and showed up everyday and quickly became one of the sharperist councilmember westerlund probable the only person volunteer would often wear a suit and tie that the housing rights committee and incredibly charming had a great sense of humor and warm and people that came to him for help during the

time of crisis and big heart of housing rights family and strong bronx accent and passion and his journey from homeless to unemployed to working as actor richard was the rare type of person that made that happen in his life. richard was set to make his debut in an african-american miller play death of a salesman on the day of his death i'd like to extend any condolences to richards family and friend. we all miss him terribly may i rest in peace and his memories be a blessing the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor preston a supervisor ronen and mobbed or

and i are looking to extend the sidewalks vending has been a vi part but as you can see san francisco stolen goods have - we all want to see a sidewalk vending - that's why we're introducing in amendment inspired by the community partners and sidewalk vendors themselves and clarify the information must appear on the enforcement and department those changes will not solve all the problems but managing how we address this to make sure our neighborhoods thrive i want to thank higgins for his hard work as well as bobby lopez from the

mayor's office and from the others who is now at the department of emergency management the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor ronen. >> supervisor safai submit. >> supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. >> colleagues, i'm introducing a resolution clarifying the work of tuesday, january 23, 2024 as explain violent survivors week in san francisco and in 2018 applicants launched moments of survival to those impacted by gun violence and from the plague of domestic violence in many forms holds use hostage and less than a week ago a gun shooting that left four dead and other

with life threatening issues and 44 people have lost their lives this year and in 24 mass shooting by early february more americans will be killed with guns then people killed in a buyer calendar year this is our normal and 6 hundred and 57 shooting in 2023 and more in 2022 and each awareness week we remember the victims and we must do more to reduce gun violence. we must remember the tolls it takes on victims and their families and comment to make sure that all communities are free from gun violence we renew

and bludgeon to keep firearms out of the wrong hands and to that colleagues, i'm submitting a letter to the public health agencies to ask for more information rewarding how they require buybacks. and in december of last year the new york times published how hundreds of towns have turned to growing destroy that offices to destroy guns but in this efforts are inadvertently fueling an arms market accordingly to the disposal contract and online postings weapons slate for destruction with no background check those up cycled parts are often found in ghost guns last

week the san francisco standards reported ghost guns are half of the guns killing in san francisco and in california san francisco has the third highest number of ghost guns with 1,000 plus. i want to make sure that under no uncertain times san francisco is not complicity in broadcasting this and asking the city attorney to draft legislation to insure that guns in san francisco disposes of don't even up in the wrong hands and droorg a hearing asking the mayor executive steering committee's to oversee sb 43 to report on limitation and sb 43 was intended to help who modernize mental health subsidies outdated for far too

long this for eligible to conclude those who live with substance abuse disorder i want to thank the mayor in making sure that the city is set up our or for for three legislation and more than 50 percent helped to support this and see see untreated mental health on the humboldt county of our community. my hope that those hearings i intend to hold twice a year shows see coordinations among the department and want to thank supervisor mandelman for your support and sponsorship of this hearing and our continued collaboration with the mayor's leadership to make sure the successful implementation of sb bill and

also submitting a request to say legislative analyst office to research and report on how the city evaluates the labor practices in the labor violations when they submit a bid if they had according to the comptroller's office the city actively manages over 10 thousand contract for critical goods and services to the tune of our $5 billion a year those contracts supports thousands of jobs outside of city and county of san francisco direct oversight in recent years outlets have reported on labor lodged against contractors ladies and gentlemen wage theft and other violations as such this is imperfect we do our doing everything we can to make sure the contract businesses and nonprofits providing those services uphold the treatment of

employees at a minimum must apply with the labor laws and we have had ones to insure that city resources are spent the will i and orange and san francisco led on many initiatives with the minimum wage and paid leave and health and safety and at presents that is unclear the extent our agencies look at the existing contractors uphold with outs state and federal standards and san francisco will be a strong labor town our responsibility to make sure the workforce outsource goods are treat with the dignity and respect they deserve and have in the laws. >> finally want to take a moment to thank the mayor for all the effort she made in making sure that the fillmore grocery store stayed open i know

she was working on that hard i wouldn't mention that make sure about the the credit is given and over knows the mayor whether you like her or not participated in making sure that safeway at fillmore location stayed open so thank you to the mayor for that. >> thank you supervisor stefani and supervisor walton. >> thank you, madam clerk a in memoriam for eddy lee a reformed u.s. veteran long time san francisco resident and community leader who truly embodied the spirit of the public service and was known throughout for they tireless effort to empower the community 2 to 3 make sure their voices were heard not forgotten and their spirits are encouraged and eddy joined the national

randolph san francisco charter in 1995 as volunteer for then campaigning willie brown and working impact his community. and spearheading summer programs and food and workforce development and his role showcases his commitment to making sure the safety and well-being of the fellow members and neighbors. above all eddy was a beacon of the hope spotting love at every turn and every holiday for the children brought him joy one of the most joyful accomplishment programmers in every election driving people to the poles and

making campaign calls and registering voters and going door to door faithfully we the district 10 office and mayor's office and eddy has been intermedial assisted children of potrero community to and from school and during his tenure presidentcy advocated for redevelopment agency for residents and attended conferences throughout the united states as repetitive for apr i and discussing legislation that effects community development and eddy will be

deeply missed and those friendly faces met along the way. his voice presence and energy have made him a inspiration and power for those around him may his legacy remind us of h want to say something. >> i want to thank supervisor walton for saying that eddy i met 24 years ago and say as someone a lifelong public advocate and constantly constantly as supervisor walton said putting oats in front of himself until his dying day fighting for other people and ask you to pray for them i want

to say if we could end the meeting in his honor i think that will be great if that's okay. for the entire board. >> from the entire aboard without objection a at the cumbering and. >> supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, madam clerk >> sadly i have two in memoriams first, i have in memoriam for a beloved coach was an instrumental part of warriors run to the 2022 championship and coach passed after suffering a

heart attack. before that he served as is head coach for belgrade for 8 seasons from 2012 to 2020 and december named an assistant coach for the national team and served with the houston rockets and spurs in - a native of belgrade enjoyed and 14 jr. as a international basketball player and the most value player between two 4 and 2006 and who didn't know him but watched or read the sad news the outpouring of testimonials spoke to a

uniquely creative person was one of the most positive and beautiful human beings i have ever known brought joy with his energy and others lives he changed had remarkable qualities the only best person in the world of basketball and joined the mba basketball and in mourning the coach to all who know him - knew him the heartfelt clones out to you and the family members his wife and children. rift in peace coach and necessary rick a deep had a

right for a life committed to public service passed away january 17, 2024, rick was a true hero and church member of several communities and his services expands and the legacy is a blessing to the countless individuals who's lives he touched and rick's duty served in southeast asia but in usa rabbi islanders him many stars and the silver star for extraordinary heroism a valor on the battlefield in vietnam

carried troopers to safety and his battlefield and sacrifice further a testament of the dedication of an 12r0er8d persona proud graduate for san francisco equation laid the foundation for his life journey and when a personal connection as brothers rick's commitment to others stand beyond his military service he led his life to be unhoused and to the recovery community and political causes and campaigns means more and his love for the city helped and we through around like tiles and sorry about that not only for hard working but rick was tireless in the service than

anyone i've known in 2022 his active 1r06789 in anymy campaign earned him a nickname undertake eerie called him since recently as a week ago because rick laughed about that when people enjoyed heimrich pulled not punched they came from a good heart granddaughters. >> (calling names.) >> and grandsons. >> (calling names.) >> and great goddaughter our condolences do to you /* /*

tireless a diminished his remarkable life rest in peace i'll see you think is other side. >> supervisor mandelman thank you, madam clerk. >> colleagues we have a resolution and a letter of one i'm now and then first the resolution. the resolution would put this board of supervisors on record in support of a grassroots campaign for the issues that a stand to honor matthew shepherd his murder on october 7, 1998, with a hate crime in the united states history and became the catalytic for public awareness and policy

hate crimes prevention act by president barack obama provides violent actions for disabilities and sexual orientation in his honor will memorialize him and stand strong against hate. >> thank you. the matthew shepherd campaign and the foundation and the international imperial council to memorialize matthew shepherd life and legacy and thank you, supervisor dorsey. >> and others next the letter of inquiry. colleagues before joined that board i spent time

on the board of trustees i joined in a time of accreditation and even continued in doubt. this last decade has been a rough one for the college happy will i city college remains open after a long period of financial uncertainty they have a balanced million dollars budget and for the first time since 2017 an increased enrollment all kind of construction projects are on time and including the building and all 5 unions are under contracts that's all very good news but i'm concerned there is

troubling evidence the same failures that pushed city college into a ditch are remerging the chance when martin started some of us hoped the chief financial officer wasn't help the ongoing enforcement not driven but i'm concerned that he's leaving and concerned that the college appears to now beginning the search for a replacement four months after the chandelier departure and further the finding the commissions junior colleges which days ago revealed the

report for violations for the following standards the standard three b-11 requires that the governing board consider the long-range implementation making financial decided and standard do standard requires that the governing board act with the policies and bylaws and standard 4c12 will you the chandelier - at the commissions meeting reaffirm the accreditation for 9 other colleges city college was one of two to receive thanks and city college has to prepare a follow-up report describing how that addresses the issues and reach alignment by 2027 and that

all seems way two tramway folks we've been here before and not should be here again and the city and county of san francisco as well as that san francisco taxpayers have invested and continue to invest insight sums of local dollars to support city colleges and $15.8 million from the general fund supports three city colleges and additional $1.2 million to assume the debt and review are $14 million and sales tax and fewer other community colleges receives this support we have a strong interest to make sure that promotes long term financial stability and providing high quality education and today, i'm

announcing a letter of funding to ask by february 24th the board of trustees provide more information regarding those specific for the concerns j.c. report and how the members of the board will address that and two the understanding for the reasons for chancellors departure and finally it is my finding that vice president martinez sent 0 letter in response for the visit and preliminarily finding i don't know the contents but any individual communication from a trustee for the folks will be

unlikely to raise concerns i ask a copy of letter to be given and looking forward to continuing to work together for city colleges the submit. >> thank you supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar. >> thank you and madam clerk. >> colleagues this week the san francisco rec and park commission voted to strike the name no, from the lake around extra berg hill and name it blue heron lake the process began when the board asked for that and with the anti-semistism william fosters and anti-semitism have no place in our city and removing the name we're one step closer - after

several community meeting named recommendations and (coughing) standard the name favored by the public and commission phase blue heron lake i take a moment this gave me an opportunity to visit many that elementary schools in my district to talk to the kids and, of course well-attended activities that the lake and favorite among the kids was blue heron it was on the lake strawberry hill for the thinking digits residents and shout out to sf nature education and nancy for their many years of educating san francisco school kids and the public about those

amazing birds that call the lake home the blue heron is a much more appropriate symbol of our san francisco values a won'trthy name. >> thank you to the members of board of supervisors and for others i also want to thank rec and park for the many hours of work to shepherd this process and at the center the community throughout. i also have an in memoriam madam clerk for joshua i would like to close is meeting in honor of joshua a long i am not sunny side resident for the colorful murals that a donors

the walls in san francisco featuring bears, aye. >> wildlife the birdsong on market and van ness and joshua was a self taught artist like to have a unique over like like animals and textures like newspaper articles and such he's renowned for his generosity and style (coughing) and most of all for his light owe grew up in hi, hi and lived in new mexico and his grandmother took him bird watching and desired by the legendary person that lovely referred to as his friend

coughing and featured animals how people relate to the birds and joshuas work was featured at the 20th street block party at the marathon and the treasure island and the art span. and elementary school also in district 7 featured many where his son attended and was a classmate of my daughter in 2012 took a yearlong art project called the prolific everyday he gave respond a gift and every night made a painting about the day and at burning man displayed the incremental and give them away free and idiot read into the record an album and hoping to share more (coughing) committed volunteer passionate

about giving back to the community and you can see his work he fought hard for his life his passing was devastating for the go fund me joshuas family during this difficult time leaves behind his wife and his son. to teresa and our deeply condolences and joshua you're solely missed by everyone in the community and may you're beautiful legacy live on forevermore the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor melgar and plenty that concludes the introduction of the new business. >> you go to public comment. >> the public is welcome to speak to 35 and the approval of

the board meeting minutes and may speak to general matters not on the board agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction and all other reported by an appropriate committee and setting the timer for two minutes. >> welcome (coughing) >> good morning the use of any telephone effects as others for social behavior and health. okay. now happy don't be the question 24 life versus death.

(coughing) and the stage yes and look what we value here. we have done with 250 years of wrong education mostly benefits on the mere finding what we are seeking we stop using profit is u.s.y this is where we are by share life. i told you last year how to do if you stop lying and then you are happy. and everybody is with you and again it is over what i explained to you the system (coughing)

(unintelligible) and offer 250 years. brefshg for mended the french revolution of the king of france by the way, san francisco is supposed to be the power not the london of the west. this does raise a big difference. no more ugly we ask the public refrain from making comments until your time at the podium. >> i want to remind the clicker the opportunity for the members of the public to directly address the board on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and since, you know, the supervisors did put their hands on their

heart (coughing) and acknowledged that we were one nation under god i want to start by in job 9 the most right use man on the globe do you want to hear from a man like this he said how should a man be just if i god if we contends with him can't answer him and news in canada a couple of jewish guys and ask you go to w e f.org and alone to the interviews with the people in that are just communists that industry the world i hope god

our straits it out but the questions people are asking people like (day whether necessary answers the question or not they actually answered the question by choosing not to answer and penetrating questions they are (bell ringing) and jonathan the little balanced heated jewish guy i forgot his name broke three of his cameras got it on camera i want to watch that all bs by the bicycle is all true and my time is up bible is true. >> i'm christopher i'm spoken here the first thing january 2nd

the health commission it was canceled and no quorum offer after that and people are using illegal systems illegally to influence the board of supervisors and public policy before this meeting i submitted to the city attorney's office a request to contact department of justice federally and state the attorney general to open apple even inspection on david chiu and the commissioner the controllers not greg wagner is just starting but and the rape i'm doing that during covid public health had the ability to put a wiretap on people in the pandemic what is happening the mayor (coughing) and other people i mentioned don't note want to take that off

and using the public utilities commissions to conduct survivors that is illegal and you believing edible in the country in the 1980s 76 and with covid and today and followed by those instances massive amounts of cheating a public official the softball to cheat at softball not a good way to spend public funds. >> thank you for your comments next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm parking meter executive director library yours association advocate for (coughing)

we are independent of anyone a library vendor and reached in 2004 on.org and with more confidentiality at p.o. box one 704 san francisco, california 94117-054 approaching your budget time and next month the city departments will be sending their budget to the mayor's office that will then - we are concerned that the san francisco public library is not living up to its mission statement that roughly speaking says dedicating to provide free and equal access to the people who read and for our diverse community unfortunately, i said is note always free and equal and

serving all the diverse community. offer years we have advocated more than a free system for example, for the library and we've over the years advocated for more open hours especially evening hours the public has repeating told the safer they want and the evening hours are cut precovid and closing by 8:00 p.m. has a negative impact. the library is increasing distancing itself in a variety of ways please consider this in the budget. >> thank you for your comments (bell ringing) next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors

my name is bradley i'm a library yours and concerns about the library. the library director is preparing his strategy planning initiative but unfortunately, no measurables it is a non-measurable statement. and both for the future for the coming budget for you to evaluate past achievement of its goals as well, you know, the calling out and setting of goals not being done if you look at public hours for example over and over the poles show that people want additional hours here in evening on the weekends, and those hours are not the hours that have been recorder following the pandemic hours

were cut and some returned but still ignoring what the public is asking for we see those hours not done and the libraries are important with the "x" sorry library it is important for the important for the dedication and the falls future in the library collection is finished (bell ringing) with there is not substitute resources in new technology. we saw with the um, auto taxis when you rush technology before that is ready. and so in the library for example, in the area i research in history for example

the metro political has references documents eliminated (bell ringing) and ones that survive are only half thank you for your comments. >> hello, good afternoon supervisors. my name is a honest clearly a resident the haight additional to share our perspective and leadership we need to make. as often said san francisco is a beacon of hope in recent years we are placard by issues those issues not in san francisco w weigh heavily on so many of us housing affordability and risk of hunger and chronic with substance abuse and sdpish public health i believe the governments responsibility to

insure that everyone has affordable assess and homes for living in and safe streets and educational opportunities for san francisco advancement and healthy food and water when you have the basics you don't worry about surviving but the mayor is well intention but continued unaffordable not working and working that much harder to stay afloat that's why i'm running to serve as your mayor and excuse me - sir are you seeking about running for office right now? (bell ringing) part of my remarks. >> i'm going to pause you you have 26 seconds left this is about the business before the

board a notice on their agenda. >> (multiple voices). >> no campaigning in this chamber. >> respectfully thank you. i'm hornt hont clearly you know the promise of san francisco is not just the privileged few but each other we need to rekindle the beacon and reannuity san francisco. thank you. >> and. >> hello we have three minutes. >> you have two minutes a podium right now. >> thank you very much. i'm nicole and reverend that's why

i'm here first of all blue hero or heron lake i love it liaison strawberry hill is the still the name that's a sanitary yeah. for birds that continues ongoing blight in this city. this closing of safeway. okay. so you're going to close did it i declare you also have a plan to replace this shall be no deserts in the middle of san francisco you're going to be own the national news i've been a journalist radio and television twrif years you that to want to be a headline bring it on shame on you 11 months later and deal with this again we're for the

dealing with that again you solve this problem right now i know you, you need to take in sleeping medication we're not doing this anymore i'm unhoused i have a (bell ringing) uh-huh. i understand 30 seconds i'm a journalist listen to me clearly as someone that i met today did you guys i'm unhoused i have a p.o. box now why? because all they do is write our communities and buy us out we have to live in corporate

airbnbs. >> thank you for your comments (yelling off-mike). >> my name is - any partner is randy welch a resident of lagoon hospital i have serious issues regarding the unification process are lagoon hospital and crimes against my domestic partner by the department of health in san francisco. it was interesting to hear supervisors wants legislation concerning safeway and having a meeting with people in the public. hypocrisy yes hypocrisy but probably unconstitutional in the voted it in what is goods is

good for the legislative garden i'm not allowed to speak to the board of supervisors there are three members and supervisor preston and supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar are a comprehensive list you can be assured if there's no cover up involving the lagoon husband why won't they speak about that. >> good fucking afternoon first, the deputy d violates my rights in the members of the public express disapproval i can use a finger not a disruption

second i want to express president peskin specifically that the staff got the phone and fucked around and third no fan of that employment people should be fired birthday fucking up they job but employees that create hate where on or off the clock i'm glad that president peskin is proposing protection when supervisors do a good job i like to give them credit see i'm not always fucking nasty but the

reason foreclosing disingenuous and don't do a. >> (speaking spanish) (bell ringing) >> (speaking spanish.) >> (laughter). >> next speaker, please. >> come on up thank you, thank you good afternoon, supervisors my name is hillard any brown and you guys know me in district 5 i'm here to speak as a fillmore resident i shop in the fillmore for 35 years and recently suffered two strokes. the past 5 years. i'm like kind of capital

improvement plan led and legally blind all my life i can't drive to the safe way in castro but my next thing to do is catch a bus i want to speak my mind. and speaking as a a fillmore resident disabled lives blocks from safeway and my parents mr. and mrs. brown and in their 70s necessary rely on safeway as well so you have the power to continue to keep that safeway more long term and after shopping there for 35 years and would like thirty plus years and a lot of my friends can't afford to shop there but i buy the

groceries there i'm fortunate like to see that stay open and like i said, my next alternative to be a to be a competitor. >> thank you for your comments next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm leah, i live in d-6 and transpeople in heterosexual all how well you supervisors have a expensivecy 100 percent and how did i hunch was intentional learning. what medics are every one of you using how do you know those are accurate medics? have you ever sat down and funding on those

questions for transamerica and others or gay people and how about for people that are immigrant how wild people don't know me for adam are responsible to act on any behave and setting the rules don't know or care about the um of your decisions to help you better represent us and present us as human beings to your community i'm here to share the vitality impacts on us i wrote this after the city hall for the 2023 the faces young two dimensional led up to the steps and silence with our 3-d faces until their 2 d

(bell ringing) we seek holding to the - politician and keeps stabbing our faces with the camera ready smile our numbers are smaller than the year before are we too tired to show up four ourselves to 2 d and having the city attorney currently investigating a stem i thought person provide in the building (bell ringing) and take this free speech is protected - thank you for your comments. >> mr. president and honorable supervisors thank you to the honorable president and the supervisors that came to the meeting in the fillmore as of today to give a strong message

that um, the safeway plan to close the grocery store in fillmore and pledging that the revolution that they would print to supervisors to go along about that to make sure this does not happen no more in san francisco. and the chronicle newspaper on sunday and under justin phil the depravation and went on to say to shut down the fillmore safeway is a betrayal and fortunately involved this

definitely is a betrayal and representative will not happen why did it always happen to the next door people (bell ringing) and people that does not have the ability to come before you as a city and speak for themselves thank you so much and looking forward to the beautiful resolution passed by your body. >> thank you reverend walker and hear from the in the. >> honorable folks. >> can you move the microphone closer to you, we can hear you better. >> i had the pleasure of living at the fillmore for the past year and find it safe and accountable the safeway is critical to the entire area. and though i'm grateful to

(coughing) supervisor dorsey and the board i ask you to look at deeply into two things how was it that intergovernmentally this deal was allowed to go through as another housing development when 24 high-rises in the fillmore area many serving low income people doesn't make sense. and also safeway claims to be in a financial distress because of theft they sent e spends between $30,400,000 dollars a month on secures i saw an elder asian man maced in his eyes with pepper spray by and vicious skrrgd i

wished a 35-year-old white lady thrown out of the story i'm store by structural problems yes. i ask you to look at those and see if anyway all the city funding goes to food but vouchers or something (bell ringing) to offset the stuff at the safeway. >> thank you for your comments next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm pastor a member of fillmore alliance and became a member we are one here, here to say 49ers got to win we in san francisco have to win let's not make this - our supervisor or mayor, we came together in san francisco as a champion and came against

is biggest corporation as our board president came to the fillmore to talk about in role safeway corporation that is across san francisco a championship win for san francisco from the san francisco president from our mayor to supervisors all the supervisors want to pass that resolution this is a san francisco win let's take that we're taking that with a grain of salt we have a lot of work to do and the word says one plants one water and god gives the increase so san francisco work as a team. >> thank you for your comments. >> we should look - greetings supervisors thank you for

allowing me two minute first of all, thank supervisor preston and president peskin and supervisor walton and supervisor safai and xhvnd thank you for sponsoring in resolution had a great turn out today and my heart is filled with consistent after all been going in the past week i echo what the pastor said to pause for a moment because you can't win a game without playing all positions so thank you, mayor london breed and the pastor angus brown and the unity coalition and alliance and my powerful sisters got my back (coughing) and pause and take that as a victory two things transitional

plans community benefits. i think if we can focus on that whatever comes in the future it will be a totally win-win for the community and the city and county of san francisco. safeway as i said many times before, you know on one hand be like use other language i won't say on the other hand this is a corporation is definition of a corporation (bell ringing) we know a corporation is looking at stakeholders not to justify but understand what we're dealing with but today was a win-win and pass this resolution we need this to send a message to all corporations neither compromise for politicians

(coughing). >>. thank you very much. >> daniel thank you for your comments. >> next speaker, please. >> like you said only on the other hand can do this and on the other hand, you feel this way i'm grateful we have the support from the current supervisors and we are looking forward to everyone joining this in team effort i echo brother daniel and my sister up here and standing everyone on board and our city and how it will look to the world and we stand up with our people for our people at the. >> thank you for your comments. >> my name is chandler and the bottom line is this is a culture competency of our people as a nation and unfortunately, this consists of a total human being in character and so unfortunate we experience today, i go with the gentleman should not have

happened but let us know how you feel about us in the city we are suffering not only concerning food but from the housing unfortunately, so many people don't have housing when people come before the all over the words some of the buildings with named after people and the unfortunate that the majority of homicides in any sons case anniversary just the 9 and his case has not got a trial date i've been going to court for 9 years are you aware that former prosecutor eric is now judge was illegal the former prosecutor cannot speak on it just pass to the calendar. but i did let the mayor know documents he let the

counselor know and the court the documentation the department of justice of the washington, d.c. and getting ready to go to the international world court because here the local court has failed us in the nation of people i'm the repetitive of the decendents i am the con absolutely and spoke with the president and the administration about we want a meeting and have our own census we don't have our reaction recreation we could solve in in your people would have reparations so the local government is not working to be for the people i guarantee you have the money in issue bank

account and we have people starving (bell ringing) ballets see what is going on one the be richest not doing what we need to do to save the franchisee - (bell ringing) >> thank you, ms. chandler. >> yes. we'll come and collect that from you. >> next speaker, please. welcome. >> peskin and minutes of board i'm a resident of japantown and first of all thank you for the or those that came out the urgency thought possible loss of a valuable supermarket in our area and second to support is the two resolutions proposed by supervisor preston and many

people point community not able to travel to others places of the city to be able to sustain their food needs i urge you you to support supervisor preston resolution. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments next speaker, please. >> good afternoon president peskin and to the members of the board i'm julian i work in the social center in japantown many of the community shop at the safeway i wanted to reiterate as you can see safeway or supermarket that is services the community comprehensive that needs is very important and support that. >> thank you for your comments next speaker, please. >> hi, thank you president

peskin and supervisor preston and thank you for coming out to the safe way rally i'm paul the executive director of the japanese center in northern california and part of the japantown in western edition for over 60 years grew up in japantown that was literally the blocks were sandlots surrounded by chain-linked fences the homes were gone and is businesses and japantown was gone i saw what happened in western edition the black communities were reduced to rubble i was never to pissed off and disgusted can i never thought i'll see the day the

developer with the government support would take housing need over the communities right to have basic neighborhood (coughing) like food i - i mean just disgusting to me i heard that the opposite was trader joe's especially in the neighborhoods have been historically and systematically decimated (bell ringing) over time safeway got that land cheap people lived there and businesses there with the promise they would provide foods for that community and neighborhood as a solution to the department staff and getting out today because

the need for housing (bell ringing) they made a promise- >> thank you. >> thank you thank you for your comments welcome to the next speaker, please. >> (clapping) >> (clapping) before the next speaker there is a board rules no audible sounds if you want to give our happy hands welcome to the in the. >> thank you i'm kathy less than oscar husband have been living in the western edition the same building for three two years we've stopped as safe way the whole time we don't drive have a car we take the bus each week and in progress of going through each time we go there we

see people in wheelchairs they are a lot of older people or disadvantaged people living in the area. to three senior centers right in the western edition neighborhood people often come in wheelchairs. >> so all we're asking safeway is kept open for people like us who go welcome with three wags or taking a bus or getting there in some way. to shop. there is no close alternative otherwise. thank you. >> thank you for your comments welcome to the next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> my name is nan heart i

live. >> a nan can you speak directly into the microphone so we can hear. >> my name is nan park i live two blocks from safeway and want to thank all of you for stopping the destruction of safeway and making it last more than three months a year to january and i hope that whatever vote you give it it will have at least 10 more years or 20 more years with the wonderful thing that makes great things for our neighborhood and have the doctors whatever you want to call it i can't think of the word and get my mentioned it

is wonderful and i thank you all you're wonderful for doing something to save that. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. >> welcome to the next speaker, please. >> (clearing throat). >> good afternoon board of supervisors i'm carson little the japantown task force delivering remarks on behalf of the dr. emily how was here early but had to leave japantown task force for over 20 years dedicated to the promotion of japantown san francisco like many of you know many japanese community now three remaining los angeles and santa fe and san francisco is the largest and the

oldest (coughing) last wednesday expressed strong support that the western edition safeway stay open we thank mayor london breed and stand in solidarity with the fillmore and western edition to encourage urge this at the stay open thank you for your comments. >> welcome next speaker, please. >> thank you for allowing our community to come together in the chamber to express um, our support to keep the safeway store open in the filling admonish i'm allison i represent the japantown task force in japantown and the represent we are one which is a group that got targeted to stop asian hate

and also on top of the serial type of african-american and other cultural people in our country and city i stand before you i want to thank supervisor preston for being brave and writing a resolution that resonates with each of our hearts in wanting to keep that councilmember barkett for our community japantown community is close neighbors with the western edition and stand in solidarity to them and our japanese minor and chinese-american and russian americans who are all living in our community and need that space to give them subsequence and provide firing families and children we understand safeway is the only place that

acceptance for families of low income that need to provide formula (bell ringing) food for your children and plead with you and look forward to all the priorities to work with our community thank you for your comments. >> welcome the next speaker, please. welcome. >> yes. good afternoon. i'm to thank the board of supervisors as well as our president peskin for giving us a chance to speak up on this issue i'm a part of the fillmore united alliance as well as - we are one. >> i just became a member we are coming to talk about our very issue of safeway i know you, you guys are here us talking about safeway i've

served do communicated over 28 years and know how it effects our community in the safeway is closed our seniors need to get their prescriptions and they need to sustain themselves with food as well our families and ask my or as my sister alice mentioned safeway it the only intersect that low income qualify for children under 5 and traveling with a child under 5 without a car is difficult a pleasure to see see senior citizens come out to safeway in wheelchairs and getting their food and taken care of of themselves and with respect how we greet them in the community and happy to see with them that property is surrounded by so

many (bell ringing) senior assisted living homes and low income family homes so i urge to you accept the resolution. thank you. >> thank you for your comments (clapping.) hear from the next speaker, please. welcome. >> hi my name is mitchel and time to say um i don't want safe way to close it's any favorite store mill favorite for and the reason that i want safeway to be open like my mom said people are old and sometimes can't walk and they have to go to safeway to get their groceries and( can't thank

you all for acknowledging is an incredible person. thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors and the audience. i can't say what i want to say in two minutes so say i've been here and safeway was built when i moved there i got great history with safeway but living in the community with the town hall meetings all hands on deck everyone is involved in the community should be to meeting. this wouldn't have happened if we have refreshments i know people saying redevelopment is wrong but meeting with

properties sold but this was put in place years ago and get that from the oci i will spell out everything we need to know what is happening with the partial in the fillmore and the time right now (clearing throat) the lda is meeting the most right now is the community benefits (coughing) and safeway and the new development they are in total violation and doing the resolutions but has been laid down for years and (bell ringing) everybody knows with the property being sold whether you like it or not but discussed those things and right now it is for the developer safeway and all the city officers get

together with the community we have a meeting and town hall mel i call it the stay in the fillmore we have to (bell ringing) know what is happening in the fillmore. >> thank you asia washington thank you for your comments and welcome to the next speaker, please. >> again and again good evening. i'm betty (clearing throat) excuse me - betty evans and seen is devastations and the redevelopment come in and tear down fillmore center which is a western edition write live we had everything, everything. with the redevelopment came in and supervisors i didn't thank you, mr. president. and took it away from us they never have been friendly to black people pictured in the beginning we can

go there but if safeway times to go so what we black people are our own black marketed less than 10 black market in the united states that belong to black people what is going on our community you don't live here you live elsewhere we have enough high-rise in the community and some people can't afford to stay why do you want to come in and safeway were never a friend of black people all right. you have to do what you do you have money but we the people with the power. thank you. >> thank you for your comments welcome next speaker, please. >> my name is torrey spray first of all a short-term win we are all grateful how but when

you're trying to close grocery stores and disables can't afford w one now a low income community and like much like america and easy to blame thefts we have had foods trees up and down is this block and keeping those doors open will be beneficial to our own community what will be more beneficial if we have our own our own everything and not need to depend on corporations most

of us didn't come from africa we were already here. where was i added we have the ability we are depending on the foreign government to do for us. you got to know who you are and who they taught i were. >> thank you for your comments. >> (clapping) next speaker, please. welcome (bell ringing) >> arlette is not here. >> just pull that microphone closer. >> our leader is not here. thank you for the people standing with us in this office. >> safeway is a special place for us who live in the fillmore district that when we shop and

see each other like a time square but the hardest thing they don't speak well english because they need do safeway they know that is block and a half that was easy for them now they close don't know the number what number should they take or should they go and thank you for your consideration but thank you for one more year. >> next speaker, please. and good afternoon board of supervisors to mayor who is not here for the naacp dr. brown i'm

not going to speak to the food we know what is that is but in terms of this country how divided we are. we have to get past the trump spirit not good i want to say something personal. >> may i pause the time for a moment this is the meeting of board of supervisors where you're speaking to the board as a whole not a personal meeting between you and the supervisors- >> (multiple voices). >> address the whole board. >> i spoke to one supervisor on the boardy hillary i appreciate you willing to work in the spirit of collaboration let me say that first. today, i was

disturbed by the supervisors coming in into the neighborhood where i live and you guys h (captioning is ending at this point due to the time limit provided for captioning)