>> good morning, the meeting will come to order. welcome to the february 15, 2024, regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the board of supervisors. i'm dean preston chair of the committee i'm joined by vice

chair catherine stefani, our clerk is here. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, public comment will be taken on each item. when your item is called, please speak and line up on the right. you email them to the government audit oversight committee clerk at monque, if you commit public comment via email it will be emailed to the board of supervisors. you may also send your written comment nz city hall. if you have documents that you would like to be included in the file, please submit them to me before the meeting.

please make sure that you silence any cell phones to prevent any interruptions. today's agenda are expect today a february on board of supervisors agenda on february 27th, 2024 unless otherwise stated. >> is would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor chan from today's meeting. please call the roll. >> clerk: on that motion, vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: i have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you, that motion passes please call item number 1. >> clerk: item number 1 is ordinance to waive the banner for nonprofit organizations in certain neighborhoods commercial district and transit districts through december 31, 2026. and affirming the planning department determination under

the california environmental quality act. >> thank you, madam clerk. and colleagues, this item we introduced it's is in response to request to small merchants and neighborhood groups in neighborhood corridors in our district. it's very limited but it waives certain banner fees for nonprofit that support our merchant for dores. these fees can be although in total we're looking at nothing with a significant budgetary impact. these fees which can be hundreds of dollars for small grass roots organizations, can be cost prohibitive. so too often what we'll see is, is that the banners and signs are dominated by advertisement

placed by larger corporations but that the smaller neighborhood groups can be priced out. so the banner ordinance fee waiver before us would allow organizations in my district that are supporting neighborhood and local businesses to be able to move forward through the existing banner program. so i want to thank the merchant's association and small business forward in particular for working with our office on this as well as the filmore merchants association and north of panhandle association for their support and i would like to thank peter of the city attorney's office for help in drafting the ordinance. and dpw for their collaboration for this eye an snyder. i would like and also my legislative aid preston for all his work. we also have some technical

amendment that's were circulated to the committee by email. and i will move those after we hear from dpw and hear any public comment on this item. so for starters, i believe we have nicholas huff bureau manager for public works bureau and streets mapping. welcome, the floor is yours. >> speaker: okay, good morning committee morning, i'm nicholas manager for public streets and mapping for use and occupancy and the public right away. banner permit grants permission to occupy any utility polls for the purpose of providing notice as before mentioned and permit applications often include dimension plans, the attachment to the poll, and other and demonstration of compliance

with other city regulations. currently a banner permit cost $329 for about 20 ban sxerz prorated if fewer banners are put up. between 2021 and 2023 we ushd about 60 permits a year and in 2019 and 2023, the board pass legislation providing fee exemption for defined culture districts specifically soml and lgbtq districts. the legislation before you today, seeks to expand this exemption of a fee to include nonprofit organizations with smaller budget neighborhood commercial and district located, within 8-named commercial neighborhood transit districts located within district 5. public works analyzed the banner permit applications

between 2021 and 2023 and determined that of the 185 permit issues during that time period 33 were issued to nonprofit organizations which consisted to 21 nonprofit. although we cannot determine, our team did an estimate in the last two years, approximately 7 will po continuesingly meet the criteria and be eligible for fee waiver. if you exclude the permits issue to somafilipinas the impact is about 9,000 to the budget. >> thank you very much, i appreciate your work on this and the presentation and seeing no questions and comments from colleagues, let's open up the public comment on this item. >> clerk: members who would like to speak on this, should line up along the wall.

can you come forward and begin your comments. mr. chair, it appears we have no public comment. >> thank you, public comment on this item is closed. and i would like to move this item to the full board with recommendation. oh i'm sorry, we have an adopted amendment. i would move adopt the amendment circulated by my office. >> clerk: on the motion to amend, vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: i have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you, and then i would like to move the item as amended with recommendation to the full board. >> clerk: motion to recommend to the full board as amend approximated. vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: i have two aye wz

member chan excused. >> thank you, the motion passes. and let's go ahead and call item 2. >> item number 21 resolution approving an agreement with the nonprofit owners association for administration management of the established business based business improvement district known as the san francisco tourism improvement district. through december 31, 2038. >> thank you, madam clerk, this item is sponsored by president peskin who is with us here today and i understand we have jackie hazelwood with us a program director with oed, who will be presenting, unless

president peskin wants the floor, we will turn to ms. hazelwood. >> i will only say that i commend this agreement to you, and want to point out that it actually as a matter of policy has a provision that has not existed in these types of management agreements that we commonly see that i hope will be a provision that is universally adopted in all of these agreements going forward and i will direct to you section 3.14 and i wanted to thank oewd and the tourism district for agreeing to this language and that is a prohab ition for lobbying.

>> gao* today. today is the contract tourism improvement district. before we dive into the contract itself, i would like to provide some high-level information on the district itself and what brings us to this resolution today. so the as you know, improvement district that was initially established with a 125-year contract term spanning from january , and expiring december 31, 2023. the district is managed by the association known as the tourism management corporation or spm which contracts with san francisco travel to implement services outlined in the management plan. throughout the 15-year term, model benefiting assessed businesses, if funded san francisco program that through convention and meeting events

and visitors to the city. and all of these contributions supported post pandemic economic recovery. the board of supervisors adopted the resolution to renew and expand this district in september of 2022 to commence january 1, 2024 and expire december 31, 2038. so now diving into the contract itself. so in order for the city controller to disburse assessment funds throughout the period, the city controller must enter into contract with the tibic. it's a tem mret that was developed by city attorney and adjusted for each cbd. so in this contract it was updated to to reflect that this business is a property base district as with many of our other cbd. leveed upon hotels and short-term businesses rather than property owners.

also established the benchmarking process by which staff reviews to ensure the tib is and spending assessment funds accordingly. as noted there on the screen if approved bit full board this contract will allow funds to be disbursed starting in early april and at this point, i would like to welcome any questions. thank you. >> thank you for your work on this and thank you to the sf travel folks for being here and available for questions. i don't see anyone on the roster, so we will open public comment on this item. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to speak on this item, should line up along the wall. each speaker will have two minutes to speak. you can come up and begin your comments.

mr. chair, it appears we have no public comment. >> thank you, public comment on this item is now closed. i did just want to follow-up on president peskin's comment on the language of prohibition, i want to know if there is a plan to be standard language on these contractor any kind of action that we as a board need to take to encourage that. >> thank you for the question. this is been a point of conversation that we brought up with the deputy city attorney to see which route we want to take, it's definitely on the mind to either as an amendment or just as in discussion right now at the city attorney's office in terms of moving there. >> great, thank you. >> and further. >> president peskin. >> just furred to chair preston's question, do you know

if the agreement between the owners association for the administration management of the exceler community benefit district includes that 3.1? >> yes, it does. thank you for the question. moving forward with all of our contracts we will be including this. the question in terms of the retroactive, that's a little bit more complicated and that's what we're engaging on, but yes moving forward it will be included in all contracts for cbds. >> thank you, thank you for that clarification. >> seeing no other comments or questions, i would like to move to send this item with recommendation to the full board. >> and on that motion to recommend to the bull ford with positive recommendation, vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: i have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you, that motion

passes. and madam please call item 3. >> clerk: item number is a hearing on the controllers report on assessment of invoices reviewed under a grant agreement between the san francisco police department and san francisco safe, s safe and requestingle controllers office, san francisco police department mayor's office of economic and workforce development and sf safe board of directors to report. >> thank you, madam clerk and this item is sponsored by president peskin and thank you for your leadership on this, president peskin. i will turn the floor over to you for any remarks and to introduce the various folks here to present today. the floor is yours. >> thank you, chair preston and thank you supervisor stefani. so by way of background, earlier actually last year, the controller undertook an audit

of a nonprofit organization sf safe that has had an going relationship with the san francisco police department for many decades stretching back to 1976, that audit which is a subject of today's hearing will be presented by the controllers office by the city services auditor mark delarose aa but before we hear from mr. de la rosa, after the report was released there was a cascading set of revelations as it relates to sf safe. and on february 2, we received a letter from the district attorney's office indicating that that these revelations have lead to a xrim investigation.

and further suggested that we limit our questions in today's hearing in order to out of an abundance of caution, not compromise the criminal investigation. so i want to heed that request from the district attorney and to that end, will not be asking questions about the cascading set of revelations are the set of criminal investigation and really limiting this to questions around the audit and the internal financial controls at the police department as well as now that we're aware that there are some 3 million dollars worth of contracts at the office of economic and workforce development, just getting a base line presentation, then i'll be making a request that we continue for a month. on february 2, the district

attorney expects indicated that she expects that this case will be investigated twn 30 to 45 days that give us, it was already under investigation that will give us more time. i would like to continue this until the middle of march. with that, if it's the chair's pleasure i'll turn it over to mr. dela rosa. >> please, welcome mr. dela rosa. >> good morning, chair, president and stefani. we do have slides prepared for this item. i'm joined by selena wong who is the senior auditor who worked on this report. agenda item number 3 before you is an assessment that we completed last month, january 18th, 2024. this memo contained results from our review of invoices

which we conducted in collaboration with the office of the city attorney. as part of this limited scope assessment, we reviewed invoices that were submitted by sf safe to the san francisco police department. our assessment subjective was to determine whether grand expenditure were reasonable. we reviewed sample of transactions from july 2022 to march 2023 for a nine-month period. our memo contained one over ar fpg finding which the sfpd agreed to implement. we follow-up on our recommendations, every six months from the time of issuance to ensure implement of corrective actions. and with that, i'll turn it over to selena for further

information. >> this goes back to 2018. >> yes. >> but you sampled the most resent nine months. >> yes. >> and do you, or does the police department, they can answer that themselves contemplate looking into the balance of the four years? >> yeah, the recommendation that we provided to sfpd as part of this assessment for the was for the department to look back and review all invoices related to the grant that is covered which was from the 2018 to 2023 period and the response from the department they can speak to it some more is concurrent to implement that? >> and just going back to the 2018 grant, was that competitively bid, do you know? >> i differ to sfpd to answer that question. >> sorry, ms. sroche.

>> i'm director of policy and public affairs for the san francisco police department. yes, it was supervisor. it was competitively bid. we've actually moved forward with an rfp and it was public and they were the ones awarded the grant. >> were there other bid applicants? >> i'd have to turn to our former c.f.o. and director of fiscal strategic. >> mr. young, thank you for joining us. i know you're at the sheriff and no longer in the police department but may recall what was going on in 2019. >> so we did have a rfp in 2015. san francisco safe was the only proposer for that solicitation. they were also the proposer, i believe, that 2015 propose,

solicitation, there were 3, there were 3 proposals that were submitted and but san francisco safe was the winning bidder. >> thank you. >> ms. wong sorry to chase you away. >> can you pull back the slides, please. >> good morning, supervisors this slide provides a brief overview of the services provided by ssf safe under the grant agreement with the police department. the grant agreement in our review had a not no exceed totaling 5.3 million and term from july 2018 through march 2023. we did not review expenditure unt the police department current grant agreement with sf safe. >> ms. wong when i was looking at that when the report first came out, how much of this was

under the orng 2018 grant agreement? and how many of these things were additions along the way? or were they all encompassed? >> we only looked at the previous agreement so it was, it was a 5.3 million grant. >> are you sure of that? >> yes. >> okay. so that grant agreement included specifics like, richmond night out, castro community on patrol, crime prevention cameras and that was all in the 2018 agreement. >> yes. >> but there was, you want to answer this? >> ms. orocha. >> i'm sorry, i just want to clarify in terms of the cam ral that was a add back, i want to make clear that it was add back

that was added. the original grant agreement was for neighborhood watch and events in the neighborhood that provided some safety. >> that's the answer i was looking for, thank you ms. aroche. >> okay, i'll continue with the next slide. the assessment had two observations, first we found out the police department in our regularly request or review supporting document abesing provided by sf safe monthly, it did not have documentation to support 72% of spent and reimbursed to sf safe. further according to the police department, annual monitor site visits. however by the time by our review it had not conducted monitoring due to limited resources. as mark mentioned our scope was

from july 2022 through march 2023 and we analyzed a sample totaling 910,000 of grant funds spent for crime prevention education services. our review found out sf safe spent over 79,000 or nine percent on eligible or excessive expenses. >> and again ms. wong that was only from the nine-month period. >> yes, that's correct, supervisor. these expenses included 36,000 in luxury gift box that's costed 150 each and that were purchased for community events such as black history month and lunar new year. as far as the for the police symposium. sf safe also spent 21,000 on parking fees, this included reoccurring expenses for multiple parking spots.

parking at and parking garage. parking expenses included val a parking services or one-time parking fees at various locations in san francisco. also of the 14,000 related to the crime training symposium at lake tahoe a little over 1,000 was spent on limousine and lodging. the other were for ride hilling services such as lyft and uber. rides to to and from the san francisco airports and rides out of california. finally we identified nearly 13,000 in-person al, sorry, 1300 in-person al or office expenses that are not consistent with the grant agreement. this includes water delivery and amazon prime and/or costco. our assessment included one recommendation to the police

department, to review all invoices submitted to determine sf safe built for expensable allowable under the grant agreement and recover any amount incaekly paid. that concludes our presentation. we're happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> so ms. wong, can you explain the process that the controller's office went through relative to this nine month period? how are you able to ascertain these audit facts? >> yes, supervisor peskin. so we first reviewed the monthly packet that the police department provided which showed sf monthly spend anding their request for reimbursement. includes genre view of how much was spent in each expense category such as salary, rent and travel. but there was not a de tailed break down of how much was spent.

majority of receipts that we saw were pay roll records, rent payment and other miscellaneous payments for dmriez. so after we found 3.8 million of the support was missing, we requested accounting records and invoices from sf safe. >> so let me understand this, you did testing and looked at the nine-month most resent period but you did a larger look where you ascertain that out of 5.3 million, 3.le million didn't have proper documentation, is that fair to say? >> yes. >> so you did do a larger look at the five-year period. >> yes, that's correct. >> so how would you characterize the billing for the 3.8 billion dollars which is the vas majority about 80% of the money? was it just one piece of paper that said, can you characterize

it for us? >> so it would have a, so it's a pdf with a piece of paper that states how much was spent for that month and how much they're requesting for reimbursement. and the next page with the invoices attachment, and we didn't see a lot of information from there, so that's why we requested specific invoices for the sample period. >> got it, so when you added up the things that were attached to those invoices, they accounted for about 1.5 million dollars and then, there were 3.8 million of missing documentation. >> yes, that's correct. >> and is that--what a normal departmental department practice or what is the industry standard. >> the department should have what they need to confirm that the deliverables are met and that the grant funds were properly spent.

every department has the own process so i would have to differ to the police department for their specific process. >> mr. delarosa, is there a general accepted private or public enter see--entity stand art? >> this is an area that we audit. as selena mentioned, variations on pred yours depending on the contracts, deliverables, the extent of the agreement. but we do expect as we when we conduct these audits to have some sort of a reasonable insurance with the department to be able to ascertain that all services and goods that were being procured and provided by the contractors are actually received. so our reasonable assurance is what we expected. >> and you just touched on another thing which is explicit

in your audit report which is relative to services renders, what the police department was getting for the tax dollars expended, you don't look at that at all? >> not for this assessment that we completed because it was very limited to invoice reviews. >> right, so this was a paper review of invoices receipts or lack there of, but you did not, i'm not accusing you of you not having done your job. but the scope did not also look at performance? >> correct. typically, when we do an full on audit, we would look at other elements beyond just in voice review including performance and monitor. >> so the next question is, are you or is the police department undertaking a performance audit? >> as of the last police commission hearing which happened last week, they did put a motion for request for

controller's office to conduct a full review of the program. >> thank you. and then relative, you mentioned and this is probably a good segway to go mr. young and ms. aroche and the department but you said that you had a recommendation and that the the department concured with that recommendation which is obviously about the repeated finding that the police department did not adequately review expenses and subsequently approved unsupported expenses unoccur under the grant agreement can you just, describe, well maybe you can start mr. de larosa or ms. wong how it works, you give a draft and the department then responds which is the response is here and then they concur or

partially concur or don't concur with your recommendation. >> correct. as part of the report that we put outlast month, the letter from the police department is attached to the, to the reported self which indicated the concuran ce. around june, july, would be when we would follow-up with the department in terms of what they have done to mitigate the finding. >> in the police department's letters dated january 5, when did you submit the draft to the police department? >> so the initial draft, so we completed the report itself back in october. the end of october, i believe was when we had a draft of the report. we sent the draft to the

department, sfpd in late october. and we received their official response to our report in early january. we did meet with the departments during those intervening times to gather any information or response from the department. >> and is there a normal time frame in which departments respond to financial audits? >> yeah, typically we provide a two to three weeks of time to respond. i believe that there were a couple of times that, that the department requested for extensions due to workload issues. and i think apac and other activities were happening around the same time. >> so, so this was arguably three to four times longer than you normally expect or experience? >> it certainly looks that way

for that one. >> thank you, mr. delarose a. and then there is a statement in the chief's response to the audits that sf safe has been referred to the city wide nonprofit monitoring and capacity building program. did that happen prior to the audit? or did that happen as a result of the audit? when was such referral made and maybe just for the edification of folks watching what does that mean? it kind of means they're put on watch? >> within the controllers's office there is another division outside of the audit's division. there is a city performance that conducts these monitoring of non prove pits. i am not 100% sure when exactly that refer happened but i definitely differ to the department to answer that question. >> you're saying, the police

department would know that? >> on the timing of when that refer. >> got it. and then relative to other things, do you look at, and i'm in this case as well as just practice, do you look at a nonprofit status with the important general division of charitable trusts? >> yes, one thing that we have started looking into, every time we initiate an audit of nonprofit or some organizations to ensure that they do comply with the california a.g. charities requirement. >> and is sf safe compliant? >> i believe, this is something that we did not look into as part of our assessment but from my understanding, they were not in compliance of as issuance of our report which was last month. >> so not good standing with

the state general of the state of california. how about, pursuant to the agreement as relatively standard in these agreements for provision of the annual audit? >> i believe that is something that is required of, a nonprofit in the city. and i know as part of the nonprofit monitoring program the city performance has, that is something that is being required moving forward. >> and do you know, when the last time sf safe turned in such an audit for fiscal year? >> we did not look into that as part of this limited scope assessment that we differ to others that would have that answer. >> okay. thank you, mr. de larosa, any questions colleagues? >> yes, thank you peskin. i wanted to drill down on the

3.8 million that you were asking before and maybe it's in the report and i missed it, but is there a break down and i understand full hearted because there is no support in documentation adequate documentation. but is there a is there a break down of the categories that the 3.8 million was supposedly for those reimbursements. i see the numbers as to the entire 5.3. is the 3.8 broken out? with or was there not enough information? >> chair preston, it's not broken down. >> thank you, and are, is there any assessment, i know, i know there are some lobbying expenditures, is there a separate category that is broken out?

or a sub set of that? like expenses by the organization on lobbyist? >> you're talking about lodging, right? >> no, lobbying. public affairs consultants lobbies on behalf of others. >> no. >> that information that we received as part of this assessment, dug deeper into the detail whether lobbying costs were included. so we don't have that information. >> okay. thank you, and then, there have been various reports and i don't, i don't think this is the forum to get into details potentially of gifts by the organization to city employees and others. i just want to check with you in terms of scope of what you looked at, that there is not a

category or line item that captures gifts to folks outside, on behalf of sf safe outside of the organization. or was that annual document and category? >> i believe that was part of the category that we outlined that we included as part of our findings that there were some expenditure for some events, that had gift boxes that were then, that had events that had members of sfpd present but we did not look further into whether certain filings were done or certain reporting was happening. >> got it. but from your review, the categoryization as gifts was limited to things distributed at those events? >> that's right, as invoice by sf safe.

>> thank you. >> thank you, we'll let you know, if we have anymore questions, but i think obviously there is a lot more auditing to be done and it sounds. just out of curiosity, when they ask for a performance audit, does that mean you do it. >> we're in the process of developing our work plan so we do have a number of as you know, a request related to public integrity and nonprofits and other risk areas so we'll definitely take that into consideration as part of our work planning. >> and then, the police department will answer my question about the referral timeline as to to when sf safe was referred to the nonprofit monitoring capacity program put on watch. as a rule, when does a, what indicators and what process is

undertaken to refer a nonprofit that may be for whatever reason in a little bit of choppy water to that program, can you describe that to us? >> i'm not entirely familiar with the processes and criteria use since that is done by a different division. i don't want to miss speak in terms of the criteria that they use. >> well if they're upstairs and they want to come down before this is over, that would be great. >> if i can jump before you move to the next department. one thing in reading the report and thank you for all the work in this. i'm, i'm struck by the thorough analysis of sfpd, i know we're here and we have folks from oewd here as well. i was curious why the controllers work on this was limited to sfpd?

and whether there is anything under way to expand that inquiry beyond the sfpd sf, i don't know if there is any other department that contracted with us. >> assumes as previously mentioned, we started this assessment back in september of 2023 as part of our collaboration with the city attorney's office. when it got to our division in september of 2023, the main focus that we had was really just to look at sfpd. so we followed the city attorney's kind of line of inquiry into this and it was limit so sfpd contract with sf safe. in terms of additional ones, we don't have any additional auditor assessments at least in the audits division. except for the request that

came in last week. >> and once you started to discovering the process of lack of documentation and other things in the report, was o a wd notified that time? or were they first notified when the report was issued? >> i believe it was when the report came out. typically when we do an audit we volve the stakeholders that are involved in particular invoicing. so we were focused on the sfpd grant at the time. >> and if you will indulge me mr. chairman, one thing that i didn't drill down on, how insofar 3.8 million dollars of receipts were missing, how were you able to actually ascertain what you came up with for the 9-month period?

so far as resumably, i'm--if something was missing over the nine month period, that you did a financial audit of, how did you actually figure out gift boxes and limousines and expensive hotels? that was, i assume they didn't submit that? >> yeah, so it was not in the sfpd monthly pact but when we requested accounting records they provided what they called a general ledger so that has a-line item that includes the vendor lame, that's how we figured out what was purchased. >> and relative to the veracity to the original ledger that they provided you, i assume this was a paper acres, was your testing, you don't pickup the phone and ask a vendor did

they really provide that and am i sorry if these are naive questions to a non cp a. >> not as part of this engagement. we would have typically done that if we had done a fuller audit but for this it was limited to the paper review of documentation. >> and, finally, would you characterize the police department involvement in this as cooperative? >> yes. >> thank you. should we hear from the sfpd? >> good morning, again, thank you for hosting. i'm ariana and accompanied by the executive director of tra strategic bureau and our former c.f.o. the only opening remarks that i will make is that the san

francisco police department obviously, believes that any misuse of public funds is a priority for the city to end up investigate and to look further, not only is it a possible crime but something that we take seriously. we did move really quickly and chief scott directed our former c.f.o. to move forward into an investigation. to get into more of the intricate details, such as further investigation on details and expenses and then following up not only with executive director but also the board of directors since they're responsible for sf safe and carrying out the nonprofit duties. one of the other things that i would mention, just to answer some of the questions and just to provide the position of the department, chief scott did request a joint monitoring audit to the sf controllers

office back in june of 2023. the request was made based on the fact that we had limited staffing to be able to conduct a full audit and there were, i would say, confidential source that's had been concerns about not receiving subcontracted statements. so given that concern, the department ended up moving forward closely internally with existing staff to start investigating what could be done and given the lack of capacity, the only thing that was done was back and forth communication. there was communication, it was not as though there was no communication with sf safe but as i indicated earlier, really the communication was coming from our c.f.o. having said that, some of the contracting monitoring that the department ends up looking into is based on the controller's office indication and how to best contract with non prove

pits. we look at their best practices it's a best practice that is given at all departments. we typically look at those instruction whz it comes to any grants, whether they're looking at state funding or we're looking at local dollars, we typically, look at those constructions on how to best carry out grant management. having that said that just moving into where we are today, the report itself did indicate some discrepancies that we were very concerned and we did move forward as indicated in the actual letter that you shared, the chief worked closely with the c.f.o. and we have requested many different responses to the sf safe board in order to that we understand where these expenses are. there is a investigation that we cannot get in the details on the criminal side but we are happy and we will transparent in terms of what we've done and what our relationship has been with sf safe from a grant

contractual agreement. >> thank you, ms. aroche, this is obviously an embarrassment not only to the department but to the city. criminal malfeasance notwithstanding our job is to figure out, what went wrong, what we can go going forward making sure that it does not happen again and we minimize our risk and what are the lessons learned. as more specifically relative to this, relationship to that long prebaits 2018 and goes back decades. what the workout is going forward. what are the plans? is this a service that is want to have or a need to have. i think those are important conversations that should be

publicly, you know, public conversations. let me just start with i think, we're the controller's audit takes us which is under staffing. and i think we are all on the board of supervisors in the general public, aware that we have under staffing of rank and file police officers, i think it is kind of new news to us that there was chronic under staffing in the fiscal shop and i think we've come to understand what the challenges are relative to recruiting new qeii police officers, but i just want to start with, how large was the under staffing problem, why was there an under staffing problem? i'm not aware of a ubiquitous

under staff. i wanted to start with that. >> i'll refer to our former cfe, he can respond to that. >> thank you. so within the four-year, four and a half year duration that i was the chief financial officer for the police department, we, we only had full staffing for about 3 and a half months during that whole time period. we do face challenges that other departments do not. as a law enforcement agency for anybody that we hire, we have to put through a background check that is a requirement from post peace officers standards and training, the commission on post. and there was a report from dhr about how long it takes for the city to hire a civil service classification.

it was more than 250 days, so when you take, that length of time and you add the two and a half, two and a half to three months to conduct a background, it takes almost a year to bring something new in going through the civil service process. within my unit, we definitely had our challenges on some key departures. we had our contract manager retire, we had another vacancy from our budget manager position. we've also had accountant supervisor that recently separated but that position was vacant for about two years. in total it varies depending on which, which year and based upon what period of time we're looking at on how many vacancies we had at that point. what i will say that about that, is that one of the

impacts to our department on our ability to hire is really based upon our budget. so in fiscal year 22, and in fiscal year 23, we had hiring holds because we were, right at the six-month mark because we were going to be over budget. when a city department, whenever they're going to be over budget, the controller's office has the fiduciary duty to keep within its budget. so for a period of time, we were not able to hire. i do want to go through some of the questions today. first off is on, the delay for our response. we did have a meeting with the controller's office about their audit findings with san

francisco safe and it was approximately late october. for the delays, it was not intentional, we had apac coming up in mid-november. we had over 1200 mutual aid officers coming from chp and approximately 800 from other jurisdictions. there was a lot of work that we need today perform in order to make that event successful. after the event that ran from november 11, to november 17. after the event there is still additional work in order to make payments for all the people that came to assist us and all the vend thaerz provided services and did have a big impact on our workload, we don't have additional staff. we did request support from the controller's office to perform that work and that did cause delays when we were able to

respond. for our contract, with san francisco safe, it covers multiple services. the we contract with san francisco safe, to help us facilitate the captains, the captain police advisory board meetings. we also contract with san francisco safe to coordinate the neighborhood business watch groups. they help us conduct residential and commercial security surveys and presentations. they conduct presentation involving personal safety, vehicle traffic safety, auto burglaries, child safety, elder safety. and robbery and burglary prevention. there is also presentation that they do for preventing violence in the work place. they also help facilitate the

san francisco's bike safety registration program. and for these services, we do receive invoices from san francisco safe accompanying with the invoice that comes with a deliverable report that describes the services rendered for that period. and i know from the controller's office report that they describe that 3.7, 3.8 million, over 3 million dollars that was paid to san francisco safe without adequate documentation, that is not an opinion that i share. we reimbursed san francisco safe based upon the services that they reported as rendered, during that period. we reimbursed based upon their reported expenditures. none of the invoices by sf safe

included of limo rides. all they were eligible expense categories that were defined between the grant agreement. and upon our meeting with the controller's office and the findings that they shared with us, we did conduct our own monitoring visit mid-november and from that, we did look into their internal controls, we did identify some areas of weekness, they did have some issues with the comingling of funds. we did find expenditures consistent with what the controllers had.

in our report, we identified 95 dollars of expenditure that's we did put within our audit, monitoring with san francisco safe. we did describe three recommendations. the first one was for them to provide us with the general ledger transactions to accompany each monthly invoice. that was recommendation that their controller's office had recommended to us from their monitoring. >> as part of this report? >> yes. as part of their audit report. the other recommendation that we had for san francisco safe from our visit was that we wanted them to revise their progress report so that it would contain associated links and reference--that references

back to their sales platform that they were using for their services. so if somebody wants to, if a member of the public or a business wanted request a security survey, there is a link on san francisco safe's website, they submit the request and it goes to a platform. frl that it goes assigned to a worker and then they perform the work. so we did request for them to revise their deliverable report so that we can link it back to the sales force and it will be easier to ascertain whether the work was performed. the last recommendation that we had for them was, to refer them to the controller's office capacity building monitoring program. we asked for them to self refer, we also referred them to that program.

it provides technical assistance and best practices and tries to help nonprofits to implement best practices. >> and mr. young that was after the audit findings? >> that was after the audit finding. it was also based upon the work that we did when we went out to do our visit. >> may i clarify just one point, supervisor. and i want to make sure that we answer your initial question which is what the contract looks like in the department. one point to clarify is that, we had initial conversations with the controller's office as i said earlier, in the opening statements. in june of 2023, we requested to have a full audit given some of the severity and some of the concerns that we had with some of the finances and lack of contracts and lack of subcontracting payment that existed.

having said that h they are limited. obviously they go through an assessment. is so the response that we received in september was that it would be a non audit assessment that we're receiving. the desire of the department was to do a full audit in order to make sure that we would supplement and have an independent eye including the staffing available to understood how the sf safe invoices were put out. we're hearing from one division of the controller's office but the mag my nude of who was involved had to do with the full departments being involved given the magnitude and the concerns around the issue. >> i do want to add one last

thing, is that, we did make multiple attempts to schedule a monitoring visit. we sent an email january 5th, 2021 to schedule monitoring with san francisco safe. >> january 2021? >> january 5, 2021. we had another set of emails where we tried to partner with oewh joint monitoring on december 10th, 2021. there was a monitoring visit that we had scheduled on may 5th on 2022 but that had to be delayed because or canceled because of a flight cancellation. we did make multiple attempts but for a variety of reasons, they had to be postponed and delayed and we were unable to perform our monitoring visit until mid-november of last year. >> so let me get this straight,

ms. aroche said we had back and forth about unpaid sub contractors and this was a source of concern, mr. young is saying that we had concerns back to to 21. >> no no, correction, we just wanted to share the actual monitoring. the former c.f.o. is clarifying all the auditing that did happen or contract monitoring. >> what i hear mr. young saying that were attempted that were unsuccessful. >> correct. >> correct. >> is what i heard him say. >> so the city's monitoring process, ideally, the departments perform the monitoring once per year. we did make multiple attempts during that period. covid was the famous, special circumstance it was delayed

because of the remote work, suspension, there was a time frame when work was suspended and then there was a period when people were doing remote work. and january 5th, 2021, was the first he the first email that i could send. >> so this is our regular monitoring that actually occured with sf safe. i believe one of the questions that the board had and the board of the committee is how often do you actually monitor sf safe? so in response to that, the dates that you just heard was the actual monitoring that occured prior to this audit. prior to the actual complaints that came n.this is how the regular contract management of

the department was implemented. >> help me out here, what i hear you saying is we tried to do contract monitoring, but they stiff armed us. >> so there was a bit of that. we will say that there was delays on the part of the nonprofit. so sf safe did indicate that either, they needed more time, they couldn't move forward with us. the biggest reason why there was a delay is because just like any other city department, during the covid time period of the grant, we were asked to cease being in-person from audits. so he mails were exchanged back and forth but it's not to the full extent how monitoring should have been occured given the covid circumstances. >> got it. >> so doesn't that lead to an

institutional scrutiny. and i'm not being accusetory. that the department concurs with is that the back up documentation was scant 5.3 million total, 3.8 million was the high level finding. after the stiff arming you, covid being what it was, did that not lead you to let me ask you this, how is your payment process work? they send you an invoice and then what happens >> sure, there is a couple of components wnt invoicing process. there is a deliverable report that describes the services renders during the period. there is also the voicing template for which they report

what expenditure that's they submit based on the categories defined on the plan. they submit what expenditure they incured during that period. they had a member within my team dependent on who's available. typically it would be within our rent unit. they would do the checks of whether the items were wnt budget, there are some documents that they provide to us including pay roll registers of salary and benefit for the staff. it depends upon the invoice but there is other, invoices for vouchers that they would have paid during that period. so we check based upon those whether it matches what they have reported in the summary sheets.

and if all things check out, they would sign off on this and send it. would i receive it, and if if the numbers match up, then i would approve the document. >> so it does not go above you, it does not go to a sworn officer it does not go ms. mcguire. >> sorry, the sign off on the sworn side, the sign off comes through on the deliverable report. >> sorry. >> the deliverable report. so the deliverable report helps explain what services were renders during that period. they sign off on that to acknowledge that, we received the services, performed during that period and the invoice is associates what costs that san francisco incurred to perform those services. >> and who signs off on the

delivery? >> it would be, a member of our community engagement division depends on who it is typically, either the captain or the demander of that division. >> got it. so it could go as high as a commander who would sign off on that delivery document. but what you're also saying, that's the performance, that's what we're getting for our money, right? we did this many neighborhood safety meetings, we did this this many bike registrations whatever that is. but what you're saying is you were not able to determine whether or not the representations were true because they had stiff armed you on monitoring. so it was they said, hey, this is what we did. the commander or the captain said, sure, and you paid the bill. >> so at least on the services being rendered, there is a

separation on our part, there is a separation of duties for myself. --my team. it's based on the financial aspect. on the deliverable sides, typically, that's somebody within operation and it depends on the contract. if it was a contract for let's say, our rms project, the we would submit that invoice to our i.t. group so they can sign off and acknowledge that and work and yes it's in compliance with whatever is defined within the contract. when we get it, make sure that it's been signed off and then we do our financial checks. and going back to our orng contention mr. young and i'm not

trying to be combative. you indicated that your grant staff would check how the invoice related to to the activities setforth in the grant. and you would get documentation as to ours. but there is still this find thating out of 5.3 million dollars, there is no receipts for 3.8 million dollars. >> so to me, the 3.8 million was based on the fact, it was the total of all the invoice that's we received during the period for which a monitoring was not conducted. we were unable to conduct our monitoring visit. but i don't agree that we paid 3.8 million dollars just as a

blank check. they submitted invoices to us with what they reported. we paid them based on the services that they rendered during that period. and with from the controller's office, monitoring visit, we did look into ways that we can improve, i'm not saying that we cannot improve our process. and we did implement one of the recommendation which is to request one of the ledgers as part of the invoicing process. we also look back retrospective from the 2000, i think 2018 to 2022, we did do that review based on documents that san francisco safe had provided to us. after the controllers office monitor or their audit and after our meeting with them, we

did have, concerns about what was reported prior. so we did look into all the transactions and invoice that's they submitted. we did highlight some areas of question costs that we requested san francisco safe for additional documentation. but at the time, that request, some of the domation requests is still outstanding. >> i will say. sorry. >> so you did get their general ledger from 2018 to 2022? >> correct. >> and just procedurely as to these were monthly invoices that were occuring that you would reimburse for pay. was it monthly quarterly? >> we received invoices monthly. >> were there any instances where police fiscal said, we're

not going to pay this until you produce for documentation. >>, there were, there were times when we would have to request for additional clarification or or documentation. what i will say is that at least for the period time, they did have audited statements all the way to 2022. i think 2023 we had a draft version, i don't believe that was finalized from at the time that we conducted the last monitoring. >> so your representation is that they had annual financial audit submitted annually for the period 2018 through 2022 and 2023, not, are you sure about that? cause i mean, i don't think anybody submitted their audits for 2023 because it's february.

>> i know we have interest what i remember from looking this morning, i know they had audit statements for 2022, 2021 and i believe 2020. i got to double check on 2019. but i know we have three files when i looked on the drive. >> do you have questions? >> i have more. >> i do. just briefly for sfpd, switching gears a little bit. you described the services that sf safe was providing, neighborhood watch, safety

consultations with businesses and residents. my understand is sf safe has suspended operations at this point? >> correct. >> is that work, what is the plan for delivering that work right now for residents and businesses and others who had previously had those services from sf safe. >> so i'll answer that question, supervisor. so when it comes to some of the town halls and some of the educational opportunities, our community division is taking that on and developing a plan on how to observe all of those responsibilities. in light of what has gone on, it's idea for the department to move forward and start looking at building its own direct relationships. having said that, we will have to continue to leverage with either department to continue building trust in the community. so the ced components when it comes to the actual work, that sf safe was doing whether it

comes to conducting some sort of bap session, that is all being absorbed by the department. >> got it. i understand things were in influx and there is a need to develop a longer plan. more modely, if there is a business in one of our districts that has been robbed multiple times. before all of this, we could offer that sf safe would come and do a safety consultation with that business and make recommendations on how to improve security and same with people in their home. if our office gets a call today or tomorrow asking for those services is sfpd providing those services or are you looking for a new nonprofit partner what is the status? >> the status is for the community division within 30 to 60 days to move with responding.

now i will caveat, that it's just the educational piece and how to file a report. it has nothing to do with any technical equipment. that's not what our grant was for. we would separate, we would look at providing any educational conversation to any resident or business. >> thank you and then the other practice and immediate question, is for the employees of sf safe and various vendors, we're hearing reports that ambassador sxz others who are contracted, it's employees and folks that contracted with who are who have not received payment? what is the city doing? what is the department doing if anything to address that? >> so morally we're very concerned about the individuals that are also victims given the situation. i would say if we stick to the

actual grant, that we've been contracted through sfpd, the grant did cover payment that's were suppose to be given to the employees. we're waiting for the board of directors to confirm whether or not the payment wrz confirmed and given to the employees. now having said that, we are just one grant that is, that was given to sf safe. there are other grants that did provide compensation and employee wages that i think this is a larger discussion and it's out of sfpd's per view. >> thank you. president peskin are we ready for sfpd. >> we are not, couple more questions. ms. aroche you refer of sub contractors not being paid, as i understand you saying, was part of the reason that you

were supportive of a controller's audit. when were you hearing that? what was the department, the reason i ask of mr. delarosa if the department was cooperative, which i knew the answer was yes. when did you become aware? >> so, this question was asked at our police commission, and i will say that it's difficult to pin point the exact date. when it came to a concern to the command staff and the elevated concern to the chief, i would say that we were, the begining of 2023 is when we ended up actually looking deeper into the allegation or just a potential allegation of nonpayment by a subcontracter. we had to investigate, is that

subcontracter hours? what exactly are we corresponding with the grant agreement and what we're obligating to pay out? we had to investigate further what had been done in the last six months. so i would say it's a difficult answer president peskin and i would tell that you in ballpark, i would say early 2023 is when we ended up confirm thating we need today move forward to then a call to the controller directly from the chief requesting additional support for an audit and that did not occur, that call until june of 2023. >> just a couple questions in that vein. insofar in the base scope of work as setforth in the grant agreement, is primarily, work performed by sf safe and its

employees, neighborhood safety meetings, neighborhood watches, bike registration, child safety, regardless of whether they're performing these things or not, where do sub contractors come? in? :00 assuming the only subcontracter would be the cameras. >> no. >> so there are other sub contractors. >> there are other sub contractors that were not paid fully. >> not under sfpd, correct. >> so this is not, this is not avs? >> this is not avs, though i will say, it looks like i'm being tapped by ed mcguire who knows more of the details. >> commander. >> so she is explaining to me the one clarification is castro community on patrol, that was an add back. i correct the record just that

there was avs and kas ro community under patrol funded under sfpd, it was an add back by the board of supervisors. that was all water under the bridge. at the time, it was my contention that the total request of 27.2 million would

be knocked down because within your 693 million budget there were places non personnel that there would be cuts with other things within the department and in deed later on the department came along and said we can delay a computer program and you knocked the 27 down a couple of million dollars. at the time, i suggested that, sf safe was a want to have and not a need to have and the department pushed back. but what i'm learning now, is the department pushed back already knowing that in your time frames, there were concerns that lead you to conduct a audit. before you --

~>> if it's directed to the chief the chief will speak for him. but i will represent the department's position just in general, we worked with sf safe to conduct certain activities that were really critical to the department, right. and, some of them included supporting some of our community engagement division activity, supporting the laundry list that has been isolated and discussed here. when we received an allegation like we received any allegation when it comes to a crime, right, we have to further investigate to make sure that it's substantial, that it's actually proven, that it goes through all the different fiscal auditing, sort of interventions necessary to be able to determine this agency, in fact is questionable. now of course we reached to the point post, you know, the budget era unfortunately, this would have been a different

conversation if we had negotiating time of april and may. this would be a very different conversation and decision. having said that, the department, the responsibility and the way that we understand our contract management responsible is to be able to look at details, request ledgers. there were add backs as you heard that were included that were part of the sf safe contract. for us to move forward right then and there, it would have actually hurt not what we do in the community but also just the relationships that we had in the community. again, fast forward to today, we're stepping to the plate to make sure that we're taking and observing everything that we could. we have the circumstance where we've been basically deceived, there is deceit where we've

been given an invoice and understand that this is now leading to a criminal case. that is today in february 2024, so if we were to have this conversation again in april, it would be a very different conversation. >> thank you, ms. aroche. last question for you 'cause i know i'm over stepping my time. the current contract is still in place, right? the department has not terminated that? >> we will move forward with with termination if there is no response from the board of directors in the next week. >> got it. >> so you've send a board of directors a request for information if they don't understand, you terminate. >> it's a discussion with the rest of the city partners. >> understood and last but not

least, mr. young, you said that you looked at the general ledger from 2018 to 2022. >> correct. >> did the payment of over what appears to be looking at the original ledger of over $100,000 to a registered lobbying firm jump out at you? >> from what, from i remember of the general ledger, we did identify some question calls that we had requested additional information from san francisco safe. i do know that, from our monitoring that they had comingling of funds. for our program, there within their system, they classify it as 3201. they had another account for 3200 that was suppose to be unrestricted discretionary fund.

and they were comingling expenditure from one and the other with did request, we only had the ledger for 3201 for that period. we did request the full ledger for full activity so we can make try to make sense of the totality of the work performed and for that, we're still waiting for a response from san francisco safe for the information that we requested. >> yeah, it's mind blowing if these were not separate funds that you can take taxpayers dollars, give them to a city grantee to hire a registered lobbyist. in the last item that we had, relative to community benefits and business improvement business making sure that could never happen. but the general ledger appeared

to show well over $100,000, by a nonprofit hiring a lobbyist is bizarre to begin with. >> i do want to make clear, all the invoice that's we received, does not show lobbyist, does not show limb' rides, we reimbursed san francisco safe based on the invoices that we received that covers the eligible expense categories defined within the contract. given the information that we know now, that is certain asked for more information from san francisco safe and at this time, they suspended operations back in mid-, i think towards the end of january at this time, we're still trying to get a response from them. >> and then, my last question, i swear this is my last question. mr. young, you're no longer the

c.f.o., is there a new c.f.o. >> we're in the process of hiring, and i'll turn to to describe that. >> good morning, catherine mcguire, we identify the candidate and she starts on february 26. >> so i will not ask a whole bunch of questions about the implementation of all of these things that you intend to implement. i'll leave those for our hearing any month. that's where the rubber hits the road. >> absolutely. >> mr. chairman, i know that oewd was part of this hearing i know that you have indulged me for a long time. had three and a half million dollars. >> thank you.

i think, go ahead and-- -- ~>> black history month and you have disrespected us. >> i need to call a deputy sheriff and escort this man. >> let's hear briefly from oawd. we will go to item 4. item 3 is concluded. we will hear briefly from oewd, i think safe the back and forth for when we return in march, but at least on the record, we had asked some questions just before the hearing just about the existing grant with sf safe and i don't understand president peskin if there is any other basic facts. if you can do a limited presentation with and if there is some basic questions.

we do want to keep it short because we have a lot of people here for item 4. >> chair preston, i'll make this as brief as we can. we have one active grant with sf safe. with sub grantee, community resources and calle 24. we have provided president peskin with copies of that grant. we funded sf safe for corridor safety grant which began in january 2021 and concluded in june 2023. >> thank you, and what is the total amount of grants from oawd? >> 3 million in total. the current and open mission ambassador services grant was for 2 million.

>> 160 but close enough. >> thank you, president peskin, did you want to cover any basic ground? >> i think we can just two questions, one is they were both competitively bid. >> therm. >> and were there any other bidders? >> for the commercial corridors. there were not. for commissioner grant there was one other competitor who placed about 25 points below collaborative with bacr and calle 24. >> and same question that i asked the police department, did you at what point, if at all did you start hearing concerns about nonpayment of sub contractors or any other warning signs? >> we can go more into this when we have time, we learned about this in early fall,

because of the deep concerns that we have the subcontracter when we were made aware of nonpayment by the sub grantees, we worked with the grantee to execute that, we were given some promises about payment that were not fulfilled. >> that would be the latino task force? >> yes. >> thank you, supervisor preston. thank you. >> thank you. >> before you leave here. did o a wd requested an audit of sf safe grant? >> so there is two, in terms of assessment and monitoring which is not a formal audited, we do that formal of our contract. we work closely with our nonprofit providers. in terms of fiscal monitoring process, that would be in april of this year. we did perform fiscal monitoring of the previous safety grant, the close one in spring of 2023 before that contract closed >> and anything new in light of

all the information that has come out from the controller's audit in terms of additional review? >> i mean, we don't have the abil look at their ledger until we go through that fiscal monitoring process on what happened in spring so, yes. not sure what you mean by anything new. >> just request for any, as a pd request an audit when they saw some red flags, yeah but that only covered pds contract. >> and to be clear, this is a deliverable contract. the flags here were non pavement of subs which we have been working to deal with. as noted by sfpdw we sent a joint letter requesting information so we can follow-up. >> thank you, and then, vice chair stefani. >> thank you, chair preston, i don't have any questions for

the integrity of investigation and the people waiting here for number 4. this is disappointing at best. and i'm struck by some wong's what every department has grants and agreements. this is why i've been working on my nonprofit legislation for years now. there is people in this room that i've been working with, the controller's office and reviewing a pass attempt like in 2003 when supervisor maxwell convened on tasked force. that will be back on rules committee on february 26 and i look forward to this going to the full board. and this is a case study why my legislation is to necessary much like the legislation that i did back in 2021 when we created the admin code chapter

21g which is grants covering the warding of grants by grantingtions that became affective january 21 and that was in response to an audit showing that a 3-year period, the department granted awards in grants over 5,000 with them without any transparency or competition. so, i just, i just want to say that that legislation really takes into affect a lot of what we've seen here today. directs the controller to adopt city wide performers, the department must comply with contract withing non prove pit organizations by november 1 of this year. and the controller's office will be required to cover standards that would create a process department must follow when entering and managing their contracts and reporting monitoring results to the controller and also requires the fiscal audit and nonprofits. what i found is the lack of

city controls is why we are in this mess. and why this legislation is so important. and there is no consistent oversight on these contracts which leaves the public dollars vulnerable for misuse. i will end it there and say i look forward to that and our next hearing on this. thank you. >> president preston. >> one more question to ms. dennis philips which is relative to the existing contract where are you at with termination or next step. >> as noted, we cooperative with sfpd sent a request to sf safe board requesting information about payment of subs and payment of their employees that deadline for responses today as of yet we have not received anything. we have not determined that we are going to close the contract as sfpd stated only because we are working with the city attorney to make sure that when

we do we have exhausted all the remedy to see get our sub grantees made. --paid. >> right which does not mean that they're going to pay again. >> it does not, we just want to don't want to close the contract. >> got it. >> thank you. thank you mr. chairman and committee members. >> thank you president peskin. let's open public comment on this item. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, should line up now along the side by the windows, all speakers will have two minutes to speak. can the first speaker. >> speaker: hello every one, i'm joanna hernandez, i am one of the executive members of the latino task force and chair of the reentry committee. we trusted sf safe, we were under the impression that they were a secure partner, especially being under the police department. we are to broken-hearted that people lost their jobs after getting a horrible pandemic.

including those who recently just got home from jail and prison who are trying to stay alive and free. having a safe and secure employment is key to somebody's reentry and to community and public safety. children's parents are now out of jobs and now need our community's help. we requested in june to cut from this contract. latino task morse alsoing also had mou, it's very heartbroken what we're going through from the bounce checks to non communicating with ltf and we are here because we want answers and we want to get paid. other members of the ltf wanted speak but in honor of line item number 4 we want to respect the space but we hope that something happens out of this. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please.

>> her clock is still running. xwloer i can't previous member of the task force. i really highly suggest other grants get looked at, specifically grants space on how many stops they make a year. those are pretty frightening to me. also, just a little comment i think that three million dollars could have gone to the reperations office. i do have concerns about police investigating themselves. i hope there is something independent involved in this investigation. also, it would be criminal to have a solution which is reperations to so many

atrocities, yet we keep throwing money to nonprofit that don't yield results in the community. city wide oversight is needed but then i don't have confidence of friends hiring friends that will gate keep. hope this sends a clear message to other people that get money and do the little backpack giveaway and turkey giveaways and what not, but yet getting new cars and all of these things and the community never sees the money. i just left south africa last year and all that money that was raised through the nelson mandela foundation when i went to the poor neighborhoods, they said that money never reached them it's only people at certain levels that get the money and don't help the community. : i hope this sends messages to nonprofit that are just taking

the funds and not helping people. oh happy black history month. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> clerk: mr. chair it appears we have no additional public speakers. >> thank you, public comment for this item is closed. president peskin what is your preference, date certain? or we should continue to call the chair. >> that would be fine, i would like to hear this at some point later in march. and i want to comment sadly, that an organization that was really suppose to be building trust with community has eroded public trust for the department, for the city, and i look forward to having continued hearing in late march. >> thank you, president peskin for your leadership on this.

i move to continue this item to the call of the chair. please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. vice chair stefani. >> aye. >>. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: i have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you, that motion pass sxz madam clerk, please call item 4. >> clerk: item number is a resolution apologizing on behalf of the board of supervisors the city and county of san francisco to african americans and their descendants to violence and atrocities and miss deeds. >> thank you, and for the record, supervisor walton has been appointed to the committee for item 4.

so welcome supervisor walton and i know supervisor stefani will be returning momentary. you are the sponsor of this item, so thank you for being here. and i wanted to turn it over to you for any remarks and to present witnesses, i also want to thank all the folks who are here to give public comment for their patience and for being here. >> thank you chair preston and i want to thank the community and every one in the chamber for being patient as we work through today's agenda. as we know the advisory committee work tirelessly to detail the harms of black people caused by this city and its policies. as well as the come up with solutions that achieve reparations, that severed and their descendents. one of the recommendations

overall recommendation roman numeral number 1 is that the city issue a formal apology for past harms and commit to making on going systemic and programmatic investment in black communities to address historical harms. we are here today to do just that. and i want to thank all of my cospon sponsors, supervisor chan, sa fa knee, peskin, preston and mandelman. this is another step towards achieve the goal. an apology from the city is not concrete and not just symbolic as admitting fault is a first step of making amends. the last clause reads, that the city of county of san francisco

commit to non repetition of the policies and practices which cause these harms, commit to the restoration for the way that's racism has caused insult to black community and manifested visible and invisible trauma, through the means of restoration and reparation and programmatic investments in black community to address historical and present harms. first, we will hear from human rights commission director dr. charles davis and then from the chair and vice chair of the african reparation advisory eric mcdonald and denise holansed and if my colleagues want to make some comments as we fight to continue to make sure that this requested policy

is formal here in san francisco. and now i would like to call up the director of human rights commission, dr. sharyl davis. [applause] >> speaker: good morning, still two minutes. i want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership and consistent work with this work even when he had to stand alone, so thank you very much, superintendent walton. i also want to recognize the reparations advisory committee for their work and their commitment over the last few years to do this work. and again, in times when it felt like they were not being supported and definitely there was no investment or commitment to the work. so there were as you well know, over 100 recommendation that's

came through the process and through the committee, we are as i said previously working with the city attorney to look at what things we can advance and how to do those. and at the same time, there are bodies can look on what things we can advance inside and we're hoping to continue to look at how we can do that. this recommendation is one that folks have asked for from the very beginning. it is one that in other places folks have really struggled with the process to put that forward and what that means. if i could just in terms of i wrote down a couple of things that, supervisor walton called out and even when i think about what is in this, this document, in terms of systemic structural discrimination targeted acts of violence and atrocities and

committing to the residfication, yes the apology needs to address past harms and in doing, we realize the things that we still continue to do today that perpetuate the harm. whether that is being mindful of agendas or the optics of how we do things and how it causes people harm, just in, you know, case in point today i know some folks felt a certain way to listen to excuse me, like a black woman be dragged about just before we had hearings. i want to be mindful of how that appears.

we're coming to ask people to apologize but not realizing that, it triggers, right. because we all know that sometimes things happen and they are rightfully wrong, and sometimes things happen and folks get called out because they're black. and so, i just say that because i think all of us in any position are always worried about the one misstep that we're going to do as black people that is going to be used to demonize the whole community. it reburbates in a way that we don't folks that folks fear to be black and make a mistake is almost criminal. so i just say, that that is a very real, that is a very, i think the apology goes a long

way. people want to hold on to something that says that you realize and understand that there are impacts to the things that have been done, the systems that have been created and the things that we have to sit and endure that are almost kind of reminiscent of watch yourself because you may be next. i'm grateful that you're entertaining the conversation and look at not just what has been done but maybe the practices that still continue to have an impact and cause harm and fear in the lives of black people. so thank you so much, supervisor walton, thank you so much chair preston and supervisor stefani for holding this space and for moving this work forward. i know it means a lot to the community but also to the committee who is feeling a lot of them as if the wind has been

knocked out, because the resources have not been allocated. this is one of the 15 things that we've been working on to advance and we hope to see this happen. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, dr. davis and thank you for making sure that we have a conversation about not only what is happened in the past but what continues to happen here in the city when it comes to the injustices as that we suffer as a black community. i would like to call chair mcdonald and vice chair ho lins. >> good afternoon. it's a privilege to be here, happy black history month, i think it's notable that we're having this important conversation during this month

of acknowledgment and celebration of the historic contributions past and present of black beauty and pride, so thank you for this. first, again i thank you to supervisor walton as already been said, really appreciate the consistent and steadfast leadership of this entire body of work including the authorship of the resolution being considered. and i want to acknowledge director davis and the staff and tireless work that they have done and continue to do so. to my colleagues on the reparations on the advisory committee, really appreciate the leadership and commitment to continue to hold hold this work and today, chair and vice chair and the committee for considering this resolution and moving it forward.

i'm honored and pleased to be here for this historic moment as noted in the draft resolution that is before you, less than 20 local or state governments have offered apologies for slavery and its impact on african americans. in his case for reparations back in 2018, 250 years of slavely, 90 years of jim crowe, 60 years of separate equal 35 years of racist policy until we reckon until our debts, america will never be whole. and i will argue that san francisco has similar challenges. the first step is acknowledging the harms that have been caused and in today's case here, harms caused by the city and county of san francisco. and it's important to notice

directly davis alluded that the harms that have been and continue to happen have not been slight or insignificant. in fact, cruel and often inhumane. as a side note one of the heaviest part was how often we had to visit and hear and carry and hold the depth of pain and trauma experienced in the past and in the present. and so again, not insignificant, the systemic structural discrimination, institutional racism and atrocities have des vast ated and destroyed and many instances demoralizes black citizens and our communities. while we are a liberal progressive city, the facts still remain, we're a tail of

two cities if not. and there is significant accumulated moral visit. in his visit to san francisco back in 1963 james ball win said there is not distance between the facts of life in san francisco and the facts of life in birmingham. san francisco is just another city and if you're a black man, that's a very bitter thing to say. today, black san franciscans sadly still lead in all the indicators of wealth and well being, lower education attainment, unsufficient income, low home ownership, homelessness, infant mortality, maternal death justice involvement just to name a few. sad reality is that, these negative indicators were and cause and are allowed by the city and county of san francisco. through willful and racial discrimination and

unemployment, housing, education and healthcare and the criminal justice system. today this resolution is a really important first step in particularly acknowledging the generational harms perpetrated by the city of san francisco and committing to non repetition and readdress of these harms. the issuing of this formal and public apology is notable and significant, however, it will ring hollow. if it's not followed by active or address i have efforts through the past through monetary repair and disrupt inequity through policy and problematic reform and implementation. let me remind you, that the african community committed over over 150 recommend a to see redress many of these harms and we ask you to work towards

this implementation and really appreciate the work that director davis is continue to go hold in leading in vital pieces of that implementation. if you've been in other rooms, you've heard me of say, centuries of harm resulting in the loss of place, promise and a prosperity, must and shall be met with centuries of repair. so today, please move this resolution to the forward to the full board with recommendation and let the healing and repair begin in words and in deeds. thank you so much for your time today. [applause] >> speaker: good afternoon, thank you so much for the time. thank you to supervisor walton for your continued leadership on this issue. i did not write a long speech. this morning has been incredibly difficult not only

to sit and here the of the continued harm with failed leadership in systems across the board. so i have a couple of things to offer, one is to my grandmother taught me that when somebody owes you an apology, they know it and you don't have to ask for it. so the city and county of san francisco does not need anymore evidence or anymore compelling narratives or stories or fancy speeches to know that there is an apology that is due to black san franciscans. and i hope that the introduction of resolution leads to that. the other is something that chair mcdonald saying about apologies sounding hollow without the action. and i would offer that the other tenant of the reparation is guarantee of non repetition. this city has policies that guarantee do harm to san

francisco. and it does not matter which face or which elected leader is behind or in front of these policies. i want to urge the san francisco board of supervisors because i believe we have the most talented, legislatures in the country on this board. because we have one of the biggest budget of any county in this country in san francisco and because you all have the power and compassion, i believe to do a better job. to stand in front of anything that will do more harm to black san francisco and all of san francisco. and we're watching to make sure that you do it. you cannot use moments in time like black history month or any other moment to give a pass on accountability to do better. and i say that respectfully, knowing that so many of us,

will fail at our jobs because our jobs are next to impossible. knowing that we will not get the same level of compassion or support as black leaders. and knowing that even in spite of all of that, that does not give us the pass to fail intentionally. we do not have to give police unchecked power, we do not have to mandate that people who need help could be excluded from getting more help because they struggle with addiction. we can pass smarter policy to make sure that we don't rely on jail and prison to deal with problems that they cannot deal with. y'all could do better. so take a step past the apology and show your leadership. show your leadership through smart legislation. show your leadership through the way you spend the dollars in front of us, and show your

leadership to make sure that the right people are in front of the conversation. that's all i have to offer. [applause] >> thank you chair mcdonald. >> thank you supervisor walton and the hrc team and the advisory committee and chair mcdonald and vice chair holins for your comments and your work and also for keeping it real around the importance of an apology but also but also making clear that an apology without action as you noticed, is not a meanful or powerful one.

i want to thank you supervisor walton as the presenters have for your leadership on this resolution. and your leadership on reparations, on the reparations plan on continuing to push your colleagues and the whole city to, to deliver on reparations and to under the importance of reparations in our city. and that includes the recommendations of the reparations report of which the apology is one. and i cannot thank enough chair mcdonald the whole advisory committee for their work and for really laying out what i've said before and i will say again for anyone in the public watching this, is an incredible

document really mapping out the history of discrimination in every sector of the city, the role of san francisco governmented, the role of private speculater and capitol and the impact in the black community and the need for reparation sxz laying out a de tailed plan on what that means. some of it overtime and some immediately but it's all doable. i do want to start by saying that two folks who are here or folks who are listening as i've shared with supervisor walton in the past, that you all have my commitment to continue supporting not only this apology but the implementation of the reparations recommendations here in the city and county of san francisco. and i want to highlight one thing, in this resolution that i think that's particular

significance for the community i represent in district 5 in the filmore. i think the resolution is very powerful and speaks to many issues. i think it's essential to be aware of the history to acknowledge our city's complicity and encouragement of the legacy of discrimination and displacement and as has been said to make sure that we don't repeat the past and instead atone for it and extend damage to the greatest extent possible. but what i really wanted amplify is starting in page 2 line 20 of this resolution, it's timely, it's important, it says quote, where as in 1942 as wwii continued african americans were recruited from the south to the bay area for jobs in the shipyards and other war industries and many moved into the homes, businesses and properties in the filmore.

and where as in 1947, the san francisco planning commission submitted a plan to raise and rebuild the large zone in the filmore incompasses 36 blocks in the following clear, the san francisco was founded which used red lining and proposed plan to institute quote, urban renewal in the filmore and western addition which have become a black vibrant neighborhood but that was deemed blighted by san francisco authority and where as over the next 24 years in the name of slum clean anses more than 10,000 blacks were place displaced because of the policy. i will not be labor the point here, but i will say this, how we handle in plaza east, in the

safeway lot in freedom west and other housing complexes in the western addition, in my district, will be one of the things that really shows whether we have learned from the past and are committed to reparing damage and delivering for black residents of the filmore and bringing displaced families back to the filmore or whether we simply repeat the horors of the past that are outlined in this resolution, placing profits over people to the detriment of black residents in san francisco. so it is it is always sad to see history repeat itself in bad way. and the report makes clear how we can prevent our city from repeating many of these horrors of the past. i believe vice chair hollins identified some of those ways where we're undertaking policies that make things worse

for black resident of the city. i think the statement hollow without ox is an apology. in our schools we are teaching restore tiff justice, we're teaching kids restoretvie justice, that's not an apology but it starts with one. supervisor stefani, any comments before we open up for comment. >> no, it's important that i hear from everybody before i offer comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who want to speak on the item, should line up now. all speakers will have two minutes to speak.

>> welcome rev. and supervisor brown. >> members of the committee, ladies and gentlemen, i can easily say amen. to what has already been said. but i must speak for myself. and i'm going to speak as president of the national association for the black people here in the city. and first of all, remind us that it was in 2019, that the nhcp introduced to this very chamber motion the idea of reparations.

for substanceive plan, secondly, we appreciate mr. walton your endeavors, the legislative home for this black community. thirdly, it's time we not take steps, we morally out to be grand leaps for what this city has done to black folks historically going back to the 1850s. we have already a repeat of the same evils, hare ors, hardships, and hellish moments. and how can we show amends? remember that man's in the good book when he met jesus, he showed fruits of repentance and apology is not enough. an apology is just cotton candy

redereric, ax number 1 before us. this board as a moral obligation to make sure that that allied development corporation doesn't turnover one spade of dirt there in the filmore if you sorry for what happened to black folks. it was cheap for them, what is good for the goose, is good for the gander, and we must put the breaks on to make sure that it is monitored what is going on over there in the filmore regarding safeway. number 2, when it comes to housing, we have lost black people and still there is a

hemorrhaging, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves, we ought to be weeping down to about 4 percent of the population. it didn't happened by accident, it happened by intentional public policy. therefore, 40% of all housing going forward, in that area should go to black folks if we're going to stop this imaging. in those developments that were build by and developed by black people, hanes gardens, finishing west, freedom west. think about it, you have seen yozer living.

355 units and yet only right now, there are about 45 to 50 black folks living there. shame shame shame on san francisco. don't just give us an apology, we need action, we need to change our conduct. >> thank you. >> speaker: and we change our conduct then you will show that san francisco is truly a progressive, liberal, inclusive and a place where one can find refuge and leave your heart in san francisco. >> clerk: thank you, thank you rev. brown for your comments. next speaker. >> speaker: thank you, gloria barry, i want to thank supervisor walton for being the

lead on reparations. the sickness in this city, this is the truth sickness on the city. first i'm sad that not all supervisors signed off as sponsored on this resolution. i believe that if people are runing for office if you mention anything about helping people, you will lose. so a lot feel that if they stand by reparations, they will not win their next seat. and that's the, the sickness of it that is political. we got a little love on what happened to george floyd happen. i remember in the marina people

holding black lives matter, that was amazing to see district 2 caring about black people. i could not believe my eyes but now it's all gone. it was just a hashtag. and then you got people running by office that got donaters by gary tang a right-winger who is threatened to kill or wants some of you all dead. you know. how are you going to speak up for reparations, they're going to want you dead because you're helping me. i want to finish i saying i encourage the low hanging fruit. i know supervisor preston mentioned items that he's ready to work on. i challenge all supervisor to see get five items going next week. >> thank you, next speaker, please.

>> speaker: i'm sala and i'm very very disappointed to this situation. it's an insult as far as i'm concerned. and the inresults my people my nation. it's absolutely wicked. and the issues that i have a problem with right now, it is not to the board of supervisors, it's to you fake black leaders, that's what i got a problem with. the reason that we don't have reparations is because y'all are getting a paycheck and you're not feeling the pain of my people suffering. young people is barely making, you use the word hemorrhaging, they're barely making it the

little income, the sufferage when the asian community get 50 million and two or three months and they don't have to come and take a stand and we have to come here and continue to beg them. every one of you is guilty. we need to call of action, the board of supervisors get paid. if we don't have a resolution in days, i'm asking for a revote, for you to get. you have taken our kindness for weakness and i see too many of my people suffering. and if you don't have a understanding that our people are suffering and dying on the inside while you're getting your paycheck sxz pointing fingers of the san francisco police department and 3 million every one of you use money in

your political system. let's investigate you. let's everything one of these departments who is doing wicked. you think we don't have eyes to see what is going on? let's start investigating these corporations let's talk about every one in the city. >> thank you so much. thank you so much for your comments. next speaker. >> good afternoon, i'm on any union negotiated lunch time and i want to ask forgiveness to all the people in line because i do have to work so thank you for getting here. we want to acknowledge the land

for the ramaytush ohlone community, standing in solidarity. solid, solidarity with the black community and stand for black reparations. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> speaker: good morning, i afternoon i'm deputy i lead our office of integrity unit. and i'm here because i think it is important work that you're all doing and i think this is historic work but as so many other speakers have already commented, without action, this rings hollow. i talked to my dad recently, he used to work in san francisco, and he called and said, brian, do you think i can qualify for that.

and i said pops probably not but shout out pops if you're listening. it's important for him, it's important for him because when he was here, he would knock on doors to try to rent an apartment that he was rent away. he had to recute his--recruit his white friends to go rent for him. same thing when he worked in the mail room, all the insults and prejudice and discrimination, so he goes to seek help only to be met with indifference and closed doors. that's intentional, that is deliberate. so what is important is what solutions, how are we investing our dollars? right now we have policies that we know will cause harm to the

community. where are the action? to bring resources to communities that have been reinvested for generation sxz decades. on the frontlines fight to go end mass incarceration. and over police the communities. and we smuft do more. >> clerk: can you restate your last name. >> speaker: cox, c.o.x. >> clerk: thank you so much. next speaker. >> speaker: also note that i'm on my lunch break. i'm leticia irving i had the honor of sit ago not the reparation, i will say it rev.

brown to chair mcdonald i'm going to echo and double down on everything that was said. i also want to take a moment to give appreciation for supervisor walton for unwaivering for the reparation. we know what we're asking for is something that will have to live forever and you did this work forever and we know that you're going to continue this commitment after, thank you for being bold in the face of this. i also want to thank dr. davis, we're not just talking about it. we developed a comprehensive report of our stories and history and experiences. most notably, we came wup solution that's were developed by the very people that have been harmed, black san franciscans. knowing that very few of our recommend atesings are being actualized does feel like a gut punch. i feel further harms to say you put in all of this work and you

talked to your people and then we're going to do a couple of things. and i understand that it's not that body that pushed back on all of that but it's your responsibility to start walking the walk, what are we doing and what are we walk thating is going to live beyond this moment. the first step is an apologies, it's empty but necessary but all honesty i would like to see an apology across every governing body. first the apology but actions towards writing san francisco's wrong. let's have lasting impacts. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, next speaker. jaou, my name is lori yamuchi and i speak in support of this resolution, i'm a member of japan board of directors and an elder at o first presbyterian

church. i want to thank supervisor walton and reparations committee and hearing rights commission for their hard work leading to this resolution. the resolution sites the harms committed against african americans in san francisco in order to redress and repair harms and apology is an essential step. this resolution, this apology of course is not unprecedented. the city of boston passed a resolution to acknowledge and apologies a role played in the slavely of african americans. in 2022, the church u.s.a. adopted a resolution of offering an apology to african americans for the sin of slavery and its legacy. further the u.s. government passed the civil liberties act of 1988 which apologized to 120,000 persons of japanese who

were incarcerated. as well as issue reparations payment to incarcerationies and their descendants. i ask that you pass and take future action to this policy. >> clerk: thank you. >> speaker: i'm a reparationist and what we do is reteach our community about state atonement and the initiative for reparations here in california. we teach our community the difference between lienage and race. reparation south side not dei, reparation south side not race base initiative and i suggest this board learn the difference so that you can advocate properly for the descendants of

enslaved and then emancipated americans here in san francisco. the san francisco african-american reparations advisory board while i tremendously respect their work, they did not do a good job in distinguishing between linage and race. we advocate for to rereceive reparations in form of direct cash payments, an apology is low on our list. and our top priority is compensation, restitution and guarantee of non repeat significance. getting cash repairs directly to did descent ants who are lining the streets of san francisco, they are americans, so i don't see reparations as a

black issue, it's a american issue. if you want to give an apology, you want to do it in the most expensive city in the world. these people can't eat an apology. our youth are forced to break into cars because their wealth was stolen by the city and the state and in this country. you need to designate land and housing specifically for the descendants and housing specifically for descendents who are in san francisco. and you need to give cash payments to those people as well. and you need to give some of those contracts that don't have any oversight, you need to give them to descendent american companies and we'll have oversight then. >> thank you, thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> speaker: hello my name is

marcus, i was born and raised in san francisco, i've been through the system. i understand we have to be accountable for our actions as black citizens, i'm victim, like i said, you know, if we are to allocate funds, i do think as a black community, because they did that with the stimulus check and giving people money edd, they're back at square one. and i appreciate the latino task force everybody who is in support of us moving forward as the little 4%, we've got to have, some direction, y'all just give us money, and you know, still have no direction.

i appreciate all the board members having this discussion. it is a serious topic. i'm a little biased to a caucasian person and born in st. louis, so everybody is not a racist, we pooping on the ground, we breaking in cars. you know with this leadership, you know, it got to happen inside. you call the police so police is happening. you know, the boy in sacramento, the one who had got, he got killed in his back yard, he had his phone. his brother his brother was

going to get like 47 million to write a book deal. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: good afternoon, committee members, i'm advocate for with chinese for affirmative action. last summer, chinese for affirmative action endorse thed the reparation plan and the recommendation that seek to fix that harm, education and headlight and policy for black san franciscans. the plans early documented san francisco's role and enacted policies and racist red lining, through deconstruction and western addition neighborhood and subsequent severing of opportunities in which many black families never recovered.

this is an important first step and we urge the committee to support passage of this resolution. thank you. >> thank you for your comments next speaker. >> speaker: good afternoon, community members. i actually think it's more important to listen to a lot of people's stories, it's a very important empowering moment p.like nick i'm advocate for chinese affirmative action. and we support the reparation and resolution to a apologize for the harm experienced by african americans and their descendants who are living in san francisco. they detail the significance and appropriate harm of government policies and practices towards african americans and how these discriminatory laws resulted in persistent economy health education and social outcomes.

we recognize the reparations and look forward to work width community groups to build strong bridges and solidarity across ethnics groups but engagement, the api community members and we urge the committee to approve this item. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker. >> speaker: board walton, thank you, peace to you, man. chair, co-chair, i think she stepped out, great job you all did. peace to her also. no need to stand as ceremony, my brothers know me as brother care yet.

when a foreign conglomerate or company infractions against the united states of america, they apologized with a big fat check. bottom line, right. so san francisco, i say you just, you keep your verbally apologies, keep them. dig deep in your pockets, grab 5 million dollars and a form of direct payments and apologize financially, now remind you, as a linage, i say 17 census, sister, you know, the american indians that was reclassified to block color, negro molato, those who the ones that qualify here, nobody else. not the continent, not the caribbean, only us, the original capa color people, gratitude.

>> clerk: thank you so much. do we have additional comments? >> speaker: hi good afternoon, thank you so much for hosting this conversation and thank you so much to supervisor walton for your continued leadership and for not letting this issue go away, because we know that the community is resilient and steadfast. i want to add our ancestorial and our guiding principal that the community lead with, so i wanted to read it here because it was something that rev. brown had asked for in addition to saying we need to go back to the scene of the scene the crime. and it reads that we honor the gifts resilient and sacrifices

of our black ancestor, particularly those who toiled the land and built the institution that's established this city's wealth and freedom. despite never being compensated nor fully realizing their sovereignty. we acknowledge this not only of labor but humanity and we're work to go repair smft harms done by private and public actor because of their work we are here and will descend of their work. work with the city and we look forward to continue to go work with the board of saoufpses as a legislative branch of government to continue to move forward the hundreds of recommendations that the committee put forward. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, would you mind restating your name for the record. >> speaker: i would not, britney chicuata. >> clerk: thank you, do we have

any additional public speakers? chair that looks like concludes public comment. >> thank you, public comment on this item is now closed. thank you to every one who came out to speak on this item. supervisor walton? my apologies, vice chair stefani. >> thank you, i just want to thank everybody for coming out. and i want to make sure that everybody knows that as soon as supervisor walton mentioned this in roll call, i texted him at 5:05 p.m., and i told my staff that i wanted to cosponsor that, the fact that the my name is was not on the cosponsors does not indicate where and when i told supervisor walton that i wanted to cosponsor this.

i've been with him on everything with regard to repa racing sxz all the work he's been doing and just wanted to make sure that people that i know an apology is necessary but not enough and i will continue to listen to every one on what is necessary and we'll continue to work on supervisor walton on delivering that, thank you. >> thank you, vice chair stefani. thank you, supervisor walton. >> thank you, i do want it state for the record, that supervisor stefani did sign on as a cosponsor right away so i want to make sure that every one understand that at times, sometimes things don't get report recorded in realtime, and i will always call a spade of spade but give credit where credit is do. and most certainly supervisor stefani signed on immediately. as we look at today in every hearing that we held around

reparations here at the board of supervisors, we had several people come in and of course provide public comment, we received several emails from community and not just the black community about, not just an apology being old but all the work of reparations needing to be achieved here in san francisco. so as we continue to push to improve outcomes for black people in the city, this apology, will bring us all closer to that goal. we definitely know that this is not the end all, be all but this is certainly something that has to be acknowledged and has to be on record here in the city and county of san francisco. i want to once again, thanks at frick an american reparation advisory committee as well as the chair mcdonald and vice chair hollins for their tireless work and i want to thank the human rights commission under the leadership

of director davis. and of course i want to thank the entire community for your continued commitment, for your continue to go hold our feet to the fire as the board of supervisor because we will not just take that report and not move. i have three years left in office and most certainly be spending a good chunk of my time to make sure that we realize some of those recommendations. i also want to say that as we go through this budget process, we're going to fight for resource to see fund the office of reparations, so even though we suffered major cuts, do not think that we will not continue the fight for the resources to fund the office. also working on legislative and democratic means for funding for recommendations from the task force. so please no one understand

that this fight is definitely not over. i would like to add in additional resolve clause which, i think is important as we heard from public comment and i believe this would be non substantial but further resolve that the board of supervisors urges each city department to engage in the process of reflecting on their own role in their city's history of structural discrimination and to issue their own apologies for their actions. and we can add this at the end of the last reserve clause. and i do want to hear from city attorney to make sure that this is appropriate and these are not substantial. >> deputy city attorney, they would not require a continuance. >> thank you for that. and with that, i would move to add this amendment to the resolution.

>> thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: okay. so on the motion to amend, vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: member walton. >> aye. >> clerk: member walton aye. chair press upon. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston aye. i have three ayes. >> thank you, and chair preston i would like to make a recommendation that we move this forward to the full board of supervisors as amended. >> madam clerk. >> clerk: on the motion to recommend to the full board of supervisors as amended. vice chair, >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >>. >> clerk: i have three ayes. >> thank you, that motion passes. thank you supervisor walton.

madam clerk, can you call items 5 to 12 for the closed session, please. >> clerk: yes, today's close thed session is comprised of items 5 through 12 authorizing and approving various settlements from 35,000 to 9 million. >> thank you, madam clerk, and these are items are agendized foreclosed session, i've been briefed of them by the city attorney. i have got my questions answered. i don't feel they need to be reviewed in closed session. so happy to continue my conversation wz deputy city attorney pierson and the office

unless unless seeing vice chair, my intent is to not convene in closed session. i want to say that before we open up public comment on these items. let's have public comment and then we can entertain a motion. >> clerk: members of the public should line up to speak along the windows, all speakers will have two minutes to speak. mr. chair, it appears that we have no public comment. >> thank you, public comment on these items is now closed. and as mentioned, we are not going to move to convene in closed session instead would like to move these items 5 through 12 with recommendation to the board of supervisors. >> clerk: on the motion to move

items 5 through 12 to the board of supervisors, with positive recommendation, vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: chair preston aye, i have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you, that motion passes and madam clerk, any other business before the committee today. >> clerk: there is no further business. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

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>> i don't want to be involved in the process after it happens. i want to be there at the front end to help people with something in my mind from a very early age. our community is the important way to look at things, even now. george floyd was huge. it opened up wounds and a discussion on something festering for a long time. before rodney king. you can look at all the instances where there are calls for change. i think we are involved in change right now in this moment that is going to be long lasting. it is very challenging. i was the victim of a crime when i was in middle school. some kids at recess came around at pe class and came to the locker room and tried to steal

my watch and physically assaulted me. the officer that helped afterwards went out of his way to check the time to see how i was. that is the kind of work, the kind of perspective i like to have in our sheriff's office regardless of circumstance. that influenced me a lot. some of the storefronts have changed. what is mys is that i still see some things that trigger memories. the barbershop and the shoe store is another one that i remember buying shoestrings and getting my dad's old army boots fixed. we would see movies after the first run. my brother and i would go there. it is nice. if you keep walking down sacramento. the nice think about the city it takes you to japan town. that is where my grandparents

were brought up. that is the traditional foods or movies. they were able to celebrate the culture in that community. my family also had a dry-cleaning business. very hard work. the family grew up with apartments above the business. we have a built-in work force. 19 had 1 as -- 1941 as soon as that happened the entire community was fixed. >> determined to do the job as democracy should with real consideration for the people involved. >> the decision to take every one of japan niece american o japanese from their homes. my family went to the mountains and experienced winter and

summer and springs. they tried to make their home a home. the community came together to share. they tried to infuse each home are little things. they created things. i remember my grand mother saying they were very scared. they were worried. they also felt the great sense of pride. >> japanese americans. >> my granduncle joined the 442nd. when the opportunity came when the time that was not right. they were in the campaign in italy. they were there every step of the way. >> president truman pays tribute.

>> that was the most decorated unit in the history of the united states army. commitment and loyal to to the country despite that their families were in the camp at that time. they chose to come back to san francisco even after all of that. my father was a civil servant as well and served the state of california workers' compensation attorney and judge and appellate board. my parents influenced me to look at civil service s.i applied to police, and sheriff's department atatatatatatatatatatatatatatatat

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government

paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an

airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their

environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and

adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island

severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new

structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the

ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at

that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people

locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure

island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island

are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but

pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base.

>> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the

bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on

island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay. this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals

and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks

help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back

into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island.

it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem

applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring

local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are

going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of

them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species.

>> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some

butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from

yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this

plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a

better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7 acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is

possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly, retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to

access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy

a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some

time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years,

we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to fruition.locals.

>> (music). >> the work go ahead offered i didn't the rec and park friday's local young people between 14 and 17 to be part 6 the workforce and eastern responsibility and professionalism and gain job skills and assignments in neighborhoods parking and recreation centers and includes

art and crafts, sport, cooking, gardening and facility support and so many more. >> (multiple voices). >> i think we're part of the this is the fact we're outdoors and it is really great to be in nature and workreation is great first step to figure out what you would like to do workreation covers real life working skills and expansion can be allowed (unintelligible) it is a really great program because um, students get placed all the time for what they like. join us in the experience and opportunity

and i really like the workreation program it is fun to workout at the summer camp with all the kids each is different and the staff is really nice. >> why? is because i used to go to the local park often when i was a little kid. with my mom i often had to translate for my mom i applied in the hope to provide assistance for other people with first language was for the english. >> i like this job we have fun and working and i feel welcome. >> hi. >> like how a job actually works like maybe before then i didn't know like all the jobs i

don't know any of that now i do. >> it has to be self aware of things and independence of value of this taught me how to be progressiveal but still learning as i go on. >> i learned a lot like a got to adapt and challenges and obstacles come up everyday and . >> i like that we're able to really work with other people and gaining experience like how in the real world hoe how he work with other people. >> if you're looking to develop your live skills as well as cash and working in the parks, and meeting great people and working with great staff i definitely recommend the corporation.

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>> item 50 is resolution calling on department of public health to provide medically necessary transition related care for transgender related people and remove restrictions. >> in 2012 gender health sf was born out of advocacy from community stakeholders and local leaders. really as response to providing quality, accessible jnder aaffirming care for the most under-served. (indiscernible) the way i see it, there is two ways of folks we serve at our program. the first wave of folks who never imagined surgery access was accessible to them. many folks who had to save money or par ticipate in underground economy to access the surgery outside the country. (indiscernible) really to make something real

in terms of being able to connect with the gender identity and external (indiscernible) and so transform so many lives of many of trans folks who never imagined it was accessible to them. now we are in the different era and time where transrights is in the social political and general (indiscernible) and now we are serving young folks to support them and making sure their gender identity is connected to who they are, so providing a space to support transfolks to live authentically and that is the goal to provide the level of care trans folks deserve. >> when it comes to access to healthcare, while we all believe in cost control and make sure we deliver healthcare in a cost effective manner, i dont think that cost is a reason or legitinate rational

to exclude people from healthcare (indiscernible) colleagues i ask for your support. >> thank you supervisor wiener. colleagues on this item can we do this without role call? same house same call, without objection the resolution is adopted. [applause] >> [music] art withelders exhibiting senior art work across the bay for 30 years as part of our traveling exhibit's program. for this exhibits we partnered with the san francisco art's

commission galleries and excited show case the array of artist in historic san francisco city hall. >> [inaudible]. call me temperature is unique when we get to do we, meaning myself and the 20 other professional instructors we are working with elders we create long-term reps i can't think of another situation academically where we learn about each other. and the art part i believe is a launching pad for the relationship building:see myself

well. and if i don't try when my mom again. she may beat the hell out of mow if i don't try >> seniors, the population encounters the problem of loneliness and isolation even in a residential community there hen a loss of a spouse. leaving their original home. may be not driving anymore and so for us to be ail to bring the classes and art to those people where hay are and we work with people in all walks of life and circumstances but want to finds the people that are isolated and you know bring the warmth there as much as art skill its personal connection. men their family can't be well for them. i can be their fell and feel it. >> i don't have nobody. people say, hi, hi. hello but i don't know who they

are. but i come here like on a wednesday, thursday and friday. and i enjoy. >> we do annual surveys asking students what our program does for them. 90 plus % say they feel less alone, they feel more engaged. they feel more socially connected the things you hope for in general as we age. right? >> and see when i do this. i am very quiet. i don't have anybody here talking to me or telling me something because i'm concentrating on had i'm doing and i'm not talking to them. >> not just one, many students were saying the program had

absolutely transformational for them. in said it had saved their lives. >> i think it is person to support the program. because i think ida elder communities don't get a lot of space in disability. we want to support this program that is doing incredible work and giving disability and making this program what supports the art and health in different way bunkham art as a way of expression. a way of like socializing and giving artists the opportunity also to make art for the first time, sometimes and we are excited that we can support this stories and honor their stories through art. we hope the people will feel inspired by the variety and the quality of the creative expressions here and that

viewers come, way with a greater appreciation of the richness what elders have to share with us. [music]