chief scott, it is my honor to present officer john norment of bayview station to be recognized by the police commission tonight. john has been a member of the department for 17 years. he has been at bayview for almost 15 years. his first three years at bayview, he was on the third street foot beat, where he was also the station's representative for three separate neighborhood community groups. the next 12 years, john was on the public housing detail, where he was in charge of coordinating police community events, including turkey, backpack, toy and christmas tree giveaways. he represented the department at multiple community

events regarding new construction of public housing developments and represented the department in monthly meetings with the public housing development managers. he was in charge of the reading partners program, where officers volunteered to tutor bret harte elementary students who were behind in their reading skills. he was active in the wilderness program, where he drove neighborhood youth on camping, hiking, and rafting excursions. john has been a mentor and a friend to all the officers at bayview station. he has a great joy for his job, a great joy for his family and it's with sadness that i have to say this, but john is his career in the police department is coming to an end, so that's why i wanted to acknowledge him tonight. in september, john will be retiring from the police department in 2020. john was diagnosed with a severe, medical condition that i can't pronounce the name. he told me what it was and there's no way i could do it. but he told me i was his lieutenant at

the time and john had come to work since then. every day he still has a happy, smiley guy, a mentor to the young officers, great with the community. he never he never complained about it. he never let them down. and it's just it's going to be tough to lose him at the station because he's been such a great influence on the officers and he's been if you look at if you're looking for a picture of an ambassador for community policing, it's officer john norman. therefore, i'd like to present to you officer john norman of bayview station. please. come on, come on. up we want to allow you the opportunity to speak if you want or you can choose not to. i'd like to thank the captains. i completely beside myself for this, but i'd like to thank my wife and my kids who didn't get to see me for 17 years. so reunited and reacquaint soon. and also thank you for your support. this is a great city and i'm going to miss it. thank

you. well hold on, i'm going to give the chief an opportunity to speak real quick. and then i think some other commissioners have some things we'd like to share as well. thank you. president elias. norman, i've seen you out there and we've talked out in the field and everything that captain connor said. i've seen with my own eyes just how you engage with people, i always friendly, always upbeat. at least when i've seen you. and i hear that's just your nature. thank you. it's been a long career for you. it's a lot of time that, as you said, you've spent away from your family. but you've done a lot, and you've touched a lot of people within the department and in the community. so again, thank you. and, we will definitely miss what you brought to the city and what you've brought to everywhere that you work and to the family. thank you for sharing, john, with us. so thank you very much. thank you. sir. i wanted to first of all, i'm so happy you're representing bayview. that's my obviously home home district. so glad to see that. second

question is, are you really retiring or are you doing what people do as they retire but then end up working more work part time? a little bit more? yeah. before i was, before i was here with the city, i was in the city of walnut creek for 18 years. oh, wow. so i've been doing this a long time. not all of that was in the police. well, i started out in the police department as the custodian. oh, i put myself through, through college. and so, i don't know, sometimes i'm not sure if i got went up or down, but anyway, it's, it's been overwhelming. wow. what i want to say congratulations. and one of the things that really sticks out to me, what the captain said about you is not only a good friend, but a mentor. and i think that that that's something that i think is rare nowadays, is finding a mentor that you can look up to. and not only that, but a mentor who takes you under their wing and really guides you and shows you the steps, i have

been fortunate enough to have a few amazing mentors in my life, and i can tell you that they make such an impact on just who you are and how you handle yourself and how you conduct yourself, both personally and professionally. and the fact that you're being recognized for that skill set, i think, speaks volumes, because not many people, can do it. and the fact that you do it and do it, apparently. well, i want to commend you and thank you from someone who has benefited from great mentorship because it is a huge, it's a huge thing. and i think that, again, it's oftentimes overlooked. i also want to thank not only you for your service, but i want to thank your family because it's really them and all of their sacrifices that they have endured for many years that allows you to be here today. the missed games, the single parenting, the missed holidays. you know, policing is not a 9 to 5 job. so i want to thank the family for allowing us to benefit from his time and

dedication while he is away from you. and thank you for your sacrifice because without your sacrifice, he wouldn't be here and being able to give everything he has to the city and to the fellow officers, which i think really it resonates. and when we have good officers that mentor and teach other officers, especially young officers, it goes such a long way. and that's how cultures change. that's how change in organization happens. and it's so important. so i'm really sad to see you again. congratulations. and i hope that you thoroughly enjoy retirement, actual retirement, not let me still work type of retirement and take some time and just have fun. so thank you. that's awfully kind. commissioner benedicto. thank you very much, president elias. and congratulations again, officer, both on this recognition and on your long tenure. and congratulations on your retirement, you know, echoing what what the chief and what president ly said, i do want to acknowledge your family, you know, and we i mentioned this

just last week that, you know, the officers do a service to our city. but the families are also in service to the city for what they give up to allow to allow you to serve the city. i know you have members of your family here if you would like. no obligation. you're welcome to introduce them. if take an opportunity, please do. this is my wife, jennifer. my son mason, my son merrick, my son lane, my daughter whitney and my mother in law, elizabeth. wonderful. thank you all. so much for coming. and congratulations to you. commissioner yanez oh, wait, there's more. there's you got. yeah, yeah, yeah. you may want to stand. thank you, president elias. and, thank you for your service to the community. thank you for your service to san francisco and specifically to the bayview. i know that, we talk about community policing a lot, but someone that takes the time to not only mentor, but tutor young people, you know, that's a holistic approach. policing isn't solely enforcing the law.

policing is also letting young people know and letting the community know that we wear many hats. right. and that in order to be successful in life, you have to be able to what they call code switch, right? and sometimes if you could actually communicate, make an impact on young people, it demonstrates that you have that willingness, you have that humility. so i thank you for your sacrifice. i thank your family for letting us have his energy to keep our our streets safe. i hope you enjoy retirement. commissioner or commissioner clay. all right. thank you, madam president. so i'm the newbie, officer norman. so i'm. this is my second meeting. so last week, i got to see the sort of protocol and see one of your colleagues also received this award. so what i want to do is congratulations to you on your retirement. but also thank you for your service to the community. what you do each and every day is very difficult. people don't realize that and you get up and you do it because this is something you do and this is something you believe in, and you do it at the best

you can, each and every day. i had a gentleman who was on this commission many, many years ago who, if you're a sports fan or a football player, his name was burl toler. he was on that great usf dons team, the 51 team was uninvited, untied, and mr. toler, one of the things he said to him, myself and his son who were roommates at cal, i played baseball, son played football, he says. do your best and your best will be good enough. and each and every day, based upon what i've heard, i know each and every day you did your best. and everybody looked at you doing your best, and they got to see that. the idea that you had been a mentor to many, they got to see how you done things and they're going to they're going to you're going to leave, but they're going to remember that and they're going to say, you know what? you know, officer norman, this is how he would do it. and i learned from somebody who was the best because you are the best. you as a public servant each and every day, each and every one of you who serves in the public. i think you each you each deserve a trophy. everybody says everyone doesn't get a trophy, but all you, everyone yourself and your department. these other

departments of public servants, you give your all each and every day for everyone. so yes, you do deserve a trophy each and every day. but you you are the mvp. you are the all star. and i want to thank you very much for your service and best wishes. okay. commissioner yee, thank you very much. there. president elias, i just want to thank you, officer john, for all your hard work, i know you put out 17 years in the housing. i guess the housing unit in the bayview hunters point. it's as, many of you guys will know, it's a big development. quite a few youth out there, i have worked out there, too, myself and, to outreach to the kids out there and working on the programs and wilderness programs that you successfully have. you know, tutor and mentor these kids. you probably change so many lives over there that, we want to thank you for that. all you have done keep them safe and safer. so thanks again for your service, and we'll see you out

there when you're coming back part time. and thank the family for all your support, as i say, i want to give you guys a another round of applause as the weekly all the services, recognition. i know you got the monthly. so thank you very much there. officer john norman, commissioner walker thank you, president elias. thank you. congratulations i won't repeat, but i agree with everything that's been said, i do want to say that there is a lot of opportunities for coming back and being the mentor, a good mentor you are on your hour, you know, at your demand instead of, you know, taking away from the family. and it just speaks to what everybody has mentioned, that you know, the, the, the mentoring aspect of passing along what has worked so well with the community. engagement is really important, and there are a lot of opportunities now

with the with the department and some more programs. so thank you and thank you and we'll miss you full time. but we'll see you part time. thank you sergeant. at this time, if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium. we have a public commen. i had to get up here. my name is tanita rockmore thompson. i am the director of racial equity and recruitment and senior trial attorney at the department of police accountability. but prior to that, i was at the san francisco district attorney's office, and john norman was actually one of my witnesses in an officer involved shooting matter at trial that i had and was absolutely one of the best officers that i've ever worked with, is a mentor to these officers, because if i needed a

cell phone number, he was going to give it to me. you know, they hate to give their cell phone numbers to the da's were absolutely amazing. and thank you. oh, thank you, your family, for supporting him. absolutely. i just had to come up here and say that because it was always work with john. and he became basically a friend and family throughout my years at the da's office. oh, thank you for sharing. miss thompson's a hard sell, so if you're getting her praise and the family can get up for the next one, and that police commission right after work hours, i know the family. yeah, go on up right. and there is no further public comment on line item one, two housekeeping items before we continue line item seven and line item 12 e and 12 f have been removed from tonight's agenda line. item two general public comment. at this

time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission. rules of order. during public comment, neither police or ppe personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. email the secretary of the police commission at sfpd. commission at sfgov. org or written comments may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building, located at 1245 third street, san francisco, california. 94158. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. hi folks, i'm h brown and i want to send john to paris. i want to send some of our firefighters to rome, to and tokyo is a good place. i think we should have. here's another legacy item for you. drifting down from, from my, very good, california san

francisco. marijuana. ha ha, san francisco foreign legion. we've got a peace corps. it's worked fine for 60 years or something. let's do a corps where i think that one of the big problems with the san francisco police and fire departments is that they're inbred. i mean, that's okay. i'm a hillbilly from the ozarks and all that, but there's an extent to which you got to spread out and bring in some different culture into your into your firehouses and into your stations. and we can do that by sending start with a couple dozen people a year, nurses, firefighters, cops for sure. but firefighters, did you know that, the san francisco plugs are different than any plugs anywhere in the world? the hook ups are different, and if you get a 10 or 12 people here for two years, they're going to know that system backwards. and after ten years, you'll have a

thousand people coming from all over the world to assist us in an earthquake. and they will know our systems, they will know our fire plugs, they will know our stations, and they will have mellowed out. our culture. good evening. police commission chief scott and the executive director of police accountability. for the record, my name is chris klein. last week i provided information on a statement that was very direct of some egregious conduct of a senior official within the city and county of san francisco. i turn that over to the fbi on july 11th. as each of you will be making tough decisions in the coming days related to that issue. tonight, i want to focus on peace, unity and community. a few of you know that i'm the ceo of pavan. prejudice and violence ends now. we are local and have offices in boston, dc, maryland, west virginia and pennsylvania and expanding elsewhere. we

provide, as you know, complex investigative, investigative skill set as detailed in the issue at hand. last week. however, we also offer community research on reducing prejudice, violence and bringing communities together. we do both for critical and crucial insight from the local community, first responders, and other civic and political leaders. the last few days, weeks and longer have brought great divide locally and nationally, and it is time to bring our community together with no hatred and with peaceful intentions. no one should have to worry about voting and then worrying about getting assaulted just because they voted for what they believed in. tonight i'm pledging to the police commission, the police department, and the chief of police that i, along with my nonprofit, will work alongside each of you, the city and county of san francisco, bringing a peaceful san francisco back at pavan. we believe in strong individuals for stronger families, for the strongest communities. but not just our community, the ones next to our

community. the prejudice and violence needs to stop immediately. thank you. good evening, commissioners. good evening chief. my name is jay connor. b ortega and i'm co-president of iconic d3. i want to take this time to thank the men and women of the san francisco police department for the incredible work they do to keep us safe. i also want to welcome commissioner clay to the police commission and mirror what he had stated at the last meeting. your job as commissioners is not to interpret what you think. the laws we pass mean. your job is to follow them as written. now, i come here constantly to warn you all that if you do not allow sfpd to do their jobs, people like me explain to the public that you all put criminals over

community, which you do, and we put forward ballot measures that force you all to rewrite dgos as we're currently doing now, if last week's meeting is any indication of what is to expect, this commission is going to go outside of the scope of prop e, and we will see. yet another ballot measure which will continue to limit this commission even more. now personally, i have no problem if we, the people, continue to pass ballot initiatives until there is no police commission. but if you all want the people of san francisco to believe this commission's ability to serve our residents, then i expect you all to follow the law as it is written. thank you. and there's no further public comment. line item three chief's report discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in san francisco having an

impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities. the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future meeting. chief scott, thank you. good evening, president elias. vice president carter commission and executive director henderson in the public. starting this weeks crime trends, we are still at 32% reduction in total. part one crimes. that's a difference of about 9000 crimes fewer than this time last year. property crimes is at 34% and violent crimes is at 11% below where we were this time last year. homicides, are down by 38. we have 18 year to date. we had 29 year to date this time last year. our homicide clearance rate year to date is 94, 13 incidents. 13 of those 18 homicides were firearm related. and in terms of gun related

crime, our total gun victims are down 29% from where they were. this year, 121 compared to 86 this year. in terms of property crimes, the property crimes are as i said last week, are really the reason that we have such a significant drop in overall crime. our larcenies are down significantly, and our car break ins are down 55, year to date. so we have just over 5000 car break ins compared to over 11,000 or almost 11,000 this time last year. in terms of significant events for the week, i talked about this last week just briefly, but it's in this week's reporting period. we had a homicide that occurred on mission between 16th and 17th. this was on monday, july 9th at 12:17 a.m. the victim succumbed to his injuries on the scene and was actually was transported. in stable condition. another victim

was transported in stable condition. i'm sorry. so there were two victims at all. there was also multiple vehicle collision at that scene that resulted in at least four vehicles being damaged in that vehicle collision. and we believe that was as a result of the shooting as well. that investigation is still ongoing with no arrests at this time. if anybody has any information, you can please call the sfpd anonymous tip line at (415) 575-4444. in terms of shootings, there were four non-fatal shootings this week, resulting in four victims. the first one was on july 8th at post in laguna, this was during a carjacking where a victim was shot by two subjects who produced a gun and shot one of the victims. that car was later recovered, but the victim, i mean, the suspect is still outstanding. so that investigation is ongoing on july 8th, there was a shooting at the 400 block of eddy street in the tenderloin. this happened at

3:46 a.m, when the subject entered the lobby of a residential building. the victim, who was the manager of the building, did not recognize the subject and refused to let him enter the subject, then shot the victim and ran away from the location. that victim is listed in stable condition with non-life threatening injuries that investigation is ongoing. no arrests at this time. the third shooting was on july 14th at 958 600 block of o'farrell in the tenderloin. this happened at 9:58 a.m. as i said, the victim was walking in the area when he was struck by a bullet. no further information was obtained by the victim. nonlife threatening injuries. and that is still under investigation. july 12th at 3:05 a.m. at larkin and olive in the tenderloin. the victim was walking when he saw two subjects arguing. the victim heard gunshots and returned to his residence, and then later realized he had been shot. he had a gunshot wound. the victim was transported, was in stable condition, non-life threatening

injuries, and that investigation is still ongoing as well. no arrests at this time. a couple of other significant incidents. this one is tragic. on july 13th, which was this past saturday, tenderloin officers responded to a suicide. where a gentleman by the name of ellie. i'm sorry. this was the baby. the father of a three year old named ellie. lorenzo. the father committed suicide in san francisco. we had received a request from fremont police department that his three year old daughter was missing. the three year old's name was ellie lorenzo, and we assisted with the search since the father was found here after he committed suicide. that three year old was later found in the city of san jose. deceased, very tragic situation. as far as the suicide, there was no foul plays suspected at this time. and fremont is in san jose are both handling their respective

investigations, the san francisco connection was the father committed suicide in san francisco, the last thing, there were a couple of atm robberies. these were on the 13th of july. there were two calls regarding theft of an atm machine, both inside retail establishments. one on the 400 block of o'farrell at 4:45 a.m, the other on the 800 block of o'farrell. just minutes later in both incidents, the subjects gained access inside the store and attempted to steal atm machines. the second incident, the machine had been moved, but by the time officers got there the suspects had fled and the machine was still on the premises. we do have some follow up, to conduct on this. no suspects in custody at this time, but the investigation is ongoing. there's a fatal traffic collision on july 11th at 12:41 a.m. a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle at the area of geneva. and delano avenue in the ingleside police district. the pedestrian, unfortunately, was pronounced deceased at the scene

and the driver remained at the scene. this investigation is ongoing and, the last incident of significance to report there was a media report of a sideshow that ended up in an accident or traffic collision, on market street. this was, actually not the case. our investigation revealed that it was actually a single vehicle that was doing donuts in the street. driver apparently lost control and drove into the building. so the report that this was as a result of the sideshow, was actually not to be the case, video evidence corroborates what we found to be a single vehicle involved in this in this particular incident. so that investigation is still ongoing. but i just want to report that that was not as a result of the sideshow in terms of our sideshow or stunt driving events. there has been a decrease in the amount of those

events reported this year to the police. there was approximately 40. we're not approximately exactly 45 incidents for all of last year, this year there has been 22. so we're seeing, the rate of these, these events are actually a little bit less than this time last year. so we will keep the commission posted on that. we have impounded some cars, not a whole lot, but we have impounded some cars after the fact. and that strategy and that tactic will continue. and that is my report for the week. so. for members of the public that have any public comment regarding line item three, the chief's report, please approach the podium. hi i'm h brown again and i don't speak for progressives, but have you seen

that progressive kerfuffle going on over there? over you guys and the drop program and oh, hillary clinton, aaron is going over her head and, asserting authority, chief, you have to do that every now and then yourself, i guess. but progressives are don't have anything against cops making money. i was telling some cops in the corner there i was a firefighter. i'd give a million bucks tax free to anybody who can make 30 years here. and you don't have to stay another five years. and you know what? there's enough money in this damn city to cover it. easy with the trillion left over. if, if we had some kind of an evening out of wealth, a transfer of wealth from the trillionaires and billionaires who own it, we wouldn't have any problem here. but congratulations on your drop victory. what else i got there? the kerfuffle. oh, yeah. the if people. i ran into two ambassadors down on the street walking, on, where the hell i

live? valencia today and that's the first time in nine years i've seen anybody on foot. and i stopped and i said, what the hell are you doing down here on foot? i thought you guys were only out on the avenue. oh, no. no, we're stretching around. but you know, the fun and the drop program is going to take away from the ambassador program. it's also going to take away from kids, lunches and bullshit like that. i mean, i love drop, but let's drop. drop for now. thank you. sergeant, do i turn and look? no, i got it. this meeting is going to swiftly. my name is paul allen. i would belabor this chart that i've already provided it to you in writing, it's worth noting that i think we now have

a general, inverse correlation between, overdose deaths on the one hand and arrests of dealers and users on the other. and that's evident from for periods of time. one, this period around the time of the apec summit, in the lead up to that, secondly, the four month period from january through april, when, arrests went up significantly and deaths went down, then you have the may period of time when arrests plummeted and deaths increased, and then you have the most recent month where the reverse occurred. as i pointed out in the memo, obviously, correlation is not causation. number one. and number two, this could be random data. as i suggested in my memo, i think the police commission has a, perhaps not an obligation, but it has an opportunity to obtain additional information from the

department of public health as to what other variables might influence this behavior. i noted that professor humphreys at stanford, speculated even yesterday in an interview that, well, perhaps this was because those who are consuming fentanyl now, are kind of serious users and therefore haven't stumbled into it, and that could be an explanation. but of course, we don't know. that's as much speculation as as anything i did. look on site. i didn't see any data with respect to at least that i could determine, with respect to interventions, the number of interventions, for example, by month, successful or otherwise. and indeed, there is obviously other variables that would be useful. again, i think it's an opportunity for the commission, which i know you don't have, to request this data from the department of public

health so that there can be a general, generally a better. thank you. your two minutes is up. thank you. and there's no further public comment. line item for dpa director's report discussion report on recent activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to counter any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. executive director henderson thank you, as i think i mentioned this before, but we've been putting a lot of effort into clearing up our case backlogs, that 270 report day, that i typically report on every week, is now down to, last week, i reported it was down to one. and i just learned that our closure rate is now down to zero. so we now have zero cases that are not tolling. for the record, that is the lowest that it has ever been in the history of the agency. it's a very big

deal, again, i want to thank our investigators for all of their hard work and prioritizing and closing cases, because it's a combination of both of those things that are being done at the same time. that got us to this point, really proud of that. and those numbers in terms of, our continuing effort to clear out our the backlog of cases, including the ones that are here with the commission our office is presenting four of those cases in closed session tonight to be resolved. that's a big deal because that represents one third of all of the cases that we have that have been pending, that we normally report on every week in terms of the backlog that we have. so that's a big deal, we met this week, with the internal affairs division to brainstorm how to effectively improve both of our

efficiencies in terms of our ongoing work and our reporting. i think that was a productive meeting, and i look forward to continuing these conversations over the next few months. this is one of the first times that we've ever come together collaboratively to do exactly this. i will say some of the things that we mentioned before, because we just got that big report from iad that i thought was very illuminating in terms of comparing apples to apples for the work that gets done with the dpa. and i still have an ongoing suggestion that i'm going to reach out to iad. i think i mentioned this to the chief, and i know i mentioned it in the meeting to do a similar sort of openness report. so it's more than just the beginning measurement. we have an exit information summary of the kind of cases that got sustained. in addition to the information that's already being provided to the commission. so i'll keep you updated on that project. i think now is a good time to do something like that. while dpa has, summer fellows that are

doing some of this work and may be helpful, some of those, interns are also working with internal affairs, so that might be one of the ways without creating new work, we may be able to address that, we've been having a lot in terms of internal, issues. we've had a lot of workload, and balances and personnel changes with unexpected leaves. a lot of the results of that has given us some of the results or many of the results that i just talked about. and managing our backlogs, but we've been meeting with, our staff and with the unions to address, those changes that have happened in the past. we've introduced a new org chart, and we just had another all hands meeting is now continue meeting with both my staff and the unions to make sure that we are still on the same page about the work that we're doing, and i think we're in a stable. good place. and we will continue moving forward to

address, both our reporting obligations and our ongoing charter and mission statements within the agency that's internally. externally, we have we are working with san diego county, reached out to us, the city and county, that wants to build their practice of both police accountability and sheriff accountability on the models that we're using specifically at dpa and replicating the legislation that produced both the jurisdiction and the staffing at dpa to try and replicate some of those measures there. and we'll continue working with them, and i'll give you updates as that process continues. as well. in terms of monitoring the our numbers, our investigative unit has opened up nine cases since our last meeting and closed 28 cases since our last commission meeting, so we are continuing to exceed our efficiencies, with

our cases, our audit is still ongoing. the field testing, will complete the field testing by the end of this month. and after our field work, we'll hold an exit conference with sfpd and prepare a draft response that will be presented to this commission, also this week, our policy unit met with the police department's sme. the subject matter expert on dgo 6.13. that's our hate crimes. dgo to discuss goals for the update and the current draft, and we'll be presenting those recommendations to the department next week. for this evening. we have, as i mentioned earlier, four cases and closed session tonight, and we will address those when they come up, also present in the courtroom or in the hearing room tonight is our senior investigator, brant bagian, our trial attorney, tanita thompson.

policy director jermaine jones. and. you know, i'm so terrible with the names. it's a lot, and it's terrible. and also, our head. oh head of the legal team, deanna rosenstein. i'm bad with names. we'll cut you off now. all right. vice president carter overstone, thank you, director henderson, for the report, just one question, which is wondering if you had a sense, time wise, of when the public might see dpa's audit on sfpd stop data, and then second piece is, i think previously you'd

represented that, executive director mcguire had given dpa all of the data it requested, but wanted to ask if that was still the case, we have i have the stop data, audit on my desk as we speak. it was just given to me yesterday, and we are doing edits now, so very soon, i may actually have it here because i'm supposed to be reviewing. reviewing it, i don't have a specific date, but very soon, i think the draft is already finished, and the information at this point, is either the information that was given to us will be reflected in the audit and the information that was not given to us will be reflected in the audit. with a drill down outline of the details for what we were authorized to receive, what we did receive and what we didn't receive. that question will be answered directly and specifically. i know that's one of the questions answered in

this audit, as well as recommendations about shared information. there will be no ambiguity in it. i don't know if that answers the question, but. for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item four, please approach the podium. director henderson's a great guy and he's got a tough job over there. i can look back in the back where, the cops were, chief, back before you, they felt free to burglarize the acc and try to run down the chief attorney. and they assaulted, one of them. martin assaulted baronetcy and, very easy. gave the report to the chief and said, so she came back, i think i told the story, but being old, we retell storie, and she came back and saw a couple of weeks later and said,

what do you want me to do with this, chief? what would you do if, one one of these cops back here assaulted, one of your commissioners and they gave they personally gave you a piece of paper on it. would you act on that? i bet you i'm sorry that violates the rule, sergeant. i'm sorry. the, anyway, i like, paul henderson very much. and, you know, he could be president, because willie picked kamal over him to go in to be the da and so. and then when i ran, i run for the ideas. in 2007, kamala was running unopposed for da and went on. and there's a good chance that biden might resign this weekend, and we might have a president that we can say, i knew her when, you know, but it could have been you, paul henderson. but but but i'm but i'm going to back this ballot measure. i'm going to back this ballot measure. and the one for elected police chief, because i think they should both be on the

ballot. and you've done a great job, paul, because you came into a hellhole. all the glory. you're welcome. yeah thank you sergeant. our line item five commission reports, discussion and possible action. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to counter any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission presidents report commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for a consideration at a future commission meeting. commissioner walker, thank you. i wanted to mention a couple of things. just updates. i know that both the chief and i have talked with folks about the patrol specials. that's going to be coming up after our, our august off. but also, i, was checked in by the women's committee, who are working within the department to

really make sure the department fulfills the 30 by 30 commitment of hiring 30% of officers by 2030. and i know that, diana olivier called me and updated m, discussing how many women in the department have gotten together to be part of the conversation about really making recommendations to the chief, to really change things, to make sure that we commit, that we actually implement and carry out and succeed in our 30 by 30. so i'm really looking forward to it. i would like to reserve time on the september 18th meeting for an update from the department, on the 30 by 30 and the efforts made. it's very impressive. there's a lot to do. obviously, there's, a lot we've already been working on over

the, over the past few years, but there's so much more to do. and i really look forward and i know the commission is to an update for department moving forward. and thank you, chief, for really prioritizing this. you know, it's really an important issue. so thank you, commissioner. thank you, for my update. just a quick update, what? go ahead. what i forgot to i want to also mention that working on this and i've been meeting with them since i've been put on the, on the commission are also, commander jones, who's here tonight? commander moran and captain alexa o'brien. those are the leadership who are really putting together. but there's dozens of women who are in the department who really, are really interested in the discussions about policy and moving forward. so thank you. great. we encourage policy writers and policy people. so that's right. we're doing it, so

i wanted to give an update. i was able to meet with, the bwc unit i want to thank. first, i want to thank the chief because i reached out and wanted to meet with the bwc unit to better understand how body worn cameras logistically will be operating. once we implement all of these dgos and the chief with his staff were able to accommodate a meeting with myself and commissioner benedicto to walk us through the body worn camera unit. the procedures, the policies and sort of the accomplishments and challenges that this unit, has. faces. i want to thank and send a huge shout out to sergeant michael young from the bwc unit, as well as i think it was karen lu or lu. yes who took the time to walk us through, the intricate

detail of what it really takes, when body worn camera footage is requested and how they have to review it, redact it, and the amount of time, and just intense detail that it takes, which was really eye opening to me, and they despite having a team of ten, they are only operating with eight. and the amount of work that they do and are able to generate is just really, really impressive. so i want to thank them immensely for taking the time out of their schedule to walk me through it and give and answer questions that i had. i also wanted to, thank the director of the. it unit, as well, who took the time to explain to me some of the, the contract and new additions that the body worn camera unit, as well as the department would be having. and so it was very interesting to see, and i think that, in the upcoming months, we will definitely be agendizing that because i think it's important for the public to know

what really goes into, body worn cameras and what that unit does, and sort of the heavy task that it takes to actually get body worn camera footage, because it seems that the direction is going to be that the body worn camera footage, it, or body worn cameras are going to be utilized much more moving forward. and so we really need to make sure that the public is aware of how that process works, what that looks like, and sort of some of the, hindrances that it's going to have on the department as we make this transition. so i wanted to send a huge shout out to the chief, also the, the staff and those individuals who attended the meeting, commissioner benedicto, i can't wait. thank you, president elias, just a few things, for my reports. i, as our fellow commissioners know, last week we passed a number of the dgos that are, implemented as part of prop e, and today we have some of the remainder we put on, i want to

again, thank my fellow commissioners for, the big lift to get these dgos to where they're at and hope that we can, get those get those through this evening, and we'll reserve specific comments on those for when those come up, i also want to thank acknowledge commissioner yanez, i've had the privilege to work with commissioner yanez on several of the dgos that affect the rights of juveniles. those are 7.01 which hope to have before us soon, and 7.04, which was on the agenda but pulled in part because of some concerns that commissioner yanez had heard from community groups. so we're going to take the opportunity t, to rework that, commissioner yanez has long and established community roots, to these communities in particular in this area of juvenile advocacy. and i really want to thank commissioner yanez for his his leadership on this. and, both, tj 7.04 and 7.01 are significantly improved thanks to the input that commissioner yanez, as well as groups that he

brought to the table, have provided. so thank you for that, that concludes my report. thank you, commissioner yanez. thank you, president eliason. thank you, commissioner benedicto, i think you know, it takes takes a village, they say. right. and we definitely need as many voices and perspectives to be able to improve, san francisco safety for all young people and whatever age they identify as, my report will be brief. i do want to publicly. because the reason why you know, the voters created this commission, the reason why we're here is because we are about transparency, accountability. i'm going to hold myself accountable if i miss an email, i've been in bereavement. my father passed away may 13th. jesus. yanez. vasquez, and he's the reason why i'm here. you know, he was an organizer in mexico, actually, back in the 70s. and then organizers in mexico were murdered in those days. so, you

know, i have a history of speaking truth to power. and this is the reason i'm here. and i'm going to hold myself accountable. if i owe anyone an email, it will be returned, because the bereavement was a little longer than i expected. but i rolled my sleeves up and we're back at work, and i want to give an update around the language. 052. oh, i know that the work groups are going to begin. thank you, to your staff chief, for being very communicative about the process. and i have been reaching out to, networks and groups in the community. san francisco language access network is actively engaged and wants to participate and will be contributing their feedback, so i'm really grateful to this commission and yourself, chief, and your staff for prioritizing this as one of these, one of the outcomes of prop e for us to have as much community input so that the members of this community that do not have, the understanding or the proficiency in english to better access

those services for translation and interpretation, if ever they need those, the other update i have is and i thank you, commissioner benedicto, for putting 701 back on the radar, because it is one of those that has received, many points of, feedback. and throughout the course of over two years now, i think we have made a lot of progress, there were some challenges, some obstacles. that one at many points. and we still haven't resolved all the obstacles, but i think we are closer to a place where, the both the advocates and the community and the young people are going to benefit from the product that is going to come out out of 701. so i am happy. i'm glad that we will be agendizing that in the near future, for completion and authorization, and i want to make sure that we do not forget that over a year ago, we did

have a presentation about the intention of this body and this department to initiate an evidence based practice that has been adopted by los angeles, by oakland and other jurisdictions across the nation, which is to establish a pre-booking diversion program that would give young people the benefit of programing in lieu of suspended charges or charges being held in abeyance if and when they complete successfully. these programs that are evidence based models, the reason why i have been adamant about the implementation or the creation of this program is because of my history of 30 years working with young people, adolescence, and the fact that i have, complete faith in both our providers, our community and this department, to understand that young people deserve to be treated differently. adolescent development goes into their 20s.

and just because the law says that once you're 18, you're supposed to understand right from wrong. and every law does not necessarily mean that every individual out there really grasps these things. right, so i hope that we can i had requested that presentation to kind of coincide with the year anniversary of when we had a joint presentation with the juvenile probation commission, who endorses this program, but here we are a year later, and we have not necessarily launched, as i had hoped we had or would have hoped. we have gotten to, the program. and so i asked one of our community partners for numbers about what has happened since i've engaged in this conversation, we looked at numbers from january 22nd through a year to date, july 2nd of 24. and in that period there have been a total of 370 with the community calls unduplicated referrals. so new young people

referred into the juvenile justice system, and we there has been plenty of evidence, plenty of studies done on the matter and any contact with the juvenile justice system, leads to further criminalization and further involvement in the criminal justice system for young people. there have been 370 people who have entered the system who potentially could have been, involved in the program to divert them from formal involvement in the system. now, i don't know, out of those 370, how many of them would have been eligible? i'm working with the juvenile probation department to obtain that information, but i just want the public to know that there are potentially 370 young people who may not ever have had to have formal involvement with the system that are unfortunately involved in the system in some way, shape or

form. and so i think it really compels us, and, and i hope that the pressure that these numbers tell a story and that we can fast track, the process so that we get, get to the point where we can actually implement and begin to offer an evidence based program that has demonstrated it can save lives, that has demonstrated it can redirect young people into programing and into spaces where they can, address whatever mental health substance abuse needs or whatever conditions that may. they may have that are leading them to contact with the system. so i hope we can agendize that, we, i can have everybody come back and hopefully we can get this in september. thank you. okay. vice president carter, well, first and foremost, just wanted to publicly wish commissioner yanez and his family condolences on his father's passing and, you know, thank you for sharing those by

biographical facts about your dad and his legacy that you're carrying forward in many ways, including the important work that you do on this commission, and thank you for continuing to serve the public during this very difficult time, just wanted to acknowledge that it's my understanding that today is the day that joe 9.07 has become effective. our policy to de-emphasize, traffic stops that have no public safety benefit, just wanted to acknowledge that you know, dozens of jurisdictions all across the country have implemented some version of this policy. it's been an unmitigated success everywhere that it's been attempted. and that data has been collected on it. and i'm heartened that the people of san francisco will be able to share in the benefits that millions of americans have reaped over the last few years. i want to thank

chief scott for supporting the policy, and i want to thank every single commissioner up here who was a commissioner at the time that the policy was being enacted, who all voted for the policy at one point or another and wanted to thank all the members of the community, from across the ideological spectrum, who came out and supported this policy. thank you. thank you, commissioner clay. yeah just for the for commissioner yanez, as relates to the group, group getting together as it relates to the restorative justice type of thing, the guidance for the issues of diversion, what you're going to need to do is get the courts involved. also, as a matter of law, they have to be involved. so i would hope that someone from the courts has been contacted, along with the prosecutors as well as the juvenile justice commission, with the police department, so they can do that together because they have to they can't just release without if the court that once you do that, you can't do that as a matter of law. so get them. i hope someone's got them involved also

because that's important to get them there. okay. the juvenile justice commission came and did an amazing presentation for us and showed they work with the court. the juvenile courts, and, so i think that it would be good to have them back in september to give an update to commissioner clay, since he's new. and i think his experience obviously would be beneficial in this process. it'll be our september surprise. great thank you, sergeant, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five commission reports. please approach the podium. favorite commenter hi i'm h brown again. i just want to give an attaboy to this commission. i mean, you guys have been through, more shit than anybody since the school board a couple of years ago and all that, dump them, go after them, attack

them, blah, blah, blah. side and side, my question to all of you, what are you going to do with mayor peskin? i mean, you think the shit hit the fan now? it's going to be very interesting, but you have a wonderful group here, a really fantastic group, and they're friendlier and more accessible than any, commission that i've seen up here in watching you for 30 years. and hang in there and thank you so much for your work and welcome aboard, commissioner clay. you are such a good addition. thank you. good evening everyone. my name is joe cirillo. i'm a local social worker and skateboarder, so forgive me if the dolores hill bomb topic was already mentioned earlier in the meeting. i just want to continue the topic of reaching out to youth in the city, actually, as well as unwarranted stops on the street, because that definitely

impacts youth who are skating so briefly. if i can just say, it was about a year ago that 113 people were arrested at the dolores hill bomb, which is skaters going down dolores street. most were youth, so i just wanted to recommend further discussion about sfpd's community outreach and collaboration with other departments, specifically mta and the recent hill bomb at dolores park. last july 6th, a little over ten days ago, was an example of sfpd. unfortunately, prioritizing a heavy handed, fear based approach, and it involved excessive overtime as well as what appeared to be violations of ada laws and transportation codes, if this is working, can anyone guide me on how to get a few photos? all right. thank you. you may see, this was on church street, and again, thank you for letting it to continue on church street. but just, just a logistical

thing. you can see someone's about to fall, there's a few potholes there. there's train tracks, luckily, people were able to continue, church street without being arrested, but this was an example of, you know, how many officers were there on dolores street and the event just ending up one street over, and it actually ended up on a more dangerous street, where people were more likely to fall. so just recommending further discussion about decriminalizing what happens on dolores street, and also just there's other factors with ada laws and how the public is perceiving the use of police time. again, i think there's definitely potential for more community outreach. and people can be on the same page. but, let's see if the youth can be invited in that as well in the future. thank you. that is the end of public comment line item six presentation and discussion on the law enforcement equipment annual policy, annual report 2023 discussion and possible action.

good evening. my name is aja steeves and i am the manager of the policy development division. and i'm here to present on our annual report relating to, ab 4081, which is the military equipment, assembly bill. thank you. so ab 41 went into effect in september 2021. it codified a california government code, section 770 through 7075. and it requires law enforcement agencies in california to obtain approval from the applicable governing body. in our case, it's the board of supervisors, it requires the approval of a law enforcement use of equipment

policy by ordinance. and it first actually required each law enforcement agency to get an approved use policy for everything that they had within their inventory and everything they had acquired before. january 1st, 2022. so ab 41 defines the categories of the certain types of law enforcement equipment. again, it requires all of these law enforcement agencies to seek approval of the use of that equipment, and that approval must be done by way of ordinance, our use policy ordinance was signed by the mayor december 22nd, 2022, and the ordinance effective date was january 22nd, 2023. this does mandate an annual review, which is what we're here also to do initially, and also annual review by the board. and the board just reviews our compliance with the use policy that was approved last year. next slide. thank you. so this is just a review of the approval process itself of the use policy, we had a bunch of public

hearings last year between the date of submission in may 2022 and the final approval in december 2020. excuse me, 2022. there were about 11 public hearings the department captured over 43 policy recommendations through the hearing process. you can find those recommendations on our website. there is a tab specifically designated for the law enforcement use policy, and it captures. there's a section on our website that has all of the documentation that was gathered during these hearings. so if you want to look for those 43 recommendations and our responses, that's available on our website. and then we presented to this body last february to go over the use policy as it was approved. next slide, this is the this slide just goes over the ab 41 inventory categories. and these again are the items that were acquired by the department before january 1st, 2022. unmanned remotely piloted powered ground vehicles, armored personnel carriers, wheeled

vehicles that have a breaching or entry apparatus attached command and control vehicles breaching apparatuses that are explosive in nature. flashbang grenades and pepper balls, excluding standard service issued handheld pepper spray. long range acoustic device. elrod specialized firearms less than 50 caliber, with the exception of standard issue service weapons, so this does exclude the rifles that are assigned to patrol projectile launch platforms and their associated munitions. next slid. so here's a list of the annual report requirements that actually landed in the annual report. it's a summary of how the covered equipment was used and the purpose of use, a summary of any complaints or conserved receipt, excuse me, concerns received about that particular equipment, the results of any internal audits or info about violations of the equipment. use policy. total annual costs for each type of equipment, including training, maintenance, storage, upgrades and also the source of funds. so we would let you know if it was

operational funds that was paying for it, grant funding, etc. next slide please, the annual report also includes the quantity possessed for each type of equipment and also notifies the reader and the public if sfgp intends to acquire additional equipment subject to the provisions of ab 41 and the next year and the quantity sought. the department also opted to include information about whether injuries were sustained during the use of each type of equipment. next slide. thank you. so why are we here? the inaugural annual report was publicly posted on the website june 11th, 2024. we did seek and receive an extension from the board and their deadline that they put on to us was june 15th. so within 30 days of publicly releasing the annual report, sfpd is required to have at least one public meeting through the police commission where the general public can ask questions regarding the funding, acquisition or use of equipment listed in the report. the board of supervisors shall determine,

based on review of the annual report, whether each type of equipment listed in the use policy complied with the standards of. excuse me, government code 7071 d and that essentially just means did we comply with the authorized uses in the use policy that was approved by the board, if the board determines that sfpd has not complied with the government code 70, 71 standards or our use policy, they may vote to disapprove a renewed or require modifications to the use policy. and the department is also considering holding an additional public meeting through the captain's town halls. we don't have one specifically scheduled, but we are aiming for mission station, they have a station. town hall scheduled for august, so we may hold another meeting to discuss this policy there. so that's just an overview of the annual report itself. i am joined by deputy chief raj vaswani, who oversees the special ops bureau and the special ops bureau actually maintains the majority of this equipment. so he's here to help answer any questions that i am unable to, but happy

to take any questions so we can start the discussion. question. so procedurally, you bring this here and the public can ask questions, and then we take a vote to do what? to send it to the board of supervisors. or my understanding is this is just for discussion to allow members of the public to ask questions and this body to ask questions. and the action is taken with the board of supervisors. so on page three of your slides, you say that there were 11 public hearings. what do you mean by public hearings? sure. so, our use policy was submitted to the board and then it was sent to committee, the rules committee. so there are several hearings at the rules. and then several at full board. okay. so when you say public hearings, you mean in front of the board of supervisors. so how many community meetings with community, not board of supervisors, not, any legislative body, not the department, not with the police commission. community based meetings have been held

regarding this. now, the meetings were at the board and the rules. we don't believe we sought any community meetings for that. so the community meeting because if it's in front of the board of supervisors, the community can engage with you. they're only limited to a two minute public comment, just like here at the police commission, when we have this before the police commission. unfortunately, all that can happen is the community can come up and give their opinion in two minutes. so i'm just want to make sure we're clear and i want to understand. so there have been no community meetings regarding this issue that have taken place thus far. yes. or no? no. there were no community meetings. but to address that, we did. why? we sat in the hearings and captured those 43 recommendations came from the public comments that came in, and we wanted to ensure that we were responsive. and they did impact the use policy itself. but i think the way the ordinance is written, it says community meetings and involvement. and as we are starting to look at policing different, especially with prop e and prop e's, huge push to have community involvement and have meetings in each district station, it seems that this would be counter to that if

we're not also engaging that type of intention of having community involvement in this process. so i wouldn't feel comfortable moving anything forward until there's community involvement and the opportunity for the community to give their opinion more face to face with you and directly, rather than in a two minute conversation, a two minute public, you know, public comment type of setting. understood. well, the use policy has been approved, but with the annual report, that's why we want to do more of the district station meet to discuss the annual report. so i think that should probably be done. and maybe we bring this back in september. and then you can show this commission what efforts the department has made to engage community. and like district stations is a good start. but i still think that, you know, i've, i've received several emails about this issue. and the outcry has been there's been no awareness to the community or community involvement or opportunity for the community to raise their concerns. so i think

that needs to be addressed before we move forward or say that we've because i mean, when you look at these slides, it looks like you've had community engagement. and i just don't think that that's completely accurate. so, okay, vice president carter overstone, thank you, president elias. i guess i'll just pick up where president elias left off, so government code section 7072 b says that there needs to be within 30 days of posting the report at least one well publicized and conveniently located community engagement meeting at which the general public may discuss and ask questions regarding the annual military equipment report. so the law seems to require a meeting in which, as it says, there can be a free form discussion, two minute public comment, you know, form like this, where there's two minute public comment doesn't seem to

meet the requirements of state law. so i think that that has to happen before the board votes on it. but do you have a different view on what state law requires? no, not necessarily, but the authorized use policy, when you actually look at the policy itself, it does name that first meeting to happen at the police commission. so not the law, but the policy that was approved by the board that was approved by way of ordinance, does name the police commission as the first stop. understood understood. but but the state law control, right. the local ordinance can't amend state law. right of course. in your presentation, you mentioned that the, this is actually on that point, too, that that the board granted an extension to file the report. is that right? because i think i saw on on the report online that the last authorization was december 22. is that right of the ordinance of the of the use policies, the yes, the use policy itself was approved in

december of 2022. and so state law requires reauthorization every year. correct? right. okay so normally that that should mean december or january of this year. but but here we are seven months later. so you're saying we're seven months late because the board authorized it. no the reauthorization of the use policy is based on the review of the annual report, the annual report, the inaugural annual report was the thing that we asked for, the extension for. and the board said we could submit it no later than june 15th. so then they still haven't held their hearing to review the annual report and then determine whether it can be renewed or not. but under state law, the one year clock started running at the end of december, when the board last approved the effective date of the actual policy was january of 2023. so you so the clock started running in january. correct. and so under state law, january of this year is when you should be back before the board. is that right? when we should ideally submit

the inaugural report. okay publicly? well, not ideally right. because the because state law doesn't say ideally right. it gives a fixed one year deadline to publicly post the report. so we're out of compliance with state law in that respect. as well. correct i would say we did not submit that we did not publicly post the report in january of 2020. i'll take that as yes, i wanted to ask about assault rifles, i think in the report there was this most recent one submitted. there's 300 some odd assault rifles. just wanted to ask about that. given that, the department's representation on its inventory of assault rifles has changed quite a bit in the in its various filings with the board the last time around, i think there was at one time reported that there were none. other times reported that there is 687. now we have a bit over 300. could you just explain why those representations have changed so substantially? sure.

initially, i believe the way it is defined in ab 41 is whether it is, it removes what is it, standard issued rifles. so we removed the standard issued rifles that are for patrol and only reported the rifles for specialized units. so that's the number that we ended up with in the actual use policy. so that's what we reported on i see. so this 300 number doesn't include standard issue. and do you know or do any of our friends here know what the what the number would be if you included standard issue assault rifles? i don't let me turn my mic on. sorry. yeah, but we can get that very easily. i don't know, off top of my head, no. okay. thank you. and then i think i also saw in the report that you, when you report the use of an assault rifle, you do report when it was just pointed. it not necessarily fired. is that fair? yes. okay

just wanted to confirm that, so, last. yeah. last major question. the report says that flashbangs were used 35 times. quote during the service of high risk search warrants in 2023. i just wanted to ask if there was a working definition in the department of what constitutes high risk such that it would justify the use of flashbangs. so generally, every search warrant op order is evaluated and if it can, it can occur by a specialized unit, not the tactical company. usually when it comes to tactical company, it means it is a high risk. it usually means that the person either has access to a weapon. a weapon was used in a crime of violence, it could be

the terrain of where the objective is, there could be other high risk people at the address, which would escalate it. there is a standardized matrix that we would look at to see, if it comes to us in the tactical company and is so there's a matrix. so is that somewhere, you know, memorialized in writing and in, in a department policy or manual or. yes, it is. and procedure to just evaluate, search warrants of premises. and, and so the matrix has, i take it a number of different factors. and after you tick off enough of them, the search qualifies as high risk. it does. and there's a discussion. there's a discussion between the unit originating the order and tactical company on their capabilities. okay and, does the matrix require, you know, in addition to the risk factors of executing the

warrant, does it require does it require consideration of, the effects that flashbangs might have on, on, you know, innocent individuals that that might live at the residence being searched, such as children or elderly people. they do evaluate, who's at the premise? they they take a lot of different factors into consideration, and the newer flash bang technology doesn't. it's self-contained. it doesn't ignite. it's not flammable. it's contained in a in a container. okay. so it like the older technology was, flammable in the sense of like, it could ignite something. these these don't these are safer. okay. but and just to, just so i understand is consideration of the effect that flashbangs might have on, you know, say children or the

elderly. is that actually written into the matrix or you're saying this is something that is more informally discussed? i the swat commanders school, they would they're the swat team is actually trained in taking all kinds of things into consideration, including other people within a premise. but i guess what i'm their tactics would change, right? i appreciate i appreciate your answer to that because i'm asking just something slightly different, which is, is it in writing in the matrix or, or not? there. there is in writing in the matrix, if there's children present, etc. so including animals, we look at if we need to have occ there, if you know things such as that. okay. understood. thank you, two follow up questions to vice president carter stone's questioning who authorized the extension. i was told that the

board did. i don't know if it was by resolution or by communication via email. i was told we had an extension that went through june 15th and. good afternoon, president. you're going to excuse me, commissioners, i have a little bit of a raspy voice today. i'm losing my voice. thank you, doctor, for appearing. thank you. my name is diana roach, doctor known recently, and i'm the director of policy and public affairs, so i will just clarify that we did submit a letter of request for an extension to the board clerk and a request that was based on an inquiry that came from supervisor dean preston, that request, after further dialog, was granted. according to what miss steeves just mentioned, in terms of the date of when we're expected to submit the updated report and then, miss steeves, you said that the first the

requirement was that a first police commission occur, and then the report goes, did i get that lineage correct? if it's within 30 days of publicly posting the report, then we have the meeting with the police commission. we can continue to have community meetings after that. and then the board will have the hearing. okay and then the other quick question, i'm going to turn over to my fellow commissioners is on page two of the annual report. number two, it says a summary of any complaints or concerns received concerning the equipment. and you indicate no complaints or concerns were received by the department regarding this equipment, which is odd to me because i've been my email box has been flooded with concerns and complaints. so where should the public send these concerns and complaints regarding this policy, they're in the policy, i believe in the initial policy, there's an email address. we have the sfpd chief's email address, posted in the use policy requesting any inquiries to come in that way, but it is

the way it is worded, it sounds like we need a complaint about the specific equipment, not necessarily the incident. maybe there's complaints about an incident, where, let's say the bearcat was this is about a complaint about the bearcat specifically. and so we haven't received any complaints about that specific tool. okay so why don't you provide the email address so we can to the commission secretary. and we could post it on the post it on the commission website. and then i'm going to ask to re agendize this with an update in terms of you complying with the state law and community involvement, commissioner benedicto, thank you very much. president elias, a lot of the questions were asked by you and vice president carter, so i won't repeat questions on those points. one question i had was that in the annual report on page ten, equipment not include an annual report. the report notes that unmanned remotely piloted air vehicles were not included as the department did not acquire or maintain these items, what is

your you know, since prop e now passed and which explicitly authorized the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, for pursuits, has the department taken steps to acquire unmanned aerial vehicles? and what is what is its understanding of where that would fall in future reports, under this ordinance? sure. so just a reminder, this is the annual report that correlates with the use policy of everything we had prior to january 1st, 2022. so our understanding is we have submitted, there is legislation at the board introduced for a uav use policy, ab 41 use policy. once it is approved, it will require an annual report. so we will come back to this body. we'll have an annual report. we'll then do community meetings. so same same route. but this again is just attached to the annual excuse me, the use policy for everything we had before 2022. okay. so it's your understanding that, state law under this government code, 7072

would still apply to, to any unmanned aerial vehicles the department purchased. that is my understanding. okay. and so there would be a use policy that have to be approved by the board that isn't yet approved. notwithstanding any provisions of prop e, since the state law would still apply. correct? correct. okay, i know we've talked a little bit when it comes to vehicle pursuits at this commission about the star chase and similar gps launcher technology. would that fall under any of the enumerated categories of government code 7072? thank you for the question. no, but it does fall under sf admin code 19 b as a surveillance tool. and where we are currently presenting our authorized use and impact report. okay, that's very helpful. thank you. i'll also agree with what president elias said. based on my reading of 7072, i don't think there's any vote that's required since you've met tonight that you've met the, you've had the meeting under the commission, the government code, 7072. but i do

think that this should be agendized. i mean, i would echo president elias's request that the community meetings be held. i understand that that's that you could read the 77 two very narrowly, but there's not an opportunity for the public to ask questions. and i think, the community process that the commission followed for 9.07 involved, substantial community community feedback. there are now new community feedback requirements imposed on this commission by prop e. and so i think in the spirit, we should all be working to increase that engagement, that we're under the obligation to do so, and i also think that it the, this that after that's done, it's important that this come back before this body. quite frankly, i was not able to review the report as thoroughly as i would like, given that prop e has really consumed a lot of the commission's bandwidth, in the months since it passed. and i know i've spoken to many of my fellow commissioners that we're looking forward to sort of being able to return to our other, other sort of more, day to day

oversight duties once we're through the immediate aftermath of prop e. and so i think that that would include this. so we look forward to seeing you, for the report in the fall. thank you. commissioner clay. unfortunately, this came all this the ab 41 happened before i got here on this commission. so i just a real simple question. i want to follow up on commissioner oberstein's question. so what is the sanction for failing to file the report on time? i don't i'm unaware of the sanction. that's the problem. as a judge and having seen this, the legislature, they make these laws. but there's no sanction for you to as it relates to get some gravitas, making people do what they're supposed to do. so what's important, what i'm hearing here, it needs to get done. and there's a law that tells you how to do it. just follow it and get it done. and then we can move forward. but, you know, that's the unfortunate thing. when you don't have a sanction and maybe we may promulgate a sanction for that here. but this law doesn't have

a sanction. but we're saying to you, urging you to get it done asap. all right. that's what i have to say. thank you. sir if any member of the public that has public comment regarding line item six, please approach the podium. h brown again, i'd say you're going to get tired of me, but nobody ever gets tired of me disgusted if it hits out on me. shit like that. but not tired. no, the best weapon you got, chief. period. is the public and foot patrols. i mean, a few years ago, we got a cop shot on a pole, guy over, and a guy shot him and killed him in the east bay, and, a hunter cop cars rushed over there. that's great. maybe helicopters, whatever the hell and all that. and finally a woman went over and told the cops, she said his name is, john doe, and he's over at mary doe. his aunt's place is two blocks

from here. and here's the address. and three more cops got killed. but that's here. nor there. but the fact of the matter is, i lived in the tenderloin. i grew up in a housing project for years. seen a lot of crime. i'm special ed teacher. got a masters in it. and what happens is a criminal does something. they go running down the street and they go running through the project. they go running through the sro, they go and, the if you know, the cop on the beat, if the cops been there forever, say, hey, his name is john doe. and he went to mary, those house and what you get is millions of eyes on the street, you know, of foot patrols, foot patrols, foot patrols. you got people for it, what you got is, is if you just got change the difference in people riding the desk with a gun here to equal that in los angeles, you would free up 200 officers for the street. and you've been promising to do that. and all the 30 years i've been watching foot patrols. my

name is john lindsay poland with the american friends service committee, which is tracked implementation of ab 41 military equipment policies across the state. the commissioners have weighed in about the community engagement meeting, but i have two responses and two points. first, the board reviews not only whether the police department complied with its own policy, but whether it meets state law requirements for safeguarding civil liberties. no reasonable alternatives to meet the same needs, and that the equipment is cost effective. in addition, i have sent emails to the to the email address listed in the policy and never gotten a response, two points sfpd owns 15 submachine guns and 64 machine guns. these are fully automatic weapons made for war. it also owns as per earlier, more than 600 semi-automatic assault rifles. yet sfpd

proposes to buy 12 more machine guns and 16 more assault rifles with no rationale for why more military power firepower is needed than previous years. the number of gun violence victims, as we heard earlier in the city, has fallen. in fact, every year since 2021, these additional weapons should not be approved without showing the need for them. changes in conditions that would justify expanding the arsenal and evaluation of alternatives and policy on how use of the weapons will safeguard civil liberties. finally, sfpd does not provide the make or model of its machine guns in its military equipment policy, though this is required by ab 481 and as noted before, it is disclosed only 233 of more than 600 assault rifles. we believe the department should disclose all information about these weapons as required by ab 481. the board also has the authority to add types of equipment, even if they're not

included, including what are called standard issue weapons, which i would say when you have over 2000 officers and you have 300 weapons that are considered standard issue, they're not standard issue. line item eight discussion and possible action to approve revised department. general order 5.03. investigative detentions for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. discussion and possible action. thank you. president elias. commission commissioners. 5.03 was posted, for the last commission meeting, and it was pulled from the meeting by president elias last week. since that time, the department has some recommended revisions to 5.03 that we believe will, are in compliance with proposition e

and, actually, if i could turn this over to, commissioner benedicto because there are some additional, minor edits on the language that the department is submitting that, commissioner benedicto and i have discussed. so i'll turn it over to him to read what the edits are. and i would ask for the commission's support on this dgo, including the edits that you're about to hear. thank you very much, chief, and thank you to president elias for providing us this time. i think that, the joe that everyone has in front of them for 5.03 is, both in compliance with prop e, as it was last week. but i think substantially improved. i think it's important as president elias noted with our presentation from the bwc team, to be cognizant of the additional workload that is being imposed when we're asking for things to be on bwc, and what we don't want is the opposite thing to happen, where we're creating more burdens in

an attempt to reduce them, which i think is something that's been very important. and we've tried to capture here. so to my fellow commissioners, you'll see that the chiefs additional language is in the track changes primarily on page four in green, before this meeting, chief scott and i discussed a few clarifying non-substantive changes to that green language, which i will read out. it's mostly just for consistency and changing a few things that are in the present tense, and cause some ambiguity into the past tense. so if you look on page four of the red line under number two, documenting detentions and searches using body worn camera, the changes are all to that sentence in green on b that begins with members must cite on the bwc and so i'll, i'll read the new language and i'll call out the changes. it now says members must cite on the bwc as many factors as possible. and focus the articulation on why a search was conducted. no changes there. members must state why they believed. so that's a

change to believed the subject was armed. such a change from is to was and dangerous before a search was permitted. that's changed to a was as well as the source and age of any information they relied upon, as opposed to you rely on to conduct a pat search. members must be cautious about solely about relying solely on information about environmental factors, rather than the subject's conduct. and, those changes are also ones that the chief supports for. for clarity purposes. and so with those and subject, any further questions from my fellow commissioners, i would make a motion for us to approve revise department general order 5.03 for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the effective bargaining units pursuant to our labor relations resolution 23 dash 32nd. before we take a

second, i just wanted to highlight some really important facts because again, and i think i've addressed this, before, but i really want to highlight the fact that as we move towards body-worn cameras and rely more on body-worn cameras, i think it's important, to also have the discussion of what that means in terms of labor for the department and more importantly, what that means to the public, because we are now creating a system where instead of being able to go and request a written police report, we're now, forcing the public, the newspapers, press, attorneys, whatever, to request body worn camera footage and before body worn camera footage can be released to the public, an actual physical member of the department has to review it and redact it to comply with state law before they can release it. and according to the body worn

camera footage unit, they get 4 to 5 requests a day. a day for body worn camera footage. and i anticipate that that will increase once we move towards making everything on body worn camera. additionally, it takes 3 to 5 minutes to redact one minute of footage, and that doesn't seem like a lot. but imagine it. i mean, and they gave me one example where 21 minutes of video took a member, eight hours to redact. so i think we have to keep this in mind. i've raised this issue with the chief. i've raised the issue that although we have a contract in place that's going to provide ai and transcription services, there is still that physical human element that is needed to utilize these tools that are coming to the department. but more importantly, there still is a budget gap because i think this department needs more funding to staff this department so that we can keep up, because there's currently a backlog in this

department, rightly so. given the number of requests and the amount of time it takes just to get one, you know, one minute of footage released. so i think we have to be cognizant of that. the chief and i have had extensive discussions about this, and, he has reassured me that those issues that are going to be created by this process as we move things to body-worn cameras, is also going to be addressed. and with that, i am hesitant but willing to, to move. so, i think, vice president carter and then we'll go to commissioner walker, just a clarifying question. so last on last week's version where pat searches recorded on bwc or in an incident report is that a incident report, and what what was the rationale for that change? yeah, the rationale for that change is the property, specifically states things not required by law, and a written

report on a pat search outside of arrest, is not required by law. so the same objective of those things that can be captured if the officers were to write a written report, can be captured on the bwc. and to our commissioners who took the lead on this policy, you all agree with that interpretation. i think that prop e is prescriptive in the way it directs us to reduce the requirements of record keeping, and i think this was and coupled with the fact that this dgo was one of the enumerated. dgos that were the prescribed us to look at that stage for record keeping, that this seemed like a change that, that was i consider this change to be one mandated

by property and a solution that is hopefully workable. and i think something i've shared with the chief that relates to what president elias said is that, you know, some of this might be we'll have to look and see what impact this has on on the body worn camera unit, on their ability to turn around reports, in a timely manner, because i also share present concerns, and personally think that an incident report is actually easier and not harder. but i think given the mandate of property, and it's one of the enumerated ones, i'm supportive of this change. do you have questions? because i think you're just asking a question. and so i'll give you a real answer. the real answer for me is, am i happy about it? no. do i think pat searches to be in a written report? yes. is it the hill to die on? no, i think that given some of the language that must be articulated, some of my concerns are. are not as great as i thought they were. but to

be clear, i think pat searches are very intrusive. it's a violation of your civil rights. it's an intrusion on your constitutional rights. and i think that it's extremely serious. i think we have a problem with pat searches in this department. the data tells us that people of color are searched at a more higher rate than non people of color. and more importantly, we're not even meeting the 50% mark when it comes to contraband because in order to pat search somebody, you have to have facts in order to pat search. and the facts you have to have have to or you have to articulate there's a crime or there's some contraband on you in order to search them. and the data from the 96 a reports tells us that when we're searching people, we're not finding stuff. so that tells me that either, you know, we're searching people and there's no basis, or we're not properly training officers on how to be on the lookout for certain indicators, which would warrant a pat search. so those are my concerns. and i think that with this language that the officer having to articulate certain things which are required, i think alleviates some of my concern, so that's

you want to answer. there it is. that's helpful. and then. yeah, because i i'll be honest, i don't see this change at all as being mandated by prop b at all. it seems like this is chiefs personal preference. so i did want to ask you, chief, why do you take a different view about, you know, president elias, i think listed out a lot of compelling reasons why it may actually be more cumbersome to record all of these. and on bwc in the long run, why do you disagree with that? that disagree with what that is more cumbersome. yeah. i mean, i take it that your position is it will be less cumbersome to use bwc versus an incident report when it comes to pat searches that that is my position. okay. but and president elias just a moment ago laid out some the idea that it actually could end up being more work in the long run if we, you know, make too many of these bwc reports. so just asking why why you disagree with that. this. well, i disagree because i don't believe

i don't agree with that piece. and i'm asking why. yeah. yeah. because an officer recording what they're doing as they're doing it or right after they're doing it, that's the extent of what they would have to do, as opposed to writing an incident report, which usually requires them to go back to the station, write a report, be out of the field. i mean, this whole thing, this at least this part of proposition e was designed to free up officers administrative time so they can be in the field. i think that does well not think this would accomplish that. so i don't see it as less cumbersome. and i do understand everything, president elias and i have had many conversations about this, but i don't see that as being more cumbersome because of those reasons. i think the officers record, if there's an arrest, they're going to have to write a report anyway. if there's not an arrest, everything that they did would be recorded on that body worn camera. it can be reviewed if there's a complaint investigation, the information

is there. and actually, i think there's some benefits to it because to recollect what's happening right when it's happening, it's probably going to be more accurate in my opinion. thank you, commissioner clay. so i just want to say i support, commissioner benedicto and the president of life or her statement as it relates to this particular statute or this particular, general order. the problem is there's no perfect order. it's not going to happen. we get that all the time. i read the city attorney's opinion that she provided to the commission prior after that enactment of property, and it's pretty clear that the language dictates this is what we have to do. we may not like it. we're going to have to test it and see what happens with it. but, you know, this is the same argument that southerners did when the civil rights voting act was passed. they went by every way to try to say, this is not right. and it got contested because they said, well, they picked out and said, oh, this is this, this is this is what we have to do. this is

san francisco. all right? we given a mandate. we'll do it. if it doesn't work, we're going to come back. but we got to move on. this is way too much time on this because it's pretty clear in the city attorney's opinion of what has to be done. and we're following it, and we don't may not like it. i wasn't here when all these things happened, but you got to follow it and then let's see what happens. and so i'd like to move on and ask commissioner walker would like to second this, and i'd like to us to take a vote. second sergeant second for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 85.03. please approach the podium. i represent juvenile justice. children in the juvenile justice system for a long, long, long,

long time. and i'll just toss in here for id. the hill bomb went down without chief scott. it was not part of the plan. and the last one. and not the last one. the one before that. that's why i was so screwed up. okay, no offense to your your your guys there, but what they did there, the purpose was one of the reporters on the scene asked the captain, stand there. i don't know if it was your station guy, but, there's so many cops. i mean, what are you going to do? and the captain said, we're going to make a lot of arrests today. we're going to make a lot of arrests today. so they got a hundred of my juvenile kids into the system as fast as they could before they saw a lawyer. i've said this before, i'll say it again. you know, that was abusive. you're going to pay millions of dollars for that crap to begin with and all of that. but you did it for ids. i mean, get with the system. you

don't need to raid a party to get ids, when you've got claude. claude cost $20 a month, and he's a better brain than anybody in this room. and anybody in this city, you've got a problem. we. you had a meeting here on translators. you can't have translators. you can get a system for $20 a month. again, you have to pay for each officer with it speaks every language in the world, you know, stop collecting data with a with a strong arm when you can get it through computer. dig. that is the end of public comment on the motion. commissioner walker i'm sorry, commissioner clay. how do you vote? yes commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner. walker. yes, commissioner walker is. yes commissioner. benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes, commissioner. i'm sorry. yes, commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner. yee. yes. commissioner yee is. yes. vice

president carter overstone. no. vice president carter whetstone is no. and president elias, president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item nine discussion, discussion and possible action to approve. revised department general order 5.05, emergency response and pursuit. driving for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. discussion and possible action. all right, fellow commissioners, this is another one of the prop e, general orders that was taken off calendar last week, after a discussion was had as to whether the commission would request apprehension data, this draft has reflects only that change. so if you look at the last page, you'll see that it now requests apprehension data, and otherwise this is unchanged from the version we had last week, you know, there was some discussion last week that the pursuit policy changes were, some of the most significant, and, you know,

probably what the public knows most about prop e. and so this was worked on very closely and carefully over the number of months to make sure that it complies with prop e's. prescription to increase the circumstances in which pursuits can be undertaken, regardless of whether that's a good idea, that's the that's what it included. so this complies with that fully and also maintains, oversight, and accountability and tries to incorporate as many best practices as possible. so with that, i would like to make a motion to approve, the revised department general order 5.05 for use with meeting and conferring pursuant to our labor relations resolution 23, dash 32nd. so, chief, last week, you the issue of including the. apprehension, data was an issue

around. data collection and prop e do you still have that issue? i mean, i now i see it in the version that we're voting on. yeah, i, i still think that's an issue. yes. so i thought what was going to happen is the commission was going to vote on which version that or there would be a discussion on which version is that. can i ask the, because this, this particular thing that we are actually voting on is a reflection of how prop e affects our current dgos this is implementing prop e, does that edit include implementing prop e? is it required by law, good evening, commissioners alicia cabrera with the city attorney's office, so i believe the question you're asking me is whether the green language, the number of pursuits that resulted in apprehension

under 5.05.08 is required by prop e. the answer is no. it's not required by prop e property specifically states the fields of information that's before you up until that green portion. so it asks for an annual report on the reason for the pursuits, the number of pursuits that resulted in a collision, the number of pursuits that resulted in a death or injury, and a peace officer or member of the public, and the number of pursuits that were found to be within or outside of policy. prop e vehicle pursuits, reporting requirements includes a list of information that the department must provide, but the commission has authority under its policy making power to require additional information from the chief. and so that would be a direction to the chief of police. but it would not be because prop e requires it. and it's not required by law. so should it be in the dgo that i leave up to the commission? so

the second on the floor, sergeant, for any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 9o5 .05. please approach the podium. i'll pretend i'm more senile than i am and go a little off topic, but the way to make this the safest city in the world for pedestrians like me and for dogs and cats and wheelchairs, is to put a speed bump at every goddamn traffic light in san francisco. every single one of them. you get a reputation around the world instantly. they'll get ready to drive slow in san francisco. and if somebody got killed at that corner, put two speed bumps there. that is the end of public comment on the motion.

commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner walker. no, commissioner walker is no commissioner. benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner yee. oh, no. commissioner yee is no. vice president carter. oberstar. yes. vice president carter oberstar is. yes. and elias. president elias is. yes. you have five yeses. line item ten. public comment. and all matters pertaining to item 12 below closed session, including public comment on item 11. a vote whether to hold item 12 in closed session. if you would like to make a public comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium. seeing none. line item 11. vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10 d action.

i'll make a motion in a second. second. all right. on the motion, commissioner clay, how do you vote? commissioner clay is. yes commissioner. walker. yes, commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner. yanez. yes, commissioner yanez is yes. commissioner yee. yes. commissioner yee is yes. vice president carter overstone. yes. vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes. president lias is. yes. we are going to closed session.

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seeing none on the motion. commissioner clay, how do you vote? yes, commissioner clay is. yes, commissioner walker. yes, mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicta. yes. mr. benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner yi. yes commissioner yi is. yes. vice president carter obersten. yes. vice president carter is. yes. we have six yeses. line item 14. adjournment.

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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

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(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.

(clapping). >> so nice today. you know, everyone should have the day off today and yeah. >> know i'm joint tenant kidnapping especially the union square ambassadors know not today. um, hi, everyone i'm san francisco mayor london breed and joined today by our union square ambassadors our downtown ambassadors and our union square alliance ceo melissa rodriguez and yerba buena executive director and so many people have a lot to do in the downtown area i want to express my appreciation to all of you for being here but