>> hello including but not limited to a john robison i'm running for sheriff in the city and county of san francisco my experience as lieutenant and

operational commander and modification to two she was has given me the opportunity to have the experience to join this race for sheriff i have the necessary management experience to provide for the accountability of the personnel needed and the demonstration of leadership that is necessary the current campaign to elect a chair for the city and county of san francisco must be an wide eyed opportunity unity to identify and pact for the city how to create change in the san francisco couldn't jails and the youth detention and address the incarceration of african-american hispanic man, woman, and child. >> 3 major issues comforting is although, moral rhythm, and equal and analysis

of reentry programs i will provide leadership in initiating the development of interagency programs inform unified school district that reduces truancy and the incarceration of san franciscans and eliminate specific management deficiency in the san francisco shefrldz couldn't continent you jails on the other hand, and those yields that are employed or courtyard and thirdly, provide leadership for the criminal justice system task force and impose the san francisco bar and the elements of the federal, state, and local and couldn't the public defender's office and the san francisco board of supervisors that seeks to identify laws and programs where to review the potential change in impacted b will reduce the rhythm of african-american and spanish in the county jail systems i

respectfully ask your support on november 3rd please vote for john robbing sons hi, i'm vicky hennessy running for sheriff of san francisco i'm a san francisco native graduate of logically e lowell high school i work in the sheriff's deputies for over thirty years 25 as a manager i'm the first woman to run for this office not a practiced politician i'm running to restore pro-active limp to nine hundred employees by setting the example modeling preactive means providing and conceptually the staff to and monitoring and

following up not just waiting nostril there is a crisis i'm running to return the ballot for critical and social judges the sheriff is an over of the court pirate in keeping outline people face including those what are incarcerated as important keeping people safe your obligation to provide sensitive programs to inmates that provides meaning skills for the best chance of triksz back fwots exultant i'm also running to insure effective government communities i believe with the majority san franciscans want government representatives to talk to each other and collaborate and find solutions for the best outcome as an individual sheriff it is crucial to interact with the social justice and community

shareholders and others to discuss the coordination of a clear measures for the delivery of those services i entered the san francisco sheriff's department from the actually recruited men and women people of color and looebz and gaze within seven years i promoted to the rank of captain and spent the next 25 years as part of sheriff's valued management team he worked to professional lists it team and wrote policies for the employees rules and regulations i lead a number of initiate in the capital improvements and custody management and taught springs and ethics i work in every unit and led the departments i was loaned to the department of the department of emergency as the deputy director i lead the team for volunteers for oil spills we were able to train 12 hundred

people and dispatch them to pick up oil in one week in 2008, i was that appointed by the mayor of the executive director i lead the complete renovation of the 9-1-1 without a loss of service and completed training in fire dispatch for the employees and up to date policies and procedure in 2012 he was asked by the mayor to service as a accept in sheriff i fought for the media attention and able to stabilized the department and complete complete the budget if elected i'm help to communicate to help identify what true transparent looks like the establishment of an annual report summarizing employee complaints and the early warning system to identify the employees

that receive multiply complaint i want to help to train the staff in media education and training k34udz recognizing crisis intervene absurdity trend in substance abuse treatment and supervision and management and training i want to support the many inmate the individual 5 charter and the restorative justice and our women's programs that delivers services by providing internships and working the and/or gang garden i want to increase the communication with those in the criminal justice system and social justice to be real could producers of public safety by virtue of how experience i'm the most quality

candidate i hope you'll honor me as sheriff on november 3rdrd. >> hello, i'm ross mirkarimi the elected sheriff for the city and county of san francisco i run for re-election to approve public safety and doing everything we can to insure that people are less likely to return to the criminal justice system and our jail system tests been said categorization is the intersection of so many wrongs in a person's life as my job as sheriff i want to make sure that everyone rights the wrongs and doing everything we can to make sure that people are less likely to return into custody that's exactly what we doing and exactly why recently harvard university paid san francisco a visit to bestow a unique award

our san francisco sheriff's department and our 5 peace charter high school that award it bans our demonstration of being to reduce our jail population and reduce recidivism rates by over thirty persz in a impacted period of time no others law enforcement agency in this country has better late than never be able to demonstrate that it is telling it bans third party review that we are being recognized for those achievements you may not know the san francisco sheriff's department our jail system is one of the most under crowded your capacity is twelve hundred and 50 and our population is 200 plus today, the rates have groped over thirty percent we were in a failure territory now we're not it helps to demonstrate during the era the state prism joseph rotunda back

stat prisoners many predicted we will be back in overcrowded and crime and public safety would be harm we've iceland use the act ladies based on did process of incarcerated population to help to work on families and children of incarcerated in the united states our nation that krartsd more people in this world there are over 56 percent of those krartdz that are mothers and fathers and guardians it's been said that children of krartdz parents are a greater possible of running afoul in their life young juvenile centers or adult centers we want to dejects to stop that i'm the first sheriff to reduce them to 16 jails so we

can lays in on a population returning and i foul in the law to the young to the adult years to help them with bonding and reunion agencycation with their parents we start this request bitter project one a a kind project in california where in that rare occasions when a woman is krarthd and pregnant and likely to give birth during your incarceration what used to be the common practices in california separating the baby the 3 day we're not going to do that we've installed midwives in the jail and want to make sure that the baby is never without the benefit of their mothers breakfast milk we have breakfast milk pumping station this is a infrequent occurrence it is our

commitment starting at birth all the way up to young adult not only are we taking care of population that is in our custody before us but moving two chest moves head to improve public safety by working on future generations we've seen amazing results preparing people with an advocateal trade or academic or ged while incarcerated or when they get out to continue their studies and their henson to help people both in custody and people that wait for them outside in co-pare classes and theories this is to prepare them this is what we're doing the result are quite festive to that less people are running this is about improving

public safety and why i'm work hard to professional lists our staff even the police department to help to improve public safety because of the in roads and the achievement we're working on in the inside that helps taxpayers we're looking forward to continue serving thank >>hello. i'm nancy anderson with the league of women voters of san francisco. along with the league and sf golf tv i'm here to discuss proposition b about measure that will be before the voters of tuesday,

november 3. the charter provides city employees to 12 weeks of paid parental leave to care for a child after birth, or adduction, or becoming a foster parent. if two employees qualify to take parental leave, they may not each take 12 weeks. before receiving paid parental leave, employee must first use all other paid leave. including, sick, vacation, and floating holidays. proposition b would allow each parent to take the maximum amount of paid parental leave for which they qualify for the birth, adoption, or foster parenting of the same child if both parents are city employees. and, provides city employees the opportunity to keep up to 40 hours of sick leave at the end of paid parental leave. a yes vote means to want allow each parent to take the maximum

out of paid parental leave for which they qualify for the birth of the same child if both parents are city employees to a new low means you do not want to make these changes to the charter. i am here with deanna keys on legislative aide to supervisor katie kane, a proponent of proposition b. were also joined by marcy berry , vice chair of the libertarian party of san francisco and opponents of the measure. thank you both for being here. i like to start with some opening remarks. deanna when we start with you. check it thank you so much for having me. supervisor conduct in 2002 san francisco voters voted on the strongest paid parental leave law in the nation can provide it for 12 weeks to 16 weeks per san francisco city employees to take paid parental leave to take care of a child born or adopted or placed into foster care could within their homes. more than 10 years later, now

that the national conversation has once again return to paid parental leave and how we can support our families, our office wants to look at the law again and see what we can do to strengthen these laws. we noticed two things. one, it city employee is married or partnership with another city employee, they have to split that time. we want to change it so that they each get a benefit equally to themselves. two, they have to drain down their vacation and sick time and when you come back you have a sick child or yourself set, and you need time off to soak him aware of allowing them to keep 40 hours of sick time for themselves before they access the benefit. >> thank you very much. marcy >> thank you. very much for letting us get this opinion can we are not in favor of this proposition. and, we are coming from a place in the libertarian

party where our first idea is to say, is this financially viable. are we digging ourselves into all kinds of holes of unintended consequences and financial instability? so, the city employees in san francisco already earned more than a lot of the little businesses all over the place who do not have any of these benefits, and those are the people who are going to be paying for the city employees. so, our point is that for every dollar that the city employee makes, some little guy out there is losing a dollar. that is the main reason that we oppose it. >> thank you. now to our first question get it be directed to you, marcy. in your opinion, what are the people of san francisco actually being asked to vote on in this particular

measure? could you give us your thoughts on that, please. >> yes. the legislation itself says as deanna mentioned, number one, it used to be that one parent got 12 weeks with 16 weeks if there was a medical emergency as opposed to say, a family parental leave. the legislation would change from one parent to two parents. so, you now have instead of one expense, to expenses. so, both parents can now stay home. in addition to that, it used to be that like every other small business owner or whatever, you had to use up all of your vacation, all your leave, all of your sickly. that's what i did when my child was born. now, it's different in that 40 hours of sick leave can be

retained, and so, you have sort of a double whammy there that it is not as people have said, just a technical adjustment. the controller says you're talking about tops, $1 million a year. >> okay, thank you very much. deanna, your thoughts. >> well that's a great summary, but with this measure, we are improving with the voters have voted on in 2002. we have to work within the confines of what the voters voted on so it applies specifically to city employees. we are saying that both parents in a relationship with the child should get equal time to spend with your child. they should not be decided between the two who should split the time. it should get that precious opportunity to bond with their children. the

numerous studies about the importance of that bonding time on the children's health, on the parents house, and this opportunity will allow the city employees who happen to be married or in a domestic partnership and happen to be in this position, to each that equal time with the child, which is so important. the second part is the 40 hours to maintain, again, the goal me know when they come back they need the time to go back to their child. they managed to take care of their own health or the child's health. because we have to work in the city in the confines of the city passed charter amendment in 2002. we do want to set an example for other employees to say, this is what the city is doing for our parents. this might be a great opportunity for you to look at your own policies to allow to maintain 40 hours on the books because it makes sense. they need a time to come back after they come back from parental leave because there's going to be health opportunities that come afterwards. >> okay. thank you very much. i next question. which i'm sure our viewers will be very interested in is, in your

opinion come a deanna-we'll start with you-would you believe that fiscal impact will be on the city of doing something like this? >> welcome the controller's office as marcy mentioned, we do an estimate on what to be on the city however, it is a very rough estimate because we do not know how many employees are actually married or in a domestic partnership. we don't know how many will actually be able to take the lead. we looked at our data from the past and employees were taking on an average month of paid parental leave because this is in addition to state and federal benefits, so in the end, it's up to the parent to decide much time they need to spend with her child in addition to the other benefits they have. they also have i accumulated a love sick and vacation time. so, talk to estimate. the controller's office did estimate half 1,000,000 to 1,000,000 but it's hard to estimate given our parents specific situation. so, the cost we believe is minimal compared to the lasting

benefits to the child to the future citizens of our city. in that bonding time with her parents. >> okay. marcy >> yes. it appears to me that indeed, it's an open ended expense. as you indicated. so, it would seem to me that yes, you do have to work with the confines of previous legislation voted by the voters did my job here today is to say, you know, think about it before you both some more. because it is totally open ended. as far as the wonderful benefits that accrue to the child, of course, of course. however, don't forget that were only talking about city employees. how about all the other people with the same situation? the only difference, of course, is that city employees have unlimited funds, just much more people. whereby the little business owner down the street cannot do

that. so, you cannot just say look at the wonderful job we are doing and you do the same. it's not the same thing. >> so, disagreed where we are coming from. were coming from a point that were not saying, look, now were getting both parents equal time. i want the city voters to say, let's give everybody equal time by giving the city employees the same thing as the little guy down the corner, the grocery store man that he gives his employees. >> okay. thank you very much for your comments. now, this is a employee benefits issue that's being put before the voters. do either of you-will start with marcy-do you have an opinion on whether this should be on the ballot? because

sometimes people say well why am i even voting on this. >> i'm sorry i did not mean to interrupt. the answer, i think it's simple. every time it involves money,, whether it's an additional tax or an additional expense, it has to go to the voters. so, even though we are talking about at the st anna said, i minimal amount, as i said before, we are making an diamond ourselves into bankruptcy. so that's why the voters have a say. >> thank you very much. deanna? >> again in 2002 it was the decision of those people to put it on the ballot and have the voters vote because we are making changes to that specific law we have to once again, go to the ballot as well. and, you know, issues when it's based on

city employees, yes, this is a time for us to be in a gamble for everybody else to go off on what was originally voted in 2002, enhance it, and then in the future were committed to discussing how we can broaden this out and see how we can support our families in the city. definitely, that is what is coming down. now that this legislation is going because as i'll has nature the national level of discourse with you discuss how we can improve it for our small businesses, from families who work in san francisco in all different types of jobs. >> deanna, you must been reading my mind because my next question was going to be, on the fact that this is now become a national matter of national interest. the current administration as a matter fact, is pushing the issue of paid leave, paid parental leave. so, based on what we have heard, the discourse we heard, the information we've gotten so far, in the news, do you believe that this particular measure goes far enough? should go further? or

should be tapping off? do you have an opinion one way or another piano? >> i think this is again, in line with going on nationally statewide. the voters have the in 22 more than a decade ago to address this issue get now the president has come out talking about it. six weeks on the books which is great. but we again are always striving to be a leader in supporting our families. that's why we took a look at the original lot to see how we can improve that specific law and these two measures i'm a we believe, do that and enhancing what we currently have. but this is not the end of that conversation get going for, again were going to look at how we can further support, continue to lead the way because although we lead the way nationally, globally, we are very far beyond what other countries are doing to support their families. as we've seen before in discussion, when the california paid family leave act employees

were very concerned about it might hurt them as well financially. i'm sure they'll think same discussion and 22 in san francisco, but we've not been impacted negatively by supporting our families get intact and i think it's the opposite. we received positive benefits from parents who come back refreshed, who at that time with their children and now are able to concentrate on the work and the family. so, we believe these two enhancements will continue that path and then we can look forward to see what we can do on a broader scale. >> thank you very much. marcy, i'd love to hear your remarks. >> thank you. i can only come from a libertarian point of view. the libertarian point of view strictly says, government has very limited job to do. in other words, parental leave and all that supporting families is

simply not the business of government to do. but, again, this is a minority view. meaning that libertarians are a minority in the city. therefore, we are impacted by, you know, the great majority that wants the big government, that wants to have all of these benefits. unfortunately, these people that vote you not--for these benefits-are not realizing i might guess who pays. they do. they should look at their paycheck, and what i say when i'm talking to them, look at your page and are you happy with what you see? if you see all these taxes disappearing, if your boss tells you, i can't give you a raise. the taxes are too high. then, you what to think, those benefits, somebody is paying for it and that is me. so, again, it strictly from a