the wind sharpshooter is a past that is extremely damaging to several types of crops, especially grapes. it devastated to machiavelli in 1986. obviously, we know that grapes are of major importance to the bay area. -- to macula -- temecula in 1986. the second contract that we have is the organic contract. that is also an annual contract. we conduct spot inspections at farmers' markets and at the producers, and we also register and others, which we have two in san francisco. we will carry this out with

current staff. there is no other staff that is hired to do the work. supervisor chu: pierce's disease is a kind of lyme disease spread by this insect. do we have any of those in san francisco, is this just a preventive, monitoring grant? >> we do not have any in san francisco. all plant material shipped into the county is treated at the origin, which, generally speaking, would be in ventura or san diego county. they notify us when the shipments are arriving. we are also notified by the receiving handler and we will send an inspector out. supervisor chu: so this would

allow the department to recover cost for that inspection work done at the supervisory level. >> yes. supervisor chu: any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i move forward with recommendations. thank you. item seven. >> item 7. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant from the united states department of health and human services in the amount of $631,739 to fund the project entitled "project for assistance in transition from homelessness" for the period july 1, 2010, through june 30, 2011. supervisor chu: thank you. >> hello, i am a program manager

with the san francisco department of public health, a better health services. i am here to present projects for assistance and transition from homelessness, known as the past grant. we have three recipients of the grant. it comes from the state of california. with this grant, we provide case management services. the grant is focused on people who are homeless and have mental health issues. with this grant, we provide primary care, case management out reach, mental health services, substance abuse services. there is also assistance for clients to help with moving expenses, if they are going from homelessness into housing.

also, money to prevent eviction. supervisor chu: it looks like for this grant it would require a matching fund level of about $210,000. do you know if the department has already included that in the budget? >> yes, we provided that through our contracts, and anything else could be made up through staff time. supervisor chu: thank you. any members of the public that public to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor dufty: i would like to forward this with recommendations. supervisor chu: without objection. item eight. >> item 8. resolution authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend retroactively a grant in the amount of $49,995 from the bay area air quality management district, to support a project entitled "community risk reduction plan" for the period of july 1, 2010, through december 30, 2011.

supervisor chu: thank you. >> good morning. tom rivard, department of public health. this morning we are asking you to allow the department to except funding from barrier air quality management district for the purpose of developing the modeling aspect of a community risk reduction plan for san francisco. the money will specifically be used to develop exposure condors for all of san francisco around a variety of mobile and point source of air quality emission sources, and to integrate that into an analysis of potential health risks, health outcomes, specifically try to identify areas where we would consider

hot spots, areas within a community that would be considered hot spots, where we could craft mitigation or strategies to improve the air quality exposures for existing population as well as protect new residents in newly developed communities, newly developed residential facilities throughout san francisco. this process is part of the air district's more recent air quality guidelines and air quality threshold that were released earlier in the year. it is more of a san francisco specific guideline that was established for the region so that we could identify our specific, unique problems and

cultivate unique strategies to improve air quality exposure and to improve health outcomes. supervisor chu: thank you. what are some of the areas in san francisco that would be considered hot spots, does 19th avenue come across as one of them? >> 19th avenue -- parts of it are undoubtedly going to be parts of concern. 19th avenue and judah with the filling stations, high traffic volumes --fueling stations, high traffic volumes, homes that face the fueling stations, will probably be at some risk. supervisor chu: is it primarily the fueling station or the amount of traffic? there are about 80,000 cars that pass through on any given day. what has been some of the work -- maybe this is just a

question offline. i would be interested to see some of the efforts around 19th ave. >> we have done something for the park merced initiatives. i think when we are completed, looking and diesel particular matter, looking at a cumulative risks with other chemical exposures, like benzene, other chemicals from fueling stations, we will see that those risks extend to multiple dwellings off of 19. the problem pretty much dropped off within 300 feet. 500 feet for sure. 19th avenue is a problem. when you drive down the street and you see the particular matter, on the face of the

buildings, it is fairly evident that all that traffic has exposure problem with consequential help involvement. supervisor chu: what are some of the mitigation that could be used for a location like 19th avenue? >> 19th avenue is a very challenged location. the only thing that occurs to me is more aggressive tree planting, specific types that may not down particulate matter. obviously, reducing the amount of traffic, which would be tough. there are some parts of the city that are more difficult than others. for new construction, we might want to discourage new construction, or set it back from the edge of the sidewalk. sometimes even an additional

20, 30 feet will result in some improvement. i cannot imagine a sound wall on 19th avenue, but something like that could be helpful. for example, on the excelsior along 280, you could have some sound walls, sharif, trees that would knock down the particular matter, and toward some of the chemicals loss from automobiles. -- absorb the chemicals from automobiles. also keeping trucks off of 19th, trying to keep them on 101, 280 would certainly be a good idea. trucks that close to residents results in fairly aggressive

exposures. supervisor chu: thank you. any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? the seeing none, public item is closed. did you want to say something? >> i strongly support you excepting this grant. the board passed the seqa guidance earlier this year looking at impacts of toxins. the reason we went ahead with a community reduction plan was to look at more city-wide exposures, rather than at night project by project basis. that is what tom was saying. it gives you the chance to look at the majority of forces in a community. much of that is roadway traffic. it allows you to understand what would be appropriate medications that the city could pass that could be local ordinance. it also allows tearing off of the community risk reduction

planned. if you have a project that is complied with the plan, you would not be required to do another analysis. so it has benefits for local businesses as well. we are also offering this grant to san jose and other communities that have been identified as impacted, which includes oakland, richmond, alameda county. many of these places where you already know has these air impacts. i urge you to support this grant. >> thank you. any other members of the public? supervisor chu: >>thank you. item is move forward without recommendation. are there any other items before us? thank you very much, we are adjourned.

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supervisor chiu: good morning. welcome to the october 4, 2010 meeting of the public safety committee. we will soon be joined by ross mirkarimi and sean elsbernd. madam clerk, do we have any announcements today? >> if you wish to submit speaker

currents, please submit them to your left. if you wish to submit copies of materials to members of the committee, please submit an extra copy for the file. supervisor chiu: thank you. please call item no. 1. >> hearing on san francisco's public safety conditions, including a discussion of citywide crime levels and crime levels by police district station and/or neighborhood. the hearing shall include a presentation from the mayor's office of criminal justice and/or the san francisco police department, which shall provide all information relevant to the discussion. supervisor chiu: this is our regular item regarding statistics and crime. capt., good to see you. >> good afternoon. during this presentation, i want

to present the crime stats. we are preparing an extraction period from august to september. homicides were down from six to 3. rapes were down from 11 to 10. robbery's were even, 236. aggravated assaults were up from 263 to 271. property crimes were down from four heart of 34 to 231. auto thefts, 350 to 317. arsons were down 18%. personal theft was down 21% from 1213 to 959.

also, we have compared our crime stats for a week. the week been from some timber 12 to september 18 compared to our september 19 until september 25. in that week, homicides were down 100%. down from two to zero. rates were down 25%, from four to three. aggravated assaults were up 43%, % 58to 83. on the property side, blurb reason for down. auto pact was down 47%, from 97 to 48. arsons were down 80%, from 5 to 1.

personal theft was also down from 244 to 183. we also have crime stats for part 2 crimes. assaults and batteries, not domestic violence related, up 4%, 283 to 293. embezzlements were down 29%, 229 to 205. weapons and firearms violations was down 8%, 26 to 24. sex crime were up 27%, from 30 to 38. this is excluding rape and prostitution. narcotics related drug laws were

up 5% from 361 to 380. possession of burglary tools, down from 248 to 228. incidences of graffiti and vandalism, down 9%. mental health detention were up 12%. in instances where people either exist -- resisted or delayed the police officer, up 7%, from 30 to 32. those are our crime stats for the last four weeks. >> colleagues, any questions? supervisor mirkarimi. supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. thank you very much for helping to integrate some of the part to

information. -- two information. i just want to extend our compliments to sfpd, the community's working with them, for doing what they are due to lower the crimes in the part 1 categories, especially. the fruits of our labor are evident. beyond the khartoum that is -- be on the part two that is identified, what does sfpd identified the other crimes as? there is a significant dearth of many other so-called miscellaneous crimes. how is that classified for the lay person to understand? is it just based on each crime onto itself, is there a part 3? >> i believe the way the stats are capped, each individual crime is kept.

however, in part two, we took out the most significant ones, the one that had the highest numbers, incidences that are unusual. though cannot be captured because the numbers are so small. our crime analysis unit felt that these were the main part two crimes that we should be reporting on. supervisor mirkarimi: just to reconcile that notion, if there was any crime whatsoever, if it is even perceived as a crime, i would say, by numbers, quality of life violations would far exceed all other categories. quality of life violations are reported to be in the thousands, but when we are trying to seek

status on this question from sfpd, it is slightly a moving target. so i would love to understand station by station, it in totality, what are those numbers? [applause] >> i believe in the past, i have brought those numbers, but i do not have them now. i can get them for you. quality of life crimes are a conglomerate of a number of different violations. most of them have been reported to the sfpd. those are the ones that we track, the ones that we are taking action on. supervisor mirkarimi: because the numbers seem to be substantial, at least that is what is anecdotally reported by the press. there is a columnist here and they're suggesting this. it really is a significant

number. therefore, the interpretation is we have a loss for it -- officers that are spending a lot of time writing citations for those violations. i just think it is important to line up those statistics that were missing in the discussion. >> i will make sure in my next report i bring those extractions to you. >> and you can walk us through how that is administered. that would be great. supervisor chiu: just to add to that, i know in the conversation that we had previously, a lot of us had requested information on quality of life. we never got a response, so i would add to super bears and mirkarimi, that we are happy to ask -- supervisor mirkarimi, that we are happy to ask for this information.

in "the chronicle" there was some mention of these quality of life crimes, and your department had not given us information around what the numbers look like. one question i have is you have a category of mental health detection. can you talk about what gets bundled into those numbers? >> to be honest with you, it says mental-health detention. i believe, those are the 51 detentions since the general hospital. they are basically -- whenever an officer responds to an incident where a subject is deemed to be a danger to himself or others, are then taken to the hospital for observation, rather than arrest. >> so we supervisor chiu: dick -- supervisor chiu: so where do

these quality of life violations fall into? >> this is the first time i have had part two in this format. i have responded in the past with part two crimes, in a different format, and i could add in quality of life. i can pass on that information. i do not know where the mental health issuance and quality of life -- i am not part of the -- supervisor chiu: you have hundreds of citations given on the sidewalk. where do we see that? >> it is not captured in this report. supervisor chiu: you just said all of these crime were buried under part 2. >> in this particular report, the obstruction of sidewalk, quality of life is not captured in this report.

supervisor chiu: ok, that is what we have been interested in. if possible, provide us with a full part to to see what the trends look like. that would be very helpful. >> i will see if we can add those to our profile. supervisor chiu: other questions, colleagues? let me see if there is public comment. if you could step up to the podium. each speaker will have up to two minutes to speak. first speaker please. >> my name is christine harris. i respectfully request the city of san francisco to investigate my perpetrators. the president of 720 york street, san francisco, california, her husband peter davis was a lawyer for an international law firm. the property manager, her sgt

husband. the crimes against me are the use of directed energy weapons, burning all my vital organs. i have had to fight to stay alive. organized stalking. psychotronic. the towing of my car to install a gps system. wiretapping of my phone lines. please investigate tim anderson as well. he created a group called terror, stalking groups. tim anderson may be the control of this technology. these are heinous crimes against humanity. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker please. >>