supervisor mirkarimi: good morning. welcome to the public safety committee of the board of supervisors. i am ross mirkarimi, chair of the public safety committee. joining us is supervisor cohen. supervisor campos will be joining us shortly. thank you to sfgtv for their

ongoing excellence. madam clerk, please read the first item. >> item 1, ordinance amending the san francisco police code section 1,215.2 to modify their requirements for the chief of police to refer applications for commercial parking permits to the municipal transportation agency for review of traffic impacts. supervisor mirkarimi: i see we have a representative from mta. please come forward. you might want to go to that microphone. >> good morning, supervisors. i am the city traffic engineer. this is a technical amendment to the police code in regards to parking lot and parking garage permits. as part of the legislation passed by the board of supervisors last year, these were transferred over to the

police department. our agency started receiving these permits earlier this year. in january, we received a large volume of permits, and we have agreed to this amendment that would make the transfer of permits for mta review optional based on chief of police or police department recommendations. i think this is a way of making the process more streamlined for the applicant and also for city staff. it is one we have also worked with the city attorney's office on, making this ordinance. supervisor mirkarimi: ok, all right. is there any other revision on the cost to make it more streamlined, or did that remained unchanged? >> that would be unchanged. our agency was not part of the permit fee process, so we were not charging a fee or receiving part of the fee. we were reviewing it as part of our mta cost, so there should be

no cost either in the fee or to the police apartment. there will be reduced costs. right now cut -- or to the police department. there will be reduced cost. >> -- supervisor mirkarimi: do you know what the population is of the permits that are being applied or have been given out right now? >> i do not have that information. in terms of the number of permits? supervisor mirkarimi: yes. >> from what is -- from what i have seen in my office, it is bent over 500 so far. some of that may be because the police department is processing renewals and new requests, but it is a large volume of paperwork, and we were not able to review all these permits and did not feel that it was necessary for us to review them. supervisor mirkarimi: very good. further discussion?

ok, thank you very much. public comment on this? seeing none, public comment is closed. i will take a motion for moving this forward with recommendations. very good. so moved. madam clerk, item two, please. >> item two, resolution approving a memorandum of understanding with the cities of oakland and san jose and the counties of alameda, contra costa, marin, monterey, san mateo, santa clara, and sonoma that provides government structures and procedures for application, allocation, and distribution of federal urban areas security initiative grant funds as well as other federal. grant funds to the bay area urban area as permitted under the mou and continues san francisco as the primary grantee and agent for the uasi grant funds for the bay area urban area as well as for other grant funds to the bay area urban area

as permitted under the mou. >> good morning, supervisors. i am with the department of emergency management. the item before you today is the 2011 memorandum of understanding. this is a regional organization that distributes homeland security grant funding throughout the bay area. it is chaired by san francisco, specifically by my boss, the director of the department of emergency management. it was formed in 2006, and the board of supervisors approved the original mou to the organization in 2006 and one after that in 2007. this is the third mou for 2011 we're seeking your approval for today. there are a few changes that are significant compared to the previous mou. the main one is that we determined as a body that it is time to expand our membership

because this is such a strong regional organization and we rely so much on many of our other regional partners in the bay area, so we are expanding the membership of the approval authority. we are adding five new members to the approval authority. this mou has a couple of other changes, extending the term of the uasi for a couple more years and directs them to create by loss for the first time. we have never had those before, and it is time. we have written them, and they are ready to go. they are codify that we have those in this mou. the mou also provides more detail on how our partner cities and counties are supposed to meet their regulations. it lays out details for the first time about how you hire and fire a general manager and staff at work for them. there was a staff of employees

from san francisco, oakland, santa clara, and some other cities that manages grant funding. it also establishes procedures for managing the uasi and turning the organization, which we do not anticipate happening, but there should be a procedure, and we put it in place. it took about nine months of san francisco working with our partners in the other counties around the bay area, and we finally approved this. i think in my memo, has said september. it was actually august that this was finally approved. we look forward to the board of supervisors approving this today. it takes effect december 1, and we hope to get this through committee and through the full board with your approval before it takes effect, and i am happy to answer any questions. supervisor mirkarimi: just an example of what the approval is for, the kind of decisions other than the interpersonal with regard to hiring a manager, what kind of decisions as the regional body would be

considering. >> that is a good question. the main task that the approval authority is given by the federal government to give final approval to how their federal grant money is allocated in the bay area. every year, the federal government for a variety of grants gives a chunk of money to the bay area -- we will say the urban area, security initiative grant. they give us roughly around $40 million every year, and it is up to the approval authority to give final sign off on how the money is allocated. some of it goes for projects to benefit the whole region. some of it goes for individual projects for the police department or sheriff's department. the jurisdictions that are members worked together over weeks and months to put together a project proposals, and the staff as a final cut and says which ones need federal by laws and which ones do not, and it falls to the approval authority to make the final decision on how the money will be allocated.

that is their main task. supervisor mirkarimi: it had two votes in the main consoles. is that proportion also reflected in the executive organization? >> it actually is, although it is more because we are the fiscal agent that we tend to have more employees in the executive organization. the general manager is a san francisco employee. we hired him in august. for a long time, he was a senior employee at the assessors office, and he has great expertise in executive management, financial management, and personal management. we insisted on that because we are the fiscal agent. we want one of our city employees to be the fiscal manager since our city manager is legally responsible for these funds. we think that has been for the good of san francisco. i would say at least half of the employees on staff over there

are from san francisco. there are others from other cities as well. supervisor mirkarimi: what can we look forward to? a lot of this is about preparation, being ready, being alert. what i emergency preparedness for man-made or natural disasters, what have you, can we look forward to in the next year? i know there's always drills. there's always these kind of simulations that occur that try to unite the different agencies in different emergency scenarios. what changes now as we -- i am sure we are looking for new scenarios or new kinds of challenges to test ourselves by. >> absolutely. i will put a caveat in that the ways we spend the money are directed by the federal government, so we have to spend it in ways they tell us are okay, but you are right -- we are always looking for emerging threats and new challenges to be prepared for, and one of the best ways to do that is to bring law enforcement agencies

together and be sure they are practicing communicating and talking so no matter what comes up, they have relationships with each other and know how to talk to each other. i will put two things out there -- we recently finished our annual law enforcement exercise that happens every october. police and sheriff's departments from around the bay area and even internationally -- we had a team from israel come. they are here for three days, and the practice different scenarios so they know how to respond and work well together for whatever challenges arise in the future. another major focus is interoperable communications. i know we have talked to you extensively about that. we are trying to build a radio system so that police, fire, and share can talk to each other and not just share voice but share data. we talk on our smartphones and blackberrys. we want law-enforcement to have this capabilities so they can look at the video of a crime scene or a fire in progress or a

look at a mug shot, and that will allow them to better handle whatever disasters arise. supervisor mirkarimi: great. any further discussion? seeing none, public comment? no public comment. why don't we take this with a recommendation, advanced to the full board? so moved. thank you very much. appreciate it. is there any further business before us? >> no, mr. chairman. supervisor mirkarimi: all right. one of the shortest meetings in our history. this meeting is now adjourned. have a good day.

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in san francisco, ranked choice of voting is for the election of members of the board of supervisors, the mayor, sharon, just -- district attorney, city attorney, treasurer, this is a recorder, and public defender. ranked joyce voting does not apply to elections for local school and community college board members. number the election of state or federal officials. ranked choice of voting does not affect the adoption ballot measures. when voters received their ballot, either at a polling place or an absentee ballot in the mail, it will consist of multiple cards. voters will receive cards with contests for federal and state offices, as well as for state propositions and local ballot measures. for ranked choice voting contest, voters will receive a separate ranked choice ballot

card. it will have instructions to rank three choices, which is new. the ranked choice ballot is designed in the side by side column format that lists the names of all candidates in each of the three columns. when marking the ranked choice ballot, voters elect their first choice in the first column by completing the aero pointing to their choice. for their second choice, voters selected different wind by completing the arab pointing to their choice in the second column. for their third choice, voters elect a different candidate by completing the arrow pointing to their choice. voters wishing to vote for qualified write-in candidate can write it in on the line provided. and they must complete the arrow pointing to their choice. keep in mind, it voters should select a different candidate for each of the three columns of the ranked choice ballot card.

if the voters elect the same candidate in more than one column, his or her vote for that candidate will count only once. also, a voter's second choice will be counted only if his or her first choice candidate has been eliminated. and a voter's third choice will be counted only if both his or her first and second choice candidates have been eliminated. we have talked about how to mark the ranked choice ballot. now let's look at how ranked choice of voting works. initially, every first choice vote is a candidate. any candidate that receives a majority, more than 50% of the first choice to vote, is determined to be the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the first choice votes, a process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes begins. first, the candidate who received the fewest numbers of

first choice votes is eliminated from the race. second, voters who selected the eliminated candidate as their first choice will have their vote to transfer to their second choice. there, all the votes are recounted. fourth, if any candidate receives more than 50% of the votes, he/she is declared the winner. if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the process of eliminating candidates and transferring votes is repeated until one candidate has a winning majority. now let's look at an example of an election using ranked choice of voting. in this example, we have three candidates. candidate a, b, and c. after all the first choice votes are counted, none of the three candidates has received more than 50%, or a majority of the first choice vote cast. candidate a g-205% ofb the

votes% received 40%. and c received 35% of the boats. because no candidate received a majority, the candidate who received the fewest number of first choice votes, a candidate a, is eliminated from the race. voters to pick a candidate a as their first choice candidate will have their but transferred to their second choice. and the voters to pick and a, 15% chose candidate b as their second choice, and 10% chose c as their second choice. these votes are then applied to b and c, and the votes are recounted. candidate b now has 55% of the votes. candidate c as 45%. candidate b has more than 50% of the votes and is determined as the winner. >> thank you for watching.

we hope you have ranked choice learned ranked choice of voting and was elected. you have seen the ballot, learned how to market, and learned how the voting process works. if you have any further questions about ranked choice voting, please contact us at department of elections, city hall, room 48, 1 dr. carlton be good lit place, sentences go, california, 94102. or 415-554-4375. visit our website, www.sfelections.org. october 27. thank you, madam clerk, for being here. colleagues, thank you. could you please read the agenda? >> sure. i would like to make an announcement to turn off the

volume of your cell phones. completed speaker cards and copies of documents will be included, and documents must be submitted to the court. item number one, hearing to review and update on the initial education-related expenditures stemming from the core community benefits agreement. supervisor cohen: thank you very much. earlier this year, we've heard the proposal presented to us by a group of community members that took the leadership and initiative to provide instruction for summer school for san francisco unified school district. we will hear a brief summary of the finding. the first person i would like to call up our believe is -- oh, ok. we will call up pastor alexander. thank you. >> good afternoon.

my name is reverend alexander and i'm one of the leaders of the project. i would like to welcome this opportunity to be before your again, this time in response to a request for an update on the initial education and related expenditures and the success of our summer academic program. for the next few moments, you will hear and see from our colleagues and service providers information related to the success of the overall project. it does mean a great privilege as well as an honor to introduce miss phillips. she will share briefly on the success of the overall project, and after that, you will be in the hands of mr. walter. >> good afternoon. my name is jacqueline phillips. i'm a member of the bay view hunters point community. we had two summer youth programs

going this summer, one for the ninth graders, and one for the young adults, 18-25. both programs were a great success. we had a picnic just past weekend, and we allowed the participants to speak, to give their thoughts on the program. it was very heartwarming to hear the younger people speak, how it made a major difference to them to get extra help and to be able to pass courses. what was very impressive was the 18-25 group also. we had a young man stand and say how the person he worked with, the employer he worked with, had "certain things to him that he remembered. he applied them to his life. he said he would never forget these quotes. he was a 25-year-old. being in this program and being able to work for wages made a

lot of difference to him to the point that when these young people spoke, it made all the difference that these programs were a success, not just on paper, but you could actually see and feel they were feeling. my understanding is there were four youth actually hired on the spot. i think it was 70 out of 74 or 75 of the younger people who had passing grades, and when they entered the program, they had failing grade. that is why i say it was a great success. now, one of the things that we need to work on, there were complaints that it was too short. six weeks was not enough time, and once we have employment, of course, once they got into working come after six weeks, it was over. we need to have something in

place so the youth who need further to drink throughout the year, they can also get that through the school year. to those for it is -- to those where it is working, all the skills they need to know to have a job, to cut them off after six weeks, that was their main concern. they need to follow up the summer program so that they will have a year-long time to be stronger in their skills and carry that somewhere else. again, both programs were a success. we enjoyed them and they enjoyed us. thank you. supervisor cohen: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors and commissioners. i'm the executive director of young community developers. i'm going to present information from the summer academic program we provided for district 10

youth. i'm going to need the screen. >> you have a power point presentation? there we go. thank you. >> basically, first, this talks about our mission. the bottom line is, we just want to make sure we get the community working, a big emphasis in the southeast sector. we're working to provide jobs for individuals within san francisco in general. the summer academic program was set up for ninth grade students and summer school, or originally. at the beginning of the program, we also allowed some district 10 youth from philip burton's high school, as well as recovery programs, to participate as well. the program had 9th through 12th

graders. some of them identified as 10th graders. students came from lowe, balboa -- they all came to the elbow over the summer. the program was designed where we had an hour of the epidemic tutorial every day, monday through friday, as well as life skills and job training for individuals as well. tutors were in the classroom during the day at blaboa -- balboa with the teachers. it was an enhancement of what was going on during the school. they could burn up to a $599 stipend for completion of program attendants and four their -- for their work they're doing during the day. we had a couple of field trips, one to the mission bay campus,

as well as a fun day to close out the program at great america. we provided gift cards. we fed youth every day. we made sure we had everything they wanted to have so they would be continued to be motivated. real excited about the fact they got on from other high schools to come to balboa every day. that shows a lot about their motivation to be successful. at the end, each provided a portfolio that included a cover letter, resume, as well as an essay that talked about how learning relate to employment. also, they were able to have a project-based learning experience. they planned a summit during the five-week duration. the summit had taken place toward the end of the summer. members of the school board were