to stay out of this for those specific reasons and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have >> i'd like to hear from the budget analysis their rationale. >> we did have confidence the state of the court for the directed judges not to be part of the community but we did a survey of other county and other counties do send representatives and it's important for the safety policies and procedures and that we understood not having the no representative so we maintained our remedies and we think this is the standard in

most counties. >> is this the standard in most county? >> to be honest with you, i don't know. the budget analyst have advised the courts the risk of losing impartiality and it was basically a legal opinion that's protected by attorney-client privilege but be careful what you do because you may lose our neutral role. that we've chosen the route because not because we don't want to the exclusive of the

process. but for example, the court has a specific oversight committee that meets monthly and any issues with relifetimes comes up are discussed with the chief probation officer and her staff at the meetings. our assistant presiding judge is the judge at the hall of justice and has regular meetings with the public defenders office and is district attorney's office and certainly any issues that come up can be discussed in those venues as well. it's not that we are out in the dark as to what is going on its just in different venues and because of different venues that's really is supporting background as to why we don't

think it's necessary to be in the committees. >> thank you for joining us today. and just as a courtesy for the folks on item number 3 we've try to move this quickly. next up i'd like to bring up a representative from the public defenders office. thank you very much for being here with us >> sure i'm with the public defenders office good morning supervisors and thank you for this opportunity. much of what i was going to say is has already been said but i want to repeat some of the things. first and foremost we've harder and should be extremely proud

that san francisco the level which we collaborate and coordinate with all the participates before the realignment was in place we were meeting bio weekly and continue to do so. what makes the cooperation and collaboration so effective we share the values of evidencing the approaches and share the approaches of being innovative and without of the leadership of the adult probation department we wouldn't see that. we shouldn't overlook the fact we're at historic loads in the jail we have especially with the

realignment population a recidivism rate that is really remarkable. but i want to point out some of the gaps. in housing is definitely one of them and what we're seeing is because of that inadequate housing because of treatment providers residential treatment options that are not there sometimes, the jails become the redeposey for individuals who don't have access. that needs to be addressed. and the commitment to really implementing all the alternatives to incarceration we need to take a look at that more carefully so that individuals that shouldn't otherwise be

incarcerated should have an opportunity to be in the community and really integrate into the community. the public defenders office our mandate is to provide representation and provide die process for individuals that come into jail and we have met that mandate. so in the first year of realignment our office received only a fraction of the realignment funding and for individuals who might not know the total a b-109 in the first year was approximately $5 million with the adult probation department and the sheriff's department getting a significant amount of that. in 2012 and 2013 of the dollars

the adult probation department and the sheriff's department office guarantee got an equal amount. but one of the things because we're seeing a recidivism rates are good we need to redirect and revisit some of this money so it can actually fund housing and treatment. the one of the challenges that the public defender has at this point is beginning in july 1st, the supreme court will have jurisdiction over parole violations so the cases will come through the supreme court

that were previously handled by the state. and the estimate for that is over 24 hundred individuals will receive a parole violation filing that's an area without additional funding for recommendation so those individuals can have due process rights. that's something that needs to be and the the audit was addressed for that and our office is in discussion with the mayor's office for an adequate level of funding so we can representative all those individuals. there were two recommendations in the audit for the public defender. so with the funds that we received for realignment what we

did was created a realignment team xhvpt of american people experiences attorney and a criminal justice specialist who is a reentry spicht and an almost soon to be licensed social worker and together the attorney and criminal justice specialists handled all the cases that came into the court. and the realignment teams collaborates with all the other teams in our office so we can advocate for those alternatives to incarceration which we keep hearing about and the sheriff made reference to many of those evidence based evidence to have

an impact on recidivism which addresses the underline why someone might find themselves in the system we have the drug you courts and as it stands now the capacity for those are in the hundreds. we have only a hundred people participating in san francisco in drug court yet we have thousands of the people coming in our system whether they think be on parole or community supervision or the individuals who are serving their time six months or 10 months in custody or more so our office is very vigilant in trying to expand the eligibility criteria and that's what our office is advocating for when we representative those individuals not onlyaking re

t a wide range of oppositions and the social worker that's in our office the criminal justice expert is working with the justice system and some days together we'll try to convince a judge or when the district attorney is not on board to try to get even though alternatives to the incarceration to have a better outcome for the individual. i i know there was a reckless go in the audit for to consider merging the reentry council. i would have to disagree especially wherewith the sentencing commission while there were great improvements made one of the things is insensitive reform so the only thing that has changed with

realignment is where someone is going to spend their time in jail so somebody in the a b population is somebody charged where a nonsex offense and some cases don't have that in their prior record yet someone can get a double office like drugs and i think at the insensitive commission which is historic in san francisco again, we're at the forefront of innovation i think it's critical we start addressing that and the insensitive commission should stay the way it is from the council and the cpc so we can make those changes. so getting back to the two

recommendations we agree with them the auditor recommended we have case loads for our specialist system which we have already gone the reentry process has been in our office we have data tracking in place and we have to integrate the work on realignment which will be done on july 31st. and one of the recommendations we discontinue the criminal just person once the person is sentenced. we agree with that our goal is to coordinate.

because there's no threat of an arrest so people might find themselves coming to our office even if they're currently on probation but to the extent that we can avoid any duplication of services we're committed to that >> thank you one of the things i'm most interested in hearing i laid out a plan as well as a deadline for the implementation for the criminal justice level of standards happening. no question? that there anything else you want to submit? that thank you. next, we have a representative from the district attorney's office whose going to present >> oh, almost good average.

thank you very much. madam chair for having me here and supervisors i'll be brief. i think we were well planned for 109 to come in. we were well situated as well as other counties. i have a couple of of comments for the district attorney's office. realignment and any entry i kind of use those terms together are things that are sort of due for prosecution. we had to have a new metric and under the leadership we are reviewing and renewing and public safety being the main concern. many counties believe that the district attorney's office would put people in just like a a long

time. i want to commit briefly on something that was said which is the consolidation of the insensitive commission and the cc that and i agree with her i, you know, that's one of the recommendations but it's two different roles the cc that really towards the community the insensitive commission i call it realignment and prelifetime and sentencing reform it's a different role and deals with one of the percentages there are 11 perching percent of the people who are re-offending. but there are new folks coming out the system we want to know the best practices for entry into the system for the new folks.

the recommendations that the audit had for us are pretty small and align that michelle said we have a small piece of the pie. we use the majority of the money we receive to hire sort of a first of its kind in california for alternative plan for prosecutors who's focus is on the community and trying to put together a plan that would best promote public safety for not only the offenders and it's reindustry but for victims as well as is the community they victimized. so our alternative insensitive planner one of the elements was to make sure we've used our resources well, we're looking better way ways to capture his

work we've hired a c i o. he is looking at working with sort of outdated systems we have to make them strong and to among them a better system to understand how we are doing our work. we're tracking all 1178 cases and we're tracking the probation matters to make sure we're consistent in how we deal with people and consistent with individuals cases recognizing that each case and person is individualized we're making sure we have the right programs important inform the right people. one of the recommendations i don't necessarily agree with we should have a written protocol i

think we don't want to limit a person to certainty cases. technically this is all towards realignment but we've also looked at case that would go to prison and people who were eligible to go to prison and that in the morning is the necessary criteria since a b-109 prison is not an option for many of the prifrndz in san francisco so we look at the case to assist prosecutors in seeing the best resolution for if individual but the other part of the is resolution progress o process

we've seen an to determine the best solution and for many of those people it maybe prison but a great number of them it's not. for example, a young offenders no criminal history who committals a strong-armed robbery prison isn't the right place for them but i make the determination of what is an appropriate sentence. so you talked about training with the probation department our sensing planner is retraining he folks - it's important for prosecutors to know the full variety of the

things that are available to them. i'm concerned with the written strong protocol would some how diminish that. i think we will strengthen the process and the data will show how on the referral process goes and the success rate but i want to write down and pigeon hole that aspect. i believe that michelle and the court touched on parole. there was an unclear recommendation of what they'd play but the folks come to our department are the people who

have committed this serious violent crimes. penal code with specifically amend to allow the davis to file for the prosecution hearing and we're going to do that if appropriate. the courts believe we'll have a strong role as well in representing the prosecution in any type of parole hearing. the numbers are in fluctuation right now we didn't have the good working relationship with state parole as we did with other agency but we are working closely with parole to have some process that make sense. we've meet with the parole

department and we know that july 1st, we'll be responsible for handing pr in county >> no questions here? that you thank you for your presentation. i appreciate it. loots been said already jessica so - and i'll make is short >> i'd like to echo on the feedback on the recommendation related to combining the cc p and insensitive commission i'd like to echo the fact that they have a that distinct function. we're responsible for staffing those commissions and i believe

we do so of whichly to make optimal use of people's time that's it >> would you that was good? any questions? any other department staff that i've misses? colleagues are there any other questions that you have? that you now at this time i want to open it up to public comment any public speakers? public comment is closed >> members of the public thank you for you're taking the time to listen to this important hearing. and is the sheriff indicated i think that is something we can continue to keep our eyes and

areas open to the findings. the budget analyst thank you. may i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> motion madam chair that you i want to make a quick point. first, i want to thank you supervisor cowen for having this on the agenda it's was of the most important discussions we've had in city hall in a willow i want to say that even though there's a lot of work to do in san francisco and to see the coordination with the departments.

and, of course, to our budget and legislative analysts their analysts always adds an analysis that's not there. thank you. again supervisor cowen >> thank you for your active participation. now may a have is a motion to the call of the chair? >> madam chair i move. >> madam clerk i move that we take a two minute recess so that the thank you, thank you everyone for being with us madam clerk call item 3.

>> hearing is hearing on policy. and i'm going to turnover the rest of the meeting inform president chiu who will manage the hearing >> thank you, madam chair. so today's hearing is on the washington project on the sewer compacts. we get recommendation for good news i've invited the port on commission to come today but since we don't have an overall presentation and today's hearing does resolve some complicated

issues i've put together a brief cover. and sf tv if you could go to the laptop. today's hearing is in part about our sewer system and our vulnerabilities to that system. so those are in the returning monday district a brick pipe that created a 20 foot sinkhole. next slide. those are pictures 89.4

>> so some of the details around the construction just to refresh your memories is we need to know what it will emancipation proclamation tail above and below the ground we have luxury condos on the east waterfront in almost 60 years that go up to 1 hundred and 38 floors above the ground. we were talking about the entitlements of the developer that received were typically - this will entail the