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 buthe folks ce to our department are t 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 opse ofme 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 today 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 todayut an o

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 taking down of the building. and this is requires about 20 thousand 1 thousand dump truck trips over the seven months. now, what do sewer and eight washington have to do with each other. they have in common is the north effort main. the site is proposed to set over the cities largest sewer pipe. this is a pipe that my understanding is the 10 by 10 foot pipe and those pictures you saw earlier colleagues at westportal we're talking about a pipe this big (indicating). and we're talking about a pipe

that was 19 inches big now imagine between me and i guess that supervisor is 10 feet away from me imagine that pipe full of human wastes full of you know what. and this is a pipe that serves major parts of our city north beach our hills knob and services chinatown and in the maureen and i was told it also serves portions of supervisor kim's district in district 6. frankly everyone comes to work where everyone goes to show them o shop and tours in the neighborhood where 16 thousand folks a year flow through this area. next slide.

so this is a picture of i'm sorry it's a little bit hard to see. in the a map the eight washington site is to sit on top of the north forest main. there used to be a iron clad requirement the fact it's a called an easement of about 32 feet and as you learn today, our puc decided to give up this space and reduce the space so rather than 32 feet a little bit less than 6 feet. now you may wonder if there's construction next to this massive pipe of two basketball

stadiums it might seem to folks there's a little bit of risk during the construction. i may wonder since we're in earthquake county maybe a huge building hit that pipe. so those are some key dates of some of the documents we're going to be talking about about it today's hearing. the first two documents i think you're familiar with colleagues last year the committee approved the budget. and then early this year february 20, 2013, nothing has changed. now interesting enough there was a report that laid out the risk

of construction and the future possibility of an earth quack when was dated february 2nd, 2013, but the study but puc ambulance in july of the previous year and we have e-mails and letters i have documents at least between november 20th of last year and february 22nd there were conversations between the city staff about the concerns in this report. so this is a cover of the report and anyone that wants it can have it. but, of course, the devil is in the details and frankly the devil is in this report. next slide. so what i want to do is to ask

two questions to city staff what are the real risks to the projects and the immediately proximity to our projects and how could this not be included in the report >> i have a number of questions to go through. >> first of all, thank you for being here. i want to state at the outset truly i have respect for our cities work and we'll probable have some tough questions. so the first set of questions i have are really around what city sewer parts of the sewer system i understand you're the deputy for the puc what assets are

around this area >> i'm the deputy general manager i offer see the operations for the power operations i do have is short presentation and a i'd like this to be a interactive communication. this shows the court property and the yellow is actually some of the easements we currently have and the red lines depict our sewer system. we do have quite a bit of infrastructure in this area that includes the jackson street sewer and as well as we have the

north shore main that comes through this to our channel 3 division. and it's called a - it's being pumped it's under force this is one of our most important force >> how much force how many gallons of sewage per second. >> it pumps everything from across town. >> it's a 10 foot by 10 foot pipe? that's what i was told i remember when we had our conversation >> it's the jackson street box

and that's the critical thing we're trying to protect. we have both of those in play with the site >> brian anderson for the puc the pipe is in 36 diameter and it carries 20 million gallons a day. >> that's a lot of waste. >> okay. >> yes, it is. just checking >> go back to the presentation so just to let you know we have the jackson street box which is yellow running through the property that's where the 10 by 10 box. >> i'm sorry where on the map?

>> it is running and it's no yellow that's the portion of the 10 by 10 box that needs protection. >> so in other words that's underneath the projector we're talking about. >> there will be a 6 foot operation from the building and there will be a 3 and a half foot separation from a retaining wall to construct the underground parking. >> your puc engineers referred to the portions where there was a 4 foot distance between the the project. >> we're taking the conservative approach of 3 and a

half feet. >> we're talking about the distance between i move and supervisor campos between the building - >> between the retaining wall there's in another 3 and a half feet my but it's possible if something happened during the construction that could be at risk where the building could be shoved into the pipe. >> there are not redundant but we have work around these and under emergency situations we can move sewage around the city. you brought the second to lake

issue that was an issue to us we were able to have it back into serve service in about a week and a half >> i'm sorry you're talking about the issue of having it up and running. >> yes, we go upstream we block the sewer and take it down stream where it's effected. >> would you do it here? >> yes, we have the resources in place we're concerned about that and we want to insure not only for our existing consumers but for public safety that nothing happens to that sewer. >> and can you talk about what