and balance is coming from they're doing what they're supposed to do in their thoughts how it might be a more sufficient use of resources >> thank you. i have one question. one of the other recommendations is that priority won designation the recommendation is to offset the increase community assessment service centers cost by reducing the number of staff by officers. you disagree with this finding? >> we clearly rolled out the responsibility are vs. the deputy probation officers they have all the legal mandates of

going out and doing field visit. we have ratios of 50 to one we maintain the ratio because staff helps make the corrections and provide the classes. the actual offices themselves are interviewing and making sure their compiling and demeanor their initially treatment and rehab plan and their ongoing compliance with that plan. that's part of it they're responsible for the case matter. and, you know, making the reservation. so we know what's happening with

those individual clients. it's when you look at the role of the case management in the vs. the officers very different. if you can imagine 51 folks on a caseload and the staff to be out in the field supervising them that in and of itself takes a significant amount of time making those treatment plans and making sure their complil and if not going into court and all that work going into the jail entry pod to make sure we get them back on track. that's the peace officer responsibility vs. the hands on case manager. i appreciate the prospective of the analysis office but when you

talk about the immense amount of work with those highly at risk folks well >> thank you. i would concur with the chief probation officer that those services are important. it goes back to our similar certain about training not that it's not important but there their costs or missed opportunities. if you look at our page 32 we have a table that shows the services we currently provided. we also looked at the prospective roles of the deputy probation officers. that case was not open at the time of the audit. they've not actually developed

the plan yet to show the dpaefgs yet. >> it's something they need to continue to do. we'll certainly reassess this so that services are not being redundant or are not inefficient >> thank you. thank you chief real quick can you describe our planning process to address staffing and to address some of the issues we're dealing with here on the audit >> working with the contract roles responsibility job description of the officer staff as compared to the roles and responsibility for the lc a staff and the policies and

procedures that do delineate what those roles are. >> i'm trying to understand the timeline of the budget. >> well, the roles and responsibility we've been moving toward that. we've had policies and procedures about staff roles since we opened. but we've done more work with the lc a what their job descriptions and the policy and procedures manual will reflect that. >> okay. all right. thank you. we we have next sheriff. >> thank you sheriff.

madam chair, supervisors good morning. i'd like to butt recess some of the points that the chief had made that conversation that they are having before you today is fleerm important. we're having conversations about realignment is a very positive experience. we hear day-to-day news reports of conservative counties that don't share govern brown's views and helping with the responsibilities back to the county in and rehasht

prisoners san francisco was fortunate because before there was pressure on the state to awe vital pressure on the county before brown was elected we can actually connect the dots back to the san francisco board of supervisors. the reentry project is now - we've never been able to forecast 6 years ago the changes of the state criminal justice system as it has transcended us on to the local government >> i precious the sheriff's

department the public defender the mayor's office, the juvenile before that accident i role they play and the fleet of service providers and the board of supervisors and how we've been able to really advance that symmetry to be able to do some first in the state of california as it means to responding a b-109. as a sheriff i get to benefit from the lowest jail population in the county ever california. there's no way we could have predicted that the fact that our jail population is 1 thousand 4 hundred and 47. we watch this every day of a a

b-109 approximately 2 hundred and something inmates down today. presents us opportunity and latitude to work with other partners so we can zero in on the question of recidivism and tackling high repeat folks. whether their come back to the state or advanced to the state a counselor that requires a level of supervision both by in custody probation so it units us as a matter of public safety we're painting for the rest of the city if we want to make an imimprint on the city that we're

doing a better job of tackling recidivism. 75 percent of our population is pretrial that means that a high majority of the folks in our jail population can't afford bail or people who certainly representative of more disadvantaged population. and for the first time in the null insensitive commission we're wrestling with old mainstays that have vexed criminal justice system nearly 70 percent of our jail population is with substance

problems. but when you see mental health issues we're seeing a higher behavior court those were court again that were established some years ago and are worth their weight in gold so help process a population instead of just falling back on indicator first then rehabilitate later. the picking order is 55 thousand dollars a year so if we resort to more alternative ways to make a good use of resources we are saving the taxpayers significant amounts of money. i absolutely >> - excuse me.

>> i welcome the budget analysts reports. >> tell you said accident peaking order. >> norms of managing someone in the system it's approximately 55 thousand dollars a year for the taxpayer. it's a little bit higher than the state average costs but are we're san francisco and we try a little bit harder but if you were to send somebody which is often the case through pretrial. we can save money by stopping a person from repeated officers.

and with the sheriff a b-109 we're permitted to use our discretion to allow someone going through the process. >> okay. >> and as i was just saying back to the budget analysis recommendation there were 2 we put into place strategies to address the two these are readily agreed to you will have legislation before you that allows greater discretion electronic monitoring this provides for the county sheriff's but it has been approved by the board of supervisors. upon my return as sheriff i was

concerned there was not the expanded assessable such as those folks under expanded sentencing and others that would be able to afford or benefit from our post custody programs. when i saw that the numbers were dramatic low i turned the spicket back on by creating policy that allows to justify the data. and my action took place a number of weeks before we had interviewed with the budget analyst but with the budget analyst report doesn't say and in defenses of our staff with increasing the number of the participants in those profit program especially those are who

are more sophisticated in their criminal behavior it's not an 8 to 5 job we have to increase our night time shifts where the crime is higher but also it requires a greater responsibility on our part of supervising those and making sure they don't run a foul of the law and that means having to resign my staff to night time shifts. we're certainly trying to deal with the criminal justice system. i'll be happy to answer questions >> actually, my question was the to specific budget analyst

remedies. i'm hearing your pursuing this before the analysts budget >> when will we begin to see the differences? >> i'm seeing that some concerns that i'd like to share with you. it's the first formal hearing that the a b has been present one is housing. san francisco has a significant housing problem important those formerly incarcerated those whodunit we send out on an early release and that's from

discretion discrimination. about doing everything we can to find alternatives to incarceration or shifting from categorization to a more post custody supervised program the person needs housing and that confronts our department you don't reels someone who's homeless. how many homeless folks do we have coming into our jails. that also i am cats part of the population we're talking about. now we're beginning to assess what's working always has other questions we hadn't looked at.

so it's a population such as in district 10 and in districts 11 districts 57 he 6 which is the largest populations that are hosting people on probation or parole or people libel to return to the neighborhoods in which they come from that were the highest in incarceration levels we have to do a better jobs in providing housing. >> i want to interject my office is talking that up and we're going to remain from discussion. >> love to support you in any arrest warrant way in that endeavor. >> just a couple of follow-up

questions first of all, thank you she have for being here and welcome back to the board the former supervisor you're a former member but i wanted to follow up on the point on housing. which is a big issue and i'm very happy to hear that there is something that is in the works. are there any examples out there in any other jurisdiction where they have tackled that issue in a successful way or are we venturing onto the - and this is reflected from large cities and counties going through.

there are other communities where they're able to have service providers with adult abrasions. those are single or two providers that help facilitate housing efforts. we make sure that the soon to be x offender incarcerated are getting into hours and i think we do need to tighten that flow much better >> and just a final question i think it's really remarkable when you look at the realignment where the jail population is and where that is relative to crime rates in the city.

i mean, we're doing all those innovative things and using alternatives to incarceration and you see that not only is our jail population down but crime is down so, i mean what is happening? the nature reflexion that is going they miss portray the nexus to crime but it's not well qualified are the nature reflexion is crime is attached to this. one in particular we wouldn't be in this kind of position if it wasn't for the symmetry that i and chief mentioned earlier or the crime partners to come

together. in each in this industry that are nature tensions that are unique to each departments. i think as a result of people honing in and not just a b-109 but grasping with the high criminal rates that units us in the responsibility of answering this question and that's part of the reason we're seeing that. but i want to caution folks. that the population trend although we're making major inroads is on the psych population it's worthy of another hearing were what is our

city and team approach to deal with a population that is going to continue to draw in ways of city resources in ways we're not perpetrated >> thank you thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> flex the mayor's office of housing or representative from the mayor's office of housing. >> he was here earlier? >> i know. thank you >> thank you supervisors i'm with the mayor's office. give me one moment.

okay. that's our power point presentation is all set up. >> thank you yes.

>> we've harder a little bit about the inside for housing for our reentry people come back into the community so i hope your discussion that topic. absolutely. >> great so i'm going to talk first very briefly about the mayor's office in the audit was and then i'll look at the way we've been resolved in reentry housing a long time and affordable housing for former incarcerated folks. so for the audit mayors housing staff was interviewed.

and we provided the housing department with information and we provided two documents that define our priorities and the consolidated plan and the fair housing report. those reports describe reentry housing needs and recommended housing needs for reentry housing population. so as i want to point out that before we were involved in the audit reentry housing has been a growing priority for about 5 years since we began working with the council. participation in the reentry council has spurred our efforts to make sure that formerly

incarcerated individuals have housing. so we focused on expanding vertebras access to all folks with a criminal record. we combined a model screening policy that requires awe our affordable housing agency to screen them in rather than screening them out. so providers are expected to seek evidence to provide mitigating circumstances and that that will not be repetitive of their future behavior. let's go back to that slide.

mroishts. i'm not sure where intak is there a missing slide? that you might have it on our hand out and what's the missing slide. >> the describes that they created a model screen policy that was fully implemented in our local support units that's about 15 hundred units and those units receive a higher level of city funding and also receive support from other departments so they're able to help with the reentry population. so we asked those unit to

provide the access. we have more affordable providers and their expected to screen but the policy allows them a little bit more discretion. so folks with children will be more careful to be accepting individuals with say criminal sex cases. those are the units you see think 0 the list before you although unfortunate we don't have a large reentry units but we're getting more. >> how did you decide if 55 was

sufficient and what's our interaction with the probation department and sheriff's department in making those decision. >> sure. you know the mayors offense of the housing has about supportive of housing for inmates for a long time. you're not seeing the reflection of the current priorities of the city but honestly historical housing hadn't been for funding >> so is there communication with the sheriff's department is there a target you have in mind. >> we haven't received imply