that the criminals just jump acrs the boarders and so it is hard to chase them down, but more importantly, we need that human touch that we have foot patrol, bike patrol officers with the residents and with each other. with the bike officers and say that a case could be made because it is one of the highest crime areas in town. and just like for you to think about. and give it, and we are all trying to think outside of the box as to how we can make this a safer place, and certainly an area where a lot of elderly people live. and we need and we talked about pedestrian safety, bike safety, make the sidewalk safe for the blind, and hearing impaired and the elderly and the children. and safe from the drug dealers, and safe from pimps and prostitutes and just make it a more warm and friendly place. we need all of the help that we can get thank you.

>> good evening, my name is harvey and i am a club owner on broad way street, and also, a member of the community benefit district for broad way. and i am here to thank the captain for keeping his promise when he first met me, and shook my hand and looked me in the eye and said that he is here to work with us, and to make broad way safer, and if we have any issues to come out and sit down with us and guide us. to be a better operator, and have a safer block. so, i want to thank him. and i want to praise him for him and his team doing such a great job in such a short period of time and also being so accessible he hands me his business card and he is always there and he is always available and i want to thank him for that. >> thank you.

>> hello commissioners my name is stephanie and welcome to the district and we love it when you come to visit, first of all i wanted to just say that we have been very fortunate at the central station and the captain is no different and i want to thank you, chief, for sending lazar to our station and don't take him away from us. unless it was for something good, but talk to us first. i have addressed the commission on a couple of items and one of them was about party buses and this does remain a problem for us, and captain and the team have worked hard and have done what they can and whatever they can possibly do, but with the absent of the rules of the party buses it is difficult and i would just ask that we continue to provide the tools necessary to the captain to deal with that particular issue. and particularly with respect

to under age and intoxicated passengers coming off of those bus and causing problems for the streets and as well as for the business owners. and also, i have noticed because of some serious incidents that happened in the country as well as in california, there is legislation that is percolating here and there i am paying attention to that. and also i discussed the liquor license saturation the last time that i was here and there was confusion over the district station and alu and abc responsibility. and there are, and some very complex problems and some of that has to do the zoning and whatnot and i guess that i am happening for further stream lining of that process and i do understand that there has been stream lining happening and i am appreciative of that i would like to see the police could use the tools and in the community and tools for both

and something, for example, like an on-line directorry and where the police or the community could go into that data base, and look at any of the establishments and liquor licenses and permit and anything related to that establishment and it may be something that we could take on and that san francisco is specific because the abc is lacking there. and that could be a tool again for both the police as well as the community. i do want to address one thing that the community is really struggling with. and mike, already mentioned this and this is with the non-emergency police line. and it is very frustrating, and we do, as a cpad try to go out and talk to the community about what the police needs from us in order to help them. and one of those things that we do is to tell the community members that you need to call the non-emergency line and you need to talk to them and the police are there to help you and it is very frustrating and it is very hard to get through on that line and it is

frustrating to loosen to the loop that goes around and around and get to the point where i used to hang up because i would wait for so long and now i am going to stay on, and i am going to stay as long as it is going to take to answer the phone and sometimes it is two minutes and sometimes it is five or ten. but i have waited as long as 18 minutes and that is just too long. i should be able to get to the police and i would hope that you could help with that. i guess that is all and i think that my time is up, thank you very much. >> i have a question, under aged drinking issues could you elaborate on the party bus issues? >> yes. so i didn't get to really talk about broad way and apologize, so we have party buss that come into broad way and most of the venues that are business operators have agreed like many of the other entertainment districts such as soma and

agreed not to take the buses, and we do have one or two businesses that choose to do so and that is part of their business model. there aren't a lot of laws or regulations regarding these buses they are regulated by the puc and we just don't have any control over them bringing people in from wherever it is, and they have under aged people on those buses that get on the buses and having already been drinking and sometimes they have alcohol on those buses and then dropped off in the middle of broad way corridor, and some of them don't go to our businesses so they are not spending money they are already drunk, and then they just tend to go into the neighborhood and cause trouble. i think that the captain as well as the businesses along broad way could fill you in on that more. >> thank you.

>> give you an idea of how difficult of a situation that s >> thanks for coming and sharing ideas too. >> goods evening, commissioners, chief, and captain, my name is robert garcia and i am the president of the save the streets tenants and merchants association and i would like to start off with a party buses. what they have aa limo permit, they were raising so many problems in the neighborhood, parking there, and the fumes going in and the noise and knocking down the trees, and so, we pushed for a permit and so the permit that they were given was a limo which allows them to drink on the bus its goes to the college campuses and bring the students in and they have their own alcohol and have it on the bus these buses have sinks with ice and plastic

cups and so forth for them. and we have run them out of our neighborhood and so now they park on the other side of union square in the financial district, and they walk across our neighborhood. so on the weekends, here they are come ng and walking over to polk street which is the new broad way, and we have to put up with that at 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning coming back it is the same thing, but i live in the lower knob hill, and it is most density populated area west of new york city. and 8 square blocks, we have 297 buildings on the national registry of historic places and this area is a historic district and plus many of the buildings are city landmarks, we need protection. i have been on knob hill since 1968 when i got out of the service. and i have not seen the beat

officers look for a brief time on geary street and now the community is really excited and we are going to have beat officers coming through union square to this part down to polk street and back, on geary post and this is fantastic. there is gentrification going on and it is moving up the hill and we see it and we have more people sleeping on the streets and we have a lot of crimes that we have never had before and now, we have a mental health facility, in the tender loin, wanting to move up the hill, and move up the hill into the lower knob hill area. and 700 clients, 55 criminal records, about 45 mental health serious mental health problems,

and they are taking over the historic buildings i don't think that it is a done deal yet, but they have over 600 clients and no meeting room and nothing for them and they are going to be coming to the front door and they are going to be taking them in and directing them where they have to go and walking them back out and they are on the street in our neighborhood. and it is also the highest hill and steep hill... thank you. >> thank you no your comments. >> thank you. >> and we have supervisor kim who has joined us too and hopefully you will share some remarks. >> great. >> that i think she wants to defer to all of you guys first. go ahead. >> thank you kind of you. >> thank you. >> my name is (inaudible) and i am a resident of the district, and i am also a member of cpax. and captain lazar has her, ear

full of us complaining the homeless, and it was in the lower part of the ports man square now they are invading into the upper part.

(inaudible) he did a nice job but i want to reiterate, and i talked to the captain about this, the homeless problem is really reaching a venus and i live in the gateway apartments

and every time that i talk to the community, and say that i am going to the cpad and the captain, what is your biggest concern and it is the homeless. i have mental illness and drug abuse in my family and i am sympathetic and i don't think that the commission and as richard said the board of supervisors and the people at the highest levels of the city need to come together and work on this. our officers are working hard and i echo all of the sentiments here and he has much, much more important things to do than you know just to try to solve this incredibly complex social issue, if the commission and the supervisors and the other city leaders could get together, on this, it would be a big help for everyone in the city not only the residents, but also the visitors, and as you know are being affected by it too, and it is hurting us he

economically and these folks need the help and they need dignity and they need to have some help to get off of the street off of the drugs. and get place to live. and get their lives back, thank you. >> thank you. >> good evening, i am deren swam and i will be short and sweet, just kind of under scoring what was just said, you know i think that the city needs to take a lean in to the problems that the approach of dealing with the homelessness and you know the current strategy of what seems to be like a roll out the red carpet type of an approach and a free-for-all activity for the different ends of spectrum that we do have as well as the folks in the middle that choose to be homeless, there has to be a better way there does.

there is a lot of different organization and folks in this industry that work to try to help and it is not justify. and i think that what is going to happen and it will happen and m events happen in the revent weeks and the city will be defending itself on national news and talking about why it has failed with homelessness, when we should be coming out with a better solution, right? a better answer and a better approach to address it to solve it. >> right now the other cities and counties are laughing and sending them our way and so we know that it is a place to go and go and live on the streets and that it is inappropriate, and that is a shame, i think that we can do better and i think that all of us with the community, and with the city officials and the police department, and the da and the police and the supervisor chiu,

and kim, we can work together to find the right answer here, thank you. >> good evening, i am from san francisco, and the organization that is responsibility for all of the neighborhood watch groups in san francisco. i just want to say that it has been such a great experience to work with the captain's willingness and his team's willingness to work on safety and we have done great things together and i definitely look forward to our continuous partnership, thank you so much. >> good

leadership here i would like to touch on a few issues let me start with the pedestrian safety and we all know that this past weekend as way horrible weekend for china town. and i actually received a call a few minutes after she was struck, and there were a couple of things about that experience that i just want to pass alone. and there were not enough officers on the scene to try to get or witness statements of what happened. and there is a lot of statement and i grabbed a couple folks to come down to the scene i think that it points at the need for us when there is an emergency response in one of our immigrant neighborhood to get enough responsers who can help to translate and the other thing that i would like to say and i hope that the chinese press was there, there were many witnesses who walked away, and we need to emphasize the importance of all of the residents, and only you can

make sure that the justice is done, and there are things that we can do i asked that we adjourn in her memory, and how to improve this particular intersection. it is an ongoing crisis for the city and i want to thank the men and women in blue for all of the enforcements and the tickets that you are righting, and i know that it is popular, the more tickets that we are sighting and anyone on the streets, and whether it be drivers or cyclists or pedestrian and that is making life safer for everyone. there are a lot of crimes that we are hearing and i have been talking to the captain about how we can find more resource to put more patrol and get more resources and this is actually

the, the part of china town where my wife's grandmother lived where she came to this country and this is a starting point for so many immigrants and so many who have been here for decades and we need to be sure that that is safe. we have done a lot of work in the last couple of years to make broad way safer and i think that we have finally started to turn the corner from when i first came in the office and chief suhr will remember that we would get the calls on the sunday morning of the latest shooting and fortunately that is not happening as often but we still need the resources i know that the captain is working with my office to get the taxi stands and i echo the concerns raised about the party bus and this has been a complete gap in failure in the part of state government to regulate the party buses that

are not only very challenging, they are tell meing that they do not want to have dozens of folks that are clearly intoxicated stumbling into the bars and often getting into fights and i do want to also, thank the decisions that have been made to put the officers on the polk street and that is something that we have been asking for and finally with the budget picking up that has helped. >> homelessness, yes, number one, two, and three call that we get in the office about the different issues and for me a big issue is how we do a better job of coordinating and how they can work with the team and the non-profit homeless providers to get the resource and move the people off of our streets, and rather than every department, with the problem that they have and think abouting how we integrate the services is important. and i also want to mention a topic that i don't think has been discussed as i have been sitting here around the auto break-ins, i have thought about

telling people to stop parking in the garage because we have see so many break ins in the public garage and this is a real problem and i know that there are resources put and decoy and others and you tend to get more camera and this is one of the most major significant quality of life that a lot of folks have, and let me just close by saying the border issues and i know that you hear about it a lot, crime between the northern and the central, and there are always issues about who patrols those areas. and so for example, on larkin street, it has been, which is the border between central and northern that has always been where we see a lot of prostitution, and drug dealing and pimping and i know that there have been a lot of attempts for the captains in those areas to figure out how to cross border, but i think that we can probably do a lot more work in that area. but i will tell you by and large, my constituents are very happy with the responsiveness that is here and we are good that we are getting new class and more folks on the streets and we can use more.

but i just again, want to thank everyone for the work that we are doing to keep the community safe. >> thank you. >> thank you president chiu. >> and we are so fortunate that we have supervisor kim and we will invite her up and i am not sure if we have had two supervisors at a community meeting and this is exciting and this might be a first, congratulations to this district. >> congratulations to commissioner loftus for being president. >> thank you. >> and yes, i do actually have a special station and it has been a immense pleasure to work with the captain and i appreciate his leadership and actually president chiu mentioned one of the things that i was going to talk about is the boundary lines between particularly actually central and northern and tender loin and figuring out how we can do the better coordination work there and we did have a great event today and it is the boundary line between northern and tender loin, and it is the playground and it is a really

important corner stone of our district because we have the fewest parks and the smallest parks and actually david chiu has come very close to the district six and the few open spaces that we have and we want to be sure that they are safe and their families use them and that is the adults use the multiuse parks and so the sergeant, we really want that to be a safe hub for a family in the neighborhood and to increase the patrol in that area and also want to figure out how to deal with the path room there but that is not an sfpd issue but a couple of things that we want to do there and so that our families are really using that playground but a great event today. every last wednesday of the month, our community is organizizing a bbq and a take back the playground, where all of the families are coming and we are bringing food and we had the northern and the tender loin police station, both the captain and commander, and so it is a huge show of support for the neighborhood when they see the officers come to events

like that and it makes everyone feel a ton safer and hopefully we will be able to change the behavior and the culture on those streets. and pedestrian safety, president chiu mentioned that, and that is also a huge issue from our office, and my district and we actually have the highest rate of pedestrian vehicle collisions in the city, and it has been great, and unfortunate to work with the captain on a really tragic incident on our boundary lines between david chiu and my district and you know, abnormal rkts a pedestrian walking his bike and very young gentleman who died on that intersection, the enforcement has been great and i want to thank the commander and the chief for taking leadership in that and making sure that the top five on five is being enforced and i see that difference being made in all of the central or all of the station and that has been a positive. but you know, i spent six years in china town working for the

cdc and i know the stockton corridor really well and i used to work with the youth program here. and i really want to partner with this neighborhood, even though it is not my district to make sure that we are making stockton and sacramento corner safer, and i was here when we did the scramble signal, through broad way and the immense difference that that has made, and stockton street is such a busy corridor, and both with some of our most frequently, you know, attended small businesses or grocery stores and our seniors or family and youth and all of the cars and trucks that come through the stockton treat and we need to do a better job with stockton and it is one of the intersections that did not get that additional treatment and it would be great to extend that and you know, in looking with the data, actually after those two incidents happened and we talked to sfmta and the left turn is actually the top reason for injuries and fatalities on that intersection and so you really need to be

looking at that left turn intersection and, that has them work with the sfmta as well and obviously making sure that we have the attention and the eyes on the street, and we can't lose me more people, those deaths are absolutely prevent able and so we look forward to working with all of the committees on a number of those issues, around homelessness. you know, i know that both the tender loin and the southern station has been doing a great job working with the cbo and hot team and one thing that i want to impress upon our residents is that we need more shelter beds, we have 1600 for the 6,000 people in the homeless count and one thing that is positive i have to say and just as a plug for the city that we are one city ha the homeless has not gone up, any other major city the homeless population continues to grow and ours has remained the same

at 6,000 which is frustrating, but, also, we have housed 10,000 over the last ten years and it is just that the symptoms of homelessness and whether it is domestic violence and poverty and lack of education and military, and veterans that are coming out of the wars and they are adding to the homeless roles and we need to continue to do that work but we need more beds throughout staoet if the city, if we don't have the places for the officers to take to that are living on the streets they are just shuffling people from one intersection to the other and we are experiencing that in our district as well. as construction goes up and development goes up, which is a positive for the city, there are less people places for people to hide and sleep in. we can find them moving from the transbay under the freeway and kind of coming in to western soma and other districts as well. and i think that this really emphasizes and impresses upon, you know the city's obligation to be sure that we have beds,

and you know, they are going to have to get placed throughout the city and that is something that i think that we need to move towards. and making sure that they are also staffed with nurse and psychiatrist and counselors, and really want to make sure that we work with the police commission on that issue as well. and thank you. >> thank you supervisor kim. >> okay, so we have covered a lot of issues tonight, this is a chance where my colleagues and i get to ask some questions of captain lazar and follow up. who has questions? >> i have a question. >> vice president turman has a question. >> captain, thank you for the very thorough and quite entertaining presentation, there was a question that i had one of the slides, and if you give me one moment.

okay. >> anyone else have questions? >> commissioner mazzucco, i still want to call you president, he is the recent past president. >> i have a couple of comments, i want to thank the captain and his family that give the new meaning to the police family with the whole family had here and these at every event and i want to thank you, his wife is also a member of the police department and has two great kids. and so thank you for being here. and it is also good to hear you know, being in the most senior member of the commission right now, when i first joined that is all that we heard about was broad way street, and tonight, we are hearing that is under control and there are some problems, but i want to thank the community, you have made a difference with that along with the police department, and so, fellow commissioners have not heard that and i want to say thank you, and taking care of that problem. and again, i want to thank the people that came tonight to talk about the homeless issue and it is a big issue in the city and we