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we had the multi-tier structure. this is the start of 90-day public comment as you mentioned for the community to now weigh in on the line changes. the top of that is this city's team. you heard from randy mcclure and you have the conduct here tonight and captain from the sfpd who is the project manager. we had a series of focus group interviews consisted of the command staff members specialized units within the p.d. within each of the districts ranging from the patrol to supervisor within the station along with city stakeholders such as public works an planning and folks that were having either information that would be valuable to us such as expansion or facilities. we interested -- interviewed all of those and then we had
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convening the work with five representative captains and we had the steering community which consist of the controller and chief to effect the final recommendations. our process as you can see had an overall methodology that you follow. if you start from the left we have the working group that i just described. we had those series of interviews with all of those city level stakeholders and then we had a very high commitment to data analysis. i will describe some of those points to you next. we were analyzing all of the data then producing maps that we brought to the working group. we met in a series of meetings in the working groups, sometimes 2 days at a time reviewing all the maps and data from the information and then to the final recommendations that went to
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the steering committee which made the final choice that brought us where we are today. some of the data we reviewed, i won't go into detail. the first questions is kad for services and a map put in the data set that the work can review or discuss. this was some information that maybe there wasn't information that we could potentially map, but it was something that we wanted to talk about such as the influx of folks to the city during the daytime that's a concern to the p.d. but not necessarily mappable. we did follow all the legislation. if it was available it was reviewed and discussed and data important to the p.d. but not necessarily listed in the legislation such as the location for shootings in
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addition to homicide. it reviewed each one of those pieces. the selection product brought us over 50 suggestions in those interviews and we created the map for the working group. they reviewed those maps brought them down to nine and within the next month made refinements to and reviewed all the data in the discussion slide that they brought down to four maps that they thought would be workable and then sent to the steering committee for the final selection. the slide that everyone is mostly interested is what is this going to look like. as shown in the map is in read the current district outlines and in blue, the proposed district lines that would be considered for each district. if we start with the bayview
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district, the change here again, blew is the proposed and red is the current. the northernmost border of the bayview station comes down from the china basin area to 16th street. that is the only change in the bayview district, so just it's northern border. the next map shows the tenderloin station. so, if we start at it's northern border which is gary street that goes east to market, you will see that gary at powell, that eastern border drops down along powell street to market and then goes east to third and then if you look at it's far west border, south of market. the western border now starts at south van ness going down to m -- mission street to third street.
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>> i can't see it on this map. so commissioner, dejesus if you look there, again, geary, at powell to south. >> go on, i will just listen. >> okay, and then east at powell over to its third street border. we have some other printed maps if after we can hand those out to you you can see it a little bit clearer. >> maybe if we can make it easier when i first saw the map i had some questions and captain bama explained to me which ones shrunk. >> i guess the easiest one to see on this particular map.
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for all intents and purpose for all of those streets that run south and market street about k -- become the tenderloin. >> okay, that makes it simple. >> the next one is southern and that if you look at its former northern border near market street it drops to van ness to the mission to the bay. it's dropping south and you will learn on the next map what happens to a little part of it and then because of the move, the southern border is now at 16. so it drops south from the china basin area.
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the next map chose the southern district down powell then along market and it goes east to the bay at mission street now instead of market. so it drops at third in market to third in mission and east to the bay. so what that does is tenderloin and central southern most border is creating that border for southern. >> it's mission street. >> for the next one is
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currently at western border starting at broadway street. it will now move west starting at the northern point on broadway street to visadero to castro street to end on market street. it's that border to west of the divisadero to castro to market street. that would be the only change for the northern station. what that does is it picks up the housing that is west of the space now in the western addition. it's expanding to that area.
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>> it picks up marcus garvey even though it's across from the northern station. it moves to this. >> so with that change in northern it will change the richmond's border and we'll talk about the park as well. essentially the eastern border of richmond is now divisadero and you can see on the red line that a part of that area from masonic to divisadero used to be on the park district, that section now will be in the richmond. so the next one is how do these impact the park station now along the border of the street, it will now continue along fulton to divisadero
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street and that reflect from masonic to divisadero and it will no longer going to steiner. that is the change for park station. we mentioned that we looked at the data and this slide that you see here shows the impact on the kad, the cultural services and the cable, the incident and you can see the current and the proposed. so the standard deviation that which the data changes from the average or the mean is better for cable. it's slightly a little worse for the kad end of it, but when we look at the range for the kad and cable, the difference between the lowest amount of calls and the highest amount of calls, it improves that for the cable which is the incident. you might ask what does that mean for the kad, the akkad that calls for services means there can be multiple calls
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for one incident. we began to focus more on the cable which are the accident levels, the ones that officers tend to spend their time on solving that for the city. so there was some improvement with the objective trying to balance that work load between the districts when it comes to the incident level. so that concludes what our formal presentation entails. i'm sure you have specific questions about the districts. >> one of the other things as you will notice that the line are cleaner on the new maps. there is not as many for lack of a better phrase, nukes and crannies. not a lot of pockets. to the south of divisadero to market from point a to point b.
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everybody knows pretty much that that's a straight line. the other fact that both sides of divisadero are the responsibility of northern station just like both sides of mission street are the responsibility of southern and both sides of larkin street are the responsibility of tenderloin. because the problem was for the people that live on larkin street and divisadero and it used to be on market street was that one side of the street would belong to one station and the other side of the street would belong to the other station and that just created problems. we just thought it was easier to make the division on major blvd and major streets straight shot as possible and on those borders create that street to belong to one station or the other. >> okay.
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thank you for your presentation. i want to thank you for helping to clarify some of the issues. my first question is i want to go back to your project line. can we talk a little bit about go back to april 2014 and may 2014. can you describe for me your interviews with city stakeholders and that process, and i will tell you this is what my concern is. we are now going to meet with committee. i understand there is a specific community process in place, but i'm also concerned that if perhaps rgs i want to make sure, i want to know where the community did come into maybe informing the plan. sometimes just hearing the impressions from them early on also helps to shape the plan as well and it also helps to alleviate some of the
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concerns that may come at this particular state. i'm just wondering what kind of community involvement did we have in may 2014, p working groups and the city stakeholders interviews? >> for this scope of the project the work included working with the internal stakeholders and the city department and leaving the public comments to start tonight with the lines that were proposed and then for the police department to hear that public comment starting now. our actual scope for this department did not include you the community engagement piece. >> it's not my contention that anyone did anything wrong. i mean there is legislation and i'm sure you follow it. >> commissioner, if i might. the community input now is now, a 90-day period from now until march 10th for
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community input. you can tell from that earlier slide that it went from an ocean of maps to a near ocean of maps to getting to a point where we wanted to get to a map that was data driven with explanation because i think the final input and i was stress this very much to the public that this map is in pencil. now we have a map that everybody that pretty much works these districts and with all the information put in, there can be an explanation. i think the folks in the district and some commentary in the crowd approval that having both sides of larkin street belong to 1st district is what most communities would like to see. there is one other district and we have to get as close to a consensus that we can.
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>> another thing to add is there was a group of sf p.d. personnel that work in the district. so concerns weren't going unnoticed and it was reflected upon during their meetings. it was the access part of the community. that p.d. had to get to their public comments. >> i appreciate that and there is a process and this process allows for that community voice and i also have to allow the community voice which has been ringing on my phone asking why didn't we ask sooner. the answer to that question, the answer is certainly their voice is important and we want to solicit that input now. this is the process, but going forth perhaps we should consider is there an early on
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stage which we might have some type of meeting just to hear from folks before hand. maybe that's not your responsibility, maybe that's our responsibility, maybe it's something we have to look at but because of phone calls i have received, i would like to raise it. thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> that was my concern. this process is new to us. and that is we have gone to many community meetings and we have heard exactly that, which is that i belong in one district and nighttime -- i'm in no man's land. we have heard that and it was brought to the table.
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i'm glad it's in pencil. >> i want to ensure the community that the process was prescribed by the ordinance, right. so we are now at the piece where to go to the public with a draft to get to a finish point and three months is a long time and we'll have some input. >> that's for getting the stages that are across and we are not familiar with it and the community not familiar and so you go to meetings to get information. >> commissioner hwang? >> i have a couple questions. moving forward what is the next method for hearing, is there e-mail address for information. how is that going to be
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packaged and given back to you. >> we are not contracted to do the community engagement piece. we are contracted to help change the maps that the p.d. gets the input on. there is a packet going out to the p.d. to use at the community level. >> right, certainly at the risk of my staff killing me, anybody could send an e-mail to chief greg suhr at sppd.org. i think people need to understand that the questions or comments are important. you won't necessarily get a response back from these e-mails but there will be a packet for these to be heard at community meetings and considered.
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everybody's input will be considered. >> my question in conjunction with the commission if we are holding these input sessions are we collecting these ones to give. >> we are taking any and all commentary to try and figure out what works best. i mean absent, we are trying to have common sensical redistricting. the primary driver of this whole thing is to get the police station in the district it belongs in and when the tenderloin station, when tenderloin task force was created, it wasn't a station. then it was formalized as a station and then every other station in san francisco has a minimum of five sectors and tenderloin station only has three. by giving them this additional run up and down
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market street will give them more and formalize and make it permanent. now it really does make tenderloin station the tenth formal police station in san francisco. >> if the data is primarily driven off the kad and cable was there something in place to account for the english proficiency communities. where people don't feel comfortable calling the police in these communities. >> we did look at a variety of demographic databases from the transbase to map and look at so they can see where the current lines and proposed lines would fall within special populations, and they were very vat for lower than average income, youth and
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senior population, things of that nature were mapped and shown and discussed. either multiple variables along that line around demographics that were included. >> thank you, my final question for the chief and perhaps you already answered in in your last answer. if we do end up with these districts that have some kind of variation that has a call for service would be adjusting for the police personnel by station to account for this? >> right, tenderloin is the great example for that. right now the market belongs to the station and they are at 24 and full staff at 36. so, that personnel would then be assigned to tenderloin. because of union rules and --
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seniority, you can't just move them around. the other piece is that each sector car, it takes 12 officers inform staff a sector car seven days a week 24 hours a day. that would be 7 additional officers that aren't any place right now. that would be a bump of 24 officers to tenderloin station. tenderloin station will bump somewhere around 60 officers counting the market foot beat from the market which is very significant for tenderloin. i think what ms. craven would tell you with the exception of southern station going down to about 5 percent and they were in the highest volume station calls for service already. it doesn't impact their service for calls already to serve police. as the 300
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officers coming back, tepid lion -- tenderloin station picks up more than they had before. >> commissioner mall era? >> yes, sitting on a task force for years, i want to tell you this process went through the most difficult part. i welcome community input and what the public has to say, but in the end, there is probably going to be whatever are the needs for each district depending on what the department experiences. so i'm looking forward to the input by the public to see some of what their concerns or needs are, but, again, in the end is where we are really going to have to balance that with the needs of the department.
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>> commissioner, dejesus? >> what i'm hearing you are not part of the city department. how are we going to do that. i heard people that said they never went and never heard about it. we are starting january 28th in the tenderloin, how are we going to get this to the district to the people who want to come? >> it will be on the e-mails and website. >> it's not in a lot of our websites. >> i'm open to suggestions. >> there are many groups in the neighborhood that aren't on there. >> we would ask of the captains to aggressively solicit all of their community groups especially in the tenderloin areas with many neighborhood associations what have you. it doesn't appear the tenderloin had a tough time getting the word out about tonight. [ laughter ] but the reason we picked the
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four stations that we picked to have the meetings is those are the boundaries that change the most. we wanted the station, the districts to -- that change the most to host the meetings. so there is no doubt about it that they have their time. >> going back too commissioner hwang's suggestion how are we going to get the notices out and are we going to get the notices out to the communities with the language to the communities so they are notified of it? >> we'll make sure that whatever flies we do sent out will go out in spanish or chinese. >> all right, any other questions from commissioners? >> captain, do you have anything you want to add? >> there was a lot of work and effort put in by this office.
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[inaudible] >> >> so i was actually as commissioner dejesus well knows, i was partners with captain obamaer for a long time. he's been nothing short of heroic for this whole thing. he will be retiring in 2015. so it will be a big loss but i think he's being modest and passionate and he did a lot of work himself. so i appreciate it.
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>> all right. commissioners, if there is no more discussion, i want to describe that this is the beginning of the process. we will be meeting in the districts which are most affected boo the redistricting proposals in the tenderloin january 28th at 6:00. the location is not decided but will be publicized. we'll be meeting in the northern station, february 11th, location to be determined. in the southern section, location to be determined and the bayview section march 4th.
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the location is not stated yet. it will be posted through our website posting and publishing in different languages so it gets out so the access community and the greater community itself has access to this information and the commission is able to solicit the comments as commissioner melara points out. the public voice is important and we are open to hearing this. we want to hear from the p be on this proposal. before we move on, chief greg suhr? >> to be able to finish the process we are able to get our work done and reach the point where the commission believes where we have the final product then we would work with dem to get the new boundaries established and the new maps and the like.
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dem tells us it will be about 4-6 weeks to get that done so in mid-march, it will be no later than mid-may that the boundaries will take effect. >> thank you, chief. to begin our process of public input, do we have any public comment on our line item no. 4, the presentation of the district station boundaries assessment report. public comment. please step to the podium. >> david elliot louis, commenting strictly for myself as a resident of the tenderloin. i technically live in the northern precinct but i suffer the problem of the precinct. i live in the corner of larkin and valero and there is