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s providing more logical alignment with political district where possible and can be implemented in a short-term given facility and constrain that relocating the southern boundary to mariposa. being that i'm a landlord in the area, we would be second -- segregating a certain member of our population which are a unique need and not consistent with bayview and very consistent with the population and other 12 buildings we have in the neighborhood. i just ask for that consideration. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is core rin woods, from the advisory committee. to the success or agency, to the redevelopment
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agency otherwise known as oci;. i have lived on mission creek for 30 years. i have seen a lot of changes in the neighborhood particularly the last ten. we really are very grateful for the change in the boundaries. we are also very welcoming of the police to mission bay. we are looking forward to having you all there. we've kind of felt like orphans. mission creek has been the dividing line between bayview and southern and it's extremely difficult for the police and for the community to deal with this split. we don't want to perpetuate the split by putting the line short of the boundary of mission bay. i sent you all a letter with a map. all we are asking is that mission bay, all of
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mission bay from mariposa around the curve of the 280 freeway and trains up to 16th be included in southern station. we are looking forward to having the warriors, but i don't think it's easy for the police department to deal with two different jurisdictions when the warriors are going to be on one side of the street in southern and bayview is going to have to deal with alexander real estate and ucsf property across the street. so that one small change isn't really going to be reflected i don't think in your data driven analysis because we do exist. mission bay did not exist when a lot of these statistics were gathered. it's really only very recently that these buildings have been built and occupied. we
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would really appreciate your consideration. >> thank you, next speaker? >> my name is mel bido. the organizer at the vermont. over years being a resident there starting october 3, 2005. i have known of many cases of seniors who must go to banks or to the credit unit uni-in the federal building on golden gate to get their direct deposits and pay their resents at the tenderloin housing clinic. i myself experienced three muggings in the 10 years right on larkin going over to the office where my credit union money order was stolen.
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they couldn't cash it because i already made it out. but it made a problem for me in not being able to pay my rent on time. others have had the same experience. we have a number of residents who are mentally challenged. the officers in that district have been well trained on how to deal with mentally challenged citizens. we do not agree with changing the redistricting so you don't take it from larkin to polk. you take it the other way. it makes the adjustments to the district by including things people have recommended for the other end, but don't take it down to third and don't go over from larkin to polk. polk is also an area where there now are many drug selling,
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predators of seniors especially because we can't run. i can't run at all. i am disabled also. so why not take the people who are trained to deal with our kind of situation and do the redistricting to include polk street. that's my recommendation. >> thank you for your comments, mr. budel. >> i represent the san francisco alliance. one of the most frustrating thing is we can see the boundaries but you don't see the report that reflect how we come about the boundaries of this city. i don't think we do the residents of san francisco any favors by not being transparent and giving them a backdrop of the
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20-year reports coming outgoing back to the 80s of the san francisco police department and some of the systemic problems we've got. as you know i also represent the san francisco police relations board. i said over again without community policing and community relationships with this department, we are not going anywhere. this is without substance. i want to genres -- resurrect the report. we need to look at that report because it spoke about boundaries in a way that you can't do a without doing b. if you do a without b, you won't get c. i'm still waiting patiently for this commission to respond to the memo, but we are running out of time and we get more frustrated by the day. i think the department needs help like the department of justice. i
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believe that. the police department is getting better according to the media because it's the federal government stepping in since this is a political city and you have groups like the doa and you want to disrespect malia cohen and supervisor breed which we are not going to over step. you need federal government oversight otherwise this is nothing but a dog and pony show. this department needs oversight and you need federal oversight because a lot of people are very cozy when it comes to organizations that don't have the best interest of all of city of san francisco. >> thank you, mr. muhammad. next speaker? >> good evening. my name is vladimir -- i came from soviet union 40 years ago and lived for this time in san francisco. i have four
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proclamation one from mayor new some of san francisco and mayor lee from san francisco. one of them arrived at different times in san francisco. i carried four olympic torches for san francisco in the united states. i'm a holocaust survivor. now, i'm thinking that i'm back 6 years ago and here is hitler who put me on the street concentration camps in san francisco for -- i need help. six police came to my home at 12:00 at night and it's only to come at 12:00 at
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night. six police came. yes, my wife said to she wanted me to evict and she said to police that i'm a drug user and i never know. if i see somebody is using on this corner, i go on this corner. officer from richmond police station came. six people for me. okay? six police. like this. police. chief listen to me. they asked me if i'm using and i said never.
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>> sir, excuse me, sir. your time is up. i'm over here. thank you. your time is up. >> okay. >> it's up now. sir? your time is up now. thank you. >> sir, if a representative from the officer of citizens complaint, i think you might have talked before but you can talk to him about your specific complaint. thank you, sir. >> why are you here? >> sir, it's required 2 minutes for public comment. we give everybody 2 minutes oovm good evening i'm with life science in mission bay. currently we are going to find ourselves in the
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bayview district. our request is a simple one and that is if you would consider moving the southern boundary from 16th street to mariposa to include all of mission bay and all of the life science community in one area. >> thank you, next speaker? >> my name is jake. i'm a new tenant for business and right next door to catherine. the warrior station or the warrior stad stadium -- i know it's going to cause a lot of confusion. there can be coordination
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with the police department but we can eliminate it by moving tools to manage the line to mariposa. i live in modesto but i work here. it's the first time i have been to one of these. i want to say i respect the police department and i love everything they do and love we said the pledge of allegiance. >> thank you, sir. ms. brown. >> my name is clet brown. all lives matter. i lost my son august 14, 2006 , to a semi automatic gun. 30 rounds of bullets went into my son. since then i have been fighting for justice for my son. i bring these pictures because this is how i speak and talk about my son. in the paper,
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former gaeven newsom said i know who killed your son. still no justice. i care the names and you -- around with me. all of these men. it's been 8 years. i get emotional. these are the names of the young men that murdered my son. andrew, jason thomas, anthony hunter. these people are still walking the streets and kill again. this is what i have left of my son that i walk around and that i have to see everyday. his body laying on a gurney. how long is a mother supposed to deal with this. i don't care if i have to come crying for the rest of my life i
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will do this. there are days i don't want to cry. i'm tired. i need justice for my child an not just my child. it's about every child here. we are traumatized. the four young men that got murdered recently traumatized me again. they died in a chair, a car where they couldn't get out of. young men. imagine what those mothers are going through. imagine what i go through. those bullets going through those children's bodies. if you can find people come here and solve these cases, solve our kids cases too. we need justice and i need to follow you for the rest of my life, i will. i'm not judging anyone and i'm not saying anyone killed my child here, but i need justice. >> for people who are watching at home, there is still an open
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investigation to the murder of ms. brown's son from august 2007. there is a $250,000 reward. if you have information it's 415-575-4444. an anonymous tip line. please share any information that you have in that case. next speaker? >> thank you for letting me know where we are at tonight. i'm a member of black and brown. in san francisco, i don't care where you put these damn stations at. we want safety in san francisco. i recently went online, you know when her son died, she opened the casket up so the world can see it. i always came in this world being non-violent like matter rtin luther king jr.. i have to defend
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myself. where they have fires and you can be hated for being gay. i fought through a great deal. >> you want everyone to hear you. speak in the mic. >> i'm like oprah, she said i'm speaking for people of color and everybody. this is the only thing i have left. somebody tried to set my apartment on fire before christmas. we know there are drugs and people with mental health, s ro's we don't get the security we need. it's time we have cameras and we want more police to work in the areas. we can't depend on you. we know san francisco can be better. if we don't get this, it doesn't matter. when you don't use technology to take people off the earth instead of pushing them out, then you are part of the problem. and we know that what's going on
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here in the tl and south of market, you know, you all let that go to people who don't want that. it's time you know, look at this audience here tonight. it doesn't look like you. it looks like the real earth here. we want to work and live safe in our houses and live safe in our community and known -- no one has a right to come here. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> okay. i'm andrew brian here representing yerba buena gardens and mission bay park, we manage both on behalf of this city. we are thrilled to have the southern station boundaries include mission bay and we
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have one concern that is one of the cultural major parts of the city is yerba buena gardens that are in two different districts. we have a major relationship with all the three different districts and with response to the protest in yerba buena gardens we have found two challenges of being in the bay district. if the tenderloin is the best to redistrict. we ask you to consider that. i know the other thing that i worry about the kinds of response time that police have to get to that side. it maybe, i believe somebody said about the polk street boundary. i would rather see the tenderloin row at that end to
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provide better service at the civic center in the district and around the park and to have us be in 1st district. we know it's a challenging thing. i hope that the commander and the captain are very proud to someone who wants to fight and stay in the southern. i appreciate your consideration. >> thank you, mr. brian. next speaker? >> good evening commissioners, i'm alice rodgers, vice-president of the south beach mission bay neighborhood association and basically i just want to second the letter that we sent you and the comments the president made. we really appreciate the process that you've used to establish the boundaries. we think what you are recommending is good with a possible extension from 16th to mariposa. that said, we also firmly support all neighborhoods. if it comes to be that
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other neighborhoods concerns mean that you need to switch the boundaries again, we certainly support that. we just want to be sure that every station staff is adequately staffed so they can meet their obligations. thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is kathy moffat, the director of the yerba buena district and also member of the commission advisory board with katie. i want to start off by saying that the ybcd has not taken an official position yet. we understand the neat for the change and feel that it's based on data that others have talked about. one of the things that happens to our boundaries because we are from second to 5th is we will go from being with
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1st district to three districts and there are other areas in san francisco with multiple changes. somewhat difficult. we also have very close relationships with the police department and have an officer with us 10 hours a day and we are told that we will not have an affect on that we appreciate that very much. as you put the the final touches on this that you might consider looking at the boundaries of cbd's on the market street corridor when you consider your boundaries. >> thank you very much, next speaker? >> good evening commissioners, member of the police department, kim. my name is jordan lewis. i'm a business owner in district 6 and also represent a newly formed merchants association. we just wanted to speak to, appreciate all the hard work that the police department is doing and
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network that we are also trying to get online with our focus on the valley and putting up series of lights up and came raus -- cameras up as well inform -- to get data on crime to let the police department know so they can process some of these crimes. the car thefts and drug dealing and what not. we are looking to just get our alley clean and make district 6 a better place. >> thank you, mr. lewis. next speaker. >> my name is kathy, the president of the newly organize salvation called the -- fairmount residents. i'm
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here to talk about some resources i feel are very important. one, i understand they are retraining and it's something that hasn't been done for a long time especially the new officers and it's time to revisit it if it's been too long. this is sensitivity training for all officers whether new or old would be important. what about the southern district, you are talking about moving the line from market street down towards mission, but then you've got not necessarily enough in the south of market area that are visible because there are areas where there is a lot of stuff that goes on that is not necessarily good. to see more cops out there would be and if people in the community can respond better and know what this is all about. then,
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the west field mall that there should be they should hire more private security because this will help eliminate taking the resources from the tenderloin or soma and they should be able to sleep much better. to think about that machine with the phones, i agree with the gentlemen. remove it. that's in the basement where people can go where they have a phone and they can sell it. i would say have that removed because it's very bad right there and the substation on 6th street. is that going into tenderloin and then what about my concern is that the station, the new police station so far out that there is something there closer for this so ma. i
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would appreciate you address that too. >> next speaker. >> hi, my name is jamie wild. on mission street between 7th and 8th. i'm very involved in that spot between the tenderloin and southern district. i completely agree with some of the things you are doing which is keeping mission street and all the new residents literally thousands of people moving into that area, in southern. at least we have them in southern and we think it's going well. but i think you need to consider what a lot of the other people said about the borders of the tenderloin. it makes sense to move the market to tenderloin and keep the beet which is so crucial to the quality of
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life and you need to include the civic center all the way to van ness because having that center divided between northern and -- tenderloin doesn't make sense. there is activity there that needs to be handled by tenderloin. i think you need to consider that border. the other thing i ask is that we further activate the 6th street substation. we really need them in and out of that. that part of southern we need to concentrate in the mid-market, central market southern district. it's the headquarters is going to move to the mission bay, that's really far away. the big district. we need to put beats and we need them out of the
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sixth street substation. that is basically what i would like to ask for. we have huge quality of life issues in this little piece of central market. the camping the tents, the drug activity and the human waste and so on needs to be addressed. thank you. >> thank you, next speaker? >> good evening, patrick valentino, the vice-president of the south beach mission bay merchants association. i agree with the comments made by the other folks in the mission bay about the boundary line. i want to talk about the resources. the city has become more complex, it's growing and it's a great place for everyone . we have some challenges in the south market area especially
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growing and becoming completely covered. the demand are high and we have an influx of people around town and this creates a great amount of challenges and they have limit confidence in the research that exist and don't take away but add as much as possible to the resources to the department over all and specifically southern station. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. valentino. next speaker. >> i live up the road. i have a technical question. when you say the line is on mission street and you say that the whole street both sides of the street will be in the southern station, i just want to make sure that i understand that the properties that are on the north side of mission
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street who have front doors on mission street will those properties be in southern also? you have a front door on mission and that property is included, but stevenson will be in the tenderloin? okay. thank you. we have a lot of camping and a lot of tenting and a lot of drugs, a lot of needles, a lot of throwing up and a lot of urine. i would like to invite you down and walk through it with me sometime. thank you. >> thank you, mr. fink. >> welcome, hello. >> my name is jackie bryson and i have been sitting and listening and i learned a couple of things. i learned we have house boats and we also have a location where you can sell stolen, oh my goodness. you can't hear me?
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stolen cell phones for cash. that needs to be made go away. i love house boats. i also want to thank the chief for being here and listening to people from the district. their concerns are very different than from tenderloin although some of the tenderloin area is going to be taken over into southern and southern is going to need to expand an area of mission bay. i'm looking forward to the changes in how they are implemented. i also want to suggest that at some point there be an evaluation of how it's working. so, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you, ms. bryson? any further public comment? okay. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. now
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