>> i. >> do solemnly swear. >> ( repeated.) >> that i will support and defend. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> (repeated.) >> to the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and to the constitution of the state of california. >>

(repeated.) >> that i take this obligation freely. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) >> or purpose of evasion. >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office. of. >> (repeated.) >> for the city and county of san francisco thank you very much congratulations everyone thank you (clapping) thank you all right.atz.

>> here. >> adams. >> here. >> murphy. >> here. >> woo ho. >> here. >> commissioner brandon is on a business trip, item two, approval of minutes for the march 20, 2015, meeting a motion to approve. >> second and item three, public comment on executive session. >> closed. >> item four. >> executive session. >> is there a motion to move into executive session. >> second. >> all in favor, aye. >> now moving to executive session. >> executive session, session]

>> a motion to reconvene. >> so moved. >> and not to disclose, is that the motion. >> not to disclose what happened in closed session. >> the motion and a second all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? >> and we will reconvene in open session. >> pledge of allegiance. >> next item. >> please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones and pagers and similar

sound producing devices, are prohibited. and you have up to three minutes to make the permanent public comments, unless the board commission adopts the shorter period on any item, item 8 on public comment on the items not listed on the agenda. >> is there anyone here seeking to make public comment? >> seeing none, closed. >> item 9 a. >> did you want to make public comment. she closed it and you will have to decide if she will open it for you. >> let's go back and open the public comment on items not on the agenda. >> 11 a. >> yes. >> excellent >> okay. so if you filled out a speaker card she will call your name when we get to your item that is for anything not on the

agenda, reiterate that speaker cards are not necessary. >> it is correct. >> okay, shall we roll. >> all right. >> executive director's report. >> thank you. >> commissioners thank you for being here today and to all of the members of the staff and the public we have a few very special guests today, and the first one to be here with us today is san francisco police chief greg suhad hr and with the police department and the 11th largest in the nation and he managed 1700 officers, and in his tenure, crime has been down fairly significantly. and chief suhr was born here in salt lake city, raised here in san francisco, knows many of you from his childhood and knows your dirty secrets and probably and has a lot of sibling rivalries with people whose is actually not related to but he went to grammar

school with and some of who are now working for him and some are his colleagues. >> foun to watch. >> i have not been here long enough apparently. >> chief suhr has worked his way to the top from patrolling the tender loin on the graveyard and running the bay view and the mission station and he has also been the develop chief of field operations and part of the street crimes task force and assigned as deputy chief captain, and the home land security, and we have been manager of the social operations division and sergeant in the narcotics difference he has a rule that as the officers are going through the academy, they must dedicate four hours of work time and four hours of personal time to the community each month during their academy period because chief suhr is a big believer in community

policing and being able to talk to the community and i know that we have seen him on tv a lot this week and listening to the community as the case may be, and we admire that very much. the chief works with the delancy street foundation and instituted the sports programs at the mission station which is related around soccer and the bay view related around basketball and he is very heavily involved with the boys and girls club of san francisco and the bay view ymca and he went to the san francisco schools and including the university of san francisco and he has a certificate in counter terrorism, from usc and he recently got engaged so please welcome to speak today to us about the city cyber security efforts chief greg suhr, thank you, director. >> that was something, >> and he can argue about the

pronouncation of his name if you like but not today. exactly, thank you for having me, to the public also. director moyer invited me to talk to you about cyber security and i think that we don't talk about it enough and i know that as we bring back the 300 officers and even explore some of the discussions right now about even making the police department larger than the 1971 as that may not be enough and the way that the city is growing and the things that are happening including technology, we are paying attention to this. one of the things that i am smart enough about and that i am smart enough to know that i am not smart enough about that is everything that is cyber and technology and to that end worked closely and i guess that is two years ago with special agent in charge, andy adelman of the united states secret service who are charged with cyber security nationally and we are one of only two cyber

crimes task forces in the state the port is on that task force as is the puc, which has our water waste water and public power, pg&e. our eleven subcriebers and the secret service and the police department, other task forces agencies, it is quite a group home land security, and the northern california regional intelligence center, and anything that we can put together to share information about things that are going on across the country, around the world and how it may or may not effect san francisco. obviously we are a world famous world class city, we have events here all of the time and we have iconic infrastructure such as the golden gate bridges and we have the world championship team and soon we will have another stadium and

the world champion basketball team will be sitting there and we are that city and we have weekends when we have one million people in san francisco and in this day and age, whether skata which is the term for i believe that it is supervisorry control and data acquisition which are the systems that pretty much run everything right now all the way down to the problems that we have had the police department as we went to the department wide smart phones and officers will go to an innocent site that was a site that they thought would be beneficial and loading that site on the phones and contaminated our own system, which then, begate the gobling up of our capacity, and so we had to go to the different systems in that we are the only people that can put the apps on the smart phones so we don't revisit that and again, just 30,000 foot view of some of the things that we are working on, the electrical grid in san

francisco, and we have some public power, in fact, soon the neighborhood, called it is excuse me, chase scared it out of me, any way, out in the bay view, is going to be completely powered by public power, the whole neighborhood and so all of the residentses, the street lamps, and on and on, will be all shipyard, and it will all be public power, most of the other power in san francisco, to residences comes to pg&e and however a lot of the power in the city is public power like muni and many of the street lights and on and on from hetch hetchy the water system that drives that water and supplies, 100 percent of the firefighter water and 8 appearance of the drinking water comes from the 185 miles away and that is a gravity fed, engineering marvel, but gravity fed, essentially is one long line

coming down and has a lot of protections to it, but again, we protect it better every single day and that is why we have this task force so there should be an event in the port there are vonnerbilities around the port and there are vonnerbilities to the things that pass through the port like with regard to bart and things like that and so again we work with bart also on these things. the super bowl has been actually a blessing and we will see later on how much of a curse, but right now it is a blessing and that it has the really looking under our own hood and making sure that we have all of our things in order and the best thing that we can have by the cyber crimes, traffic force is the secret service is convening in the fact that they gave us one here and again one of only two in the state is the fact that we are connected and so we are in a room and i believe that we have met twice already and the future meetings to discuss,

whatever concerns director moyer and we have since become close friends while she was the lead for security here and systems and emergency preparedness and i had the same roll at the buc and so it is nice when it is greg and sidny and it is on a cell phone and that is the relationship that the port has with the police department. i am happy to go into more detail for this commission, but if i was going to speak to sprefk vonnerbilities that we work to secure, i think that that should happen in closed session, other than to say that i know what they are, and my folks know what they are and we have response plans, to the same, and again, we are on our first name basis, but we are paying very close attention to cyber crime and infrastructure protection and whether it is home grown, from an outside source, and again, even things

that sometimes are done innocently, but drawing in mal wear or things that con tame nature our system and if they don't shut them down they can't slow them down and which of course effects all of us and with that i will open it up to questions that anybody might have. >> thank you. >> is there any public comment. the chief's report. seeing none, the public comment is closed colleagues? commissioner woo ho? >> thank you. thank you very much, for coming, and the chief suhr and i guess what you are trying to say is that all of the information that is critical for the city of san francisco data base you feel is at this point, going through the task force and whatever else is in place is protected and that will include the port's data base as well. >>; is that correct?. >> i would say that there are certainly protections in place and i think that, you know, just as the folks that would be

about interrupting or hack hooking into such systems or disrupting the systems as they continue to work to defeat the protections that are in place, and i think that the city and the people that are the most versed in this at data and certainly at our information technology >> i think that it is healthy that they disagree often because it gets us to a better place because they are smart people and while they have these disagreements they all seek to prevail and so we are

going to end up with the best solutions. >> okay, thank you. >> murphy? >> thanks, nice up date. for a non-techy person like me, i just want to say, thank you, i had no idea that there was so much involved and the departments that have been toed tied into this it is incredible.

>> and again, having 2,000 officers, or 1600 officers with the smart phones and in the capability and all of the district stations, and these young people do our best at this stuff and so when they see stuff they will point stuff out like hey, you know, if i wanted to be a problem i could do x. so we block that out and so we get more secure all of the time. >> the other thing about it is that the other departments in

the city will know the mistake in the system that you implemented in the beginning and get a better system to handle hair departments. >> right. >> some places like the puc was out front quite a bit on technology and so it was fortunate for me, and being an enterprise department and they had a little bit more or further down the tracks that some of the general fund departments like the police department but it was nice to see that it could be done and how much more efficient many of the puc programs and projects were just because they had the newest technology. >> all right. thank a lot. >> commissioner adams? >> it is good seeing you again, chief suhr and i was with and the brandon when you were honored at the ymca. >> those are fun times. >> yeah. >> i am glad that you just made a couple of xhepts that i really liked and you said that with success, the city and the success that we have makes them vulnerable and i am glad that you pointed us out because you

want the new tech and stuff like that and you see with the sophistication with north korea, and how the things with the private threat and it is a threat and people need to feel more comfortable and it is good to see that the sophistication that you are educated on it when i think about ten,000 new people in the year move into the city and the success and people want to come here and know it and i know that it seems like we are in good hands and you have the people out there that you can't talk about. and we have the cruise terminal down the street and it is just a lot out there that the people can tap in to what i think as a society. we are becoming more educated about it and i think that the threat is real and i do and i appreciate you coming and talking to the commission and that and you have a handle on it because this is something that we really take our freedom for granted because we live here in america and not like a lot of places in the world. but we are kind of vulnerable

and it does make us to get attacked through that and i appreciate you coming out and explaining that to us. >> thank you. >> i would be remiss following that if i didn't also capitalize on those 10,000 people coming constantly and the folks that we have here, if someone sees something they have to say something, there is only at any one point in time, you know, 60 percent of the police department working the street of san francisco and they are good and we are not as good as a million people working the streets of filipino and if something makes you feel like it is out of place, certain people to the same path to work and the same path home all of the time when something seems amiss or if someone is doing something that seems curious and i am not talking about some of the street behavior that we have that, the people can even tell when that is a little bit more than it ought to be, but if you see something, and you have a smart phone and take a picture tf and send it to us and certainly call and if it is around

critical, infrastructure, don't just discount it call, and i mean that we have one of the best bomb squads? the united states that go out literally every day and whatever we get called on safe and we believe that we don't and we have never reached our capacity to respond not when we think that we ever would. >> one more question. you don't have to answer, but when i was watching the news recently it was saying that isis has a sale in every state in the country and thes a reality and i know that you can't get into that. >> i know that they did threaten twit and her there was a site believed by the proxy and a threat to facebook because of the certain messages systems being turned off and we are head quartered here in the bay area and san francisco for both and if not for that the founders and so we have been in

close contact to the founders of twitter and the people that were threatened as well as twitter and headquarters and reached out those folks are all working with our special investigations difference just to make sure that those folks, their premise and their buildings are safe and if they see something, they say something. >> thank you. >> chief suhr i also want to thank you for coming here and appreciate you taking the time. >> sure. >> to address us and also for this opportunity to educate the public as well if all of that goes on. and i was pleased to hear, i think, once again, the san francisco looks like we are developing best practices and certainly, it sounds like our selection to are part of one of the selected sites in the state, would demonstrate that. and since we have an opportunity to share with other cities and other states even, what we are doing, and so i, hopefully you are taking that opportunity and possibly and even a revenue generate or and

i know other departments do that at times to help others develop the best practices that we have done here. and i know that it is constant battle and to stay ahead of the new threats and this highlights that some of the concerns that we have today are no longer what one might consider just i don't want to say garden variety, but now that the cyber threats that we are facing really are significant and we are hearing more and more about those and so i appreciate all of the efforts to coordinate with the other agencies that you are doing as well and the efforts to kaor thait with the port as we have i think, probably more on hand with everything in terms of the number of visitors. and as mentioned the cruise ships come ining and other cargo coming in and out, and so thank you for that as well. and then, lastly, i know that there is a bit of redundancy in

our system and i think that is important to note, also, and even just in terms of you mentioning that our officers have smart phones which is disheartened to hear that we are one of the few forces that have those. but i think again that was going back to the point of lessons learned and that opportunity, really is going to be significant and something that i have learned from the concerns about potential disasters and earth quakes and having these smart phones is what is significant for all of us in the emergencies as we need to communicate and not just with the other officers, but with the public. it is and i am pleased to hear that our officers have those capabilities as well and so, i want to thank you for being present and ahead of the curve, on that. >> i do have to give credit to the special agent and he is now retired and actually a blackberry as ahead of the worldwide security, and he has been a great partner, and in our meetings he has offered the

serves of the secret service to do the vulnerable assessments upon the requests of anybody who wants to have the systems what they call the red teamed to see if they, where the vonnerbilities will be and everybody got kind of homework assignments last night and the thing that we do here in san francisco that i think that has been really smart over my time is that whatever calamity occurs around the world we adopt it like it happened here and we train to it city wide and so it is, you know whether it was a preparing for well the first earthquake in 89 y2 k and the different world series and now it is super bowl and tsunamis that happens in other places we train to that and the different transit situations that they have had around the world from the terror attacks,

we train and with barred, and the infrastructure to recover should anything take place? and that will continue, i would imagine forever and that is just the way that we do business in san francisco. >> i think that it is interester interesting because we started to hear about the cyber securities being the key topic but i think that we want to commend you and sometimes we do hear the consequences but you do a lot of security and okay since we have a lot of high profile and visitors which then snarls all of the traffic from the city and i think that you know the physical security and the way that you just described how you integrate the smart phones and citizens to be able to report any concerns that they have that they can translate that is important and i think that falling on what

the commissioner adams was mentioning and i guess that since isis has now listed and i think that it is tragic. the 100 service people and saying that they are targeting them, i didn't look at the list myself, but i know that it exists. now that we have well known targets in our country and it is taking it to the heart land of america and this fear is going to strike. >> right. >> we have representatives that work with the critical and shared information and so if we get any threats and i actually had to go through the special request to be briefed personally to pass that down and

they are going to come and could bring a special attention to a city or a state or a district or whatever, so it is constant and the special investigations division is constantly working with the counter terrorism task force to work on these things. >> thank you. and i will not ask you to delinate specifics and i appreciate you working with sidny and others at the port and obviously, you know we want to make sure that we maintain that flow of information and if you sense that there are the team thinks that there is anything that we need to do to increase, or protect against any of our vonnerbility it is welcome. >> you do have dedicated police and we work closely with the director and they have the same smart phones that can access all of the other officers on the street and get help, pretty

quick. >> we will see if you are willing to calm back and up date us as well. >> whenever you like. >> thank you. >> thank you so much, and publicly i would like to say, thank you to you personally. but all of your team for that. >> and opening of the terminal and being able to have 24 million people without the fence sitting and gates to go through is in large part because you are there to support that effort and we see your personnel every day as mostly as ambassadors and it is a nice partnership so thank you very much. >> and all of the support. thank you. >> next commissioner, and just wanted to quickly report on the sunday streets and the next sunday streets will take place in the bay view and that will be sunday, april 12th, the sunday after easter and it runs from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and

sunday, streets i think as most of you or in ated in columbia and came to san francisco in 2008. and has this will be its 6th year visiting the bay view in the dog patch and this particular sunday street is the longest one in the city and it is 3 and a half miles of car free space and so the people are encouraged to bring their bikes and roller blades and any kind of wheeled vehicle hopefully many of you will avail yourselves of that opportunity. and it is a lot of fun, and our very only port staff will be hosting a booth to help them and the community to get to know the port better and we will be going thank to the barn and the team and we will be going out this year sunday from 11 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and lastly i think that i saw larry peoples come in and would you sit maybe towards the front.