the board challenge-i have been here for 4 hours, i want to say for the board members who did not challenge chief sir what so ever and all there were was applause for his comment. i want to recommend a book to you called-michele alexanders book, the new jim crow >> thank you very much >> i agree completely. my name is irish [inaudible] a retired nurse and appalled. i do not support the increase money to the sfpd and training new officers. i feel less safe in my neighborhood when i see police. i'm a senior and white woman and feel less safe. i have seen people young men of color, african americans and latinos being hurassed. my

neighbors [inaudible] were killed by the san francisco police department and there is no transparency in the investigation and no accountability chblt the race ist text messages are not just words, they led to death. 71 percent of the police killing since 1985 were people of color. with gentfurcation in san francisco, san francisco is now the second city with the largest gap between rich and poor and i think ground zeery is my neighborhood, theimation. i'm afraid the increased police presence is more police hurassing more people and especially youth of color. we need fewer people thip jails mpt i agree with everything about restoreative justice and transformativegisting and communeky service and people getting out of the jail. ime a

nurse so see things through the lens of a community and of people. i only see increased police presence as being detrimental to the helt of both individuals and the community and san francisco. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please >> hello my name is [inaudible] i work with [inaudible] i'm here to oppose the proposal to fund all 23 million to sfpd. in a recent harassment and displatement studyd ofthis is because

contact och the police results in being harmed or put in jail. expandeding the budget for the police demonstrates disregard if the things that keep

[inaudible] as well asneighborhood residence. as the action of the police sets a precedent of how transwomen are addressed. the city can move 1 police academy and move of sth 11 million saved towards addressing the human rights issues or better yet give the money to community based programming>> thank you very much, next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] organizer with critical resistance which is a member of the new new san francisco jail coalition. first i have to flag it is totally appalling and disgusting to hear police chief sir delegitimize the meaningful reforms cal made in wards rards to the imprisonment crisis and by recriminalizing people and calling people

released property criminals. that recriminalization sets a perfect stage to understand why sfpd isn't a institution building for a healthy future for san francisco, but one that will accelerate towards punish and jail. when we hear those words coming out of someone saying he wants to build a safe san francisco i can't believe he is thinking about the well being of those impacted. so, as many people said we know real safety is actually stable housing, strong community, access to loved wub, education, quality helths care and services. and we have seen example after example of violence from law enforcement this year and so it is-ime implor you to question why you would consider givering tw 3 more million dollars to san

francisco police department. people have already said for a number of things in the racist and home phobic text messages and people getting thrown out of wheelchair, and gladiator fighting. as people demonstrated earlier today for agenda item one shows you can't prioritize these things at the same time. investing 25 million dollars towards the pd means you are not prioritizing people who came >> [inaudible] thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] i was here at a protest about a week ago. i tink it is the

protest mention. wiener farrell and i forgot your name. you spent about 10 minutes laughing and the 2 of you spent about 25 minute laughing. i'm a queer woman och color and worked out here for a certain up mount of safety that i wasn't entitled to in other places. i want you to know, wiener, the 3 of you as you stood there and laughed for 25 minutes about black lives at a protest, a direct action for black lives. i was so ashame thofd fact you are gay. you do not speak for my community. that is astounding and if you have done that for a protest of gay peoples live we would have called it homeo phobic and hatred of people. that is what you did for yourb actions, you showed you hate black people and don't think our lives matter. there is increase

patrol in the tenderloins. as we send out the parole this is [inaudible] giving citation to homeless people and telling them to get something from the coalition obhomelessness and get it dismissed. you police and judges and da's are turning around and getting paid for sending out citations to poor people. it couldn't have been anymore fucing obvious when you spend 25 minutes laughing at black people. walter scot, trivan martin, [inaudible] these people fucing matter and so do i >> thank you, next speaker, please >> i'm kelly cutler and volunteer with coalition on homelessness and also passing on the message from sfop and archdiocese restoreative justice program. they will be sending you alet eer in regards

to this, they just couldn't stay this long. as a social worker i want to connect the 2 from the first item that was here today and the second because with the resources going much needed resources within our social service department that is lacking and we are putting so often with police officers on the front line putting them in the role of essential workers mpt we do different training and education and with the sfpd they talk to me and are like, where can we send people. i tell them the realty is we have one shelter bed for 5.5 homeless people. there is a lack of places to refer people. they ask me, can you advocate for people not to call us. not to call the police because there is nothingee can do and

it gaerns the law what they are doing, they are just homeless. i said i will just try. i think that is everything so i'll keep uner dethe 2 minute andime rrb ret ready to go home >> any other members of the public wish to comment on item 2. public comment is closed. thank you for sticking around for the hearing and the public commenters for all of the department heads and people in the public. from my perspective i appreciate all the people who did comment in public comment over the last half hour to a hour. from my perspective though i do have to say i disagree with the vast majority of the comment. i believe prioritizing public safety department is something we strongly consider at the board of supervisors. i reject

the notion that prioritizing public safety means we are not prioritizing other issues within our budget process. excuse me, you are out of order. please don't disrupt and have respect for the process and if you want to leave the chambers you can do so. so, again once again i do believe as we go forward here and we can cut this meeting off. i need we continue to support our pub lb safety department and look at increasing the staffing levels of the departments going forward. look forward to having that discussion. have visor mar >> i just wanted to say i appreciate the passion from the public comment. i'm sorry i had to step away from the meeting to go to a meeting next door as the police chief was commenting. i know we'll have

the police department before us again later in the budget season and know that some questions were raised about how the department will deal with what i call the culture of bias within the dparmt-please don't interrupt, i didn't interrupt you. i will also say i believe that we should be funding restorative justice programs and not increases the police force as people said from the public. i also did want to say too that i think from joyce hicks from the occ suggestion, i think we should drop the recommendation on how we insure the police academies and various processes to diversify and eliminate and reduce the bias within the police department. how we fund those type of programs. i think the other questions that cheer sir

raised on civilianization of the department, i think more information is important i with will ask him for that rr those questions. osthe data on the new officers hired through the academy and field training, there were dem ographic information providing and i'll work the w the department to get more of the information. the 4th academy class was presented as a new budget item, i'll ask questions about the necessity of that budget ask, but also some of the concerns raised by the public on the growing number of academy classes and officers within thdepartment. i'm looking at a number of other things i was going to say. i think the framing from the community based organizations from our first item, i do believe much more should be funded in the human safety net as people said

earlier today and also the people that testified at this item and lastly, i wanted to say too that the office of citizens complaints or the controllers office has analyzed also from 2010 the civilianization of the police department and i'm curious the progress that is made in reducing the number of police that may not be needed and also looking that civilianization as a suggestion from the controllers aufss. lastly i just say i think we can balance public safety as supervisor farrell said, but i know we need to fund much more of the community safety as people from the pub lb have said. i feel safer whether there is empowered people from the communities that are watching each others backs and that we don't have to rely on armed and

increases in police officers. with the coalition and others hopefully has we muv forward with the budget hearings woo we with can bring out moref inhuman safety net. i'll ask these questions through chief sir and get more of the data from him as we move forward with dialogue and debate >> supervisor wiener >> thank you mr. chairlen and calling the hearing today and thank you spl visor mar for calling the first hearing today. sometimes there is a perception that it is a either or, that you do health and human services and our safety net or public safety and the answer is all of the above. we have a lot of needs around housing and health care and human services and our seniors i youth. we valot of needs arounds transportation and public safety and we are in a position in san francisco where our budget has been strong and

it continues to be strong and we are in a position to make investments in health and in the seniors and struggling working class, low income communities and investments in keeping the communities safe. while we have no police department is perfect and there are terrible things that can happen, we know we do have a public safety challenge in the city and it isn't just about rich or poor. there are many many people in low income communities in this city who are being victimized and who need good public safety. this is for the entire city and we can need more police officers just like we need more health care and transportation and housing and we should have all of the above and we are in a position to do that and look forward to doing that >> sfr visor yee

>> i agrew this isn't either or. for myself i like to see more officers that can work with the community that is working with us, not against us. one of the emphasis i try to point out with our department and police department is we need to get prioritize people living in san francisco because to me those are the people that care more about the city. not people from a different state working here wouldn't care, but i just think you live here, you are part of the fiber of the community. it is really important for someone like myself who comes from non profit and pretty much put my life in this type of work to support those that are in the non profits so that again, they can partner up with the police

and with the fire department and everyone else to make the city a better-there is a lot of issues that i feel the city can work closer with the communities, the school district and so forth to improve things and it is really up to us to support these safety issues or safety net issues or whether it is more housing, i think there is nobody here that is against having more affordable housing in san francisco. i would like to see more of it. i think we'll work toward that, so thank you. >> thank you supervisor u. if no other questions or comment can i continue the item to call the chair? supervisor mar and wiener we take that without objection. any other

things before us? >> no. >> [inaudible] thank you, we are adjourned. .

>> good afternoon and welcome to the lafco i'm supervisor avalos the chair of logical today is clerk call the announcements please. yes please be advised the

ringing of and use of cell phones planning code are prohibited at this meeting. . >> thank you. let's go to the fir item rrlt. >> on that call of the role supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor chiu's supervisor mar is alice griffith absent mr. chair you have quorum. >> approval the lafco minutes regular meeting cultivation have you had a chance to review the minutes questions or comments going on to public comment seeing we'll close picking up public comment and rrlt vote. >> first and second. >> motion from commissioner

cruz and second by commissioner linda commissioner linda is an additional sxherld and item 3 consideration of the lafco budget for 2015-2016 thank you we have clerk of board. >> good afternoon supervisor avalos and members of the lafco the clerk of board i'm here today with andy our administration and finance deputy to answer questions that surfaced during the lafco review of the proposed 2015-2016 budget as the commission is aware in 1963 the state legislation created the lafco in all county the responsibility stepped from

the 19985 local government reorganization act sxhaenl in san francisco the coincidesed with the san francisco lafco being activate the lafco locally the lafco established their mission bay and created a work plan for the adaptation of a conceptually model of gfrnsz for the future of san francisco including among other things a straight utilities strict within the framework of the city and services at the pleasure of board in 2007 when i became clerk of board the economy was in recession he determined at this point that lafco had a massing one million dollars carried

forward i worked with lafco they've agreed agreed and the board of supervisors agreed that the lafco instead of proofing more dollars would conduct a general lafco business under this agreement lafco retired the reporter for primaries in the future if approved by the board fast forward the chair is reaching it's end life in 2007 the board requested that lafco take on additional roles of the project so do to they asked for clerking assistance when the board of supervisors authorize via motion and memorandum of understanding was created between the puc and the lafco for the ability to

utilize costs not to exceed $2.1 million for a virus role for the puc implementation of cca provide are 7 slides i don't intend to review only the first 4 for the clerking support the remain 3 slides provide the current general fund carried forward and the puc carried forward on slide 2 the versus actual in 2008 the board approved the motion authorizing the clerk for additional administrative assistance for the additional support in corneas with the agreement my office charges lafco a $27 million support of costs and half time clerk is about $72,000

a logical and the board agreed to the arrangement that was the exception for the advisors role the frequency of the lafco meetings and the workload due to the sires will increase 3r5ish8 instead of him or her new staff they absorbed the duty and fin they moved the friendly benefits cost from the general fund to the logical carried forward-looking back we understand it never materialize as you can see on table on slide 2 through the clerking services will lower the actual costs of the services are much higher than 20 thousand and supervisor breed you've identified a structural issue that needs correcting

it currently charges more staff time to lafco than is utilized or needed so since lafco general fund carried forward will be decompleted we'll recommend did half time clerk will be moved back to the general fund. >> supervisor breed. >> can you explain that because i think that i'm a little bit confused by the statement. >> the statement that it is paying for more than it is using. >> thank you, madam president the halftime salary the entire salary oozed used to be paid for by the general fund when the cca advisors fund lafco for clerking services ramp containing new staff we absorbed those staff and rather than continuing to

have ism of them pick up the lafco and board allowed them to pay for the other halftime similarly for that staff you started did conversation and appreciate you're asking the important questions if no other questions i'll move to the staff and clerking services provided by the office through the chair. >> oh, sorry linda there's a difference of 61 thousand dollars for actual to the budget for the halftime per year. >> that's correct as far as the information that is on the slide i will be a little bit more forthcoming we engaged in a conversation with the lafco clerk that indicated it is actually more than that in terms of the the hours utilizes.

>> the follow-up question is mined is lafco paid the $71,000 anticipating halftime employee who has that money. >> in terms of the staff who are currently hired in my office. >> i was wondering it went through a certain budget line item. >> the lafco is a line item in our budget so it is in the budget for the board of supervisors lafco - and the board. >> in the clerk of the boards budget that's correct so it is currently a line item in our budget. >> understood okay. >> hi the lafco carried forward

is off budget it was bucked in the prior fiscal year the funds are in the reflected in the we are talking about the clerk of the board has a division within the board of supervisors the hours clerk of the board the logical has it's on separate index soda code those are not coming into our office we charge those expenditures separately and it is throughout the year to cover the costs. >> basically move the expenditures from the side to lafco kinder forward because the clerks funds are supporting the sore the assistant clerk we moved those expenditures quarterly. >> from the clerk to the lafco