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problems. >> significant significant. >> so what percentage of this number you do you think. >> it is typical that 70 percent of people in our custody suffer from substance abuse and or mental health and i would say a significant portion of this population also survived survives from a substance abuse problem. >> in our ask of the budget summary we really haven't grown at all they have been no ftes that have been awarded in the budget recommendations we think this is a mistake changes though that have occurred as you can see isn't column on the right really reflects the mou labor increases that, of course wore obligated
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to honor and traffic court and hospital security we're upgrading our security systems in light of the police departments move from bryant to the new public safety building that they now occupy wore getting 3 unmarked advancing and bus engine and an overdue ice machine our groith growth we only had one academy class in 5 years and while we're pardoned by the conversation of having a multi year hiring plan for the pardons partners in public safety the sheriff's department didn't benefit from a multi hiring plan the only thing to schedule to bring in now deputies is the academy that is
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underway right now that is only 12 so looking at the next slide this is what it is projecting and contributing to our challenges with over time our department is governed by minimum staffing requirement and with minimum staffing requirement when we don't have the appropriate level of staff because of disability the number under the column of non-net positions hundred and 34 requires us to compensate with over time i think the offer time number is higher it is no whereas high if not for our fiscal year savvy and our staffs savvy in coping the number under the $18.7 million we're looking at the overtime million dollars
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but that can be affiliated from the board of supervisors entertains what we've been push putting us in a multi year hiring plan until that we are properly funded over time and our ability to fill positions that have been essentially vacant we're to be trying to catch up and exceeding our allotments i'm hoping this conversation yields the push we get the sufficient funding that combines over time and attrition next slide, please as you can see 2013-2014 the new hires of 29 this year 2014-2015 new
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hiring 29 new sprargz that is point blank we're and why we're at a deficit and that continues compound it's the multi year proposed not accepted yet is on the right side of the 15 academy trained for 2015 25 non-academy trained for that the next year and 10 the following year and 40 non-academy trained and so for the we believe that helps us catch up to a motivations this body is having with the police department. >> next please other areas that we have requested but did not make the
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budget proposal before you is the attrition reduction to fill current vacant positions that amount is one million dollars plus we believe that this is virtual in order to make sure that we are not entrenched in an overtime problem in the future years and able to meet our staffing obligations so this didn't borough itself to a bigger problem to safety next is the backfill post and bs cc training the state board of during the course we're governed by 8 hundred and 93 thousand and the backfill for the mental health and country intervention training we're now the largest institution in san francisco that provides the most mental
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health hospital beds our staff is not getting country interference training but a robust discussion an appropriate one with the board of supervisors and mayor to provide that train to the prosecuted we have sworn police officers and civilian staff the fact they come into contact when people are volatile of what their suffering from any that think that is a miss of this body city hall not to fund the country interference training that makes we wonder why it is neglected i'm hoping that is something we can correct before something really happens i mean grinds to happen later on and the same with made sure vets the police officers on the
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street have to have a ballistic vest i wouldn't want to put anyone on the street or in a situation that carries a badge and weapon to be engaging someone in a peace officer exchange yet the vests is frankly knapp of breathing organization i think it should be assigned to every single officers and be howard our people are protected that would be a significant oversight if we didn't do that the unfunded innovations which was referred earlier we can do station transfer unit there are have integrals we've proven we
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can do it we have the data i object to sit down with you and that we're proposing is $1.239 million for all 10 district stations as i was sitting as a supervisor as a 7 member of the chair committee we pushed for this 4 or 6 or 7 years ago the jail crowding is more wore significantly under crowded i believe that the police department hfa as appropriately trying to comment for people that in a community policing way we can awe lightwell between our deputy sheriff and on the hospital runs the police department and us agree that is much more
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efficient and effective we're able out of or occupy our prisons in san francisco general hospital we can sit with someone at san francisco general but need to be financed our department was more than happy to test pilot with what they look like without asking or requiring additional funds for two stations we'll asking for to cover the normal cost of doing business that is a significant savings from police why? because it requires sfpd to have two officers as mentioned to sit on someone at san francisco general before they maybe booked into the county jail and sitting on them can take a a long time ago, i use deputy sheriff's to sit with that person that are at
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san francisco general the fund is a positive for city law enforcement and the citizenry are the vocal train everybody has subtracted city build a workable and effective model that is trying to maximize job opportunity and propose people in disengaged community in getting the kind of training and toll hold into you know great job especially with the high about how many of construction it makes no sense we're not doing that inside of the jails we have the facility space and use whether city build inside the jail system to train people that are clarified classified to be students to be prepared for ready set going as a
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apprenticeship we've proposed this for several years it is wise for someone that is coming out who is a typically disengaged community african-american or latino or other who doesn't really have the means and part artist rehabilitation pathway to help them on a vocal track inside the kid system i think is high time the city invests it not much on $300000 i believe it will go a long way in men's jail in san bruno and the women's like a la ca chip model trying to train the women in our custody in a culinary prepare service and do
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it in the post release facility so they have the post release vocal training the number was $207,000 that will include the illness and preservation it is necessary not fund for $198,000 the conversation is shalom appropriate it is great that san francisco is adopting body cameras for hiss its police department but combaemz need to be in prisons and jails i believe this is the tip of prisons and jails will be do you want body cameras and san francisco didn't see the light wore a bit naive we're not holding up to our own commitment to the transparency and
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accountability built not only relying on fixed xaemz but employment with the body cameras it lessens liability and false allocations and enhances i think the trust that needs to be enhanced with many of the same people that the police come into when they're not in our custody and next recidivism and reduction of crime and the vocal we explained the women's center cafe i believe that is it i'm more than happy to conclude the form part of our presentation. >> supervisor breed. >> thank you. i have a couple of questions i wanted to ask thank you for your presentation i just want to talk about the
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transport program especially because i you do not understand why it cost so much money while the population has decreased can you give me an understanding why the additional money is needed to transport does that mean you'll hire additional staff or whether this be existing staff with over time i mean how does that work i don't understand that. >> we've done hundred and 34 staff right now as is presented in the graph earlier that is contributing to i think adhere levels of overtime i don't know how we use the existing staff we're like the police department but in a different way has a minimum intoerp staffing and responsibility that is mou and cb a required so when we shut down a jail sometime ago two
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years ago we redistributed our jail population our staff got redistributed, too, we still have to maintain that area staff is in the vetted to the size of the jail population but we're still struggling with under staffing needs so one $.3 million is what we calculate as what it takes to have per shift 3 shifts in a day per shift that two people two of our derpz will go to the stations to transport and book into county jail who they arrest viruses the mroldz one or two police officers you can do the math it is bigger than our numbers accepted a wagon around
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and picking up people. >> it this existing staff or new staff. >> i believe new staff we're already understaffed. >> so how will be be able to hire the staff without having an academy class. >> well 12 in the running and graduating soon wore still understaffed i'll have to shift the existing staff if we want to do that not take awe our under staffing problem. >> for the positions for the new academy class are already funding in the upcoming year. >> yes. their graduating. >> so you'll move those graduates if possible you'll be able to move them or shift the existing staff to do the program. >> i would put more seasonal people frankly people that have
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a certain level of fold train not new but people that have been tested as in the pilot late last year and the new graduates will fill in the new entry or freshmen positions. >> no plans for a new academy class. >> we keep asking that wasn't accepted in the proposal wore hoping for an academy class there 2016. >> but basically with the existing budget moving in this current fiscal year you have the capacity to potentially manage this program. >> i think so but it is sort of moving fund if poetry to paul not taking care of the under staffing in the jails but wire committed based on that $1.2 million to make it work. >> so with our current population and your counter
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staffing levels and this didn't i'm not speaking to the staffing level with san francisco general hospital and other things but more importantly the jail population do you have information that helps me to understand the capacity versus the needs for a sheriff's deputy like maximum and viruses the number of deputies i have. >> in terms of the anytime staffing requirement we're more than happy to brief you if you like come to your office or i to ours we'll show you the requirements of minimum staffing and our obligations especially, when someone is out on long term disabled military leaf non-productive time and they're not going to be returning any time soon
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we can't fill that position except on overtime if somebody is out wore stuck and that's where delineated in terms of the positions where we have people out for awhile. >> okay. and i want to ask about the city grant program you have the funding you have for grants balboa park i know that i guess there are a lot of departments that have programs for reentry i think one of the things we've talked about in past hearings was the fact that funding for phone calls and funding for commissary was used to help to facilitate the programs provide bids the department and our department helped to change the rates so they don't impact the families
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and inmates negatively so potentially there's a gap i want to understand is the grant opportunities that you have actually go to serve the population of the inmates that are currently housed in the prison. >> that's all there are. >> so that's what the grant money is for . >> the grant we disbursed it was only $50,000 two grants of the innovation challenge grant we were award was $50,000 maybe a little bit less up this is what your referring to in our graph. >> okay i thought i saw a different number i don't remember. >> the mentally ill grant is
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for our population for the mentally ill population. >> but none to assist outside of the jail it is within the jail population. >> well or to avert the jail populations we fund 95 percent of the pretrail if you look at our jail population it hovers at 12 hundred our ceiling is 4 hundred and 50 that number alone is an important number to be noted our alternatives to incarceration population is about one thousand so we fund the pretrial diversion program and other programs that people don't have to be courtyard that's an example of outside custody in helping people to avoid custody but still remain account
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colleagues any other questions we'll tall call up our next department. >> do we want to go to the budget analyst represents. >> we'll not skip that. >> madam chair and members the commission sxhepd on page 43 of the report the recommended recommendations total $17,000 plus in 2015-2016 and of that amount 528 plus are ongoing savings and 91 thousand are one time savings this allows an increase of $10 million plus for 5.3 percent in the departments 2015-2016 our recommended reductions to total 6 hundred plus in 2016-2017 of that amount 640 are ongoing savings and 50 thousand are one time savings
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those allows an increase ever 17 or 3 point of percent in the 78 we are working with the department and report back to the committee on our final recommendations. >> thank you mr. rose. >> supervisor breed and i had two more questions for clarity the $114,000 for the community grant organization so those monies are coming from where exactly. >> i don't have that number in front of me. >> cfo the sheriff's department i believe you're referring to the increase in the grant program 2015-2016. >> yes. >> that's a combination of the cola that was awarded to every department last year by the board and 64 additional dollars that be coming back o intoxicate fund additional positions to
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help us registration in the affordable health care. >> and this is like the also for pretrial diversion. >> in fact your overall is 4 point and the remainder is in reindustry which we have the pretrial diversion moving people out the jail system. >> the $710,000 for capital improvements that had been done to the brilliant facility. >> yes. we had a security in our 850 bryant facilities very old equipment security equipment needed emergency repairs we declared on emergency for capital improvements this is fund that going to repairs that needed to be funded many many
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years ago our concern was that it deals with cameras and security video, that deals with jails being locked or not located but we've not been recompleted by the emergency money in the capital for the other projects that are unfund it all got moved to the fund and the other capital improvements are now unfunded. >> okay. thank you. >> sure. >> thank you supervisor mar. >> thank you sheriff ex-wherever you give presentations you're opening our easy to the trespassed and the domino of the jail i share with supervisor breed in some ways the concern the jail population is to rapidly decreasing which i think is good but the
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continuation of the alleged staff or maintaining the staffing levels within our department from the jail population is declining why is it necessary again that we have to maintain the said the mou levels of staffing and well, there's anytime staffing requirement and minimum security viruses maximum security type of inmates somebody that several sufrdz with a significant mental health disorder and noted that department is the not seen before even though we're making as i explained dramatic drops from the jail population is definitely you know on the rise. >> one the slides was the
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besides the increase in hive risks and the next slide with inmates with mental health what's the d h f. >> the mental health. >> it is increased sixth from 2012 to many contact you're saying the staffing levels at least dealing with high-risk and mentally ill and severely disturbed inmates requires additional staff. >> it can most definitely and what concerns me the lack of train that should corridor with dealing with sometimes very voluntary i will or complicated population. >> i know we are going to have the hearing on the jail rebuild on thursday at the public safety committee i'm seeing the rapid decline
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from the high of 20th century 2008 the jail population at 2 thousand 2 hundred inmates like a huge rapid decline to now to it looks like it is about 1150 right now. >> it hovers between 1150 and 1250. >> i know that as different advocates question the need to build a new jail i've seen the conditions at 850 bryant and is a brand new needs to make the conditions better and better invitation to reduce recidivism but this declines so rapid it looked like it will be below 11 hundred to the sometime in the near future our saying the 99 numbers are hoover at same
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level. >> now the same over 67 months wore seeing stagnation i don't think this conversation is volunteered from the conversation your having with the police department about putting new another police officer on the street there are interconnections that small business misunderstood in terms of the front end and the middle back end response by the sheriff's department and the adult probation they'll outline interacted i caution those discussions in any way they've been. >> i see the interconnections as well i want to indirect the question to the mayor's budget director kate howard we've
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generously you funded police academies the 1 eight hundred hundred body cameras for police officers i'm wondering you don't why not the same or similar attendance from the sheriff's department and the ballistic vest replacements to potential body cameras but even the academy classes for the sheriff men's the installing small number of 12 the police department has to many more in their academy. >> thank you, supervisor kate howard the mayors budget director. >> as you noted a sixth drop in the population in the jail and we've been working with the sheriff's department to monitor their staffing level as well as their ability to backfill retirements that's certainly our