on in this project and in the rfp that we seek support of sb 863 we romanced a 8 hundred plus bed while i don't have a crystal ball to talk about 2020 and beyond i feel comfortable that 3 hundred and 84 beds puts us where we need to be. >> okay. >> okay. colleagues any further questions for staff mr. rose, can we go to your report on item 2. >> yes. mr. chairman, and members of the committee supervisor kim on page 9 of our report we stated that the proposed resolution authorized the city to million dollars in the sb 8 to fund the g l replacement for county jail

three and four at the hallways hall of justice if it gets $80 million it offsets the costs of developing the construction and instructing the yale's population reducing the city's costs to 8 hundred plus million dollars the city is not required to pay back any money further in order to get the funds the city must have a match of 10 percent for a general replacement costs the match is $24 million i'm sure you're aware of the board of supervisors has previously appropriated the fund hundred and $90,000 so the board needs to appropriate an additional monies to the project our recommendation on page 10 and we state we recommend our approves resolution we believe

this is consistent with the prior board of supervisors such approval is contingent on the negative declaration and monitoring in the program. >> thank you, mr. rose colleagues, any questions for mr. rose seeing none, we'll open up for public comment i have speaker cards and if your name is not called please feel free to line up when i call your name line up against the far wall everyone has two minutes (calling names) sir. >> hello supervisors good afternoon you the public will never

approve bones for this project basically, the public is almost completely urban aware of what the board of supervisors what your committee is doing, what the chairs are doing you're spending $240 million right now and according to our own figures you'll spend over $550 million over half a billion dollars on this jail project without the public really knowing what is transpiring in the meantime does the san francisco even need the jail in my opinion no according to the sheriff our

jails are half empty as far as the as far as the mitigated negative declaration that will not hold up that will be changed and the planning department often has it changed this is just well, i'll get to the question what input, if any will the citizens of sf have over this project from the city takes the states money who has the ultimate control of the project the city or the county or state if so and finally why is this project necessary thank you. >> thank you, sir. thank you. next speaker, please. >> roma for the taxpayers for

public safety thank you very much when we started to work on thirty this two years ago today has been a productive discussion and thank you very much what we want to say as tape recorders or taxpayers we agree with the capital planning the hall of justice needs to be closed we continue to disagree with the controllers and the department of public works that the two jails at the hall of justice niece to be replaced or to do so given the trends even though that at practice to the it's overbuilding need as delayed by the option have not been vetted as supervisor kim has indicated we need consensus with you and the

communities as well as the department of public works and capital planning before this is authorized to go forth. >> the other point that c.j. 2 has not been thoroughly discussed for remodeling and arock renovation and qualifies for the application of part of the $80 million if not the total we agree that c.j. 67 should be closed and i mean and 4 should be closed and that the money if we have to use cop should going to the next stage everyone out of the hall of justice earlier so the other thing is the discussion we had today, i want to share one statistic that relates to is it space and the public policy

can i say it. >> real quick we have a lot of speakers. >> you need to look at the the burns report on 46 percent of african-americans that fail the y g c in the jails that's horrible and not acceptable. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors my name is donna i'm here representing the senior disability action an ax that opposes the construction of p a new jail is a seductive presentation for the cage i'll remind you is still a cage people talked about the good conditions it is shameful the statistics about who occupies the jails overwhelmingly poor

people people of color and mental illness issues as roma cited the study about racial disparity is a shame for the city is all black people represents the prisons population of the city 44 percent of people booked into the jail you've heard 80 percent of the people and the san francisco jail has a form of mental illness 64 percent serious mental illness and that 25 percent of the people in jail are homeless i feel and the organization feels from the city were serious about addressing the marines for people in jail the jail population will plummet and there is something that just really, really disturbing about not when we can't think outside

the box and feel like san francisco, california do better than build a new jail there's a lot of creative all of the elements to crackers incarceration that has been offered in other places i think we can do you know do work that is based on values of justice thank you thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> reverend glancing district attorney 4067 i hope that wasn't my time limit (laughter). >> i've retired over fyi years working in the tenderloin and 17s as the founder of the save house for homeless women that's ass age ultimate to incarceration i want to offer look at of folk wisdom never buy a pig and polk it could turn to be be a pet in a bag i think this resolution is

asking you all to buy several pigs in a polk for example you're being asked to kind of say there are really not serious environmental issues here you don't know that dollar so many things not examined that is the first pig in the polk, and, secondly your authorizing or asked to seek a huge outlay of taxpayer money to ask for state funding for a building which obviously people don't believe we need we have the most underutilized jail systems in the state we can be proud of that and we're doing everything we can to make that increase that's the second pig in the poeng polk and third asked to agree request so many urban answered questions especially the one raised by

supervisor kim and supervisor mar you're asked to agree to go ahead with this project with all of those unanswered questions that's the third pig in the polk you'll hear a lot of testimony here today that will look at this and essentially let the cat out of the bag i'm asking you to remember this bid of tried and true folk wisdom with the negative comments about this resolution (clapping.) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hi, i'm mohammed with the critical resistance a part of california invited for a responsible budget i want to start off with two quotes jails have become the largest psychiatric institutes in all the states this is a horrible statement and the second quote when you think about a jail

environment that is the worst possible place to hours or attempt to treat the mentally ill one statement made by the sheriff in kent county in chicago and the sheriff of los angeles now as been mentioned as supervisor kim noted in the nationwide trend not going to change based on building new or older generation types of facilities we need out of kid treatment another point i appreciate supervisor kim talking about the controllers report is like a paradox looking at forecast not taking into consideration the possible alternatives and what that investment can look like and how it effects long term population forecasts and so when you take into consideration you actually see a dramatic reduction in the jail populations

i'd like to point out that the b fcc funding is not a grant it is a loan that has to be repaid back it leaves san francisco taxpayers footing the bill and the issue with the outside exercise space in the negative declaration is that in order to receive the funding the county has to be in accordance with the bs cc rules includes the outdoor space and it didn't include currently, the outdoor exercise space and the 444ers of no bail. >> thank you very much thanks very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> i'll call a few more speaker cards

(calling names). >> i'm laura thomas with the alliance and a member of taxpayers for public safety first of all, thank you for holdings this hearing and giving us the opportunity to speak i want to echo one of the iventd or findings ♪ the controllers report the biscuit driver of the drop in the inmates is the shift there are additional policy shifts that took place at the county level and at the state level that has a bigger impact on the county jail population if we leave those policy shifts on the table we don't change the way that bail is operated for example in this county we're not take advantage of everything we can do to reduce the jail population before we commitment commit ourselves before building

a new jail we would a facility 3 times as big as the population we're 0 holding now we built for the past and not the future i wanted to encourage us we're at a moment in criminal justice reform yes president obama gave a spectacular speaking speech around reducing our reliance on the criminal justice system we got great leaders in the reform here we need to be building for the future and not for the past we need to be looking at investing in alternative and mental illness alternatives before we build a new jail we can be a leader instead of a formal we have a long history of being a leader a proud history and continue with that thank you >> good morning. thank you

supervisors i'm jessica a member of san francisco taxpayers for public safety i'm speaking in favor of more fiscal and cost fiscal alternatives to building yet another jail in san francisco specifically i'd like to suggest that this board amend the resolution in 3 ways one, to require that c y-3 and 4 be closed down as reasonably as possible i want to commend the sheriff's department for emptying c.j. 3 in emphasizing and ask to permanently close the facility there is nothing that - second i'll ask as you the in the 2013 resolution to approve that that grant that you include an amendment that that board has

the ability to approve or deny this project sighed from the capital planning that be noted in this resolution third suggestion i have regarding the ceqa the reducing instructions for the rfp for the grant proposal does not require that anything related to ceqa be included in this resolution i want to be clear you could split the rest have one go forward with the approval of grant and work with the time under local and state law and in order to address the concerns around ceqa a priority for ceqa compliance that provided can be documented in the grant proposal not to be documented in the board solution thank you. >> hi, i'm with the critical resistance

i just wanted to make a technical deal that pains any the jail project is clearly out of the owner occ title 24 all type two and three facilities must be housed with outdoor facilities with the primary negative declaration that the proposed rehabilitation this is a quote the proposed rehabilitation in the facility will not committed the outdoor space that would be enclosed at our appeal hearing they've respond to our complaint and they're looking the code for recreation facilities to be clear the recreation and exercise space are not the same and regulated differently in title 24 and a moral there failure on the past should not

be a failure now it reveals they have no interest in the people and if they the our communities need the health care and free education and jobs not a jail that hold our people next to 0 freeway without the ability to exercise does not let them apply for state fund that spc says their ineligible and this illegally keeps people discolored. >> i'm jamie with the critical coalition one of the people mentioned a drop in jail population there's no need for a department is in the process of

hiring 2 hundred and 50 new officers and chief suhr that are hire new officers will make more arrests the san francisco jail capacity is 50 percent capacity on june 11th and the city puts resources towards the criminalization of certain people like the criminalization of homeless people they need homes and people of color specifically black and brown they need resources we're talking about trance women of color who don't need a trans pod that further institutionaling remember wlu when you say the word inmates you're talking about human beings san francisco is a leader those resources are

here and the knowledge how to use them does not approve that funding application you can't make a jail more humane instead vote to move ward from institutional listing our people it will never solve the problems. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> thank you for having me, i'm the program at sf james we oppose a new jail in my work at seven years i work with people that are formally carted and drug users and sex workers the effects of incarceration leads to barriers limiting housing and physical and mental health

from the city prioritize the criminalizing it will push for community accountability through the diversions that ends this the bail increased services we have b have less people in cages and end a system by social services spend most of our times mitigating the harms of incarceration there's no such thanking thing as a humane jail mental illness is x batdz by the concept of improvement building a new jail is a - it forces survival strategies that encourages bad behavior you can't go to a shelter only exercising many rapes in jail

or not being able to get a job and continuing to depend on sex work for survival you went to jail for prostitution arrests and after a violence arrests or a that prison garden abuse you i ask you to imagine a healthy society and caring go about the lives of all san franciscans thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> >> hi, i'm pipeline pipe i'm here in my capacity as the 19james i have a background if mlk work and public safety i agree the current jail is horrible i work right now in c.j. three and four every other week that are considered the vulnerable pods in the prison i hope with the education of those people

and everybody i encountered don't need to be there they're poor or from broken vibrant background or not having the outside support and yeah, they have no other options; right? so i really want to commend frail you for taking seriously critical resistances report and work it is extremely heating egging egg to hear you and not rubber stamp a proposal and i really want to encourage you not to approve the new jail but take the h and 60 or whatever millions and directly invest that that will heal the wounds that cause people to be in jail in the if i were to is

hard work and takes a lot of money a lot of effort but i do believe we can do better i think actually san francisco, california set the standard for this thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm andrew what the san francisco tenants union we're completely opposed to the new jail including the housing rights community is opposed to the new jail there's been a lot of talk with the sheriff's department how the jails are homes for the homeless for people that have been demand from their homes due to the evictions that is no way to deteriorate folks that have been here a long time in the community that is problematic that jails are seen as housing it's been 25 percent of in the jails where homeless and many of

them through the jails will be homeless instead of spending the $240 million coalitions would agree that supporting more affordable housing and in support of housing for those who have been incarcerated is much more important and meaningful than keeping them in the jails. >> hi good afternoon. i'm gesturing the director of freedom for homeless in thinking about this issue i'm drawn back to one of the kids preschool teachers told me about child behavior and sometimes a child with special needs their behavior is like a train heading for a brick wall and that it is really hard train to stop that really is what we can do is turn the train and try to get

the train to avoid hitting the wall i think about this this is a construction project that has a lot of support by policymakers increased a lot of money and you'll this stuff behind that we start on something and heads towards it ever it has no common sense we have this tremendous opportunity to turn this train we're concerned about the folks with seriousness and sauls we're deeply concerned with the homeless people that are locked up we can do it differently and redirect the resources and build up our mental health systems we can provide housing for people that are streptin need and do so

much better let's turn this train and do something much better thank you. >> (clapping). >> my name is woods i'm from t.j. i i'm here to oppose the negative declaration and in opposition of san francisco k34i789 $24 million of taxpayer money for applyingfor a jail loan from the board of during the course i work with trans and non-conforming people of color on bryant i'm aware of the conditions been terrible given the points mitigated with negative declaration conducted on the project there are flags

about the rebuild jail construction plan as it stands will violate the bs cc building regulation and results in the recreation of states funds when thinking of the people that t.j. i serve primarily transgenders and people of color we're talking about a vulnerable population the black population in san francisco and the population is 4 percent black in the jails they've released the report black people will be 7 times more in jail and trained women will be incarcerated at some point if their life transgenders are vulnerable and jail is no place for them they deal with the stress in society as well

within those facilities i urge you to consider our appeal to construct no build options and trains women need a place to live not a jail. >> i have several cards herens women need a place to live not a jail. >> i have several cards here (calling names) come on up and anything else. >> i'm with the no jail coalition i want to do clean up i appreciate the strong questions that have been asked and the strong community input those are the sort of venues we value because as someone said it is two years of trying to get those opportunities for