good morning today is july 23, 2015. welcome to rules committee of san francisco board of supervisors. my name is john avalos joined byicatey tang and to my left by mu lia cohen. the clerk is [inaudible] todays rules committee is graud cast by sfgtv staff. thank you for your service. madam clerk can you share your announcements >> please silence cell phone squz electroning devices. complete speaker cards [inaudible] will be on sept 8.

>> okay. very good thank you madam clerk if you can-please call item 1 >> item 1 is hearing to consider finding one maybe [inaudible] children youth and families over site and advisory committee. there is one saet and 7 applicants. >> great, 1 seat 7 applicants. we look at this as a challenging exercise how we find one qualified candidate out of several qualified can dts for one seat but we'll do our best. we had a number of people who presented before and may be here. why don't we go down the list. first up is molly words. if each candidate wants to share a couple minutes of their interest in the seat and what they would like to accomplish on the seat. >> my name is molly [inaudible]

and i am a person who grewp in san francisco and currently live in san francisco and the executive director of a organization called, raising a reader, which operates in the 3 county san francisco alameda and con trucasta county. i'm thrilled the childcare planning and advisory counsel put forward my name to serve on the over site and advisory cancel for children and youth programs. i have years of experience in education, in youth development, youth workforce development and building community coalition arounds youth outcome. i worked at united way for several years managing children and youth programs and making grants to organizations in the bay area and for the last several years have been the foundsing exectival director of raising a reader in the bay area. my experience spans in working with children and youth

in their families from birth now through young adulthood. i also have experience working on collaboration and capacity building for organizations and knroe the roll of the oversight and advisory committee is not just about manpageing the resources of the department of children youth and families i making sure those are spents on the most pressing needs fl youth in san francisco, but that also that that committee works with the service provider working group, which i think is a critical part of the legislation in which i'm really excited about. in my experience you need the whole community to work together to keep an eye on the current needs so i'm proud to serve isthis capacity. >> thank you and thank you for your work with raising a reader, great organization. i have done in the past a little

work with them but most of all with having 2 kids reading is like one of the big est thijs we do as a family. it is amazing how it helped with my kids development in so many ways so thank you for your work on that. no other questions from the committee we can go to the next applicant, thank you. >> thank you >> patricia seeingal. she was here and presented before. gretchen aims. gretchen. >> good morning. hello again. i spoke last time about my qualifications. just want to say i respect whatever decision you make, i know it is a difficult decision, there are lot of applicants. i'm interested in serving on the commit a because early childhood is a little

underrepresented [inaudible] and not as much of a priority area financially yet that is where the children start. knroe there a lot of us here to compete for this one position, i'm happy with the choice you make but one thing that may set me aside is i'm a passionate advocate for children and youth having worked with youth and teacher squz families director. i bring a great deal of sus temiccology and studying to get my doctorate at mills call squj teaching at san francisco straight state. there are teachers in my classroom at state and one thing i'm hopeful about if i were seated on the position or the committee is i could use my civic participation to model for my

students at state and show how government is working and use that as a learning tuntd as well. i know authority candidates are qualified but that is something that is maybe a little different about me. >> thank you very much. okay, next up i think tracey brown is not going be here today. let rr go on to luis [inaudible] >> good morning supervisors. good morning supervisor kate tang and john avalos. what i bring to had table is awareness of [inaudible] today in most of the communities many youth and children families are it was a difficult

challenge to back3 4 f1 to the community my fathers was modered. i was thankful to receive the [inaudible] in the past i helped me become the man who i am today, completing the masters degree at the university of san francisco.

my undergrad is child psychology understanding the impact of program youth and violence. i think it is a important topic to be addressed is that voice or those victims of crime is not somehow not being brought to the committee. it is something that needs a lot of awareness and education. i also want to talk about the residency waver that i see on the agenda. i didn't leave san francisco by choice. i'm ainate native san franciscan and born and raised in san francisco, unfochinately i can't live in san francisco. we see that a lotf w xhern and youth and families having to migrate to other counties because they can't afford to live in san francisco. that impacts the youth and the way they identify themselves. are they seen as san franciscans or are there waver forms they have to go through to feel like they

raback home. i commute every day to san francisco for hour. [inaudible] i invest time in san francisco by attending the university and schools and work for the district attorneys office. if given the opportunity i'll work hard i be a strong voice for those victims of vimes as i see myself as a survivor, >> what neighborhoods have you lived in san francisco? >> i grew up in the mission and hung out at park and rec on [inaudible] they used to have a boxing club. my son hangs out at the youth program. at one point i would catch the 54 and 9 to bay view and come back to the mission district. grew up

on army street, but hung out at [inaudible] my focus has never been on the specific district. i worked at the boys and girls club at [inaudible] i worked there for 5 years. the kids come down to escape the violence. i'm fochinate and interview these young mens who are victimoffs crime not becoming pertrairts of crime so i see both asspects. i'm a conflict mediator and [inaudible] victims offender dialogue so see if we can find [inaudible] between those 2 communities. >> thank you. next up, andy tang. >> [inaudible] supervisors .

thank you for this honor to present in front of you for the seat for the dcyf over site and advisory committee. as someone who has spent 21 years in the [inaudible] complex, i know the first hand of the detrimental pipeline from the immigration to the school to the prison and deportation pipeline. i expand [inaudible] but what i found myself is that when i got my education. when i was able to learn how to read and write and got my ged and college degree in prison it created a opportunity for me to accept the responsibility fl my action squz have remorse for my victims and the harm i committed to family and victims. as a rument i decided to dedicate my life to serve as

youth children z families so they don't have to fall in the same steps or fall through the cracks like i did as a immigrant to the country. since 2007 i have been worked in community youth center of san francisco starting as [inaudible] and a case manager. now, i am a project director for community youth center and luckily i move forward for the [inaudible] throughout the years i have been working in the city of san francisco. i serve the most vulnerable population not only for the asian population but for all population in the city of san francisco dealing with violence prevention i street outreach and dealing with services for the perpetrator as well as the victim. i gonet how many times i went to general hospital to help victims identify bodies or

how many funerals for the african americans shot down due to thoracism we still experience today. i don't know how many times i talk to the families and parents who lost the son squz daughters and they are crying for a systematic change. dcys is a organization that is the leading for efront to help support the children youth and families to insure everyone in san francisco to be able to provide the necessary services they need and continue of service that they need. so, as someone who has come up as a immigrants all the way to right now to dedicate my life to service of youth y have the experience and ecperatize to be able to be on this committee and the reez is because i'm a visionary. i have the vision of creating a branch office in the bay view hunters point because of the lack of services

to the [inaudible] and also there is tension between african american and asian communities so as a result i want to create a program to promote racial harmony by creating multiyouth leadership programs and second, work with partners on the grass root level and community based organization of law enforcement to create the culture programs to celebrate culture as a means to celebrate culture. i created [inaudible] to allow residence to learn about everyones cultures and identity so they can live next to each other. i also created the bay view youth summit. for the last 4 years the young people have youth driven [inaudible] to talk about issues that directly impacted them. i created the api [inaudible] in the city of san francisco where api organizations be able to engage childrens and families

to come together and talk about cultural comitant needs and challenges they experience qu the main stream media doesn't know or main street population don't know. out of the 58 thousand people in the city of san francisco, 45 percent of the asian population are in the ucsf school district and 33 percent are participants in the dcyf budget so we see we have to have representation from the asian population to be able to provide that cultural [inaudible] to continue to support the vision of dcyf. if i get appointed i would bring 3 thing tooz the committee, number 1, you have unwavering commitment to be able to work with people to insure there is a continuous service. number 2, i bring my experience as

someone as a immigrant all the way to a service provider to be able to engage not only the api population but all communities in the city of san francisco. number flee, the relationship i built over the years is something that you cannot just ask anyone to come to the city of san francisco, you cannot just build that in a year or 2, but what is importance is i have frust from the community and demonstrate myself. i think i am a qualified candidate for the position. i think that were thorough and appreciate your service in san francisco and think you have great things to bring to the body as do all the other applicants here. next up is ingred [inaudible] >> good morning supervisors.

my name is ingred [inaudible] and i'm here to give background as to why i want to be on the dcyf oversight and advisory committee and know you have a hard choice this morning because you have talented and qualified can dts for this one seat. people like molly [inaudible] who works tirelessly on raising a reader. i respect the fact that you have a tough choice, but i give you a little background, i live in the outer mission and i currently oversee pr scol for all at first 5 san francisco. first i could be considered a native of san francisco. i was born in elsal vudor and came to the country when i was 3. i attended pr school in the mission along with my parents

who actually had esl classes in [inaudible] community center. 2 decades later i came back and directed the same preschool program i attended, head start program and yfs able to gain so much knowledge and experience working in back in my community and this is where i believe i had a epuffany of working with children and families, especially immigrant families and being laser focused on racial justice. the first in the nation funded by local funds and so now 10 years later the preschool initiative serves over 4 thousand children impt i am a key architect for the city [inaudible] as well as the

states qualityerating and improvement system. like many can dts here i'm also a fearless champion for children, but spingely for children of color and immigrant children because these are the vulnerable populations we know they have least access to high quality early learning experiences mpt i'm also a clab rairth. i believe in collective impact and think this sth way of the fuch squr the only way we can get our best thinking, a collective thinking to tackle societies difficult challenges. this is the only way how we can create the most impact around our fundsing decisions and our policies. i always looked for partnerships especially in communities where we know we would have the most impact and that is communities of color. to attest to that, every head start program and every state pr school program participates in proschool for all which is a

testament that the vulnerable and low income children are participating in learning programs. when i started at first 5 we had a low percentage of preschool children among african american and latino and now we have 80 percent attending high quality preschool and being laser focused on the most vulnerable population is how we advance mptd these are a few examples why my commitment and my passion towards this work and anything i do i do it heart and i know i can bring unique contsbution tooz the committee. i'm committed to our children. i want every child especially those most in need to have access to high quality experiences beginning at birth and now with prop c going all the way through age 24, which is wonderful in terms of

providing wrap around service. this work is personal to me. i grew up in the mission and live in the outer mission and have 2 full grown daughters. they are wonderful and talented but i was also a single parent and they are these amazing [inaudible] that i'm very proud of. now i have 2 incredible grand daughters i'm proud of. i know i can lend this perspective and experience and able to contribute to the oversight committee. this is the voice that i would lend to the group, so thank you. >> thank you very much. so, there are no other applicants for the seat so we can open the up to public comment. >> [inaudible]

>> hi, i'm sandy blackman and the executive director of childrens counsel and the chair of c pack in 2015 and so i'm here to urge you to appoint somebody who has experience and deep knowledge and experience working with families with young children in san francisco. when we heard-when we went through the hearing for seat ton, the first time you

chose alson suzuki who brought that perspective and there are 3 aket percent of 0-18 year olds or 0- 5 think it is important perspective to bring to the oversight committee and there are at least 4 qualified can dts in the group that you are considering who bring that expertise and experience. ingred who you heard from, maly [inaudible] gretchen and patty seeingal. who want to take one brief moment to just talk about patty seeingal and express her disappointment she wasn't able to be here today due to illness and remind you patty soolife long advocate for children and families having founded childrens counsel or childcare switch board is a first child

care resource [inaudible] someone who got funding under jer a brown in the first administration to create that across the state. create childcare resource and referl across the state. she is a life time advoqut for families and childrens and would very much like to serve on this committee if appointed. so thank you very much. >> thank you. we have been here before. my name is molly brown and director with gnaw [inaudible] and the coach for the children and youth fundsing coalition. thank you for your patient and consideration and persistence throughout the process. we have 5 nominees before you and let you know we endorse all 5. we think they bring a lot of tal tonight the table and your task is to try and find the right balance of

candidates. i want to remind who we endorsed and that is gretchen [inaudible] we think they represent the best of what the city has to offer and would appreciate your support. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] work with children for [inaudible] i had a little girl that learned to clean walls and clean dishes and cook and she was only 1 years old when she did that and [inaudible] foster mother. the paperwork that they want me to do, they can read so they

didn't consider that so that was in 1983. i love children and [inaudible] and sing songs. [inaudible] i want to know if i can try to get [inaudible] for some of these projects to help out with children. [inaudible] different angles in expressions with children and people that are not [inaudible] with children. they have to remind them what type of person

they are and talk to the children about how the organization is and how they -explained it to other people so you know exactly what to say in [inaudible] and how they [inaudible] and their expressions and this is very important with dogs and animals and trees and [inaudible] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name is [inaudible] executive director of community youth center of san francisco and the committee member for the api counsel. i speak in support of [inaudible] for seat 10 position on the dcy

oversight council. i have known [inaudible] and i met him in [inaudible] bringing his group up young asian and [inaudible] visit a program called ed squire and he is the only one that is bilingual and [inaudible] about if they make any wrong choices they will walk down the same path as him. we ask to keep the communication and witness his dedication and [inaudible] when he was released in 2007 and hired him as a outreach worker for committee response network for asian pacific islander committee. [inaudible] he works 9 to 5 and 9 or 24/7 to help out families and definitely i will see him a big loss for leaving dyc as the

project director [inaudible] had however he will be in a different position and [inaudible] for the national highlight and continue the work [inaudible] great asset to serve for the city and county of san francisco as the dcy oversight advisory counsel. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> my name is [inaudible] the organizer of [inaudible] i believe all the applicants are very well qualified. i know 3 of them, patty seeingal, [inaudible] gretchen aims, but we can only support one person so today i'm here to speak on behalf of patty seeingal and sad she can not be here. it is very difficult to get a doctors appointment. i have known patty for 20 year jz the founder of the organization i work for, parent voices and i

wirk with parents with young children moving from welfare to work and the edge patty gives you is she is just retired so can give 100 percent time. i know the others here are very well committed but that is the edge patty gives and patty has proven just how capable she is in representing the low income families. parents love here. i have a petition here. i think i providing a copy to supervisor avaloss office and letters from parents and will give it to you. patty is a retired grandparent and she has dedicated more than 40 years of her life speaking for young children needing childcare. children can not speak for them sevl squz we should look at the committee and see where we need the representation. 35 percent

of children 0-18 are in the age range and believe patty will represent the low income well. >> thank you very much. seeing other members we'll close public comment and we'll decide on the item. so, i had originally had all these seats up, the board appointed seat for the ovsight and advisory committee early june. at that testimony we had reviewed many can dts themselves before here and we forwarded alson lee suzuki to the full board and forwarded my comments at the time is i wanted to support tracey brown and there was a real responsibility that alson lee suzuki's application wouldn't qualify because she is a part of a orgz that received

fundsing through first 5 through dcyf and that is under the rules of who is on the committee and would not qualify her and that was determined she isn't qualified based on the rules set up. i indicated at that testimony if alson lee suzukeee was not going to be able to serve, that i would work around supporting tracey brown. that is where i would like to be able to support for the oversight committee. i would like to put it out there that is my first choice for the seat based on the qualifications and also what i indicated in june. colleagues i hope you might able to consider tracey brown, she soostrong candidate and has years of experience serving in non profit organization and

children and fam ilies in the mission and has children across san francisco and raised children in the city and knows about the life cycle of services and be a strong candidate for the committee. >> thank you very much chair avalos. i was one of those who recommended alson lee suzuki and sad to hear she can't qualify based on the constraights placed by the memberoffs the committee. i remember mrs. brown and have no issues. when i supported alson suzuki i was considered diversity on the committee and taking a look that folks we appointed throughout the board so one person that stands out today who would be able to fulfill that is eddy [inaudible] and based on my

smeerns working with him i believe he is wonderful candidate. we have to answer questions about the funding and serving as a cyc consultant who received funding through the city. i'm also bias to [inaudible] had a great conversation with her. i think everyone is very qualified, those were 2 people i'm leaner towards but happy to find a consensus with this committee. >> thank you. supervisor cohen >> not sure if we'll have consensus. i want to acknowledge being a representativeo of the bay view valley neighborhoods allows me a opportunity to work with many of the applicants before us both directly and hands on and indirectly. also i want to acknowledge i spent time serving on the first 5 board so

had a great opportunity to get to know and understand the leadership within that organization as well the volen tears and staff members that work to provide quality preschool for everyone. i'm here today to support luis [inaudible] i think that i like the element of having a latino voice on the body and also very interested and attracted to the fact he is a native san franciscan. with that said, it is a very difficult decision to come to particularly because i have worked clously with eddy and know him in a very i think deep way. i probably know better than luis quite honestly. i have come to weigh

this option and think luis brings a insight and cultural awareness that is report to the advisory oversight committee. there it is. >> okay. sounds like we are deadlocked. so, what i would like to be able to propose-i didn't hear anyone supporting tracey besides myself and i also am pretty much torn between luis [inaudible] and eddy zang both of whom i believe will be great people with very similar backgrounds to serve on the oac. and um diversity was important to me and thought with the seats up by the board of supervisors, there was a lack of someone preserving from the latino community with

bilingual spanish and from the asian community who spoke cant neez or mandarin and that is still lacking and that is the seat that is lacking. the mayors office is past the deadline sfr making their appointments for this body. it is unfochinate. we thought we could look at the overall diversity of the mayor's appointments were to compare to and make a decision on and that isn't the case. even though it is pass thd legal deadline the mayors office is waiting to see who we appoint before they decide. i expect candidates who are not necessarily appointed today whos names are in the mayors office have a chance to be appointed by the mayor as well so whatever we don't decide today can be accomplished in that office and that is up to their decision making. what i'm in a round

about way of doing, i will support mrs. zang and my appallgies to mr. [inaudible] who i believe served san francisco very very well and continues to do so and who i have known for a long time for his work in the community as well. it is hoard hard not to support you luis, but i do want to support eddy moving forward and that we might [inaudible] we have a motion from other committee members i'll be happy to support that >> i apology earlier that i would be fine supporting [inaudible] given i think as supervisor cohen mentioned the experience with the and back ground with [inaudible] violence prevention. i'm okay with mr. aroacha or mr. zang.

i want to ask the city attorney to answer the question about the funding provided to cy c and if that poses a conflict >> cyc, if dcyf is a funding decision maker for cyc then yes, that would be a conflict. i think that is the-i think the issue here is timing, is that right? >> from my understand i think that mr. zang is going to be serving on a fellowship. i don't know if we wanteds to come up but based on the application information i saw he is on board as a consultant and not full time employee. >> yes, i'm transitioning to my fellowship from the [inaudible] foundation so i'm a fellow

beginning sep tember 1 so that is in line with the beginning of the oversight committee, the actual beginning of the at that point in the meeting. >> and then i think i saw something that said you remain on board as a cyr consultant- >> the conceltant comes from the general fund i believe. correct me if i'm wrong. it isn't dcyf money it is general fund money. >> not funding that is a grant from dcyf to cyc. >> no it is the fund raising done through gala and donations

and it is a very small percentage-i'm only doing 5 hours so it isn't that much money. i'll show why i want to be a consultant because i help build the brarch office in the bay view and we just now built a foundation to create services out there so i don't want to just leave like that, i want to be able to make sure there is a transsquigz help so that is why i'm willing to be a consultant otherwise i would just focus on my fellowship. >> thank you. >> deputy city attorney john gibner, the test for qual fiication doesn't turn on whether a particular counselrr is paid through dcyf funding it is are they employee who receives dcyf funding and it

sounds here mr. zang isn't a employee but a consultant hired for a handful of hours for the organization so that isn't a conflict because he isn't a employee at the time if he is appointed in september. >> thank you for the clarification. >> there is something i want to acknowledge, when we think of early childhood education we think about women. i think naturally because of being mothers and stair typically being considered to be more of the nurtureing of the 2 genders, i am excited that both luis andiedy are interested serving. i know these gentlemen and they are excellent fathers and family men. i can support eddy at the time if it will bring consensus around this deliberation. i'm

relucted to support in this role because i'm selfish skn want him to continue what he is doing in the bay view. he provided a fantastic service to not just bay view but also visitation valley and been a liaison connecting the youth around cultural awareness and bringing them to democratic process how local government and non profit works intersects with being a young person growing up and creating a strong sense of sieving par pisitation. supervisors why don't we make a motion to recommend eddy shall face zang to this body. also i think-do we need to take a motion for residency waver? okay. so, there is 2 motions i would like

to put out there. if we can agree on that. >> i second that motion. >> we are unanimous on that. the motion-go ahead. >> the motion-[inaudible] the motion is to support eddy zang for the seat on the seat 7 on the oac for dcyf and ifcludes a residency requirement and we take that without objection. congratulation jz thank you everyone for your intrest in serving and your work. >> yes, please keep up the good work. >> next item, please. >> item 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member to the bicycle advisory committee [inaudible] there is one seat and one applicant. >> this is a committee report. is mr. wells here, mr. paul

wells? >> thank you very much. thank you supervisors tang, avalos and cohen for previous consideration and the opportunity today. i am long time cyclist in san francisco resident of potrero hill for quite some time. in my media career we have done things in the city for bicycleing and that includes the great san francisco bike adventure, which was in the early 90's sponsored by then krqru now alice and [inaudible] we went across the city. this predates crittle critical [inaudible] biceling around the city back in south of market when soma was filled

with freight train tracks i had my rear bike go into the track and it made a left. i torn my rotator ruch going to bicycle to work day and had a back and knee operation so i'm not on my bicycle but besides the reasons for joining the bicycle advisory committee i also hope to get back on my bike more and lose weight. i'm really pleased at the growth of safe bike lanes or designated bike lanes in the city. the painting of them in green. i'm in contact with bert hill the chairman of the committee and put me on the monday night meeting and agenda so get to meet everyone else and hope to listen and see what the agenda is and how people take positions with my other

representatives. i'm very please today represent district 10 and also want to thank lisa and summer and an dria bruce in your office for your help in getting this moving, so we can do it before the summer is out and it will start raining and won't be on my bike so much. >> we hope it starts raining. >> yes, i hear-bicycleing to work is something i have done. it is curt tailed by a few mishaps. i remember bicycle coalitions coexist early sloge squn would as a member of the committee take a balanced approach. we do need to coexist. a bicycle can be just as dangerous as any other vehicle. pedestrian, bicycleest and people in motor

vehicles have a shared responsibility to obey traffic laws. we are very laissez faire about bike squz there isn't a bike requirement knowing the rules of the road for bicycleest. i have seen in the latest bike coalition news letter which i receive, they are up in arms about the changes in the park station police department in what they are categorizing as a crack down on bicycleest and this is the very thing my experience with all phases and different non profits and phases with city government and people involved hope come into play and help out and mateigate and find some sort of cohesiveness and a middle ground between divergent parties so we move forward because as we move

forward and more people take to their bikes we'll have to have more responsibility taken about where the bicycles are going, how they are going and on all phases of it. hopefully i can get some sort of agreement in that regard, but i am very please today join the bicycle advisory committee so thank you. >> thank you very much. supervisor cohen >> thank you very much. i hope you consider supporting me as i support mr. paul wells. he is a constituents and came before the 3 4 f1 i would like to

send this as a committee report. >> we can take that without objection. congratulation. >> item 3 is hearing to consider one-person appointed to park and recreation advisory committee. there is one seat and one applicant. >> like to welcome up mr. mu scobeian. i bow know better than that. >> thank you. hi supervisors. my name is dens maus scofeian and served as district 5 representative since august 2011 on parks and open space. i was nominated by the sierra club and renominated a second time by supervisor breed. i live in district 5, in fact i was born and raised and still live in district 5, so 2/3 of

my life in district 5. instead of maybe telling you what my qualifications are maybe i should tell what we have done and experienced in the last 3 years or so y. have been a strong advocate for parks particularly open and free access to the park squz that isn't always successful because as time goes on given budget constraints and other policies more and more space is based on reserveations or fees. i also spents a lot of time urging along with colleagues pritorization of acquisition funds into those districts in san francisco that have the greatest needs because they have the least amount of open space with the most glaring example is district 6. in 2012 i pushed hard for playground funding, at the time there were

30 playgrounds on the listment we got 15 and a half million dollars and that is expected to fund 6 so there are 24 more that will languish until the next time we do this. that means they fall behind and a concern i raised is we figure a way to use the money so we improve more playground in each round rather spending so much on each one so it leaves so many behind. in any case i pushed hard for more money in the campaign to get more money for mu claren pack and we were successful getting 10 million for mu claren park. >> i appreciate that >> i thought we have a 317 acre park, it is like the biggest in the city and named after mu claren and it is neglected for decades so hopefully thal money

will bare fruit. back in 2011 [inaudible] recruited by planning to work with planning department on the recreation open space element to try to create consensus among a whole series of commenters so we formed a group with all these diverse commenters and in a period of 2 years produced a side by side comparison and 95 page document we gave to planning and a lot of the amendments we made were adopted and did improve the roads even so we didn't get everything we wanted. we were not able to eliminate all the [inaudible] we were tibel achieve significant improvement to the general plan. in septumber 2013 harvey rose issued

[inaudible] prozac you are not able to complete your abigations under the charter because the department failed to produce the 5 year strategic plan and other plans it is obligated to so i was assigned to chair, a working group and we did an assessment of that audit and prozac supported the final report and then early this year, it was last year rather, this year, we learned that in fact rpd had come up with a strategic plan to get harvard business school to do 6 months of probono work so prosc, signed me to the working group and extendsed that to prozac and came up with a list of proposals and over a course

of time in meet wg the department heads we were able to make a considerable number of amendments to improve this so all that is a consequences of the last period of time during which i had the pleasure, sometimes pain work wg lot of people trying to figure out how to improve our park system and how to improve the management. there are a couple areas i still focus on and want to tell you what those are. i'm concerned there isn't sufficient funding from the general fund for had park cyst squm insufficient funding for maintenance in general the attitude there last decade or more is maintenance is very difficult to pay for so if we let facilities detearierate we replace with bond money because bond money is used for capital funds and brick and mortar and get a new futill silty. i

think the general attitude is we should put a lot of money in to sustain what we have rather than just do what we have done in the past. those are ongoing pictures we are pushing and that is a lot of support in prosc for that. i appreciate being able to continue and need your support to do that. >> thank you. i and prepared to support you when we come to a vote, but thank you for your service on prosc and your contributionerize significant in terms of the committee and reck and park. >> i'm prepared to support mr. dens-i have fond memories of working with him when i was first elected back in 2007, there was a item that was my

first contentious issue we were dealing with on the board and think it had to do with [inaudible] fees. we ended up being on opposite sides he was very very very gracious to myself and niece and think my sisters came out and gave us a tour and spent time with us and explained his perspective as well as the coalitions perspective. since then we have been on the same side of issues and different side of issues but one thing i appreciate the most and think this is a true hall mark of leadership is there is a level of respect to respectfully disagree and dennis embodies that. i have come before the prozacs committee and think you were against us for that as well. >> i supported you on the

[inaudible] and on 900 [inaudible] >> the point i was trying to make is we walk a similar pathway of want toog see park squz open space maintained across the entire city not just on the west side but also the entire city >> absolutely >> that is-our paths may diverge every now and then you have been a gentlemen and a true leader and i applaud you for sticking to your values sometimes when it isn't politically expedient and have a tremendous amount of respect for you in the work you have done and happy to support you today. i hope we can move this item quickly and get you back to where you belong. >> thank you. can i just throw one observation? when kimble, which is located on steiner and

-just south of geary, which it was redone, the field was redone, that was used by the youth in the area and didn't know much about it and had tolearn more mptd after the field was redone and field access was becoming reserveivation base i got complaints from the neighbors the kids couldn't go on and drop in. drop in play was i think a big thing because i grew up that way. we didn't organize it just a bunch went and played softball or basicalball. we haven't been successful in that because the revenue first model that the parks department adopted since 2010 means generation of funds that comes from reserveivation and over 50 percent of all the funds coming through

reserveivation and fees come from soccer and that is what happened at kimble. we were not successful to change it but i was concerned about that thing. it happened in the mission district when someone showed up and the guys in the afternoon play pick up soccer and were told you have to pay a guy 5 or 10 bucks otherwise they couldn't play. it created a outrage. those are the kind of things i think are mistakes and can be corrected but we haven't been successful because of the issue of revenue. that is just my share. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay we can open for public comment. any member of the public like to comment? please come forward. >> good afternoon commissioners. supervisors. i know this is one person for one

seat but when a good person steps forward is t is important to say good thipshs about them. i worked with dennis many times and have found him to be one of the main champions in city operating in sit ahall making the city beautiful and keeping it beautiful and not letting it slide including open space of course. the other thing i found really important about dennis when i worked with him in the past is he is very no nonsense. when you advocate a issue you can be hypobolic but when dennis was in the room adviceing me what i was working for in city hall policy he know the law and policy and history so well he was with a very no nonsense way tell me what is up and that kind of knowledge is

extremely valuable and speak tooz the need to reappoint him. i also want to chime in support of emphasis and comments-naomi cline wrote the shock doctrine when whereit talks about how you can create a false crisis in federal government and local city programs by not funding from general fund and faxes taxes and that allows private entities to come in and take a hold of public spaces and it is crucial to keep dennis fighting to get things properly funded so we don't have to keep turning to private parties to fund our parks, that isn't a good direction to go. thanks. >> thank you, next speaker please. >> hello i'm sally johnson and think that parks should be

organized and [inaudible] the trees and flowers [inaudible] people who love the park and to get money to [inaudible] to play in. [inaudible] which make it more beautiful. i do like bicycles [inaudible] i got

hit by a car and got some money for that and that helped me out. my mother took most of it. there again, everybody get rich off me and don't get nothing. i hope this don't keep on going and there is some kind of line [inaudible] i would think that mathematical procedures and [inaudible] how it is all kept up is really important. thank you >> thank you very much and seeing no other members of the public we'll close public comment and this item is before us. i'm in support of mr.

[inaudible] >> excellent, glad to hear that. sounds like we are on a consensus and like to make a motion we move forward mr. dennis mu scoffian >> i second that. >> as a committee report. no, we just move forward. >> okay. we take that without objection. thank you. next item, please >> item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing a member term ending march [inaudible] to commission on the [inaudible] there is one seat and one applicant. >> thank you just [inaudible] reverend hope. this is a appointee for district 11 seat and supportive of a [inaudible] is not here today so but representing her is reverend hope and we'll open public comment for her to speak on mrs. [inaudible] behalf >> thank you for the courtesy.

she apologizes she is on the east coast tending to her 86 year old mother and thank you supervisor avalos for make tg possible for us to engage [inaudible] as a lead organizer for a multigenerational ages place network in the outer mission district. in a short period of time she organized a program which has a 3 time a week vigious exercise class which is so popular we vawaiting list. [inaudible] decluttering work shop. free audiology test in english, chinese and spanish. pot lucks and entertainment as mixers. people getting to know their neighbors and this reflects the rilsh diversity of our neighborhood. a program on will, trust and advanced

directives. she teaches computer classes so seniors dopet become isolated because they don't know how to use computers and other devices. she has a arts and crafts and oral history video going. there is a upcoming work shop on utilizing device frz medical alert devices following a terrible situation where a participant fell in the basement and cracked a known in her neck and she also-that is probably enough accept to say this innovative aging and place model is operating for a mere 40 thousand dollars. the entire city should be taking a look at this. >> thank you very much and it is amazing the community connectors program. we just

started last year and patty and all the other volunteers who have worked on it have done amazing work. i was so impressed to go there and see how much of a difference all the elderly folks who were there talked about how it made in their life and then talked to the volunteers and they said how much it is meant to do the work as well. some said they are were so much more healthy and a lot of the volunteers were seniors too. i'm supportive of patricia [inaudible] on her work and know she was be a exceptional person on the commission. this item is open for public comment. any other member of the public like to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment and make a decision here. colleagues i would like to move to support patricia

[inaudible] as the district 11 representative for the commission on aging advisory counsel >> second. we both second. >> okay we'll take that without objection. before item 5, i would like to take a 5 minute recess, just a quick break and then we'll be right back. we are in >> >> okay, back from recess and madam clerk can f you could call item 5. >> motionordsering submitted to the voters [inaudible] renewable green house gas energy to provide information regarding leckric power and [inaudible] election to be held november three, 2015 >> this is for the november

ballot and called the korean energy right to know act. it does 2 things, sets a clear definition what we mean by clean energy consistent with state law and lets the public know how much electricity comes either

pg and e or clean pow r3 4 f1er using clean, green renewable we are consistent with the legal definition in state law. the ballot misher will informerate payers how much of electricity is coming from nuclear power. when san franciscan choose their energy provider we can make a informed choice about where the electricity comes from. we know all most a quarter of pg and e lickticity comes from nuclear power plant. this shows pge and e is

committed to nuclear power. today we have a technical amendment to site code section 399.30 that guvens san franciscos electoral production. this makeatize clear san francisco will comply with state law in how we describe electricity as clean, green renewable and green house gas free. we have staff presentations today from jason freed as well as the sfpuc clean power sf director michael himes and [inaudible] from the department of environment and [inaudible] is also here from the department of the environment. why don't we go next to staff presentations unless the committee members have comments to say? seeing none we'll go to mr. freed.

>> mr. freed if you talk about the ballot measure and the impact on clean power sf program and also how the pg and e measure put out by [inaudible] would impact clean power sf. >> happy to do so. jason freed extech officer. for the past 6 years and have helped to [inaudible] hap tee make comments today about the 2 measures or the one measure in front of you today as well as the measure in front of the voter ozthen ballot. first off one of the things i wanted to bring up is go solar sf is a clean green renewable program by pretty much every definition you have out sthr. we have 3500 roof tops 11 mega watts occur because nof good fram.

under the ballot measure you have you can consider that a clean green program, g [inaudible] under the ibew measure the roof top solar isn't considered clean and green because [inaudible] do not fall under category 1 especially residential roof tops. not through the fault of pge or the residential yurz but the meters are not of the grade and quality you need to get the category one certification restrictive in the measure but not restrictive in this measure. if cca takes over and run a go solar program it woulden be able to call it a clean green source. some other things to keep in mind when dealing with energy, it is a complicated issue, that is what i learned over the last 6 years and had the staff who gave me a good education how to understand all these issues.

whether you get a example of the [inaudible] you have-you need to make last mr minutes decisions. you shut down the power generation and replace it something else. you may need to go out and use a category 3 renewable energy credit in order to get that generation to be state compliant under renewable standards. [inaudible] all of a sudden we vashort period because of the emergency situation where we can't do that if you want to take a example of consumer information, if you go to the overhead, this is pge power. these resourceerize green house gas free and renewable. the nuclear large hide roand renewable is clumped in the definition of green house gas

free or renewable and that is because what the state law allows. nuclear and hide rowere not considered renewable by state standards. let's say we take [inaudible] under the measure we would only be able to say we were 22 percent green house gas gree or renewable and can't take cred further the other 32 percent pge takes. whaum a consumer perspective when you show a bill to them and what the ballot measure does is say you need to present things the same way pge does. we could present under the ballot measure to be voted on, we would present this same chart and say here is your choiceism here is our energy mix and that is determined. [inaudible] or you can have pge

mix and dpro you get the same definitions and expressions of what is going on and it is a good way fwr consumers to understand what is going on. if you have something restrictive we may not be able to call our energy mix the same. because of the restrictions in the ibew ballot measure so that is important to take into consideration when consumers make a choice is which choice do you they want. >> what is the impact be? >> you would end up a few more people choosing not to par tis pot because they get confused. they would stay with pge in realty based on everything we are looking to do is a greener mix and produce less green

house emissions than pge provides. you would get people think they are being greenjure not and opt out of the program which impacts our ability to our buildout plan. the program is looking to have a light and dreep green program. we want to talk about it the same way pge is. the other part i wanted to add in here- >> how would that benefit pge? >> more people that choose to opt out of our program it means they keep those customers so it benefits them by having the generational line items stay with them. >> thank you >> one of the other things that potentially that i wanted to bring up another example how things can get confusing, in august of 2013 we were on the verge of trying to get a program laurched, it does want

but we were working with a energy provider who was going to offer us a mix of energy that was 25 percent wind, 75 percent large hide ronot frauj hetch hetchy. if you use the state standsered that is 100 percent ghg free. under the other ballot not in front of you today, the ibew one, you call that 25 percent ghg free assuming the wind came from category one renewable energy credit and that isn't a guarantee. they were talking about the fact we could have had 100 percent ghg makes and wouldn't be able to call it 100 percent ghg at that point. we wouldn't be able to call it renewable because the state doesn't allow large hydro renewable but call it ghg free

like pge. finally i want to get into the-there was a civil grand jury report that came out last week that talks about clean power sf is long last. it does very good discussions about unbundled and bundleed and what it means. i energy you to take a look at it. one of the recommendations is that the local officials including the mayor put the weight of the office behind the program. if we don't follow state standards and restrict to firmer stance we gonet r don't put clean power sf on full legs. i encourage you to follow what the civil grand jury and that is you put the full weight of the board behind this measure and support it and happy to answer questions if you have them. >> okay, thank you. seeing no

question here from the committee we'll go on to mr. himes. >> good afternoon supervisors. michael himes, san francisco public utilities commission. i'm just going to supplement actually the remarks that executive officer freed made. i thought his comments were spot on. earlier today in response to request by the department of elections, our department submitted a letter addressing the potential impacts of the proposed ballot initiative regarding renewable energy. to highlight a couple points from that letter that sort is a addition to the points that mr. freed made.

first a observation about the potential impact of the measure is that it creates a new definition of renewable green house gas electricity that is inconsistent with state law. the proposed energy clean right act addresses the issue by tying the terms clean green to definitions in state law. mr. freed also referred to the issue around roof top solar and thought he captured that well. additionally, the proposed initiative has the potential to increase cost to a cca program without necessarily providing additional environmental benefits. the issue here really is how narrow it defines clean green renewable green

house gas free energy and can potentially restrict the pool of resources that a cca program may be able to purchase from and provide affordable competitive product to san franciscans. finally, the proposed measure would increase program administrative cost by manitating notification requirements. under state law the city already has to notify customers a minimum of 4 times of the programs terms and condition squz the opportunity to opt out of the program and this measure would add an additional notification requirement. we estimated the cost of that program to be about 135 thousand dollars. i think those are all the prepared remarks that i have. i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have for

me. >> okay. thank you and i don't see any questions. mr. rod riguez. after you can touch upon how clean power sf fits into had cities climate action plan. >> chair avalos and supervisors [inaudible] department of environment. thank you for the opportunity to share the departments comments about this measure today. first i would like to emphasize the importance of understanding sthra lot of clutter out in the market place when you think about going a supermarket or any store, there are many products that call them green. departments bring residence and businesses should have accurate #2346rgz whether it is the cremical make chemical make upf

cleaning products and accht information about power. californias portfolio standard is the highest in the country mandating [inaudible] must be generated by eligible renewable resources by 2020. as we speak the california legislature is debating senate bill 350 which this board and the mayor indicated support for and that among other things increase the port forelio from 33 to 50 percent by 2030. the department believes this is a important ingredient for san francisco to reach as well as the state to reach its green house gas emission reduction targets as stated in the past. one comments on the proposed measure that the department did review penl impacts. if the

voters prove the ballot measure and we believe the cost for the department is very minimal in informing the public of the different mixes and happy to answer questions as well as my colleague [inaudible] is here with us. >> thank you. supervisor tang >> i have a question that can be answered by [inaudible] or puc. first i'll say i'm a huge supporter of clean power sf and excited if we can launch this in the fall and think that both the initiative measure and ballot measure before us today are trying to achieve i think great goals which is inform our customers about where the true source of pow er is coming from. i think we all share the goal of providing 2 clee power the customers. one of the questions i have, i know go solar sf is sited as something

that may not be included in the measure and the reference to category 3 for the general public, i know you reference california puc code 399.16 so under sickz 3 of that porz thf code, what are some of the other categories that would fall under that? for example one of my concernicize potentially we can go outside california, we could obtain power that is potentially not clean and green so wonder if puc or [inaudible] can speak to that issue because i think is valid one the initiative measure was trying to address. >> i'm happy to take a stab at that. so, under california state rules and the code that you cited the state created 3 sort of buckets or categories, we call buckets or proctcontunt

categories. the first categories is a bundled renewable energy product. that means the purchases of the renewable energy acquired the energy with a renewable energy cred squt the underlying electricity prior to the generation of that electricity. it means the electricity was dlinch today the state of california. it doesn't mean the resource is located in the state, it could be located on the boarder, but under the law of category one resource has to deliver into state of california. product content category 2 is also resource that could be out of state but by definition has to deliver energy into the state of california and it can be formed and shaped thmpt idea is you can buy a predictable amount of

energy according to demand needs and delivered to the state of california. >> what is in the actual code it says firmed and shape, what does that mean? >> the idea is renewable resources are extremely variable. you can't dispatch them is the term we use in the electric industry to meet demand in real time. specifically i'm referring to a subset of renewable energy but probably the most abundant and that is solar and wind. those resources generate when the wind is blowing and sun is shining. we all use electricity at various times of the day and when we turn on the lights we expect it to boo on. wind and solar may not generate when we need it. the idea-retail electricity providers have to match the sources of energy to the demand as close as they can in real

time. we do that by arranging the energy with the grid operator. the idea of firming and shape sg you produce a specific amountf renewable energy and that energy is delivered into the grid but you can using all the resources in the grid shape it? into a profile that supports your consumers demand. the same amount of renewable energy is produced from that product as from the product content in category one product and the product conitant cat tent 3. renewable yeents are merely documentation that a given amount of renewable energy is generated and delivered to the grid.

>> okay. so, then just going back to my question, for category 3 that is the only category where potentially we would go outside of the state unless it is on the boarder and delivered within california but that is the category where potentially we could purchase renewable energy credits? >> the category 3 are sort of the most liquid, they are the most easily traded. it doesn't have to be a out of state resource though. bucket 3 category 3 recks are also produced in california. the idea is that when you buy a renewable energy credit you bought it separate from the underlying electricity. when i described category 1, by definition you have to buy the renewable energy credit with the lickticity. product 3, that energy can be sold to a

3rd party and acquire the underlying wenewable energy credit attribute. it is a way to address the varability of renewable and originally intended to spur the market for renewable energy. >> in what-i know we can't anticipate the future but in what situations would we want to utilize category 3? >> um, for community choice aggregation program, we are approaching resources today with a focus just on product content category 1 resources. product conitant category 3 is really sort of a resource that would allows us to fill gaps.

i think mr. freed referred to emergency situations where we may a contract with a particular resource that for some reason goes off line but we were expecting and really needed the renewable energy to be produced to meet our overall content objectives. the bucket 3 resource provides flexibility in times where our product content category 1 resource isn't available and to fill in sort of the small percentages of renewable energy short falls that might occur because of a mismatch of supply and demand. generally speaking, under state rules the state rps is structured to limit the number of unbundled racks, it is capped. >> can you state for the record

what that cap is? >> it is believe 15 percent of the rps requirement for the retail seller and think today that is in the range of 5 percent of the overall sales. >> okay. 5 percent. and i fully understand if we had to use category 3 and if it is outside california it doesn't necessarily mean it is unclean energy and that there are situations where we may need to utilize that. i think my concern just stems from i think what sparked the measure in the first place or what i believe to be one of the underlying reasons for the initiative measure is make sure it is truly clean power and we are disclosing the right information to the customers. my last question is just what

steps can puc take as we launch clean power sf just to guarantee that it is clean power and that potentially wree not utilizing certain categories where we purchase renewable energy credits that may not come from clean sources. >> ya. well, as i mentioned before we rin the process now of developing a request for offers for our initial power supply for clean power sf launch and that request for offers will only ask potential suppliers to deliver the bucket 1 category 1 resources to the city to supply its cca program. under the program all resources that sell energy to resale seller have to be certified by the state and they

also have to track the renewable energy credits they initiate with a state accounting system called regius. all of the projects and energy we transact with for the cca program are tracked in regius and we can retire certificates and account for specific serial numbers generated. when i talk about certificates these are category one resources. every bucket relies on renewable energy credits. that is the way that we are and all retail sellers verify they received what they need and we are also required to report that to the state so they can verify that we

complied with the minimum state requirements. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you very much. so, we can open up the item for public comment. any member of the public like to comment, please come forward. >> good afternoon again supervisors [inaudible] eric burke representing san francisco green party [inaudible] and also san francisco clean energy advocates. so, specifically to what supervisor tang was just asking about, the key-we heard the details technically of what renewable energy credits are. the key with the measure being promoted by pge alleys is not whether renewable crediterize good or bad, the key is that

ballot measure states that the sate city of san francisco can't buy those credits but pge. that is just ridiculous and think pge alleys putting this forward should think about what it makes them look to the public. let me get to the other important aspect of the ordinance ballot measure and that schnookler issue. i have done work on clean power sf for 11 year jz a big part is knocking on door squz calling people on the phone and i explained this to thousands of people and the number 1 comment

and get from people i have to convince is, i got the thing from pge and see in their advertising that they are the greenest utility in the country because they have over 50 percent green house gas free electricity. the reason that pge is able to get away with that is they claim nuclear power is green house gas free and clean. green house gas free it isn't true. anyone who knows the energy industry knows that a nuclear power plant because [inaudible] a lot of other inputs, even given nuclear power plant produces from 15 percent up to fifen 0 percent of green house gas emissions over the life time of a gas plant. the measure you have before you will make it so

that the public is able to get a actual honest accountsing of what is clean and green and end decades pgebsing the public about whether it is energy-- >> thank you very much. any other member of the public like to comment? >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is hunter sturmen with [inaudible] we have 20 thousand members working for 28 different utilities in northern california. in san francisco it is pge and muni [inaudible] we are sponsoring the truth in energy initiative measure placed in the qualified ballot. frankly if supervisor or the chair had been interested be would have participated in the

presentation and gave information about the measure. as for the issue in front of the committee today we have no position on this measure at this time because we understand there has been some changes and may be changes in the future. there are 2 aspects that need to be changed and strongly urge you to amend them. the first is the measure promotes the use of renewable energy certificates and they are a failure. it is something we oppose frd years whether pge uses them or smud or palo alto or any other energy including clean power sf. r they do not produce renewable and promote renewable projects. they cover dirty fossil fuel power with pieces of paper. that is a

rec. this changes a calculation. state law is very clear and the measure in front of you is not. nuclear power ist norenewable, no one said it is renewable kwr no one want tooz relyoon it, but it is green house gas emission 3, the state of california says so it continues to be that way. it will continue to be that way until nuclear power plants are retired. we ask you to consider-- >> thank you very much. any other member of the public who would like to comment? seeing none we'll close public comment and colleagues i would like tamotion to have this very small amendment accepted into the ordinance and it is on page

3. it is adding the language, and resources set forth in the rps under public utility code 399.30. that will be the amendment. supervisor cohen >> i would like to second the motion if that was the motion. >> okay. thank you for your second and colleagues we take that without objection? the sponsor of the ordinance is not here, supervisor-prez president breed but we have pr visor wiener christensen and myself back the measure. this measure wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the ibw meser mr. sterns talked about that we talked about here

in committee today. we would rather not have to go forward with it but we feel in order to protect the clean power sf program and be clear about the type of energy provided and what people who provide energy in san francisco should provide so there is consistency this measure is going forward with your support colleagues. like to motion that we move this motion to >> july 27 >> july 27, special rules committee meeting. >> it is amended to the monday meeting. >> okay. >> just to clarify on supervisor avalos amendment, i believe you circulated paper copies to the other members on the committee but to clarify the for the public, the

amendment also strikes the words, and from large hide roelectric facilities including but not limit today the hetch hetchy facilities page plea line 12-13 and in the very last line of that section 2102, correct the typo changing, does to do. >> thank you for pointing that out. that is the amendment we have aurmd taken just to clarify. i did kind of make a motion so think have visor cohen may be seconding and supervisor tang. >> i'm fine with the amendment. i just want to make comments before we take the vote on the measure. i brought up the question that i did because ultimately i want to insure we are able to laurch clean power sf in 2016 and it is a competitive program where we offer rates and they crum

petitive and we provide clean power. i don't want to do anything that would harm that launch so will support the measure but think there are valid concerns but today i'll support the measure before us. >> great, thank you. so supervisor cohen. >> i don't have much to add other than i will support the measure today and seconding the amendment and i do think it is interesting one of the benefits of the democratic process is when a initiative comes on the ballot we have a opportunity to counter and offer different perspective but the thing that is consistent is it allowstuse talk and drill down to the issue. i think that if it were not for the measure that-the

pge measure, the issue that mr. hunter stern spoke of, i appreciate the level of advocase and sounding an alarm to educate on your concerns. >> okay, great. so, we have a motion, seconded to move this item to the july 27 special rules committee meeting. continue to july 27. we'll talk that without objection. next item >> item 6 a ordinance amending the requiring the police and sheriff department to report data regarding detention and traffic stops. >> may i jump in? good afternoon everyone. i'm excited because today we bring forward before you a trangz apparent policy ordinance which

is a ordinance which is a benefit to san francisco especially the minority communities as well as helpful to the sheriff and police department. i have several remarks i want to share with you this afternoon. so, the reason why i suppose this ordinance that will require both the sheriff and police department to collect data on race and gender and gender identity during traffic stops or detains for questioning or performs a consenseual or non consenseual search of a individual. this is a expansion of the information that the police department is already collecting and as of now the department only collects data on race, age, sex during traffic stops. what i'm

asking and proposing is we expand the data to include detentions, search and gender identity related to complaint. the ordinance requires each respective department not only to collect the information but analyze and report the data on a quarterly basis to the board of supervisors as well as mayors office and the human rights commission as well as the police commission. this information collected will include a couple things. first, it will include the name and badge number of all officers involved. the result of the contact so for example, if the contact ended in a arrest, a citation or warning or incident report. there are 3 things that this ordinance focuses on in the spirt of

preventing. we are look to prevent pretextual stops based on race and pretextual stops based on gender related characteristics. also reporting the use of force that the results yield in a unknown injury. over the last year or so we have seen many horrific events were police officers have been abuseed their power either killing or seriously injuring mostly african american or minority men. as we sit here today [inaudible]

other men involved in the [inaudible] scandal still have not been terminated. african american are arrested 19 more times more often than any other race for drug crimes in san francisco. studies show transgendered people across the u.s. experience police violence than non transgendered individuals. a study released in 2015 by the national coalition of anteviolence program showed transgender wemb experience police brutlety of 5.8 percent greater. for transgender of color that is 6.2 times greater. i use the data and information to anchor what i'm trying to accomplish here. i'm not making this up. across the nation there is a movement to reform police

practice after the tragied and out cry we have seen in [inaudible] i'm glad we haven't seen this level of outcrine san francisco and think that speaks to our police department. in response, president obama convened the 24th century police task force that produced a report can w a number of improvements cities should make to improve police relations in the community. many task force recommendations emphasize the opportunity for police departments to better use data and tech naumg to build trust. the police data initiative is helping accelerate progress around data transparency and analysis toward the goal of increasing trust. these 2

areas within the initiative focusing on first, using open data to build transsknaerns to increase community trust and second, to create internal accountability and effective data analysis. at this time-at the same time i introduce this ordinance assembly woman shurly weber from san diego introduced a similar piece of legislation on the state level and made minor adjustments in this ordinance to reflect the language within her legislation. passing the ordinance will make us the first mu nis palties in california and quite possibly in the u.s. and reporting requirement of the law enforcement agency t. is trully my hope that the rest of the country will begin to follow our example. i'm proud to work

community advoicates on the ordinance and would like to thank each of them for their input. first of all, the office of justice has been tremendous as is the transjendser law center. committee united against violence, human rights commission is unpair lled, the office of citizens complaints thrks youth commission and of course the sheriffs department and police department, we worked collectively hand in hand. colleagues you should have before you received the latest version of theords nns with additional amendments that we made. most of these are clean up language, but one of the most significant changes we made was to the gender identity collection section. this is a interesting prudickiment. in working in sth transgendered

community and the police department they felt that requiring police officers to ask a individual for their gender identity would lead to more harassment so we said complaints filed or a individual self identifies a transjoneder and experienced bias policing based on that fact. i want to acknowledge 2 letters that we received from the youth commission and the new crimial justice task force thf bar association of san francisco which acknowledges the importance of data collection when it come tooz law enforcement and transparency in the respective departments. colleagues, passing this ordinance some of the goals we hope to achieve are reducing unintentional and disproportioninate numbers of detention, arrest and target of minorities and of the

transgendered community. it also important creates a bench mark analysis of where we are with bias that may exist in the law enforcement department and hope of laying a path for the future we will begin to be free of these biases. introducing additional transparency and ofernsight to the police department and rebuild the trust the community has had in the law enforcement department by making this information available for the public to review by again, requiring quarterly reporting to the mayors office and board of supervisors and police compligz as well as human rights commission. avenue wn has their own biases and i want to gater the data to make sure everyone in san francisco has a safe place to live and thrive free of the unintentional targeting by officers.

colleagues i hope to have your support on this item as it continue tooz move forward. at this time i would like to specifically acknowledge lutenent carl [inaudible] from the san francisco police department and ask him to come up to the podium to tell us more about the type of data that is collected and the new tech knowledge coming on line >> before you end i want to add a comment. for me when i saw supervisor cohen coming with this ordinance i immediately cosponsored and want to thank her for bringing this forward and think it is a useful tool for insureing police accountability and stronger community police relations by insuring transparency in the work that the police does and think it is one step and tool related tools we can use to

actually build trust between police and community so thank you for your work on this >> thank you for your cosponsorship >> my name is carl [inaudible] my current assignment is a lieutenant assigned to the chiefs office. prior to this new assignment which started 4 days ago i was in crime analysis in the police department for a year and a half so it gave a opportunity to get to know what data the police department has and where does it originate from and what we can and can't dee for data collection. i just want to [inaudible] we have commander bob mozeer who is the command er of the metro division here with me today. after looking over the ordinance that supervisor cohen introduced we started to go through that and put together a quick team of people. susan merit who is the chief information officer for

the police department as well as brad rusy who is kepty city attorney. the 4 of us have met and discussed exactly what information we are collecting now and what we would be required to collect pursuant to the ordinance. having done that, there is areas such as arrest which we already know the break down of race and sex of everybody we arrest. as far as use of force included in there, we know that already also so we don't need to change existing systems to gather that. as far as traffic stops we have been doing it for years, gathering traffic stop data of the race, the reez frn the stop, whether they were searched several areas we track. the ordinance will require we gather more on

traffic stops, such as what was the [inaudible] of occupants of vehicles and things like that. as far as the obligation to collect initial information we are not already collecting it is detentions and it is detentions that currently do not result in any paper such as a police report in the crime data ware house, citation. under our policy we are not always require today write a report and that maybe if you cut to the chase we have to figure how to track the data required in the ordinance in those type of incident and that is what we are currently working on. if you have any questions i'm happy to answer them. >> thank you very much for your

brief presentation in support of the ordinance. i don't have questions at the time but see supervisor tangs name on the roster. >> thank you. i don't know if it is a question for the author of the legislation or lieutenant but as mart of the amendment page 3 line 19. we struck out [inaudible] one of my questions is why are we strake thg portion out about the officer allowing the ask the individual because there may be cases where the individual may be mixed race or not tell the race they are. i understand it may be offensive to ask however sometimes that they be the only time to get the most accurate information and the purpose of the legislation is collect accurate data and want to see the reason for that amendment was.

>> typically when we stop somebody and unclear about race we go by the general aparence of the person which sin the language of the assembly bill. i don'ts think it is a issue for us to ask that question especially if it is documented in policy that we can ask the question. it is up to supervisor cohen and your board if you would like to do that, i don't think the police department would object to that >> thank you supervisor kim for raising that question. asia imag ine race is a sensitive subject in our country of course here in our city and it is-there are concessions that i made in drafting the legislation. i too would like to see it in the language in the body, but i also feel it is important that our legislation

sync up with what is happening on the state level and currently that language isn't on the state legislation. perhaps there is a opportunity for [inaudible] legislation in some time. i'mope toon the conversation but i wanted to be respectful and thoughtful as possible. as of right now, for example if someone were to be detained or stopped and the officer identified the person as asian it is broad embrella. it doesn't speak to their cultural identity being chinies or fill filipino and the person can assert that during the part of the question that -the interview-what is it

called, the field interview? there is really no synced answer i can give at that time. >> sorry. >> i would say that if we remain open and find there may be issues with the acrace of the data i appreciate supervisor cohen said we are open to potentially relooking at this because as i mentioned to her my partner gets confused for being latino and he is asian so in my own lifer i see just by looking at observation it may be inaccurate so that is all i get at. if we seek to collect data it should be correct. >> my apology for calling you supervisor kim. >> i'm fairly comfortable with it being broader and wider open

than it is. i think we are trying to track behavior that is looking at people in a broad way and that is what we try to measure. if you are [inaudible] how a officer may interact with someone who is asian or white or black versus white, those are broad. we are trying to look at the initial appearance is what we try to address. i think if there is another thing that happens when there is a interaction with a officer and someone when they learn what their cultural or racial background is that can change behavior but the legislation is looking to do is what is the reaction that we want to be able to document and measure of interaction between a officer and the appearance of someone rather than what they say are and that appearance is

what we try to be able to say is being measured and can be shared publicly about what the actions are, what the interaction is like based on appearance rather than what they say they are. >> i hear the feedback and happy to take a look at it and make additional amendments to it next week at the board. i do want to tell you this and free to take into consideration, i think asking someone how do they-what is their ethnicity and how they identify is a very simple question i think for every day people but when you add in the complex power structure sometimes that can make a person uncomfortable. you are right supervisor avalos, that is what we try to the capture

so we can create a policy. i believe if you are not able to count and document it it doesn't count. this is just a struggle-this is exactly why we have removed language fwraum the transgender community asking din field interview what is your sexual orientation. we herds from the transjendser community that could be perceived as a violation and beepal can be uncomfortable or interpreted as a threft or different bias being put on them. it is sensitive, but i am as the maker of the ordinance i'm happy if you would like to work on crafting the language and incorporate and continue the conversation. >> i'm not inclined to do that

at this point but think it is something that can be addressed later. i don't believe the accuracy of the determination of someones race is as important as what is the belief that the officer has in what that persons appearance is and what their race is based on appearance rather than what they say they are. >> sure, like i said it is very sensitive and if we can come up with a quick easy answer we would but will go back tothe drawing board and see what i can x up with for the next board meeting >> i'm happy to support this measure. i just wanted to bring that up but understand supervisor avaloss point that it is based on perception. i'm okay supporting this with the

lajbage but if we notice there needs to be a change in the future revisit later. >> thank you. >> okay this item is now open for public comment. any member of the public who would like to comment. we oshave representatives from the sheriffs office here if you have anything to add. >> i don't think so at this point. >> sorry, you have to come- >> sorry. >> my name [inaudible] we were asked to come if you had questions and i'm happy to answer if you have any. >> okay, thank you. now this item is open for public comment. any member of the public like to comnlt? >> good afternoon supervisors and members of the rules committee. i'm adel [inaudible] director of youth commission. youth commissioners did hear this item at their monday youth

commission meeting, monday july 20 and just want to drop off a letter detailing their response. i know supervisor cohen you mentioned they are very supportive of this effort to curb pretextual stops based on race and gender identity. unfochinately we were able to schedule this a little late to get it in your agenda packet so want to drop ufconfirmation and thank you supervisor cohen for your leadership on this issue. i noticed in the legislation it includes provisions for collecting information on age during detention and traffic stop squz think that is great. we do no knoe young people are sort of ilinclined to file reports with our office of citizen complaints so here

issues anecdotally. it is hard to get a full picture going on between young people and police officers so we think this can go towards that. i didn't see the age piece was specifically included in the information that would be reported out to the police commission so i'm hoping that is something that if it isn't part of the report that something we can request to look at. not at all to undermine the original intention thorf ordinance, which is looking at how policing is effecting and happening in communities of color and effecting transgender people in san francisco, we think looking at age is important. thank frz the leadership on the issue. you supported it unanimously and like to know how they can continue to support your efforts. thank you very much. any other member of the public

like to comment? seeing none we will close public comment and this is before us. supervisor cohen. >> thank you very much. i would like-did you take a motion on this? >> no, we need a motion to accept the amendment >> i would like to make a motion to accept the amendment >> i second that. >> thanks very much supervisor tang >> we take that without objection. so, the underlying legislation- >> the legislation just amended i appreciate if we move to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> second. >> we'll take that without objection. thank you very much and look forward to discussion with the full bode board about this. any other items? >> that concludes the agenda

today >> okay then we are adjourned. thank you.

>> good afternoon today is july 24th, 2015. welcome to the local agency formation commission. my name is john avalos, the chair of the lafco, and joined to my right by vice-chair cynethia crews and commissioner eric mar, madame clerk, could you share with us your announcement. >> please make sure to complete all electronic devices and speaker cards should