he retired after receiving an honorable release from the military. he worked in the community as a lease on -- liaison for his community with a cement trucking business. through his fierce dignity and unwavering spirit in the community. necessary year 2,000 mr. robinson founding the bayview chapter of this rotary chapter and committed to service and to provide for knows need. the bayview rotary established a robinson scholarship fund in 2011. i remember this was around the

time i was sworn in as a new member of the board of supervisors and became very an acquainted with uncle ben. this fund is in honor of his life's work to raise money for promising bayview use aspiring to their higher educational goals. on an annual basis we have from friends -- while a community mourns a giant, we have many memories of uncle ben and his memories will live on so many who will up lift and move forward our next leaders of our nation. with that said, madam clerk, i want to recognize the family and community members here in the chamber who have come to celebrate mr. robinson's memory with us. please stand, thank you.

thank you for joining us. i would like to have a motion that we close out the entire board meeting in honor of mr. ben robinson. thank you. >> thank you. >> i think at this point we can all agree that homelessness in san francisco has not only reached a crisis but an emergency. our overall homeless population has stagnated for many years. we have far too many families and children which are starting to be addressed specifically seniors and other people suffering from mental illness in our streets and other situations that need our help. during a time when our local economy is growing and strong, i do believe we need to make investment now in

terms of programs and services to have the best outcomes. one of the best programs we have seen is the navigation center in the early mission district. early data and analysis on the effects of the navigation model have pit falls of the model to learn and adapted to as needed. as you are aware, the navigation center is not set on location. the center will close it's doors in june in 2016 once construction begins. during that, i want to expand the navigation center across san francisco. to date the controllers office has released three reports. they have provided an overview of the model itself and over our traditional homeless shelters in san francisco with interviews from stakeholders

and clients at the navigation center. a look at the impact the navigation center is having on homelessness in san francisco and a look at how different city agencies and non-profit partners are creating better outcomes for those in the navigation center. i would like to thank supervisor london breed: for her legislation today and look forward to seeing how the money is spent around homelessness. the final report is to be released later this month at the end of december. i will plan to bring the mayor's office of hope and homeless agency and non-profit partners to report for this hearing as well. i look forward to hosting this hearing in mid-january and look forward to the expansion early next year particularly when the existing navigation will close.

we want to make sure we will not skip i beat and provide the best service for our homeless. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: thank you. i have a couple of items. this is lou as last week in civic engagement. he has jury duty this week. he grew up in the richmond district and went to graduate from urban planning before joining staff in the youth commission. during his tenure, allen has been part of the youth empowerment. he's worked with youth commissioners and been the leader to young san franciscans and worked on free muni for youth and thank you to

supervisors for that as well. he's also empowered immigrated youth and thanks for that and also equitable housing and justice issues for youth and transitional issues and also a key point with the commission on the public education enrichment fund and in the 2014 campaign as well. allen has brought a deep sense of mutual respect with humility and quality and insight in his work and i want to thank him for his support of the youth commission staff. i also want to say he's gone on to work with the cal center. i wish him the best of luck. today i'm introducing a hearing request

on hunger and food insecurity. as you recall, 2 years ago, december, we passed a policy to drastically reduce or end hunger and food insecurity in san francisco by 2020. it involved analyzing data from the food security task force and the tenderloin security task force that said 1/4 of san franciscans up to 225,000 people of in danger of food insecurity and during the holidays we are more aware of how many people, lots of seniors and family are going to bed hungry at night or waking up in the morning not having enough to eat as well. i think the reports from the task forces really brought to light the real suffering that happens. i know our board resolution and the city is committed to developing plans and setting goals so we are gradually reducing and dramatically reducing hung er in our city. in march of 2014, we held more

hearings in our each department's plans to advance progress in achieving recommendations for ending hunger by 2020 resolution. we also set out concrete city departments steps to get us to the goal so it's been 2 years and this hearing would help us assess how far we've gone and how far we have to go. i also want to acknowledge that we've committed millions of dollars in the last several budgets. i want to thank the budget committee and colleagues for committing money for critical senior nutrition and health programs, but also significantly impacting hung and -- hunger and food insecurity and how we are ending hunger

by 2020. also we are creating legislation for increasing culture and safety. supervisor yee and kim and wiener all attended with me as well walk sf moving memorial for traffic systems 2 weeks ago where i'm really understanding for walk sf for base of systems for traffic killings. i think it was very moving to hear the stories during march and gathering along market street. our community will see that as a district level. it's about enforcement and engineering and education. reducing speeds and really looking at methods is a tool we have. speed reduction is a strategy

and will look at how of we done in terms of reducing speeds and in district 4. patrick yee, the 87-year-old richmond district hit by a car in the crosswalk. the first traffic killing in 2015 along a high injury corridor and kelly senior, killed around the corner from my house as well on cabrillo. these stories were brought out on walk sf memorial. as we look at state streets and other programs that we are telling the human stories of

the families and loses and how we need to do what we can to advance vision zero more aggressively. this budget item report will ask for assessment and evaluation for speed reduction and strategies in the city and reports on the recent calming strategy and reducing speeding and speed limits, updating on all streets where the city has street limits and examining the data and preventing collisions and improving safety. secondly it will look at safe streets for senior strategies reports on recommendations where seniors congregate such as senior centers and care facilities and study models and best practices such as new york's senior zone along chinatown and places in manhattan.

this will develop best practices and models for traffic calming measures that involve seniors with disabilities and creating safer streets as well. another issue that's very important to me is developing a water access for all. agua for all in the central valley as we look at how to increase water fountains and tap station in their community. we looked at updates from from our cities not just from the public utilities commission but school district and other departments on achieving new water fountain drinking stations. we are almost there. we are up to 69 and next week i will be working with harlin kelly and from the health improvement partnership and communities to acknowledge that we are getting close to the 100 mark.

but the 69th will be on clement street near the park by the farmers market that the community has set up. as you know, access to water is a great strategy to curb obesity and diabetes by discouraging sweet drinks and discouraging the use of plastic water bottles. i think that water has been one of those ways and if we have access to it, it will lead to healthier lives. the fountains we will have next year are necessary as well. as we counter the soda issue

and we counter the water problem going on in our world and the rest of the community. as we have clean and hetch hetchy water is critical to the new fountains of youth in our city. next september 4th, at 10:00 a.m. join us at clemente street at third avenue. this new drink tap station will be again the 69 as we are trying to advocate for 100 in our city by next year. it the collaboration of our school district, the public utilities commission and the parks and recreation department and where the drink fountain station will be unveiled and it will be opened in 10 days. there is many coming to the district and district one but also throughout the city. i want to thank from the public utilities commission from natel

and those uniting for water access for all and fountain communities as well. one more plug before i give the mic to our next colleague, on december 8th, coming up next week from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.. richmond district merchants are holding the clemen tine will band together to carried fun family oriented experience of holiday shopping and community gathering. there is going to be a bunch of discounts and promotions and will be a way to gather earned clement street for holiday shopping. if you want more information go to clement street sf.com. thank you. the rest i will submit. >> thank you.

supervisor mar. supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you. colleagues, last week we had a pretty lengthy discussion in regards to neighborhood evictions where they currently reside. i said i was going to tac on that legislation. it requires the board -- rent board when they are providing notices that they are going to be evicted and to provide information what housing resources are there offered by the city's mayor's office of housing particular in below market rate and the program they maybe eligible for. i think it's pretty important as we are doing as much work that we can to strengthen our programs to allow for more affordable housing especially for our tennants that they actually know what is available and what they

are eligible for. then per our existing language access ordinance, these notifications will be provided in the various languages spelled out already. secondly, i'm introducing a resolution today that really reflects some of the work of the shelter monitoring committee. they had adopted a resolution at their last meeting to urge the human services agency to amend the eminent danger policy for the shelter systems. i would like to thank all of our female cosponsors and of course our male colleagues are invited as well. thank you supervisor's breed and kim. those involved in domestic violence incident are denied shelter admittance or not allowed to remain in a

shelter for 30 days if they are in a dangerous situation that might cause harm to the family themselves. recently fsh and the monitoring community did reduce the timeframe to 15 days. while this has been put into place, out of concern for the protection of the individuals at the shelter, it doesn't provide assistance to the victims of domestic violence who are in dire need of protection and services. as we all know domestic violence affects the thousands of san francisco resident s and one of the most under reported crimes to transitional housing to provide that support that they need during domestic violence situations. in fiscal year 2013-2014, city funded emergency shelters provided 3500 bed nights and one permanent supportive housing program providing 11069

nights to services. there needs to be a change in policy. so adopting the shelter monitoring committee recommendations would most importantly prohibit the denial of services based on being a victim of domestic violence and being a self disclosure of domestic violence and no victim of domestic violence should be turned away from shelter or services. furthermore we do not want to discourage victims from reporting. in addition the changes would require assessments upon intake to assess all families, establish protective order to contact law enforcement and updating manuals for staff and improving policy to renew and establish shelter providers. so as we all know victims of

domestic violence are already facing difficult battles. i want to thank the shelter monitoring community members and domestic violence advocates for their dedicated work on this issue. 1 person in particular, nicholas is part of the shelter monitoring committee. he was really key in bringing a lot of these issues to our attention. i think actually when i was sitting on the gao committee and unfortunately he will be leaving the shelter monitoring committee very shortly, i think the end of this week is his last week. so i just would like to thank him for everything he's done and all the members who contributed to this particular change pursuant with the hsa w that i will submit. >> thank you. supervisor tang. supervisor wiener >>supervisor scott weiner: thank you very much. today i'm introducing a reoccurring oversight hearing request dpor

a quarterly hearing so we can have full transparency on the city's enforcement effort around short-term rentals. prop fchl , of course during this ballot measure and those who are opposing it and those who are supporting it, we all want strong enforcement regarding show term rentals. we know there are short-term rentals occurring right now violating the law that are causing problems in neighborhoods that are really not in the spirit of the regulations that we passed late last year and in the middle of this year. we need to make sure that we are allowing those engaging in legal and appropriate short-term rentals to do so and to their lives while cracking down on the short-term rentals that are violating the law.

this summer, we passed legislation as you will recall creating the office of short-term rentals, we also significantly increasing the important resources providing to that office so they can enforce the laws. we've seen what appears to be an increase in enforcement. in my district there are properties for violations of the law were occurring and city staff stepped in and enforced an imposed significant fines. it is important for the public to have confidence that enforcement is happening. a lot of times there is skepticism in san francisco in various aspects of city government. when it comes to short-term rentals given importance of this issue to a lot of people on all sides of this issue. the public needs to know what level of

enforcement is happening and needs to know that people are being held accountable when they violate the law. the hearing request an oversight hearing to occur every 3 months and every time the short-term office for rentals will come and determine how much enforcement is happening, how to enforcement is happening, how many registrations are occurring in terms of short-term of rental properties and the properties imposed and what the trend are. colleagues, i look forward to this quarterly hearing to have full transparency on this important enforcement endeavor. i also have two very tragic in memoriam today for chris mitchell who passed away suddenly saturday november 21st. he resided in san francisco and

employee of fitness sf, the gym. known for his amazing smile and wit. he was an invaluable colleague and friend to all who knew him. a memory at the oasis december 11th where friends can celebrate his life and reflect. the second in memoriam, dennis nick, an avid diver and skier killed. he was part of the social fabric and participate negative local groups and often seen in the neighborhood. a dear friend to so many people. dennis was involved in many civic and social organizations in the bay area and nationwide. dennis reveled in his new york up bringing and styling

his new york accent for all in san francisco. his death comes as a shock to his family and he will be missed. i also want to acknowledge mayor lee that today is world aids day. to really reflect on the progress we've made in addressing this epidemic when we look at the number of new infection in san francisco last year, 302 which was lower than before and dramatically lower than 10-15 years ago. we have been collapsing infection rates in san francisco. we've also been reducing the number of san francisco who pass away from hiv. we have significantly expanding access to testing, access is to all prevention tools, and access to medication, quick access to medication for people who

become hiv positive. we really do see a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of in the not so distant future eliminating new hiv infections in san francisco and eliminating deaths in san francisco and making sure that everyone living with hiv can do so in a healthy way and full support of our community. we also need to recognize that many people in our -- continue to struggle with the virus. we have 2 million new infections throughout the world and 2,000 infections in the u.s.. there are people here in san francisco who struggle to access healthcare and struggle with mental health and substance abuse issues who struggle to stay healthy too many people with hiv and aid struggle with housing.

hiv is still unfortunately alive and well and we need to recommit ourselves to ending this epidemic and supporting everyone living with this virus and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor wiener. supervisor yee? >> thank you. madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm assessing the impact of coyotes in this city and the city's response plan moving forward. over the past several months we have received dozens of calls reporting coyote sightings. the office is working with animal control with experts to better understand the issues. wild coyotes have been in and around our neighborhoods in the past including

in districts that represented by supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor farrell, i think coyotes in your district and supervisor's christensen and probably supervisor mar's also. it's nothing new. however it seems this year, they are moving into some neighborhoods that never seen before and that's become an issue. there is really a lot of considerable concern for our households. there is really concerns for our dogs and other pets and cats and so forth. there is especially when two dogs with attacked recently by coyotes this year. several neighborhood associations have taken it upon themselves to conduct surveys and organized neighborhood meetings to better understand coyote

behaviors and mitigate their impacts. animal care and control and recreation and parks have dealt with this issue. however there is still a lot to learn about coyotes in our city and how we as our local jurisdiction can manage the impacts to ensure the safety of our residents, pets and wild life preserving too. i look forward to working with the departments and our neighbors on the citywide plan to see what we are do with this. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor yee. supervisor avalos? >>supervisor john avalos: colleagues, with the world watching on the current climate, it will not be sufficient to limit global warming as

predicted in the copenhagen conference. in cities like san francisco must lead the way. we have a really strong climate action strategy in san francisco and we point out in that that moving to 100% clean power is the single biggest step we can take to reduce our carbon emissions. as a delay we are close to launching our cleanpowersf in the spring of 2016. it's kind of disappointing to see that while the ceo of pg & e is jetting off into conference in paris, pg & e is looking to undermining our efforts to promote climate change or prevent climate change with our cleanpowersf program in san francisco. the california public utilities commission will be making two important decisions to affect our

cleanpowersf program's ability to compete with pg & e energy. pg & e wants to increase the monthly exit fee to cleanpowersf customers and increase solar charge for customers. allowing pg & e to increase the exit fee will hurt the ability to compete with pg & e. those fees will go to increasing pg & e's profits instead of enabling us to build new renewable power abilities. pg & e's proposing changes from solar will discourage our residents from building solar panels and will cause jobs. today i'm introducing two resolutions opposing the pg & e's fee

on cleanpowersf customers and increased fees for rooftop solar. unfortunately we saw in the november election that pg & e's employee union local 45 is continue to be to try to sabotage. they put on the ballot our ability to compete with pg & e and when they came with prop h instead of prop g, they spent thousands of dollars and -- yet i b appears to supporting pg & e's attempt to sabotage solar. they have submitted comments. if it does agree with local

power, i hope it speaks in favor to these resolutions. we will be scheduling a special public hearing at lafco probably december 11th in order to vote on these resolutions before the california public utilities commission takes action later this month. i want to thank the cosponsors on the resolution related to the exit fee which includes every member of the board of supervisors and on the net metering fee, i haven't had the chance to talk to all the colleagues about it, but i want to talk to the cosponsors on the resolutions before lafco later this month. >> thank you. supervisor avalos. madam president, that concludes the introduction of new business.

>>supervisor london breed: okay, madam clerk, can you read public comment. city clerk: an opportunity for members of the public to directly address the board on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board including items being considered today which have not been considered by board committee and excluding items which have been considered by a board committee.

>> public speaker: free energy is used to create fresh water and will remove excess co 2 from the atmosphere and pull us back from the bring of a near catastrophe. our billion year catastrophe which will destroy our world. these desalination systems will be powered by free energy. free energy is free for the cost of harvesting equipment. free energy is free of all carbon upload, free energy is free of waiting for the sun to rise or the wind

to shift or the tide to change. free energy is available to everyone. it's available do anyone, anywhere. it is available to anyone any where except that it a few miles down. geo thermal energy is free energy and freely available to water called high ydrothermal events like this one is into ocean and internal heat will force the water towards the surface. this kin tin impulse can pull turban blades. however accomplished free energy will provide a safety net for our civilization. thank you, president breed. >> thank you, next speaker, please.

public speaker: for 2 years i'm coming here since i'm homeless. supervisor christensen is lucky, maybe it's her last time that she's fascist. yet you know you have millions of people on the streets. it's not people. it's animals. they are eating from the garbage can. they drink from garbage can. they never saw doctors. they are not people. they are coyotes, maybe. maybe change face. you are listening to me for 2

years and no one of you tried to help me to ask what can i do for you. 85 years old who survive world war ii, who survived holocaust but couldn't maybe survive homeless in san francisco. interesting right. >> he should ask people who came to russia. but here it exist on the streets. god punish you and your family.

what do you do to people. >> thank you, next speaker. >> public speaker: a complete awakening from everyone. a loss. personal television at loss. to the helping hands and the difficulties in that end. everything back to security.

education, life support, life, mercy. from being the physical entity. by playing are working city what's so -- work on this idea. the initial rescue for the five major ancestor. buddhism, catholic, muslims can work on the rescue for people.

having holy management for people on the realistic work of kings way of holiness. >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. your time is up. next speaker, please. public speaker: hi, my name is jackie and a lifelong educator. i didn't know i was going to wait for hours to make this tiny speech. i'm hoping you will change your public comment to the beginning. anyway, good evening, everyone. president and board of supervisors of safrancisco. after the vicious attacks at planned parenthood i'm appealing to you to disallow

the january 2016 march for life in san francisco. allowing this march will be like allowing the kkk to come after the charleston massacre and march through the streets. the anti-choice people want to take people back to the middle ages. they are the kind of people who oppose and call for violence against the legal abortion providers of this country. this is hate speech. it's not free speech. women have the right to be liberated from these back ward ideas. women have the right to choose their own health providers when it comes to our own bodies. how can this so-called progressive san francisco government year after year allow these 50,000 women haters to march through san francisco's market street against our rights. i

say no more. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: good evening, supervisors, san francisco domestic violence consortium. i'm happy to be with you all tonight. i'm here for two things.. one is that we want to show our full and complete support for supervisor katie tang's resolution around the eminent danger policy for the homeless shelters and it's effects on domestic violence. it couldn't be a more poetic time as the mercury falls and holidays are near us and i could not understand that a shelter is full on a cold night.

i want to thank supervisor tang for here leadership and everyone who has worked on this. i'm just very pleased an honored ks , thank you. it really brings my second reason for being here. we live over the policies for this year. we have learned to cut corners and to hide families and do all kinds of stuff because of this policy. i have to say we got complacent and this young activist, nick camera, i wish you were here. asked is this okay with you guys, you know and we said no, of course not and wefk the energy to do this and i want to make this change and we've been working from shoulder to shoulder with his team and the shelter monitoring community and it's really been an experience of having some real help, somebody that would climb

with these families and push from a different perspective. i want to join the supervisors and especially supervisor katie tang and honoring camera and san francisco' loss and new york's game. it's what we need. public speaker: last week i learned something that is slosh dash --

27 years ago within a month of my being paralyzed i was roller skating and my last date before i was paralyzed was at the north beach pool. any attention that goes in the area is very much appreciated. my housing is on a grand scale preferential housing. appreciated. learning something else. there seems to be a pattern here. communities come. it's hard to get communities rolling. they come here in mass to say housing is this element were not in favor of this at the marsh they came.

so came we have to expect that crowds come late and they keep losing the appeal here 0-5. we need a little bit more step up here at the board of supervisors. we need a halt. thank you. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: my name is johnson. these outcomes and my mathematics should be higher and 4%.

and housing situations and an economy that we have housing is for. that our safety building are written a long time ago and that they were in deed an they have it already. the advantages have been more safety issues and where we need to put our cars and our and the elements we are

contracting the major in our same projects and 347 message. which we need all of these degrees in housing and our view in our center in our high prices that it will be 7.5%. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker. public speaker: members of the board, earlier this week i applied for

the resignation by london breed. i gave public notice on three separate occasions. i filed a complaint with the sunshine task force, there was a hearing with the task force. i would say a person has to be dumber than a box of rocks that she didn't know of this lawful request. throughout the process the supervisor failed to respond in any manner. she did both knowing and willfully under both obligations and under the sunshine ordinance and the act. i publically cues board supervisors london breed of malfeasance and under the law not able to carry out

the duties to serve certainly not as your board president. my sincere when eric returns to this chamber, that one of the earliest opportunities you remove president breed from the presidency of this board. she sets a bad example which supervisor farrell has passed. he's been found in violation of this ordinance twice in respect to my public records request. i concur with supervisor's wieners comments that many of this city have a lack of faith in enforcement of law. as the sunshine ordinance this board has done nothing to be of blatant force and violating the public. >>supervisor london breed: thank you.

are is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. madam clerk, can we go today next item. city clerk: item 64 and they will be considered together. madam clerk, item 66, i have a couple of clean up amendments to it. my apologies. >> okay. we will remove. please call the roll. >> items 64, 65, 68, 69. supervisor breed, aye, campos, aye, christensen, aye, cohen, aye, farrell, aye, kim, aye, supervisor mar, aye,

supervisor tang, aye, supervisor wiener, aye, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos? aye. there are 11 ayes. >>supervisor london breed: those motions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 66. board of supervisors regular meeting schedule. to strike march 29th, page 6, at the end of the sentence, add the word spring, line 7, add march 28th-april 1st, on second page striking lines 8-10. duplicative paragraph. >>supervisor london breed: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues is

there a motion to approve those amendments to item 66, moved by supervisor cohen, second by supervisor farrell. colleagues can we take this amendment without objection? it passes. colleagues on the item as amended can we take this same house same call? without objection. item 66 passes as amended unanimously. thank you. all right. madam clerk, can you please go to our imperative item and please read the item. >> yes, on behalf of president breed and supervisor tang we have a resolution commending supervisors julie christensen and for 20 years

of duty of serving san francisco. >> we have a finding by two-thirds vote. before unanimous adoption of the actual item. so this is purely commendatory and there is action came at the attention of the board after the agenda was posted. so, is there a motion to approve those two particular items. motioned by supervisor farrell and second by supervisor tang. without objection. >> public comment? >> for the findings? >> no. i apologize. >> without objection we will prove the findings unanimously. on the actual item. i will open that item up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on the imperative item only?

public speaker: this is evera johnson. i have spoken on the major. >> ma'am you have to comment on the item specifically. on supervisor christensen? >> christensen. she's a supervisor. i really like him. he has a lot of outlines where our difference and you know -- i

think we need to bring to some new supervisors all supervisors are here on items that i haven't approved on languages in our area that when we see for love and protection and safety issues. i have been working hard on these issues that i have put in to make advances to our board building processes and we need to see a little

better eye view >>supervisor london breed: thank you very much. next speaker, please. public speaker: tom. a few seconds on my second speech. in my heart, the north beach pool and playground occupies a big place in my heart. i'm hoping for other generations to appreciate it too. >>supervisor london breed: is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we take this imperative, somebody is missing. there we go. can we take this imperative item colleagues, can we take this item same house same call. without objection this item is approved. and madam clerk, can you please read the in memoriams. city clerk: yes, today 's

meeting will be adjourned on behalf of the following individuals, mr. chris mitchell and mr. dennis nick's, and ms.es estel crawford and mr. ben robinson. >> madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> that concludes our business for today. >> >>supervisor london breed: thank you. we are adjourned. [ meeting is adjourned ] good name is ed reiskin, director of

transportation here in san francisco. which among other things gives me the great honor of operating our transit system, muni which is one of the busiest transit systems in the country. and one that is really important for san francisco. it's how a lot of san franciscans get to work and to school and around the city and how a lot of folks who visit the city and a lot of people who work in the city get around in the city. it's a really important part of san francisco. we are always working for ways to make a better experience for our riders. we are really excited to be here today. let's talk about the launch of our muni mobile and we are already seeing the benefits. without further a do, mayor lee was planning to be here but unable to attend

unfortunately but we are happy to have ben mattranga. please join me in welcoming him. >> thank you. mayor ed lee was unable to make it but he's very excited about this. we live in a very busy city and we need a great transit system. this is about choice, this is about giving folks more options, more choices for how to get on transit and have that customer experience. thank you for coming out. i did today from city hall take muni mobile and have about another 60 minutes to get back to city hall. thank you all for coming out and make sure you download the app and use it.

thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, ben, as you know the mayor has coming together with city departments and to embrace innovation that is going to add value and service and this is the epitome that embraces innovation and bring positive value and there is a lot of innovation that will question whether or not that brings value and muni mobile. great improvement benefit to our riders. we were only able to do things like the launch of muni mobile, of bringing technology and other improvements to this system when we have the leadership and support of our board of directors. i'm pleased to say for this and for every other positive thing we are doing for muni, we have tremendous support and leadership and guidance and direction from our board of directors. i'm very happy to have both the chairman of the board and our vice-chair here to say a few

words. please join me in welcoming the chairman of the board tom nolan. >> ben, i will try to cut it down to less than an hour so you can make it back on time. the board of directors is presiding over a very complex agency. we look at all kinds of ways to make the system more reliable, faster and more convenience for everybody that uses the system. there is more than 7,000 a day. this is really a great benefit for tourist and occasional users. i'm very excited about this and look forward to seeing it a big success in a short time. >> thank you, cheryl brinkman, vice-chair of board of directors. i think this is going to be a great advantage for our riders both regular and casual. i know when i travel, that's what i look for is what is there to help me use the transit system of the city that i'm visiting. i know visitors are going to flock to

this. thank you for being here. [ applause ] >> thank you, so, what is muni mobile? right now we basically have two ways for people to pay for their fare on muni. we have cash and the clipper card. the clipper card has been a wonderful benefit for our riders and used well by our more frequent riders. it's a card that stores cash and passes. a very easy way to pay and nearly half of the people who ride muni now, nearly half of the trips are paid for with a clipper card. so it's really been, when the people who use it love it and it's been a great advance for regular muni riders. that said, we still have about half of the riders who are still paying cash. these are folks who are fumbling for change and dollar bills when

they get on the bus or the train they are stuffing their dollar bills in the fare box which is both an inconvenience for those folks and it also takes time. the whole muni system is slowed as people are digging for change and stuffing the dollar bills and coins into fare box and there is cost for us because we have to process that cash. we have people running around emptying those fare boxes and counting the money and moving the money to the bank. there is a lot of logistics and cost associated with that. what muni mobile does is for those who don't have a clipper card and those who choose not to and maybe because they don't ride muni often enough or maybe they are visiting. what it will enable people to do is use their smartphones.

most people have a smartphone. they download an app from the android store or apple store. it's a free app. it's developed by globe sherpa to bring muni mobile to our riders. you will see how easily they will say what kind of rider they are, a regular fare, senior, youth, disabled fare, what kind of ticket they want and they associate it with a credit card or pay pal because not everybody has a credit card and they pay with their phone. it's a flash pass. they don't have to touch the clipper reader. it's not paper. it's on your device. it's secure. it has significant security protocols to make sure nobody is going to be able to hack into your phone. it's

safe and easy for our fare inspectors or station agents or operators to see. there is animation that you will see in the demonstration that let's them know it's a live ticket and not just a screen shot. it will make it that much easier for the folks who don't have clipper cards to be able to avail themselves of modern technology to make it easier for them to get on our vehicles. it's good for us but most of all great for our riders. i wanted to acknowledge that. i want to acknowledge john, our director. his folks that are trying to keep the buses and trains moving and the fair boxes maintained. so anything we can do for them to get less cash on the system is good for the system and the riders. i want to acknowledge sue, our communications director and her folks are working hard to make sure

our riders know about this and use it well and know they have options. as ben said, the more options we can give to our riders the better. and mr. fox, our chief performance officer. our main driver on this project from inception to getting a beta test out which has been running the beta test for a number of weeks now to getting to the point where we are launching this today. with that, now that you've heard about it, we want to give you an opportunity to see it and the person that is best able to show it to you is the chief executive officer of globe sherp a. again the firm that we partnered with. please join me in we canning glen sherpa, [ applause ] >> thank you very much. good morning, everyone. i will keep my remarks brief so we can jump no -- into a demo.

i couldn't be more proud with the partnership with the mta staff to make muni mobile a reality. i want to give a shout out to the ambassadors and all of those that made this possible. we are going to make it the best that it possibly can be and we really appreciate that. muni mobile is incredible. it's the leading technology in the capital of the world. for us innovation is about simplicity about buying a ticket securely and quickly at the palm of your hands with this phone. i will jump right in and show you a little bit about this. as you are watching this, i want you to think about mobile not just being here for the day but long-term. this is going to allow us to add new

features in san francisco. in the coming months you will see increased functionality like spanish language support, cantonese language support and enhancement for accessibility for vision impaired riders and that sort of thing. muni mobile is more than just about buying a ticket, but about making it easy to get to the places that matter. with that, let's walk through the basic experience. i will start from the beginning. i open my transit application and i will select muni mobile. am i in the way, by the way, is this okay from where i'm standing? all right. i'm standing to the side.

we can do this again if i'm in the way. okay, all right. basically muni mobile is as simple as buying and using a ticket. all i have to do is come into what we call a navigation drawer where i see my options laid out very clearly. by selecting buy tickets i'm drawn to a selection menu where i address two easy steps. i select what kind of driver i am. i'm an adult and we can have reduced patrons, senior, disabled. i select regular adult and select the fare that makes sense for me. you can see we have the muni bus in rail fare all the way to bus pass fare. you notice when i select fare it pops up in the cart.

globe sherpa utilizes the cart. all i have to do is checkout. in this case i have been using pay pal. my preferred account. thank you to pay pal for their support. i appreciate it. these guys rock. as you can see i have got my visa card and i checkout with pay pal and the app tells me it's purchasing on the fly. this will go in realtime to the back office to purchase the ticket and here we are with the regular adult cable car fare. so you can see i have been purchasing quite a few throughout the day. here is my regular cable car fare and when i'm ready to get on the cable car, i select that fare. it asks me are you sure? let's do it. i use the ticket and this launches my ticket. this is the version of the digital ticket on muni mobile. applause is welcome. thank you. [ applause ] >> so what's beautiful about

mobile ticketing is it's fun and exciting and beautiful and add ed mentioned this is a highly secured system. as the animation shows this isn't just a picture, it's a screen shot. by tapping my phone you see the color change components on the tickets. this isn't a rerecording of the animated ticket. likewise you can see my fare at the bottom corner and a blinking expiration time stamp. we take a level approach to security to ensure this is a valid fare. once i'm done, all of my tickets live in the my tickets screen of the app where i can come back and use the ticket again. if i wanted to hop on within the expiration time, i simply relaunch and there it is. the great thing about mobile ticketing is you can purchase tickets in

advance so you don't have to think about it. you can store it for future use. one thing, if i'm talking too much, give me one of these. one feature we care about is that transit is a social experience. we know people ride together. if you click multiple riders. i can use two tickets and use them together so my friend and i can travel as a group using just my one phone. [ applause ] >> you will notice a lot of people have asked the question, there is a little code in the bottom right hand corner, a qr code or quick response code. this is a security measure that global uses to ensure high security. payment officers will be equipped with a special device, an app that allows them to scan, decrip and see

the qr code. it's a way to make sure the ticket is in fact valid. let's go in and we'll show you a couple of the other features here. if we go back to the navigation drawer. we have handy tool that lends us to the mta trip site. i can see the arrival time and when my bus is coming and when it will arrive. that's the beauty. you use buy ticket, use ticket. that's where we are. all right. so one last feature. this matters for people who want to keep track of their purchases. if you click on the bottom at my account, you see the profile here. i can manage my password. i can come into my billing information and any of those pieces but very importantly i can look at my transaction history. in the case that i can

requisition my purchase with my employer, this is a great feature where i can come in and see just what i bought. another piece and i will wrap, there is also a website for muni mobile. i will encourage everyone to visit it. on your mobile you can purchase from your home computer and it will show up on your device. for people who have fast fingers, boom, you can do it that way. i will stop there. ed, anything else? [ cheers and applause ] >> it's pretty impressive. i want to thank matt particularly for the $7 he spent on the muni fare that i don't think he's going to use. that's more revenue for us. a couple things, he didn't show you the actual setting up up the account. he had his visa card, he didn't show us his number and his pay pal account.

when i downloaded the app, i went to the android store and download td app and the entire experience took me about 15 seconds. for a teenager that maybe 10 seconds. it's really really easy to use which is phenomenal. it also works for paratransit. it shows you the type of rider you are. at the bottom is access, which is our paratransit service. it not only works for buses and trains but for paratransit fare as well. i think the multiple tickets on one screen is phenomenal. particularly for visitors. there is a lot of visitors and parents and teenagers. if you are buying fares for the whole family. another great feature. we are very excited about this

launch. we think it's going to be a great thing for our riders. i want to thank you all for getting the word out because we want our people to avail ourselves of this. are you buying more tickets? >> no, my grandparents were calling me. >> okay. keep buying tickets. that's it. i think we are going to stop there. and maybe i will ask travis to come up in case anybody has a difficult question. thank you very much. if anybody has any questions, now is the time. . >> working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and

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deputy chief ali and robert mows and o'sullivan and tom nolan chaplain and ann maddox and commander thank you and thank you for being here (clapping.) distinguished guests and family members and friends i'm the chief of staff and greg suhr i welcome you to the promotional ceremony between january 17th and september 26, 2015, ♪ ♪

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>> thank you color guard please take your seats he invite pastor stacey current to say a few words. >> good afternoon i woke up this morning with an

overwhelm sensation of the joy of being alive if you're happy to be alive turn to our neighbor real quick and say it is good to be alive good to be alive. >> (repeated.) >> yeah. good to be alive and it is good to be here and to celebrate so as we begin this time of celebration of the promotion let us begin with a word of prayer let's pray together giver of life and sustaining god we come to you with gratitude in our hearts for all the gifts you give us each year each day family and friends and loved ones and laughter and the gift of being alive help is to receive those gifts with thanksgiving and may our

hearts be stirred to remember all the blessing but today, we good faith to recognize pub those he men and women may we meaningful that have the wisdom for problems they'll, enfrustrated with a higher position of responsible rocket and leadership we call them peacemakers shaped by experience and prepared for the new task. so we ask our blessing that on if day a day of joy and deep gratitude we remember for years to come may all god's children thankfully for this day say amen amen >> thank you pastor current my please to introduce the honorable mayor of san francisco

mooed mooe thank you deputy and thank you pastor current for perhaps it is appropriate for me to say it is good to be politically alive (laughter) i'm overjoyed to join you greg suhr and commission and also staff and all the officers that are part of this wonderful department family, friends, and especially those who are about to be promoted he congratulate you as well it's been very interesting last four and a half years i want to say i'm here because i know a few of the individuals also but here as part of the support team for our police department and as the 403 mayor of this wonderful city we have a lot of work that

we've already done to have been a successful city has we are i won't be the first one to say our city can't say you been successful unless we're a safe city and all of you on the front lines are making our city save but i'm also had the pleasure of being the mayor in 3 world series celebrations one nabbing celebration and america's cup on the eave of hosting the incredible 50th shakespeare and get to enjoy it is finite police department it is to say that under the leadership of this commission with the chief we've had all the successes and continue to be a successful city as long as we

also are a safe city and being a safe city i also will be the first to say that is not just on the shoulders of our police men and women their have their responsibilities you'll all have our responsibilities do the great community policing we've engaged in but forthcoming we have challenges and we have challenges that we're going to meet in the very heartfelt way because our citizens require us to be more transparent and have the body cameras that challenge us i think the public finds out more that happens on the streets than sometimes recorded we will also have the challenge of having more success a growing

population but i'm excited for every single community corridor that will support and have our more officers on the beats as well as officers working computer systems and greats technology we have as well as officers and all of our different areas in the city that will do great work seen and unseen at the same time and complimenting the additional officers and he had a chance with the chief the other day to welcome in the new recruits in the academy what wonderful recruits we all right. have that will have some 4 hundred more additional police officers that join us along with the 200 firefighters and 50 pharmacies and including some additional 359-1-1 callers this is an

incredible time for our city but we know that we can't just don't think the officers that we hire the public safety is a variety of things we have to do a city i want you to recognize the city will do it's part as well that means not only the hiring but means a good environment for the people to work in a city that is successful a city that looks to the future and says let's resurrect that police academy program and make sure that the youth we want that they want to have a safe city also see potential crazy they can enjoy in the police department or at least be exposed that that to the cadet program to be eligible

to go to the academy a city that vests in a program that reaches youth that are already in trouble reaches into their lives and suggested to go them we can interrupt the patterns of activities if drawings them into challenging lives and pull them into job saving lives with career paths i pathways lives they, see better education we're all increasing those opportunities from kindergarten to college we'll be supporting our youth all of our youth and particularly emphasis on the youth in poverty strictly community i get to do that as the 43 mayor and begin in public housing that people have a way forward for themselves and their family through all the programs

in education and interrupt those patterns activities that might suggest otherwise we'll support through our families and children and youth programs programs and the passage of prop c last year an incredible investment in all our families to see an unprecedented investment for our youth from the family prospective we have rebuilding every single one of our public housing sites so they become integrated policies sites for all of the families that are there as well as the new families that will be welcomed there people will not live in isolated poverty housing under this administration giving me a chance to move forward all the things in concert with increasing our hiring of our

police officers but also promoting promotions is a good day this means there's movement and hiring and activity in this department the same can be said in the fire department in our 9-1-1 and all our dispatchers by the desire city would it be fair to say congratulations to all of you that are will be receiving pins today when i have the opportunity to pin the 3 that had a chance to work with me the might be screens of pichz i have to pay them back for the rough lives they've given me outside of that we've had an incredible time i want to say the incredible success on every single one of you're crazy we'll be a

successful city and whether it is issues around retirement, or the environment you work in or the people you even though again work with we'll do our best in support because you mean that the people on the first line that is a i will sacrifice for the other safety i want to say congratulations and health felt thank you from our 43rd mayor to our success and safety and success of you and our families i congratulate all of you today thank you (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. mayor it is my honor to welcome the president of the police commission president suzy loftus (clapping.) thank you, thank you greg suhr mayor ed lee and the staff and

director hicks and family and friends can you raise your hand if our mom or dad is getting promoted today raise your hand if you're mom reasonable person dad is getting promoted two hands over there that is a big deal big deal your can do is getting promoted i know you this is a big deal guys i'll speak to the kids this is a big ceremony with the command staff what the mayor this is a tough profession your mom and dad are distinguished leaders we're here to recognize and one thing i know for sure in working with in law enforcement with as prosecutor and in the police commission none did it alone with all of you, your family and your kids i know you guys are proud of them so this is a legal

term but a really big deal today is a really big deal so obviously congratulations to you guys i want to say two things talk about what i think you've accomplished and what it means to the department today is acknowledging the hard work i mentioned that i sat for the california bar examine i'm not stranger of hard tests but the tested you have to study for practice with our fell officer is not a samuel small matters your chosen to be a leader of this department and you've put in a lot of work now what it means for the department the mayor talked about the significant momentums we'll have a number of things going on but i want to say this ceremony is special the academy congratulations they're excited

and start their career can't wait to get out there this is a different moment a moment you've done that chief you've distinguished yourselves as leaders to be recognized this is your moment and you get to make choices and decisions about the rest of our career those ceremony is amazing at the end of it it two minutes where someone faubz u talks about your career i'm moved by sometimes, the chief or captain will rattled off your mrishtsd but nevertheless, the two minutes spent talking about the kind of leader and how you treated our officers and how you had their backs and managed tough situations and a team leader and helped others now it is the moment in our career you've gotten the acknowledgment the

mayor mentioned body cameras i want to say one thing as leader of this department the success or failure of this program is depending on you your leadership as our officers to what you do will make the program a success or failure many people involved commissioners and city officials at the end of the day you as leaders of the department have the technology and learn from it and help us make the policy better and continue to lead the way for the san francisco police department so that is my hinge r request of you, you an acknowledgment of everything help us embrace the future and continue to be the incredible leaders you've been and congratulations think everything you've done and thank you for being a leader at a critical time you're up to it

thank you. >> (clapping). >> commissioner president loftus now greg suhr. >> (clapping). >> so you've had to brave two speeches suffer through one more to emotional what commissioner president loftus said as you look at people around you take a lot of pictures people in this room nobody is going to be any younger nobody will have any more hair and sadly in the matter how much you tell you yourselves it will be thinner and the kids not younger so lots of pictures a big deal it is good to welcome you did not members and family and friends

to this ceremony we've honored today to have the newly re-elected mayor of san francisco ed lee (clapping.) our president of the police commission suzy loftus (clapping.) someone who never misses one of those ceremonies i'm so honored he is with us every single time former excessive of police mr. sandra right there (clapping.) and then we have a late arrive our occ director joyce hicks (clapping.) but most important here we're privileged to be among the sworn officers to the rank of sergeant and commander and deputy chief

over the last year the future leadership of the san francisco police department no small deal in all endeavors leadership it critical to success but as we move into the last part of this year leadership is not as critical to the san francisco police department we recently peace officer served through the you toughest recession in our lifetime we never said we can't do more with less we did that with less and good in san francisco thanks to the mayor and the full support of the board of supervisors we're under one of the biggest hiring pushlz all the new cops needs the leadership if they're required of the san francisco police officers to be the smallest thoughtful cops in the country this department to the challenges that lay before us across the country and in some

community in san francisco folks are questioning over intentions and action as we perform with the new video painting the law enforcement in an unfavorable light every year as fbi director spoke you can turn up the music on the radio or choose to have an open and honest discussion about the relationship today what it should and could be and needs to be if we took more time to understand one allocate across the country serious a debates how law enforcement will relate to the community about the appropriate use of force and the bias within an outside law enforcement we need to have this conversations similar conversation are being had within every police department as well or should be

these kinetics is bumping and uncomfortable help us to understand and better serve san francisco of course, those are only conversations and the true sense of the word only willing to talk not only but listen someone said you have to understand and be understood true words again quoting let us begin that difficult conversation by being honest to acknowledge that most of our law enforcement history in the country is not pretty at many points in american history before the members were borne are law enforcement enforced with status quo a status quo that was brooultd unfair to the labor groups and unfair to two many people a century ago the issuing my mom was issuing knew

how well, the drills and the patty woolen is not named patty wug because it's padded we need to be able to explain why we do what we do every time we do if we can't rethink what we're doing and to do it definitely there is a renewed on a procedural justice toy decade ourselves to not allow the bias that exists in all of us not judge cope to do our job fairly and objectively to do this today more than ever requires strong leadership it is with that in mind all the men and women are promoted were selected for the department leaders of tomorrow the best ladders are functional

intelligence and demonstrate things the right way everyone on this stage actually not on the stamp they don't it, too as evidence by the performance under the exams and experience the ability to do this i'm grateful to our family and france for the character awesome possess and how you cultivated our influences to be here today each of you demonstrated the ability to think on your feet i'll confident you already have i ask you to demonstrate our earring in essence but more importantly challenge you to lead by x if 0 doing do the right thing and serve as a reminder to the officers why they became cops in the first time we help especially children as you sit here remember to be a

successful it is not cbo you you'll need other people and let other money need you no matter how smart not smart enough i've spoken about leadership what is leadership so let's look at was it isn't i spoke when he met at the academy management so not leadership management deals with routine not to take anything away from good management and you'll have to dwo do a lot more management but management management is not leadership there is no leadership need it is a distofrtd that leadership is require in a law enforcement around the country is a distortion and will take our leadership to get us to a better place but the leaders don't manage people they monitor them

leaders don't follow the rules as they are without question and set out to make better rules when needed leaders are looking for the replacements the future of the san francisco police department is on you it is not about what a leader can do himself or herself but accomplish with our violation and support whether you make sure that when people do a job get the credit it is about the balance of others replacement the golden rule do onto others as onto you this is echoes throughout the ages in every language and cultivate it is a philosophy to support others and you yourselves will be supporting and reaching our

potential and chief the goals and be where we want to be back to today you have much to be proud of we look at freezing this moment shortly will come as a relief i'm almost finished that was fun (laughter). >> anyway mid block said after climbing the great hill one finds many more hillside to climb we make take rests but foreclosure the moment we must cock e walk together not ended when you come across a mountain it takes more than one person to move a mountain there will be more times than not an uphill battle and sometimes, you'll fail in one attempt or many find another way find another way a

path forward a path forward and whether emily murase he son you want to respect intelligent people and the affiliation of children you left the world better and after all assessor-recorder it is easily because of your effort and helped to get there you were a good leader my parents i get choked up my parents engraved the word building on the first star i was giggle i have the same engratifying on all my stars the two o that you will make a difference in the lives of on the words of teddy roosevelt not the critical man that pouts points but but the doer of deeds do them better the credit to those in the arena

who's face is marked by blood and those in the end have the achievement and if we fail we fail by doing better god bless and be safe (clapping.) >> thank you, chief. >> i now ask you administer the other of office to all personnel. >> relax it's the same oath i didn't add anything to it can i get everybody to please stand. >> i'm sorry, i meant of those who are going to take the oath (laughter) you know it to as a help it is good to stands even once in a

while (laughter). >> that's supposed to be a comedy we have a tradition in the san francisco police department imagine in the room that has taken an oath that would like to reaffirm that oath especially someone in law enforcement whether sworn or not sworn we have prosecutors in the room feel free to stand at this time and take the oath with preplease raise your right hand i>> i. >> do solemnly swear. >> (repeated.) >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. and the

codes policies and charter. >> (repeated.) of the city and county of san francis francisco. >> (repeated.) >> >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. >> (repeated.) >> to the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and to the constitution of the state of california. dooi z dooildz. >> (repeated.) >> without any mental reservation. >> (repeated.) >> that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. >> (repeated.) >> and during such time as i hold office. congratulations