different teams the total contact capabilities or authorized is one $.8 million a little bit of contract capacity but pending things in need for some of that remaining capacity so the range of studies and planning efforts this supported and shown here. >> commissioner cohen has a question. >> i understand there were a total of 37 responses to the rfp we selected 5. >> there were 6 responses let's see that may have encompassed 37 individuals where's the 37. >> the preproposed. >> oh, that's the number that attended on the - >> okay

okay yes 37 firms attempt the preproposals conference so the our process goes like this we hold the issues rfp and have a database of firms that are registered with us to receive the notifications of our contract analysis our rfp and rfp q's we invite any interested firms we answer questions about the scope of work and it is an opportunity for potential vendors to network with each other in the team. >> is it mandatory. >> i know you continue to advance in the process to prequalifying meeting. >> not mandatory we ask all the participants to sign in and provide the contact information we post that as well as questions asked during the

conference and the answers that we provided as well q and a we received from e-mail and other needs by the deadline for questions or comments that we provide in the rfp q. >> how do we determine the 5 agencies. >> what happens there is a period of - let's see our schedule i wonder if where we have the schedule in here we post of the rfp q and a schedule with certain meanwhile dates all culminating in the dates the proposals or the statement of kwfks we do so some of the interim miles are a preconference and date for questions to be submit by any interested potential vendors and provide a date for our transportation authority to provide a written response to those questions and the next

milestone after that the date when the statement of qualifications are due to the transportation authority we allow a month between our requests for rfp q issued at statements of kwflgz due. >> on that line it is too long narrow it down so is there a point system that is attributed can you. >> - >> competitive process yeah. >> to rachel's answer the decision is made by interviews from a panel comprised of other agencies that host the process they make presentations a point system laid in the rfp and they're scored and recommended. >> how do you select the panel. >> i think the team has

several internal folks to use and identify an external number from a partnership agencies. >> in this case that was mta. >> within the database you e-mail our information do you keep track of how many women and minorities that are inside the database. >> that's a good question i believe see they fill out the former then we'll track that. >> is there a dbe we have a dbe be start. the contract in this case how are the proposals xeeftd that contract and so the 5 that were paroled exceeded that and the make up of their teams is included in the page 58 >> right. >> my final question what kind of services will they be doing we can't handle in house.

>> absolutely everything let's see if we go to throw the scope of work on page 44 we sometimes use the on calls as an extension of staff transportation planning we actually have consultants do love of the daily work more cost effectively like conceptually engineering design those firms have can do and others pools in their shops allergy i s mapping the community involvements we've work with the consultant firms more cost effectively then we can with the facilitation or community organizing work that supports the mr. larkin the cost estimation is a situation and modeling where those folks are either civil engineers for

transportation modeling engineers they have you know the software that supports the modeling simulation work we don't have in house or experience from what they focus on. >> thank you. >> the technological skills with the equipment themselves. >> that's right. >> we don't have mr. chair that's all the questions. >> i was going to reiterate we choose the top 5 or 6 firms that submitted the qualifications we choose the ones that submitted - and the enterprise verification you breakdown by consultants some say woman some say asian specific and a asian subcontractors are that noted what do you mean. >> i'll have to ask cynthia.

>> cynthia executive director for the finance those are categories by caltrain since the majority of finland we'll be combats grant they've defined the asian-american as a category with indian and bangladesh and others while asian specific are cam biology and filipinos and japanese, etc. >> thank you. any other questions thanks for the preemption opening up for public comment i have card for later but if anyone wants to speak please step forward. >> my comment is this too many words too much subcommittees wherever you breakdown that much the money is lost your subbing

it out subbing it out to every little dime to someone else's pockets you take out of your own pocket you if have a job to do if someone can't speak the language when you go to work for example, i worked for people i didn't understand you get to the point where you're doing the job you just do it you don't pay someone to tl somow to do the job the guy in charge makes sure everyone is there when you subbing things out. >> we don't see the document oh, there we go. >> it was san francisco when this was beautiful in 1951 that was beautiful then because there was no so much things to do you see now we've marched into the future everyone subbing and taking a little bit san

francisco needs to take care of their own projects and not have to distributed it out i'm trying to get you be to aware of every time you spend a nickel getting someone to consult you've waste your own money i don't know if you understand clearly if you over sub sub you're taking our own money $10 i paid someone $0.05 to spend a dollar i've wasted a nickel a comment i want you to think about your dignity integrity of san francisco not the rest of the world my only comment and this is what i'll show you san francisco in 1941 man thank you. >> anyone wish to comment public comment is closed. colleagues a recommendation so supervisor yee.

>> i think you were just about ready to put a slide up there les are looks like 6 things what was that for i don't hear you. >> yes. i have information that shows how the previous on call contract prior to this was was used as cash orders we've executed through that contract. >> you have copies of that. >> yes. we can get you copies. >> is it in here? what page is it on >> oh, this one sorry. >> i can - yeah, so this is the first page of one of two and this is the same information you have there and then on the second page 2 of 2. >> these projects which

business was actually contracted to do this work. >> sure i have a breakdown by firmer as well the previous round of on calls we awarded 3 contracts to the previous on call these are the 3 primary consultants and is award to each team. >> i can't read it what does it say. >> the 91 guard consultants will be awarded $971,000 dollars plus and sanford awarded total value of $372,000 plus and to in the interest of time america awarded $349,000 plus.

>> think what will be helpful in the future you have the total and the projects i don't know which one is associated with which one it would be good to say here's the firm and the projects under that total to this so we can actually understand that a little bit better. >> sure. >> what actually went on and to give us a sense of how those $2 million is spent that had been a good check for us to make sure that is done properly. >> so a report announcing we show the totals each task order waterway by firm. >> yes. we might sees a

pattern it our responsibility to not only approve the overall contract but allocating $2 million to those potential firms at the end of the day we would like to know how it is spent okay. >> okay. >> thank you. any other questions so we've already open up for public comment is there a motion it is an action item. >> there is a motion and a second oh, the house changed again let's have a roll call. >> commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner kim commissioner mar commissioner yee that item passes. >> please call item 5. >> item 5 recommended amendment at the fiscal year 2015-2016 to decrease revenues by $3 million plus and increase the expenditures by $23 million plus and total net decrease of

$26 million plus this is an action item. >> thank you. we have deputy director functioning. >> i guess a packet we have before you the summary of changes that we are making or proposing to the fiscal year 2015-2016 budget amendment following that attachment a your executive order of supposed changes that shows the 5 funds along with what was originally proposed what the increase and decrease change requested and what the new adopted budgeted for fiscal year 2015-2016 would be if all items were passed following those pages attachment b the detailed level of revenues and expenditures we're changing attachment c a line item by item explained the nature and the

status let me quickly go over why we're could go this each fiscal year we take stock of new trend and recognize the grants and other funds and the expenditure carry offers increases in the increases for the budget i can walk you through attachment a that is on page 61 of your packet as you can see in terms of revenues we're asking to decrease revenues by $3.6 million the majority of changes due to new grants by the bart and transit reliability research grant and the late night and the moldings all new grants we've received in the past 9 months in terms of grants we are decreasing the amount we spends earlier car sharing projects the y b i and improvement

project the sf long transportation and a few grant we are increasing the amount we anticipate to receive that is the 19th avenue ocean avenue project we also have in terms of revenue changes $2.8 million decrease not a revenue decrease but a change of recognition of how we budget and how we recognize the loan previously we were able to record that as a revenue, however, we've changed the accounting basis through a gap basis due to the change in the new accounting city hall we're no longer able to recognize this but we're not receiving the loan payments as anticipated and originally schedule. >> moving to expenditures there's a total of $23.3 million increase in the expenditures under the capital costs line

item due to the costs we're not anticipating early on in the year but sfmta vehicle procurement reimbursement we anticipate those in the next few months approximately $23 million also following blow that a decrease in administrative costs approximately $18,000 we thought we'd save we it out we'd have temporary staff and additional audit and legal fees because of the procurement of negotiating over the contract amounts we have a decrease of $800,000 that is remember a revolving loan this committee approved in may this resolveer loan replaced a program with $800,000 in commercial paper fees and lastly

we have prior expenditures carry over contracts that did not cost our revenues were anticipated but in the happen at the year ends those projects were decreased and cost that didn't occur for the yerba buena gardens because of the ramps we had some contamination issues and that end up in the fiscal year and the 8 categorizing we carried over that change in the type of items they wanted to procure within that with that, i'd like to open for any questions i may go into more detail for any items. >> i don't see any thanks deputy director functioning opening up for public comment anyone wish to comment seeing none, public comment is closed

colleagues, can we approve that action item we'll take that without objection. it's been moved and seconded thank you thank you, mr. stamos please call the next item. >> >> item 6 introduction of new items informational. >> no colleagues anyone from the public that would like to speak seeing none, public comment is closed. next item please item 7 general public comment >> two names mr. andrew yip. >> good morning, commissioners in xeventd the holy teaching of principles follow the holy way and living culinary practices and as well as enforcing communication of holiness into

the society the importance of holiness and cultural is heard the reck outlining of say so - we take a cause of human beings universally to have a pure land of the kingdom and for level of attainment and through knowledge that will support of an exceptional destiny for divided poverty for preaching to the holy people one needs only to stay in boundary and secure one's life of destiny to wit out poverty and making successful once a destiny for all special relationships of devine order one expands the teaching of

holyness of virtue in nature and know about people with mediation and mercy with recognizing 40 - shall come to successful of poichlt for destiny of all. >> thank you, mr. yip is mr. lee is here please step forward if you want to speak. >> i just spoke earlier about some things. >> see what is really happening in the streets of san francisco for real are drug cartels that are taking over the city wars within wars the bullets the bullets that are killing people are coming from the drug cartels themselves this is a fact of life for poor people in the city i ran all the

way downstairs to get my smoking that's my major bad addiction there is so many addictions their fueling lots of money for people that do illegal drugs that's where the bullets they're carrying san francisco whatever you want to hear lies about i've been living on the streets since october i've survived barely barely by keeping myself away from that when i was out at pier 80 it was dangerous not just a bad place to live no good planning about that shelter shelter that was disgust purely i didn't like living there the night i left there were guns awe blazing what anyone cares about i abandoned ship i refused to

live there because it became another war of bullets as i least someone appointed to the sky oh, that's just fireworks bull san francisco is shot up by cartels and police were running i abandoned pier 80 forever he refused to be shot period that's my comment thank you. >> thank you is there any additional public comment? >> public comment is closed. >> mr. stamos mr. clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body? >> no item 8 adjournment. >> we're adjourned everyone thank

>> good morning ladies and gentlemen, if i can have our attention please thank you all. coming to this joyous celebration the fact reopening of franciscan towers (clapping.) its been a long time coming 8 hours short of exactly 5 years with all due respect please give a warm welcome to mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, don i know that short welcome has everything to do with the fact real purpose that say we need to get people into units and this franciscan towers as you may know and that it was a victim of a big fire in 2011 and you know a lot of victims of fires particularly residents i

think very few get the side the fact day tare, is reopened because it take a step back a long time to battle with insurance companies all kinds of things make it difficult again that's why we celebrate those opportunities this franciscan towers a hundred and 4 units of affordable housing the middle of tenderloin reopening the middle of a housing crisis and so it is blessed with being is very, very helpful solution to many and i know that supervisor kim understands this she and i have been working to get more affordable housing built if not rehabbed and also the middle of that whether a conversation or working with the fact private developers or work with our city tame family to produce more housing we made a commitment at

least 10 thousand affordable units built by 2020 this helps interpreting the fact story is not just about the fact this is rehabbed and reopened lives have been here the middle of tenderloin that also need to be rebuilt that's why this investment is too important that's why the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation valued in the city they keep increasing that portfolio of love i call it actually up to 33 different proposals the city in directly helping 6 thousand plus people to make sure they do more than survive in the city this is what the fact tndc does we we partner up so the clerk will take the roll with them and more to come i i know that portfolio they got a lot of projects we've got to announce and we have in a had

your we don't want to take 5 years to do this when you look at the building you see how it was damaged and and the units that are very, very small studios are one bedrooms 95 e 35 of the one and 35 are dedicated to formally homeless people this is incredible and burglary hips oh, help us with our challenge facing the fact homeless as i this more navigation centers and add supportive housing working with the fact board to make sure we can do with the last round and we're going to get 8 thousand people off the fact streets by the end i finish that will no longer have to be a victim this is our promise behind the fact naefktss and the nexus we're building so we don't

have to talk about the fact shifters we have access out of homelessness and that procts like this the middle of communities like the tenderloin are really important to getting that story completed i want to say thank you to the tndc and all the corporate sponsors others are are part of solution to make sure that the financial part of this is done because that's when what is it takes creativity initiative financed not just again money but the creative relationship with the fact financial products that really helps to accelerate this housing and want to thank tom dbi and some of the other agencies i know your staff was around and have been inspecting

a fire building your probably happy this building will be with good lives thank you, everyone for the fact elephant e tenant and the former building that were patient and the team of people that have brought this to fruition congratulations to the corps (clapping.) thank you, mayor ed lee please welcome supervisor jane kim (clapping.) >> i just want to congratulate the entire team that, ma'am r made this happen 0 over the last 4 years a tremendous mulch work to building that after a major fire actually, i think this happened on a tuesday 5 years ago i left really late that evening around 8:30 i decided to

have dinner and the middle of the are dinner i heard a major fire i ran over here and got to talk to the tenants at the alexander across the street and it was my first time experiencing a major fire as member of the board of supervisors and it is incredibly frightening one of most unfortunate things when a major disaster you have a responsible and consciousness property owner with a protocol portfolio to house the fact tenants i just have to congratulate tndc that's one of the most did the things to actually, the humans were enacted and the fact staff did a tremendous job providing a compassion that for weeks to

come after to find new housing and help support people with the fact tradition and work quickly in fact, i had little work in the case of my first fire because the fact frng was taking care of and had staff on hand and work to make sure that tenants were able to transition i think actually in many ways a bigger accomplishment that tenant didn't move back they were able to find permanent housing they felt was secure and wanted to stay in this is actually new housing and will house many that individuals that live on the fact streets it is a tremendous accomplishment i want to say this because this is as an opportunity to talk about tndc and the fact partnership i'm lucky to serve under a mayor with affordable

housing is clearly his top priority for the fact city and an extensive history to have as much affordable housing and we'll work together to secure the gap furnld for the fact what will be affordable housing for formally homeless families an eddie-taylor a tremendous project we're able to work with tndc and the mayor's office to get the fact funding for the 5 m project project and excited for a project coming online we've been talking about the fact fortunate we we have in long time institutions like be tndc that will have been building in the tenderloin for decades that's in many ways why the tenderloin continues to be a working class neighborhood we have nonprofit and leader this stuck around for decades to continue doing this work and one

of the reasons i love tndc and come back and see the fact same people continuing to do the fact work with the a testament hard to find nonprofits to do that and frankly you get paid this to d this work yet you believe in it and a tremendous leadership to run an organization that people continue to believe in and finally i just want to acknowledge your organizers go amazing work (clapping.) i've saying this because because wants legislation and funding more affordable housing the community didn't come out and residents not informed at the local and state level putting pressure on the stories out the media that's ultimately had drives our accomplishments we're not able to do that and beyond housing building and housing neighborhood not just about

neighborhood we need to convert and build a healthier and stable environment outside of the residents i want to thank tndc for your comprehensive vision and for the fact neighborhood in helping us build not only more audible city but a healthier one thank you (clapping.) thank you jan bank of america (clapping.) >> thank you don. >> how you doing i just wanted to thank tndc for building this amazing or rebuilding i had the fact honor of being here years ago and as beautiful we see that again with new community groups i aim thankful for the mayor and city for building affordable housing and an honor to see a

city that is so committed to building affordable housing and make sure that you know our residents are the place to be bank of america buildings we are better when we're connected we truly are that's why we build save and secure communities in 2014 alone bank of america provided 4.5 whether they would say in financing across the country most importantly in san francisco in the past 10 years bank of america has 1/3rd of affordable housing not including the fact investment money today and great to be a partner with you guys and with tndc a number of projects and our apprenticeship didn't aspire we worked for bank of america now for the fact greater innovation

thank you. >> thank you (clapping.) >> it is my great pleasure to introduce to say tndcs social work manager doreen franklin kin (clapping.) a >> okay good morning i'm here to honored to be here today with you and in a brewing community room of the franciscan towers this is a day i've been hoping and dreaming of for 5 years

please forgive me my role this morning two-fold first i'd like to over some reflection aftermath of fire in second give thanks to the unimagineably folks that 2rshd to the resilient community in 2011 was an average day for me, the walking through the intend to to get to another meeting when i left work at 4:00 p.m. i never imagined i'd be bad actor in back in a few hours at 8:30 the fact crowds were coming in there's a fire at the towers - okay there was a fire at the towers

and arrest rick were on the scene and everything under control while talking on the phone he glantd at the tv i saw the franciscan towers on fire when i arrived most of the tenant were across the street the lobby of the alexander residence told me and in they're afraid pa ganlz and others in mire bathrobes in a few hours as the fact disaster in two things were really clear the first that tenants wouldn't be going home imagine having been unhoused in a single second without notice and having only one minute to gather a few blorjz imagine arriving in the building after a long day of work with no place to go no food, no water, inform id, no

money, no tone phone and no clothes the fact second thing that was clear to me that tndc staff would not rests until all the fact tenants we are safe and secure by 8 a.m. all of the tenants were, in fact, safe and secure while many that few weeks stayed with folks and family families be doubled up in apartments and adults were the streetcars in the ambassador and cc r the next 10 days at tndc were controlled chaos the fact workers the shelters while property management searched for alternative housing for one and some tenants tndc was a blessing we had amazing staff, we had a

lot of building, and we have some really good friends the community to r two of our best friends are he american red cross and by 12 p.m. all one and 25 tenants we are settled in temporary housing and properties and dish properties or with friends and families while this data was a milestone for us it was really just the fact end of chapter one the fact rest of the story unfolds with with tndc tireless purity of hours after one year of working with the fact community partners the fact late tenants was housed on march 3, 2012 equally important that tndc would not settles for a

red-tagged icon. >> equally important tndc would not settle are are for a red-tagged icon in the middle of the tenderloin after several years of having a vacant property on the famous corner of two-thirds they began to rebuild the fact towers there are many significant milestones each of them leaving me at times bracket also and overwhelmsed i remember that the fact admin and the tndc after-school program was moved to the parking lot not we called the budget lows i remember the directive and the lottery i remember the fact day the knowledge was painted and the first i stood ♪

r5078 and cried i remember the fact day the first tenants came back home and another day of tears tears of joy and stand the franciscan towers very own community room something they deserve just above us one and 4 unit of beautifully renovated affordable apartments it's been 5 long years since this corner of eddie taylor felt like home i account reasonable doubt for hours for the fact folks that supported the fact tenants and tndc to recovery from such a tragedy i'd like to thank the franciscan towers tenants who were kind, caring and compassionate with each other they were patient and

never gave up on tndc they taught me the true matt haney of human the fact san francisco fire department saving retrieved medication for people if the people and the tenants the back of residences that opened they're afraid home on the night of the fire and first responders dale, art, georgia, orlando are yvette and monique and linda, and state and federal the fact department of emergency services ben i'm not sure he's here we want to thank them on behalf of the fact city and county of san francisco tenants at the ambassador and cc

r for 10 days graciously shared they're afraid home and tndc social work team operated the fact shelters around the fact clock and the american red cross that provided meals and three hundred and 34 hours hours of volunteer support the san francisco food bank for providing food and vouchers for basic household items and tndc precipitate management team for the fact 10 days to make sure that all tenants were in a safe and secure housing tndc admin and it team especially in a few days had the fact office up and running and tndc 65 for ooefg stability to the franciscan towers families and not missing a beat by operating out of the

circulation the team that grashz left hand they're afraid rooms of temporary units and welcomed the fact tenants onto the community without question or gymnast the human services for continuing for the fact support the shuttle mrs. care especially shannon to help us to maintain and ultimately double our subsidies the dult who operated across the fact clinic the manor house for accepting the hundreds of vouchers that were provided for the fact tenants the fact san francisco housing authority for the fact emergency applications public school to a very special grew up of people that plays a role ms.

jones john's, joe sanchez at the know that sanchez at the is here joanne goldberg and tfa list and others and the countless folks i imagine i've left out to the tndc leadership and most specifically don and paul and others and the face of such tragedy the 3 of you - dug deep and was forced to ask users the fact question who does tndc want to be at this time of crisis you

made did the decisions and had care and compassion tndc staff and the tenderloin community the final group i'd like to thank all the fact people that believed in tndc those that believe that tndc will one day rebuild the franciscan towers on behalf of the tndc we want to thank you from the bottom of my heart (clapping.) thank you >> thank you. >> burnett it's your turn please welcome vernon (clapping). >> good morning, everybody.

this is a brand new opening thank you thank you all for being here we go celebrating with us mooirns are very happy it have franciscan towers to call home my wife and i were homeless for a year people are homeless for no reason i believe you don't kick people when they're down we working hard to keep her healthy from diabetes she's lost both of her legs we tried to stay off the fact street and stay clean and healthy we have no family to support use it is just we have we found a place to say for 450 question had be out at soubs and

ask for a shower it was better than the fact street but not good we got a connection to 3 social workers with them working together we got a wheelchair for my wife and best of all a home we're happy to have a home we work hard and my wife says she's never leaving with our new home we get healthy and stable who knows what is possible (clapping.) >> now my turn for a few concluding remarks there are so people people i'm not xaefrg hundreds and hundreds the aftermath of a fire but putting

together the new franciscan towers rather than call anyone out i want to direct you to a program recognizing those who contributed and we want to commend i guess replenishment on a couple of things because identify cabin sleeping by myself in my bet bed the first we tndc can't do anything alone we exist in a community that part of community and the community depends on us our success is he really a function how we work together and one can't see that anywhere better than the fact franciscan towers the other thing i've learned i want to share with people is that affordable housing is a safety net i really only understood how true when i

saw what happened when affordable housing was jagged from flaerths people's lives so thank you all for coming question appreciate everything you've done and enjoy your lunc >> good afternoon, everyone the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting of luvengs i'm supervisor malia cowen chair and to my right is

supervisor wiener the vice chair and commissioner peskin our clerk is ms. andrea thank you. the folks jim smith and leo for helping us broadcaster this meeting completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the april 19, 2016, oikdz thank you call item one. >> ordinance for the human did care in the tobacco sales ordinance. >> supervisor peskin you're up the sposh of this piece of - this item. >> thank you, madam chair and supervisor wiener this origin about have one long term business in district 3 from the

aufrsz piece of legislation give you a little bit of background a couple years ago the board of supervisors passed an ordinance that limited the number of tobacco sales permits per district to 45 per district district 3 as most supervisorial district has in excess of that number of what the legislation was developed no ability for an individual with a valid existing permit to move to another location in this particular instance the individual who is hsa had this long-term institution is actually the victim of rent increases and found another location interesting enough in a property he was ones previously located in and i think actually as i look back on code section 19 h1 thing that occurred which is that district 3 is

significantly different than the rest of the city in one go profound way i know that supervisor wiener is about to hear which is that by night we have the same number of residents as every other district in the city again day by virtue of downtown and virtue of the remarkable number of tourist that come to the northeast corner of city we have hundreds of thousands for people by day and had i been around representing district 3 in those days, i might have made an amendment it district 3 should have gun allowed a more significant number but the business is nominated for inclusion in the legacy business registry the binding is in operation i'd like to take the opportunity with no breaks in

excess of two years for over a quarter of a century it is a family business run by the box family and employees a number of individuals i think this measure is in the public interest we should go forward that concludes my presentation. >> tell you why not move to public comment at this time i've got some cards in front of me by that (calling names) welcome just a reminder you have 2 minutes. >> i'm benefit the owner of the business in san francisco thank you for giving me this opportunity i'm a little bit nervous and allowed to - do my best this is a small business it is a family business

i've been in san francisco for over 20 years almost 26 years i would gratefully appreciate if you consider allowing me to move into this new- to it location i've occupied in the past back in 199 - 1990s early 1990s in the embarcadero and this would allow will continue to flourish my business and allow me to support my family and like i said, i'm married i've got two kids and have to put my kids through college this is really my livelihood and

hoping i'll able to move to my original location as i was displaced by the new owner of the building i was in they jacked the rents so much i couldn't afford and had to give up the space i would gratefully appreciate you're considering this and move up permit thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon my name is fernando thank you for having me. i work with benefit since i was in my mid 20s and he's taught me how to run a small business owner if you guys give him the chance to move into a location

literally across the street that would be great he's taught me everything in running a business i feel like anything he's done i owe to be there for him in this regard i hope you guys let him move into the location to continue to grow his small business thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, i'm stanley kohlman that customer of benefits i commute from fremont and do construction in the city when i'm downtown i like to stop by on the way out of town to get a cigar to enjoy in going down beetle it is convenient in moving just a couple hundred feet away is more

i'll appreciate not to drive out of my way to find a cigar i've joined. >> his employees they've courteous and professional and i appreciate that much thank you very much >> thank you. next speaker. >> hi i am ann marie i'm with cul-de-sack jars central here on behalf of the boston properties he was and tenants on embarcadero in the early 90s we'll to welcome him back to the embarcadero center he adds to our current tenant mix and we countering have regional and national and other tenants we want in support of locals we have seeing a influx of national tenants to the district but want to support the

local they're a local business where a relationship with boston properties a complimentary and have interesting base in the financial district their locate across the street from the where they want to locate thank you for considering this and letting them come back to market street square. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm peter a real estate broker and known benefit and his broth and his broth passed away i know they came as immigrant and been working hard and entrepreneurial particularly how the cigar is going and i've stopped by there for a cigar and

hope you grant the use permit they're looking for thank you anyone wish to comment 0 on item one seeing none, public comment is closed supervisor peskin anything any last remarks. >> thank you, madam chair for scheduling this and be willing to sends it as a committee reports at the full board of supervisors if there's no objection pending supervisor wiener's comments i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation as a committee report inform april 12th. >> we'll take that under consideration. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you, madam chair i'm happy to support this i think very limited expectation i was a co-sponsor of i think you madam chair of the legislation that was really designed to reduce the number of tobacco outlets that a very, very

important piece of legislation we need to reduce in certain neighborhoods the number of tobacco outlets about there are times exceptions to consider i think this one of them i'm told this not an outlet it sells cigarettes or seeing none, public comment is closed r e e cigarettes this is an existing family owned business the kind of business to support in san francisco o san francisco and not adding to the number of tobacco outlets it is simply allowing a long time existing use to move a few hundred feet away from something outside of their control in terms of landlord i think whether it was raising represented or bring in a higher paying tenants that so

often happens into our neighborhood businesses those days unfortunately, this is a good opportunity for us to support a small family owned neighborhood business without undermining our goals in the legislation around reducing but number of tobacco outlets i'm happy to support this and send it out with a positive recommendation. >> thank you seeking a seeing no other public comment public comment is closed. there is a motion made to send this to the full board did you want to - let's do that unanimously. >> that motion passes unanimously this item will be going to the full board madam clerk item 2. >> amending the green building for the requirements of for energy. >> thank you supervisor wiener is the author of this item item 2 we'll speak and lead the

discussion going forward. >> okay. thank you very much madam chair this legislation will help us to meet our goal in california aggressive goal to move towards a new and renewable future in a way from fossil fuels the increase of solar energy in san francisco the legislation is simple and straightforward in any construction projects between one and 10 stories in height will be required to install solar lemons on the projects rooftops either solar panels for electrical or heating the legislation was considered and supported unanimously by both the building inspection commission and the commission on the environment today california's existing state building codes on title 24

requires month new construction to designate 15 percent of rooftop area quote/unquote solar ready free of obstacles and enbunts a future owner felt building is consider to place solar panels on the roof the legislation before us today takes us to the next step by saying that in san francisco instead of the roof 15 percent of roof being solar ready that rather 15 percent needs to be solar installed meaningless the solar panels for electricity will be placed as part of the project colleagues in an era we're remind daily and how are you or by the minute of a rapidly changing wliement it is

critical important we do the best we can locally and ultimately at a state level internationally and nationally to make our environment more sustainable reducing energy accumulations and carbon emissions is a result of more sustainable city this legislation which focuses on solar is the first part of what will be a two part effort to promote san francisco rooftops added to the city the next expands the provision to promote greener roofs in general i'd like to thank the staff of the department of the environment their support on the legislation and also thank andrea for his work colleagues no initial questions or comments i'd like to invite up barry from the investment & infrastructure

to make a brief presentation. >> i'm may we have on behalf of our decoration to recommend our approval for this ordinance the goal of the city encap sludz in the zero waste 50 percent of trips by sustainable modes of transportation and 100 percent renewal energy and carbon back into our trees and soil 0 so it 100 percent renewable energy for the resources and continued improvement in terms of efficiency san francisco has lead the way and adopted the standards more consistent nanny other city in california and bring the recommended to you in the future we're talking about the office how to develop the

generation resources and san francisco, of course, is a leader there for the city's a facility for the 100 percent electricity and confusing sf for the electricity option for a wide variety of constituents this ordinance represents. >> pleases speak into the mike thank you. >> excuse me - >> the ordinance represents one more straightforward and pragmatic step towards that goal it's been demonstrated highly cost fiscal the ordinance is a product of considerable throughout the key question have been cost and benefits since 2008 the cost to install is gown 50 percent and the analysis that was conducted by the department of the environment in part of the light recognizes that's cost

fiscal on all buildings we've analyzed with an san francisco climate zone conducted 1984 meetings with a way variety of sfrrld with the department of building inspection and the building department's commission and held numberable meetings particularly with the affordable housing be developers that indicated in many cases ahead of the ordinance in terms of of the new properties and the result is reasonable and practical it building on a state coat and cost effective and therefore the department of the environment recommends your approval thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you why not go to public comment. >> oh, supervisor peskin do you want to q ask a question. >> on to supervisor wiener on page of a provision a new

provision that says any new building of group occupancy with electric data progressing will be the exempt from the energy exemptions by the sections mentioned can you explain why that is in there. >> i think i'll ask mr. hooper to explain that provision. >> sure that was inserted at the request of the stakeholder that was responsible for city agency that is developed some data centers and the main issue is practicality the data center is served by a network of individual rooftop units across the rooftop it is changing to reserve a space for the solar. >> so if it was just for one public agency presumably and not

heard from the rest of the stakeholder community why did we write such a broad exemption. >> to facilities today that are stand alone data centers one under construction it is they're used type in general to be constructed i think the impact is small but - >> so if if i may respect through the charge to supervisor wiener i think we should probably better define electronic data processing because clearly the way staff is presenting it, it is a very narrow definition but the way it is written it seems like it could apply to a broad swap of building types we need to look at language i mean electronic data processing could be a lot of people do everyday and but i

think there is a section between data progressing and a processing central we have to define is it so this is not end up being an unat the end broader will that - >> so supervisor thank you for bringing that up why not over the next week weigh take a look at appropriate clarifying language it is fairly intend to an narrow category and to be a valid point you raised so we'll work on the language i don't think that it would be a substantive amendment. >> the comment it is good it staff is here we're requiring that installation of solar which i'm absolutely supportive of - should we consider the impact of

on buildings that will be required to install that when other buildings will ultimate shadow those installations is it fair for us to say you have to install those and next to a 10 story building we permit a 80 story building that shadows that roof is that a fair thing to do i don't think expect to answer that but a conversation 3 is had at department of the environment and start having at the board of supervisors as we start mauntd the installation. >> if you have a comment on that. >> sure two parts it is an insightful question we've thought about a little bit this is part of the reason the trailing legislation we're working with the planning department on will provide

living roofs as a compliance option so the developer will have more fleblthd how a taller building in the solar system to be constructed between the 15 or 20 years after construction the other factor we looked at was that the given the economic imperative to build to whatever the height to build to at a give time it is going to be less frequent that somewhere comes to past we need first a new building subject to the ordinance and then a new building after that to be built the first building so we're depending on second building being permitted construction and delivered within the first 15 or 20 years after the initial building a of story was

completed given the construction timeline will be relatively aware but a living - >> we are as i to build on what i mentioned briefly any opening remarks we're working on trailing legislation that will provide an opening statements instead of instead of the 15 percent solar could choose thirty percent for green roof and so if you're building a building is already shadow that might not might be a good choice to give you that flexibility. >> if i may if you're building a building that is shadowed under this version the ordinance will not apply. >> all right. thank you very much 3 cards in front of me

(calling names). >> good afternoon. my name is a jeanine carter the co-founder of a solar building firm and i'm also a member of the board of directors our state trade organizations for solar installer and rooftop solar state of california and i'm here in support of this legislation san francisco has always been a leader in he and continues to be a leader with groundbreaking legislation this is where we need to go as a planets i'm pleased to be here in supportive and lancaster, california both have mandate and there's no reason why san francisco shouldn't lead the way for the large city and state rooftop solar is eloquent and efficient way to deal with greening and decategorization of

the supply when the panels are generating 2rb89 they serve the trouble load of the building so when i plug my electrical car in when the sun is shining my car is driving on sunshine there is no better way to drive the clean green energy in san francisco than providing four generation and rooftop solar it is the democracy of our electricity supply thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon delaney from bright like that in support of this ordinance a very simple way to encourage the solar jobs in san francisco as well as increases our captain for this generation thank you, thank you.

>> next speaker >> good afternoon my name is brendon the director of the u.s. green policy of northern california office here to express mire organizations sport for the proposed ordinance for better roof requirements the council has over 12 though organizational members and credentialed professionals since the inception of our system both green roofs and energy have been a design of green building in the public and private segments san francisco is an early lead san francisco is closing on 6 millions square feet of report by the range as san francisco the second best market for the green market where 40 percent of the buildings have a certification

cal green raise the professional buildings in the sate and yet with climatic change adding global risk everyday with the california zero waste we're a global leader it is clear we need to raise the bar again, the solar provides clean energy and reducing the green house gas emissions and costs have dropped in the recently years as technology is moving into a different scale they help with the san francisco entertainment commission run offices the requirement makes the sustainable use in an area where the state has scarce resources in an industry investing the math with the estimating- given the risks that is important that government policies to improve the performance are crafted the staff proposals that meaningful

and a step in moving forward awhile having better perform of the building. >> thank you. any other speakers seeing none, public comment is closed on this item. >> supervisor peskin your name was on the. >> oh, no. >> supervisor wiener colleagues thank you for hearing this and for the members of the public that came out and all the people that will been doing amazing work for solar incur here in san francisco but around the state and country a stricken been many fights and but it is an industry that is moving in a good direction and one that will make our city and state for sustainable as we continue to combat climatic change i ask we

i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> correct me if i am wrong does this item need to no, that's item 3. >> a motion has been made without objection so moved i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation madam clerk item 3. >> the general plan for the downtown area plan blocks one and two of the transbay plan. >> so colleagues this is an item that we continued from our meeting last week we had a planning department and representatives from ocii to present. >> madam chair, i want to indicate that the board of supervisors and this committee is no in receipt of the jean plan amendment regards to the affordable housing bonus plan. >> thank you very much for that update please take it away. >> good afternoon. i'm jewish

with the planning department so the item before you today is the amendment this is relate to an item before the full board as the community as a whole with the transbay change to block one before i go into the details for the general plan mainstreamed we are not to put it into context i'll i'm going to turn it over to for the ocii manager that will give you an overview of the block one and i'll be back to explain how this general amendment fits into the context. >> thank you. >> thank you josh chair cohen and supervisor peskin and supervisor wiener i'm shawn i work with ocii the

project manager for transbay and like to introduce jose campos and jim morales with the general council of ocii as josh mentioned today, you'll be taking action on is general plan amendment tomorrow the redevelopment for transbay block one will be coming before the board the purpose to increase the height if two to four hundred feet an block one i that would be helpful to provide background and the block one project 1994 the board of supervisors established the transbay area in

2002, the draft eir was published in 2003 the redevelopments agency published a development and in 2004, it was certified and the 2005 it was adopted also in 2005 the rincon hill plan was adopted and in 2012, the transit center plan was adopted the gray area in the middle of the slide is the transbay plan area it is boundary is following blighted conditions within the area at the heart of redevelopment is the transbay transit center it is gifted into 3 zones one by the controls and design guidelines to the plan and zone one ocii has the land use jurisdiction two is by the

planning code and the - the larger rectangle area in red is the transit center adopted in 2012 which unsustainable increased the heights of the buildings in the area the affordability within transbay assembly bill 812 and the transbay required 25 percent b be affordable the redevelopment plan requires the individual projects within zone one and two 15 percent affordability on site within zone one are 12 blocks of various stages of development block 64 hundred and 79 affordable units and blocks 7, 8

and 912 affordable unit and about to begin construction and bloke 5 is office space under construction and the from the sales of the 11 to 12 is the construction of transit center. >> bloke one is located on fulsome street between main and spear streets this slide shows block one proposed development program on the parcels the top 2/3rd's owned by ocii consists of 35 thousand square feet purchased by ocii in 20031/3rd or four parcels owned by tishman duo to the zone little sites have to be zoned together

regarding the proposed block one project the developers is proposing a health from three to four hundred feet a mixed use owner consisting of three hundred plus units the benefits are increases the total housing units and three to four more units in the tower, 40 percent will be affordable didn't consists of 4 hundred plus units for households between one and 20 percent ami the units will be dispersed in the tower a separate homeowners sfoeshgs the bmr residents we found insignificant shadow impacts on the parks the purposes of the slide to show the benefits of the 4 hundred height verse the three hundred height limit the far

right hand is 73 more units with the 44 more units will be bmr which represents translates into one and 20 more residents this view is of the proposed project looking west from embarcadero and fulsome and this is a view from the bay bridge and it shows what the skyline about look like with the proposed project along with the projects currently in planning and with that, i thank you and i am sorry to josh. >> thank you shawn so, now do e you have the context for block one in the veerments area and i'll focus on the general plan before you on the screen is map 5 the height map in the downtown plan when the transbay redevelopment

area was adopted in 2005 some amendments were adopted as part of this effort and this included adjusting the height on the height mass and as you can see zone one of the redevelopment in red and were there previously heights on the downtown plan indicated p d x the amendments made at the time removed that to reference the downtown transbay nfl an oversight and not lablgd about that indication as neither of the sites in her t 2 b x were the height and once the development plan was adopted again, here's the block noted on the left out of that amendment

with the block one and a small piece of going block two as you can see this for the transbay r50er789 the height currently of block one is 3 and block 2 one of 5 they're out of sync with the general plan and discovered that oversight when we did the consistency finding for the proposal for block one and revised by the office to make it consistent for block one we needed to correct this oversight to reference the plan and erase the other non-applicable of the height that's what is proposed and an additional notion to the map removing the label from the assessors oversees block from the following lots 37 and lot 4 replace that with

see the tribute plans it is as simple as that and the planning commission needs to make the amendment to adjust the consistency finding for the changes to block one so this is a precondition of making that finding for block one height amendment not determine the outcome of the amendment only brings the general plan in conformity with the general plan so that that concludes my presentation. and i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> good thank you very much i appreciate your prediction e presentation and thank you for being flexible see if any questions from the colleagues supervisor wiener none supervisor peskin none let's go ahead and take public comment anyone wish to comment feel free i have (calling names) please come on up and speak at

this time. >> good afternoon madam chair and supervisors my name is adrian representing carpenters local 22 about 3200 xarpdz here in san francisco normally i come up and speak about jobs i'll get to that in a minute this provides housing it is below-market-rate housing affordable housing for san francisco and that's really what is more and more most important in san francisco today we hope you would forward this amendment to the board of supervisors it is going to provide jobs, benefits, health, welfare for young san franciscans carpenters at a local 22 and other locals and a place to work and much needed housing for san francisco to add to that market-rate housing we need the housing

thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors supervisor cowen and supervisor peskin and supervisor wiener i'm a resident of rincon hill and here to represent the neighborhoods and communities groups in opposition to increasing the height from three to four feet i'll talk about the compliance the district plan with the environmental impact reports and the financial deal compliance the triplet is not enacted after review to make sure all the buildings conform to the principles of the plan most importantly building heights tripling to the waterfront with a view from the northern prospective as the highest point with the tower

block one was designated to be three hundred feet it didn't conform to the stepping down that will required to conform to the height limits specifically the gap at 200 and 14 feet eat plaza 200 plus and infinity at three hundred plus allowing a one hundred feet from the prospective of the waterfront it is illicit one block away the out liar is a mr. sartipi the developer of block 4 across the street on howard at main and beal will come before planning to approve the additional one hundred feet makes it urban liken the block 4 will request from 4 to 5 hundred feet the city has failed to ask for a revised eir the 2006 eir is out

dictated and not assess the impact on traffic and noise to say true for a three hundred foot not true for a 4 hundred foot on the does the city has - >> that's it thank you very much is there any additional public comment on item number 3 nope okay. is there a motion we need to send this specifically to the committee as a whole on the redevelopment plan amendment. >> do we know yet what the district supervisors position is on this project or any of the issues raised for - we've heard comment and received a letter i've not every gotten a sense of what supervisor kim's position is on this. >> supervisor kim has not indicated here position my

office reached out to her last week and today, we don't have a firmer conformation on this issue. >> was it they said she didn't have a position or sending out a response. >> we got no response i know as i mentioned she announced she gotten a commitment of 40 percent and others vertical is doing 20 percent the taxpayers are pagan for the other 20 percent that's the last i heard i know that supervisor peskin in terms of. >> supervisor peskin has indicated he's reserve his remark forces tonight with supervisor kim at the full board meeting this is a reminder we'll be sitting as a committee as a whole. >> so tomorrow. >> we'll hear it. >> tomorrow hear the full merits fsd project. >> that's correct i'll have a

few questions to ask staff specifically about the concerns i have about the shadow additional shadows i have questions about the evaluation of the parcels versus the transbay plan area but i will wait until tomorrow. >> so madam clerk i think we need to have a motion; is that correct? >> yes. >> for committee report we have a motion to go forward to the full board as a committee report i need a motion. >> all right. by supervisor peskin and the decision was unanimous call item 4. >> an ordinance commiserating in honor of the childhood home of andy garcia the wonderful district of district 11 has joined us supervisor avalos.

>> thank you chair cohen and, yes it's been a long time in working and strange trip here we are with legislation before us to authorize the installation of sidewalk plaques at two locations in the combhoir close to the home of jerry garcia born and raised in san francisco on august 1st, 1942, is with greens and the grateful dead are associated with the hate ashbury garcia grew up in the conspiring district the first 5 years on amazon avenue and after hesitate fathers death jerry and his brother moved in with their grandparents think harrington street it was an important part of his child the garcia wrote a

childhood story called harrington street the 3 by 3 blonde plaques will be on mission street they'll get the most foot traffic and encourage the businesses to be with two the two plaques on mission cord and working with the garcia family with the plaques and we have mr. murphy had will be here during junior embarrassing in the amphitheater was part of theatre part two a lot of work people have been doing to honor the legacy of jerry garcia in san francisco in the excelsior beth volunteered her time and corps the herb classic picture with the heritage house by the affirmative mike guzman the

civic design committee is scheduled to review the design we're working with the engineering garcia family with the sign of the second plaque on the corner of amazon but have herb green photo as well we're working with artworks to forge the plaques they'll be uber's the same process with the plaques for the rainbow walk in the castro this waves the permit and inspection fees and added to the location one on mission and harrington and one on amazon for the sites and last year, we set aside funding in the budget to be able to have for construction for the first plaque be using if you have any questions, we'll be

happy to answer theming for the second plaque we hope to go in later this year commemorating the homes of jerry garcia for the unique contributions to the social and cultural life and helped to promote the k30ir district in how it is in his form actually years of san franciscan best known throughout the years colleagues admit my presentation if you're interested i'll pass out maps of the first location and have andy put-down it on the overhead and pass those to you and open up for public comment. >> supervisor avalos congratulations this is existing news from district 11 congratulations i grew up in the season part of neighborhood and frequented the mclaren park with the jerry garage amphitheater that is an existing time to have

one of the natives commemorated this is excellent i know there are community organizations and more will take place to come to fruition i want to applaud the neighbors in the chamber and i know others are possibly watching open up for public comment come to the podium you'll have 2 minutes to speak whether your in favor or opposed of this legislation and come on to the microphone of the podium over here. >> well. >> hi my name is jackie harbor i flew in from san diego california for this meeting i will be underlying out this evening jerry garcia is a ripple effect in any lives we're here to

represent him when we passed away i couldn't come where i was living to be at the field to represent him, i thought that was important to be here i brought a copy of the book i don't know how to get this on the overhead. >> you can too the thing on our right. >> the overhead projector. >> sfgovtv there we go. >> i brought a copy of jerry garcia harrington bingo during my travels the reason i came to support in idea that has been and thank you for your time and i appreciate all that you're here to do there is a lot of people in the world that couldn't be here today to tell you how important jerry and his life taught us to be kind and loving to mother earth and representing many thank you.

>> thank you for being here welcome and i'd like to welcome the next speaker. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors my name is linda i live in district 11 i'm very much in support of this project and the chair of a group calls friends and advocates of the amazon mentioned in the legislation a group that took on a role of the custodian we'll monitor the care and upkeep and work with the dpw to do actually repair other needs if this should arise we're very excited about this this is a project that we talked about and advocated for since 2003 we hope that the engineering plaque will be part of eventually come on excelsior walk of familiar simple other

walk of fame and the boasting trail we have much to celebrate and we're proud of the work that supervisor avalos has done to support our efforts to support that history our neighborhood has had very many people in this - over the past years and many more to come to be deferring for plaques like this this is particularly cbos close to our hearts because of the work in the community to support jerseys legacy and community what with the meaningless of the amphitheater and many projects we are grateful to supervisor avalos in 4e7 us get historic street names like china and india are part of that walk of fame so thank you

and hope this passes. >> thank you. i also want to thank you for working so many years as well as our volunteering for the friends and advocates of the excelsior to do the everyday maintenance upkeep that is great you're continuing that work thank you. >> hello my name is wayne at first when i saw the white rablts i thought that was doing o something for fall canning in her my wife karen at the time knew couldn't come today knew jerry garcia in elementary school and middle school and high school by meeting him in the excelsior she said that jerry father owned the grocery stores in mission san juan and ray ramos would meet

jerome embarrassing on mission and harrington street to walk to the middle school and smokey how did she know that she's good friends with ramos wished him a birthday i think that is appropriate to have 3 plaques honoring the memory of jerry garcia in the excelsior thank you. >> >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my mind's a rachel and i just wanted to say thank you to the communities i'm new to san francisco and the way you guys preserved the history and legacy of the values and just this is the most amazing place i'll grateful to people like tom and people that keep the music and community alive those plaques will be a nice addition so people can be curious the history and learn about the legacy and not question but be

desired i appreciate anyone you to do to expire love and other legacies. >> thank you. i think i said mike murphy but tom murphy. >> thank you, supervisors this is been a like john said a long strange trip but all good things and all good times it has been to the jerry garcia and the statistic and jeremy pollack for helping that and supervisor avalos and malia cohen for scheduling that and jackie from traveling from san diego thank you this is an important project that embraced the city we have been blessed over the 50 plus years to have this a great deal of dead oriented from san

francisco hopefully we can embrace more and protect them in the long haul this is truly a san francisco moment spent a lot of years in the making and appreciate you guys supporting this thank you. >> also that to thank you for your hayward with the general annual jerry garcia day. >> i want to show what the current the first design and jerry any pollack will bring this up. >> public comment is closed. jeremy all yours. >> okay i poet by green and in the background jerry garcia made for this house or it was a festivity. >> it is a photo of house from that was in the examiner article that mike allowed us to use the

public commenter showed the coffer of the book on harrington street that was also a quote if jerry garcia himself and the jerry garcia family approved the design it is modest by beth burn we sent when she was leaving her job we gave her an accommodation she's proud of working on that and in support of family and it is very famous photograph of jerry garcia with kissing his fingers. >> mr. pollack. >> it does it justice thank you. >> a motion colleagues to move with a positive recommendation made by commissioner peskin and we'll take that without objection. that item passes unanimously congratulations to all the folks that work hard we're almost

there. >> thank you for your co-sponsorship chair cohen. >> thank you madam clerk, is there any other business before this body? there's no further business. >> almost this meeting is adjourned ladies and gentlemen, chair call thd meeting to order. can you please turn off your electronic devices as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and please rise for the pledge of allegiance.

>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i like to call the roll. >> please do, sergeant. >> commission president lofts, here. commissioner vice president turman, here. commissioner marshzal is in root. commissioner dejesus is route. commissioner wong excused. you have a quorum also with us is chief of police greg ory suhr and joyce hicks. >> in light of the significant amount of public comment we opet tonight i'll limit comments to two minutes.

>> item 1 adoption of minutes action for the meeting of february 10, 17, 9 and [inaudible] >> you have in your packet minutes from those meetings and have one correction and if anyone has others notify. correction is meeting march 9, 2016 on the second page, section c under commissions reports. it says a gave a update on the tenderloin. it indicates the district attorney is looking into taking her child to scoog and look into drug dealers. that isn't true. [inaudible] work wg assistant

district attorney to deal with these issues is correct. if we could strike the sentence about what i state thd district attorney is doing and invite corrections or addition to the minutes. invite a motion with that correction >> so moved >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> opposed? motion passes. any public comment on that matter? hearing none public comment is closed. >> item 2, consent calendar, receive and file action please commission report of disciplinary actions first quarter 2016 >> colleagues you have in the packet report on disciplines any comments or questions? do i have a plosion? >> so moved >> all in favor? opposed? any public comment on this matter. hearing none public comment is closed. next item

>> item 3 public comment >> the public cak address the commission on items not on tonights genda. speakers address the remarks as a commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department or occ penitentiary el. during public comment police or occ personnel are not required to respond to the comments of the public. refrain from entering into debate or discussion. please limit the comments to 2 minutes. >> i want to talk about transaerns and i'll try to be quick. transparency is a theme and very important and i just wanted to emphasize the trsparence isn't a slogan. you don't become transparent by saying it you do it through action. the state of

transaerns isn't the absence of lives but the presence of truth. the voluntary release of information even if it is inconvenient or good the short term is how you establish trust even during periods where it may make you uncomfort. the events the last few weeks are so discouraging. we know how that racist text messages were discovered back in august. that could have been revealed to the public and should have been revealed. you don't need to release the officers names but the choice was made not to let the public know what they had a right to know and that has consequences. february 1 there was a great press conference at the federal depermanent and cops office and chief and

mayor with review to rebuild trust. the next day the chief was asked on kqd forum about the scope of racism in the department. he chose not to tell what he had known is there were racist messages not revealed. were the cops office told whether to do a review or civil rights investigation. was ofj or officers of color told racism was in the department. you can't build trust without transparence. transparency isn't telling what you want to know when you want them to know that. that is public relations and bad public relations. >> thank you. next speaker. [applause] >> my name is rustle baits and come from burgly california. i want to talk

about the recent siege of people in the san francisco by the san francisco police department and the failure to respond diligently to knife being drawn rather than drawing the guns and shooting them dead i think perhaps a baton stroke could be used. negotiating with them could be used. [inaudible] major general united states marine corp. wrote a book called war is a racket. he was brought into the fill philadelphia and the please department had fraud and they brought him to the fix it. it brought

the rool it is as easy to shoot and wound someone as takill. he taught that to the marines. there are killings after that and a bit of a better situation resulted. this reminds me very much what is going on in fob nob 48 now where young people are killed and shot when they could easily be talked down or waited out. it seems there is way too much energy being dispensed trying to account for what cannot be accounted for in the use of homicides of people in san francisco. chief, i suggest that you instruct your officers that it is in deed just as easy to shoot to wound somebody as shood chute to kill. >> next speaker. [applause] >> good evening. [inaudible]

i'm sure you all remember last year [inaudible] in brazil the police were shooting down at homeless children to clean the area before the game. i'm sure that reminds you of something that happened on [inaudible] i remember also the chief contending to [inaudible] that it was going to be calmer and more sensible intervention and moving towards being patient and waiting it out. [inaudible] well maybe the officer should shoot twice and then after twice approach the subject and assess

the immediacy of the threat. this isn't what happened last week, there was 7 shots. [inaudible] it is dish heartening to live in san francisco. as a poor person of mixed heritage if i had to option i would be so far away from here. it has nothing to do with san francisco i came to 40 years ago to live here with suposeedly the most liberal city in the world. it is indicative of the war against the old san francisco. i would like to see it as a war of losing or winning about the negotiation that hopefully we'll restore soon so we can all live here without fear of being killed. >> thank you. next speaker.

[applause] >> my name is stephen york and civil rights lawyer. i specialized in representing the victims of police abuse. i never addressed the commission before. i want to share a few thoughts. i know my time is brief. i feel that we are-must take cog sns of the fact we are living in a change in our nation. there is a democracy movement i haven't seen the likes of since the death of matin luther king. this issue of police abuse is not going away. not any time soon and it is going to have to be addressed by it powers that be. the forces then street will not go away. let me say this, we have sth issue of the country with the militarization with the police.

the problem isn't the lack of training it is the training. the motto of the san francisco police must be changed. it says in peace we are gold, in war we are fire, there is no place for the police in war. the police are not an army, they are there to protect and serve the people, they are not there to kill. alright? we should stop recruiting new police officers from the ranks of the armed forces. the armed forces and the police are charged with diametically opposed values and opposed functions. the purpose the soldiers is kill the enemy, the purpose of the police is protect the people. the only thing they have in common is

they carry guns. if the number one priority of the police as stated in the recent recommendations and i concur with those, that-may have one more minute? okay. >> that's it. i have to give the same amount of time to everybody . the rules don't work that way and obliged to follow them for everybody. thank you for your comments. next speaker. [applause] >> good evening. i haven't appeared before you since 1998 which wh i receivered a citizen accommodation. for 15 years i worked with thederment of public health and last 8 a manager for homeless outreach team. i'm employed as behavioral health

responder. no way do i represent the viewoffs the county or speak for the department of public health or that department of behavioral hemth. i advocate for the use and deployment of tasers. yesterday i was asked to row spond with a gentlemen who disregulated and had bipoll squr alerted to his challenge and we found him in a hotel. he had a box cutter and held the boxicateer to his throat and didn't respond to requests to open the door. law enforcement made entry. he didn't drop the box cutter and rfs taized and 10 minutes later i spoke to him and he was aminable. he was uninjured and he asked why his cousin who is a deputy sheriff had not responded to the scene

make thg joke, my cousin is too busy to see me. i believe law enforcement officerss need the option to keep people alive. the other choices are very dangerous. thank you. >> thank you and so everybody knows there is a buzzer that gives a 30 second warning so there are two. that is why sometimes gets 30 seconds more. next speaker. good evening. >> good evening. i want to address 2 issues . okay. let's be honest. the tasers-where are they? you want to play politics with them. where is mayor lee? come on people. i want to express my thanks to joyce hicks, her article about the young man in

the chronicle. you go girl. where are the tasers people? come on. every police department in the nation has them but you people won't do it. [inaudible] please shooting. the man couldn't speak english, the officers were violating the 21 feet rule. greg you know about that. he had to get 21 feet away from the assault. we violated that. [inaudible] we screwed that up, we really screwed that up. have a good evening. >> thank you, next speaker. [applause] >> i was hoping we would get tasers and there is a possibility we might now but if we have cameras at the same

time that makes it a lot better. as far as the man speaking about crazy people and shock treatments and stuff, they have given them to me and it's horrendous and i don't think they should allow that. tasers thank you please because this is like satans work and he's getting away with murder. we don't need guns used on homeless people on the street. it is a sad case what we are doing here. i was going to tell you are story but i'll tell you later because i wanted to speak for homeless people, people on the boarder. when i was speaking about them and seeing what happened to this-it was a

miracle what i was speaking about before. i was on the boarder and a lady said spare change and i said here. everybody jumped up from the restaurant and said spare change and i gave it-i gave one penny and she gave back. i said there is something strange about this. i looked at the penny and i said, okay ma'am can you give me the pennies and i'm give a dollar. i said see this penny, it is misprint. i gave it to one person and went 50 strong out the door and about half way down the line the waitress said wots going on. she saw all this. it is miracle and i want back. i'll let you go. >> thank you, sir. two minutes

for everybody. thank you. is there further general public comment? >> hello. my name is dareal rogers and a resident in san francisco my entire life. i'm 70 years old. as for the point of using tasers, if we don't change the systemic problems that the cause the use of force, then it doesn't matter if it is a taser, if is a billie club, if it is a gun. the facts remain the same, the same things are going to happen. simply to say a taser will change this particular situation, i doubt it. the only thing that

will change this is change. i'm sorry, that is the only thing that will change it. the arms are not going to do it as long as officers are on the street and come out of their cars with the per ception that the enemy is on the other side, as long as they see everyone they confront as the enemy it doesn't matter what they use. they were using bean bags. it gets to the point where legal force is forced. [applaus] >> further general public comment? come on up. you can feel free to line up if you want to speak. >> thank you. [inaudible] i

come from berkeley and came tonight because i have so many questions. i guess one question i have about the killing of luis gon gorea, the timing is pretty bad, isn't it? it seems like there is nothing happening in the town that is stopping the killy. there no intervention effective with the san francisco police department and curious if the officers are so confident they acted in punity that it will continue. i don't see it stopping. i guess what the question i have tonight is what i read in the paper is mayor ed lee said the encampments have to go. he said it in the newspaper and watt a eerie consequences dns. the next day officers come and tearize

homeless residence of san francisco at the same site where mr. gun gorea was killed. you read about that, right? the officer slash open tents with knives tererizing them. i ask you to consider, i don't think we believe these are isolated incident and the pattern is very clear. the political use thoof san francisco police department to attack homeless people is veer claer and need to dig deeper and understand who makes the decisions and who know what when and when will it stop. this is terrorism. this is govern by fear and make people afraid they will be killed for doing the most mundane activities because it is on the street. chief maybe you know, who told those officers to go and

conduct themselves in that way and can we expect more of it? thank you >> thank you, next speaker. >> so, i mean the pattern i have been seeing since the 1980's when this problem starded is chronicle runs a article about discraseful conditions in a certain area and we sweep them out because what else will they do. the chronicle runs a article about discraseful conditions, police roust them. this has been going on for decades. the new part though is these frequent shootings. when i-i'm a protester and the police would show up and some would yell at them and i would say san francisco police are actually pretty cool compare today the rest of the kunty, but i'm not saying

that anymore because they are behaving-there is something going on nation wide clearly that is causing all these shootings to be happening simultaneously everywhere including our super liberal san francisco but more right wing-i like it to stop. i don't believe all police are evil, even still but i would just like people to not be shot if there is any other way to deal with them at all. that's it. >> thank you, sir. [applause] >> any further general public comment? >> i would like to try to be objective about the recent killing of

luis and discussing the 30 second video. what we saw from that video was 3 parole cars come in from the left, we saw 3 officers get out, it should be noted not one officer had a night stick. i assume that on the right hand side at that street that probably a parole car cut off that and one officer was there. so, up till that point one could say that the scene was contained. and then subsquentsly-isn't there time given to evaluating the situation? one witness said he saw luis sitting on the ground up against the wall when she went by. a man appears frightened, he is being yelled at and doesn't seem to

understand. this is the mission district, people don't speak english mpt if you look at this man he is very indian looking, indian latino so wasn't a evaluation taken to call maybe one parole men who spoke spanish to say something? 30 seconds and where was the evaluation? 30 seconds of evaluation somebody coming over and speaking in spanish maybe luis would be alive today. we don't know what happened but there are 6 witnesses who have contrary opinions to what they saw and should be taken into consideration and hope the commissioners here tonight will get serious about reining out of control police force. >> next speaker. [applause]

any further public comment? good evening mrs. brown, welcome. >> holeo good evening everyone. my name is poly brown and as usual i'm here to talk about my son and like to use the overhead. as i was here last week i brought my son arbry murdered august 14, 2006 shot with a sem iautomatic gun and to this day no closure or justice. his case remains unsolved and i want to bring awareness to the last time i was told that i would have a private investigators rehired to investigate the unsolved homside. i have want heard from anyone i would thrike hear from someone to work with me about solving our childrens cases. we just left

sacramento concerning victims voices up there with jerry brown and was a good meetic with mothers and fathers like my self who are still suffering and the caseerize not solved. we want that. we talk about police killings and again as i say, it doesn't matter where the bullet come from, the mothers and father are still in pain. i brought up that-all these case squz homicides are still on solved. what do we do about it? we hire the investigators to help us get some closure, give us a little closure just as well as you gave the mayor gave kate styling at pier 14. a bench and everything, give us closure too because i'm tired of seeing

this and having to bring this and sit it here for everyone to see my pain. i can tell you all day but need you to see it. this is my son, just turn 17 year old boy was murdered >> anyone here or watching has information to the murder of obry obcososthere is tip line, 415-575-4444. >> my name is magic at the last police commission meeting in which there were 2 video how to disarm two men with machetes. there were 4 police officers and asked what they said they were thought and they said the police were lucky. i said they were

patientgregious and passionate. we need to stop living in a culture of fear and need restoreative justice so officers have a opportunity to ask for for giveness for murdering people. to listen the woman before me another mother, des pritly wanting justice, we cannot have a callture of fear. today at the town hall i asked chief suhr if they wanted to make the people feel there was a public dialogue, we would like a moting where no officers have their guns. [applause] and that would be the first step towards a 6 month moratorium on weapons on the streets with only backup of trained people like they have in the united

kingdom. we must have a culture of trust and love in our community. we can no longer live in fear of people in blue who do not sur mise the situation or have a way to deal with mental illness. also, i asked chief suhr why there were no women on the panel at the town hall and said the woman were use today make sure people didn't talk too long. i didn't consider that respectful of women. i like to hear what the woman in the police force think and how they might be handling the situation differently. thank you. >> thank you. [applause]. further general public comment? good evening mr. miller. >> good evening commission, chief. jose [inaudible] did not need to die.

in 30 seconds two officerss in the saf police department made a decision they were not authorized by law ethics or any other code to make. now jose luis is dead. tasers would not have saved him. any weapon wielded by officers so unaccountable can be fatal. people have been lumenting this event and subsquents alault salts media and physical on our homeless brothers and sisters. i'm not here to lument i'm here 250 suggest crimical charges. first degree homicide for the officers who shot jose luis gun gorea. second off, distrunkz of evidence and private property or crime scene and the tents the people that live there.

third and coercion. conspiracy in the service of a homicide. let's be veer claer, the brother that came before me said we are trying to be objective and that is fine. i'm ready to see the full accounting of all fack facts. if that were anyone in this room we would be in jail right with murder charges against us, what is what the office rbs who killed luis gun gorea deserve and if this doesn't happen we will pux harder than ever and demand the resignation for chief suhr and crimeinal criminal charges to be [inaudible] if we don't get justice we'll seek the recall of

mayor ed lee. [applause] >> any general public comment? come on up. good evening and welcome. >> my name is loren chin, a san francisco native and never lived anywhere else. [inaudible] these are my neighborhoods. this is my city. the violence and [inaudible] perpetrates breaks my heart. it is assumed people with my resume don't care about the issue. as a middle class petite asian woman [inaudible] that makeatize my problem. i don't know alex [inaudible] mario luis or others who died at hands of police but have several dear friends that can wind up like this because of a small mistake on their part and i'm terrifyed for them. my desire

soorelationship between the community and police. i want to work with you and trust you and call when i need you. i get you are responsible for protection of over 800 thousand but [inaudible] the evidence suggests the stories police are telling are not true. this ruins the trust the community because we dont see an accountable police force, we see a string of dead youngman. i can't imagine the stress i would be under as a police officers [inaudible] this issue is much bigger than what the individualophorousers did. we need to dig deeper and get to the root of the problem but can't move forward without the truth. when a city loses trust in the peace officer s we get chaos. like martin luther king quoted let justice role down like water and

righteousness like a ever flowing stream. and urge you to tell the trul and execute justice. i will close in prayer [inaudible] rein down justice mercy grace [inaudible] >> thank you. [applause] >> everybody gets two minutes. this is just general public comment and there will be another opportunity. i'm sorry there will be another opportunity. any general public comment? okay. good evening sir, welcome. >> well, we had several killings at this rate we are having one killing every 5 months and i'm wondering what you are doing about it? i knee

you have a bunch of reforms but it just doesn't seem fast enough or good enough. how many more people are going to die while you are working on this process? i'm-at this rate it is 3 orfore other people before you are finish would the process. i thought the killings would be every 12 months but it seems every 5 months. the solutions were very simple. i gave you a rough draft in the 67.5-a. [inaudible] could have got their shields and interacted with them, but remember the witnesses say that this person was standing and these weapons were on the ground, whatever weapons they had were on the ground and

this person was standing, so whatever weapons they are saying the person was lunging with the witnesses don'ts agree. the campus scanner i feel they have been hurassed and bribed by dumping them into a [inaudible] to intimidate them somehow. i just the officers that threaten to kill me about 8 years ago, i just gary barkner, officer 13, 14, i just wonder is this part of the pattern to threaten and kill people who are poor? how do we get faith in the police department? >> thank you. [applause] any

final general public comment? come on up, guys. alright. anybody else wants to speak just come on up >> my name is renay davis, citizen of san francisco for the last all most 40 years. i too and horrified the current state of affairs between the police and public and the indiscriminate shooting of young people on color. it is horrifying. i don't think tasers is the right answer either because it would be one more tool for a police department that just does not seem to have the proper training. i may be wrong but i think i read there will be a new class of police academy recruits. i think that should absolutely not happen until there is a change in the-how they are trained so that we dont send another

thousand or so cops on to the street who are trained the way the current ones are trained because they are not doing the right thing and as a white woman of some privilege i still feel afraid when i walk down the street and see the police these days because i don't know who they will next suddenly decide to pull their guns on. for the people who are having the guns pulled on them, my heart breaks and i say no more police recruit academies until their policies of how hay are trained are changed. it cost a lot of money to train recruits and say don't use the money until they are trained differently. >> any more public comment? welcome.

>> high, nancy tile frr the mission and i-right after the service today , right after that my question to myself and right after the ferguson thing there was a new police killing. i said why-after the ferguson thing each police chief say to their people, we dont want something like that to happen here. we have to do our best not to make the news like ferguson did. we want to be a example. wouldn't that be the first thing you all would teach your guys and women? that is all i got to say. i think we should think about that. [applause] >> any further public comment? public comment is closed. call the next item >> item 4, reports the

commission discussion chief report. allow the chief of police to areport on police department activities squu nounlsments. update on development relate today officer involved shooting august 7, 2016 >> we did have our town hall today at 18th and shotwell. i thought i would go over but i appall jize to the people that were there but to update on where we are. the statements i will read came not from general comment but from interviews and i will attribute those to who said what. thursday april 7 approximately 957 a.m. department of public health outreach team responded to 17, and 18th street to fallee up on a baby crying in a homeless

encampment. upon arrival the members saw a male subject identified as luis gone gorea 45 year old [inaudible] forcefully kicking and bouncing a basical ball. they searched for a baby and wasn't located. they spoke with a pregnant common and offered assistance with appoint relate today pregnancy and after that contract the outreach team prepared to leave when they observed mr. gone gorea again. appearing in a altered state medically or chemically induced and in position of a knife. the hot team member describes swinging the knife in a chopping motion. the police department need today be call squd called 911 and provided a physical and clothing description of mr. gone gore paw and actions. the

senior hot team member told investigators this is the 5th time she felt the need to call the police. the first two mission units arrived on scene, one was a sergeant with approximately 17 years in the department, the other is a officer with threne years. 9 with the prior department and 4 with san francisco police department and cit trained. the officer told investigates their existing parole vehicles. the third officer who was a spanish speaker and cit trained arrived on scene as the first 2 officers were contacting mr. gone gorea. according to the officer interviews, the officer said they found mr. gone gorea on the side walk with a knife with the blai up. they ordered him to put it down multiple

times which is audible on the video. the verbal orders were given in english and spanish. the mr. gone gorea placed it down with picked the knife up again. the officer delivered 4 bean bag rounds to mr. gone gorea attempting to hit in the arm and disarm. mr. gone gore taw stood up and the officers say hooran at them with a knife in hand. preliminary officer investigated 12 witnesses. the witness testimony some of which is in the media range from one once daying they observed the subspect get off the ground and lunge, another said they saw the suspect rise up with the knife and run twhord officers. two other witnesses said they never saw the knife in his hand. after he was shot they saw the knife fall. oorlth said they herds theophorousers yelling

and the shots but not the shooting. as mr. gone gorea advanced they backed away and feared he would kill one of them and fired in defense. he was struck and fell to the ground. the officers secured the knife as he was on the ground. medical personnel arrive said in seconds. we received a medical report from the medical examers office that 7 rounds were fooired, 6 struck mr. gan gorea and he didn't sur vive from the injuries. we heard from the community at length as to why it didn't appear there was effort to create time and distance when that is a huge emphasis of this department in the last year. and again that will be

part the investigation as it always is after a officer ininvolved shooting of the tactics employed and if they could have done it get r better. >> so chief i have a question. the concern that we heard with regards to the town halls is we are saying there is a investigation ongoing and provide facts, so can you explain sort of what the thinking is on that because know i have seen on news reports there are individuals who give a different version the facts. that leaves folks feeling like one version the facts is presenting when it is ongoing. >> the investigation is onpen going. there are 3 investigations, ours, da office and the mare asked occ to

initiate a investigation thmpt statements are not my statements, they came from the interviews. over the years many police chiefs didn't provide information is within 10 days of a officer involved chute shooting to make the community aware where we are at that time, we provide that within 10 days. obviously there are conflicting testimonys, homicide has spoken to some of the witnesses if not all the witnesses. we interviewed some of them and anybody that has further information or anybody of interest we may talk to we love that information and if there is any other video would like to have that >> is there a way for people to contact the department if they have their witness or feel they have evidence? >> you can contact my office directly or call the homside division,

all the phone numbers are available. >> maybe someone can pull up the phone number. any question frz the chief? >> i saw the video on the news and-can i talk, please? we just had a meeting the night before i talked about put nothing to effect the training and de-escalation and trying to talk and calming the scene and saw the 3 officers crossing over and heard shouting. i didn't hear anything that would indicate de-escalation or put time and space. i think that is also one the concerns is that we are talking about ways to [inaudible] we talked about ways to change and it is a cit officer was present but we

didn't see anything or hear anything in action because we can't see what is off the frame and that is a concern the public have and we have and sure it is a concern you have and don't know how you will address that because it isn't changing the policy. it is seeing it in action and we are not seeing it >> when i saw the video it unfolded very quickly. some of these things do unfold very quickly. that said, the conversation is robust and has been robust at all the station. the training itself is for 2 thousand people who over the course of their career are trained to move to threat. that is why we call it reengineering the officer involved in this incident haven't gone through the training. a lot of officers, more officers will. all officers will go through

the it biannually but this is new and trying to move it in as fast we can. >> i'm a very strong proponent of the billie club and didn't see a billie club and i know they don't center to use that tool but it is a tool in the tool box and don't understand why that tool isn't being used. >> that a training of a 26 or 36 inch baton didn't play a role in this incident. >> could you give an idea how long mr. gon gorea was observed before officers actually approved him? >> the question was how long was am gone gorea observed before they approached him . they were directed to the northernened of the block and got out of the car and saw him on the

ground in the distance from whatever it was the car as described accurately, less than 30 seconds is the time for this whole incident to unfold. >> the first officer approached was a cit officer? >> arm would the bean bag shot gun. >> thank you, chief. >> commissioner wong. >> chief, you said that they contacted the hot team prior to-do they brief with the hot team? >> they came down as i understand it, they comfrom 9th street to 18th street located the hot team closer to 18th street and were directed back up a block. they had driven by the location and turned and came back up. >> they [inaudible] >> i have only seen what is on the video. the two vehicles dry through the video and go out of frame to the north and then the two vehicles

come back into frame and park within the video facing south. >> my second question, is there any indication mr. gone gorea was a threat to anybody else? was there anybody else in his immediate-air eye? >> all i have so far is the original waving the knife and seated with the knife in his hand. >> commissioner dejesus. >> the training and i understand there are 2,000 officers so we have a vision and the policy and the question is how we enact it and enact it quickly so fr the parole officers on the street? how do we get the message and training across? >> the training i have a officer in nigh york can 50 other physical

training deffsive tactics with other instructors because the training we designed the new 8 hours training that emphasize time and distance for de-escalation before the fire arm is something we put together. now they are trying to put together a formal training a national standard and the officer will be bringing that back and we'll meet monday and updating what we can to the current train toog make it even better. >> thank you >> chief i have concerns when we throw out this idea of cit is there a cit officer there and think folks make that mean somebody about if the ultimate outcome was what this was, how do we square that with the investment we have with crisis intervention training. i think what is important to acknowledge is cit is training of the

disescalation efforts. some strategies that can be used in partnership with mental health folks but the greater policy reengineering use of force is about putting tactics behind that. at the scene who is in charge and make thg call and saying slow it down. in terms where we are versus where we are going i don't know if there is anything you want to say about that. the process of de-escalation what you shall do unless it is not safe is the direction we are going in and cit is important part. my sense from the puffer meeting in washington is departments are strug wlg how you operationalize that >> i take the conversation directly to the offices. yesterday i was at mission station from lev to

12:30 and came back from 9 p.m. to 11:30. we closed mission station and all we talked about was reengineering use of force and time and distance. i'll talk to all the stations in the coming weeks. personally >> commissioner wong. >> similar the way the department changed the hol #12r with that one incident is there thinking-before we have a perfect policy to roll out is there something we can learn from this incident? you talked about having a weapon policy. is there a smaller piece we can roll out first to address the types of incidence before we get to the larger discussion of more competence of use of force

policy. >> i'm happy to look at any options? >> has there been any recommendation from the-what is the group that looks at this? the internal group. >> the working group? [inaudible] >> they come windup the interim policy fixes while we talk about the bigger fixes? >> they would make a policy recommendation and/or [inaudible] as tactics and quee had a conversation at length today both deputy chief redman of operations and my chief of staff and i what can we arrive at. too late in this instance to put in place immediately to create that time and distance requirement. >> how about the edge weapon? >> same thought, to create time

and distance. >> thank you. >> further questions for the chief? chief, just to follow up if there is any comments you have, some of the public comment around is there any ability or timeframe for bringing back the retired homicide detects to help with unsolved homicide >> i'll check with the chief financial officer because it was a budget issue and think i can get past. >> i didn't see this but tonight slashing into tents is that something that happened? >> the department of pubhook health hot teams went out kw moved what was left on encampment for safety issues and into the navigation center one tent was left behind and it was empty and the officers used a knifep to help take it down and dpw took the

property and stored it. >> i'm told there is a video of the whole thij i haven't seen. i have the officers star number who spoke to a woman video taping it and alijed a complaint. >> in terms of process because this important somebody raised a concern that a officer mishandled the situation. you are aware there is video and you are looking for to it? >> yes >> we'll continue to follow that >> i saw the video and i was really concerned and didn't understand why it was late at night and they were evicting people. it was empty and they take a knoif and dis#3457b9al it and hear them stepping and break thg poles to take it down and my concern

is that-is that our job is empty the streets and take theitants and rip them to pieces? i say a dpw truck and dpw nearby t. is a concerning film so you need to watch it. they are talking it down and stepping on the poles and did use a knife. it is disconcerting. >> i'll work with director hicks to investigate it. >> especially on a rainy night >> anyone who does center concerns or witnesses to the incident on thursday on shot pep wole 415-553-1145 for any witnesses. anything further on this matter colleagues? call the next item >> 4 bocc directors report.

report on orks cc activities squu nouncements. director hicks will give a update on sb 1286 and presentation of occ reports, summaries of caizs received, mediation of complaints, sustained complaints march 2016 and companion reports. >> good evening director hicks. >> if you have some brief announcements to make before going into the other agendized items the first the occ is conducting a independent investigation of thursdays officer involved shooting. the occ investigator assigned is in the audience and that is jason waechter. i was speaking to

about investigator jason waechter who is sitting out with you all and if there is -maybe mr. waechter if you can stand up, i think that would be helpful. the occ is located at 25 van ness should anyone wish to go there to make independent complaints. the occ can be reached at 415-241-7711. should you have any evidence or information that you would like to share, please do so. ipmarch the occ engage in the

following outreach activities. eric [inaudible] acting senior investigator steve ball who is also sitting out with the public this evening gave a presentation on the function the occ to the 251 lateral class of the police academy. gave a presentation on oversight of law enforcement from vigilance committee from india. also on march attorney [inaudible] participated in a know your rights panel at the youth panel fund utadvose day. additionally occ investigator michael lily staffed a table at project homeless connect. last thursday 4 occ members, staff members and i ateneded a national association for civilian oversight of

law enforcement hosted by oakland citizen police review board. the training was on profiling, developing a mechanism to identify profiling allegations against the police. the speakers include oakland assistant chief of staff paul fig eroa, academics from uc berkeley and stanford who with wurng wg the oakland police department is walter katz who is san joses independent police auditors. oakland chief of staff paul fig eroa spoke how oakland police department command staff can pull up data on any officer and based on the information that they view they can rem training or policy

and he indicated how difficult it is to prove a individual basis of a particular person that person engaged in profiling, however, with data a department can look at patterns and make policy and training recommendations. so, that concludes my remarks on occ recent activities. moving to the next item which is senator leno's senate bill 1286. you have in your material a proposal that i submit today the cities state legislation committee requesting that committee take it a position in support of this transparence bill, senate bill 1286. pursuant to the cities administrative code as a department

head i'm procluded taking a position on the legislation but the process is the department request the city state ledgeilation committee to take a position which i did. i asked the committee to take a position in support of the bill. i was informed friday however, the committee was not yet ready to take a position on the bill. they were gathering more information and there were unanswered questions. what i can say is that bill did pass and they sent a public safety committee by a vote of 5 to 1 and is now being referred to the senate appropriation committee and that concludes my report. >> on the next-independence there are questions on report. i'll report back to the commission when the

state legislation committee places this matter-determines to place the matter on the agenda. moving on to the march statistical report. you have them in your packets and i will answer any question you may have. with mediations the occ conducted in march, 5 cases were mediated for a total of 15 cases mediated for the first 3 months of 2016. looking at last years comparables there were 12 cases mediated. moving then to the chiefs proposed discipline or action on occ complaints in march twnt 16. there are 9 summaries in your packet and i'll briefly go through them. the within one is a officer failed to

comply with americans with disability act when failed to have effective communication. the officer was trained. the second a officer engaged in conduct distruckting discredit by tell thg complaintant he sigh siteded next time if the police officers asks why you are doing smck you should say you are sorry and the officer received a written rep mand and rethrained. third iletm nudged duty when the complaints required a private person request and the officer denied request. there were cases to failure to collect traffic data. in the next case there were two sergeant involved using hash and profane

language. each sergeant received a one day suspension. in the next item a officer negligented duty responding to a call for service for batly by a juvenile on the staff member at a juvenile facility. the officer failed to prepare a incident report and received a one day suspension. the next item an officer negligented duty by failing to prepare a incident report responds toog a call for service from a 808 year old wheelchair user in supportive couzing and the call for service was the complaintant had been robbed earlier in the day of $200, the officer received a written rep mand and retraining. the last item, this matter was jointly

investigated by the internal affairs. separately investigated and the office of citizen complaint a. surgeant engaged in discredit by using the cell phone number to send a text message offering to lonel money to pay for the citation he cite the night before. cautioned 2 complaint not to tell. got the cell number with the citation. the officer received rep mand and retraining. that concludes my report. >> so, i have questions in particular about the two incident dns involving sergeants because sergeants are held to a higher standards. they are supervisors so the two ens dnss

a sergeant used sex wale derogitary language and hash and profane language so i like to know about that and the sergeant with a represent mands for texting someone and saying he would pay her ticket. chief if you have the-anyone can give more insight into those? >> in the case involving the two sergeants the occ investigated those cases and recommended discipline for those sergeants as the police commission knows the chief of police has jurisdiction to impose discipline up to 10 days suspension. with regard to the second case involving

the officer engaging in conduct reflecting by using the complaintants cell phone number, unfortunately the internal affairs division conducted a separate investigation and didn't consult with the occ before discipline was imposed. so, that-under the charter the chief has jurisdiction to investigate any complaint that the occ receives and however the chief and i have talked about in the future that there will be coordination. >> so, i have a question real quick. did doo you concur with the one day suspension for each of the

sergeants? do you concur with that discipline? >> i concur that the sergeants should have been suspended. there is a discipline matrix. without having the full history of those other disciplines that those sergeants may have received from the department it is difficult to say whether it should have been harsher. however, recently it has been agrode that the occ will have access to that information. with regards to the sergeant receiving the written reprimand for using the cell phone number i don't agree with that

discipline. i believe that the nature of that violation and the impact that it had on the complainant should have resulted in a much more severe discipline >> chief suhr >> i will look up-i don't have the brief here on what the language was. i will look at that up and get back to the commission. i will say the officer that used the phone number to suggest he would help out that was brought to the attention the department by other police officers. retired officer and another officer. there were two police officers involved that thought troubling enough she should bring it forward. >> president loftus and chief

suhr. the complaintant was upset about receiving a text message that had an emote cone of someone winking mpts she went to someone who was retired and told that retired officer i'm upset but afraid to report this and that officer encouraged her to go to the district station and the captain referred the matter to the police department and occ. in that regard procedures were followed. there was a disconnect and my office did not have a opportunity to speak to the chief before discipline was imposed. when the chief

was advised by his investigators about the case and without the benefit of the perspective of the occ. >> commissioner wong. >> it is hard to discuss this because we don't know the underlying facts if this were in the 6 paragraph racialry dur augtory language it would be a offense considered for termination so there must be something going on behind the scenes we dont know about. more of a process question, in the case of oo recommended discipline if you don't agree is there a mechanism to file charges directly with the commission because otherwise we are second guessing. we have a vore short summary what happened and don't know the longer discussion? >> i would like to address that

commissioner wong. with regard to the case involving the two sergeants using harsh frofeign and offensive language and it wasn't racially it was sexually derogtory. it was in spanish, but we the occ, i didn't recommend charges with the commission because i believed that the punishment should not exceed 10 days. that is a lot of days, 10 days suspension. now with regard to the second case, in my opinion that could have come to the police commission but we never had a opportunity, the occ to make that recommendation because there is a dual process and rarely

occurs where a case that we are investigating is investigated by the department without any communication. >> so- >> i remember this case now. the two sergeants involved are female and used a single spanish word that is a offensive towards women toward a male. that was the complaint. >> i recall the word and it could be either gender or any jener. >> they were wem squn he was a male. >> so i'm going to ask that it sounds like the commission would like more information on these two

particular these and if the occ has a disagreement it sounds like there may not be a remedy but if there is we can agendize it for next week and talk about it. >> if there is a disagrooment with the chief on chief level discipline the occ has no remied. if there there sadis agreement on commission level if the occ asked the chief to allow to file charges on haze behalf and the chief declines, then i may bring the charges myself. i have done that under a previous police chief here in san francisco which resulted in that commission terminating that officer. it was a very different

situation there. however, again with the last case it was a matter of not having a opportunity. >> so, i'll be pointant, the question i have is, is whatever the issue was that was the gap that made it so you don't have that opportunity, that needs to be fixed and it sound like it has been fixed but like a report next week with what happened and how we make sure it doesn't happen again >> it sound like we need a rule. i understand they discussed it and moving forward but we need to look at our rules and decide there is a written rule we need to implement so that the next time it happens we know how to deal with it and we know how to deal with it. >> director hicks. >> i would concur that what is

looking here are written procedures for addressing cases that are within the occ jurisdiction. being investigated by the occ and investigated by the chief. >> i think this may be a instance because the charter says occ investigates when a citizen brings complaint but this was a peace officer bringing a complaint that goes up throw ia. >> no, the civilian actually brought the complaint. >> to both places. >> by general order once a civilian complains to the police department the police department by your approved general order is required to advise off of that complaint as well. most of the

time the police department choosing not to investigate and just leave it within the jurisdiction of the occ, but again, the charter provides that the department can investigate should it so determine what we are looking for here is coordination of the chief and i have had that conversation but there isn't a rule. >> if there is a rule you would like to propose put it back on the agenda and have a discussion because if we learned there is a gap and needs more clarity we can add that. anything further on this matter colleague all. ? >> item 4 c, commission reports. commission president report. commissioners reports. >> i have a brief report and touch on

this. vice president turman and i met the usdoj team doing the collaborative reform and talked about the process they have undergone. it was a very productive meeting. there is the opportunity for them to bring in a great deal of training. i think we'll learn more about what their plans are in the coming weeks but they have a series oof community meetings and stakeholder communications. i encourage members of the public mere and people watching at home to the extent you have ourticulated a dist truckt with any systems that exist, usdoj is on the ground and conduct interview jz we can connect you to them if you like a conversation with them. my sns is there a great dealf openness to get a idea of the main concerns. i know the information is on our website, but i would direct folk tooz

let myself know or the sergeant know or any police commissioner know if you want to be put in touch with the folks working here from doj. i also learned from them we do have the use of force draft policy which is gotten the input from the local stakeholder jz discussed we want to hear doj's recommendation because while the collaborative reforchl process can be up to 3 years doj abbreviated their schedule to give recommendations with a more accelerated timeline. this friday they-the time it will take to get back with us the recommendations on the actual use of force policy we we will know friday and as we said before rfx we will take those recommendations, they go on the website and everybody will have and review them and have 2 more community meetings before the commission will take a vote on the use of force

policies. that is my report. colleagues does anyone have any reports or questions for me? no. okay. sergeant call the next line item >> item 4 d commission announcements and scheduling of announcements for future line items >> i have a couple items. the first is i would like a update from department of human resources on the status of body worn cam raw policy and negotiations ongoing in the meet and confer process. i like to schedule that for next week 4-20. so, the commission needs a update on that process and what is going on and what we can expect because i know there is a great deal oof urgency to get the body cameras on as soon as possible. the second item is one we discussed a mupth ago and that is calendaring the

resolution that i propose on requiring the department to give us a annual report on the status of back logs of sexual assault cases and a audit of the unit order round communicating with sur vaivs of assaults. that is a new ardor i want to make sure we put the right mechanisms in place to track that. colleagues anything else we need to put on the agenda? okay. sergeant >> just for the public to know that the meeting next week will be held here at city hall 5:30 april 20 at city hall not in the community. >> is there public comment on item 4 a-4 d? welcome back. >> i want to repeat myself.

transparency is the state marked by the presence of truth freely volunteer. it is the answer to your problem. the problem you discussed is easily addressed and can get the reports from the occ instead of saying what the chief did you can include the occ recommendation. the occ can say i concur or the cheerf gave 2 days and i gave 5. that transparency is informative and encourages the department to take the occ seriously. the chief we talk about reengineering the use of force policy, the chief talked about training, the truth is you had a policy for at least 3 years. the chief issued training, there are copies on the table that apply to this situation and they require officers to

create time, distance and establish repore with people in crisis who are only a danger to themselves. thais existing policy mpts you can make it better, that is existing policy is the case for 3 yearsism . you have racial profiling data complaints sustained with no punishment what so ever. ree taining as a response to that finding is insulting. they know how to collect the data. they write it on incident reports and citation. training is response to teach someone how to do something they dont know how to do or especiallyized skill they work on. commissioner loftus i talked about you this, it is a very serious issue racial profiling. it is serious to me. my kids are kids of color. you

have data that shows that if you are african american or latino you are more likely to be stopped and searched but the [inaudible] >> thank you. >> [inaudible] i want to say about the occ that [inaudible] over 300 facebook groups justice for so and so, i see a lot of public opinion that is doubting the efficiency and [inaudible] it becomes a vicious cycle. if we do not bring our complaints you have less material to look at. people

say only 6 percent of the complaints are validated but i walked fl into the public [inaudible] go to the occ you can do by phone or e-mail or do it face to face and report the violations that occurred last week in the assassination. you don't have it be a direct witness to report to occ if you feel you are directly impacted please bring your report. [inaudible] i want to say that also manage justice for [inaudible] very brave woman coming here every week and you can not not hear her. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is luteeshia

and want to address two things that i thought were important and heard from the discussion. one is that i wanted to address i think the way that discussions are even had in this commission. one is the implication i think of guilt or the severity of these issues. i heard a few times the way things are discussed in terms of what officer did what and the gender of the officer and implication of that being a lighter issue if it was a certain gender versing a different gender is a problem and seems like the way that things are addressed in the commission needs to be taken very seriously no matter who's gender was taken into consideration. i think that also part of that is addressing some of the issues as if they were

different job positions because it appears to me as a citizen of san francisco and as a person who cares about these things is that if i were to do any of these things or if you were to do any of those things you would be out of a job a lot more quickly that police officers who wield gun and have power in the communities are being treated in these position. to discussion a suspension of 1 to 10 days of something that is severe is interesting to me who would be fired for these things. i would like to take the opportunity to relay i think it is important as a community while watching the commissions i think feel like these things are being taken into consideration and like they are important. i have seen several commissioners look like they

are not paying as much attention and not as involved in this and not sure how you got here but feel it is important to pay a little more attention. >> any public comment on 4 a-d? >> i want to speak for the police. i was out in front of my place and one day just last week and there was a assault on a homeless person assaulted somebody and i could see him chase thg guy down the street. i didn't see if he had knife but there was more than one witness so when the police did show up i said, he is right there down the street. he went down there and had his shot done but it was a bean bag gun and he positioned himself on the other side of the car. he was more interested in one thing, finding out what is

going on. it was de-escalation and as the policeman left i said why did want you arrest the man, i saw him? he says well he had a knife and everything but i have no one here to witness the assault other than you and you did want see a knife. he was not allowed to arrest the man at the time. as far as police the de-escalation thing is probably the main in the thing because i have seen that on amie goodman where they jumped out and ran over there and was it over. this man has a billie club. there is a need for it. thank you. >> thank you. any further public comment? mr. miller. >> thank you. i would like to

begin my public comment on this item by expressing appreciation to director hicks for the initiative supporting the new senate bill. we greatly need that transparence it is dres pritly lacking since the [inaudible] decision which was completely unjust in 2006. i really appreciate the local endorsement and hope that this goes through and complete the full journey. i want to also speak on director hicks presentation of the sustained investigations this month and speak on the issue of these one day suspensions especially without consalitation with the occ or oversight bodies. it is painfully obvious the tap on the wrist punishments or consequences for

these violations are clearly designed by the san francisco police departments so called union poa and legal team to prevent further consequences that are warranted by such despicable actions that could actually change the nation of the police department. it is a completely shiftless move and it is obvious and plain as day tin public we demand real accountability for all violation ofophorousers ranging from minor abuses to murders that i have to come here to discuss. >> thank you. any further public comment? good evening and welcome >> good evening. this is a comment or question regarding chief suhr report regarding the two officers that stated

that had cit training. i have a question when these officers took that training. i know before that it was mandatory or recommend officers go to that. i know that from a reliable source that officers that went through that half didn't stay for the full course so you may want to check if they stayed for the full course and what got out of that. >> thank you. [applause] any further public comment? hearing none public comment is closed. sergeant-i'll use my discretion to go back it report 4 d. commissioner dejesus has something to add >> i was focused on the officer involved shooting and did bring the article regard thg new chronicle report showing san francisco cops are [inaudible] we have a report i like to

agendize that. if we can have a report regarding that particular study. >> sergeant call the next item >> item 5, public comment on all matters pertaining to 7 below closed session including whenever wl to hold item 7 in closed session. >> okay, colleagues is there public comment on all matters per taining to item 7? mr. miller? >> should be painfully obvious by now over the last several months performance or lack there of of chief greg suhr a matter of extreme concern not only as a matter of interest to the public but as public safety

issue. [applause] it is in light of that that if there is any legal allowance for this matter to be publicly heard there is absolutely no justifiable reason why it should not be publicly heard. that is all got. that is all i got. we the people have a right to be present for a view of this chiefs employee performance. we have a right to be present to see what this body does in this regard. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. next speaker. >> in case the review that you have on aclu last week comes in closed sessi