tv Mayors Press Availability SFGTV May 30, 2016 8:35pm-9:01pm PDT
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because another trample has occurred in our city been an officer-involved shooting in the bayview i have to get back to the office and pay attention and get all the facts but every incident in our city regarding an officer-involved shooting is a tragedy and one we're from the mist of reforms for the police department making sure that everybody is safe but whatever an incident of on officer-involved shooting we want to make sure that that we understand and whether or not it fits both our reforms and why on officer will be required to use his or her weapon in heir circumstance i know your communities of san francisco everyone wants to better understand to move on the santa sanctity of life the most
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important policy in the police department so i simultaneously right now chief suhr that providing information to the people there in the bayview on what happened i don't have all the circumstances by do know that involved an individual that was in a stolen vehicle but at the same time whether or not it required the use of deadly force is something we need to look at very, very specifically with the promise that our police department is improving it's policies and should take life only when other lives are in danger and that's where the circumstances have to be reviewed specifically ufb i'm upset about that because i take all the officer-involved shootings very sorrowful on
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behalf of everyone in the city and want everyone to know that that the purpose of this gathering today is to really keep our neighborhoods safe and clean with the tremendous amount of involvement we have and i don't want to ever loss it theme to make sure the city is safe and clean for everybody so let me spend a moment only simply thanking all the people hear our officers and muni, our pit stop monitor and volunteers as well as our departments 311, public works, public utilities commission commission the homeless outreach teams that are working with the merchants association with the cb d and castro all the groups that supervisor wiener and i have been lucky to go work within others past are beginning to come together on at least this
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immediate treatment of 5 neighborhood corridors in the city corridors that will we believe not only needs this immediate almost eco implies that mohammed nuru if dpw calls it we come in and try to fix things whether or not broken signs or faded out crosswalks or damaged things on the streets that don't work or anything that might make residents visitors, merchants and others feel unsafe in their neighborhoods needs to be fixed the assembly will be better coordinate under if program i've directed all the parks including the rec and park department and departments we nominated working together to make sure that we fix that's why
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the fix it teams are announced under the directorship of sandra a very veteran, if you will, within our public works department and have my authority as the mayor to coordinate the departments and get them at a maintenance level when we fix things to maintain them great places like the castro where i often go or mission geneva or chinatown or fillmore all going to be part of these initial 5 neighborhoods in the next 3 years with the budget we have planning and hopefully gets approved in working with the board will be over $6 million to public works to make sure they do their job in cleaning but all the other departments that have
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access to the streets will collaborate in fixing the platform at the 311 calling center where we have a lot of people logan in but not know if, in fact, things are fixed sometimes they are and sometimes needs refixing that's the announcement today, i wanted to again thank the two pit stops monitor herman and another individual you delayed you were doing our job people call out for help recently you were there in preventing a robbery from happening thank you for those who step up to help others this is what the teamwork is an embracement of a team to keep the corridors we value to be
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kept clean and safe and more liveable but to keep up oftentimes i'm also sometimes do it i'll come in with a parachute of people to do something we leave and great moment how about next week and the week after how to keep this up this is what the fix it teams are doing make sure that the public health department outreach workers are here part of team we have challenges on our streets with certain individuals who make take the opportunity and not using the pit stops and make sure that everybody is feeling safe i thought want to make that announcement and make sure you know that i wanted to celebrate but keep it going for the
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merchants that oftentimes are facing other challenges about the corridors for not only their driving but for all the residents and so forth but with that, i need to get back not only to the office but the ongoing conversations with the police chief and the community advocates that are concerned about the officer-involved shooting hope you understand that it is a serious thing for the city i take it seriously we will have today or the next few days a clarification of what has happened and a response to it but thrill tell you it is very uneasy and tragedy to have an individual die on officer-involved shooting and we just need to make sure quarry doing all the right thing to prevent that from happening thank you very much. >> (inaudible). >> well, you know again, i
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think we'll have to ask a lot of questions excluding that and are the officers following the protocol what were the circumstances that led up to it we're trying to con stringent a circumstance in which an officer uses his or her gun that lethal force had not been at the center of attention for so many months i have internal listed if on ever shooting that happened and make sure that everybody is following the protocols in circumstances was that officers life challenged in any way were other people's lives champed in any way those circumstances have to be looked at i need every single officer who carries a gun
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and authorized to use it only do that has a late result this and many other questions will be under review. >> he's at the top i'll be meeting to see what occurred obviously i have to hold the chief accountable and especially, when an officer-involved shooting is the circumstance. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra i'm the fix it director justice wanted to thank mayor ed lee for his leadership the neighborhood promise is important to our mayor and city i'm grateful the mayor has trusted me to execute this initiate for the visits and residents i'm planning to work act a team with all the city agencies to get it done so i'm
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looking forward to working with everyone but today, i'm honored to be joined by a strong neighborhood advocate not only in this neighborhood but citywide please welcome supervisor wiener. >> (clapping.) >> can question get this taller? >> okay. i'll get the tall ignite mike so first of all, i wanted to really recognize herman and dashaun those are dpw employees that are pit stop workers that help to keep your neighborhoods clean up and our public restrooms clean and usable thou for your work and they disrupted a robbery at the chevron we have approval of the minutes inform
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thank y thank you. your heroic effort. >> (clapping.) >> and he really wanted want to thank mayor ed lee for this upcoming budget to really help to improve our neighborhood and increase cleaning and your ability to ronald to graffiti and broken street lights all the things that degrade the quality of life in a neighborhood it is incredibly important we'll also be able to step up the city's
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response in terms of entering departmental work to try to contribution people out of the homeless encampments into shuttle and housing and having that entering departmental with the outreach team with the police and department of public works and all people to get people off the streets we know those encampments that are inhuman for people in them are really unhealthy and unsafe for right down the street an 16th street a resounding occurring problem and need to keep our neighborhoods clean and people safe and grateful that the mayor and i hope the board will keep our commitment to the people of san francisco to restaff our police department our police department staffing collapsed just as the city was growing
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sixth we've been aggressively funding police academy scomplaz to restaff the department so we have more beat officers keeping our neighborhood safe and officers with traffic enforcement people need to feel safe to the mayor is proposing 7 police mainstreamed classes might be close to a record and working hard to make sure that the budget we've passed actually includes the 78 police academy a classes towards the full staffing and have the police officers we need to have a city that is safe r safe for everyone i want to thank all the departments i know you'll do amazing work in executing in in a humane way that keeps our
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neighborhood safe and clean thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> thank you supervisor wiener 311 is the city's non-emergency number here today from 311 our 311 director nancy and morning everyone. >> (clapping.) >> i'm excited about this program again, a way of helping customers get things done and 311 is really our easy way to connect to government we can connect you by phone or web, by using our mobile aps a technology in particular has become really in high demand as of april of 2016 we actually saw 60 percent of our requests coming in through web or mobile that sewer placed phone calls so it shows the demand of
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technology for our customers we are introducing our new website which is my sf 311.org my sf 311.org we want to make sure that people can easily log in requests and create accounts and actually text the history of requests and they can submit requests in a single contributor page if you have facebook or google link to that you don't have to be remembering more passwords and 311 is our partner with all of the departments within the city so this is the best way of making sure you report our issues and we can provide very robust reporting that will assist sandra in getting things done a reminder of that. >> thank you nancy
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the strange and enduring character of our neighborhood lies in the community synonym that know that more than i had a local retained and local business owner and after school merchant president dan. >> thank you we're grateful to the mayor and the departments for coming out and do some spit shining in the neighborhood and it is appreciated so thank you all and thanks to those guys that did a bang up job for the neighborhood. >> (clapping.) >> okay. that concludes the neighborhood promise announcements thank you,
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devices. speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. >> like to announce and thank sfgtv staff broadcasting the meeting, jim smith and phil jackson. we don't have to do roll call, right? >> no, you stated who is here. >> we are here accept for commissioner mar. do we need a motion to excuse commissioner mar? motion by commissioner crews and seconded by commissioner com pose >> iletm 2 approval the lafco minutes from april 22, regular meeting. >> any changes or comments on the minutes? seeing none we'll knose to public comment. we'll close public comment and motion--
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commissioner crews to approve the minutes and second and take that without objection. >> we need a second. commissioner campos >> i tried to second as a chair. >> item 3, community choice aggregation actaveties report. status update on clean power sf and stating update on proceedings: >> michael himes on behalf of general manager hale. i have a few quick items and happy to entertain questions. i brought the communication director charles sheen relate today the outreach efforts to date and looking forward. first of all, and perhaps most importantly i'm happy and proud to announce in terms of cca status
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updates, for the first time we are operational. on may 1, clean power w sf served customer jz today is the 19th day of operations. took a lot of work to get here and i know this body was central to that effort. along the lines of good news, our opt out rates continue to be very low. we are still just under 1 percent of total opt outs for the may enrollment. at the beginning of the week we began the issuance of the third stattory set of notices to customers about enrollment and we'll send those out throughout the course of
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