sustainability of those relationships. we find that through the mentorship program in this one-on-one connection, that's happening. the other thing that we have is at laguna honda, we have mentors who are at laguna honda work with ihss consumers were eligible ihss as consumers were being discharged. we make that connection with them and talk to them about hiring a provider. how to work with their provider. keeping the communication open. how to take care of yourself so that you're able to better show someone how to do care of you. the goal being if we work with them before they are discharged and we keep up with them for at least six months after discharge, the rates of them returning to laguna honda goes down significantly. so, those are the major programs. we also do a fair amount of advocacy in sacramento and around town in i also want to mention that were

doing a series of three symposiums. we just had our first one last week for consumers, which we are doing in conjunction with home bridge and ihss to talk about her different programs, where everybody fits in, how you can get help and answer any questions. we are doing our next symposium for providers in october at correct library at the main library in the correct auditorium. excuse me and i'm happy to divide more information when the flyers come out. so, i'm open for questions. >> thank you. culture supanich >> first comment which is how do you do all this with 17 employees be one >> i know, right >> that's amazing. >> thank you so much. >> it must be very hard work. >> everybody works hard and we focus and get it done. >> i'm curious about the

workers that you have. is there a high level of turnover? what is that and because i know that i have friends who have workers and there seems to be a turnover and how can you combat that? >> two things. i might have said iran. [inaudible] so, we deal with 1500-2000 consumers. we do have 250 providers and there's a lot of turnover and this is a problem that we are seeing not only in san francisco but across the state because they are paid minimum wage and it's really taxing job and we are asking them to care for folks who might need a lot of care and it's hard work. so, what we try to do is first of

all, we are appreciative of all our workers. one thing we realize a few months ago was we need to be nicer to people when they come in. when folks come in and say they want to be a worker, we need to really be jumping up and down and saying, i'm so glad that you came here. so, for our on-call workers we now provide them with scrubs and we give them a badge and we have incentives that happened quarterly. we will put you in this raffle. forget have a luncheon. that honor you because we can't pay you any more, but we can let you know how valuable you are to our team. and for our registry workers we provide them all with t-shirts and they also get badges good this is helpful to them because in a lot of places where they are going to building managers won't let them in because that no identification. so, we found by doing this it's like raises their value, raises their just how people feel. so, until one of bigger scale we figure out how we can pay providers for the work that they do in a real

way, we are doing these little things to hopefully help combat some of that turnover. >> thank you, kelly. >> shirt >> councilmember penzvalto >> it's incredible. i think he efforts the city goes through that the providers feel valued etc. i'm sure greatly benefits the consumers. i think the mentorship program sounds incredible. i'm also excited to learn more about the [inaudible] at the library if you care to share that at some point. >> yes. as soon as the invitations i think we'll be ready this coming up and i will make sure you all get the imitations. >> excellent thank you for your outstanding work. >> i like to-i like to open up for questions for staff if they have any? >> thank you. thank you for your presentation. of course, be [inaudible] i-h ss facility

has been on the forefront and policy and legislation change. and advocacy. so, you bring that experience and expertise, not just providing services to people. actually, something that i'm curious about is a lot of the home care workers appear to be doing more, you know, escorted to dr. support or assistance with cooking and cleaning. do you have any data as to how many consumers we have that are actually using real-they are all real-personal-care things like transferring, bathing, feeding and those kinds what i call more heavy dirt work home care services? the was i don't have that data but i will tell you that one of the things we are now doing is really looking at surveys and trying to get that type of information on an ongoing basis. so, if you

invite me back next year i can guarantee i'll have that information. however, i will talk to dos and find out what information they collect in terms of who the consumers are and what they need, but we find the consumer has changed in the last 20 years significantly. there's a lot in the beginning it was a lot of home care, but now it's a lot more personal services and personal care, and we find a lot of consumers for better or worse given the circumstances, there's a lot more substance abuse and mental health issues that we've had in the past. so, there's a lot more training that has to go into the providers just so they know what they're going into in a lot more training or our mentors so they can really assist folks in the best way. >> also, the other question i had is the registry 11 250 providers independent providers. it's given to i-h hss

before the climate we generally had to be a client you have to receive ihss us from the state [inaudible] income eligible. do you offer services to those for folks who do not receive that subsidy? >> yes. we have a small private pay program as well which, don't talk about much because it's very small and we, for us, we want to make sure we hurt it all the ihss consumers first and then we hit help those doing private pay that home bridge which of the contact mode also offers private pay which is cheaper for all of us than the other agencies that are doing it. >> so we operate on a sliding scale. yes. >> thank you >> thank you anymore questions? staff? okay. inc. you again for being here-excuse

me interim director khambatta has a question >> thank you for this wonderful presentation it either real quick question regarding any kind of clients satisfaction survey that you conduct and how that relates to incentive program for the contractors who are [inaudible] >> sure. i will let eileen into that. >>can you report your questions? >> sure. i was cruise about the client satisfaction surveys and how they'd incentivize your contractors? from doing a better job >> of course. yes, we are just about to increment new satisfaction surveys for all of the both the consumers and providers that we serve. in

terms of the providers specifically, were definitely looking at their satisfaction with our services that we've also provided and how the process was for them to be hired on because in addition to providing these valuable services, seniors and people with disabilities we are also providing a valuable service with having employment opportunity here in the city. we want to make sure that we are doing our best to make-as kelly said, make this is valuable position where people do feel valued and cared about as providers in the city. >> thank you. >> thank you very much and you're always welcome to come before the council with any updates. they do so much. >> thank you. >> will open this agenda item up for public comment. any public comment? anyone on the bridge line? okay. we'll will

go ahead and the council within a take a 10 min. break so we can get our next presenters in. thank you so much. >> >>[recess] >> is the captioning on yet? >> can we have captioning, please? >> thank you. we are now

going to go into information item number seven. the san francisco police crisis intervention team, cit. i like to welcome our presenters, lieut. mariano molina, and sgt. laura:. thank you for being here. >> good afternoon counsel i'm sorry i'm lieut. mariano mullane. coordinator for the cit program for sfpd and sgt. colleen. first of all, i'd like to thank the council for allowing ms. donna hawkins to be our star is doctors of cit. she joined about a year or so ago and she has been great. she gets good reviews by the

officers during the training, so thank you, thank you, thank you. we really appreciate that. so, what i'll do i'm going to do a brief introduction, with the sfp does at the academy level when the officers go through the academy. the of a seven month academy and they are subject to a 16 hour class. i used to be eight hours but now senate bill 11 has passed which made the class xvi hours. basically, touches on different subjects would have to do with [inaudible]. they learn about the american with disabilities act passed in 1990. there instructed about it. what the rules are what they need to abide by. they also learn about the disability services and what they are and what they need to do. they learn about intellectual disabilities, how to respond to calls involving intellectual disabilities like down syndrome, factors to look for and how to talk to consumers and members of the

community. they also learn about intellectual disabilities such as down syndrome, how to talk to especially how to talk to a consumer using simple language and speaking slowly and clearly and normal tone of voice and so forth. lately, i would say the last five months or so we have been working with ascend and instructional video. san francisco police department cmdr. moser and sgt. [inaudible] adult san francisco police academy and other members of sfpd with assistance of a son. i know we had [inaudible] here has put a video together. this is a great project that we are hoping to be rolling out in a few weeks

to all our police officers eared basically, it's instructional video on how to respond to calls involving members of the autism spectrum community. we are looking forward to that video. i think it can be great on acid to our officers and the community. with that said, i'm the coordinator for cit. to give you a little history about the crisis intervention team, it was enacted back in 2011 as a resolution that the police commissioner past and ever since then, we are-before last year, we were training classes to be times a year. now, we are increasing the classes a year. sgt. colleen will give you more information about our program and what are classes entail. >> good afternoon am sgt. laura kalina san francisco police department, sgt. assigned to the crisis intervention training program. so as a lieut. briefly touch

on, in the 2015 calendar year we were looking at 3-4 crisis intervention training classes for just that calendar year. this year, so far we've had seven with three more upcoming before the end of the calendar year. the next classes at the end of this month. we have earlier in the year we actually trained all our tactical teams and are specialists back in april. so, they are up to speed as to what the department is looking for in terms of crisis intervention training. we will be rolling out a team concept and that will be forthcoming. that will require additional training. we are hoping to add a portion of that training into our current 40 our curriculum. so, currently, we have a little over 600 sworn members trained in crisis intervention. roughly 2 to 50 of those were trained

this year, so we've made a lot of progress in the amount of officers we been able to get through the class. in the earlier months we were training recruit officers and we have now had the opportunity to switch over to veteran officers and we are,, our focus is patrol sergeants because they are the lead at any station when it comes to issues arising out on the street. we also have included every class we have at least two dispatchers even a couple park rangers. as i mentioned to a couple of you earlier, we work so closely with our rangers that it is important that they also receive the same training so that we end up on a call together that we all have that equal and same training. of course, our dispatchers are truly the front line. it's important they be up-to-date on what we are doing. so, we in

terms of curriculum, we, of course as lieut. mentioned, we are donna atkins. she is in fact one of the favorites which is huge for us. when of the great things donna does it she comes in and talks about development to disabilities and the autism spectrum and then she gives helpful tools to the officers as to what can you do when you encounter someone who is on the autism spectrum. so that has been incredibly helpful. again, donna, thank you. we brought in a professional role playing company and this professional company, the owner of the company specializes in mental health issues. that is her background. she also, that company also teaches for various law enforcement agencies throughout the bay area. the scenarios are becoming more equal across the board over-the agencies because

she's teaching the same across the board. so, it's kind of nice to have it. we also brought in overtired law enforcement officer who is-was a hostage negotiator and now is a police therapist. he is one of the founders of the first responder support network and he teaches-he just joined us a few months back and he teaches suicide by cop, suicide negotiations intervention techniques and case law. he's been acid to bring onto the team. we also have an instructor from palo alto university. he's a doctor at palo alto university and he teaches veteran trauma and ptsd buddy we've also asked him to bring in a snippet of implicit bias, which has been amazing. he is probably one of the most amazing instructors i've seen

on this particular subject. so, we brought this and originally with technical and specialist teams. so, that is kind of caught us up to where we are good of course, we also up the nami and the public defender's office is also here, they are one of our instructors as well. that is kind of where the changes have occurred over the course of this last year. i joined in the team back in january. this is kind of what we've been working on along the way. so, i think that is pretty much covers the gist of the training if anybody has any questions great >> thank you. i'd like it to open up to questions-cochair supanich >> inc. youthank you. i think we saw you about a year ago. >> yes. >> it sounds like you really stepped up the training. i just want to know is there any

evaluation process for what the difference on the street is now that they have those trainings? are using less confrontations? are using less reason to handcuff people or use force? less arrests? less injuries? >> you know what we are seeing is because we had not been collecting data we should have been collecting and that it's been a long process so nami has helped in analyzing the data. as a sparrow he was a candidate for the doctor's degree and now he is a doctor. i would say, a small percentage of this the data that he has analyzed shows that, yes, if you s cit train you're likely to use force to resolve an issue. but that is just a small percentage of the data that we have seen. so we are in the process of assigning a template that officers are going to have to complete after every call,, and that template

has all that information. was forced used? is there cit training? what were the signs and symptoms you saw? with the incident result? once we get that in place we will have more specific data. i know for a fact that our crime analysis unit can provide rough data on the calls we go to and we chose a specific categories like check on their well-being. another category is a person in crisis, attempted suicide. so, an average police officer in san francisco as a department we respond to about 3000-4000 calls. a month. so it's a large number get some of those calls come back as not merit meaning that no one was there or the person was gone. i would say every three months i get the

data here is about 11-12,000 and of 11-12,000 about 1000 are no merit or unfounded but the rest are actually the opposite -we still go even though nothing happened this officer still went to the call-and dealt with whatever situation there was good it's very powerful numbers. we know that apartment is [inaudible] the number of calls the department is responding but once we get all this data in place i think we'll have a better handle on the amount of police work that is being done on this the streets of san francisco >> i'm glad you're going to use a template because not only do you have to evaluate the effectiveness of the training, but also see if there's a real difference for residents >> yes. we also [inaudible] at the beginning of the training ap test about mental illness and the stigma around mental

illness and how the abuse of it. it's anonymous so people feel free to answer this. your name is not attached to it and at the end of the training we do the same and we see a difference and we asked him, did this training help you to change your views or are they still the same? to feel more prepared to deal with a situation like that on the streets? so, we sparrow we have not collected it. >> thank you. >> councilmember penzvalto to have question? >> certainly. thank you. this is an excellent presentation. certainly, dressing that unconscious bias around such a vulnerable population. certainly, it makes the officers feel at ease but am sure it also improves as chip inquired, the outcomes in those interactions. i am interested

in knowing a little bit more about the scope is of your work regarding-you mentioned the video, training, etc. are you working with other local or national authorities or security teams in other cities to basically, replicate some of these processes? what sort of work are you doing in that regard? >> yes. as a matter fact i got back from seattle on wednesday night. we traveled to seattle. myself and another sergeant evaluate their program and we had so many good ideas about from what they're doing to we have a lot of similarities, but they are doing a little bit more than what we are doing as far as role-playing and that concept. so, that is in the works right now. i had viewed the program before going up there and now i have more information i see how they deliver the training and i think that something that san francisco is going to be doing

soon. we are going to a team approach when we respond to a crisis situation. so a lot of things are happening for the department, for the city, and were looking forward to it. i also, [inaudible] sfpd san mateo county, san jose pd,, mountain view pd, we do the cit program together so sometimes we share our instructors because we want to be on the same page. we want to be teaching the same thing across the border lines. so, i'm still in contact with them and i just met with atf in seattle, salinas pd and madison wisconsin. so we are sharing ideas on how they're doing their thing and how we're doing it in san francisco. that so important to network with these other agencies. because we feel we don't have to reinvent the wheel >> absolutely. certainly

that's very important and i'm glad you're hearing you are doing that. i know from individual might be interested in your work [inaudible] as well. when you mentioned the role-playing games are any of the individuals he worked with on the autism spectrum or on these role-playing teams that you work with? >> no. sgt. colleen mentioned the role-playing we do we hire actors to do it and sometimes police officers do it. they are not in the spectrum. the video features in somerset members of the community the autism community and their willing to be in the video and tell their stories. we also do that the training we have two classes for consumers to come in and share their stories. good or bad when they were contact contacted by the police department and that is very powerful for our officers because like people said to me you don't know if somebody

sparrow until you talk about and that you act differently once you know what he or she has been through life and how it got to that point. you change the way how you handle things. >> absolutely. thank you. he was i don't have a question but a comments. i look forward in the future once you have this template build and you can kind of review the data on the training and come back and share with us best practices in what the officers learned and how the interaction is with the community. i think i would be very exciting to hear about. so, i thank you. any questions from staff? >> i have a quick question. not just a question but a comments. first of all, thank you for all the accolades. i really enjoyed being part of the workgroup but i want to go back to german supanich is question about data. being part of the workgroup i'm pretty to some incidents that happened that probably don't get as much press as other incidents do.

so, just want to say, i actually was-i believe joanna was there, too. i actually witnessed an incident right outside of our office by the civic center life station where there were a couple officers cit trained and they were fabulous. the not too long ago probably about a month-six weeks ago, the gentleman was ought with autism in the triangle where there's holding a knife and the officers sort of waited him out for almost 24 hours good so, there are some snippets of things i'm a good work that don't always get the praise good i just want to say that. thanks >> thank you, doug your work just to add to that [inaudible] for the officers who showed excellent the escalations bills and come to a peaceful resolution when dealing with members of the community and we awarded 12, actually 13 officers this year. you mentioned that incident we had another incident with a member of the autism community in the

mission district and so there's about 24 hours to resolve the situation with out the use of force. >> thank you very much ffor your presentation. i hear a lot about the cit team and donna is a direct supervisor. i am so pleased it performance evaluation time. but, aside from the joe, is-do you do any work around people who are deaf or hard of hearing? does your cit curriculum include information about a deaf individual may be approached by the police and may not hear that, stop, hands up or whatever when we have tragic results? >> we address that in the basic academy. we address deaf,

visually impaired and other disabilities and we teach the officers to slow down. to look for whatever sign that the person is displaying if you see no verbal communication. they try to communicate another way or they can go out in the air on the radio channels and ask for a sign language interpreter. if they don't have one, then our department will contact one if one it needs to be there. we asked if you have anyone who can call or talk to us, so we have a smart bunch and weekend research things but we are do to include that in hard introduction to intellectual disabilities >> intellectual disabilities? >> we have the whole spectrum. we talked about [inaudible] we talked about our aging

population and we talked about what devices they might have, a cane, a wheelchair. glasses. all kinds of things. actually, we put our officers through what it's like to be at that age. what it's like to be to have the clout,. we've given-ucsf that's a portion of the class for us. they they are teaching how to button their shirts with gloves on. that's what feels like when you have arthritis. how hard it is. how to tie your shoes when you cannot get down there how to use mechanical arm to do that. how do you walk slowly with [inaudible] because they've got to meet that person at that level. to deliver the services that person he or she needs, you have to be at that level. to understand what he or she is

going through. so, we make it personal for our officers so they have a better understanding >> great work. thank you. >> any other questions from staff? we will move on to be public. thank you so much for being here. no public comment. is there anyone on the bridge line? okay. i'm in a go ahead and close public comment. we will go onto information item number eight. the office of citizen complaints and its work with community advocates and sfpd to respond to crisis calls. i would like to welcome our presenter, sandra mary on. thank you. >> thank you very much. sandra mary on from officer of citizen complaints that i feel was five months ago you asked to come and make a presentation in 2015 get it was a great expense to

think about what's happened over the year. also early highlight is the joint [inaudible] was only it's also been a year with is been tragedy across the nation and in our own community. the good part of that is it's really raise to the forefront on different kinds of policing a different kind of interactions especially with people with mental illness, different kinds of disabilities different kind of challenges and how to communicate a different kind of way. how to use de-escalation and most certainly, in police department across the country, there's been a lot about de-escalation in the past but right now, there's the opportunity to really systemize it. so, in part what i want to talk about today was a little bit about her agency mostly for any members of the public that don't know what we do. i just want to briefly give up thumbprint sketch of that and to spend some time talking about really rate changes that have in the works around how to with that apartment gen. order that puts in some procedures in

a long-term way. so, those were the two areas i was then spent some time on. in terms of our agency, were city agents get were separate from the police department to our name is opposite of citizen complaints will certainly don't need to be a citizen and as a ballot initiative in november to change our name and i think there will really help to clarify. we are separate. we are civilians and individuals in our office can never work for the san francisco police department. what we do is we take complaints and investigate complaints concerning misconduct involving the police department. the other thing we do is we do policy recommendations and outreach work with community groups. a lot of the work, talk about today has to do with the policy aspect of what we do. another thing that we do is for every officer involved shooting our agency now is also involved in administratively regardless of

whether or not there's a complaint and we also run a mediation program. so, in complaints with civilians and police officer there's another way that's different than a complaint process where individuals get to sit down and talk with an officer about the situation. in terms of individuals want to file a complain, they can do it online. they can call, come in. they can send in their complaint in anyone can make a complaints. we take anonymous complaints could an individual does not have to actually see the misconduct they could have been a witness. they could be concerned. they could have read something in the custom concern about allegation of misconduct in our agency will do that investigation and that's kind of a thumbnail sketch of our agency. part of what we have been doing through the years in addition to the investigation parts of cases, we love to see other waste when hands police community relations, and so because of officer involved shootings particularly,

involving mentally ill individuals, we work with community-based >> i would make sure the caption was caught up thank you >> i'm sorry that i speak quickly. my apologies. so, part of our work involves making policy recommendations. for years, we worked with community organizations and the police department to implement crisis intervention team work could divert some fabulous progress on that. part of that also means having written procedures that really put into place how this will operate well beyond all of us and so part of what donna has done in addition with the police department, myself, and other community-based organizations we work on a general order for the police department could general orders are the operating procedures. there would really captures the spirit of interaction between the police department and the individuals in crisis. this is a particular general order for working with individuals in

crisis. so, this department general order we been working on it for over a year. it's very close to being completed. when it's completed it will go in front of the police commission for their adoption. it'll be an opportunity for the public to also make comments to the police commission about the department general order could it'll be a time to again we assess the progress that's been made and that apartment gen. order is important again because it captures a lot of the spirit and it really changes how police officers interact. i would say, overall, in the past you could see in police department said there was really a command and control mentality and many of the operating procedures were about officers coming into a situation, rushing in and taking command. most certainly, this department general order as well as the parts use of force order which is another important order, it built into it the ideas of stopping when

appropriate. to make time and distance. to communicate and to bring in resources and individuals with our specially trained to be able to negotiate de-escalate and work through a situation when that's feasible and appropriate. so, i want to read one section of the crisis intervention team procedure where it talks about the permits committed to the highest level of services to all communities but especially individuals diagnosed with mental elements and other disabilities an individual suffering from adverse consequences of substance abuse and personal behavioral crises. it then goes on to talk about that the department committed to before building communication, crisis intervention, de-escalation principles, before the resort to force whenever feasible. this policy statement again was one that many community advocates parts of the working group, with the police department, we spent long time

crafting this language to try to capture the spirit of a real change in the way that police will be interacting with members of the public especially those in crisis. so, that's ken my overview comments. i welcome your questions but there's also use of force procedure that the department has put forth with the commission they voted on that and the use of force department general order also includes these really core concepts around de-escalation, before building, time and distance, the ability to use and bring in specialized and vigils who can help resolve situation without using force which is our hope when that's feasible. >> thank you. i like to open up any questions of the council at this time? >> thanks you so much for your sharing. i appreciate it. i thought it was very interesting thoughts of really shifting some of the command and control mentality to considering first implement in de-escalation

principles before the use of force but i'd be interested to know what is that point when you get into interactions prior to that use of force, what are you asking folks to consider? what are those de-escalation principles and practices? >> in part, i think the question would be better served to the police department. this a few comments i can make about that in terms of what this whole system looks like. it really starts with dispatch. so that there is a-this is mental health working group that includes dispatch and includes the police department and part of that is identifying those calls so that dispatch immediately is asking those questions where it's clear this is a person in crisis. so that, then, as first responders, there will be the cit trained officers who then go to the scene. so that they are already in the mindset of these kinds of techniques and because there that specialized training they then are able to have an individual one of their

officers is the person who's making contact and using a different tone of voice and establishing that report building, and then the other other de-escalation tactics that are appropriate there's an opportunity to use those topics could be was taken. that answers my question. >> thank you councilmember penzvalto. any questions from staff? >> i've a quick comment. thanks for coming. i appreciate it. from a year ago it's really really different just having you here is different the environment about talking about this is different. once the dj ko gets approved it be interesting to see where we are next year and having this conversation did so, thank you >> any other questions from staff? thank you. thank you for being here. i like to open up this agenda item for public comment. do we have any public

comment? please, don't rush to the podium. okay. anyone on the bridge line? okay. thank you. we will go ahead and proceed to information item number nine. collaboration in the mental health and criminal justice system. i would like to welcome our presenter, jennifer johnson. thank you for being here today. >> thank you. good afternoon and thank you for having me here today. i just want to start by saying i feel grateful to come to this body because a number of years ago i came to you and asked for your help and you graciously supported behavioral health court and the very first study that we did on our outcomes. i am jennifer johnson get with the public defender's office become one of the founders of behavioral health courts am also a member of the crt work

group. the funding that you helped provide us has led to our behavioral health court with leasing one of the first mental health court studies in the country. it has been cited hundreds of times in its web two a whole new world for us in terms of what we can do for federal grants, state grants, local grants it were even know going into private foundation funding. so, you give us what we needed. i don't say this that there is a reason because it leads to my conversation about cit. in 2011, i was asked by the police commission to attend some workgroups to talk about crisis intervention training. in my work in the mental health court it was

honestly something i was well aware because it's national public policy. it's happening all over the country. it seemed to me to be unnatural extension of my work in behavioral health courts. it was a way to intervene at an earlier point in time before someone isn't enmeshed in the criminal justice system. by the time to they get to my caseload that a felony charge. they the serious mental illness. they are really in a very bad place and undoing that damages very difficult. it seems to be the naturally that we would now start to move to how can we prevent this rather than just try to get our head above water with the mess we have created for ourselves. because of some bad public policy that's went to this flood of people with mental illness on our streets and in the system. i will say, when i asked my office to fund my trip to memphis with the police department it was a little shocking. 10 years ago this would not have happened. the

public defender's office and the police department, if you be the news in san francisco, come on, you know. were not always the best of friends and that's the way the criminal justice system is and will continue to be but as it relates to people with serious mental illness and other developmental disabilities, autism spectrum, whatever it may be, the battle lines are and should be different. we should all be coming from the same place which is that as a community, we don't want people who have needs that are unmet in the community to end up in our jails and prisons. the public defender's office the district attorney's office, the police department, we are all in what i call heated agreement about that. so, the importance of this collaboration cannot be under emphasize. what i am

asking of you is to not only support cross agency collaboration but insist on it. it must happen. because, if it doesn't do but were not to make the progress we want to make. i will continue to teach at crisis intervention training at the cit training. i also will continue to be part of the workgroup and part of the curriculum. that said, it's not the easiest thing to walk into a room full police officers and introduce yourself as a public defender, but it's a sign of change and i am hopeful that we are going to move forward and continue in the last two years has been said already devising such a shift in the way the police department is embracing us and really taking ownership.

so, that said, while i have tremendous hope for cit and our collaboration, i think that there are couple of things that as a community we need to do or we are not going to succeed. i don't want to be dramatic or pessimistic but right now, if we are collecting data within our own agency well that is great. if we are not collecting data and comparing it across agencies, we are not there know where the gaps are. we will not know how to fill them and their government continue to exist. people will continue to fall through the gaps in the system. when someone is released from san francisco general hospital after they been on a 51-50 and kept media date would do they go? when someone leaves the county jail at 2 am where do they go? these are the same people tapping into multiple systems and unless we start to compare our data and hold departments accountable for public safety outcomes we are

not point to make any progress. behavioral health courts is a public safety program. the police are not the sole protectors of the public. they cannot be. what they have been doing with is really more than they ever signed up for an more than they should have to. so all the training in the world isn't going to happen unless, number one, we know how to fill those gaps and in the second point is, and this i hear all the time-the police department need somewhere to take people. they need resources. it's really great if you just wait a situation. you take a person to the hospital and then there turned out the same day. they are back to where they were. we need to have resources and we need a place for the police

department to go. you asked the question about other communities. we all traveled to memphis in 2011 to see what the memphis cit program look like. they have a centralized facility where police can go. it's police friendly. it's efficient. people are immediately in the hands of mental health system. we don't have that here. unless we can really put some resources into that, i think were going to continue have the same problems. the problems of people mental illness on the street it's not getting better. it's getting worse. i've a higher caseload than it ever had before. i've 137 clients. the acuity and the seriousness of the charges is not getting better. so, we have to not only focus on the quality and the content of the training, but also how the training fits in a larger context and we need to make policy in san francisco

that addresses more than just one single department. so, i just am not here to talk about this a paper that i wrote but i will just mention it. the district attorney asked for a number of us to come together to professors, one from stanford, one from uc santa cruz. myself and kathleen lacey was the director citywide case management forensics to make a proposal that instead of a jail what should we have. we put together about a 20 page proposal. it's not a proposal. it's really a concept paper i just would say it's on the district attorney's website. but, we worked-i worked-closely with lieut. malina and sgt. colleen to make sure that what we were recommending was going to fill that need for the san francisco police department. so the paper is called justice that heals and i apologize i did not get it to you ahead of

time but it's justice that he is promoting behavioral safeguarding the public and ending our overreliance on jails. so, that's really what i wanted to talk about today. i'm happy to answer any questions or comments. >> thank you. will open up to counsel questions? >> thank you so much. it's heartening to hear the progress that's been made especially along the cross agency collaboration to break down those silos to benefit this important [inaudible] people with mental disabilities. i'm excited to read the concept paper. certainly, i hope you'll send is that resource he was absolutely, no problem. >> thinks for sharing. great work. >> any other counsel questions? staff?

>> i just a quick comment thank you, jennifer being here. i actually have a paper and am happy to submit it to the councilmembers >> thank you. that would be great. >> thank you. >> i the final comment as well. it's that we actually look at crime and police force in light of the larger social justice issues. this is, again, a way to really intensify the message that disability justice is really social justice. so,, thank you for making that connection because it's not always obvious. you're absolutely right. as long as we continue to homelessness skyrocketing prices and displacement, and gentrification, those things are not going to get better. they're only getting worse and

we see [inaudible] even larger number of people with either physical or mental health disabilities that are-they are vulnerable and are on the streets. and end up in jail. >> yes. it's definitely in the 15 years and the mental health courts are i guess 13.5, since we started it, this is the most acute and most rheumatic i've ever seen. so, i've seen a lot. so, i do think we have a window of opportunity where we have people working together like the public defender police and da to achieve something every don't take advantage of that record to lose that opportunity to make lasting meaningful policy change. >> all of our systems are impacted at this point. thank you. >> thank you. i'd like to open

up this agenda item. is there any public comment? anyone on the bridge line? okay. thank you. we will go on to our next information item and number 10, report from the disability disaster fairness committee. >> that would be me. okay. the jdbc met on friday, september 2, 2016. the committee decided to begin a new alternate month schedule beginning in 2017. priorities for the next year were discussed. some of these items included installation of additional stryker evacuation chairs and creating assessment teams to visit people in shelters may have functional needs. the department of emergency management will test the functionality and capabilities about reach to the list to determine the effectiveness of reaching partner agencies during an

emergency. the list itself will be updated prior to the deadline of the test which is tentatively scheduled for october shakeout exercise. dem also gave an update about his plans to have an accessible communication coordinator as part of the joint information center. this position will assist in ensuring that disaster and emergency information is accessible for people with disabilities. kathy ivan-for the fulton institute dinner presentation on open channel a device that's been tested to see the can assist people with functional needs during a disaster. the next dd pcp meeting is scheduled for friday november 4, 2016 from 1:30 pm-3:30 pm in room 04 21 of city hall. we hope to see you there to join us. now we will go back and resume to our next information item 11,

report from the director of the mayor's office on disability. interim director, welcome >> thank you. good afternoon. for today's report of a couple of items to report to the council on. first off, an update on ongoing elevator assessment of single room occupancy hotels or sros. then after a brief update on the transition plan. as you're probably aware, late last year mot was passed with administering the 250 not to enter $50,000 ad back for assessments of elevators and sros. initially, we collated and information on the sros from various sister agencies and departments including the building department, public health, and human services agencies. to prioritize elevators in disrepair and to

include those with a known liability issues in the first phase a pilot phase of these assessments, we sought input from community groups and sta's emma azzarello elevator workgroups your and use their survey data in identifying sros with major issues and liability issues. other data sources included citations that were made by the building department as well as an ods on the complaint log. in may of this year, public works on called elevator consultant was provided notice to proceed with these assessments did the pilot phase included five sro properties and we are in the process of identifying an

additional 25 though that next phase of the assessments. we hope to have all of these assessment reports completed by the end of the year. these elevator assessment reports provide the sro owners and property managers with a detailed condition reports recommending elevator components and systems that need repair or replacement. the report also includes estimates for repair work to improve usability and reliability for the residence. typically, there's more knee-jerk need to replace the elevator door systems. to address the increasing frequency oh your's and entrapment's and long-term depending on the property and depending on the elevator in question, there are two likely options. one, renovating and modernizing the existing elevator to improve reliability and rider safety as well as comply with the act

accessibility regulations and applicable elevator life and safety codes. in this option, some mechanical components could be refurbished and retained so as to keep the costs off the project down. the second option would be reconfiguring with a new elevator albeit with it being exact same existing chat to replace obsolete mechanical and electrical systems should of course, this would be the more expensive of the two options. an additional $500,000 at dr. sro elevators was also included in this fiscal year's budget. currently, moh cd is coordinating with other arms including mod to increase proto-program options for the utilization of these new funds. the second item is the next phase of ada transition plan

projects we now pick up the next 10 years capital planning cycle. just to go over some of the 88 burial removal projects that will be going into construction this fiscal year during there is a accessible parking and path of travel upgrade to the golden gate park senior center. that project,, the design phase is complete and it's currently awaiting ceqa approval. there is a new elevator plan to be installed at the maxine hall neighborhood clinic. this was part of the first phase of the transition plan where the neighborhood clinics were receiving accessible accessibility upgrades and some of them elevators. the third a new ramp at the entrance of the youth guidance center. another project that should be in

construction before the end of this fiscal year as well as the ramp to the entrance of the car auditorium that sf general. finally, the installation of 16 stryker evacuation chairs at various city facilities. the project will go through the design phase by the end of this fiscal year include phase 2 of the payment of grades right outside city hall at the civic center plaza, europe i knew elevator at [inaudible]. path of capital improvements at the golden gate park conservancy of flowers and archery medal. and accessibility upgrades to rest rooms on each floor of the white ec. as these projects move forward, we will need to identify and prioritize the next phase of transition planning projects. in doing so, mod staff will of course

collaborate with real estate to identify neighborhood community centers and other facilities that were not included in our first phase. as always, we would look to the council and the community to provide input on the prioritize of this phase of the transition plan would like to discuss those options at our next executive planning meeting. with that i'm happy to address any follow-up questions from the council or the public. thank you. >> be things. counsel, any questions you want staff? any public comment on these items? any questions? anyone on the

bridge line? we are getting going to our next presentation, information item number 12. sign up, the first automatic sign language interpreting software and i like to welcome our presenters, [inaudible] cofounder in nora zahl is good thank you for being here. i apologize about not pronounce your name. thank you. >> so thank you for the opportunity. we are sparrow because the project is but i will start this way. it's our honor to be here. we have [inaudible] and the team after us will introduce the technology of the smart future but so let me jump into it. usually i start with some introduction about sign language and how important it

is to communicate in sign language and white [inaudible] to communicate with deaf people. i'm pretty sure that all of you are aware that though let me start with a short personal experience. so, i know that sign which is important and this is an appropriate weight to communicate. i need an interpreter because i'm not very good in sign language. so once [inaudible] he's a member of our team get we had to wait two weeks because there were no available interpreters in budapest because it was flu season. that shows a big barrier in the communication. we really appreciate the work of interpreters. they are amazing people. there are too

few interpreters and of course it's very expensive. so we believe to reach the level of full accessibility we need the technology that enables communication between deaf and hearing people. we are [inaudible] and we are doing this. we evolved the first working [inaudible] interpretation system. it's a simple device, for cameras, actually and our software. a deaf person steps in front of the cameras and starts signing. the system interprets the signs into complete sentences. so you can imagine for the first [inaudible] a customer [inaudible] and the camera is installed into the desk and that scrabble can communicate with the system. the background communication will be enabled [inaudible]

back into sign language. so, this is what we call the two-way communication and full accessibility for those people. we reach this level and we have the first working prototype. we can provide the tool into the hands of deaf people to communicate to everyone everywhere which we [inaudible] will mean real equality and excessive though. i've a demonstration of the prototype. so, this is how it works. you can see our colleagues signing on the left. of course during the [inaudible] see if you [inaudible] because the translation is made weight puts down his arm and finishes the sentence. so, of course,

from the beginning we aimed to provide real solution and that's why we are any to translate on the sentence level. [inaudible] we address the whole change that needs to be taken into account [inaudible] not only the handshake, not to hands but the whole upper body and even facial exertion is very important. this is why projector is very unique. we collect all the information and that's why we need for cameras, actually. to process all the data needed for the translation. second, [inaudible] you don't want to translate on the hands. we want people to communicate in all sign language. on behalf of our project recognition related to the computer vision technology.

after gobble we need a translation engine and we also developed this did half of our team computational linguists because this is also a huge challenge to develop the machine translation with the two languages. so, i can summarize the technological part get we started six years ago and we really wanted to [inaudible] that provides interpretation between deaf and hearing people so that is why we [inaudible] all the aspects. this is the-this is the time on. this was a huge project. we started through a research grant. the project was funded by the european union and

through that we introduced a year ago the first working prototype the type of limitations that works with 300 signs. this is why the prototype was about a year ago when we introduced it could it's limited dictionary but it translates exactly as out on the sentence level. after introducing we try to raise money and in this march you raised $1.7 million to finalize the research and reach the product level. that means, we want to achieve the level of starting the first pilots next year. we will step-by-step we of a roadmap ahead of us and the first solution will be installed at the customer service desk work can be at an office where the conversations are limited. this helps in the translation of course because

in the dictionary and whole domain is limited and this has to reach the level that is useful and can provide real translation. so, after raising money we attended a few conferences here. we are familiar with the fact that our [inaudible] different sign language is and we work with american sign language. we are based in budapest. and translate between [inaudible] so this is the first step and of course here is the most developed circumstances [inaudible] but after the first [inaudible] we will let you add other languages as well. we achieve a level of different sign language is which were also interested in. so we are

working on the development now with our team. 25 people and the first level of the product will be a customer services that we will provide with our partners [inaudible] who know this market and who can help us in this process. of course, we need feedback here we need the experience and they can also act [inaudible] if we install a system somewhere and the first solutions fail we can add on it and we can provide a service provider perhaps. so this will be the start of the system but we are looking forward to the

first pilots next year and we are here because we know that san francisco is [inaudible] early adopter so we believe that the first system will be installed in this area. just a few words about our team. our team is about 25 people most are , all of them are researchers. mathematicians and computational linguist. and of course we have [inaudible] was quite proud we have a colleague who moved to budapest. she [inaudible] she is a linguist expert and she joins our team and now she was in budapest to participate in this project. she is called don crossman and we are proud to have her aboard. so that's the introduction and

am really looking forward to your comments and feedback. >> thank you. councilmember jan also, any questions be one >> thank you for coming here today. i think that this is a terrific concept could i looked on google i work at google and we provide the [inaudible] the only individual at any fortune 500 company so there's also a need for this. certainly, also i definitely i see this value really in especially for startups smaller organizations that can't afford full-time staff interpreters and there really is a barrier to employment for individuals who are deaf at smaller companies even if they are very well meaning, sometimes that funding is a barrier. i'm interested to know a living more about the technology could you mentioned there are four cameras. what is

the price point? what is your target once you launch this product, is it something that a smaller company would conceivably be able to afford or is that the much more expensive endeavor? >> the strategy behind using the four cameras was that no single device can provide accurate measurements but we believe that this technology [inaudible] fast so from a technical point of view [inaudible] so we really start our process after the 3-d measurements. i believe that soon it's going to be three cameras and one camera will be enough. that won't able them [inaudible] is we don't want to wait until the [inaudible] six years after the technology so we are ready to provide this

but for the four cameras we are close to put install the first insulation as well. so [inaudible] not special cameras. it won't make it expensive. it's [inaudible] to discuss pricing. that's why we know that ada there so many organizations and companies that can provide access and sign was. so the [inaudible] is strong but [inaudible]. we heard about this in the newark city police department. there is a death individual not serve. we believe that we need this technology [inaudible] situations are needed. the price of the hardware it won't be too expensive. our model is

a [inaudible] >> ekstrom. >> thank you councilmember penzvalto. questions from staff? >> thank you for making the long trip across the atlantic. i opened the conference you are attending was a success, too. thanks for the wonderful presentation. i did have a question about the hardware. if i understood you correctly, before camera requirements, is that for basic webcams and canadian position anywhere or how is that set up? how is the hardware set up.. could you elaborate on that wednesday

>> [inaudible] camera vendors but [inaudible] one connect from microsoft. it's gesture control it provides 3-d measurements and three additional simple webcams. it's trained other webcams but the reason behind the [inaudible] two cameras on the side and one on the top. theoretically, when 3-d camera in the front could be a enough because this is what we have with hours. but there are measurements [inaudible] it might be expected the location of the cameras are 5 feet because that enables to measure accurately.

>> just a quick follow-up question to that. in terms of i don't use the word competition, but competing technologies out there for the vri, where perhaps you're a live person connected to broadband providing the same were equal translation, how do you think sign-all will-how does sun-all a better solution? could you get to speak to that? >> it's a very good question. thank you. vri the providers they do something similar but they still need labor which makes it expensive and this is one of the reasons why vri is not use these days so even if

[inaudible] so providing a technology will make this cheaper and maybe even more situations to be translated. the other reason that there are so many situations where deaf people want immediate [inaudible] even the interpreters are professional. still in embarrassment and many conversations where the two sides don't want to involve any other person. >> thank you so much. >> thank you so much. i'm sorry. thank you for coming. glad we were able to work it out. i was fascinating. you talked about i think you said 300 words of vocab are you currently have. i'm just curious how you went about choosing the vocabulary you chose?

>> this is important task that's why we have gone on board and we also negotiate an agreement with [inaudible] university itself. it's a huge task to get tomorrow conversations and make statistics about the use of times and so it's made by hand. it's huge task. >> thank you. >> any other questions from staff? i like to open up this information item. any public comment at this time? thank

you. i'm going to assume there's no one on the bridge line at this point. okay. thank you so much. we will go onto information item number 13. roanokeva.gov/councilmeetings smart wheelchair controller platform. but like to thank our presenters mark--and margin for being here today. thank you. >> thank you for having us. it's a pleasure to be here in front of the council. we made a trip here to participate to showcase our technology but we've also been around the bay area visiting people investors, hospitals because were looking for partnerships. then it was a price we got invited here and we were glad to come. i decided

not to show you a presentation, a normal presentation good because i think a video can speak 1000 words so all show you the video and let you comment on that. hopefully, you will like it. you'll enjoy it and you will see the benefits of this technology. let's see. >> >>[video]. >> what we have here is we have developed the world's first commercially available smart wheelchair controller. by smart wheelchair controller what we mean is it software upgradable and its integrated could we've integrated or number actually a few dozen services that are mostly available for high-level

injured people quarter critics and other injured people. and use it. what we have done we actually integrated them into one module one controller and that's what you're seeing is our special control if they had controller we use with a blank sensor. actually functions as a mouse, which enables people to drive it will chairs and at the same time they can control the computer was your finished our note wheelchair you can control your computer. one of our really big goals was to enable it to work and feel useful again. so this way those people were otherwise confined to their beds they can actually do work, translate, do whatever you can do in all computer just by the time [inaudible] this is how we drive a wheelchair with it. zach slater place [inaudible] technologies of chin controls, head arrays and other things that devices which

we believe are quite outdated. we want to bring the 21st century solution to this [inaudible] because our competitors actually providing wheelchair controllers to wheelchair manufacturers are using 30-40-year-old technologies and designs and everything. it is something that we want to change and make it more user-friendly. so, i could go into details about the functions but we have integrated environmental control systems am a synthesizers, navigation and communication platform so you can control-you can surf the internet you can make phone calls. all from your controller. we are actually working on a

self driving wheelchair which is enabled by this platform which [inaudible] but the we we imagine it is wheelchair is aware of its surroundings and in the living room i can tell the chair, okay, chair, please take me to the kitchen and i don't have to touch anything and it will drive me to the kitchen. this is something that's very exciting for some of our test pilots, test users. and our partners. so we have partnered with a number of wheelchair manufacturers mainly in europe because we are in europe. but also we sellers and hospitals. we have clinical trials in the uk uk and hungry and we've now come to the us looking for partnerships. mainly

charities and hospitals, the va, veterans, and we are invited here so i hope it scored to be interesting for the community here. we have created this to bring great benefits to wheelchair controllers and we understand that is the normal wheelchair controller can be seen as just fixed so people can use their hands. they can drive but we have a number of features like electronic stability and things like that. which are now very commonplace in let's say, cars, but nobody cared about will -wheelchairs. there are solution. nobody cared about stability of wheelchair driving we know how hard it it is to keep a straight line not only on services and things like

that. all that is integrated into the wheelchair controller and article was also to free people from the burden of putting also sorts of auxiliary boxes. with sega but basic will chart control that we want some additional features. currently what they do is take it to the wheelchair repair shop or your jeweler and they will fit another box and another cable. another box and another cable. so we combined everything into one. [inaudible] so you have a touchscreen and the remote control. so you can be remotely set up. maven of the possibility when you're sitting in your bed, let's say you can call the chair to yourself via remote control. you can sit in the chair. so, these are the features that we have something i want to share with you. i

think that's a. if you have any questions am happy to answer them. >> either quick question as far as clarity. when you are talking under different trials that test users would actually be with disabilities the one i was taking notes maybe i missed the people who are the people in the video testing out the controllers? >> this video was shot a few typing it was shot before and an exhibition that we have test pilots like to bring the video because it's not on youtube but those test pilots are actually in the budapest rehabilitation center in the national spinal injuries center in the uk group we are trialing its. >> okay. thank you. do you have any questions the one

>> i appreciate. it's a brilliant idea. i appreciate your working to update outdated technology and i think the idea of a soul serving wheelchair sounds very interesting. as a google employee-i'm definitely i would be a big proponent of that. i think it's definitely something interesting and very possible so i commend you for that and wish you all the best good >> thank you. staff, any questions? mark, thanks for coming. the three links you sent with those the other [inaudible] >> no. it was just two other videos. i think this is the essence. >> thank you for your present it. i have a question for you. is your system integrated with a backup camera? like many cars nowadays? >> we can do that. we've trialed it with a back camera.

we can do that. i do not mention that but we have options to actually-okay a big difference to existing wheelchair controllers is that our architectures open in a way that you can actually plug in additional components not manufactured by us and by that usb ports. we've tried backup cameras for the usb ports but our next step will be to make it able to support thermal centers in a way that we are planning to put pressure centers on two wheelchair mass. other sensors in the arm resting because people who spend most of their time in a wheelchair will be able to monitor their

life science or other signs of pressure, looking for signs of danger could maybe we can allow the person sitting in the we can alert the character mode we can alert the family member. we can file the information into the crowd and make use of it as a-in these, what is it called- the centers were they remotely monitor people. so, there's a lot of possibilities that we can do with this [inaudible] platform. >> in the video you demonstrated the person was driving a wheelchair in operating the computer. was that done with either movement? >> no. the reason why we are not using moment is because there are other companies trying to do either movement.

they're reasonably successful in manipulating computers but they never managed to-we talk to some of the permanent developers of id technologies, and day for the past 15 years have not been able to manage to drive a wheelchair safely and reliably. the safety and reliability is the key here. love all sorts of things like e.g. and other brain control and things like that but they never really took off because the technology is just not there to make it safe. what we want to create a safe and usable commercially viable product that can be put out there and people can safely sit in the chair and drive it. so we are using head gestures. very tiny movements of your head. most people can do it. you need to be very very seriously injured not be able to move your head.

[inaudible]. but yes, that's the reason. we have the blank sensor. we are using blank it is actually facial gestures could you can use it with your your mouth. actually that's a click and we can distinguish by the dozen different levels of clicking despite the tiny sensor we have their. so it enables people with using head gestures and your additional sensor to have a range of options to control the computer. >> impressive. do you always have to wear that ugly headpiece? >> it's not ugly >> it's about style, two. >> we try to make it as subtle as possible. certainly, better i think that a henna rate or

[inaudible] which doesn't allow you to see anything or [inaudible] device. so we came up with this and you can actually hide it under a cap or hat were under your hair so it will be [inaudible] but we will working on the second version would be much much smaller. this technology works by putting stuff on your head and there are other technologies which put things around your head but that's not what we have here. anyway, we tried and tested it with the number of users and ourselves specifically during it for days and it was a very-there were few but very few people that had palms with wearing it from an extended period of time. >> thank you good >> thank you. i'd like to open

this information item for any public comment. any public comment? anyone on the bridge line? okay, thank you good we will go want to public comment item number 14. items not on today's agenda within the jurisdiction of mdc. i don't think of to dull the speakers is only 3 min. so do we have any public comment were not in association with today's agenda? i'm going to say, no. okay go ahead and close public comment information item number 15 we have any correspondence? >> no correspondence >> thank you, donna. discussion item number 16 any announcements from councilmember? no, i do not have any announcements. so when

going to go ahead and adjourn the meeting. i think everyone for being here. the presenters. anyone viewing and i hope everyone has a nice weekend. thank you so much for your time. adjourn. >> >>[gavel] >>[adjournment] >> >> >>

i'd like to thank everyone for being here. i'm naomi kelly. today we are here to top off the new san francisco office of chief medical examiner. we are here to mark a construction milestone, completion the the steel frame. in a few minutes the final beam will be placed-put into place and hoisted up on top and we will be wul on our way to complete

the first voter funded project earthquake safety emergency response fund. myophilus oversees the general service agency which compenalizing 20 different departments [inaudible] chief medical ex578ner and department 06 public works rchlt also chair of cities capital planning commit which recommend thd bond and work to prioritize essential capital projects we are celebrating today chblt it is very near and dear to be a mart of the celebration and join in the significance of the san francisco medical examiners office protecting health and safety. it looks there is a lot of work left to be done there is a lut of work that went into getting us here today. you will hear more about the construction project as we go on but let's start with who made this project

ininstrumental making this project a priority and that is edwin lee. we made sure we partner would the community in the bayview and job frz the neighborhood residents and not this important public safety project moving forward. intrestment in capical project to support the 21 century needs. with the mayors guidance projects like this are beginning to benefit the neighborhood throughout san francisco, we are creating jobs, strengthening communities and building a stronger safer city. with that, mayor ed lee. >> thank you naomi and thank you for breeing a great city administrator. i love that job. love politics. this is a political year but let me begin by saying thank you to the voters of san francisco. little more than 2 years ago i listed to us and a number of

department who got together, all our first responder departments including fire, police, those that are in charge of water system. all of us got together and continue to do identify our 10iary capital plan and [inaudible] and can talk all day long about the 10 year capital plan but taking care och business. we are making sure the building [inaudible] chief medical examiners office is in a challenged building at the hall of justice and when we welcomeed him to the sit a we talked about the need to have a modern facility that could respond and be there whenever there might be a earthquake, there for a epidemic and certainly in need of a more modern laboratory facility and forensic facility and all the staff at the medical examiners

for years have said the condition and broken down conditions at the hall of justice require them to have this type of facility so put that in a $400 million as naomi said earthquake safety and emergency response bond and voted in into overwellmly so say thank you thmpt other way we thank the voters it get it done on time. we have park construction working with department of public works to make sure the largesh projects under the bond is done quickly and well and it is doing both as we can see. just in two years we are topping off the first of four major projects, maybe five major projects under the earthquake safety bond and

proud doing this because not only are they doing it only time and doing it will, but we also see that there is a tremendously positive impact in the way they are building because they worked closely with the city build program that is part the communities and response to make sure not thonl project whether housing or senior housing or community centers u fire, police station or medical examiner offices, we wpt those jobs in the community as much as we can. they worked closely and in fact, because the work public work has done and city build, 1/3 of all hours are performed by city residents and half from the bayview so shat positive impact. in addition to that,

there ask all most 34 different local enterprise business, locum businesses that are half of them are from the bayview that are also participating tin biltding and completion of the project so today i'm proud to sign my name on the last steel beam that will get on there and mohammed, i hope you got your signature on there as well doctor hunter i'm sure you have a signature and naomi and staff and agencies working collaboratively together with fire chief and her staff to make sure the beam gets up there because that is a milestone and means we are more than half way done and means the promise of having earthquake safe buildings for our first respond ers is going wem and that was the promise made to the voters when they voted over 79 percent to get

the bond passed. this is how we honor the vote is get the projects done on time in which all values in san francisco, with locing jobs and making sure we give people the opportunity to work here is all done in the right way. i am very proud of literally every aspect of this work and of course everybody is being safe on this job as well so we want that to continue w. that, i want to say again to city build, thank you very much and one the graduates that i get to introduce next, she herself has been not just a graduate of city build, i know she will forever remember her training but has gone to exactly what wewant her to go on and completed a number of hours on a new sf [inaudible]. she is proud to be part of the team

that brought us one of the most modern museums in the world and now gets to have her hand in helping build one of the most modern chief medical examiner buildings that we will have and that will be a important function for the community from which she came and i want to introduce you to city build graduate but also worker exextraordinary, joan moore. >> thank you mayor lee. i'm so grateful for this opportunity to be up here today and represent the work of everyone on this project. and my neighborhood. my name is joan moore. m i was born here in san francisco. i'm a bayview residents, live here all my life. went through the city build job training program in 2013 to pursue a career in the

construction industry. since then i work many different types of construction jobs including the san francisco [inaudible] where i was at that [inaudible] going through city build program has been good for me because i went through the training and took class to advance and every employer look at me differently. as i increased my knowledge, things opened up for me. as i educate myself i find more chance tooz advance. i'm not settling for anything. right now i'm a general labor and safety monitor. everyone i'm involved in say i see you as a safety person, you should pursue this. that is my encouragement. everyone gives me that advice and that motivates me. that is my encouragement. for future city build participants i tell you this, never stop thinking you can't advance in your career. never stop pursuing

your career. there is something out there for everyone. thank you to [inaudible] construction. thank you to the city of san francisco. thank you for abu. thank you all for letting me share my gratitude. [applause] >> thank you mrs. moore-thank you for sharing your story and see members of the abu and want to give a shout out to them. this is a organization that nob they have done a great job reaching out to women. nob nub on the project, $65 million is how much we spent on the bond funded project. 35 percent is local hire, half from the bayview as mentioned. 450 jobs

in san francisco as a result och this project. 46,000 square feet is the size oof the new facility. 375 tons of steel and 2500 cubic yards will be in the building. 345 tons of rebar mpt 145 miles of wiring. 50 years is how old the seismically [inaudible] in 2017 in the fall is when the new medical examiners office will relocate in the state of the art biltding. public works department is responsible for putting this tonight and manage the building design and construction and at the helm and leader of public works is mohammed nuru and he will be up next to speak about this project. [applause] >> thank you mayor lee and thank you [inaudible] for all

the work that you are doing. i think you know, we can all say that under mayor lee's leadership so many of the city projecterize delivered on time and budget. we rently finished the bayview opera house and finish thd library program and have a new library and all those projects were delivered on time and budget. more porntsly importantly is what we talk about is can the commune tay get jobs on the projects and on the bayview opera house and library we did very well and doing very well on the project. it is the only way we will be able and-only way the resident will be able to learn skill squz be here for the future of san francisco and through our bond programs many projects awhether it is

transbay or general hospital or our new police station we are able to meet the numbers set forth and achieve those numbers so the city family is working very very hard and the voters of san francisco trust the leadership of our maying to vote and pastz the project and have many more projects coming down the pipeline. the public works department, the role is work very closely with the community. we work with engineer and architects. we all get down and try to figure how to deliver the project the best way we can and today is the example of the medical examiners building. we are part of a [inaudible] team and so not just the city, but also our contractor. [inaudible] construction, partnership with city build and abu and partnership with many local

businesses. we set goal squz avenue one of the projects we exceed those goals. this building and this projict is a commitment that we are committed to put all san franciscans to work and have the workforce to build anything that you bring to us. i think the mayor deserves a very big hand for his leadership. [applause] on the projects we are building, they are not jush for now but many generations to come so excited. i want to quickly thank a few of the team that i work with from public works who work day in and out to [inaudible] start by thanking city architect [inaudible] he is here. [applause] [inaudible] if you don't know him you should meet him he is in charge of the

[inaudible] project manager [inaudible] is here. [inaudible] are on the staff here who made sure that we are moving on time and on schedule. [applause] there are also many or key consultant that make a project happen, it isn't just one or two people with we have a few consultant and like to thank from [inaudible] that is the team that actually designed the building. james mueller, [inaudible] thank them. [applause] and on the construction management side, we have [inaudible] construction management. [inaudible] from public works involved in over 4 billion dollars of construction projects in san francisco and

very luckily because we are busy and able to build the workforce to dlinch the projects. like all projects today is a milestone and will put the final steel beam up and make sure the project is completed on budget and on time. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you mohammed. this modern facility provides structural, operation resiliency and efficiency. the new aufs moves us as city in the direction and strengthens our resiliency. here to speak next is chief medical examiner, dr. michael hunter. [applause] >> i want to thank two people today. i want to certain mayor ed lee and city administrator,

naomi kelly. i want to thank them for their vision. if not for their commitment we wouldn't be here today. they understood early on the need to have this facility so want to thank these people very much. [applause] i'm also impressed with the amount of dedication and hard work that mohammed's team with public works has done to get this job to where it is today. the progress is imprivess and this will allow san francisco to maintain our own sense of preparedness and resiliency. the new center will enable the city to be at the forfront of [inaudible] lastly, i want to thank the residents of the city and county of san francisco for making this possible. thank

you. [applause] >> thank you dr. hunter. another partnership that we value with our relationship with the general contractor. welcome from the primary contractor for this project, senior vice president of park construction group, [inaudible] [applause] >> good afternoon everybody ft first, thank you mayor lee for your leadership and your support throughout the city. thank you naomi and mohammed and dr. hunter for your support and leadership in the project. marks relationship with the city is a fantastic partnership z also want to recognize the great leadership by edgar lopez [inaudible] to make this a realty and be a great partner with us through the juny. we are honored to be a active community partner with inbayview neighborhood and community and have on going

relations [inaudible] with pub lrk works are continuing to reach out and involve and make the xhounty every much a part of as we are during the construction phase. we are proud of what we accomplished to date, but still have approximately a year left so there is tremendous amount of opportunity we intend to maximize. so far we trained and graduated 9 bayview small businesses as part of clark small business training program we call the clark strategic program. we worked with rebuild ing together and abu to assist with renovations at the double rock church, which we felt was a great success. we collaborated with abu and mohammed nuru to provide winter coats, thanks giving turkeys.

we preely do appreciate and thank the abu and this great community for your support [inaudible] [applause] teamwork is a haulwer hark what makes clarks construction project successful and not only do we have a great team leading the design we also think is a great teak associate would the construction of the design but that also involves the community. i do want to make kmd, [inaudible] we have a great group orsubcontractors to make this a aif project and want to thank the clark team for their dedication to the project and community and everything we achieved thus far. we look forward to future collaborations and the grand opening of the facility next summer so thank you, everybody.

[applause] >> okay. as we wrap up there are a new more people who i like to thank. first i like to tharng depy city administrator [inaudible] work would the medical examiner and pub lrk works to make sure we are on budget and meets the operational needs to best services the public. want to thank contract monitoring division [inaudible] we have local business participation and thank you for that. and the san francisco arts commission. there are two permanent art works commissioned. one at the entrance of the office and [inaudible] which fs built at hunters point shipyard in 1891. there will be another sculpture in the visitors center [inaudible] thousands of

pieces of fabric which depict the salt marshes of indian basin. with that, let's raise

>> morning everybody welcome to the budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, september 14, 2016, my name is mark farrell chairing the committee joined by