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] >> >> >>

>> well, good morning everybody welcome to the transit hub in san francisco that is reeling hub i wanted to say good morning to everybody our san francisco city and county conducted a study and a recognition part of our local and regional transit report viewing 2030 what we all had to do to help the residents our regional would it be fair to say and businesses all succeed using the great notion of increasing and improving our entire public trappings system one of they're very specific recognitions that i had the privilege of focusing on with supervisor wiener's leadership has been our night

life late night and early public morning transportation system you you know we have a great economy in good a great part the 15 thousand people that need to use public transit that are part after a $50 million revenue stream for you will have our night life proclamations hotels, the bars, the hospitals and all the workforces there and everything this is open 24/7 we understand and know that the workforce is not just limited to people to live in san francisco in fact, because of the increasing expensiveness there is for housing and by the way, this is going to be a site of a 100 percent affordable housing in the near future where we move own over to the transbay center we're trying to build as much affordable housing in the city

we need to know where people are living and how they need to get to work and by the way, in this 2030 transit study we had made we knew the workforce regional probably going to be people that are working second jobs and sometimes third jobs question we cannot simply force them to use air cars to help or force them to buy vehicles that is a workforce that needs our support and recognize to make sure that they can get to work or have visitors or all the kinds of things this 50 thousand person industry and $50 million world of revenue stream needs our support on i am especially thankful to the regional transit agencies that we've had the privilege of working with ac transit and bart and golden gate and along with

our own san francisco muni transit agency all ushering together under the umbrella working with the mtc, our municipal transit commission finland funds to extend the services like our outline service i think our drivers are going to be proud of and i know we'll talk about in a minute that's what we're going locally but all the agencies working together have fund funding to reach where workers and people live and those extended hours of operation 4r0k9 routes throughout the bayview and the east bay has been credible part of 24 service to support the late night shifts and the early morning shifts of you're working

folks i get to announced this effort because part of our 2030 vision plan for san francisco was to make sure that we give attention to the programs that we're creating and that the reasons why we're treating e creating this is because we need to sustain this workforce and recognize they're working all hours of evening and supporting their effort through public transportation public transportation throughout all the modes i've identity one of the grandfather equalizer in the prosperity economy we're doing if we don't do this we'll leave a lot of people out of success of our big economy being so hot we've got to get people to work and again, i say a great equalizer those are working families second and thirds jobs their probably doing and making

pretty good money i'm increasing nor night life activities whether mid market street day and night life and all the housing in the city that want to operate at all hours i'm very proud of the agencies the regional transit agencies we're working with and get that bar bonds passed; right? but we need support i need to be out with ac transit and golden gate our own sfmta to make sure that everybody knows we're going to cover those gaps with all levels of transit extensions along with helping bart and helping your regional transit centers with a great transit center we're building and completed in the next few years ago at this time and right now it is about many workforce and the visitors that use late night transit we have

to give them a very affordable addition to the way they get to work and the way they get back to their families safe at night and have is extended you are hours make sure we publicize that a great system with that, i get to introduce someone that is a little bit reason turn around me literally on all things to do with transit and small businesses by the way, i want to make sure i mentioned that our small businesses with the great beneficiaries of this this is their would it be fair to say we're talking about but supervisor scott wiener has been a point person on the vision the 2030 pain and suffering with me on vision zero projects partnering with me on the mtc and all the other agencies that kind of help with the bay area discussion around our transit needs and making sure that we're do know all the right things in

the city let me traffic introduce a great supervisor supervisor wiener >> (clapping.) >> great. >> thank you thank you, mr. mayor this is really exist today because it brings together two of my absolute passions transportation and our night life economy our night life for people having fun and working and two areas that are often been neglected and i have the honor of service on the board of supervisors and sharing our community transportation authority and also representing san francisco on the municipal transportation commission. >> thank you to mayor ed lee for appointing me to the mtc and for years and working on night

life issues what we hear over and over both from business owners from workers from patrons is that that is just two hard to get around at night that our transit system shut down even before the shut down serve becomes incredibly inadequate until ridership came along good luck getting a cab at the 2:00 a.m. when the bars shut down and it was good hard getting around i held a hearing we started to hear from workers that we're talking about how do i goat home late at night with 200 or $300 with tips in my pocket without getting robbed and the anthsdz of getting to bart before that is closed we started hearing from business owners and from aprons and people in night life and so i

authored legislation to create a late night transportation working group to require a planning process a wonderful, wonderful group off people came together for a year it is actually still functioning and putt together a great road map thank you to the entertainment commission and your community transportation authority and the office of economic workforce development for reilly clovis on that plan and recommendations a lot of things including the eventual prize the second bart service that but in the meantime before we get to the promise land dooekd one of those thing is better overnight bus service and make sure that people know about the in fact, habituate and thank you to golden gate transit and stem tram for coming together to say that is one

integrated network we need to move together to expand that overnight bus service and i want to thank the metcalf's forces stepping up to support the martha campaign to promote to late night service to the public to help to fund but but also to provide tens of millions of dollars to help the transit agencies expand they've over night bus service we've seen all the transbay routes create and muni has capacity it's overnight outline services making it easier and easier to get around at night and give people confidence had the bars close at two or three or 4 or 5 in the morning they're actually able to get around that is exciting we need to promote this marketing campaign that will permanently hope people don't know i thought

to housing unit to 511 in helping the public it access this information about the transit service with that, i want to call up people the president of the board of directors of the ac transit one of the key partners in making sure the people could a get across the bay in the middle of the night. >> thank you, supervisor wiener and mayor ed lee my name is chris i'm an elected at large director of at transit and the president we're pleased to be part of the effort to encourage the late night work and play in san francisco and oakland question he provided some service but because former senator included us in measure 2 had service with was inadequate i want to absolute supervisor wiener's lairp in putting

together the late night working groups that vastly increased the service bart paid for it and bart tom who is president of the bart board is the director for the mission area and he was very revolved in that my former colleague now the ocean boulevard city council rebecca helped we have pretty good service on the west side of the east bay we had some problems in the some of the routes that went further out but i think this effort this publicist effort is very important so everybody thinks whether you're coming to pirate or work over here, whether our cleaning up after people that need to get home at 3:00 o'clock

in the morning there the transit available and absolute supervisor wiener for all the work and this publicist effort means many more people will permanently be aware of the possibilities of getting around after midnight. >> thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you so one of the things that we when we started to project we were first focused on patrons getting home on the bart and the clubs closing at night and started focusing more than on workers when they get off work late another night one thing we've not focused on originally but know an issue a number of people that are going to work early in the morning to help you city activate and come to life and the challenges people face getting to work early in the

morning i want to bring up karen the owner of mission pie one of the neighborhood businesses that is baking early early in the morning and talk about she's a great participated in the task force and like to say invite her up. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, supervisor wiener and mr. mayor i've been listening to everyone speak i've been stressed by how much u how much has happened not last couple of years this is not a new problem but a problem rooted in historic planning in the region that has maybe only increasing low needed to be inclusive and co- hey a lot of the transit systems are really great individually but we're designed and envisioned at a time when service workers lived

in their community as the affordability in our region changes and the demographics follow that change more and more and more people are traveling longer danced to get to work our records center in our shop coming from vallejo the mission district and unlike large cities like new york that built unified systems we're struggling to overcome the legacy that once made sense and not now i'm so excited we hear other people talk about early morning needs which is sort of a recent quiet voice at the table actually not quite - to reflect on the change that you know a year ago i couldn't tell the people that work in our business without with who vision i won't

function i couldn't give them an answer and the people this they're first week of work uninvariable were late on the weekends and shocked to discover there was no way to get if the east bay to work on time and now there it is a so concrete and incredible but but every relationship including the relationship between a worker and they transit provider is a relationship of trust that may sound strange we have to keep the cheer on about these changes because it will permanently take people some time to really have faith in something not been there before and fundamental issue in the region of economic justice that everybody in every kind of working job has access

to their job at any time of day or night thanks to everyone that has been working on this. >> (clapping.) >> thank you. >> okay. so thank you, everyone for being here today and great step forward and not the last implementing those recommendations until we get to a truly twenty-four hour transit system here in the bay area so thank you ver

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