about. as we wept through the conversation even with the committee even though we didn't come to a conclusion there, we looked at everything from adding full day saturday parking to really limiting things to sunday mornings and in that conversation i think what staff came to is the idea of trying to formalize a solution that honored the current and existing circumstances so parking hapbs past 6 o'clock we thought 6 o'clock represented in the hour a reasonable hour that isn't too dark and maybe one hour of darkness in the evening and couple months for a year. we couldn't find data that suggested people were running into the backs of the cars so a outcome evaluating this is whether at 6 o'clock there are no car thrz which suggests we should pull the hours sknack there isn't a damd for that. i think we felt the issue was

single cars in the dark than it was a row of 10 cars parked there in the dark. >> good. thank you. directors, questions, discussion? >> i had a few. >> please. >> thank you very much, mr. knox white. this was a interest progress on this and just a couple follow up spots on the proposal for your consideration going forward and for the commitsy to consider going forward. it is my bet that this parking is going to fill up as quickly as it becomes available by workers or customers or residents who want to park extra vehicles they might own that they don't have parking for. once it becomes available to the public and the whole public knows it is available, i suspect like every other available parking space in the city it

will be snatched up the moment it becomes permissible for vehicles to park there. i'm under the impression the only reason it doesn't happen now is the way it is unofficially managed gave the public the impression they were not allowed to park there because the parking was reserved for the institutions. so, i'm hoping that we have sort of a plan in place to respond to that once that happens and if it doesn't happen i'm happy. i suspect it will and encourage you toconsider the idea of putting hourly limitations like 4 hour limitations on that parking or two hour limitations to increase turn over and keep people who shouldn't park there from parking there so it remains available for the intended use of the space. if that doesn't work i

encourage to start thinking what it will take to meter those spaces. again, from the persperktive of keeping the spaces available for those who need if and funding enforcement. that is probably something that i would encourage you to just think about as you are rolling the thing out, not necessarily to implement it or look at implementing right away. again, i hope i'm wrong. i love the idea of a parking pass. i suspect that the institutions are looking at this. i would hope that the folks from the synagogue would be very open to the idea of letting people park in their lots when they are not there and the other folks in the christian institutions on sundays will be happy to allow the muslims park on fridays or whatever it might be, but there

are plenty of times when church lots are vacant-faith based institutions are vacant and it will be cool for the ecminicle council or any counsels that exist to put toorkt a parking pass for their members that would allow for parking to happen in each other lots. i hope you look into something like that because i suspect with the reduction of parking they will need something to that effect. again, really supportive of all this. i'm glad to see it has come this far. i know this was a divisive issue for a lot of folks in my conversations i had with people about this but think it is step in the right direction and appreciate all the engagement that members of the community provided in this and again, the leadership on the part of staff and everyone involved so thank you. >> thank you, director ramose. that brings up the question if the

parking fills up and the faith based community no longer has the easier access they will want to consider some type of transportation demand management plan or managed parking in the area so that is interesting to watch. any other questions? motion to approve? second? all in favor aye. opposed? hearing none the item is passed. yes, i'm sorry. >> i hope that we use this opportunity in work wg this community on this issue to talk about the homeless issue, which is another issue that came up before where we have people in those vehicles living in their vehicles and no place for them to park and since we have a audience with the community at this point, i recognize it is primarily concentrated in that area, but if we can use that as a way to start that conversation too that will be great. >> thauchck very much director mord borden. and that conclude our

meeting, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] thank you. >> for km my name is ed reiskin i'm the director of transportation in to san francisco and absolutely delighted to be joined by u.s. secretary of transportation andrew's and mayor ed lee and some other smart and committed people to announce and celebrate the grant award of $11 million from the u.s. department of transportation to san francisco

to help us do some of the things most important things we do in the city first make sure that people can get around more safely and move people inefficiently and fewer vehicles and really try to groundbreaking hinges in a new development in treasure island on the corner of that map really bringing that kind of innovation through 24 grant with really groundbreaking stuff and fit well with the three is where the get over the finish line was we have a mayor that has been a strong leader and currently innovation and collaboration and that's really what that arrogant problem about call about we're honored and humbled to be a recipient of this grant i think that

rehabilitates a lot about the current administration and u.s. department of transportation when president obama announced andrew fox as his nominee to be secretary of transportation we knew immediately that that would bowed well, for cities and for the whole crisis andrew fox was the mayor of charlotte and they knew each and everyone of each other there the conference the mayors and a progressive great work in that he is city in charlotte for transportation and more general that he will serve us well in d.c. he understand what happens on the ground in the city he also brought to the job a great passion for equity and creating opportunity for people in recognizing that transportation is really a big part of that and extremely important here in san francisco more so than it's ever been and

a strong focus on safety and also a it up priority here in san francisco with vision zero now almost 3 years ago in the city to eliminate traffic fatalities by 2024 but i would like to see most revolutionsy a approach that may sound shocking the federal government didn't have all the answers and this grant program and the smart city challenge we're seeing he really took the federal grant process and flipped it on its head and a attribute to the secretaries leadership to say hey, we don't dr. all the answers and a lot going on the ground rather than telling you what to do we need you to tell us what the goals and equity and safety and collaborate across the city to

improve the outcomes for people if you're city and region through the smart city challenge and there this grant program that is changed. >> the way we partnered between local and federal government and we have a long history of the partnership and great infrastructure project with the subway and the van ness brt and the geary brt also some innovation and technology partnership that is sf park this one really is different approach and really a testament to our secretary of transportation i think history will reflect that he will be one of the best to serve in that capacity we were incredibly howard to have him in san francisco please help me welcome director of transportation andrew fox >> anthony and he had thank you for the wonderful introduction it is also great to

be back in the bay area with the great friends friend of mine mayor ed lee who has demonstrated so much leadership on so many issues in particular transportation and we'll talk about some of that today also has been in the bay area for about 48 percent hours and suffice to say ii see the evidence of the tremendous congestion ♪ region and if you were in the jelly making business i'll have a big jar of traffic jam (laughter) and let me say this is part of the 21st century challenge of transportation in america >> you're in one of the faster growing regions in the country if not the faster and a dime

economy and problems of transportation are not just related to you know a lack of attention to trying to move things along it is actually, the fact that growth is outpacing our ability to build the infrastructure to solve our problems and if i might just depart what i was intending to say parts of that is the fact at the federal level so much of our transportation policy and fund has been built around building these testimonies systems and the challenge of 21st century is integrating those systems and making the systems work better together and really if that context that the u.s. department of transportation for at least the last 8 years has been focused on trying to help our nation through our communities

understand that we need a more demand driven transportation system by that i mean rather than dictating to the country how transportation is to be practiced from place to place giving communities more flexibility giving them more resources. >> allowing them to shape the vision themselves because frankly the challenges here in the bay area are different than in the midwest and different in other place we need the flexibility we're a big country and need to practice transportation definitely than place to place understanding we're proud of the fact we launched the smart city challenge, a challenge that really did turn on its head the typical grant making process what folks will say about that

the secretary walked into a conference room and said we want to do this they want to frng what they were looking for we'll know it when we see 2 we saw great things in san francisco and we preceded to go through 24 process and in the process with the advances litigation congestion granted san francisco was hugely competitive that's why we're awarded the money inform this project here so let me get back to what i was supposed to say the as a matter of fact of the matter is we need to leverage the kelly whitcraft had help us reduce the congestion and during or doctoring my time we've been focused on innovation we've been inclusively ways to empower san francisco to repeat technologies frankly you were doing this on

our own anyway we were here in the convenient last year federal government to help and to address transportation issues you see everyday in the same vein flo the field for initiative approaches to advance transportation technology for example in december a vehicle to vehicle mauvent all light rail to be equipped with technology to communicate directly with each other on the roads and released the most advanced set of safety rules advance in the world i'm sorry this is unmanned aircraft systems or drones what i was going to say to top it off we've proutsd the first of its kind for ammonias vehicles 2, 3, 4 is the most comprehensive

policy that the world produced and precedence setting in the sense we're setting out the ground work for the he will technology systemthorax in october we announced $65 million in advanced technology transportation grant to help the cities across the country fight the congestion and encourage the market those grants will build on the smart city challenge the challenge asked the cities across the country what they need to improve their systems and few limitation in giving us that feedback in response we received applications for more than 78 cities and our goal with this round the application grant we want to make that easier for local areas to test new ytdz and reach beyond about what was deny to meet the challenges we know we'll face in the future and so

we provided almost $12 million to san francisco to support a number of projects to encourage ride sharing and carpooling and making that better by having pickup curve for the riders and helping to deploy smart connecting traffic to make intersections safer for people riding bikes now separate and apart what did you do by nearly $360 million for the demand on - that will connect public and private transportation options all of those are p.o. box san francisco to be one of the most connected cities at a time when the infrastructure continues to be stressed that's why it is too important we need to test in the 21st

century solutions to those issues i should also is that maybe to conclude that mayor ed lee knows when cities come up with good solutions to problems overtime they get replicated elsewhere so we are trying very o vertically to user laboratories to helpful see some of the greatest efforts represent indicated in other parts of country so mayor ed lee i want to thank you and the entire region for your leadership, and thank you for continuing to push the vision vision for transportation to its growing edge shall we say. >> thank you for continuing to help us help you by giving us great things to work on together

and looking forward as partners to help with that collaboration well into the future thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, mr. secretary that needs to give a flavor of the new and better way of the federal government looking to partner with us with regards to taking things that are employed in the city with the replication sf park and a opportunity pilot a pricing for that concludes my remarks that led to a significant reduction in congestion and their green house gas emissions made it easier for people to find a way for parking that is now becoming a standard across the country and that kind of innovation happening can be invested and replicated across the country within the spirit of that grant the secretary mentions that the congestion in the city i was hoping he

wouldn't that is something that the mayor talks about i'm trying to tell him congestion is a good thing it is healthy but he remind me too much can have adverse safety impacts and start to make that harder for people to get around for work and education can help start to restrict the ability for the growth it has so some of the tools ♪ grant will help us address that or challenge we're having to make the streets safer at the same time, we have great leadership from the mayor among his tasks to nominate the directors for the municipal transportation agency and we're happy to be joined by our charm of the board of directors tom

and their leadership inform our agency that positions you guess and the rest of the city to be competitive for this grant first place i wanted to acknowledge they're great leadership by the mayor has done a lot for transportation and the task force brought in half a million dollars to invest in that infrastructure as the secretary talked about and most of all helps to us partner outside of government and that leadership is also positions to us to be a contender please join me in welcoming mayor ed lee >> (clapping.) >> thank you. good morning everyone and welcome to super public another indication of the way we're doing things in san francisco but we're part of a whole region let me take the

opportunity to thank our friend secretary fox thank you to you, your leadership and you know as i was listening to the secretary talk not just about the grant but looking at him and thinking years ago when president obama suggested more than suggested he said we had to be covered from the economic disasters when he first started started to make critical investments transportation has been the center whether borrowing that clicks on the president was there along with leader pelosi working closely with our city and making sure we utilities those federal funds appropriately to get jobs done and start talking about the center of our city and how we might be prepared for economic recovery even better and look was has happened 2, 3, 4 did 8 years and it is not just because

we want economic activities i think there is a dramatic movement of people who want jobs and better life to move into the city and they're coming regardless of whether you want to put the welcome mat or not people are looking for that better life but happening in all the cities in the bay area and across the country and secretary has observed and visited chinatown and part so i say that in the sense he really want to say thank you to a former mayor to a friend to secretary who literally is here from the first welcome back to the last week of his tenure to be in the city i know he's appreciated for a variety of reasons and die is no

exception we're here super public because we heard is not just the support from the secretary the administration we literally known that his folks at the fta are writing the transportation systems personally experiencing what day to day people are talking to us about so they can say oh, this is what you are experiencing and this is work you need those funds and not just a complaint about suggestions but a direction of finding solutions as reflective we don't need those things on the singular city and fda grant it is bribl everyone together so that's why super public has been a model with academia and leadership where the county is involved and

technology leaders are involved and their data is confirmed own mta and county transit experts can all congregate to make sure not only we're using does the federal funds the way it is directed bull bringing in the extra juice of folks that are going to be thinking in the future and shouldn't surprises you, we were getting a smart is city grant but shouldn't surprise you we're not independent on a single grant but commitment committed to make sure our city and region continues to be answering the challenge the congestion but i also think two this is what the added value of that we have - when we were by the obama effects to come up with better

solutions i'm specifically happy about something that was done a couple of years ago back the mta said in response to not just technology not just the transit who are we serving as well but tailor have been documented disparities who the transit system serves and so in that muni equity strategy i've provide the mta adopted identified a lot of community not serves when you are not served you not going to a participation and dialogue how electric autonomous electrical vehicles help the community impoverished for any years you want to have a policy and system that serves everybody that

brings even up so the growth strategy was as important as the newest introduction of technology and how it will help everyone when you combine all that you get the attention of the president and the discreet and the attention of our fta administrator and the leaders please san francisco is paying attention to everything and all aspects of improving everyone's life and using transit agency a way to get things down that's why i celebrate not just the grant of $11 million but the hundreds of millions of we've been fortunate to receive we have not only national leadership that paid attention but people's life experience like former mayor fox that understood from the first minute how those challenges are to

every city that's why we work closely they incentiveed by challenging us through the smart grant to do it better that's why out of all the entities that came together the bart and community bart next year i think we're doing it right we're answering those questions i think we're having the dialogue and the inclusionary policies that will make our city better for everyone this is y what i came to office to try to do and thankful for the leadership as director reiskin and the county of transportation agency are putting together all the detergents so we could eat less of traffic jam and more of the peanut butter (laughter). >> and take the opportunity on the last few weeks of his

leadership to say thank you secretary to our leadership those are years we'll look back we've done things well and got the support and leadership of president obama and the capitol hill not only not just the money but what we've created out of the opportunities that bring this city and entire region together this is what i think those federal divisions are all about not just fund transit projects but bring people together to make sure that crying country was moving together with everybody that's why i'm particularly provide of the the way the incentiveed program and others have allowed us to simplify our humanity respect for the improvement of transit and solve problems and

insure that everyone is included for a better city on behalf of the city and county of san francisco secretary thank you hopefully, you'll be back negative impact a different capacity with an that will continue to compliment us and as you ride our transit systems when you do get here they'll be adequately improved with a level of intelligence and smartness so that this year whereby less jams and more peanut butter . >> (clapping.) >> you could hear from the former mayor and secretary this deep commitment to equity i think reflects the ideals they've brought to the public service and really has been

integrate in the work they local level with the transportation to make sure that it provides an opportunity for folks to take part what we hope to achieve ♪ grant you heard a lot about the clorox of the regional and federal level i want to acknowledge the administrator of the transit not only leaving the fta but a career transit professional and a frequent transit rider that helps us to make the case what are the transit across the country a great partner but and the sfmta office as well and in the region the mayor made reference to a member of bart the board of directors and doctor from uc berkley two of the smarter folks in the region of the country how to make transportation better

here so a lot of brain power in the room and region we work together and make that happen part of brain power from the county of transportation authority they've lead a lot of great groundbreaking work in how to develop the brand new community in treasure island and part of the two of the projects of this grant are focused on treasure island the secretary mentioned the guidance that his administration put out with autonomous vehicles see how 24 fits on the ground of treasure island with the transportation authority under the leadership of the executive director tilly chang >> (clapping.) >> thank you so many ed and secretary fox and mayor ed lee and all of our honored guests thank you so much on behalf of

the community of the transportation authority thank you to secretary fox and the mta for this grant and opportunity to partner and demonstrate the benefits of initiative transportation as the community agency wouldn't be more exciting to initiative with the partners logically and nation wide mr. secretary thank you for your championship and income tax and amongst the cities your leadership with the department of transportation has been nothing short of incredible and mayor ed lee recounted many of the examples you are were about two years ago in february of 2015 going down the 101 to guaranteeing google i believe you unveiled your beyond traffic initiative a national dialogue

of the awareness of transportation investment to the need for investment and the crisis of a lake lack of impetus we see in congress that year we were all seeking to have a long-term transportation bill your messing meg miss included the ways of doing more business efficiently manage congestion to protect the planet and bring all the members of the community as mayor ed lee eloquently mentioned later that year in the fall of 2015 usual administration sent the long term bill to congress as the fast map leader pelosi and other leaders in congress was passed happily by president obama and laid the ground work to advance beyond the transportation all the non-sexy things the transportation and the brightens

and transportation as well as the initiative partnering and this included, of course, particulars marked stirs challenged the faster grant program to administrator in my career with the leadership of mayor ed lee and our partners locally thank you for your grants together with uc berkley we're happy and excited to be a winner of this grant and the finalist we were in the company of 77 other amazing cities who also rays their hands we have a tremendous need this has been a fantastic experience and just the gwen with advanced grant the transportation authority will be working with ed and his team at the sfmta to demonstrate the smart corridors and innovations

connected and technologies and as mentioned on treasure island will be partnering with the treasure island development authority so have a community on treasure island that is planned for 8 thousand units of housing 26 affordable over the next 20 some years our projects will include a powell system to help fund the transit and water and muni and ac bus service as well as autonomous shutters transportation on treasure island really will be a laboratory we look forward to this and with the partners at caltrans and the commission those will transform treasure island and have a robust neighborhood that will be a model of innovation in terms of

transportation to demand management and safety and the way we fund those types of programs through the innovative feature we've advance the secretaries initiative by tying together a town hall transportation system and with the carving and bike share for the most vulnerable residents so thank you and in closing for your administration secretary look forward to the major capital project involving the transit and both downtown and as well as the recent van ness brt project we're fortunate to get $75 million we're ever so grateful and appreciate our support you've extended to all the partners at caltrans for the electrification we wish you the

best we want you to come back of all the work in a few years time thank you . >> (clapping.) >> thanks tilly and thank you for your leadership hers it the public agency and mine and the federal government didn't have all the answers we were shocked to know they didn't have all the answers we're a happy to be joined by part of bringing together the other partners to make that arrogant happen. >> (clapping.) >> thank you i'm probably the most at least competitive and person in front of of the people this morning i didn't realize nicholas was going to be here he was told the trains went to oakland and thank god a lady told me that i don't think anyone would have missed

me that's why the room is so fuel we're thankful and i'll summarize our goal to help the public private partnering with the innovation and as long as we're not locked into a temp we're allowed to work with the private sector and this is part of design methodologies that is built on stanford and uc berkley with all the pilots that's really the work at the 76 projects we're looking at and meaningful second scale across the country we've been lucky that mayor ed lee has for the last two years helped us to create an institution for the public basically the federal government and others getting together and, of course, the uc

berkley to actively go out and scale those pilots and that's really been the goal of that thank you, mayor ed lee we have d.c. and miami and worked with the academic institutions the work with secretary fox with the smart city grants we've been able to beat out many folks as we've become the first institution to help planning out u outside the london to open this so we can intricate the electrical vehicles and we currently have people in the community really engaging the community in miami hey, what does the community want and with the work with ed reiskin and tilly chang in terms of the the work we what pilot those out here and scale them across the u.s. and uc berkley great

partners with the people that binge things to the table we can test thank you, everyone and actually making this a reality and giving us an opportunity to nationalize this we're excited thank you. >> (clapping.) >> so finally just because something is initiative didn't mean it's good much the innovation maybe good and not so good but advancing the policy goals uc berkley brings the research to support what we'll test in the field and our ability to test it to achieve our outcomes and uc berkley for the institute studies leads by dr. >> thank you to secretary fox and mayor ed lee for the

opportunity to be here with you this is a very exciting year 2017 is not only our 17 anniversary but also something that people didn't know the 20 anniversary of the first time we have a california, if any, in the context of the federal grants like 20 years ago this break through this was conceives fiction we hope that will be an exciting mitigation grant we can claim the victories two years from now the history of collaboration within the city of san francisco and the university we've seeing none, public comment is closed in memorandum of understanding when was dramatically related by the challenge we are extremely grateful into secretary fox but the university have been collaborating on cities berkley was involved in the snatch and the writing of the mou between

the city of san francisco and the city of paris and many - we're excited today because of the work because it alsoables us to interact with did public university at berkley through this program we really hope to make contributions to the bay area and california to the u.s. and in general, you you look at you'll see the involvement of the universities in the programs whether on the bridge or talking about the tenderloin or all the others things that berkley was involved in with the mtc and caltrans and the federal government specifically the services roll in the program that will be led by susan thank you for your leadership throughout the program and this challenge and many other exciting things the secretary has led in his tenure specific

to berkley's contributions in the granted we are excited we're push the research and the extent those par dims they'll change urban san francisco see is a city of innovation most of technologies the transportation all born no or in san francisco no better place than the city the second involvement of the university for the vision zero corridor that is an extremely important for public transit and more importantly the third is data electrics in the 151 impossible to see the systems that will be operated suv and no better place to do this than the other partners at the table here and uc berkley has the highest concentration of people in the

world that as advanced dictated for a den benefit of translation we're excited about the future of smart cities and at berkley we cared about transfer which we produce in the passerby la habra through the examples throughout this wonderful collaboration with the federal government have successfully approved grant break through these and grateful for the programs we've built no, first in the future so to conclude i want to express my warmest thanks to mayor ed lee and secretary fox they're leadership working together with the federal government to absolutely amazing have a partner a prestige and we're excited in the future to contribute to the partners agencies at the table today microsoft and others and thank

you to secretary fox and others. >> (clapping.) >> okay. thanks i'll give a final thank you to secretary fox for his great service we're short on time maybe time for two consecutive questions and let you on your way the floor is open any questions if not thank you all so much for >> the office of controllers whistle blower program is how city employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address

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>> all right good morning, ladies and gentlemen, it is good to see you this morning, my name is malia cohen you have joined us on the regular meeting of the budget and finance committee, and i am the chair of which knit i committee and to my right is supervisor norman yee and katy tang and the clerk is linda wong and i would like to thank and acknowledge sfgovtv for broadcast thanksgiving methis meeting for us. >> please silence your phones, and files to be submitted items today will be appear on the january, 31st, agenda, unless otherwise stated. ? ethank you very much, ladies and gentlemen just for your edification today is my first day of budget chair and so bear with me if i stumble and it is a

privilege to serve san francisco in this cape capacity. could you call item? >>resolution retroactively authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $367,968 from california department of public health to participate in a program entitled california project launch for the period of december 1, 2015, through june 30, 2019; and waiving indirect costs. >> thank you. first we are going to hear from miss diane besum and followed by mr. david bell from the department of public health to speak on this item. are you both here? good to see you, the floor is yours. >> thank you, i am the director of public health nursing in the san francisco department of public health and maternal child. and i am happy to share some facts for you if you would like to review those at a later time. project launch is an initiative to initiate mental health

consultations to the public health nursing home visiting programs. we are also going to be promoting existing models of current cafes for parenting and child development. and we are collaborating currently with san francisco first five. and with the human services agency, and the behavior health services within the county. i am happy to answer your questions. >> thank you, let's hear from mr. bell. >> are you not making a presentation. >> no problem. thank you for that brief presentation. i see that we don't have a budget analyst report on this item. let's go ahead and sperp tang make a few more remarks. >> thank you, this dates back

december 1, 2015, if you could explain why it is retroactive and why. we received an executed estate and there were a number of delays and getting that information packaged and ready to be presented to the finance committee. >> all right, thank you. >> okay, thank you, and let's go ahead and take public comment on this item. ladies and gentlemen, this is the time where anyone can speak on this particular item. just as a reminder you will have two minutes, you will hear a soft chime and that indicates that there are 30 seconds remaining of your two minutes allotment. public comment is open at this time. anyone is welcome to come to this desk and speak. all right seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues is there a motion for

this item? supervisor tang? >> sorry my mic would not come on. i will make a motion to put it forward to the board with a positive recommendation. >> without objection this item passes. item two, please? >>resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $207,500 from san francisco community clinic consortium to participate in a program entitled health care for the homeless - oral health expansion, for the period of january 1, 2016, through december 31, 2016; and waiving indirect costs. >> thank you, do we have a representative from dph to speak on this item? hi my name is beth and i am the department of public health primarily care and we put a state with the san francisco community clinic on the healthcare for the homeless and we have for many years, which provides the social work and mental and dental services this year there was an opportunity for additional federal oral

health services grant for 315 annually, which we were awarded a half a year for. and we also were allocating an additional $50,000 from the existing grant funds that another agently had given us. and it funds, directly dental aid services. >> thank you, and great with the program, and let's go ahead and open up for public comment. >> all right, public comment is opened. seeing none, public comment is closed thank you. >> i would like to make a motion to pass it on the committee with the positive recommendation. >> i think that we want to continue this item if i am not mistak mistaken. make a motion for a positive

recommendation. >> without objection that item passes. thank you. >> madam clerk, the next item please? >>resolution retroactively authorizing the san francisco department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $434,777 from the california department of public health to participate in a program entitled prescription drug overdose prevention project for the period of july 1, 2016, through august 31, 2019. >> thank you, we have dr. cofen from the department of public health who is going to speak on this item. >> so this is a project that california department of public health has asked us to conduct of academic detailing which is a method of educating physicians and nurse practice practice tigsers. and over the opiod prevention and we will be coordinating this project in the multiple rual

counties in california and assisting those counties in training and providing them with the materials and over seeing their detailing efforts in each county. >> all right, thank you, dr. cofin. are there any questions? seeing none, thank you. we are going to go into public comment. public comment is opened. all right, public comment is closed. thank you, is there a motion? >> i will make a motion to send forth the resolution to the full board with the positive relation dagss. >> without objection, that motion passes. >> item four. >> authorizing the recreation of the department to resolution authorizing the san francisco recreation and park department to accept an in-kind grant of $147,268 from the san francisco parks alliance to support the john mclaren bike park. . >> all right we have dalia, the floor is yours. >> good morning. >> the job and the park project will convert an unused section of the park into the city's first dedicated bmx mountain bike park. the park will be located in an

area of the park that is used as an illegal dumping ground, it is situated east of sunny dale avenue and west of the glen eagle golf course, the plan for the park includes a family cycling train and a bmx pump track and the spaces with the pin i can tables and benches. additional structures irrigation, native landscaping and fencing. and this community supportive project will create an hub for the biking community while allowing the opportunity for those new to the sport to be introduced to bmx and mountain bike cycling. the designated site is large enough to support the bike park and to include terrain for more advanced cyclists. the public private partnership, they are a community group that is fiscally sponsored by the san francisco parks alliance and they have worked with the xh unt to develop the concept and

to produce the project which is valued at 147 to 168 dollars. the total project budget is 1 million, 131,921 dollars, and the additional funds are coming from several sources, including the california state parks plan and water and conservation fund. and the 2008, and 2012, park bonds, and jumping fences and the offices of the supervisor avalos and mayor lee. it will provide a valuable recreational resource in the park and support a large youth dem graphic of the surrounding communities and it will serve as a community, gathering place for i don't uth and family and we are excited about this one. >> one thing that i just want to bring up and this is an inkind grant which i will support today. but i want to make sure that we are out reaching, the area that we are describing as the southeastern part, which is the largest public housing unit that

the city has. >> and i have not been comfortable with the out reach that has been demonstrated by the project sponsor, and i have committed myself, and my staff foe assist with the out reach just so everyone can feel included. often times a lot of change happens in the neighborhood or around the surrounding neighborhoods. and those most affected by the area are not included in the discussion or how about the professional con stit you ents are knowledgeable but the community is not as knowledgeable and so i just want to go on record to flag that as a concern to insure that we have got the buy-in from the neighborhood from the mid valley neighborhood as well as from those that are living in public housing in sunny dale. >> we would be happy to work with you you on that and we have the intention of doing out reach and there is going to be a really important volunteer component to maintaining the bike park and it is our intention to reach out to just the community you are talking

about. >> thank you. that is good to hear. >> we are going to go to public comment at this time. supervisor tang? >> one quick question, what is the time line on this project? >> break ground next month, and construction will take about five months. >> thank you. >> public comment is opened and public comment is closed. thank you. may i have a motion on this item? >> sure. go ahead and pass this on to the committee with a positive recommendation to the full board. >> without objection we take that motion. passes. madam clerk, also for the record i want to recognize that item four did not have a budget legislative analyst report on this particular item. could you call item five? >>resolution authorizing the department of the environment to accept and expend grant funds from the association of bay area governments in the amount of $546,258 for calendar year 2017, to perform various activities as part of a bay area regional energy network program, an energy efficiency program for the term of january 1, 2017, through december 31, 2017.

>> all right, we are cranking through these ladies and gentlemen for the good stuff. we saved the best for last. but before we get there, it is good to see you. this is germo from the department of the environment and here to present on item five, welcome. >> thank you, madam chair and supervisors department of the environment and the accept and expend before you today from the association of bay area governments in the amount of 6 546, 258 is to support the efficiency program, and specifically these funds will be targeted for our work in multi family unit buildings. our goal is to help these buildings achieve 15 percent or more annually, and energy savings. and our goal is to enroll, 2000 multi family units by october, 31st of this year. and an aggressive program that we have and we hope that we can

count on your support today so that we can move forward with the program. >> and happy to answer any additional questions. >> i see no names from my colleagues in the cue. and so we are going to go to. okay. i want to note for the record that we don't have a budget and legislative analyst report on this item. >> i will make a motion to send it forward to the full board with positive recommendation. >> without objection, that passes unanimously. madam eric clerk, item 6? >>resolution approving an emergency declaration of the san francisco public utilities commission (sfpuc) pursuant to administrative code, section 21.15(c), for the temporary replacement and repair of the dewatering equipment at the oceanside wastewater treatment plant; estimated cost of approximately $500,000. >> all right, ladies and gentlemen we have with us mr. tom.

my the legend who is running things over at the south east water treatment plan, good to see you today. you are here to speak on item six? >> yes i am. good morning, madam chair, supervisor yee and tang. we had a catastrophic failure and i am here to talk about the emergency declaration that took place on the first week of december. this is at one of our five waste water treatment plants that we operate. these are the facts. the treatment plan is at ocean side off of the great highway. what happened on that week is the first time that had has always happened. we could not remove the solid material out of this plant and so we declared an emergency. these are the facts and this is how much that we produced out of that building. and we needed to bring in emergency declared emergency to bring in a contractor to help us

perform this task. we used the services and we estimated at the time to be over $400,000, it was going to be, the project was completed already by the grove, and our equipment are back up and running by january 21st, and we are back in operation as you can see. and i have just a picture here of what it actually took for the mobilization, and i am here to answer any questions that you might have. >> if we were able to catch this in time what would have been the adverse effects. >> probably the violation of the permit and we would have overflowed the raw sewage into the ocean and maybe, much much more, and much worse, it would be a public health issue.

one more technical term, i see the, can you just define mgd for me. >> million gallons per day. >> supervisor tang in >> i am just wondering for the new design that will be in place, will that prevent a similar situation from happening in the future. >> we do have the plans as if it were to happen again, we are working on that right now. >> okay. >> and then you have your regular kind of inspection procedures in place to make sure that you are able to catch these kind of issues in time before it gets out of control? >> we are doing the very best that we can to identify those things. we are putting in and getting the extra equipment and so to prevent from happening in the future. >> okay. thank you. >> supervisor yee? >> ask pretty much a follow up question to supervisor tang. and in regards to this failure, would it be was there any way

that you could have anticipated such things and prevented it? >> it is very difficult to prevent. what happens is as you know, ocean side plant and the great highway is there is a lot of sand. and what happened was we received tons of sand that came into the treatment plant at once. and what happened is in this particular part of the process you are trying to squeeze the water out. it is very difficult to compress sand. and what happened was the sand got compressed and that is what ruined the machine. it actually twisted metal is what ended up happening. >> was this sand was it accumulation of a long period or a particular day. how did it get if there? >> so the sand generally comes from all of the paved streets in san francisco and we have a combined system and so any sand that gets in the street that does not get picked up by the

sweepers it ends up in the suer system, so during that storm prior to the event, all of the sand got washed into the treatment plant and so that ended up to get the water to get that sand to get out. so it would have been very difficult for us to anticipate this getting it out the sand out. right now the design that supervisor tang is talking about is trying to capture the sand on the front end, that is the improvement. but it ends up going through all of the different processes at the treatment plant and ended up in the watering which is the last phase and the last phase and should never get there. so that is the improvement that she was talking about. >> and this improvement that would catch it in the front end, are there, is this system what you get rid of the sand before accumulates and plug up the whole system. >> yes. exactly right. >> all right. thank you. i just want to note that we have a report from the budget

legislative analyst office. that i would love to hear from just a brief summy of what we got. >> good morning, chair cohen and member of had the committee, campbell from the office. on page 3 of our report although the resolution in the contract is for $500,000, the actual budget was for only about $435,450. and so we are recommending amending the resolution to reduce not-to-exceed amount to 435, 450 dollars, otherwise we recommend approval. >> okay, thank you. >> thank you. all right, supervisor yee do you have a follow up question? >> no. >> thank you, and we are going to go for public comment. thank you. >> no problem. >> ladies and gentlemen, public comment is opened. >> all right, public comment is closed at this time. colleagues, any discussion or a motion? >> make the motion to amend the amount from $500,000 to

$435,450. and approve the resolution with the amendments. >> all right. are we in agreement. >> without objection as amended passes you man musly. thank you. >> madam clerk in please call item 7. >>ordinance exempting the proposed airport development plan from administrative code, chapter 29, including from the requirements for a fiscal feasibility study and a board of supervisors fiscal feasibility determination prior to initiating environmental review, but retaining requirements for possible future individual projects under the recommended airport development plan which would otherwise be subject to administrative code, chapter 29. >> thank you very much. today we have presenting on this item miss cathy widner from the airport. thank you. >> good morning, welcome chair and members of the committee cathy from the san francisco

international airport. the item before you today is a proposed ordinance that would wave the fiscal feasibility study requirements under chapter 29 of the san francisco administrative code for the airport recommended airport development plan. or adp. and he want for the individual projects as required. the airport development plan is a long range planning study that will help to guide the future development. the study is a replacement to the 1989 master plan. excuse me. and includes proposals to enhance and develop passenger terminals or land side facilities and support existing facilities in order to match our passenger growth and runway capacity limitations that exist in the current physical layout of the airport. it is worth noting that there are no shore line or runway projects included in the adp. the ordinance before you essentially requests your

approval for us to resequence some of the chapter 29 requirements for the wave of an initial report, at the board of supervisors for the entire plan. and instead to bring you the individual projects as they would be triggered under a normal fiscal feasibility report. airport staff did meet with supervisor peskin as the original author of chapter 29 and worked with his staff as well as the city attorney's office clabively on this ordinance to insure thintent of the feasibility of chapter 29 remains in place for the individual projects that will come before you. while the adp is not a commitment by the airport to implement any of the individual projects, the study itself is subject to environmental review under the california environmental quality act as well as chapter 31 of the san francisco administrative code. the san francisco planning

department has determined that preparation of an eir is required for the entire plan. following the completing of the eir no the airport development plan, recommended projects would be added to the airport's list of capitol projects and then go through the routine approval at that time. the airport capitol plan is subject to fiscal review by the board of supervisors and the mayor. and any adp project that would normally be triggered under the requirements of chapter 29 for fiscal feasibility would come to the board for review and approv approval. i am joined today by the airport planning director and together we would be happy to address any questions you might have. >> great, thank you. could you introduce us to the planning director. >> yes, please, this is john, and he is the airport planning director. >> good to see you, colleagues do you have any questions for staff? >> thorough presentation, thank

you. >> we will go to miss campbell for a quick up date on the report. okay. yes, if you will see on page eight of our report, the airport development plan does not actually identify the cost or have a plan associated with it. in our discussions with the airport, we understand that the active projects will be evaluated as part of the airport's over all capitol plan. and that that will come back to the board, it does come back to the board for the future board approval. we do consider this a policy matter because it is waving provision tz of the administrative code. >> all right, thank you. >> all right, colleagues if there is no other discussion, i will go to public comment. >> ladies and gentlemen, public comment is open. public comment is closed. >> is there a motion? >> i will make a motion then to send forth this ordinance to the

full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you very much. and without objection, this motion passes unanimously. >> item 8, please? >>resolution authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county of san francisco any actions necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal financial assistance under various grant programs, including: the federal fiscal year 2017 urban areas security initiative grant, the federal fiscal year 2017 state homeland security grant program, the 2017 emergency management performance grant, and the 2017 local government oil spill contingency plan grant program. >> thank you very much. we have chris tin to speak on this item. >> thank you, hello. good morning, supervisors my name is chris tin and i am the government affairs manager with the department of emergency management, the legislation before you today is a governed body resolution authorizing the city and county of san francisco to apply for this year's home land security grant. and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have about the resolution. >> all right, thank you. >> supervisor tang? >> thank you, i know that there have been a lot of questions

surrounding this process. so san francisco we are from my understanding the fiscal sponsor for this whole entire grant for several counties. but i know that there have been concerns that have been raised about how it is that various counties have been using these grants. in particular, i am sure that you have heard, their concerns around urban shield and so i wanted to see if you could discuss with this board how it is that we or what our responsibilities are as a fiscal sponsor of dulling out the grants from the federal government and to what extent we can put limitations on other counties and how it is that they expand the grants. >> i would be ha py to answer that question. thank you for the opportunity. >> the bay area region, well the bear area, urban area, security initiative manages the administration of the entire bay area, federal home land security

grants and also the emergency preparedness grants that is actually 12 counties in the bay area region. our job within the city and county of san francisco, as fiscal agent is, the reason that we are here today, in is a state requirement to actually be able to apply to the grant on behalf of the entire region. once the grant is we get notice that we can apply, then we actually apply for the grant and then we become the pass through for dulling out the funds throughout the region. every jurisdiction gets a certain amount of money based on their individual risks, san francisco gets a certain amount as a 34e78 of the bay area region as well. and when it comes to how the funds are spent, each injur jurisdiction is expected to follow a process that they apply and submit proposals and given the come my aply ans to the grant, and then the projects can move forward.

in san francisco we choose to spend the majority of our funding through the grapt and for a lot of the emergency preparedness planning physicians and we plan through the fire department and the police department and the nert program and last year we spent money on up grades to the fire department and department of operations center. we buy radios. we are really focused on supporting the needs of our first responder and the emergency management community. and that is how we choose to spend our money, when it comes to how the other jurisdictions spend their money, we cannot direct them on how to spend it unless what they propose is in out of compliance with the grant. >> when the other counties are submitting proposals for their how they are extending their grants, who is reviewing whether they comply with the grants requirements? >> sure, that is actually the

bay area, the management team and if you have any specific questions about how that process takes place, i can deter to triston who is a member of the team that can get into the specifics. >> sure. >> that will be great because you know, again, i we have had this discussion before in fact in this committee and we have heard about how san francisco spends its money, i know that there is a lot of concerns about other counties and i am wondering if you could speak to those specific issues that arise from the other counties and how you kind of figure out well does this meet our kind of goal of why we have these grants? >> sure. if you would like me to --. >> good morning, triston cfo for the bay area emergency management. so each proposal is vetted through the hub, depending on the nature of the funding because we segregate the funding for the hubs which are the members of the bay area and the

region and there is also funding for the regional project. and so each proposal is reviewed by the area management team for compliance purpose and then they are vetted through the hub working groups, and regional projects working group, but they are presented to our approval already for approval. >> i am going to raise directly the concerns. some folks are concerned that the other counties are using the money in their word to militaryize police and crack down on immigrants in our communities. and so if you i don't know how a grant proposal will come about and how it will be worded is that an appropriate use of these funds? . >> there are concern requirements when it comes to acquiring equipment because some funds are spent on regional training and exercise.

it goes through a compliance requirement review. there is a set of provisions from the grants. and that tell us which items are allowable and which items are allowable. and so each of those spending go through that rigorous compliance review and they are deemed compliant. >> okay. >> how about for, say, i don't know -- services or --. >> yes, as well as regional training and exercise. urban shield is part of that regional exercise. and so it has gone through that compliance requirement, making sure that we comply with federal program requirements. >> if i could add, which undoubtedly does not permit the, as you said, the militarization and the profiling of immigrants. so. >> could you say that one more time. >> i just want to clarify that in the simple answer to the question is that no, it would

not be permissible for the grants to be used for the purposes that you articulated. >> how do you address the charges that the money has been spent in that way? >> the you are referring to urban shield. and again, i just want to clarify that we are here today to actually apply for the 23 million that is allocated to the bay area region. urban shield is an alamena county initiative that is designed to help to train multi disciplinary first responders and although it does include law enforcement it also includes police, public health, emergency managers, opportunities for emergency operations centers to work together. the exercise also allows for practice for water rescue or urban search and rescue. there is a video for them to

hone their skills in this area and so when it comes to -- while i understand the concerns of the perception of this exercise, it is an in it's truist form it is an opportunity for the region to come together to practice their skills so that we can be better prepared to respond to and major emergency. >> and so what about the tone in washington has changed a lot recently. and so i am just wondering, that has caused a lot of fear for many communities. >> i feel very confident here in sfa because of what we stand for here. but i understand the fears coming from people who are in other counties. and so i am just wondering, you know with the recent change but will the funding and what you are able to spend it on will that change and allow for some of the kind of feared training or tactic that will occur as a result.

>> although, i can't speak to the future of what the administration will yield. i know that we stand behind our entire city stance on protecting our communities, rights and our ability to keep everybody safe and secure, and while reporting everybody's civil rights and civil liberties. the programs that are in projects that are presented to for funding they do follow guidelines on what is appropriate. if a project were to come forward that was not viewed for the potential of impacting the community negatively and then it will not be approved for the authority which represents the region. >> will you have to come back before us? >> no, just so that we can apply

for these grants on behalf of the region. >> okay. >> let me add that it is part of our ordinance every year and so that is presented during the budget process. >> okay. i think that probably at that time, you know, i think that we should really look carefully as to whether the grant terms have changed given the change in the federal administration. just to insure that they are being spent on emergency preparedness. >> and supervisors i would welcome the opportunity to up date you on changes that we are made aware with of. and so we look forward to updating you on any developments regarding the over all urban area initiative. >> supervisor yee as questions and i have questions for you as well. >> so, just stepping back a little bit, the grant itself is

ear marked for the bay area? or is it something that we decided as a bay area to apply for? >> so based on risk allocation methodology implemented by the department of home land security, the funds are allocated to the bay area. region. and the agreement, i mean, since, there was a decision to have san francisco be the fiscal here. >> that is correct, sir. >> and how much of an influence do we have in regards to the program itself that the other locatio locations are asking for? >> so there is a risk allocation methodology. it has three major components

like population and asset and threats. and so every year we go through that riskal location, methology and and assessing the threats in the bay area and we designate the risk factor for each of the jurisdictions and that is used as a, allocation methodsology, determining what funds will go through to the jurisdictions. >> and i want to add to triston's point and to further answer your question regarding our ability to as a fiscal agent to determine how the funds are used outside of us as a member of the bay area. i think i prefer to our city attorney to answer the legality of how far we can determine, aside from what he mentioned regarding the threat risk analysis and the

>> city attorney, john, gibner as a fiscal agent we play a limited role or dem played an limited role with the agreement in the other counties, that we will apply for the funds from the federal government and administer them, but dem does not play a policy making role in determining whether as a policy matter that the funds are appropriate or in appropriate and so the board can't conditionally apply for a grant for giving them to the county for certain purpose and not other purpose and our role is limited under our agreement with the other counties. >> so the question here would be

can the different locations including san francisco, accomplish what they want to accomplish without utilizing or subcontracting with urban shields? >> well, we did contract with urban shield. it is an exercise that alameda county conducts. we in san francisco there are members of our law enforcement and our first responder community that participate in urban shield because it is an opportunity to enhance our ability to respond to emergencies and disasters. although we in san francisco we do not put any of our allegations from the grant towards urban shield. so i don't think that we can speak to whether the region can, i think, in the simplest of terms, move forward or not move

forward without urban shield, and again it goes to the role that we play as fiscal agents and how we stay within a parameter of making sure that the project s are grant compliant for government and state requirements. and that is sufficient as i can get. >> thank you. >> all right, so i guess my question is why do we have to be the fiscal agent. why don't we rotate this with other counties? why do we get that distinct pleasure? >> it is actually when we created approval authority it was determined that at that point san francisco --. >> it was determined 20 years ago. >> so it has never been reevaluated since then? >> because we have the financial tools and the management team

cap able to administer the program. but there is out of the whole allocation there is five percent allocated to management team. so and that is composed of san francisco employees and administratoring the program. so san francisco has full capability to administer the program in terms of compliance and financial management. >> but i am sure that other surrounding counties have full capability too, san francisco is not the only game in town. >> yes, but that is the decision made by the approval authority >> who is the approval authority? >> the approval chor is a body composed of 13 counties, and three cities. including san francisco. >> and when do they -- in each city or each ra proval body has the same vote the san francisco vote is not weighted? >> yes. it is just the members

jurisdiction has an equal vote on their policy making matters. aapproving projects. >> and so for the last 20 years we have had the votes lined up and everybody is in favor of supporting and allowing us to the fiscal sponsor. >> that is correct. >> that is interesting. >> i can actually clarify that. >> in 2013, we recently renewed the master mou that was passed by the board of supervisors and legislation to continue and identified san francisco as the fiscal agent and that was in support by the entire approval authority, essentially the region had asked that we continue providing this service to the bay area.

>> are you not concerned about what they are saying, or do you dispute what they are saying and or do you not think that any abuse has happened. >> not a trick question, i just want to understand a little bit better. >> as a fiscal agent, we made approval to the authority. >> and so urban shield has been recommended as the compliance program with the provisions of the grant. and so we are the fiscal agent, administering the program to include, grant management and reporting to others as well. >> okay. >> hold on a minute. >> i think that the point that i am trying to make is a feel a

certain sense of responsibility as the fiscal agent to take the claims that we are hearing seriously. i don't know enough about the item or about the matter as to whether or not alamena if the claims have been sub-stan ated. as you have seen on the news there are substantial protests and unrest of how they are using their dollars, if we are the fiscal agent, and i was dealing with a non-profit in my district and if other non-profits are having a problem, as the agent you enter seed, you kind of step in to ask questions, and it sounds like to me that we have not been asking any questions. we have just been shirking our responsibility. >> let's open up to public comment, supervisor yee has a few remarks. >>

>> what would happen? >> what is the process to no longer be the fiscal agent. >> maybe we should let alamena county be the agent. >> we have the capability to do it. which is why the entire region has continued to ask us to play this role. if we were to no longer do it. i can only speak from approval authority limited standpoint that is possible that the grant could be there could be a gap in

funding and it would take a long time to rebuild sort of the process that has been put in process to try to make this, funds and disbursal of funds as compliance and as fair, throughout the region. i think what i take issue is that it sounds like a matter of convenience, we have been doing it this way for x, numbers of year and it is comfortable and everybody accepts it and maybe we should not rock the boat. i don't necessarily know if i buy that argument just coming to the table from a different place. yosh wanted to rock that boat and that was an economic institution and it sounds like we have a fiscal incentive to remain the agent because we have got some kind of cut of 5 percent that allows us to minister, frankly the remarkable programs like the nert program which i love. >> supervisor yee?

>> yeah, is this annual allocation? or grant? >> we are requesting to apply for the 2017 emergency preparedness grant. >> can we maybe this is a question for the city attorney, could we stipulate you late here, and to continue to play the fiscal agency role? from this particular grant and make it real clear with some language? in the resolution, you will say that we will not do it next year or the following i couldn't error that they have to find somebody else in >> i believe that san francisco no longer wants to be the fiscal agent or require amendment to the agreement in the counties and i don't think that this resolution is a vehicle, and

perhaps it is exploring off line or at a future hearing with dem. whether they can take that proposal to the group to move forward with the amendment to that agreement, which will then come back to the board. >> yeah, i just understand that it would be very difficult to change the vehicles at this point for what you are asking for, the current application. but i am very interested in having us as a body to maybe come up with the resolution to ask them to consider having some other entity, do this the following year. >> okay. >> is that in light of urban shield or in general? >> just as a follow up question. >> if it is a similar

application and that is what i am specifically. targeting. >> are there others that you or we are the fiscal agent of? >> we are just the fiscal agent for the entire bay area. so. maybe --. >> are there more than one grant that we go for? >> there is the, there are home land and there is state home land security grants and there is the oil spill continuing grant that is also a part of this. and so there is a variety of emergency preparedness grants in this legislation here today. >> okay. well, with he will take that into consideration. all right, thank you. let's go ahead and go to public comment. and ladies and gentlemen if you are interested, line up. i have one card, danielle. and i just have one card, so we will pull danielle to the front. and then the rest of you that are in line can stay cueed up and we will go in that order. welcome, public comment is

opened. >> thank you. >> much has been made of san francisco and california values and it is an opportunity to stand up for the values yesterday many members of the community called your offices to push for the exclusion of funding for urban shield and it builds upon the long term work of the stop coalition and there are other forms of disaster preparedness training and there needs to be funded and separate from this conference, which propels the militarization and included the racist rhetoric. which includes sold on the t-shirts and three of your supervisors wrote a letter to the supervisors last year and i agree with their points. urban shield trains units around the country and the world so this influences how people across the country deal with militarization of the police. especially in our current political client with where racism is stoked. it does sound like a tough stop that you are in, and i agree that being the fiscal agent puts the moral weight of urban shield

impact in san francisco hands as well. i am not here as a coriorganizei learned about this on-line and in the news. while our friends and neighbors learn about these countries learn about this through the aggressive policing in their lives. iment 23, and i work on climate stuff but i am one of the people woken up by the black lives movement and the election of donald trump for the need of average people like me to show up and see the decision makers in person. there are more people where i came from and we are excited to work locally. and we urge you to amend the resolution to stop funding urban shield, and to seek additional funding for disaster preparedness and community health instead with a view to deescalation rather than militarization, thank you. >> my name is john lindsey poland and i am with the

committee which has an office a couple of blocks from here and we are one of xhirt groups that are trying to stop urban shield, this is actually for the shield in 2018. so this will not actually be carried out until the next calendar year even though it is this fiscal year. in terms of the claims about militarization, the county sheriff himself told me last week that these are para military forces that we are talking about. he used that word. the main point that i want to make is that we have already seen the weight in which the values of this city and the value $of the new administration part ways and, this is particularly for counter terrorism training for local swat teams which are primarily deployed to serve warrants, disproportionately in houses and communities of color, and so it is rare that it is used for a

terrorist incident and extremely rare and so it is applied in a way, in other ways. and this new administration is defining terrorism in new ways. defining ref you giz as terrorists and defining immigrants as terrorists. and that kind of criteria as it applied in 2017, in 2018, leads us in a direct collision course with this particular program. so i urge you, and i also we have a set of proposals for an amendment that has been sent to your offices and i would like to leave it with the clerk. >> next speaker? >> hi, my name is tash win and i am an advocate at the center for human rights. we are here today to urge supervisor cohen and the committee to amend today's legislation to prioritize funding and other areas such as medical, public health community

preparedness, recovery and emergency planning. and to exclude urban shield which is a militaryized international swat training and weapon's ex-expo. as you know, swat raids and sweeps are harmful and dangerous and disproportionately impact black and brown communities in this region, this training is also going to be the training that happened at urban shield are also international and so these things that are learned in the county, have global consequences. urban shield is exactly the type of program that represents the dangers of the trump administration and as a sanctuary city, san francisco has the obligation to pro-teblth immigrants muslims people of color, and those who are targeted by this program. we think that it is actually a super great thing that you guys are the fiscal agent for the bay area fund and that you have the

power to prioritize alternatives. that build up community preparedness. and that shift the world away from militaryized responses. thank you. >> >> good morning, my name is katie and i am a co-director with the bud different peace fellowship that come binds muddism and social justice for years. i am not as informed as my colleagues, but i am here because we have been opposing urban shield since 2014, because of the aim pacts that 2 has. and we are head quartered in okay land and so we are directly impacted by urban shield and i am echoing my colleagues to follow your wisdom and intuition and saying that militaryizing the police force and swat teams under this