so, now we have the second hole drilled what next. >> this is the anchor and this one has hard and steel threads that cuts their way into the concrete it is a ti ton anchor with the same large square so similar this didn't require e post-office box. >> that's correct you don't needed for the e post-office box to adhere overnight it will stick more easily. >> and so, now it is good to

go is that it. >> that's it. >> the third anchor is a universal foundation plate when you don't have room above our foundation to drill from the top. >> so, now we have our

foundation plate and the tightened screw a couple of ways to take care of a foundation what's the best. >> the best one depends on what your house is like and our contractors experience they're sometimes considered the cadillac anchor and triplely instead of not witting for the e post-office box this is essentially to use when you don't have the overhead for the foundation it really depends on the contractor and engineering what they prefer. >> talking to a qualified professional and see what . >> (clapping.) >> in 2013 san francisco legislators newsom agreed to allow the reciprocate of our soft story buildings those building house one and 20

thousand resident a program of that collect requires extensive outreach and this continuation of that process who is here and bill graham the perfect venue so in 2014 we have the first earthquake retrofit a huge success we're repeating this model what we've done it put together venues that are time professionals and contractor are financing institutions a other services that help people comply with the retrofit and as you can see the thousands of members of the public their assessing over one hundred vendors to comply with the ordinance or make improvements on their property i came to get specification

information and puck h picking up information if you don't know what twaur doing i take it overwhelming. >> we're pleased a critical mass of people are keying into knowing their relents and understanding what had are the next steps to take and they're figuring out who to talk to not only the contractor by the mustards and the architect and the structural engineers and getting the full picture of what options are necessary and being pro-acti pro-active. >> so i'm very pleased to see the soft story buildings 99.9 percent complies the highest of the program of this scale of the history a citywide effort high blood pressure in every stretch of san francisco to understand real risks associated with earthquake and those are

universally agreed on. >> at some point you need to gather information i'll be talking to another engineer to come out and take a look at it and basically get a second opinion i'm for second and third opinions it is inspiring to see all the property owners that want to do the right thing and for proactively figuring out what the solutions to get them that. >> what is amazing to me here we are over two years of first retrofit fair and at the time we are rh2 out to contractors to help us and reaching it out to design professionals that soft story buildings is in any and people understanding how to comply now it is different an industry that springs up as a result of the - their professed and gotten the costs down with lower financing options and

these are defined and now the gene progression and have the buildings are buildings and the compliance we understand the 2020 one and 20 thousand san francisco's 15 messenger of our population will live in a retrofit building those people buildings or lives in buildings with 5 or more residential building is soft story and wood frame and built before 1978 that house that one and 20 thousand san franciscans. >> san francisco is being the leader in getting in done and as you may know los angeles passed their retrofit law two months ago at the sort of taken san francisco's lead on the one and tenth anniversary as the residents san francisco this is a road map to the city and going

to give us us plan are these to keep folks here on a disaster and steps to build a resident waterfront by 2020. >> this involves more than one and 80 individuals and over 60 nonprofits and other companies this is a huge plan and what are the challenges we realize that people are concerned about climatic change, sea level rise and not only the affiliated hazards but things hike you're our amp infrastructure and consumed by social and other things we see this in society everyday and how we try to mitigate those are ultimately a direct result how resident we are after earthquake other issue out of the strategy of the concept after a major earthquake of keeping 95 percent of population here in san francisco that's the

single best thing to help a equitable recovery to keep people here keep people back to work and kids in school and a residents of normal after a disaster. >> alliance energy in our partner undertook comprehensive bid process we interviewed a half-dozen of folks who wanted to have a part of our soft story buildings are ordinance so alliance energy project programming is a clean assess energy a special financing that is done using the taxed authority of local multiples and one of the interesting features the loan is tied to the property not the vital if an individual didn't have good credit but it is another option for people not able to comply to find another

avenue the assessment is actually places on the property and the builds for in that come literally a line item on the tax bill that's how you pay off the segment and tax. >> 20 or thirty years is all paid up front there are advantages your property tax well it is important to give people on option and many private banks that provide loans over a are shorter term we wanted to create a longer pay back term. >> i think the next step for property owners after at the create themselves to take the plunge and quit the working downey done and have works of work done right of the right rest of the property owners can understand this process across the city. >> we need to do it.

>> it is safety you know that's the bottom line safety. >> earthquake safety a everybody's responsibility that is providing the resources that people need to get done if you want to know more of the resources as a san franciscan please visit the >> >> good evening, and welcome to the san francisco board of appeals. wednesday, march 8, 2017, meeting of the san francisco board of appeals nicole's and joined by your commissioner vice

president fung and commissioner lazarus and commissioner wilson and commissioner swig transportation authority it the deputy city attorney that will provide legal and the legal we're we're joined by representatives from the city departments that have cases before this board. in the front row is zoo ann here on behalf of the budget u department of health and joined by scott sanchez planning department. and building inspector joe duffy dbi please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited. out in the hallway. permit holders and others have up to 7 minutes to present their case and 3 minutes for rebuttal. people affiliated with these parties must conclude their comments within 7 minutes, participants not affiliated

have up to 3 minutes - no rebuttal. to assist the board in the accurate preparation of the minutes, members of the public are asked, not required to submit a speaker card or business card to the clerk. speaker cards and pens are available on the left side of the podium. the board welcomes your comments. there are customer satisfaction forms available. if you have a question about the schedule, speak to the staff after the meeting or call the board office tomorrow we are located at 1650 mission street, suite 304. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78. dvds are available to purchase directly from sfgovtv. thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process.

thank you for your attention. we'll conduct our swearing in process. if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give your testimony evidentiary weight, please stand and say i raise your hand say i do after you've been sworn in please stand do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? >> i do. >> thank you item general public comment this is an opportunity to address the jurisdiction but not on tonight calendars any general public comment seeing none, item 2 is commission comments and questions. nothing commissioners no. >> like to mention and

acknowledge my wonderful female comrades national women's day thank you any public comment on item 2 okay. seeing none then call item 3 the dodgers and unless easing to those minutes may i have a motion the last line needs to be corrected. >> oh, are you sure i wasn't there. >> i was here in spirit would i. >> with that correction move to adopt. >> any public comment on item is minutes. >> seeing none, we have a motion from the vice president to adopt the minutes as

corrected on that motions commissioner lazarus commissioner president honda commissioner wilson commissioner swig thank you that item passes move on to item number 4, which is a you rehearing request. subject property at 3751-3753 20th street. appellants are requesting a rehearing for raisner versus dbi decided in 2017 the board voted to one something with an a little bit that the comply with the codes and provide a monitoring system at no cost to the joining neighbors and any fencing no higher than the window sidelines that the

project so code compliant and it is a new 3 story rear new living level and below grade garage and have aluminum windows and woolths windows with sashes were indicated new living room and bedroom and bath and please note after the public hearings of this request on february 2015 the board and commissioner lazarus and commissioner wilson absent to allow the missing board members to participate at the time of the last hearing commissioner vice president fung moved to grant the request with no new evidences it failed with commissioner swig dissenting and commissioner wilson and commissioner president honda was missing so they continued the matters before you if i can have

the two commissioners so say they've viewed the materials and video. >> so commissioners unless additional questions or other information you want from the parties we can return to deliberation and see if there is a motion to be had but any questions for the parties this is the time to ask. >> so we can entertain another motion than for further deliberations. >> you want to ask allow them any discussion at all? >> i mean everyone has read the briefs prior we should go into the deliberations. >> i had brought forth that i felt there was new information

therefore i asked we consider granting the rehearsing the issue was recommended to the measurement of height that was being challenged and therefore i felt that we should grant the rehearing request. >> you guess my question not was that raised at the first hearing. >> why does it come under information. >> i guess in my opinion was that that wasn't quite clear and therefore i thought that we should allow a full discussion on that particular item. >> i think as as you recall commissioner the project sponsor didn't have plans present at the

time of the original hearing although that was discussed lighting i honestly we didn't delve into it and the rehearing request. was based on that. >> and i felt that it was under fully discuss and accurately i mean and the project was discussed that's basically the reason for today's. >> i think i summarized it the position yeah. >> i'll make a motion i'm going to move to grant the rehearing request. on the basis that new information has been provided. >> do you want to wait and see if the motion passes before a new date to grant the request on

new information commissioner lazarus marry no commissioner president honda commissioner wilson commissioner swig no, that motion does fail bargain any other motion we'll move on to the next motion the request is denied we default and move to item 5 tian yi ahao dba paradise health center vs. the department of public health at 242 balboa street. the subject property at 3751-3753 20th street appealing a 60 day suspension of a massage establishment permit so we'll start with the appellant. >> 7 minutes to present your case >> good evening and welcome. >> good afternoon christopher hall and paul the two of us are appearing on behalf of the paradis health center on 242

balboa street in san francisco i'm sure all board members have read the brief by the appellant nicole and what i'd like to briefly directing your attention to the timeline the timeline nicole is the following on may 10, 2016, before 9 o'clock in the evening at the massage establishment there was a male customer that came into the front door and he walked down a hallway and met with the manager teresa the clean up lady 9 o'clock and he asked for an hour massage the manager told him we can't that long we close the doors other 9:30 she told him thank you want a massage it is thirty minutes he said okay she quoted him $50

he endeavor $50 and took the customer to room number one, and took the customer inside and told him wait your your massage sole practitioner at this point teresa the manager left the room went back to the front desk she was working and logged in the money put the time down on the log sheet within three or four minutes later the police entered the establishment the sole practitioner sobered room one and closed the door that it was the police calm with the department of health inspectors and went to room number one, opened the door and they found the male customer naked and they found the female sole practitioner gao naked the

police interviewed both of them the male customer told the police randy lee that neither he nor her engaged in any sexual activity was interviewed by the attorneys be nicole and he is specifically said he overcame himself and disrobed to the female sole practitioner i bring up this timeline ways the police had entered one maybe 3 minutes of the customer going into room number one, and the question is what could the management have done at this point should they have known what was going on behind closed doors the young lady had been working for

the establishment for 6 months and was serviced by the state of california with a massage california therapy counsel since the permit in the 4 plus years never had an arrest incision or never had her cpmc permit suspended the management the owner of the establishment her back in january or december 2015 and went on her reputation as a legitimate licensed massages without a criminal record and the practitioner had worked they're up until the time of the incident without problems i ask each of the board members because the aspire seems to have a car sharing case like this under the code section 2933 of

the apartment health code it puts a duty that on the owner and when i say duty no one should have known about the improper activity within the male consumer in room number one, with the sole practitioner that is laid auto what could the management teresa who was there acting as the midnight or the evening manager can e what could she have dunk short of opening the door and watching the two of them engaging in a massage she took the customer to the room the door as shut teresa logged in the money and within 3 minutes the police automate with the public health department to do their inspection i submit

with due diligence the owner hired a certified practitioner with an unblemished record so, i say what could the young lady and manager done to known and realized that that something like that improper activities improper attire they were interviewed by the police and the two of them told the police not engaged in any type of sexual activity but the male customer disrobed this young lady you're here to make a decision whether you wouldn't days is warranted the matter was hardly never inquired about the issue of due diligence should the management have known what was going to happen in that

room ahead of time and that was never discuses it was never decided upon by the hearing officer he made the discussion a blanket decision because two adults and that they were improperly dressed therefore the owner should have common or known what was going on we're asking you to make a fair adequately decision and not impose the 60 days suspension that never had the license permit every suspended in the past since opened in the last 4 years? the first time they've had an incident of this nature thank you. >> counselor i have a question counselor. >> yes. >> so the timeline that you given us is three to four minutes and a disrobing of the

comply and the sole practitioner. >> i say two to three minutes from the time that the male customer came into the establishment and entered at 9 o'clock in you look at the exhibit it is 905 the police entered. >> according to what was turned in as the statement says the inspector kim accompanied on inspection by randy self-confident san francisco police department according to the incident report upon entering we saw the maurj stranding a customer in an apparent sex act. >> in an parent so straddling someone separately are two different things in my opinion. >> she was not charged with engaging in any type of sexual

activity and that's what we he surmised in you look at the photograph it didn't show that activity occurring she searched i'm sure the due diligence officers at the time they searched the room for any condoms and light bulb canned that was absent in the case thank you counselor thank you. >> you any other questions. >> no. >> good evening, commissioners this is one of the cases i know that a picture speaks about one thousand words the picture is attached to exhibit a to the inspectors i'm not going to put it on the picture it was shown at the public at large but ask i

what occurred in the paradis in 2016 and depicts a maurj and client entirely in the indoor if this picture weren't enough it is but have the police incident are right that was sworn in the penalty of perjury by sergeant lee the inspection and walked into the room immediately before that photo was taken according to his report he found them indoor with the sole practitioner engaging in a sexual act and from the photo and the police report were not enough some of the neighbors from the community have submitted letters of concern they represent people from a preschool that is on the same block and expressed genuine concern about the neighborhood and the children they serve and

is women that work there their letters attest that the door remains locked except for the men that get therapy they share with you, you photos screen shots of website for the paradis is that a i look at this morning this is the excludes u includes lawn beautiful sexy aimg women to pla flu you with table showers and other things stloursz simply no question that the violations with the health code it was clearing a violation of law that prohibit people from improper attire no attire is improper attire and clearly evidence there was a lewd act that occurred based on the photograph evidence and the

scorn testimony of sergeant lee i'll remind you not hearsay so in contrast of the oh, my godly evidence to impose the 60 day suspension and one remark that the notion that the noosht moosht the owner is absolutely responsible for the conduction of sole practitioners and read from the code the massage establishment shall be responsible for the conduct of individual for compensation on their business premises and shall insure they don't wear exposure attire it is a strict liability they're responsible for making sure that happens in training whether through screening whatever it takes they're absolutely responsible

and it didn't xoornt how much time between the time they walked into the massage room and the inspectors no excuse for this in one of the establishments thank you i have a question. >> yeah. >> so in the past how many times has this establishment been inspected. >> i don't know in total. >> how often does your dph make those inspections. >> i can't speak to that there be inspectors i previously found improper attire but inspections. >> maybe after one question look that up or call someone on the staff et seq. question what is the standard for dph so for this type of violation anyone else out of massage place that you inspector that have violation what's the general

practice felt department far as discipline. >> well the department follows the procedures that are set out in the health code which require the notice of violation and sets forth the personality that are appropriate under the circumstances and 60 days is - that's not the question. >> i'm sorry, i miss united on the first violation is it standard for dph to ask for this type of penalty. >> this is the penalty that so forth for the first time violation under the act. >> so that's the stated standard a i can ask the department this is the code i can confirm with them. >> thank you. >> can you read us that that section on the penalty. >> sure. >> i didn't see the specific visitation on the code they're

in 2945 generally, the department has the authority to suspect or revoke permits they think that appropriate section 2945 is the penalties for violations that are guidelines and their violations that issued here for penalty for two violations for the improper attire and for the lewd act so - improper attire is 2945 a-8 and for a permit penalty for the finance instance this is have not the first instance in the declaration repeat violations have a 60 days permit suspension per person the massage permit are so for repeat it is a 60 day violations for a lewd act that

is 29.45 a-12 the first violation 68 suspension for a massage establishment permit. >> you consider this a repeat act that the owner is not necessarily the same - >> my understanding this is the first violation of a lewd act provision. >> i'm talking about the clothing. >> yes. >> this is a repeat act. >> yes. the names of the owners were a little bit different okay. >> i will point out the only 60 days have been so you get that's the penalty if we were only seeking a penalty. >> in my question is the owner is the same. >> i don't know if the ownership has changed any other questions. >> sure let me make it clear for myself so i'm understanding that

as a big in the food and beverage in if a banter services a minor no discussion i lose my license if you put it out there you lose our license is this somewhat of that motion. >> it is. >> any other questions. >> thank you you will look up that information. >> i will we'll take public comment first now before we rebuttal any public comment on this item? please step forward. >> my name is a eric can a

member of the board of directors on balboa park street addressed a parent of children attending the school i ask you to revoke this permit due to the finding of lewd activity at the premises i'm alarmed by paradise ervin darment advertised a ifp tolerant they've done this in close prompt i didn't including the nurse school and athletic practice and a children's scientific education program in the nearby block their disregard for the business permit is cause for serious concern about ability it may have to provide legal massage services that is well known they're associated with increased risk for human trafficking for minors and dulls san francisco is already one of 5 with the great number of human

trafficking paradise engagement in loyalty lewd activity is not welcome i urge the board of appeals to revoke the massage establishment permit. >> any other public comment please step forward. >> other people that plan to speak if you can step forward and speak that would be helpful. >> i lived in the neighborhood for the past 13 years and what i'd like to say that despite the fact this is stated and a one time situation where someone was unrobed i have personally been in the neighborhood with the establishment across the street i've seen men come to the door and a female massage therapist

answer the door to luingerie - this is something that the neighborhood is very aware of i'm sorry this is not better port here today and think that what i'd like to say if you saw that establishment it 3w4r5kd out the donor is intended black a huge security camera and a doorbell if i understand recently an article written about a massage parlor downtown that was cited and closed because of a violation of a code not allowed to have a demolish bell and not allowed to have the door locked during business hours and a security camera i'd like to

point that out. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening. >> hello, i'm mary the board of directors with the nurse school peter's place had not been at 27 balboa park street since 2000 a neighborhood preschool serve families from the richmond i live in the neighborhood and outraged at that behavior concurring across the street this is a neighborhood for that families we have our children that come to the school and provide them with a safe environmentalist this is not appropriated that behavior happening across the street we support at a minimum the 60 day suspension and interested in figuring out how to address perhaps more severe sanctions. >> thank you good evening. >> my name is noel i'm the

correct of peter place. >> speak sweet spot microphone. >> i'm the director of peter's place nurse school directly across the street we serve close to 55 between 050 and 60 at in time but 55 families and we are part time school so families are coming and going and from 8 o'clock well loser to 8:30 in the morning until as late as 4 o'clock 5 o'clock those these families we have many families coming and going throughout the day next door we have an organization t your sidewalks are chock-full of children running back and forth and their families it is like a family neighborhood and it is very obvious what is going on across the street and just as recently as 3 a days

ago we went to the website just to see if if since they're under suspension if it is helping the situation at all and we saw the website which shows girls depressed in scant i didn't lingerie saying beautiful staff asian girls here to i've been

there. >> advertised 33-d they know and to answer some of your questions this the first time it is a lewd allegation this maurj

was screened and the owner relied on that that is something you should remain and no history before or after with lewd conduct and in response to commissioner vice president fung's comment a change of opener and a change in the law and did tough up the penalty and to district attorney george gascon to respond to commissioner swig the abc analog but i've done abc case in the first offense they don't revoke probably a fine or 10 day suspension that is suspend the second and third offense they ranch up and another allegation

about human trafficking what quite offense in kraergs to the police reporting page 4 and 5 the police said no human trafficking yes, it is good i said pointed out in the brief not punish the innocent they're on notice now, of course, if it happens again, they should be suspended but a one time thing and the law she didn't mention ones in her brief by the way, the law is on the does the owner 2933 only page 2 of my brief thank you. >> i have a question yes. >> i'm missing something i read 2933 as saying massage establishment shall be responsible for the conduct of

all individuals that is there. >> how does that then not impact the owner and i mean, if you don't interpret that as meaning responsible than anything can go on and no one that responsibility. >> that's a point. >> speak into the mike, sir. >> how do you work this gary the director may not shall the director may revoke or suspend massage establishment or alcohol permit after a hearing if the director finds any employer or permit has engaged in the violation of state or local laws

in a place of business and in the exercise of due diligence should have had knowledge of prohibited conduct that tempers it is pretty well well written in the health code you're right and again, the health code say wait a minute they didn't know sort of like an ad active law every dog gets one free bit if you didn't know how about due diligence didn't know. >> thank you thank you. >> i'm going to put the text of 2933 own the screen if it is helpful with all due respect the gentleman has misrepresented

what was said. >> 2933 sets forth the grounds under which the department may revoke a permit 6 separate grounds in the alternative so they're all let me show you this. >> this is the top so the director my revoke or suspend a massage establishment service permit after hearing in the director or director finds 6 onyx that have or between them in the alternative in subdivision 3 they've engaged in conduct with the operation of business and violate the operating requirement so forth in the code that's the section he quoted previously that makes the establishment absolutely responsible for conduct for lewd acts and attire they preceded under here and no requirement

they show. massage establishment have known or should have known not part of this section to answer the questions that was raised earlier i did my best you ask how many inspections at the establishment capital hill does one or two inspections a year this was in 2012 that's 4 to 8 but no reference to how many have occurred during that time this is under the same ownership since 2012 and the application the same as the appellants today and that dph tells me the penalty they sought is consistent with their practice as request the code that is what they seek under similar circumstances in other cases

any other questions for me >> so someone said someone mentions a different ownership the same overflow room how many violations has this ownership had since 2012. >> so this the inspector that shows me the massage establishment has been sited for improper attire and consistent with 2945 not a penalty associated with that violation so one previous certification for a improper attire violation. >> so did i hear they were

accredited. >> and no penalty violation i'm sorry counselor the other question i think so the guidelines in the department maybe ms. kim would like to take the podium i have a few questions so. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening, commissioners so the question i had is i understand the guidelines for the penalty phase i'm interested in what the general practice is and could you give me some works of people that have violated this code recently and what the penalty was you can move the mike. >> generally - sure as it the

patrick the program manager who supervisors ms. kim i'll defer to my manager. >> okay. >> you can move the mike up now. >> good evening. i'm patrick as mentioned the program manager for the massage program don't have a didn't bring a list of all the ones we cited last year but i can tell you that permit suspension days last year was around 6 hundred and 50 i think permits suspension days for the city we imposed $71,000 in penalties because generally i mean, the permits are appeal able to this board and prior i've been on it for four we've not heard any in recent times. >> that was pointed out one

was article 29 when was significantly amend in 2015 that went into effect prior to that there was a provision at the state that loud massage establishments that is o had hired all california massage therapy council permits for the local requirements we saw during the years a whole lot of massage establishments going busy in the city the 2015 amendments sought to address that and bring it back in local control and had retirements in the manual programs i myself didn't became a program manager of the massage until january or february of 2016 so i've only been there a year. >> it explains it thank you.

>> any other questions. >> no, thank you. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> i have a question for the city attorney not knowing federal and state this is the way people are headed or not but options that we have with regards to the suspension never mind i know i'm pretty sure we can't increase it we may be can't increase that. >> you couldn't or revoke the permit on the current posture of the rent i don't think so the guidelines the codes in this situation for the violation of the lewd conduct the permit penalties is 60 day suspension with the massage establishment

permit doesn't specify whether it comes from us or not. >> it is in the discretions in the code then really, really. >> i believe we have in the past same as is tobacco. >> yeah. >> probably not. >> in terms of that - >> i agree i don't know from the department has a position on that. >> come to the podium please. thank you open my trusty code the board of appeals have board and - so when you first asked me how this penalties are typically giving out i received you to the coincide because dph

uses the code to base it's penalty they do that because the 60 day suspension it the penalty for this particular violation and to assure fairness quality they did code requirements requires it and insure the same penalty that is needed out across the massage establishment i will for our council if you have authority to go higher or low but dph sees is go as the code to be enforced when this particular event that happens. >> i have an opinion on this i agree with the department of health about quality and have a feeling that we 200 undermined

the department if we start meg with the penalty which they find violations there will be an immediate reaction to appeal and we're going to have every case like this or even worse that will appeal because why not the precedence was set and i'm not picking on this case i will speak generically of new case. >> no need for the board of appeals. >> that's not exactly true i think that we will be undermining the department of health if we start messaging and taking the penalties to 25 or 10 or whatever or 59 for that

matter i think outside the box that is dangerous territory or else we'll hear for appeals because they want a reduction in their penalties as i continue just to let everyone else chat my feeling is the same at the department of health when you have - when you have a license like a liquor license arrest a massage license as is other than your responsibility to make that very clear and to your sole practitioners that will be a bartender or maurj this is the law and the law must be protected and fundamental training and owners owners that's the risk they take and so if the bartender serves a minor not the owners fault or some

will say but the owners responsibility as the owner of the license to train that individual to make sure that behavior p is unacceptable i take that position and make a motion to deny the appeal. >> i'll disagree with what my fellow commissioner indicated how the board can act or not act i think the intent is whether or not we have equity and their actions that didn't nestle apply to this particular case i think we should focus on that rather than a philanthropy discussion of the intent of this board the i don't find that the appellants had presented a

compelling case respect to the legal argument. >> i concur. >> someone care to make a motion. >> the motion was made. >> i'm sorry, i was probably reading raw to deny the appeal on the on the grounds that the police department and the department of health were appropriate in their actions. >> this is a motion making machine now. >> so the motion by commissioner swig to deny its appeal and uphold the suspension 60 days on the basis that was properly issued is that; correct? >> yes. >> on that motion commissioner vice president fung commissioner lazarus commissioner president honda's commissioner wilson and that motion carries with a vote of 5

to zero. >> we are going a call item 6 courtenay brown vs. the department of building inspection. the subject property at 22 harper street, llc of open transformation at the deck at first level and expansion to approve the building permit new roof deck and second floor above the expansion at the ground level and hear from the appellant first. >> come on up.

>> welcome. >> thank you very much good evening can you all hear me happy women's day thank you for the board to take the time to protect homeowners and taxpayers and the citizens of san francisco to give you a brief history i've lived in noah valley on and off for the past 20 years bought our house in 2008, we remodeled to stay in the city with our two girls and make that work for the family during the entire remodel process we had a birds eye view behind harper and discussed my concerns with the architect no objections did i have despite some concerns about the connects

and the roof line and dormers we live in a city we have to be cool neighbors push and pull today, i'm going to present a simple straighter 22 harper street deceived the neighbors and city by having a incomplete set of plans and consisting you see the list any of complaint responses back and forth and reads like an enclosed-caption consisting breaching the building codes and making a mockery of the system in their codes in september 4th months after putting a completed house on the market did they file a 311 without posting an actual 311 notice see the picture of

outside of the house from october 9, 2016, smack-dab in the middle of the 311 process filed a 311 more or less for the entire project including a roof deck and hatch on top the latter is my main issue as you can see from 22 harper street response they've tried to confuse the issue and discussions of their irrelevant issues like rats and timely approved process and financing and tonight's to pretty much the house and so on and so forth the retirement board on the top of the peeked roof victorian is my primary complaint according to the plan the roof decks on the third floor and the relayed interior staircase war outside the scope and not on the

original plans in fact, they were not submitted until the 311 on september 19, 2016, with the other decks the lower south side and the roof decks and honestly i'm not sure how the permit were granted we shared many of the concerns throughout the project the deck blocks views it is out of character in relation to the victorian design and in fact, there are not roof decks on-peak victorian houses in noah valley and on harper street we know they're important if you lit one skydive on one in noah valley there be all over the place the main complaint are two-fold the owner and contractor and architect on 22 harper street bent and broke the

city laws make a mockery of the system and built a roof deck which is out of character from the neighborhood and style of the house in order to achieve their profit goals a big house multiple decks and big square footage you know trying to get as much as. >> and flip the house for the integrity i respectfully ask the board to be simply remove on the top roof deck even though i question how 22 harper street received many of the key permits for this job without neighborhood consent with objections from the planning commission with objections from myself, and i also ask they plant beautiful trees throughout noah valley for the benefit of the neighborhood for cutting down any tree and trespassing on

my property thank you very much. >> mr. brown. >> yes. >> approximately how far your building at the rear yard to this. >> the face of my house or the face of my yard. >> the face of our yard on the rear yard side. >> the face of this building. >> that's a good question i don't know what their setback - to their lot because is smaller lot it is short if you look at the pictures i've taken and they've taken the back deck this is i don't have a problem i did but didn't obsess looking over our backyard. >> i guess we have 50 feet a deep lot with the proper setback for our house. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you, mr. brown.

>> we'll hear from the permit holder now. >> welcome. >> members of the commission i'm not here to be as an attorney but rather as a friend long term friend first of all, i just like to say that no question that the project sponsor and the permit at the acted in excess of permit he is stepping wrong and the second thing this is also one of the cases where a serial permitting that is what one of the things the neighbor, however, unfortunately unless a clear roof by both the planning department and the building

department that you can't come and do a project peace by peace unfortunately, it is a sort of a practice of most people because of the lengthy permit process especially with the planning department to have something that takes 3 to 6 months to do a foundation to rebuild it and they'll try to get it done and the next permit for the building and move on first of all, the first permit is for the foundation the second permit is for the renovation of interior and exterior of the existing building but the third permit which is a 311 duplication that is involving expanding the existing building envelope is actually filed in

2016 october 27th that's when it was filed however, and however the planning department did not sent out the notification 311 notification until july 18, 2016, and the notice expired on october 19, 2016, so the neighbor who is complaining actually has a 311 notification which is a company i understand that with plans and i don't on the department will send them out without a set of plans identifying the expansion envelope the envelope in this case is taking on existing roof on the second floor make it into a deck for the third floor

by the way, this is a two unit building they change and clearing the basement by expanding it to the size thismo below grade to make a second unit with one bedroom. >> because of the process the 311 permit actually was approved by the building department on november 22, 2016, and the mechanical section of that dependent on 11, 2016 and the rest of time all the way through until december 7th what going through the puc to review something that had already been reviewed on the previous permit

and didn't have to so at this point my understanding that the permittee has contacted and ran to the department of building inspection to ask for and offer to pay the fine for the permit and waiting to find out what the fine is no question he is going to pay that fine. >> as to the things that is being asked for by the neighbor this an extra permit the last permit was actually for the deck and that was issued in - november in november and that permit was not appealed and that's the permit that was approved that the deck was

constructed under and the appeal period for that deck is over as far as planting trees is concerned street trees in the neighborhood the permittee is willing to contribute a sum of money to the urban - excuse me - >> i'm having a coughing fit contribute to plant trees and up to this board to determine how many trees should be planned for removing one tree illegally on the neighbors yard appears to be dying. >> are you finished. >> this is to the best of my

ability. >> what the 311 no dr was filed. >> no dr filed and that dr period had left no october. >> by the way, do you have afghan answer to any question the distance between the two buildings no site plan with them. >> well, that's a question you have to ask the occupant. >> thiekts okay. but i'll agree with you after a quick look at the plans that is pretty sloppy. >> the permittee said based on his calculation this is the distance between the two rear

facades is 90 feet. >> any public comment on this item? oh, sorry we have. >> my apologies. >> speak under the public if you want inspector duffy. >> joe duffy dbi at the lower level to approve on the references the first permit the one on 963 new roof deck as second floor and the expansion of lirment and dining room of the ground level and the value of the permit was put down as $20,000 this was in october of 2015 and gone through the mechanical plan check and puc

and then eventually got issued on the eight of december, 2016 the dproiment was finally on the ninth of december 2016 and suspend on the twitter of december so obviously whenever he read the brief it is really unusual for us to see a permit on one day and signed off on the next day but given the fact 4 total of four building permits i believe the work was skensz in a way that they did permit they filed in didn't catch up so i spoke to the builder inspector and he acknowledged that he didn't use his best judgment there was a complaint and typically had happens people get ahead of them and put in two or

three permit the dormer is over-the-counter and mention the 311 notifications that's the way it is done and well, it i see full permits so the builder inspector probably should have given a stop work notice he didn't do that the permit was in place we did speak to him this morning and tell him that in those cases had a permit is filed even though it is a it takes time it is not an issued permit and the project should have been stopped so he gets that and that would be our opinion some fees are due for to reason the scope of the issued permits had been sfeetd we can calculate the presents

penalties and two f cs need to be issued for the third and fourth permits at one under appeal if so not denied and the fourth permit is actually for a roof deck and the appellant seems to be referencing that deck but because i prernl or personally personally don't think this is the roof deck is connected to the appeal it is a roof deck on the peak of roof and i think he's referring to that one and not the roof deck on the appeal permit the other things i want to point out we've done a total of 10 building inspectors and the fees are paid the totally of 18 plus

66 there's i'm i'm available to answer any questions. >> police chief what's the most number of permits you've seen. >> i've seen up to 15. >> yeah. >> it is done it is seems to be the legal foundation and do the inside and come and did an expansion they're still working on parts of it but if it - those permits don't go well to the like the review stage they get to a point they're not capturing with the project and that's what happened so. >> what type of penalties - what will be the calculation to what's the difference here. >> for the penalty for doing that it is studying the scope so are the evaluation to be

determined we've not discussed that yet. >> so in the region of two or $3,000 i'll imagine. >> a senior builder inspector. >> it was inspector and get what he was doing we don't - probably he probably didn't use his best judgment loon or like on this case otherwise he's very, very good his district is known for a lot of complaints. >> thank you we don't can you remember this type of permitting in any way i wish one permit the whole project was done and signed off on one permit that is hard for an inspector dealing with multiple firms. >> i don't know whether this

is a question for yourself or mr. sanchez but when their multiple permit and the project of it gets going and their change orders or changes of direction or honey let's add a deck i've heard that before. >> last month. >> and you know real life happens; right? and i'm not going to be into the method of serial imprisonment but in real life a deck here and there how will the neighbor sort of this out nicole i'm hearing that what the neighbor is addressing and the appellant is a completely different deck not under appeal; right? and that's where the problem lies but

clearly he wasn't clear when that permit was filed and that was the deck we're talking about right now how does the poor neighborhood sort this out with multiple permits >> a lot of people nowadays look at it on sfgovtv.org and like mr. sanchez a block notification a permit that is reviewed by mr. larkin you automatically get notified even if if so to the innovative again, i'm speaking for planning but mr. sanchez will be speak on that more but you really have to keep an eye on it is know sometimes dbi puts a block on that we can review the permit but that wouldn't notify the neighbor if there's construction related to the land dbi says a

structural notification at the time of the permit issuance so that's what we get you know. >> thank you for the 82 to recall for those who are for the public that is viewing and hopefully getting educate and the appellant i precedes himself as the victim. >> the department and the board has real complex cases required a consolidated set of documents that shows everything at one time. >> yes. >> we do that with a lot of demolition and this one didn't center a lot of demolition you taking down walls and 15 and 12 and thirty permits. >> i'm not saying but that cleans it you up it is the process of getting the permit and they piecemeal that rather than one project.

>> thank you mr. sanchez. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. so been noted 4 permits for the the subject property first permit by records goes back to july of 2030 over-the-counter followed by a tenant improvement in august of that year the the subject property has an expansion building envelope was submitted in october like staff was assigned to that out of backlog in december i don't know all the details why to take until september to get the notification stage but and the permitted toilet block there are revisions i'm assuming notices of comments and responses and don't care until august to get the plans for the neighborhood notification now the fourth permit that is at issue it is

directly related to the concern is again roof deck that seems in july of last year there were a permit that was so you get over-the-counter to rehabilitate the work that was done typed that included the roof deck and the changes i believe your staff was reviewing this permit over-the-counter and one the preservation planners noticed they were not complying with the requirement the staff had an enforcement do enforce this to address the concerns that included the roof deck was approved in september and right before the neighborhood notification went out tonight is the first i've heard and my staff heard about the poster not being up for the 311

notifications that's a serious problem. >> i'm sorry you have time in rebuttal. >> i discussed with staff and i did review the appellants brief and sounded likes he informed the staff but the planner she had not horde from anyone stating the poster was not up the planner was in communication with the appellate shouldn't have a recognition or notice about the notification poster not being up and see, yes so the permit that has most of the concerns was issued probably two weeks before the permit was issued by otherwise that permit was down by the building department they built the project and once the permit was issued they got the entitlement the next day gone ahead and built the project as

they wanted that's where we or are the planning code process. >> thank you for explaining that i mean in the brief and i don't know if this is a question the appellant stated that the planning department it was under investigation under historic but you cleared that up for me okay. thank you. >> so it was i lost you about hallway through the story the story doesn't end the story. >> it ended here. >> but your story didn't end and i get confused the permit which the appellant is most concerned about didn't seem what he is appealing that permit was issued in then was subject to a violation a historic whatever some concern by the planning

department. >> enforcement. >> yes. >> yet that's where i lost the story yet the permit was issued. >> they made changes to address the preservation concerns staff give them directions to change to comply they made the changes there was about i think a month unlawful between when we first reviewed the permit and signed off on that that was on over-the-counter permit that was again, it seems like staff kind of found the violations by reviewing the permit they came to the permit because of the work they did and staff knows this is what you want to do but you can't some changes what were made part of scope of that was the roof deck which didn't require a neighborhood notification. >> but how does other than sure

i did that that way how is your department secure that indeed the changes that they requested postmortem or post building of the deck were made. >> if they don't complete the work under the permit they've now done and i can confirm with our enforcement staff they've gone out and the facade meets their qualification of the permit but that's what it would be. >> thank you mr. sanchez. >> thanks. >> now i'll ask for public comment any public comment on this item? >> i have nothing to do with the case. >> welcome. >> i want to point out i've been doing this for 38 years the

harder job is the builder inspector hindsight is easy to say i couldn't do the job i'm not sure one of us could let's take into consideration about the inspector they don't a really good job. >> thank you any other public comment. >> okay. seeing none rebuttal starting with the appellant 3 minutes. >> so i guess i'm not really sure where to start i mean, i think that everyone outlines it is a mess the city acknowledges it is a mess the point how does a neighbor who

isn't familiar with the process supposed to even manage this i tried to track the permits you know i'll look to make sure they're doing according to the plaintiffs response no permit was for the roof deck that was added to angle existing permit that permit was there was no 311 for the permit that was the 311 that was added but no 311 necessary for a like a sort of gross roof deck on the top of the house i don't get it first of all, in terms of question about the 311 i called and complained to the planning department that there was no sign posted for the entire month i've gotten a remodel they were in the middle of selling their house they're not going to put a big fat orange sign in front of

their house a huge conflict of interest i think a clear pattern by the contractor or the builder or owner trying to skirt the laws of city they make you and me look like fools and apologize for the sloppy be working and pay a couple of thousand dollars and that's it it is reprehensible as far as i'm concerned, so i also on the question about think over-the-counter roof deck i spoke with the planning department and don about it the reason that was not processed at the time, no plans were submitted with the over-the-counter and the plastic bags were not submitted until 311 was triggered four months later no september they were required to go through all the decking they've put on the house the

house was completed four months prior on the market since may and didn't go to the 311 that was completed he at the end of october and permits signed the reason why i didn't obtain was the planning department said they'll conduct a discretionary review they never did the one reason we're here otherwise in the planning department did their job credible and the discretionary review like they said the city would have done the work they were supposed to do that's all i have to say. >> thank you, sir. >> sir, the reason are you saying the reason you didn't file for discretionary review was because of department told you. >> alexander curby the house was a mess historic issues and

all issues the earliest they'll hear it would be february or march of this year i said okay. i don't need to do anything the city will work it through and all of a sudden the permit is approved that is nuts like i mean, i did everything he can all i want is the top roof deck removed. >> thank you thank you. >> we can take rebuttal from the permit holder now. >> i just like to pass a copy of 311 certification so you, look at it first of all, i think i work with ms. curby on other projects

she's very strict and didn't tell anyone they does not have to file a discretionary review because of the department will do that important rarely does the planning department initiate a mandatory discretionary review especially on the project of this size that is basically a 3 different elements overhead please. on the dr. >> the 3 side like the yellow area is that's the roof deck this is the other deck on the second floor and this is the area where it was expanded

i'm sorry yeah. this is the area that was expanded in the basement and then there is a deck on in the front of the street that is basically this area is roof of the deck so he has at the discretionary review mrald to him it tells us exactly when you have to foil that and that that has to be filed between thirty days of expiration of october 19th he didn't exercise his right to do that unfortunately, i would agree with everyone i think the serial permitting tends to be messy and i'm not sure that i have the solution for that without some requirement that a certain power point or types of

permit you have to summit a new one that is something that the department has to address. >> are you finished ms. barkley. >> yes. >> so the appellants one of the concerns many concerns was that there was and you mentioned it lightly but depending on how this hearing goes regarding the trespassing and the illegal removal of the appellants tree what would your clients offer be what is consideration is your client thinking at this point. >> i have to consultant with him but wanted to say that the poster was on the building the entire required period of time. >> you want to check with our

client. >> he said he saw 3 street trees. >> okay. thank you and you know that is agreed it is up to you. >> anything further from the departmen departments. >> commissioners, i would have encouraged the appellant to probably which he was dealing with dbi and not getting proper action would have elevated that

we might not have been here tonight this is fine but if you think something is wrong and should be dealt with go higher and protest that i'm not sure why that didn't happen this whole appeal thing we have had given a stop work order the complaint is still open i'm not sure if he take advantage of this rod with the dbi. >> thank you scott sanchez planning department. just to aid a few points megan and i discussed that we had someone that address the redecorate and others handled

the permit that was up to the 311 notification there was no complaint through anyone about the poster not installed if this is the complaint is we take that seriously and start the notification process that happens before we do so when we get complaint that's how we respond and this is nov application that of subject to that notification add to that and in regards to the staff eir i mean it is a ms. barkley said that is unusual but a significant step for us to add as the department initiate a staff dr if this is something that staff would not have said that was a policy made the director i can't see that staff is saying h that that requires the director to initiate that a

staff dr the 311 plans do show the roof deck that is the concern of the appellant it actually has an existing condition which at this point, i think everything is in existing condition unfortunately and no 311 is required for a roof deck period. >> period. >> there are certain circumstances if there is a new if you stair penthouse a physical addition a thought building about trigger a 311 notification in the deck is on the portion of building non-complying with the rear yard we'll do a 10 day notice but inform notification for the roof deck and i did review the plans and the roof deck they have on the upper level didn't require notification and staff approved

the permit it didn't require a neighborhood notification i'm available to answer any questions. >> can you look at the sanborn map and should it to us. >> yeah. >> can i have the overhead, please? so the highlighted property is the the subject property at i also have a aerial photo if you like to maybe more recent. >> no, that - >> the other one has the remeltdown yes. >> the appellants property. >> this is an aerial photo from 2015 may not show all the

work there we go in back of this. >> so the area in questioning as part of project added dormers at the rear of the building but the roof deck in question there was an existing dormer they have placed a roof deck it is a small roof deck but a roof deck nonetheless and most of work. >> 90 square feet or something; right? >> most of work there the permit they added the roof deck on the rear portion of building and did a horizontal expansion of the side that is pretty low not much of an upgrade. >> put-down your finger where you think the rear wall is for the appellant. >> it is. >> right there. >> could be here maybe go to

another photo that would be more clear. >> that's when the appellants property what under construction i mean. >> no addition that was there in the rear. >> yeah. i don't know if it is 90 feet buses thirty feet from the building wall of the the subject property to the rear property line it at least has to be thirty feet to 60 to 90 feet to the appellants property i think the appellant better able to be engaged with how much their setback is so this is from the permit holder can i have the overhead, please?

this is showing from the back of the the subject property at to the. >> i've seen both photographs from the back of rear. >> can i ask a question did you - so the deck which the appellant is upset about is built without a permit. >> yeah. and in then they filed a permit. >> i'm sorry, i honestly don't want to stir this up someone said they built the house they wanted to build and filed for the permit did you say that. >> i think i said that that seems to be what they did. >> which if i were the da i would be upset regardless of how

this turned out for now edification this house was built for profit no doubt about it we've seen hearing where people came in and say i'm going to live in the house this is clearing for 0 profit when a developer like this come back for future projects you remember that developer. >> loaded question. >> we've reviewed all projects fairly and independently so, yes i mean - >> thank you thank you mr. sanchez. >> i don't know what to see to that. >> commissioners, the matter is submitted. >> we need a bull with backbone. >> who want to start. >> i'll make one contempt not the jermaine peas of this i'm

not inclined to get into the topic of trees this is a matter not part of this appeal i don't feel equipped to say how. >> i was going to say the stank if they have an issue with sidelines can discuss with the trees in the rear that may help their situation a little bit i don't know but i will discuss what is before us and probably expand a little bit beyond the actual permit because the question that has always been either appeal of a dr or especially before appeals of roof decks is the impact it has on the one that

probably is not so loving of roof decks or large roof decks i'll pose the following position nicole that is that the deck not part of this permit but is observable i find the to be relatively modest i find that distance between them is a fair amount of distance for some level of privacy you know obviously the question of having people make noise on decks or partying on decks is something that nobody particularly enjoys but in terms of the appellants position on whether this roof deck satisfies the code and whether it creates

such an unusual or problem for him i don't find that the case. >> therefore i would vote to deny the appeal. >> i concur. >> i also concur. >> so - no other options. >> are we sort of looking this in a narrow thing before us. >> because what - you guys have seen this stuff more than i have i hate awarding bad behavior and it seems i'm sorry,

i hate to reward bad behavior and some unfairness our hands are somewhat tied not knowing the board to be this circumstance speck. >> i was going to say something of the trees they're not involved so i'll not go there. >> i'll be the third. >> not going to go there. >> the other behavior. >> are you finished commissioner. >> the behavior i'm kind of and commissioner wilson position why do you - mr. sanchez comment well, they built the house they wanted to and got the permit flies in the face of everything that did planning department tries to prohibit and just exempt fizz improper

behavior and although i see commissioner vice president fung's point very clearly i also see commissioner wilson i'm sympathetic more sympathetic to commissioner wilsons and don't know how to deal with that may i ask a question of the city attorney maybe thought chief inspector duffy you stated several thousands of fees that seem to be owing because someone didn't tell small business about certain things going on the site it if confirmed. >> that's correct. >> i guess the city attorney if we deny the appeal does the city get paid overseeing fees

and the at least. >> up to the department and this is separate. >> some housekeeping on this project. >> there is cf c and fees i think we should be collecting from the notice of violation that we should have issued we didn't and, go after that so you guys could a decide on the amount in you want to but 23 wants an amount maybe you can't need to be you know. >> no under challenged it is. >> from the penalty was piloted to the board the board can consider the amount but at this point we can't. >> you want it is a the fees must be paid to gli. >> it automatically calculated. >> it is automatically calculated. >> is there a discretion of fees. >> in what way. >> can you decide lower or heir. >> yes. we can.

>> is that how much one pays bad conduct is that what is one pays. >> from the work is exceeded without the issuance of permit we do an evaluation of the work that was done and in this case we could do an evaluation on the full 4 permits so whatever that value was which is probably it is could rise up to four or $5,000 i mingle not a 9 times but 2 times penalty that's the way the code is written 9 times with no work permit and 2 studying did beyond the scope but they did out permits i assume. >> just not for the actual work. >> i wanted to add as well you're right commissioners this is not the way to do permits anyone you don't want to get into this situation 99 percent

of times the project stopped your fined and most of all your project is stopped and you're dead in the water this one didn't get stopped should have been and here we are most of time a stop worked e work order and wait until the permit are issued we didn't issue it i said that earlier and the inspector will not do that again. >> w can we agree or madam director, can we achieve the same intent that community college has by denying the appeal and upholding the appeal with the contingency with the assurance that the fees at the discretion of the building department are paid so basically

everything reremains status quo but we're assured that fees we're assured the fees will be paid for the building department can we flip-flop that is that appropriate. >> only the permit before you one permit before you my understanding from the department there are more maybe more than one issue with the portent of penalties is there a concern whether the fee for this permit not the penalty because this is a separate action the actual fee for the permit what we paid for the scope of work they proposed is appropriate or not i haven't heard that at issue but there is a penalty possibly for doing work and studying the

scope of the permit. >> you can the permit will not be finally listed until the fee situation is addressed whether if so appealed here. >> again, i think that commissioner wilson and i are in the same place clearly a miss have you ever gone by the lack of permit holder they built the house they wanted to and filed for the permit i'm quoting the da not mom and pop but his statement we're troubled that that miss venture is not being recognized i don't know 0 how to deal with that. >> someone have a motion. >> ms. barkley unless the board has a question it is better to step dune i'll move to

deny the appeal on the basis that the permit was properly issued. >> okay. a motion in the vice president to deny the appeal and issue the permit on the basis that was properly issued on that motion commissioner lazarus commissioner president honda commissioner wilson no commissioner swig no with a vote of 3 to that item passes and the permit is issued >> there's no further business. >>

>> call to order. can you please turn off your electronic devices, and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> vice president mazzucc [kwro-erbgs/] mazzucco i would like to call role. vice president mazzucco? >> present. >> commissioner marshall. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus? >> present. >> commissioner melara? >> present. >> commissioner hing? >> here. >> commissioner mazzucco you have a quorum and also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott. >> thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first community meeting for 2017. we as the san francisco police commission this is actually our favorite part of the job, to go out into the community once a month to each district station. we have ten district stations in the san francisco police department and the goal, the last meeting of the month to go to each district station and hear from you, the

community about things that are very specific to your district and this being the southern police station and this meeting is the first of the year and actually our first community meeting through a district station with our new chief, william scott, sitting to the left of me and it's also the first district station and community meeting for your captain, daryl fong, this is his very first one. so go easy on him tonight. what we usually do in meetings is a little more different, a little more streamlined, but we take the opportunity for each commissioner to tell you what we do in our day jobs. and then i'm going to deviate from the script a little bit, because we have the honor of having your supervisor here tonight, jane kim. and we'll have supervisor kim say a few words, if you would like to? but we'll start briefly starting to the right of me with commissioner sonia melara. >> any name is sonia melara

and run the family program at st. francis memorial hospital up the hill and also on the faculty of san francisco university school of social work and i live in the west portal district. >> doctor joseph marshall and run the program, nonprofit boys club and i have been on the commission since 2004. >> commissioner dejesus. >> my name is petra dejesus and i'm an attorney by day. i have been on the commission for ten years and live in outer mission. i'm happy to be here and happy to hear from all of you tonight. thanks. >> good evening. my name is bill hing, a law professor at the university of san francisco and founder of legal immigrant resource center and i reside in the inner sunset.

>> i'm tom mazzucco vice president for the commission. i'm a native san franciscan and i have been on the commission for about almost 8 years. and my day job, i'm also a practicing attorney. prior to that for ten years i was an assistant district attorney here in san francisco and finished my career in the gang violence unit and followed by nine years as assistant united states attorney here in san francisco. i did everything from organized crime cases to white-collared cases and now in private practice here in san francisco. to me, this is the best part of being on the commission, because we get to go right out to the community and hear from you what your local concerns are. so starting with the person most responsible for this district, supervisor jane kim. [ applause ]

>> well, thank you, commissioners and i appreciate that you are kicking off your year at the southern station here in the south of market and welcome to our new chief, who has not only joined us from los angeles to san francisco, but he is a mission bay resident. and so i don't -- [ applause ] that alone got you applause. so we're really glad to have a chief in our district as a resident, and also, welcome to our city. and i know that many of our constituent leaders are here today. i didn't realize this was actually captain fong's first hosting of the police commission, but i know he knows our community really well already. i just want to acknowledge and thank you, for jumping into the job. he is doing a great job in our district. and i know has been incredible responsive and followed in

the phot steps of captain redman who with still dearly love in the mission and gad he is making sure that southern is getting the resources that they need and know our constituents probably still call you all the time as well. we do have a very active district, and i have always appreciated that, the commission has spent so much time listening to our need as round public safety. because we're also the downtown area and we are the home to so many workers, and also a center for so much of the tourism here in san francisco. we also bear a brunt of the a lot of public safety issues of city as well. the police commission and the command staff has always been great at partnering with our constituents and listening to our needs and how we can make our communities a safer place. i have to give it up to our constituents because making the city a safer place isn't just the job and

responsibility of the police department, but on all of us to work together. so whether it's working with the yerba berna cbd and rincon and mission bay neighborhood association. it's really been a great community partnership and i hope we can continue that. thank you so much and welcome to our district. >> thank you, supervisor. also before we start, i really want to give a big thank you to the contemporary jewish museum. this is an incredible venue and centrally located within the district and they don't get paid for this and thank you for those making this happen. without further ado, please call the first line item. >> 1a chief's report, report on recent police department activities including major event, weekly crime trends and announcements. >> good evening chief. >> good evening. thank you, vice president mazzucco, police commissioners, supervisor kim.

i want to start out this week's report, since this is a community meeting by introducing the command staff members that are here today as well. many of you know them already. starting with assistant chief hector saenz. [ applause ] chief saenz is our chief of staff. he basically has his hands in everything that happens in the department. deputy chief michael redman. [ applause ] and as stated mike was the former captain of the southern and mike is the deputy chief of operations. so he has oversight over the ten district stations and that is a huge responsibility. huge responsibility. but definitely he is the man up to that task. commander dan perriera. [ applause ] dan is a former captain of the mission district, and recently promoted. and now is a commander over the metro division.

you'll hear from captain daryl fong in a second, but i will introduce him now. captain daryl fong [ applause ] . >> it's nice having daryl here because he is my captain as well. so i appreciate the work that he does. no pressure. we'll start with the recent activities the week in review the st. patrick's day parade march 11th and huge turnout and the san francisco police department, as well ass a a number of other city departments were there and participated in the parade. there was no major incidents of note. st. patrick's day is this week, march 17th and we expect many celebrations, but a safe st. patrick's day weekend. we had a couple of robberies in the southern district march 3rd where two suspect wearing ski masks

and hoodies robbed a victim at gunpoint at 5th and mission. officers responded and conducted an immediate and exhaustive investigation that resulted in both suspects being arrested. they were taken into custody and later booked into the juvenile justice center and we don't think there with any other folks involved in that. events: upcoming events for the week, we have a traffic safety enforcement plan planned for this week. san francisco is committed to eliminating traffic deaths by 2024 as part of the vision zero program. our city's commitment to prioritize safe events in the streets for everyone. sfpd conducted a traffic safety zone operation march 13th and will conduct additional operations march 16th, 27th and 31st with specify attention directed to the focus on

five violations, which are speeding, illegal turns, failure to stop for stop signs and signals and failure to yield to pedestrians and the spirit behind this vision zero, we want to totally eliminate traffic fatalities, but those five violations account for a majority of our traffic collisions, and we believe by focusing on those five, that we can significantly impact and reduce traffic fatalities. so vision zero is an ongoing effort and we'll run these traffic enforcements operations periodically and consistently in an effort to reduce our traffic fatalities. in terms of crime statistics, homicidess are up from this time of last year, most recent was last friday on green street where a young man was killed. we have made tremendous progress in that case and we think we'll

be actually bringing to resolution. 2016 we had 7. so we're 4 above this time last year. non-fatal shootings is actually down from last year by 3 shootings. we had 35 this time last year. we have 32 this year. gun violence non-fatal shootings and homicides, we had 39 last year and so small change. firearm seizes, 266 firearms were seized year-to-date to this year, which is a significant number. our officers, when we put officers out on patrol, particularly in the areas hard hit by violence, we ask our officers to focus on the individuals committing violence. and many of those folks involved in gang activitis and narcotics activities and they have

done a phenomenal job. to give you context, last year 2016 we seized 1216 firearms. in 2015 we seized 1085 firearms. so our philosophy is if we can get the firearms off the streets that is one less person able to use a firearm to commit a violent crime and that effort is ongoing. but we're off to a good start there. again, i discussed the homicide on green street already and we have made significant progress on that. we also had a shooting in terville last week where a group of men were involved in narcoticks at 47th and vicentee and a shooting at that location. we actually made an arrest and that location we believe is an isolated incident.

so we made an arrest in the location and we were and to contact all of the parties involved in that. and that concludes the crimes portion of this report. at this time, i would like to turn this over to captain daryl fong for his presentation. >> dr. marshall. >> chief, i just want to say driving home last -- i can't remember the day, but a long hostage situation in the mission and i want to say congratulations for handling that without incident and that is what we set in plan. every time i hear something like that i have to say thank you and congratulations thank you, commissioner marshall and i have to thank our folks, deputy chief redman and commander maddox at the scene, but again the whole deescalation, it takes time, and time and distance, you know? we believe we'll save lives and that was time and distance, and

deescalation and practice. thank you for that observation and the recognition for the work. >> captain fong. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners, chief scott, command staff members, supervisor kim, members of the southern

district community: my name is daryl fong and i'm the captain of the southern police station and i'm honored tonight to present you on behalf of the southern district and i would like to thank the commissioners for choosing southern district for hosting this evening's event. this evening i will be providing an overview of the district, including events in the district, staffing currently at the station, as well as crime within the district, and our district priorities moving forward. but before i begin my presentation, i first would like to thank also the contemporary jewish museum, specifically rachel smith, the events coordinator, as well as mark furtado the security director here. thank you again. [ applause ] i would also like to take the opportunity to acknowledge some great supporters and community partners that we have here in attendance today.

members of my community police advisory board please stand up and be acknowledged. [ applause ] . >> yerba buena, rincon hill and market please stand up and be acknowledge as well, please. [ applause ] we also have representatives from the securities directors association, here in attendance, as well as the mayor's fixit director sandra zeneca and from our community-based organization united playaz and also supervisor jane kim from district 6. thank you all for your support and attendance here today. [ applause ] i would now like to begin with a little background on the

southern police district: the southern district is one of ten police districts in san francisco. it encompasses 3.3 square miles including treasure island and yerba buena island and the district boundaries extend north to mission street, south to mariposa, east to the water's edge, at the embarcadero, and west to vermont and division street. we also in the district we have seven car sectors within the district, five in the city, and the other two sectors, which cover treasure island and yerba buena island. there are a number of diverse and vibrant neighborhoods within the district. we have areas beginning at the northeast end of the district, the embarcadero, south beach, south park neighborhoods, proceeding west into the yerba buena south of market area, further west into the hub

area and in the southeast corner of the district we have the rincon hill china basin and further west showplace square area and south into the mission bay area. within these neighborhoods are several notable locations. in the south of market area we have the moscone center, yerba buena garden, san francisco museum of modern art, the contemporary jewish museum, and further west we have our primary middle school in the district, betsy car michael school and also the design center, as well as several notable tech companies like zinga, google, adobe, airbnb and we have the at&t park, the home of the san francisco giants. we also have within the mission bay

neighborhood, the usc sf benihoff's children's hospital and current construction of the chase arena, which will be the future home of the golden state warriors. in the southern district our district demographics show a population of about 42,000 residents in the city. however, anyone who has driven through the city or walked through the city in the course of the day, realizes that that actually swells to over five times up to almost 200,000 people in the area. this area of residents, the ethnic break down consists of 46% white, followed by 35% of asians, hispanic 14%, and african americans at 7%.

within the southern district, we are very fortunate to have three very distinguished supervisors in our district. representing district 6, supervisor jane kim, which over sees most of the southern district, most soma, as well as treasure island and yerba buena and supervisor sheehy the mission district and supervisor malia cohen oversees the southwest end as of the district covering the showplace area. we're very fortunate to have three incredible district supervisors in the southern district. we often collaborate with them on district concerns, and work towards resolutions to community

issues. within the southern district, there are a number of year-round events that are held throughout the year. which require police oversight, as well as event management. the first is in january is the martin luther king freedom march, which brings over 5,000 people in attendance. it is a freedom march beginning at caltrain station at 4th and king and provides on the route into yerba buena gardens for a day of celebration for that day. we also have in may the how weird festival, which is an art expression faire and we see often over 50,000 individuals who attend this particular event. that is in the lower south of market area in the area of 1st and new montgomery and mission.

also in may, we also host the beginning of the bay to breakers event, a large race, over 75,000 in attendance for that, for participants which begin over in the area of main and howard street. that race proceeds west on howard street, north on to 9th street and proceeds into adjacent districts, eventually ending in golden gate park. in july, we have the 4th of july festivities, where we see thousands of celebrants come flock our waterfronts to view the festivitis and fireworks not only on the waterfront but on treasure island as well. also in july, we have the up your alley event, an adult-themed event. we often see over 50,000 individuals in attendance for this one-day event primarily in the south of

market area. and we also have the pistahan parade and celebration, which is a filipino cultural event beginning in civic center plaza in the northern district that begins with a parade and proceeds into the yerba buena garden area, where there is a two-day festival and celebration that takes place in the district as well. in september, we play host to the folsom street fair, another adult-themed event, which attracts over a quarter of a million people. it is a one-day event, also held within the south of market area as well. we also play host to the oracle convention at the moscone center, which brings the annual conference for oracle employees. we often see up to 30,000 of these visitors, who come to this

convention on an annual basis. and in october, we also have fleet week in which we see thousands of visitors come to celebrate fleet week. we play host to a number of military personnel, u.s. sailor, as well as marines,, as well as visitors to our area, and that is a week in the district along the waterfront, managed by also our partners at central station. and then we have the dream force event, which is a sales force annual conference that is also held at the moscone center. where we see, again, over 50,000 in attendance, over a one-week period for the event. as noted earlier, there are a number of renowned locations within the district that host year-round events. the yerba buena gardens host the martin luther king celebrations, the pistahan festival, but also various activations, festival and

smaller corporate events year-round. at the moscone center, this is a host of a number of our conventions, annual conventions throughout the year. most notably was the sales force, as well as the oracle convention. but it has year-round smaller conventions as well. and then also in the china basin neighborhood, at&t park, which is the host of the san francisco giants during the baseball season, which runs from april and hopefully into october. and it's also a venue which plays host to a number of concerts, music festivals and other corporate events and actvations surrounding the neighborhood as well. lastly we have there a rendering of the future chase arena that is undergoing construction currently in the mission bay neighborhood and it will be the home of the golden gate warriors at 16th and 3rd

street. and now i would like to discuss a little bit about staffing currently at southern station: the good news is this, staffing is up at the station. when i first was assigned the southern station in march of 2016, we had 118 officer as signed to the southern station and we currently have 133. this is in large part due to the leadership of the mayor's office, the board of supervisors, the police commission, the chief, in terms of 6-year hiring plan of hiring 150 officers from 2012 through 2018. we're in the midst of that hiring plan and we're seeing the fruits of that hiring take place now, but it also has made us a much younger department as well. of the 133 sworn officers at southern station, there are 107

officers currently serve patrol capacity. we have 20 that are sergeants and five lieutenants one captain in the district. we have been able to reestablish some things that the community has been asking for over the course of the last year. i'm happy to report that we were able to establish a new street crimes unit, which is a plainclothes enforcement unit of one sergeant and six officers to address violent and property crime within the district from narcotic -- illegal narcotic activity, burglaries, robberies in the district, as well as burglaris in the district. these were all concerns that were brought to my attention when i first came to southern from the community and this, i'm happy to report, we now have this unit that has made a tremendous impact, which i will

allude to when i go over some of our crime statistics. we have already been able to reestablish a foot beat program here in the southern district. there was one other thing that rivaled concerns was having foot beat officers to serve as liaisons in our district and we started with four officers specifically in the south of market on the 6th street corridor and we have just last week been able to expand that program to we now have currently 8 officers walking a foot beat to provide visibility, and enforcement, and engagement with the merchants and the residents within those corridors. [ applause ] thank you. we have also recently

assigned a new school resource officer as well. we have assigned that officer to be the primary liaison to our primary middle school -- i'm sorry, elementary and middle school in the district, betsy carmichael school and this officer served as a mentor and resource to youth and students within that school, and also has been a great liaison to also the community-based organize like united playaz within our district in terms building positive relationships with our youth in the community. we continue to have four officers assigned to homeless unit and addressing quality of life issues in the district and surrounding encampments that are working with other city agencies in an attempt to address. we also have a team, an investigation team of one lieutenant and

five sergeants, which is tasked with following up, coordinating, partnering with our neighborhood district attorney and following up on victim crimes to ensure that we are responding in a timely manner. we also are in the process of training 15 new recruits at the station as well. due to the diversity within the district we're very fortunate to have the ability to offer training to these officers with more seasoned officers in the district. of the 133 officers that i mentioned currently assigned to southern station, currently 118 are male officers, 15 are female officers and we have a very diverse workforce of 66 caucasian officer and 18 hispanic officers and 14 filipino officers and 10 african american officers. as mentioned earlier

regarding our district demographics i'm very proud to say that our diverse workforce is representative of the community that we serve. we also have had, because of the new influx of officers, over the course of the last several years, we have 52 officers with less than five years' of service. so we do have a very young workforce. 30 officers with -- between 5-10 years' of experience, and 25 officers with more than 10 years' of experience. all accounted for we have 60% of our current officers have less than ten years' of experience. currently at southern station. our officers assigned to the southern station possess a number of specialized training: currently we have 23 field training officers assigned to southern station, which are spread throughout our watches. during the day, swing watch

and midnight watch and also have ten field training officer sergeants. this is critical because of the young workforce to have supervisor ial oversight of these officers. i'm very proud to say as well we have 61 current officers that are trained in crisis intervention training. this is extremely important, as these officers are available to respond to calls for service to individuals in crisis, and utilize their specialized training to deescalate situations and diffuse situations before they escalate into potential use of force encounters. of the station has seven officers trained in hostage negotiations skills and also 23 bilingual officers assigned to this station.

of these, 8 secondary languages, the primary language that is spoken is spanish. so we have 11 officers that are certified in spanish. we have five officers certified in cantonese, two in mandarin, one in german, one in portuguese, one in hindi and one in surin ame and one in tagalog and that we're providing language access services to those -- to everyone within the community. over the course of the last year, officers used the language assistance service to assist people, with limited english proficiency over 500 times over the course of the year. of these contacts, there

were over 280 documented incidents. we're working tirelessly to ensure that we're track the information to ensure that we are providing language access and services to all members of the community. and now i would like to just discuss a little bit about crime within the district. southern station continues to be a very vibrant and very busy district. southern station officers responded to over 145,000 calls for service in the last year. that averages out to almost 400 calls for service on a daily basis. we are the fourth highest station responding to calls for service of the ten district stations. of those calls for service, emergency calls for service are what we call a priority calls accounted for almost

43% of our calls for service. and the second highest request for service was for quality of life-related type of complaints, which remains to be a challenge for us in the district. within the district crime categories, southern station saw a marked reduction in overall crime, following a citywide trend. specifically in the categories of robberies and auto burglaries we saw 40% and 27% reduction, respectively. this was achieved by taking really a collaborative approach in partnership with the community. utilizing statistical analysis for deployment of resources for our officers, identifying locations of occurrence, timely response, sharing data analysis with our officers, and also, timely follow-up by our investigative teams along with focused enforcement with our

plainclothes officers helping in these reductions. also partnering and educating our communities on safety awareness, and also, identifying potential environmental factors, which may be impacting crime within the district has been a tremendous assist in reduction of our crime stats. in addition, we have had the benefit of some of our department specialized units of assisting us in targeting serial auto burglaries and helping to reduce the auto burglaries within the district and they have been a tremendous asset for us. as far as homicides, we did see a slight increase in homicides, with five homicides occurring last year up from four. what we determined, although it's very concerning, when a homicide

occurs, we determine four out of five homicides involved either narcotics or gang type of activity. they were independent of itself and due to the assistance of the community, and the work of our homicide unit, in all five cases, there were five arrests made in those incidents. also, in regards to sexual assaults in the district we saw an increase in that area and continue to work with our special victims unit and district attorney's office and our da office's and hotel security directors in terms of educating the community. what we found out in a number of these incidents, the victim or the suspect was known to the victim or an associate of the suspect was known to the victim. and now i would like to just go over some areas and priorities of focus as we move into 2017.

the four areas that we'll continue to focus on are reduction in violent and property crimes, the quality of life issues within the district, traffic safety within the district, and community engagement. in regards to continuing reduction of violent and property crimes continuing to work in partnership with the community with education and crime prevention strategis to address street-level crime with auto burglaries, robberies and other crime that impacts the community. in regards to the quality of life issues within the district, our homeless outreach team will continue to work with the various city agencies in partnership with them to address the issues surrounding quality of life issue and work with the department of homelessness and

also in partnership with the department of public works, our department of public health and all the other community stakeholders who are concerned about this issue. traffic safety. traffic safety continues to be a huge priority in the southern district. we are using currently statistical analyses to determine high-incident collision corridors, which you see up there in red. as you can see in the south of market, we have a number of collision corridors that are concerning. we are utilizing our enforcement efforts in commitment to the vision zero program of reducing traffic fatalities to zero by the year 2024. to achieve this end, southern station will continue to work with sfmta, walk sf, the bike coalition, to try to enhance safety within the district. southern station will also

utilize our focus on the five strategy of enforcing the top-five traffic violations identified as causing the highest number of collisions within the district. these are speeding, red light, failing to yield to pedestrians and unsafe terms, as well as stop signs within the district. in 2016, our statistics reflected our emphasis and our priority of trying to enhance traffic safety within the district. we saw a marked improvement within those top-five violation categories. ranging from 50% to over 1300% from red lights to improper turns within the district. although we were, in fact,

one of the citations written within the district and we'll continue to focus on these particular violations again to curb behavior and change behavior of all of the individuals who use the roadway, bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists within the district and it remains a priority and we'll continue to emphasize traffic safety. lastly, but most importantly, you i would like to talk about community policing in the district. at the core is community engagement and i feel very fortunate to have the stakeholders and partners that i do with my community police advisory board and the community groups and all the other stakeholders

all committed to building stronger relationships and partnerships and to enhance public safety within the district. these stakeholders as i mentioned have been a huge, tremendous support for me in terms of our coordinated efforts to not only educate the community, but educate us to ensure we're aware of what is important to the community. over the last year, we have worked with the community on promoting more positive and engaging relationships between law enforcement and the community. over the course of the year, southern station officers participated in the san francisco challengers league, which is a san francisco giants sponsored baseball league with youth who are developmently disabled and physically challenged and it runs

from march to june throughout the year. where kids interact with officers to build positive relationships and interact. in fact, this past saturday was the beginning of the league. our own chief scott was the honorary member and threw out the first pitch for the league at china basin park. thank you, chief. >> how was the pitch? >> i don't outstanding, hit it on the mark, sir. [laughter ]officers also participated in the betsy carmichael event to build more positive relationships with our schools in the district. the officers participated in a bbq, festival, games, a lot of food and sugar for the kids. it was a wonderful time. just again an opportunity for the officers to build positive relationships, not only with

the children, but break down some of those barriers between the parents and the police as well within the community. we also in partnership with the united playaz youth prevention-based career development organization, we facilitated a summer program called "our sand lot program." the reading program was developed between cops and kids and cooking classes held throe the summer and art programs were held, kick ball classes. there was a trip to great america in which the officers escorted the children to great america. i'm not sure who had more fun? the officers or the kids? and there was also a holiday ice skating event sponsored by boston property, where kids from the united playaz organization were brought for a day of fun ice skating at

justin herman plaza. moving forward we're in the process of partnering with united playaz to comprise a youth captain's police advisory board. i think it's critical as we move forward not only do we get input from representatives from our neighborhoods within the community, but also that we hear the concerns of the youth in our district as well. and in an effort to build that relationship and collaboration, we're in the process of identifying those that are committed to enhancing relationships between police and youth within our communities. in an effort to promote safety, also, and identify concerns within the community, southern station also partnered with the united playaz or two gun buyback events this year. during those two events, there were over 200 firearms seized,

including assault rifles, shotguns and other firearms taken off the streetss and it was all a collaborative effort between the united playaz, the police department and other community stakeholders to try to reduce youth violence within our communities. we also under the direction and also the leadership of our mayor's fit-it director zenga, to identify district concerns and identify issues of concern to the community. it was a very enlightening walk and there is a lot of interaction between the community, as well as the mayor's office, along with the director, and the police. it was a great opportunity for us to become aware of the concerns of the community within that neighborhood. also during the holiday

season, my captain's police advisory board comprised a holiday safety flier that focused on some of the three areas that i highlighted early: traffic safety, robbery prevention, as well as auto burglary prevention. during this holiday season, these fliers were made and distributed to a number of visitors, shoppers within the shopping corridors of soma in an effort, again, to educate the community to reduce some of the issues of crime within the neighborhood. moving forward, southern station will continue to engage our community in an effort to build stronger relationships through social outreach, our community

newsletter, direct neighborhood meetings. in an effort to do that, we are also implementing a coffee with the captain on a monthly basis, which is an opportunity for the community to come forward and have a one-on-one with the captain to express their specific concerns or issues within the district. this is a spinoff off our coffee with a cop, in which the community has an opportunity to meet some of our officers and get to know them better. in closing, southern station will continue to engage the community in an attempt to build stronger partnerships. to ensure we're all working together to meet the expectations of the communities that we serve. i believe we have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build on our current relationships, and also, to establish legitimacy in the eyes of all of the community that we serve. and for that, i look forward to the partnerships and for the opportunity. thank you. [ applause ]

i'll be happy to take any questions, if anyone has any. thank you. >> thank you very much, captain fong. that was very thorough presentation and i think you all know a lot about southern station now, their operations and it makes southern station very unique. it's that it used to be headquarters as most of you know at the police headquarters building at hall of justice and very different demographic in terms of a district. since the last ten years, it has a ballpark, a neighborhood and has facilitis that have never been there before. there is literally one of the rare districts where the population goes up five times during the course of the business day and so it's

very diverse with a lot of new neighborhoods. when i first became a prosecutor, there was no southern station covering yerba buena island and treasure island, which i know is no easy task and i thank you, you and your officers for that. i thank you for your presentations. commissioners what we usually do we generally ask the captain questions, but given it's a community meeting i would rather turn it over to the community with your permission to tell us about their concerns and any questions that they have for captain fong or chief scott? without further ado we're going to have public comment now, and given the size of the crowd, public comment is limited to 2 minutes. >> item 3, public comment, the public is now welcome it address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but that are within the subject-matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa person until. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither

police or dpa person until, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain however from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments two minutes. >> good evening and welcome. >> good evening, i'm a resident in north beach place and i had incidents happen monday and i had a woman called my house and i called the police to go downstairs to my neighbor's house, who lives at 567 bay street, apartment 1025. and after the officers left, the young alady came up to my door and started to bang on it very violently. so the cameras on the building caught her coming up the stairs twice and doing a little dance and stuff on the

stairs. and a second set of officers is over may at matia and the way this officer questions me and i told him i have nothing to hide. i'm not involved in the crime that goes on and i have been victimized the last three year issues have been there and been to community meetings. i also told them my neighbor is bipolar and if has full blown aids and i had eye disorders and the management wouldn't do anything about it. there is always crime from

this man's house and demographic i made from that drug haven downstairs. this man does not need this house and cannot take care of hims and he is incontinent and from window-splashing and people getting robbed and the murder of the pokemon person getting killed. like i said, it's right there, all in this drug haven. so this is one house that i wish you all would take out. then there will be five others i will report-back to you on. thank you. >> thank you very much. sergeant yamaguchi to the left there, ma'am? ma'am? bring it over to sergeant yamaguchi and i know you have been to a couple

of meetings and met with us before, but please talk to sergeantam about the pokemon thing. [speaker not understood] i have been to community meetings with captain fong to discuss several issues, but i just wanted to give you a rundown of the western soma experience living at 75 doerr. within the last six months i have made approximately 30 calls to the non-emergency number to report honduran drug gang crack sales on howard street between doerr and 9th street and the 9th street corridor is a hotbed of honduran crack-dealing.

i have also had a burglary of my bicycle out of a locked garage with cameras, with two kryptonite locks. i have had an assault by a woman -- an asian woman who threw construction material at me. i have been held hostage on the 14 bus by an intoxicated african american man who threatened to harm me and my dog. i have had hot coffee thrown at me by one of the honduran crack dealer buddiess and been verbally assaulted by crack addict because when i see honduran crack dealers, i stop and call the non-emergency number, wait until i get an operator and give a complete description of the people that are selling the drugs. i had made probably half a dozen calls about a homeless

encampment and doerr and folsom and got no response from the police or 311, until i ended up going and spending two hours at the [ inaudible ] >> if you would like, sergeant mcdonald is here if you could talk to him about the issues with reference to the honduran crack dealers in your neighborhood. thank you. next speaker. >> good evening. good evening. peter alexander. cops are the chosen people. that is what officer hobbs said, aka denzel washington in the spiritual police fallen the righteous are bold

as a lion, proverbs 21. i have seen that on than one epitaph of a fallen officer. law enforcement is becoming more difficult and intricate and it's always hard to hear of an officer down and even sew nationwide more than 300 officers were taken out by their own for whistle blowing. fallen and proverbs touched upon spiritual reality and deceptions still in place after hundreds of thousands of years, still exist to undermine our freedoms. and surely as your next breath is connected to our next heartbeat, so is the slaughterhouse murder industry of 14 million sentens connected to the violence on the streets to the wars. it's the core of our physical and spiritual disease. there is an agenda to

federalize law enforcement in oakland and san francisco. i strongly oppose anything along those lines. it is to further annihilate the u.s. constitution in favor of martial law and the lion laying down with the lamb language, is something had a we all can do. it's all within our power. we're in california, the most beautiful place for vegetables and fruits to simply cease participating in the murder of supposedly lesser beings, although that is quite questionable. whatever you do to the least of me was always a reference the to the animals, you see? >> thank you, next speaker. next speaker. next speaker, please. thank you. next speaker. two minutes each. next speaker. next speaker, please. thank you.

good evening. >> good evening. thank you to the commission and to the officers present for hosting this meeting. my name is brad feldman and i lived in the dogpatch area the last years and it's gotten significantly safer and cleaner and quieter over the last years. thank you for all your hard work and i appreciate what you have done. i'm here primarily tonight to understand better how my city interacts with its immigrant communities? i have been reading up some on your current policies. but me and some of my friends have been concerned about recent changes at the federal-level, and i was interested in hearing your thoughts, and how the commission and the police in the city relates to immigrations and customs enforcement? and if you foresee that changing in the near-future. thank you. >> unfortunately we can't have a dialogue back and forth with

you, but suffice it to say you are looking at a police department and commission that believes san francisco is a sanctuary city. >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good evening, my name is cathy moppet, executive director of yerba buena and thank you for coming to southern. we appreciate that very much. there is a lot going on and i'm glad you are able to come and listen to our captain and learn more about what is happening. i want to speak from the cpac and we appreciate the partnership. we also appreciate the partnership because we bring so many tourists to this neighborhood, and tourism is such a big industry in san francisco. that we want to ensure -- do what

we can to ensure that they have a good experience and they'll come back and continue to support our institutions. so i specifically want to acknowledge captain fong for his support of our efforts. i want to acknowledge sergeant mcdonald and he was somewhere around here a minute ago. department chief redman and supervisor kim for all of their support. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> thank you very much. may my comments please the commission, the first car i had as a young man, had all 32 horsepower. i grew up in new york and i can assure you i was always in the fast lane on the freeways. but i wanted to tell from you that perspective, i have a little or no sympathy with the individuals that i

see speeding on our streets. but i don't rejoice in the fact that people have to pay fines and increase insurance rates by getting tickets. but at some point i wonder how our quality of life is affected by the way people operate these behemoth and most people drive in varying states of fear and they are afraid of being hit from behind. i see it time and time again the way people drive and i think more tailgating tickets should be given, even though they are probably harder to prove in traffic court. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker.

>> good evening. chief scott, and commissioners, my name is katy ladell and i have lived over in the rincon hill area since 1995. so before the ballpark, since before anything. it was dead over there when i first moved in. i'm an original cpab member starting with captain mcdena and i just want to say mike redman and daryl fong are the two best captains we have ever had. [ applause ] our neighborhood is the most dynamic in the city and keep growing and growing and i have to find out what has been built a block from

me and more and more people are moving in. more and more employees, more and more traffic. so this is a huge challenge for these people. so we particularly appreciate what they have to deal with, and the fact that they have such great personal skills. redman and fong, wonderful personal skill and they actually listen to us and they help us out. so i just want to give them a huge kudos. they have a big job. thank you. >> thank you very much. hi, how are you? >> hello, good. thanks for doing these. my name is judy, and i work on mission and 6th, and live in the mission district. followingum up on what you said earlier about sanctuary cities and i wanted to take the opportunity to make you aware of the aclu's freedom city project and i don't know if you are aware of it. so i will follow-up with you and say there are nine what they

call models, local state and law enforcement policies that if enacted will significantly curb or counter the current administration's anti-immigrant agenda. and what the aclu is calling possible local activists across the nation to do is get in touch with their local law enforcement and ask if they'll say yes to these nine policies? and then we'll report-back to the aclu. so we're hoping to make a real difference on the ground and help the aclu find ways to legally have you been in non-compliance with i.c.e. -- i just wanted to make you aware that is probably coming, and we'll probably be calling about that. thank you. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> good evening, ms. brown. >> hello. excuse me. i wanted to comment on the

earlier comment about the murders being up here in san francisco. and and them being up, i wanted to bring up -- they said that most of them were the suspects were arrested. i say, yes they were arrested, but were they convicted of the crimes or were they let go? of course they were arrested and i'm saying even when my son was murdered the perpetrators were arrested, but let go. so even though you are catching the perpetrators were they let go? the other thing i hear and it's mostly on people of color, that they are either drug-dealers or gangs. not all of our children are drug-dealers and not all of our children are in gangs.

so you know, those words really hurt me, because my son was an african american boy, and those -- that stigma affect ours kids a lot and i refuse to let it haunt mine. i think something else should be done about that and also the unsolved homes. there are so many unsolved homes in and it's ridiculous and these familis are still hurting, are still suffering, are still crying. this is just the general -- not the general public comment, but in that, i'm still going to bring up about my son. i am in another district, yes i am. but it doesn't matter what district you are in. it doesn't matter. it doesn't matter where your children are. these are our children and they don't deserve to be killed or murdered.

by anyone. >> thank you ms. brown. [ applause ] >> if anyone has information regarding the murder of ms. brown's son there is is an anonymous tipline area code 415-575-4444 and for members of the audience here, ms. brown comes to every one of our meetings to talk about her son's murder. there was an arrest in the case, but there was not a prosecution u because the system needs witnesss and corroboration and if anyone has anything to offer about this murder, a great young man who was ready to graduate from high school and his mom walked across the stage to get his degree. if you know anything about it, it's so important. because murders don't just get solved by the police, but need the input and communication from the community. i was a [tr-urts/] at time her

son was killed and know facts with the case and it would be a great case for us to solve for ms. brown and the entire community. thank you, ms. brown for coming every week and speaking. we appreciate it. next speaker. >> good evening, police chief and members of the community, my name is thomas and i'm not speaking on behalf of, but i am a member of the board of directors for the yerba buena gardens festival that happens across the street. san francisco, i believe, is a cultural mecca and i greatly appreciate what law enforcement community does to keep the members who come to see the events there free and safe. i run a festival. we present a festival there each year. there are over 100 free events there for youth, as well as adults. it's a fantastic festival

that showcases the best in terms of arts of what the city has to offer, as well as bringing national and international artists here. thank you very much for helping using keep it safe and a fun place to be. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. [ applause ] anybody else? any of cpab group or community organizers? okay hearing none, public comment is now closed and it's an opportunity for the commissioners to comment or have questions for captain fong. >> i know these are community meetings and they are focused on a particular district, but i just urge you to keep an ear and eye on the department as a whole. i just wanted to say, we have made, what i would say is

significant strides in the last years, very different department. obviously we have a different chief from los angeles and in terms of the make-up of the department, it's getting younger. we have a lot of retirements and a lot of new people, and we notice, because we do it every week. but we have recruitment class we're trying to get numbers and looking at -- the board of supervisors are looking at the numbers that we have. but specifically, we have had, again, just to say three major ways that the department runs, three significant general orders and most is the use of force and use of force governs the entire city and not just a district. some very significant general orders. we passed a body camera general order and at some point, all of the officers will have body cameras on.

and a lot of these are aligned with national recommendations by best policing. then we passed the cit general order which actually significantly impacts -- when you hear these incidents that are resolved without loss of life, a lot of this is due to the training that we put in place for our officers around crisis intervention and most recently, we are putting an mou together with the department of public health. it's a very different department in the last year-and-a-half and keep your eye on that and sort -- i can talk to special individually, but i just wanted to share that the department is moving important and under doj with the recommendations, 272 that we're working on. so i want everyone to understand that the department is undergoing a significant change that is

all for the better and so keep an eye on us. >> commissioner hing? >> first of all, i want to compliment captain fong on the platitudes he has received tonight. i am particularly happy, although this sounds too self-interested, that you are here and you have done such a good job, because my son and daughter-in-law and 14-month-old granddaughter live in your district. so i'm happy they are in good hands. seriously, given the warriors stadium on the horizon, and the high-rises that are coming up all the time, with the corresponding population growth, what do you -- what are you looking for in terms of needs and

other resources, or other strategies that you are going to need in the next few years to come? i'm wondering if you have any response to that? >> thank you, commissioner. i think moving forward, you know, we're going to continue our statistical analysis of priorities within the district and we understand there are challenges within the district, in various neighborhoods. we'll be relying on some of that analyses to make sure that we're efficient internals in terms of our operations and addressing concerns in the various neighborhoods, but that is where the partnerships, i believe, are so critical. partnerships with the community, to ensure that we are in communication uncoordinating our efforts to ensure that we're meeting the expectation of the community.

so i think moving forward that is something that we'll continue to prioritize, and we will adjust, because we know with the new arena coming, there will be additional challenges. especially related to traffic and other issues and we look forward to working in partnership with them in addressing the community's concerns as well. >> thank you. >> commissioner melara. >> yes, i just wanted to follow-up on the comment related to the relationships to the immigrant communities. i was in sacramento this week, and monday -- what day is it today? wednesday -- i forgot -- [laughter ] >> monday i had the opportunity to see that there was a bill sb 54 that passed the appropriations committee on monday. and it specifically related

to the fact that would mandate no local resources be used to help immigration services in the state of california. so that in addition, to the fact that we are a sanctuary city, that is being worked on at the state-level. so just wanted to share that with you. >> commissioners? i have one quick question for the captain. you made mention of an issue that overwhelming major of your officer have less than five years' of experience and for us this doing for a while, whether attorneys or prosecutors or law professors that officers aren't fully ready to be on the street like any profession until they have been five years on the job is what we have been told. are you finding there is any issue having so many young officers? is there a need to have more older

officers on the streets? there is even some mention of bringing back some of the officers who are retired to work part-time, who are really good officers? do you think that is something we should do? are we on top of this issue of having some very young officers? >> i think we're very fortunate in having these young officers. it's energized the workforce in a lot of ways. we have a very diverse mix as i mentioned during my presentation on our workforce of experience and more seasoned officers. i think it's critical that we have mentoring with the more experienced officers with the younger officers coming into the department that are on the job. there are more challenges that the officers are seeing, obviously greater expectations both from the community as within the department as well. i think the officers are up for those challenges, as well. i think it's important that we support them through that process. so i think it's imperative

or it's critical that as the officers learn the job, that they do have the support not only within the department, but from the other more experienced officers within the station as well. so i feel very fortunate, least at southern station with the 23 ftos that i mentioned and 10 fto sergeants as well, it provides a great opportunity for the more experienced officers to share their insight, and experiences with the younger officers. >> chief? >> thank you. i'll just add to what captain fong said, supervision plays a key role, particularly when you have a young patrol force. so we know we have some shortages right now in our sergeants ranks and we have a test that just happened and hopefully by mid-summer or so, we'll be adopting a new promotional list to shore up our supervision. but that is key. supervision and leadership. the nice thing about having

a young patrol force, you have really good energy. you have eager officers wanting to learn the job and that is a good thing. but when you couple that with good supervision and mentorship, i think we'll be fine. thank you. >> i also want to thank the chief. there was -- chief, there is usually a newsletter from the chief and instead of a newsletter this week, the chief did a video that each and every officer has to watch as part of their job to sign in and click in. it was an extremely thorough video explaining about events that have happened, expectations for the officers, thanking the officers for everything from providing gifts to homeless women on valentine's day, to officers who won medals of valor for heroic actions. just a great video and in my opinion, for the officers, the younger officers at the station to watch this and hear what the chief had to say and serve the public and their own

well-being and taking care of themselves. but reminding them that they do serve the public. i thought it was a great video and thank you for that. >> thank you, vice president. >> commissioner dejesus. >> thank you for hosting us it's. it's a beautiful venue and the food was nice, too. i remember south of market had issues years ago with entertainment and clubs and have you had anything with entertainment with clubs in your neighborhood? >> we have had a couple incidents, independent incidents. but the one thing, again, that has been fantastic is just the relationships that we have both with the entertainment commission, as well as with the entertainment clubs within our district. any time there has been an issue that has been brought forward by the community, you know, we have

held meetings with the nightclub locations to discuss what the concerns are? and to relook at potential resolutions to those issues? how we're looking at security plans? we're looking at surrounding areas to see what we can do in partnership together to address those. so it's, again, it's an ongoing process. but again, i feel very fortunate that we do have those relationships so when there is an issue that arises, we can go to those areas and have a productive discussion. >> thank you. well, commissioners, thank you very much. so at this point, i think of we have concluded our program and there will be a motion for adjournment, but i want to thank you all for coming here today. we mentioned about the training of our young officers and the next-generation. so i throw it back to you, audience and the citizens who they serve and please don't be afraid to talk our officers and have a conversation with them and tell them what you are

thinking. assess them, they are young and new and you will be shocked not just how diverse our officers are, but the different backgrounds. as a lawyer i can tell you that we had class presidents recently graduating from stanford law school and last academy class graduating from berkeley, who won three awards during the graduation, which is unheard of. so we have some very really competent people that care about the community. you need to engage them, too. so that is part of the community policing. so i appreciate if you would do that and thank you for coming tonight. captain fong, excellent job. thank you for having us here. >> thank you, supervisor. >> thank you again to the contemporary jewish museum. >> [ applause ] . >> item 4, ajohnson & johnson. >> i move that we adjourn. >> second. >> all there favor? >> aye. >> thank you very much everybody.

>> my name is andrea, i work as

a coordinator for the city attorney's office in san francisco. a lot of it is working with the public and trying to address their public records request and trying to get the information for their office. i double majored in political science and always tried to combine both of those majors. i ended up doing a combination of doing a lot of communication for government. i thought it would connect both of my studies and what was i was interested in and show case some of the work that government is doing. >> i work for the transportation agency known as muni and i'm a senior

work supervisor. >> i first started as a non-profit and came to san francisco and started to work and i realized i needed to work with people. this opportunity came up by way of an executive fellowship. they had a program at mta to work in workforce development type project and i definitely jumped on that. i didn't know this was something that i wanted to do. all i knew is that i wanted to help people and i wanted to empower others. >> the environment that i grew up that a lot of women were just stay-at-home moms. it wasn't that they didn't have work, but it was cheaper to stay home and watch the kids instead of paying pricey day care centers. >> my mom came from el salvador

during the civil war. she worked very hard. when she came here and limited in english, she had to do a service job. when i was born and she had other kids, it was difficult for her to work because it was more expensive for her to be able to continue to work in a job that didn't pay well instead of staying at home and being able to take care of us. >> there isn't much support or advocacy for black women to come in and help them do their jobs. there also aren't very many role models and it can be very intimidating and sometimes you feel uncomfortable and unsure of yourself and those are the reasons exactly why you need to do it. when i first had the opportunity, i thought that's not for me. my previous role was a project manager

for a biotech start up. i thought how do i go from technology to working in government. thinking i didn't know about my skills, how am i going to fit in and doing that kind of work. thinking you have to know everything is not what people expect have you, but they expect you to ask questions when you don't know and that's important. >> my mom was diagnosed with cancer. that was really difficult. she encouraged me to go to school because in case anything happened i would be able to protect myself. i wanted to be in oncology. i thought going to school it would set me for the trajectory and prepare me for my life. >> we need the hardships to some of the things that are going to ultimately be your strength in the future. there is no way to map that out and no way to tell those things. you

have to do things on your own and you have to experience and figure out life. >> you don't have to know what you are going to do for the rest of your life when you are in college or high school because there are so many things to do. i would encourage you to try to do everything that you are remotely interested. it's the best time to do it. being a young woman with so many opportunities, just go for it and try everything. >> good morning i'm sue carlyle for the usf

medical division and today, i'm honored to welcome mayor ed lee director garcia are the ucsf to join together to share in the witnessing of 24 historic signing of legislation that was approved by the board of supervisors last week which will allow usf to build an africa and research building here on this compass marry in 2013 mayor ed lee recognized the importance of this partnering between ucsf and the dph in this relationship revoked the importance and therefore established a task force to explore to construct a modern facility for research and academic here on this compass and because of his foresight and leadership we're here today to

have this contradiction come one step closer to fruition mayor ed lee thank you for your leadership leadership and invite you to make a few remarks. >> all right. thank you, sue and to everyone here in a room i want to say it really is great to be here this morning on a bright day and the zuckerberg san francisco general hospital where more restrictive the treatment of patient it is the invariable research that goes along with that it it takes time 3 years we we were planning for the next one hundred and 50 years this the significance of partnership that san francisco general and the city has the zuckerberg compassed with our partnership with ucsf that is a unique papering one that allows us to keep a robust kind of

almost bedside to beverage kind of relationship where the research goods along with the care and that it has had significant contribution to being a level one trauma center we value the most i know that when but get a lot of also in the room (laughter) every word becomes significant to somebody on one side or the other i'd like to take the opportunity to thank all the agencies if zuckerberg general and dph and office of economic workforce development that did the labor negotiations our city zoning administrator was involved our real estate was involved and certainly they had to report up the chain and ultimately got one of the best advocates we could find at the

board of supervisors jeff sheehy that knows this place personally and made a huge contribution to the dialogue at the board of supervisors that's why we got a unanimous vote at the board and on the other side i really my and will always thank our chancellor sam who personally appealed to me three years ago he said take personal attention to have this when chester and vice chair chancellor appealed you, you to you know you better work on it and they did we got it done and talking about positions and raise that might be significant in 50 or 60 years and trying to talk people off the ledge of what if a this and that happens and into why not have la relationship that lasts another one and 50 years if so a

wonderful partnership has to do with with the world-class hospital and research combined patients feel that a doctor on sight not in need across the way to different buildings doing initiative research and preventing things this is what a level one trauma center does as the mayor of the city i'm appreciative it is part of historical and the development of city how we're so successful happens that we serve some 4 thousand patients a year in this place and not just this area but the below grade a mission that continues to improve the care for everyone a $200 million project miss month is funded by the function from ucsf it is not an insignificant contribution by the way, this is

variable money and a huge contribution also to the labor force a strong hire and the city build academy and appreciate that they cover all aspects as if they were building a building downtown and even more so so again thank you. i look forward to the groundbreaking in 2019 and i - i know all the staff here understand that it does it takes time for good things to happen i know that we were somewhat got to a point where we had to tell each other whether the city or san francisco general and the regents we have to get the language down so we can take care of the business i didn't know is supervisor sheehy i've watched the dialogue i

seldom do that go back and turn on the tv and let me watch the whole dialogue i wanted to understand that what people arrow saying and doing so we can get to a point i know the regents perhaps felt as important about this relationship that he did as the city so thank you to everyone ultimately for the compromise and says if you understand as i did as an attorney some of the phrases that had to be acted on you'll know how lawyers 0 going on for months and months is necessary did they actually did (laughter) we had to be patient and draw them back but, yeah we got to get this done they do so it will not take 3 years to build this;

right? hopefully much are shorter we need to get the research and all the aspects of this partnership on full footing the one hundred and 6050 years that pushed us forward to the next one hundred and 50 years congratulation everybody >> (clapping.) >> throughout the advocacy for this project i've been so proud to listen to all the wonderful people it deliver the care and throughout the department of health the passion has been so apparent and incredible powerful today, it's my honor to ask dr the chief of the medical at general general and the vice chair of the ucsf to come and make a few

remarks for us. >> thank you carlyle this is a month that men tuesday occasion we all seek and very, very grateful as a physician and researcher he is attracted to come to the general 8 years ago because of the opportunity for most innovation and as chief of the department of the medicine we're the largest department at the general and have a last year research of portfolio more than $1 million each year many years as mayor ed lee said we've been engaged in research to include the health of hundreds of thousands of san francisco residents we compete competely from the nationality institution of health and the prevention and

other agencies and foundations to support delivery that brings world-class accumulation to patients at the general our work on towards for hiv, aids and it's concentrations and from a death sentence to a treatable and preventable disease our work on thank you, everybody, thank you, everybody, has said presented outbreaks in this city and obesity is preventing diabetes in youth and handicapping prevents kidney fail and diagnoses we eradicated health disparities that cut the lives short and ruin lives in 2, 3, 4 city our research is a model for the nation and for the world shining light on san francisco as a mobile health

leader we employ san franciscans and attract super stars positions and train young people to make them competitive for the science and technology jobs effort future we can only do that with a moderate building with doctors it treat people in research that helps we thank mayor ed lee and the board of supervisors for supporting innovation to save lives by approving and signing this measure we particularly thing vice chair carlyle that worked in fagly in years to make that happen. >> (clapping.) >> thank you neil race spring i was reminded no

april we embarrassed together to welcome to the family our new ceo that she has been very busy opening this new hospital and running that and bringing to us lien principles and tweezer all better for it i want to invite her to say a few words. >> (clapping.) >> good morning, everyone i have the great honor of serving as the executive order of this incredible team it looks incredible from where i stand seeing you gathered tote on this occasion i'm so grateful to be here and working with all the tremendous minds and heart we have here per and though i'm

new i'm not really new i thank you for the opportunity to work with the department of health back in the early so 90s and at a time i just happened to o happened to be working on the agreement with the department of health and with san francisco and one thing that experience has given me a a great deal of or perspective and what is so incredibly wonderful to see the years later the spirit of collaboration and the recognition between both parties of power that each brings to the table is perfectly realized and woos wasn't in the 90s so that demonstrated in ways like coming together here for the celebration having an 11 zero vote at the board of supervisors i don't think that would have

happened back in the early 1990s and what we recognized is ucsf is really part of what is defining us as an institution and for that i'm really and truly deeply grateful i was forwarding to working with everyone in the room to bring this project to fruition and he is why limit to another one hundred and 50 years let's say hundreds of years or maybe forever thank you very much >> (clapping.) >> thank you susan it's my pleasure to invite doctor the dean of the school of medicine who has been supportive with all the other deans who graduates of studies working in the industry pharmacy perf

pharmacy joe sorry (laughter) all of us worked together for this so. >> good morning and thank you very much, mayor ed lee we appreciate your support and director garcia and my colleagues carr loyal i'm proud to represent ucsf as a ceremony i want to recognize my deans that join me with the school of pharmacy a graduate school we're here because the faculty is our dentistry and pharmacy to provide patient care they teach and conduct research at sfgh i'm old school this is a general san

francisco i'll use those terms to entertain those, you know who i'm talking about all the doctors here in sfgh are doctors i came to san francisco no 1990 came to work and sfgh the reason he came to work it is a special place a tremendous commitment on the part of the community of san francisco to the general and equally for the faculty the staff, the students who work here are dedicated to providing the most outstanding care they can the highest quality with san francisco the research program was a big factor in why i came the use of force and the sfgh as research while at firmament benefits our community here in san francisco as you heard from the colleagues

what we learn and model ask the medical care across the country indeed all over the world the legislation that is signed to insure will insure the rich partnership of our university and the city and that partnering will be on behalf of the ucsf i want to thank our city partners that working hard on this architecture and mayor ed lee and the department of health, the department of real estate, the planning department, city attorney's office the office of economic workforce development and the sfmta use of force $2 million investment in the new research in whaefk building will compliment the modernization we're standing in one of the fine i did health facilities in the country loud and clear public housing that a priority they're approved more than one

billion dollars for the hospital facility and for seismic and infrastructure on the campus that is in addition from our nonprofit donors those investments assure our beloved sfgh serves sfta san francisco and the world at larger for many years to come we're honored to have your support. >> finally to my colleagues in the room that advocated for this project and worked really, really hard to make that happen we at ucsf are proud to be part of the san francisco general and the san francisco community thank you all. >> (clapping.) >> without strong leadership from director garcia and her staphyldph and the team she assembled including march, greg

kathy and so many others who worked tooifg in partnership with the ucsf team barbara french and paul and laura who she wanted us around we wouldn't be standing here thank you brandishing for your leadership in san francisco. >> (clapping.) >> buenas dias i'm excited to have the negotiation we're about ready (laughter) i've made great friends and working with the ucsf team i had to call the chancellor and he said barbara and i were connected at the hip and city attorney thank you very much and i want to acknowledge the

commissioners who are here that supported this project throughout dr the president of the united states and our staff as sue mentioned this is the given of what we'll do on the compass we finished this project it is a beautiful trauma center with another center we're about starting to do building 5 that will bring us puc and bring the department of health transport here we believe that is a big sign to help the compass and to insure we're in safe buildings this is one the major goals ii see a lot of happy faces in the room and can't say with dph are proudest and the happiest thank you to the mayor's office for support he was one the champions through the process and this is

going to be r to be an incredible opportunity with the greatest physicians and bring the future physicians with a great research center we know what the kinds of things we can do together and the reasons we've confronted and be able to bring so many health to the citizens of san francisco thank you. i look forward to working with you thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> it's been apparent by the remarks this was not an easy project to get introduce this day a a great deal of discussion with our lawyers and with the city lawyers and then, of course, there is the problem of getting the city and the university of california to agree and go on language as previously mentioned i would

like to thank sam who was is our chancellor and was responsible for making sure that we got regents to approve this project as well so sam would you like to come forward. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, sue i'll keep the remarks short i wanted to see a signature here (laughter) pursue mr. mayor i know from the first meeting we had we discussed this project 3 years ago you were steadfastly behind us and that was a motivator of working through the bureaucracy to get where we're at this is criminally exciting we've talked about health care and research that is for our community here in san francisco and the innovation the partnership for

one and 50 years we've enjoyed for in many, many years into the future reflected the unique spirit we stand as an example not rest of the country around what great things can be done when you keep your focus on the purpose and the mission and our mission to improve the healthful county and the region and as neil pointed out then extend those to the sister country and the rest of the world i'm excited director garcia your partnership is fantastic i've had an education in civic government i'm sure will last but a very exciting project to work on and not yet break ground thank you and to the staff and faculty here at the general for

your support and along the way we talk advocacy with the board of supervisors and jeff is a recent member of the public member of the ucsf but plenty of advocacy from the fulfilled and staff in the best way thank you all and waiting to see that signature (laughter) >> (clapping.) >> so i'd like to invite mayor ed lee to come to the table and those of us - can come down. >> come on in.

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afternoon and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. san francisco planning commission regular hearing for thursday, march 16, 2017, i'd like to remind the members of the audience that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind. please silence any devices that may sound off during the proceedings. and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. i'd like to call roll at this time. commissioner president hillis commissioner fong commissioner melgar commissioner moore commissioner koppel and we will expect commissioner johnson and commissioner vice president richards to arrived commissioners, the first item on your agenda approve with conditions item 11058 mississippi street proposed for continuance to april 27, 2017.