in the closed -- i think, that falls into the closed category. when we think of metrics and assign a dollar value, how much did the city lose from employee xyz at home for three hours, there's a dollar volume you can assign to that. you can also measure a complaint that had merit found in wrong doing that was stopped. that's another way to measure it. and that's never reflected in the analysis of the material i have ever seen. i think it was, we don't want to put in -- first of all, they're confidential. we don't want to put in anything

that would restrict participation in or reporting of information but i have never understood -- so closed does not speak to the merits of the number of complaints received. i'm wondering if there's a reason and i think there is, but if you could tell me again, i would appreciate it. >> you are correct. because the complaint is closed doesn't mean it was substantiated. we evaluate the complaint, the investigation determines if there's a factual basis for the allegations and then if the allegations are true, if the alleged conduct would violate city criteria, policy and procedure or city code -- does

that answer the first part? >> substantiated or unsubstantiated are both inside the closed category. >> and in the quarterly and annual reports it breaks down -- it breaks out by department. there's a table in quarterly reports or chart showing which percentage of complaints closed led to department taking corrective or preventive action. >> or even it shows whether or not the department moves on the recommendation of the whistleblower controller office, somewhat outside your control. but at least you can measure accurately the number of

recommendations measured against the overall complaints, you said to the department we have investigation pursuant to the authority, we recommend disciplinary action to whatever department and they can be measured. are they? >> i think the stae tick statis you're asking for, it's by publishing in the reports which part investigated and closed resulted in a corrective and preventive action by the departments. those are published in the annual reports. >> in the annual report. >> and quarterly. >> fantastic. thank you. >> i think going forward something we can do that will help the committee and help the

dialogue that we'll have across the podium is pull some of the stats in our presentation just so that we can focus attention on those in a more public form. but definitely all of that work is published on our web site annually or quarterly. >> any other comments? any public comment? >> thank you. >> seeing none -- yes. >> good morning committee members, i'm a whistleblower. i would like to thank committee member carlson for his inquiry about complaints that linger for a year or more. i have a complaint filed with the program and it's well over

11 months, close to a year. i'd like to echo mr. flaherty's concern that when complaints linger for a long time, people tend to think they're not being taken seriously. that's true. but there's another concern. the vast majority of the complaints are sent right back to the department that the complaint was filed against. and given human nature, there's going to be resistance and reluctance to investigate one's own colleagues. particularly when it's a high level official, which is what my complaint was about.

i don't know how to resolve this, except that the program outlines certain reasons why complaints take a long time but they never mention the awkwardness and resistance that departments face when they have to investigate their own people. one thing that would be helpful, if a complaint drags on for a year or more, that the complainant would be contacted and informed. we check on the computer and all it tells you is under investigation. under investigation. but why for a year? so anyway, i just wanted to put that out there. thank you. >> thank you dr. kerr. any other public comment? if not, call the next item. >> item seven, opportunity for committee members to comment or take action on any matters

within the jurisdiction. pad am co-chair these are items fiscal year 2017/18 work initiatives, items a-g. >> i can give background on those. so brenda and i met with peg to go over some of the great ideas that have come up over the past few meetings for ways to get information out to our voters. so we finally decided to write them down in one place and peg has agreed to give us updates on all of them at every meeting so we can understand the progress of these good ideas. probably better to do it from here.

so peg stevenson from the controller's office. i'll make brief comments on each items and answer any questions you might have. the benchmarking work is well underway. we have chosen jurisdictions, a couple of them here in the city of san francisco, a couple other cities have similar functionality. we have basic information and doing interviews, we expect to issue a report before the end of the calendar year and have this available for presentation to you in your january peting. so that's where we are with the benchmarking. the standardized template, comparing it to the material that was in our annual geo bond report presented on in september and the table that i included in your packet has differences between them.

i guess my suggestion here are that the same information is largely in both. there isn't a substantial schedule or report that you're not getting in your quarterlies that was in our annual. i do think there are some visual and layout improvements that the quarterly would benefit from just looking at it and looking at some of the ways the information is presented. the changes in format and that sort of thing. there are consistency improvements across the program that could be made. could be added to the quarterly and improve it, visual graphs

for context like the little fuel gauge graph on completions for some of the bond program confines that i think are mostly presented in text right now. they're doing bullet points of text completion and that sort of thing. what i'm proposing to do, i'll meet with julia dawson, the finance and administration at public works and the person who is the owner of the quarterly template, i'll see if we can go ahead with some of the improvements we're observing and fold them into the next couple of programs that come before you. there's detail in the quarterlies that is not in our wrap up program report. change orders for example you wouldn't want to not have. it's not entirely a 1 way street. let me have that meeting with

julia and see where they are having updated financials and then we can report to you on improvements. >> one quick question it's two separate reports. >> the report they do for the presentation, there's more details in the quarterlies that are present. there wasn't anything to compare it to in the geo bond.

>> there's still work to be done. web site improvements, our technical people have met to talk about this, similar improvements to controllers own web site. i think what will happen next, we're probably going to get a short contract through the text door, a web designer to do a better job for us. if there are tests formats we think you should look at before we publish them, we can do that with them. probably mostly make the improvements and report them to you. >> great. >> the satisfaction survey, we have a pool of providers that do public satisfaction. all different surveying.

we'll bring you a couple of options to the january meeting. the conversation was feedback on what you want public satisfaction survey to contain. do you want to try and test the opinion of users of a facility, voters, the general public, probably a couple of different possible constituencies you might be interested in. there are different ways to test. there are surveys you're in the facility people are using, handing them a survey and asking them, phone polls, web polls. different sampling approaches. we have some opinions about this and our providers will have opinions, too. what i'm proposing to do is bring you a couple of options in january and see if we can get some feedback from you.

ben's suggestion, he has in mind, streetscape improvement project and then a facility project such as a rec center. i think i can speak to him that those would be a good scale test of opinion and we know how to survey the users of those. a voter test could be harder. the public finance forward calendar, you got the memo which jamie prepared, that's a regular feature of the packet, already proved its usefulness i think. expenditure audits are underway and before tanya leaves the room, i don't know off the top of my head, when they are expected to be completed, certainly not january but one of the following meetings in the fiscal year.

>> it will be third and fourth quarter. >> thank you. and finally geo bond report is on the list. we didn't talk about that specifically but just keep it on our calendar. >> any comments, questions? thank you. >> other matters not in the list? >> all right. can you -- barb, i think we all got this in the mail. did you guys -- >> yes. >> go over quickly what it is we're signing here. thank you for sending it out.

>> the item that co-chair, she was referring to is the harassment policy education from the city that is dube at the en of the year, for those commissioners who supervisor city staff. and so, this committee does not supervisor any city staff and so you were given instructions via e-mail and guidelines as to how to complete and submit that form to me. >> great. >> okay. thank you. >> any other matters? great. have a good holiday. we're adjourned. ♪

>> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to city haul. my name is london breed. i'm president of the san francisco board of supervisors, and i represent district 5, the amazing district that houses the incredible 3rd baptist church, which we plan to make official landmarking status today. aren't we excited? i just want to say one, praise

god, right? praise god, thank you for being here, thank you for supporting this ceremony. we are honored here to have the mayor here to perform the ceremony who will speak in just a little bit, but i want to thank my colleague, aaron pes k kin for sponsoring this legislation, and thank you for supervise cohen for joining us here today, as well as our city administrator, naomi kelley. this is a wonderful day today. i'm so excited. remember when we celebrated with reverend brown and lady jane brown at the celebration with bill clinton, and i told you we would make this happen, and we made it happen, and look how quickly we made it happen? well, i didn't have a choiz because reverend brown was calling me every single day,

every day fighting for this community, every day fighting for this community, and one thing i want to say about 3rd baptist church, which is my church, my home, thank you for welcoming me. thank you for continuing to a beacon of light in this community, who need a place of sanctuarn, who need a place to call home, who need a place to feel welcome. 3rd baptist has been doing this longer than almost any other place in san francisco. it is an unappreciated institution because of its advocacy for being on the front line for anything related to challenges with our community, the displacement of our community, the issues with our children in the public schools. every single occasion when there has been an issue in the city and county of san francisco related to our community, 3rd baptist is at

the front lines, trying to make sure we speak truth to power and we change the city for the better, and so it is only fitting that we come here today in city hall, and we celebrate our community, our accomplishments, and all that we have done to make san francisco a better place, but more importantly, we leave a lasting legacy with the changes in san francisco making 3rd baptist church a landmark location, make sure that the next generation of young people, and the next generation know that we are still here, we have left a lasting impression. we have built this city, and we are not going anywhere. and so -- so with that, i'd like to turn it over to our mayor to speak a few words, and then, we'll get to a few other comments from some of the amazing members of 3rd baptist church. ladies and gentlemen, welcome

mayor ed lee. >> president london breed, you have already said and expressed a lot of my feelings about this legislation today, but let me welcome each and every one of you here to the people's palace. this is your house, as well, and this whole city is all of yours because we want this city to continue the strong efforts of being inclusive, being the rainbow city, welcoming everybody, but also working for everybody, and i want to say thank you to each member of the board of supervisors that are here today, our city administrator, our commissioners, our department heads for all sharing this wonderful moment. but i also want to start out by saying thank you to reverend

amos brown. your leadership on so many issues, reverend, kind of defines what the 3rd baptist church is all about, especially on challenges that face people of color. you've been consistent, you've been steady, and you've been guiding us with the greatest amount of integrity in whatever capacity that you have filled. and this is exactly why the supervisor and president breed said that when amos and his wife, mrs. jane brown, celebrated their 40 years at 3rd baptist church a few months ago, they didn't celebrate by themselves, it wasn't just community, it was people from all over the country that came in here: bill clinton, governor jerry brown, reverend jesse jackson, they all came out because they recognized the historic center that the 3rd baptist church represented, but

they also know that the reverend not only speaks locally, he speaks nationally and internationally. so congratulations reverend on 40 years of your life here at 3rd baptist church and for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, reverend brown. 3rd baptist church has been around since 1855, ladies and gentlemen. 160 years! -- 52? 1852. okay, my notes, my staff, go back to the history books, correct that history. make sure we have the right history. it's important because, you know, when other parts of the country talk about their landmarks, and we get kind of embarrassed, what kind of history they're embracing, i think we're embracing the right history right here with a building that has housed people of african american descent and

worship since 1852. and you know what's significant about the 3rd baptist? 'cause i've always felt welcomed, that it wasn't just african americans, what the reverend, what everybody else did was make it a center for everybody to feel comfortable with. that's the significance of 3rd baptist church. it was for everyone, and when you go there, and you do wrong things, you're going to be condemned. i've been there when people are condemned. sometimes i use the word, oh, looks like a crucifiction have been going on, but i've also been there with the greatest moment of blessings happen because people do the right thing. and you know, 3rd baptist does have that line, what's right and what's wrong. that's what we have to do with

our kids, help them figure out what's right and what's wrong, and when you go to 3rd baptist, you can help them gain the moral ground. that's important to kids these days. they don't know the difference between right and wrong, we're going to lose more folks. this is what's important to 3rd baptist, and this is why it's been so welcoming to me and to so many others, so by making the 3rd baptist church a historic landmark today, we're not only preserving the building, we're sending a larger message to the san francisco bay community, we respect all the people who have been here for generations, we respect you, we respect the community. we honored the work that you have done. it's hard work to allow people to recognize what's right and wrong and do the hard work. it's the hardest work that we have to do today, whether you're holding a public office, being a minute center or bei--

minister or community activist, it's hard job, but it serves our community and our children, and we must try to do better. this has been an important home to gobs of community meetings, employment workshops, to incubators for employment opportunities, and it's also been a place where sadly, we've also had to send people away, who died in violence or met an early death. all of those aspects of life that are challenging the city, it's happening in a microcosm there at 3rd baptist in a collusive and collaborative way. so i'm just sharing thisome

things, but i'll also share with you some strong feelings with people that i've got to hire in the community, doing entertainment work, doing community work, doing leadership work, trying to save more people, trying to get them out of condemnation and into salvation. we're all trying to do it, and in a large part, a lot of what i have to do is save more lives and make sure people live more robust lives in the city, the city sometimes where people say there are a lot of inequities. 3rd baptist is about equity. it's n it's about finding love and support. that's why it deserves to be recognized in our hall of landmarks, so i say to the rest of our country, you ought to be embracing the right principles when you're endorsing landmarks.

you ought not to be endorsing symbols of racism and oppregnano oppression. this role that our community has played, this building will be known for when we place the final signature of landmark status. this is our history. this is your history. you've shared it with us. it's our history, it's the nation's history, right here in the middle of san francisco, we celebrate 3rd baptist church and everybody associated with it. thank you for being here, thank you for being witnesses to this wonderful important occasion for all of our citizens. thank you. >> thank you mr. mayor, and i just want to again thank the cosponsors of this amazing legislation. supervisor malia cohen, supervisor aaron peskin, and

supervisor mark farrell, and with that, i'd like to bring up our leader to give us a history, abbreviated, reverend brown, we ain't in church. we trying to sign this today. amen? amen. amen congregation. reverend brown, our leader, come on up. >> good afternoon. madam president of our board of supervisors, supervisors peskin, cohen, to our city administrator, our friend, miss

naomi kelley, i see other department heads here, but time would not permit me to name them all, and indeed to our fine mayor, my friend and servant of the people, mayor edwin lee, give him a big round of applause. and to all the members and our officers of 3rd baptist church, we have with us the chair person of our deacon's ministry, deacon alfonso campbell, chair person of our trustee ministry, trustee preston turner.

this is a tender and touching moment for me, for i am privileged to stand to celebrate a fateful day, a day in which our honored mayor will sign this legislation that w l defines a faith community as a landmark, a mark, a memorial of what all faith communities should mirror. 3rd baptist was not founded in

1852 to just equip people with knowledge of spiritual things. thi3rd baptist was born out of struggle. she was founded on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the british west indies, and that struggle has continued cross the weighted span of these now 165 years. i want to acknowledge here that william duboyce celebrated his

90th third day at 3rd baptist on april the third, 1958, when paul roberson, after he had been maliciously ma lined and wrongly accused of being a communist, first came back to the united states, it was 3rd baptist church that opened its doors to a man who needed befriending. dr. martin luther king, when he had inaugurated the montgomery movement had his first appearance in the hallowed walls of 3rd baptist church in 1957. i said again that this is

tender and touching for me, for i was introduced into this struggle at the age of 15 years old, when i organized the first youth conference of the national organization of the advancement of colored people in the wake of that malicious brutal murderering of em emma teal, and it was one year later that megawale evers asked my mother if i could come to san francisco to attend the national convention of the naacp, and on that sunday morning of the convention, where did i worship? at 3rd baptist church, and i was as a young lad from

mississippi, so impressed overseeing frederick douglas haynes, sr., standing before that sacred desk who had the presence and the elequence that was greater maybe than that of prince albert as a gentleman, as a scholar, as a pretty muche mucher -- preacher, and a social activist, so that impacted my life further, and to think we're here today with mayor lee, members of department heads, and citizens with the city of san francisco to honor this struggle with this designation, and because of this designation, there will forever be known that 3rd baptist was here, was reckoned

with and made a difference in the lives of people for the better. thank you, mayor lee, thank you all of you who gathered today for we have set the bar high. i'm a woman, but i'm wise. i'm an immigrant, but i'm industrious, i'm gay, but i'm godly, i'm saint, but i am sensible. that is the feeling of 3rd baptist, and thank you mayor lee for signing this document, so that in all common generations, it will be known that we knew more than how to walk the walk skb talk the talk as members of the human family. god bless you all and thank you all for honoring us this day. >> thank you, reverend brown. we had church a little bit up in here.

he going to give it to you good on sunday. you all ain't ready for the chapter one, chapter two, and chapter three on sunday. he got some making up to do after today. thank you, reverend brown for always being there for our community and just really protecting our history and reminding us how important it is to remember what happened in the past so that we can celebrate that and continue to push and advocate towards the future, and so with that, i want to welcome up deacon campbell to just say a few words, and then, we're going to get to the ceremony. deacon campbell, come on up. >> good afternoon. to mayor lee, supervisor breed and president of the board, to

my fisk university alum, supervisor malia cohen, supervisor peskin, and all others who are here, it is a pleasure -- and to reverend brown. don't let me forget to say that. it is a pleasure and an honor for me to have an opportunity to say a word or two on this historic celebration. this morning, i woke up thinking about what would i say because of the origin of 3rd baptist church out of racism

and say it, and the development in the home of two members has led to this. i just know that god is good. i just know that this was meant to be, and with all of the preparation and the organization and all the things that have been done, this is the payoff. i can remember martin luther king, in one of his many speeches, made the statement that the arch of the universe is long, but it bends towards

justice. this is justice; and we try to do that at 3rd baptist. we do it. we show as mayor lee said, respect to everybody, and we make every effort to show justice to love mercy, and to walk humbly with god. with that, i will just end by saying thank you and the fact that as long as there is a san francisco, there will be a 3rd baptist church. thank you. >> okay. i just wanted to acknowledge supervisor jane kim and thank

you for joining us today, and with that, let's get down to business. reverend brown, it's time. it's time. come on over here. [ inaudible ] >> to mayor lee, and all the other folks around here, i just want to say thank you for all you have done for 3rd baptist church. you know, when i came here, i joined 3rd baptist right off, 'cause i've always been impressed with the church, but the biggest thing this church has done for me, it has so much

carin caring, c-a-r-e-i-n-g, or c-a-r-i-n-g, i don't know which one. but any way, they're so caring. we have back on track to help young folks, because if young folks can't make it, it's no excuse, 'cause 3rd baptist has got it. we have a beautiful senior extension group, and oh, boy, i can't wait to get to that because we play bingo and all kinds of exercise and things for the seniors. but we also have a music department that's out of this world. you have to come to some of the concerts because you can't beat it. but the thing that has helped

me is that caring way. let me give you an example. this morning, one of the members called me and said, mama smith, make sure you dress warmly 'cause it's raining outside. wasn't that beautiful? give her a hand. and not only that, this is what has happened to me in 4.5 months, i'll be 100, and i have to give 3rd baptist part of that because god works through a good church, so i'm just thankful to be here, and i'm so thankful for you all who have done so much for this church. keep on, because we are for what is right. we are going to be there

forever, and we thank god for it. amen. [ singing amen ]

[ applause ] bayview. >> a lot discussion how residents in san francisco are displaced how businesses are displaced and there's not as much discussion how many nonprofits are displaced i think a general concern in the arts community is the testimony loss of performance spaces and

venues no renderings for establishes when our lease is up you have to deal with what the market bears in terms of of rent. >> nonprofits can't afford to operate here. >> my name is bill henry the executive director of aids passage l lp provides services for people with hispanics and aids and 9 advertising that fight for the clients in housing insurance and migration in the last two years we negotiated a lease that saw 0 rent more than doubled. >> my name is ross the executive directors of current pulls for the last 10 years at 9 and mission we were known for the projection of sfwrath with taking art and moving both a experiment art our lease expired our rent went from 5 thousand

dollars to $10,000 a most. >> and chad of the arts project pursue. >> the evolution of the orientation the focus on art education between children and patrol officer artist we offer a full range of rhythms and dance and theatre music theatre about in the last few years it is more and more difficult to find space for the program that we run. >> i'm the nonprofit manager for the mayor's office of economic workforce development one of the reasons why the mayor has invested in nonprofit displacement is because of the challenge and because nonprofits often commute technical assistance to understand the negotiate for a commercial lease. >> snooechlz is rob the executive director and co-founder of at the crossroads

we want to reach the disconnected young people not streets of san francisco for young adults are kicked out of the services our building was sold no 2015 they let us know they'll not renew our lease the last year's the city with the nonprofit displacement litigation program held over 75 nonprofits financial sanction and technical assistance. >> fortunate the city hesitate set aside funds for businesses facing increased rent we believable to get some relief in the form of a grant that helped us to cover the increase in rent our rent had been around $40,000 a year now $87,000 taylor's dollars a year we got a grant

that covered 22 thousands of that but and came to the minnesota street project in two people that development in the better streets plan project they saved us space for a nonprofit organization national anthem and turned out the northern california fund they accepted us into the real estate program to see if we could withstand the stress and after the program was in full swinging skinning they brought up the litigation fund and the grants were made we applied for that we received a one thousand dollars granted and that grant allowed us to move in to the space to finish the space as we needed it to furniture is for classes the building opened on schedule on march 18, 2016 and by july we were teaching

classed here. >> which we found out we were going to have to leave it was overwhelm didn't know anything about commercial real estate we suggested to a bunch of people to look at the nonprofits displacement mitigation program you have access to commercial real estate either city owned or city leased and a city lease space become available there is a $946,000 grant that is provided through the mayor's office of economic workforce development and that's going to go towards boulder the space covers a little bit less than half the cost it is critical. >> the purpose of the organization trust to stabilize the arts in san francisco working with local agency i go like the northern california platoon fund that helped to establish documents of our long

track record of stvent and working to find the right partner with the organization of our size and budget the opportunity with the purchase of property we're sitting in the former disposal house theatre that expired 5 to 10 years ago we get to operate under the old lease and not receive a rent increase for the next 5 to 7 years we'll renting $10,000 square feet for the next 5 to seven years we pay off the balance of the purpose of this and the cost of the renovation. >> the loophole will that is unfortunate fortunate we have buy out a reserve our organization not reduce the services found a way to send some of the reserves to be able to continue the serves we know our clients need them

we were able to get relief when was needed the most as we were fortunate to arrive that he location at the time, we did in that regard the city has been - we've had tremendous support from the mayor's office of economic workforce development and apg and helped to roommate the facade of the building and complete the renovation inside of the building without the sport support. >> our lease is for 5 years with a 5 year onyx by the city has an 86 year lease that made that clear as long as we're doing the work we've been we should be able to stay there for decades and decades. >> the single most important thing we know that is that meaningful.

>> it has been here 5 months and even better than that we could image. >> with the economic development have announced an initiative if ours is a nonprofit or know of a nonprofit looking for more resources they can go to the office of economic workforce development oewd.com slashing nonprofit and found out about the mayors nonprofit mitigation program and the sustainability initiative and find their information through technical assistance as much as how to get started with more fundraising or the real estate assistance and they can find my contact and reach out to me through the circles of the city through the - >> shop & dine in the 49

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