one is probably more questionable for you in regards to if we're actually going to consider legislation, you know, that was restricting us as a fiscal agent. so i think what we can do, then, is for maybe the amendments from item 19, that we vote on each whereas clause. >>supervisor cohen: all right. i'm going to jump in here and share a few of my thoughts as this whole conversation has been unfolding in a past here. first of all, i want to say that dem, you should have done a better job in working with supervisor yee who voiced a y concern in wanting a say in the mou, and he wasn't offered an

opportunity to have his voice in it. it's always easier to do it in a meeting. but here we are, in a committee, so there's a couple things in observations that i've seen. thank you to everyone that's come out to participate in this discussion who have sent e-mails and who have taken the time out of their own personal schedule to join us in today's conversation. one thing that really has struck me is the level of diversity for the people who are against urban shield. you saw young people, you saw old people, you saw skrifgss, you saw jews, you saw muslims, and they were all advocating on the same thing. what was more concerning are the people that are in favor of the uasi training all fitting the same profile, and that really concerns me, because i think it speaks to the ethos to the mindsets of the persons that are making the decisions in the spending, putting the

budgets together who are thinking about training. now, in this almost year-long conversation that we have had about this item, i've done a tremendous amount of due diligence. i've reached out, and i've spoken to every alameda county supervisor. i have spoken to sheriff ahern on the phone multiple times. i've met him in person, as well, as supervisor scott haggerty's event in south county, so the point i'm trying to make is i've left the comfort and security of the city and county of san francisco to peel back a very complex issue. there is something that i want to reinforce, and that is that i believe that training and exercise is important. i personally go to the gym every single day, and i push myself to the limit because i want to increase my strength, and i want to increase my

flexiblity and increase my endurance, and cannot do that by sitting on your butt and thinking about exercising. with supervisor yee, we both witnessed exercises several months ago. i will admit, though, i think one of the flaws, supervisor yee is we were witnessing exercises with our friends, our friends that are in the sheriff's department, people that we know and see on a regular basis coming in and out. perhaps during the next exercise, we will actually go to dublin. to be fair, dublin's exercises started at like 6:00 in the morning, which was a deterrent for me, but i'll work through that the next year. so what i saw in -- where were we? san mateo county? is that right? >>supervisor yee: san bruno. >>supervisor cohen: san bruno. what i saw were lechblth latrice exercises, legitimate

scenario, coming up with a plan, coming up with a strategy, and then debriefing. i saw measures take to deescalate, i saw actors who were contributing their time so that our regional first responders have an opportunity to be the best that they can be. now, what does concern me is when you take it to the -- take it too far. why do you have to wear a hijab? why do you need to wear -- i think it's a kaffia? if i'm mistaken in my terminology, i apologize. there is still room for you to lead to your imagination. i don't think that those extra props help the situation. i think it exacerbates and

plays out into the fear that is very real that particularly communities of color that have the highest interaction with the multieilitary and police structures, and it plays into the role of who's administering and making these decisions and who came to speak. and for me, that is where the challenge lies. how do you strextrapolate and n the acknowledged value of the exercise from the bull? and i hope my words haven't offended anyone, but that's what i think it is. how do we begin to tease that out? now, if we relinquish our authority as a fiscal agent, then, i think, to supervisor tang's point, grossly undermines our ability to be an

authority and a leader. this is the first time that i've ever seen anyone from alameda county come to talk about this, and i think by virtue of their presence here, and thank you for being here -- that that speaks to the importance of san francisco in the entire region, so i support us being the fiscal sponsor. and as i have said in comments earlier in the year, i think that's a very serious responsibility and that we have a leadership role to play in this. you heard me chastise the leader of the law library lacking leadership. from my perspective, leaders are built over time, and through experiences, good ones and bad ones, and those experiences need to be passed down, and at some point, you need to stand up, even, and make difficult decisions, and

so we are faced with difficult decisions, and i'm not interested in san francisco leaving that role as being the fiscal sponsor for this. supervisor yee has made several amendments. some, i support, some, i do not support. supervisor yee, when it comes to item 18, i do not support the last resolve clause that the san francisco board of supervisors intends to establish a set of guidelines for the city and county of san francisco for a set of exercises to participate in this grant. i do urge that no city and county of san francisco shall extend any expo or vendor shows that include military or automatic grade weapons, but iible thati believe that's redundant. i've had comfortable

conversations with our own sheriff, and she and i have not seen eye to eye on every single item, but she's shared with me her perspective and that there is very little, little to none of san francisco personnel participating in the exposition. now, the exposition, i understand, is a significant revenue generator. that's what brings the money in that allows us to move forward with these exercises, so it's kind of like a catch 22. can we exclude the vendors but still hold the exercise? i don't know. i've posed that to someone from the controller or someone from the mayor's budget office so we can somehow extricate ourselves and have a true exercise that is void of commercial influences. it is concerning when you have an assault rifle weapon being raffled off, and i assume that

is to entice people to buy tickets so they can get a free rifle. that's hard to stand here before you and support. that's really hard. and in -- in a lot of the work that i've done in the year and in trying to better understand what's happening, i've had many conversations who -- with elected leaders in emoryville, in the smaller cities that makeup the larger alameda county, and there's a diverse perspective. i think one thipg that is uniform that is everyone values the exercise, and i value the exercise, so my question to my staff at dem is how can we as the fiscal sponsors extrapolate the vendor portion of -- of -- of the exercise? how can we exercise more

oversight and influence and ensuring that there are none xenophobic, racist, islamophobic sexist comments written in the scenarios. do you want to comment? [ inaudible ] >> -- with the department of emergency management. well, you have my word, i will consult with my executive director as soon as she returns from d.c. >>supervisor cohen: well, to be fair, you gave me your word that you were going to work with supervisor yee, and you didn't do that. >> we have met with him several times, and we have a differing dialogue, to be fair, but i will work with the director, cronenberg, and i'm sure it's a conversation she will have with the other community members and sheriff ahern, absolutely.

>>supervisor cohen: at this time, i'd like to ask the assistant sheriff of alameda county to come up. i just wanted to give you an opportunity to give some feedback on some of the remarks you heard here today, going a little further than the two minutes that you had in public comment, and i assume out of the representatives, i am the most senior. >> yes, ma'am, i am. do you mind if i grab my notes. >>supervisor cohen: grab your notes. i'll just continue talking until you get back to the podium. thank you for being here, because i think the short coming of this conversation is you guys have not been here at the table in san francisco, so thank you, and i appreciate you being here. >> and i appreciate those comments, and in the future, i will make sure that there are people here from alameda county to address any questions. if i could start by saying, i know that there's been some comments that urban shield has evolved over the years.

it started out as a police exercise and has evolved into an emergency management exercise. we have heard the concerns of the community over the years, we have heard the concerns of some of our elected officials, and we have made changes as a result of that. we had a significant amount of community involvement. we've always had citizen and community volunteers with urban shield, however, you heard we had neighborhood response team exercises, we had the gray command, very successful. heard the issue about the oath keepers. we don't have interaction with them. they requested to come at the last minute. had we known that there was a perception that they were an extremist group, they would not have been allowed to be there. those were not used to identify

suspects. there were many wearing those, at what i believe to be the incident in question. they were strictly being used as a protective measure. many people here in the united states of america now wear those when they're in certain environments to protect those in sun. >>supervisor cohen: with you we're in alameda county. we don't have strong one. we can discuss climate change, but the reality is it doesn't enhance the exercise in any way. you see how it makes you look bad? >> yes, ma'am. i do tunds. i just want to make it clear that we were not using it to identify suspects, and we do not use them to identify suspects in any kind of incident or anything like that. there were about 70 vendors there primarily targeting an audience of police and fire. out of those almost 70 vendors, there were five of them that

did have firearms displayed. they're not sold on the premtss, bpremt premtss -- premises. >>supervisor cohen: correct me if i'm wrong, to the point, there's other trade shows and other opportunities to evaluate new weapons. >> yes, that's correct. >>supervisor cohen: so it doesn't necessarily need to happen with this -- at this event. >> that's correct, and also you had mentioned the funding that comes from that, the funding that comes from that is utilized to pay for things that we cannot bill to the grant, for example, so the amount of funding that results from that is pretty small in the grant scheme of things, and i am planning on speaking to sheriff ahern about possible making some adjustments going forward with the vendor show. i have had some discussions with my staff regarding that this year, but i will be

planning to have further discussions with the sheriff to see what his thoughts are on the matter. >>supervisor cohen: i would appreciate that because times are changing, and i know the sheriff is also up for reelection, i don't know if there's anyone that's running against him or not. >> not yet. >>supervisor cohen: but there is -- times are changing, and i think that we would be -- we would be foolish not to acknowledge the change, and that we have to respond accordingly. you took an oath to protect and to serve, and that means everyone. and when i think about the all too numerous shooting occurrences that have happened, even in our state of california, when you think about a few weeks ago, north of san francisco, i mean, we need -- i do believe we need to be prepared. >> i -- and i couldn't agree more, ma'am. and just on that note, i would like to state that -- that the number of shootings, at least in the region, have declined

significantly over the recent past, and not that that's attributed to urban shield, but just so you know, swat operations that take place, most swat operations are resolved in a safe manner without a use of force, and part of that is a result of the equipment that's utilized at those incidents, if you will. years ago, swat operation was basically, you know, busting down a door and flooding into a house as fast as you possibly could to overwhelm the occupants. that's not the case anymore. now what swat teams typically do is they do surround and call outs. it's very methodical, and they try to bring out the people inside, and a lot of that equipment is utilized during urban shield. >>supervisor cohen: thank you. i appreciate your extra commentary.

supervisor yee? >>supervisor yee: so, we just concluded that one can go to other shows and get the same information. that's one thing, and you just said that the show brings in some funding, but it's a small piece of the funding. so why are we doing this, and if we're -- i guess from my point of view, if we value that we don't want our personnel to participate in shows where they're selling a bunch of weaponry and if they're not selling it there, they're raffling it off -- i hope next year, they don't raffle off a tank or something. but i guess the question is if this is a point of contention for many that's here, is it really worth the money that you get to do this or can it be

made up in a way so that the controversial issues can go away so that you can actually have these exercises, that many people can see that there's some value in it? >> i think that is possible, and again, that's some of the discussion that i've had with my staff this year that oversaw the vendor show this year. part of the reason -- the primary reason why we do it is again, there's things that we can't pay for with county funds or bill against the grants. for example, meals that are served at dinner at what we call the hot box. that gets paid for through money that's veefd from -- received from vendors, so it would result in a change of probably some of the things that we receive for some of the

participants, but i think it's a discussion we should have yee ayee -- >>supervisor yee: one of the things you can do is there shouldn't be any vendors that's going to display military weaponry. >>supervisor cohen: i appreciate it. we're going to move on and take up the issue that we have here, and i understand it's interesting. i would be offended if somebody came into my county and told me what to do with the money, but in order for us to continue to move forward, i think collectively, otherwise, we're going to have the same problems, we're going to have the problems, we're going to have the protests, we're going to have the unrest, and we have an opportunity to bridge a gap here. the department of emergency management is responsible for administering the grant fore the bay area uasi, ensuring that the grant funds are spend according to grant guidelines

and ensuring that each of the bay area counties and cities that they may receive a portion of the grant funds, that they adhere to the grant and fifrk will guidelines cht i want to read into the record for those of you that don't know the summary budget as follows, because i think we need to bring some clarity. equipment, equipment is approximately $6.3 million. planning is approximately $4.4 million. training is $1.8 million. exercise is what we -- line share of our conversation was about today is $1.8 million. organization is $6.8 million, and the management administration is $1.1 million, so this is still, in total, a significant amount of money. we're asking -- we're being asked to accept and then expend approximately $22.5 million

from the federal department of homeland security, so this is not an insignificant amount of money and there are a lot of very concerned people that are paying attention. so supervisor yee or supervisor tang, i don't know if there's a motion that you'd like for us to begin to take on. let's start with item 18. there was a series of amendments that were read into the record by supervisor yee. there were two in particular. the last two, further resolved clauses in the back. supervisor tang, i think you had -- are you able to support both or are you able to support one or none? >>supervisor tang: first, for item 18, i support all of his amendments. it was item 19. >>supervisor cohen: okay. fantastic. so -- by the way, i just want to acknowledge that public comment is closed. i'm not sure if i did that. so supervisor yee has read into the record his amendments. i'm happy to accept both of the amendments as well, supervisor, and we can take that without

objection. >>supervisor yee: yes. >>supervisor cohen: okay. so as amended, we will accept i guess two additional further resolved clause. >> clerk: and that will be referred to the full board? >>supervisor cohen: that will be referred with a positive recommendation to the full board. thank you. item 19, there were three amendments that were proposed, three additional whereas clauses to the mou, and let's take them one by one. okay. i'll read them. the first one, whereas the city and county of san francisco does not condone training that promotes militaryized training that promotes stroo types and focus on religious programs. we accept this without objection. next item you be for consideration is the second whereas clause that says whereas the city and county of

san francisco are -- in incorporating or principles -- that is an amendment, supervisor tang? is that a yes or a no. >>supervisor tang: oh, no. >>supervisor cohen: okay. supervisor yee. we'll do a roll call vote on this particular amendment. we'll start with supervisor tang. >> clerk: yes. tang, no. vice chair yee? >>supervisor yee: yes. >> clerk: yee, aye. chair cohen? >>supervisor cohen: no. >> clerk: cohen, no. the motion fails. >>supervisor cohen: the third and final whereas clause says whereas if uasi funding is used for programs that are incompatible with the values and goals the board of supervisors may consider legislation restricting participation in uasi in the future. we can do a roll call vote on that, as well. >> clerk: on that motion,

supervisor tang? >>supervisor tang: no. >> clerk: tang, no. supervisor yee? >>supervisor yee: aye. >> clerk: yee, aye. chair cohen? >>supervisor cohen: no. >> clerk: cohen, no. the motion fails. >>supervisor cohen: all right. we have one amendment in item 19 that has been accepted, and i'd like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. >> clerk: madam chair, i believe there's one more amendment to the dem to make the matter retroactive. >>supervisor cohen: that's correct. we can also take that with the final vote. >> clerk: yet. >>supervisor cohen: so we'll accept the amendment from dem as well as the one remaining amendment that supervisor yee introduced, and we can take this without objection. >> clerk: yes. the matter will be amended and forwarded to the board of supervisors with the full

recommendation. >>supervisor cohen: all right. are there any other matters before this board? >> clerk: that concludes the agenda. >>supervisor cohen: all right. we're adjourned. we're adjourned. thank

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we have the council district of merchants here as well. juan of the things that we're really proud of and really inspired by is our mayor, ed lee. the mayor came to us four years ago, the office of economic workforce development and said i challenge you to create a program and campaign that gets more shopping done in our local neighborhoods. increase the amount of spending to support jobs and small businesses and also support taxes and the vitality of our neighborhoods. and we, through the incredible work of mariane thompson and gloria chan, joaquin torres in the office of economic workforce development launched this program to do exactly that. to encourage and challenge san franciscans to do more in our small business community. mayor lee has done more than any mayor that i know to invest and support in small businesses, directing more money and investing more money than any administration in the city's history to support small

businesses through the invested neighborhoods program, by launching a small business portal, by meeting constantly with our small business leaders and as a tireless advocate for the issues that they care about most. it is my honor and privilege to introduce mayor lee. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, todd. good morning, everybody. let me correct todd because i want to make sure you understood the challenge. i challenged him to find me more ice cream. that was the real challenge. and i'm really happy to be here. at the ice cream museum. this is one of those innovative ideas, very unique to the city and, of course, they're getting booked up like crazy and we're in the heart of our shopping and union square and, of course, the chief and i already have enough chants. we need some opportunities to smile and, of course, we're about to jump into this speckle pool. forgive us if we have too much fun. the holidays are beginning. we're going to have lots of fun.

i want people to not just come to the city but take advantage of really supporting the backbone of our business community and small businesses and people here, karen fled knows union square is at the heart of a lot of things that we do during the holidays. you have jeffries toys, my favorites. they're a legacy business in the city. and keep supporting them. [shouting] we'll have all of the different business associations that are working together with us. but the experience is all about fun. safe fun. and that is why the chief and i will be doing a lot of things over the holidays to make safe shopper programs, to provide the safety level that people have. reduce the harm reduction program on our streets. make sure people, as many people can get off of our streets. while work on those hard things. in between those difficult, challenging things, we want to work with our business community to provide safe fun for the kids that will be here.

thousands of kids over the holidays, families. people from all over the world that are taking advantage of this wonderful city that we have. and we're doing this with programs, yes, that we funded but we want to make sure that everything else is working for folks on the long-term. small businesss are so important to cities like san francisco. more than the backbone, they provide the innovative, the cultural diversity all over our neighborhoods. this is one big area. but listen, shop and dine in the 49 is about shopping in all of our neighborhoods. allow them to give you cultural innovation, small business innovations, shopping small innovation because when people put their entire lives behind their small businesses, you should see the innovation that comes out of their ideas, their service, their good patronages of products and designs that are locally sensitive and

culturally rich. wanted to say thank you to this museum for starting out their innovation. i think kids already have ice cream in them because they are jumping up and down before they come in. to our restaurants, our golden gate restaurant association will be very full this year. probably hard to get reservations. but persevere. use every app that you can or, like i do, walk in with a $5 bill or something and hand somebody. then they will give you a seat. the old-fashioned way. but i know mark is excited because small businesses really are our engine and creating even more and they not only love our support, we love supporting them. but i want to emphasize shop and dine in the 49. go to that app. if you really want to have a lot of information about those stores. and we'll be on the streets to make sure everybody is safe and

enjoying themselves. of course, this is thanksgiving. so, we're going to, just after this, we'll be handing out a lot of turkeys to people if their need. we have fire victims up north that are in need. we have people on the streets that are in need. i want to make sure that the spirit, the principles that we operate on, are right in front of us. right in the front of everything that we do, that we support, everybody that needs that help and that's why these -- this is so wonderful because they are often the untold, unknown heroes that come out and do a lot of gift donations and support that never gets covered and i want the media to cover them. cover all of our small businesses as they really are the help that we want to have. so thank you very much, everybody. and shop and dine in 49. happy holidays. [applause] >> thank you, mayor.

as the mayor said, this holiday season is about shopping local and shoppinging safe. it is my honor to welcome our fantastic chief of police, chief scott. >> thank you. [applause] >> good morning, everybody. i couldn't have said it better than mayor lee. [kids shouting] and this place is fun in here. i'm not a big ice cream eater, but my entire family is. i'm sure i will be here many times during the holidays. this is my favorite time of year and it is my favorite time of year because the holiday season, thanksgiving, the holiday season, it brings out the best in communities. it is a time where we're selfless, we give, we come together as a community. and definitely shop and dine in the 49 is, i think, the way to go. this time last year, even before i got hired by mayor lee to be the chief here, we were here during this period last years and i remember walking around, basically walking

around this area and just going to the different businesses and it was an experience. for those of you who have lived here all your lives, when you come here from another city and experience this great city, it is really something to behold. so, we want to make sure that that experience is shared and that people can do that safely. i have a couple of tips that i want to share with you. i have a long list. but i'm going to be very quick in reading -- rattling off this list of safety tips. first of all, cell phones. we all have 'em. we all use them. and sometimes i'm as guilty of it as anybody else. i'm walking and texting and on the phone and i'm not paying attention to what i'm doing. take a minnesota pay attention to your surroundings. i know we're a cell phone generation. we live on these things but they can be distracting. it is really important when you are shopping, particularly going to the bank and the a.t.m., buying things for