what they received from the baseline. >> great. i make a motion to adopt the amendments. >> without objection those amendments are adopted -- deputy city attorney john gibbner. >> just to clarify one additional amendment in the draft circulated to you, section 16.106 with the charter with a bunch of departments that the board is required to fund every year, funding of services but not a particular amount, not a property base tax set-aside. not a baseline. they were originally included in the charter amendment and the amendments proposed by supervisor tang will remove them from the charter amendment. that's the war memorial, fine arts, and academy of sciences. >> great. so -- that's just a point of

clarification or do we need to read it into the record saying they're part of the amendments. >> just a point of clarification for the members of the public who are here. >> we have a motion on the floor to accept the amendments as proposed and to this charter amendment overall. and to continue the item to the next meeting on january 24th. >> yeah. >> okay. seconded? without objection, the item is ordered. clerk, any other items before us today. >> that concludes our business for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you everyone. ♪ .

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family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united. >> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up.

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with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening. >> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i

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we have orientations on most saturdays. this is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. >> ready to develop your photography skills? the harvey milk photo center focuses on adult classes. and saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes.

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function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility i've charles program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed

we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and

then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've

got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its

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investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz

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>> and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ] >> clerk: president turman, i'd like to call roll. >> president turman: please do

so. [ roll call. ] >> clerk: commissioner turman, you have a conform umm. also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott along with the interim chief of accountablity, paul henderson. >> president turman: all right. members of the public, ladies and gentlemen, san franciscans, welcome to the san francisco police commission's regular meeting of wednesday, january 27th, 2017. we have a long agenda of dgo's, reports, some action items and some closed session matters, so we're going to jump right in and get started. secretary kilshaw, first line item, please. >> clerk: item 1 consent

calendar leave and file action. disciplinary actions 2017. >> president turman: all right. in your packet is the san francisco police department's disciplinary actions 2017. it highlights the cases, charges, proceedings and actual penalties. it is in your packet. hopefully, you've had a chance to review it. any questions or comments? it is on the consent calendar. all in favor of approving this item? >> clerk: commissioner, we need public comment on this item. >> president turman: okay. you're right. all right. before we vote on that, any public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. okay. so -- >> second. >> president turman: okay. moved by commissioner melgar, and seconded by commissioner

mazzucco. thank you. the disciplinary report of december 2017 is accepted into the record. item 2, please. >> clerk: -- presentation of the annual report regarding the department's work with the joint terrorism task force, jttf. >> president turman: good evening, commission -- good evening, chief. you would be the chief of police, wouldn't you. nice to see you. >> good evening, president turman, vice president mazzucco, and interim director henderson. i'll start off this week's chief report with crime intends aintends -- trends and statistics. this is going into our second week in january , and we started off the week with a number of violent crimes, shootings in particular, which

brought our homicide total to three for the year. there were three homicides over the weekend. the good news is there's any good news in them, people were arrested in two of the homicides, and the third is being investigated. we had 11 additional gun related calls this week which brings us -- actually, it's 11 year to date, which is slightly above last year, year-to-date. it's early in the year, and the good news is that we've only had one gun related homicide as opposed to four last year, so that is a significant reduction in gun related homicided by 75%. in terms of firearms seized, we seized 39 firearms year-to-date. >> president turman: pardon me, chief. we're sorry.

>> so we will try to use that as a legal method in our city to confiscate legal firearms. in terms of the major events this week, we have the second annual women's rally in march on saturday scheduled for 9:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the evening. the rally begins at civic center. it'll be followed by a march down to market to embarcadero at 2:00 p.m. we have dedicated staff to ensure those participating in this first amendment activity as well as for the public, and we expect a pretty huge turnout at this event, so barring rain, we'll have a turnout for it. also, this week, we'll have a news conference actually tomorrow, thursday, january 18th at noon for the 23rd annual chinese new year's press conference.

basically that's hosted by sf safe and the police department. it'll be at bush and grant and the focus will be on educating the community on extortion, prevention, scam prevention, burglary prevention, robbery prevention and pedestrian safety. mayor's office, the sf recreation and parks and the sfpd along with supervisor malia cohen will be hosting a press event on friday, january 19th at 9:45 a.m. acting mayor london breed will announce the kick off of a partnership on a community engagement called peace park. this intends to provide a safe place for families and their youth to engage in a number of positive activities. by engaging police strategies and national best practices, this partnership aims to build and strengthen positive and continuing relationships between the community, police

and city agencies. and we actually are very excited about this program because what it will provide is programming at these parks during peak hours when really the kids of this age need activities. we're going to start off with thursdays, fridays, and saturdays. and it goes from about 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and we'll partner with sf rec and parks. sfpd will be in the park engaging with young folks and their families and also providing a safe environment for people to come and enjoy the program, and so we're really excited about this. and again, supervisor malia cohen and mayor -- acting mayor london breed will be a part of this and the press conference to kick this off. that is it for announcements. it's a fairly short report -- this personal report, so thank you. >> president turman: thank you, chief. are you ready for your

presentation? >> yes. >> president turman: okay. >> thank you, president turman. so the joint terrorism task force report, there's nothing to report because we suspended the joint terrorism task force in february of 2017. we have not had any officers assigned to the joint terrorism task force since that time, nor do we have an mou in place. as a commission, though, we are with the help of the commission working on -- with the assigned commissioner, commissioner hing, on revision and clarification of ddo 8.10. that's still in progress, and that is the first step to -- for the commission to consider clarification. one that's done, on how this revised dgo will -- if any, have any impact on our -- on the commission's decision to reengage or not to reengage with the jttf.

>> president turman: when do you expect to have that dgo in front of the commission? >> commissioner, if i follow up present term with an exact date. i'm told progress has been made and i'm told we're pretty close, but i'll get an exact date for you from commissioner hing and our members of our department that are on the work group. >> president turman: commissioner dejesus. >> ai sat in on that group and it is about ready, and we should talk to commissioner haney and see if we can get a calendar. since sunday and monday and tuesday, it's been reported that ice is bringing agents from all over the nation into california, intend to do raids in the state, up to 12 to 1500 people, rounding them up at a time. it's putting fear in the community and one of the things the task force worked on is what the role is in the

department and just wondering how you are preparing for that with the officers, that they don't violate the sanctuary policy and how we kind of calm the community? >> yeah, commissioner. so our instructions have been clear in terms of our policies are very clear in terms of the sfpd will not assist in any federal immigration enforcement, and that is the message that we are pushing forward to make sure that all of our members understand our policies and comply with the policies in the spirit of the laws here in our city and county. in terms of that, we -- it's pretty clear. i don't know how else to state it. we will not assist, and basically, that message is going to be communicated constantly as it has been to the community. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. i guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens. as to the fbi task force, i just have one question, the one that was pulled out of.

my understanding is that task force is giving officers -- maybe officers to this task force if they can go out and do interviews in the field with the fbi and whatever they want, but that doesn't hatcher the intelligence between the fbi and the department, what's going on, it's just giving personnel to assist in fbi interviews. >> when officers are loaned to the task force, they're basically deputyized, so they have a level of security and privy so some information that the rest of the department doesn't have. in terms of our relationship with the fbi show, we still share information. we have a very good relationship, and i'm convinced just by virtue of things that have happened since our suspension of the task force that if anything of a public safety significance happens in this city, we do have the relationship and the communication to -- to be alerted and take the appropriate action.

>> president turman: to be blunt chief, what commissioner dejesus is asking, i think, i want to put to rest. when an issue comes up in the city such as the one that recently came up on the pier -- that came up on the pier, they were fully briefed by the fbi, is that correct? >> yes. i did personally get a phone call from the fbi, special agent in charge of this region, and we were advised of the incident, what was going on. >> president turman: okay. i knew you are because you shortly thereafter advised me. so despite the public misinformation that's out there that our nonparticipation in jttf means that we are not receiving communication and sensitive information about terrorism or other activities -- counter activities that might be going on, that is untrue.

you are indeed receiving that information, correct? >> yes. yes we are. >> president turman: okay. thank you. anybody else have a question for the chief? chief, thank you once again for your report. >> thank you. >> president turman: with that, we'll turn to director henderson. >> clerk: item 2 b, dpa director report, report on recent dpa activities and announcements h announcements help announcemen announcements. >> i'll be brief. >> for once. >> yeah. the department met with lieutenant melinger. all of the meetings that take place here in city hall, we will be participating in. we are starting to get some of knew sta

new staff and personnel into the department, so starting this week is also danielle who is in the courtroom, in our room here, who's a project manager and she's going to be working on building on our training manual as well as working on our mediation division. we have an office-wide retreat for all of the new employees. we're trying to get as many of them together as possible. the investigators have finally been approved for background. i started that on day one, so we finally should be able to make offers. they were finally coming in next week for their final review and selection. i just want to acknowledge in the courtroom also are in the room today at the commission is my chief of staff, sarah, and our whole fleet of investigators here, and my legal team, john and tamara and sherry.

whew. >> president turman: well, first of all, welcome, miss motley. it's good to have you. i think now that there's a lot going on at dpa. i think we -- now that we have a chief of staff that's getting something done here, it's good to have you. so keep paul busy. okay. any questions for director henderson? if not, we're ready to move to the next item. >> clerk: item 2 c, commission report, commission president's report, commissioner's report. >> president turman: commissioners, i have no reports. any commissioners? next item. >> clerk: item 2 d, commission announcements, and item scheduled for consideration at future meetings action.

>> okay. secr secretary kilshaw, in light of what we have heard, and i will work with you on the date, i would like to, in one meeting, schedule the -- the dgo that commissioner hing is in charge of. i'd also like a report on our preparedness for these ice raids and specific training and information we're going to be giving out to the department. i'd like to hear something about that sooner rather than later. we're going to schedule that sometime in february , but i'll get with you tomorrow for an exact date. anything further? . >> commissioner dejesus: yes. >> president turman: commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: so i sat in with the joint commission task force meetings. during the raid, there was an

issue they'll be wearing jackets that say police, and there was a question whether they're police. if they're not post certified, they shouldn't be police. we should have someone on our behalf to do a cease and desist letter to stop i mpersonnating peace officers in the state of california. >> president turman: that's good. why don't you talk with whoever the designee on the city attorney's office. >> if you reach out to me, i can point you into what the advice is on that matter. >> president turman: thank you, miss cabrera. anything further, commissioners? commissioner mazzucco, i don't see it on mine. >> commissioner mazzucco: i'll ask to see the research too.

even at our church who said he was arrested by the sfpd in an ice raid, and i asked for a clarification arrestfterwards, said it was ice that were wearing jackets that say police. probably for safety for the officers and the agents, the jackets should say federal agent and not police. i'll check with research, but that's an issue for the safety of the officers and the agents, too. >> president turman: all right. any other scheduling of items? thank you. with that, secret, thary, items closed. i believe we're on public comment on items 2 a, b, c, and

d. any public comment on items 2 a through d. >> good evening, commissioners. i'm kriss roby, and i'm concerned about the ice order. i'm concerned on what will happen to police officer if they do actually cooperate with ice, and who in the commission is advocating that this is obviously a political action against the state of california and how are we going to address this because it has nothing to do with the grags, immigration. it has to do with a political power play that is disturbing, and it's horrible to think that people in our country -- and they're being picked off one by one in our country. it's serious. i am wondering if we're a sanctuary city if we could not setup some kind of committee or relay system when they come, we are there. couldn't the police who are protecting standing in between

the federal agents and the immigrants? >> a lot of community groups are on that, in terms of first response. a lot of community immigration -- approximate. >> right -- >> president turman: well, that's not the role of the police. >> well, if the role of the police is to enforce a sanctuary city. >> president turman: our city does not require the police to stand between ice and -- and the individual. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> i stopped your time, just so you know. >> president turman: thank you. >> i just wonder if that was a possibility. i feel like it's very disturbing, and we want to standup against this in any way we can, so we're all brainstorming. how can we protect the people of our city that are under attack from our federal government, so i'm very concern. >> president turman: i agree with you. it's very concerning. and i think there are a lot of community organizations, especially legal organizations that are involved in that effort, which i hope many

participate in. unfortunately, i don't think that we can involve the police in that effort, but we as individual citizens should certainly become involved, and as ms. altman points out, i think we should. >> i'm also concerned, paul henderson, about your continued articles in the poa journal that demeans people even here they called imbalanced. they accuse the -- our public defender of going after his personal powers, so i don't really know why you're bending over backwards, as you say, so it's not accountablity to the police, it's police

accountablity, so i don't understand the tone that it's bending over backwards, the police bill of rights -- which they shouldn't even have a bill of rights, should be an issue for you to prove, so i'd really like you to think about that. >> clerk: thank you. >> good evening, president turman and commissioners. jim salinas. please know that i -- my apologies. i just wanted to say that i really appreciate the -- the fact that vice president mazzucco raised this issue about identification because right now, everybody's been struggling for the last year and a half certainly under this new watch with chief scott to instill trust and confidence in the latino community that the police is not there to harm them in any way, shape or form but to protect. and for the federal agents to come in here wearing those

police vests certainly diminishes the ability for this police department to continue to build and instill the trust and confidence that we have lost. everybody's working feverishly and here they come in, doing what they're doing, and i'm as concerned as the vice president is, as i'm sure all of you are, that this continue. i'm not sure what authority we have to insist that they truly identi identify themselves as federal agents and not members of the san francisco police department so thank you vice president mazzucco. >> president turman: any other public comment on items 2 a through d? hearing none, public comment is now closed. secretary kilshaw. >> clerk: item 3, discussion regarding draft or the 3.01, written communication system discussion. >> good evening, president turman, vice president

mazzucco, commissioners, interim director, chief scott. commissioners, in your packet, you have a general draft order, 3.01, i have sergeant gary buck ner who will be covering the high point of that general order. that's a collaboration effort that's been put together over the last several months. it was originally a department of justice recommendation in the cri or collaborative initiative report. so i will turn this over to sergeant buckner to cover the highlights. >> president turman: sergeant buckner before you begin, i would like to address the commission on general order 3.01. it was my pleasure to see through this order with some of the stakeholders, including the dpa and the department in its final drafting where we went through line by line and