vital part of san francisco, that means we are all under attack, and under siege. i don't think i'm going to -- i don't think i'm overstating this when i say that those of us in the immigrant rights community are at war. we are at war with the trump administration and we will be at war for at least three years. and -- and the importance of a sanctuary ordinance is a vital tool in that -- in that battle. when we adopted the changes that were made in july, there was testimony that evening by community members that had some critique and some comments on what we adopted that evening, and president turman committed to establishing a working group in order to respond to those suggestions, and that's what happened. so we formed a working group

and was -- with commissioner dejesus and i. we met many times with the various members of the -- of the working group that i mentioned, and there were -- there were clarifications that needed to be made to the language. we had to make sure, also, that the dgo was consistent with the administrative law, and code that has changed in the last couple of years, and we wanted to make sure there was consistency with other language in the -- in other dgo's that exist. so the chief actually has highlighted several important parts of the dgo, but i do want to mention a couple of other things that you can see in the strike-out language or the parts that are underlined in the 2-8-2018 draft. for example on page two, near the bottom, there's a reference

to the fact that members shall not enforce administrative immigration detainers, that's -- that's something that's received a lot of publicity over the last couple of years. more than the last couple of years. there's litigation over that issue, and we wanted to make is clear what the various types of detainer forms that can be used by ice, that the -- that there not be any confusion. i would drop a footnote here to point out that in fact the -- the san francisco police department generally is not the entity that would -- that a detainer would be issued to or delivered to. it generally would be the sheriff's department, but in the rare occasion when that might happen, let's make it clear, that the -- that when it comes to detainers, we're consistent with the earlier part of the dgo.

also, there was a lot of confusion on page three, under part 3-a, over ice requests for emergency assistance or response by the sfpd. and it was very clear from the discussion and the department was very good in helping us clarify that language that yeah, when there's an emergency and there's a threat to life and danger, even possibly of an ice agent, well, the police will respond to that, just as they would respond to anyone who's in need. and so -- but in no event, as it points out in the next paragraph, part b, is -- will the members assist in federal immigration enforcement as part of that. and going onto the bottom of page three, and carrying onto the top of page four, it --

there are times when there may be calls for cooperation between federal, state, and local law enforcement. again, it's made very clear here and in conversations with the department at the working group meetings that there's -- there's definite oversight that the department is not entering into an agreement to enforce immigration laws. there may be agreements to enforce other laws, but there should never be even part of that agreement that deals with enforcing immigration laws. and if it turns out that a member is called to assist in what presumably is not an immigration enforcement effort, but it turns out that there is an immigration enforcement effort that was unbeknownst to that member, that there

immediatneeds to be an immediate response to us that that's what happened. that's in the middle of page four. and finally, in the -- there's a call on page five to -- some additional oversight that every year -- and there's actually a typo graphical error at the top of page five that we should adjust, by no later than january of each year. do you see that? yeah. and i think commissioner dejesus found another typo. >> yeah. on page three, 3-b, on the second line, the little thing that's crossed out, it needs to stay in. [ inaudible ] emergency response to ice or cbp shall immediately notify their supervisor. the strikeout went a little too

far. >> t-o, and middle of page three, next sentence. >> okay. i think they did hear me. can you hear me? >> based on that, i would make a motion that the commission adopt the revisions to dgo 5.15. >> with the corrections made. >> with the corrections. >> i second that. >> and before we -- i seek public comment, i want to say, and this is very legally sound document. it's very fair. it's extremely fair, and it points out that, you know, we would respond -- if somebody wants to criticize this document, all's i ask is that they read it and read the entire document, and also read san francisco sanctuary city policy and ask yourself what it is. you ask ten different people what's san francisco sanctuary city policy, you get ten

different answers. they want to just take a position. read this. read this very sound document that basically lays out what our officers should and cannot do, and i just want to thank you. you did a great job, both of you. >> if i can just say something before we vote. the department was very helpful, the peg groups had helpful, but the community's so informed and pointed us in the right direction and really assisted us with great language and the forms and gave us examples and helped us understand the nuances in the language, so i just want to kmampg the community members. >> any public comment regarding department general order 5.15? >> good evening. >> good evening. my name is maria esparza. i'm the coordinator for the san francisco rapid response network, which is a 24 hour hotline to provide assistance

to anyone being targeted by ice enforcement in the city of san francisco. i want to thank the commissioners, the working group, as well as the police department in the most recent months, we've had an ongoing collaboration with the police department regarding verifying information when the community misconstrues police activity for ice activity, and the police department has been very instrumental in helping to verify that information? and with regards to the dgo, there are two specific points that i want to raise up regarding further editing to the dgo? under .3-b, where it says except as required by federal and state law, that last clause, i think, first of all, i don't think it's consistent

with other points regarding it -- to me, it feels like a loophole. there is no federal or state law that requires for local law enforcement to enforce or to collaborate with regard to enforcement to federal immigration laws? and i think that this point really undermines a lot of the trusts that we're trying to build with collaboration of the police department of having that clause that except for into these circumstances, because there is no except for. that should be made for, that there is never an opportunity or a chance or an instance of scenario where that collaboration would happen. >> thank you very much. >> and i'm out of time. >> before we go to another -- can i ask a question, i'd like to ask the two commissioners who work odd this if you could respond to that last point. >> yeah.

that language is actually taken from the city administrative code, and that language actually also exists in the immigrati immigration and nationality act that's being litigated right now. the issue of -- under the federal immigration and nationality act, local jurisdictions cannot prevent voluntarily cooperation with federal ice, and -- and therefore we -- i actually think it's wiser to keep this in here to make sure it's consistent with the litigation position that the city and county is taking in its litigation against the trump

administration. >> next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners. i my name is saira, and i'm an attorney on the working group, and i want to thank commissioners dejesus and hing on bringing this policy along. like my colleague mentioned, the acceptance of federal and state law within 3-b, section three talks about providing emergency response to ice or cbp, and emergency members appears twice under this code, and it doesn't really make sense to put it under part of this code? the context is a little bit different, so to put it under this particular piece when we're talking about ice and cbp, aurlocal law enforcement not working with ice and cbp, it does seem out of place here,

quite frankly? so i don't think it should be in here. the second part that i want to talk about is we did address during the working group is joint drill operations, and i understand that sfpd's position is they have to work with ice. what really concerns us is that members of the communities, oftentimes these operations turn into not just criminal operations but joint criminal immigration operations? so i would urge the commission to rethink these situations, and for sfpd to also rethink their involvement in these. we saw in oakland that there was somebody who was -- who was supposedly picked up on a criminal operation? originally ice said it was trafficking, but that individual was never charged with trafficking and in fact was just charged with immigration violations, and opd as a result did face some heat on that, and the city council decided to pass a resolution

saying that their officers should not be working with ice on criminal operations, either, so we urge you all to rethink that, and once again want to thank the leadership of commissioners hing and dejesus. thank you. >> next speaker. >> welcome. >> can i ask, are you -- is your position that you're totally opposed to this language anywhere in the ordinance? the language of as required by federal or state law or are you suggesting that we move it someplace? >> while you're looking at that, i just want to express a concern that if we do change this language -- i know this has been complete vetted, we probably will not be able to vote on it tonight because we'd have to run it by our city

attorney. just what we're approving tonight is to be sent to the p.o.a. for further negotiations, so this is not final, so thank you for your suggestions, but if we do follow -- and i defer to what's already been done by professor hing and commissioner dejesus, but you have to understand we have to be consistent with what the litigation that's pending now, and i don't want us to be the ones that are going to do something inconsistent with what the city attorney doing in the other litigation. sometimes we're worth smithid here, so i want you to rethink your request. i know you're lawyers, but i want you to reconsider. the last thing you want is anything to be in opposite to the pending litigation now that the city attorney's office has so i think you need to respect that, and i'll turn it over to commissioner hing. >> my preference is to go

forward, and we can consider other recommendations at a future date. that's my recommendation. i do also have a response to the second part of your comment. my recollection in the working group was that although hypothetically there could be joint operations with the san francisco p.d. -- and i'll let the chief respond to this -- and ice on solely criminal matters or dhs on solely criminal matters, that entering into these agreements is not automatic; that there's quite a lot of deliberation that goes on, and that i don't let me put words in your mouth, chief, but the department would lean against those kinds of agreements. i'm asking you, right. >> those -- that process is vetted up to the deputy chief

level and criminal operations bureau, so those operations have to be approved by a deputy chief, and they are vetted, and we do look for collateral issues. we're very cognizant of that. there are operations that we have not participated in because of that, so it is a very thorough process, and it goes up to a very high level for approval on any such operations. >> thank you. >> okay. thanks. >> commissioner hing, you had a question about the language, about except for state or federal law. so i just want to point out that under 2(d) 1, under there it talks about not releasing certain pieces of information? and there it has except as required by federal or state law, and that would cover federal 1872, it's already included within here? it's included again here when it comes to collaboration between local law enforcement and ice. it's not only redecide dundant,

but that refers to specific types of collaboration? >> i understand that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, chief scott and commissioners. thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak today. i was also part of the working group. my name is jay han leaner. i appreciate you taking the time to update this. i just want to echo the same things that saira and maricela was saying. i know there's a lot of checks that you do before entering into a joint task force operation with dhs or any ice agency on what they call a criminal arrest, but in ice's only press release as recent as

the l.a. arrest that happened this week when almost 200 were arrested, they call hrm and ice. maricela has responded to ihsi. they're basically the same organization here in san francisco, where three people were collaterally arrested. they weren't the target of a criminal investigation, they were just arrested on immigration violations. they've had their own press releases saying that they're using hsi as that arm. and also to underscore what saira said, i appreciate that you want to keep this language in with the litigation. i think that's a broader goal that we all have the same, but yeah, the same language is already in the section b as sara said, and it only applies to not sharing immigration

status? it doesn't apply to these enforcement operations, so i would also take it out of the emergency operation part. thank you. >> thank you very much. any further public comment on this issue? hearing none, public comment is now closed. i'd like to thank the junk lawyers and community participants for working on this. it's good to see lawyers actually doing something for the benefit of their community and not for money, so thank you. it's greatly appreciated. director henderson, you had a comment that you were going to share? >> i was just going to point out what we were talking about, in that section, section 3, section b, those comments that you were commenting on have been included in this general order under section 2, section c, where we talk specifically about any investigation, attention or arrest procedures where any such instance, either express or implied, if the purpose it for enforcement of federal immigration laws, is restricted. so i just wanted to make sure

that we talked about that inclusion, and to thank john eldon from my office who worked on this. >> so now, we have before us, we have a motion and we have a second with reference to the two small word changes. i think at this point, we need to take a vote. >> on the motion to accept department general order 5.15 with the two corrections as stated by commissioner hing, for the purposes of engaging in the meet and confer process with the police officer's association -- [ roll call. ] >> the motion passes, 6-0. >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> great job.

please call the next line item. >> item 6, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or dpa personnel 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 to two minutes. any further public comment? ace is not here, so hearing none, public comment is now closed. >> i'm back again. i'd like to use the overhead.

i'm just bringing up about my son again. when i was asking about a venue for our children, this is the kind of venue i'm asking for: the police association put these on the bus a while back ago so we can have some recognition about or children and who's out there murdering our children, the perpetrators can see thipgs like this and signs on the buses, maybe they'll think again, and maybe some of our children's cases will be solved. i've been asking for that for some years now, and we put all of the signs in the windows when other people are being unsafely victimized and they can run into restaurants and run in and go get help, but our children have nowhere to run. we don't have signs for our children to go run that are being shot by bullets, by a

community violence. they have nowhere to run. they have no place to run into, and if they do, they're going to get put out and killed. so that's why i'm asking for signs like this. you know, if we don't have nowhere to run to, maybe signs like this will detour the perpetrators that are killing our children out there. i keep these names, and we brought this up earlier: thomas hannibal, andrew vadue, jason that ma thomas, acme hunter, and marcus carter. these are all the perpetrators that murdered my son. thomas hannibal and paris

motter are the main suspects in my son's case. i'm not making this up. this can be looked up. >> thank you, miss brown. any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. please call the next line item. >> item seven, adjournment, action item. >> do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? thank you, everybody, have a good evening. .

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today we are going to talk about fire safety. we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce

fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench.

>> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively.

>> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't

rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe

place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. .

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>> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help

keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are

expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage

will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the

upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, -

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sustainable future . >> san francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e city's land area more than all the parks combined they're far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. >> through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the municipal transportation agency pavement to parks is bringing initiative ideas to our streets. >> so the face of the street is

the core of our program we have in the public right-of-way meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. >> i'm here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to parks program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. >> parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a community driven program. >> the program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted we're here

at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. >> yeah. >> we partnered with the pavement to parks program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot community garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point we're planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do

here. >> there's a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. >> with the help of community pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv.org ♪ ♪

♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later, and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses

multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪