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speak with her. one time, she came over to my home to try to talk to me, but my brother just passed away in australia, so that's why i cannot talk to her. >> okay. >> so i missed a chance to talk to her. >> thank you. commissioner moore? >> i believe that this submittal is quite substandard. it took me a while to determine who is the d.r. requester, because that is not evident from the way the packet is put together, so the d.r. is on the south side of the thing. that's to the right if you have this plot plan here. what i would suggest under any circumstance, with or without the white dog, which is very pretty, is the deck to the north side needs a privacy screen, a trellis, because the view of the deck into those other bay windows, even with 12 feet is far too close. to the south, the other deck, i
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would pull that deck back from the edge of the building into a position of where it meets the first angle of the bay to give a little bit more breathing room. the deck is sufficiently large that that wouldn't do a lot of damage. are you following me, mr. washington, what i'm trying to say? >> so what you would like to see is the deck on the south side moved into the edge of the bay. >> that's correct. on the north side, i would put a trellis on the extension of the building where it currently sits. >> why on the north side, commissioner? >> because it's too close. you're still looking into the bay of the adjoining building. you're standing out there, you're looking into the bay, you're looking into the large portion of that picture window, as well, and i just think it's too intrusive. >> okay.
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so is that a motion to take d.r.? >> it's a motion to take d.r. and deal with privacy issues on the north and south side with the two moves that i described mr. washington sketched out. >> commissioner moore, we're going to bring it in on the south side to the trellis to the edge of the bay, and then, we're going to install a trellis on the north side, so essentially, a privacy screen. >> is there a second? >> second. >> thank you, commissioners. there's a motion that has been seconded to take d.r. and to modify the project to deal with privacy issues on the north end, south sides. on that motion -- [ roll call. ] >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passed unanimously, 5-0. >> all right. that -- we're adjourned.
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. >> the meting will come to ord order. this is the february 23rd, 2018 special meeting of the san
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francisco local agency formation commission. i am sandra leigh fewer, chair of the commission. i am joined by commissioner cynthia pollock on my left and hillary rope then on my right. i would also like to thank the staff at sfgovtv, for recording today's meetings. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> madam clerk, can you please read item number two. >> item 2 is the approval of the lafco meeting minutes of november 30, 2017 workshop, and the november 30, 2017 regular meeting. >> thank you. do any of the commissioners have any changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes? >> yes, i do. >> under opening remarks and
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proposals presented by the commission, i recall it says rise chair pollock provided the following two proposals, broad band and revisiting an affordable housing study. i believe there was also a third, an expansion of clean power sf. >> supervisor fewer: okay. are there any other changes to the november 30, 2017 minutes? all right. seeing none, i will open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item 2. seeing none, item 2 is now closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> so moved. >> second. >> moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner rhenown, those minutes are approved. madam clerk, can you call item number three. >> item three is lafco regular
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meeting schedule. >> i believe we have a message from angela calvillo, interim chair officer. >> thank you. i wanted to introduce item three. for the first few months lafco meetings were on an as-needed basis. now lafco is suggesting that we set the next couple of meetings, particular, march 16, 2018; april 20th, may 18, june 15th, july 20th, september 21, october 19, and november 16, we have the room space available for the lafco, and this will also assist us in aligning our meetings with the regular board meetings. >> thank you very much. colleagues, any comments? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number three? seeing no public speakers,
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public comment is now closed. colleagues, can we have a motion to approve the regular meeting schedule for 2018? >> great. moved by commissioner ropenen, seconded by commissioner pollock, the item is proved. madam clerk, can you please call item four. >> item four is nominating two members to the board, ending. >> i understand we have not received any applications for either of these seats, is that correct? >> that is correct, madam chair. >> commissioner pollock did submit her application right prior to the meeting but it did not make it into the packet. >> so seeing that, with that understanding, i'd like to continue this item, but let's first open this up for public comment, are there any members of the public who wish to
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comment on item number four? seeing none, public comment is now closed. to allow more time for applications to be submitted, i would like to continue this item for the next regular meeting on march 16th. colleagues, is there a motion to continue? >> so moved. >> thank you move. >> seconded. >> moved by commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner pollock, without objections, item number four will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16th. madam clerk, can you please call item number five. >> item five is a community aggregate report and a community report. >> good afternoon, commissioners. michael himes, director of clean power sf for the sfpc. it's a pleasure to be with you this afternoon. i've got some remarks to update you on the status of program
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growth, work we've been doing since we last met. first and foremost, though, cleanpowersf continues to serve about 81,000 accounts within the city and county, and to date, our cumulative program opt out rate is 3.2%. it's been at that level for a while. probably the last time we reported it, it was there, as well. i guess another way of looking at this is we have a 98.6% participation rate. 4 4.1% of our accounts have opted up to our renewable energy, super green, and that is the highest of any cca operating in california. and as -- well, we're also preparing a quarterly enrollment for customers that have signed up for the program since january , and that
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enrollment is coming up in april. that's a small enrollment of about 250 accounts that have signed up over the past few months. you might recall that in addition to the large enrollment fees is we've been inviting sign ups on an ongoing basis and then conducting these quarterly enrollments to bring those customers into the program on a timely basis. since we last presented to the lafco in late november , a number of things have happened with respect to our program development work. first, on january 23rd, the puc approved some new rates for cleanpowersf. this is a limited rate action focused on two things. first, at reducing our super green premium for participating customers so effective march 1, next month, our residential super green rates will be 1.5 cents perhour on top of our
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green kilowith the hour, down from two cents. this reduction will allow the program to remain competitive with comparable offerings by pg&e. the other major actions we took were some modifications to our net energy metering. that's a program that supports customers that have roof top solar. it's a billing credit mechanism that allows customers that own solar to get credits on their bills for any energy they produce and deliver to the grid. that's tracked every month. net credits that accumulate in a given month are carried forward for application to a following billing period. and then, every year, we look at whether the customer was a net producer of energy or a net consumer, and they were a net producer, we compensate them for that energy.
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so we made changes based on our experience to date in managing this program. after about a year and a half in operations, the changes were really to improve is simplify the customer experience, so those changes were first to -- we eliminated two net surplus compensation rates that we were using. that's the rates we pay the customer fore additional energy produced over the course of the year. we're now just compensating the customers at the higher of those two rates, which is the average super green rate. we also adopted a credit carrie forward at the end of the period at our default mechanism. customers can also request a check rather than a carrie forward of the credit on their bills. and finally, we have adopted a policy of carrying forward credits for any customers that have been on the program less
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than ten months, and the intent of that is to avoid harming any customers that may be expected to get additional credits for the balance of the year. so that's a little bit in the weeds, but those are adjustments that have been made to, again, improve the customer experience, protect our koestner mers were any lost value, and also help improve the efficiency of administering the program. also on january 23rd, the board of supervisors authorized the puc to enter into power supply contracts to support the next phase of program enrollment. that legislation was signed by the mayor on january 26th. and then lastly, the puc commission affirmed that the conditions necessary to execute the contracts had been met, and authorized the general manager to move forward with all actions in esto complete citywide enrollment for
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cleanpowersf. so really a major milestone for cleanpowersf. the elements are really coming into place now for a july enrollment. and towards that end, staff is -- we are working to finalize our power supply contracts and bank credit agreement. we're targeting execution in early march of our first set of agreements to come out of the solicitations we issued. we are also working on our enrollment plan, taking into consideration the available renewable energy supply in 2018 to support our customer enrollment again while meeting our overall program content power objectives. we're providing updated program notices, program collateral and fine-tuning our outreach program for the next enrollment phase, and a lot of that is
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going to be centered around who we are going to be enrolling in the next phase, and that's something we're working on right now. and then, last but not least here, we're also evaluating a potential rate action for our green product. the reason why we've separated these rate actions is because we are waiting for pg&e to set its rates for this year, and pg&e had been delayed. normally, their rates go into effect on january 1. last year, pg&e issued its rates for 2018, and those will go into effect next month. and what we're seeing is -- you might recall the pcia of the exit fee that cca customers paid pg&e. we are seeing that go up by about 14%. the -- but we are also seeing pg&e's generation supply rates also go up by about 8%.
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so the net result is that cleanpowersf rates will continue to belower than pg&e after -- than pg&e's comparable rates by accounting for the pcia. to the extent we do take a rate action in april, it will maintain that beneficial rate differential, and it would go into effect on july 1. and that actually concludes my update. i'm happy to take questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. colleagues, any questions? yes, commissioner pollock? >> commissioner pollock: i just want to -- excuse me. first of all, congratulations -- >> yeah, thank you for your support through this effort. >> commissioner pollock: i know so many people are so excited to see how it moves forward. i just wonder if we can get a chart, again, of the new dates for the different parts of the
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roll out and just when we see the big launch and how that's moving along. >> absolutely. >> commissioner pollock: okay. great. thank you. >> yeah. be happy to do that. >> supervisor fewer: commissioner ronen, any questions? okay. seeing none. >> okay. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to comment on item number five? hello. >> good afternoon. commissioners, eric brooks for california energy choice and san francisco clean energy advocates. in the entire 14 kbraerz thyea i've been coming before this commission, this is the most important thing that i've ever had to say to you. warren buffet and donald trump are trying to get ahold of the california electricity grid to bring coal back to california and undermine renewables. the trump administration has directed regional grid operators like this one would become under a bill in the state legislature and has directed federal agencies to
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subsidize coal electricity once this happens, so they will be able to make it cheaper than renewables even though it's not. there's a bill that's up last year that's coming up again this year, it's going to be rewritten so that it's easier to pass. the authors made mistakes last year and that's one of the reason they're going to be able to kill it. the result of this bill would be to make our california nonprofit electricity grid turn into part of a regional private grid of which the largest company acting, and it would be warren buffet's berkshire-hathaway, who has attacked companies in other states. once our grid is part of a
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private grid than state grid, our california electricity grid will be under the control of the trump administration. this could kill community choice aggregation, and it could kill renewables in general for a decade, possibly more. this is the biggest threat we've ever faced, and it's vital that you oppose it. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> hi, commissioners. jed holtzman from 350 bay area. i just want to say attending the sf meetings, we're ready to go full steam ahead. the one thing i would say for lafco's role, as going forward, as we discussed in the workshop, the role you could play in cleanpowersf, the puc
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staff has a tremendous amount of work to do to roll out the program, get everyone enrolled, make sure that they're happy, make sure that the city, the board is happy with the budgeting and contracting divisions. i think one role that the lafco can play going forward is as advocates, we get reports on -- and i hope mike doesn't get mad at me. we talk with him about this all the time. we get reports on what silicon valley is doing. now i'm getting reports on what east bay is looking like, and now i'm getting some reports on the north bay. what i'd like to do is transmit a lot of those best practices where possible from other cca and kind of just instead of growing at our own pace, not enrollment wise, but program development wise, that can he can kind of take the best pieces of the east bay, north bay, and south bay wherever possible, and we'd like to talk to lafco at some point in the
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future. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: all right. thank you. seeing no further comments, public comment is now closed. there's no action for the commission to take on this matter. madam clerk, can you please call item number six. >> item six is the interim administrative officer's report. >> supervisor fewer: miss calvillo, do you have anything to report? >> thank you, madam chair, members of the commission, angela calvillo, interim officer. i wanted to provide just a brief introduction to what i've done with the lafco's budget without permission from lafco, but i think it's a good thing. essentially because the budget process for lafco is not on the same timeline as the budget process for the board of supervisors and the city in general, what used to happen is
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the executive officer would provide me a ballpark figure from lafco that wouldn't be confirmed by lafco until june, so while we are, a city department, submitting our budgets to the mayor and controller as of yesterday, february -- yeah, thank you, 22nd, i asked the budget committee, and the committee has provided me permission to put in the statutory amount that lafco is entitled to, which is $297,342. so by the time lafco does determine its needs and actually comes up with a figure, if it's lower than that amount, then, we'll just adjust the department's budget by that amount. this will make things a little easier for us in our conversations with the mayor's and the controller's office, so
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with your permission, i appreciate your indulgence to do that today. the last thing i'll say is that i'm the interim officer, and all of the work that we have done over the last couple of months is all done with the great assistance of alisa, your clerk, especially the rfq for executive officer. i'm available for any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any questions? no. seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. >> yes. >> supervisor fewer: oh, i'm so sorry. [ inaudible ] >> so eric brooks again, san francisco green party, local
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grassroots organization, our city, californians for energy support, which is a statewide organization for community choice aggregation and clean choice energy advocates. i would just urge you real quickly to make sure -- in light of what happened last year, let's make sure lafco has full leverage on its own budget and can -- and so make sure you retain the power to not allow any shenanigans to go on in the future like we saw last year. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. seeing no further public comment, public comment is now closed. there is no commission action to be taken on this matter. can you please call item seven. >> item seven is a discussion on lafco's strategic plan. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. we have discussed a range of
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things worth exploring, but until we have an executive director, i propose we suspend any further discussion until our march 16th meeting. colleagues, does that sound okay to you? great. now let's open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item seven. >> surprise, surprise. eric brooks, californians for energy choice and all the other groups that i mentioned before. so the -- we've heard from the interim executive officer that the bids that came in on the request for qualifications are proprietary, and they're not allowed to be released. the public, of course, really would like to see the applicants and who they are, and so that we can weigh in on who we think would be the best person, but we can't really do it without that information. this is a question for the attorney and for the executive -- interim executive officer, but if we can even get
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the names of applicants, then, we can look them up themselves and decide what we think and then maybe make comments before your next meeting. i don't know if that's possible, but anything you can give us so that we can, as the public, weigh in on the process, that would be great. thanks. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. any other public speakers? and do we have a response for mr. brooks? >> thank you, madam chair. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> in -- in -- in discussing this issue with mr. eng, who is working in conjunction closely with the office of the city attorneys on this, unfortunately, because we are still in the determination process about whether or not the named individuals that you were speaking about actually meet the minimum qualifications, we are not yet ready to present that information, but we will definitely provide the public that information relatively around the same time we provide
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that information to the commission. okay. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. seeing no other public speakers, public comment is now closed. i would like to continue this item until our next regular meeting on march 16th. colleagues, is there a motion to continue? thank you very much. great. moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner ronen, without objections, item number seven will be continued to the next regular meeting on march 16. madam clerk, can you please call item number eight. >> item number eight is an update on obtaining executive officer services for the commission and possible direction to staff. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i want to invite our interim administrative officer to give an update on the rfq process. miss calvillo. >> thank you, chair. so at the direction of lafco our office issued an rfq for executive officer services. the deadline was extended to
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february 13th, 2018. the anticipated not to exceed contract raid is $75 an hour. the panel deliberation was scheduled for this morning, and we will issue a notice of intent to prequalify, we're hoping by february 27th. at this time, the details of the respondents are confidential in accordance with the administrative code chapter 67.24 for mr. brooks, but may be subject to disclosure once the panel scoring and the issue of the notice of intent to prequalify has completed. respondents are not gasuarante a contract if they meet the qualifications because it is on lafco for the qualification and certainly as the chair as she was authorized to conduct this r 23 q process, and the respondent's ability to complete the necessary administrative requirements in
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order to become an approved city vendor through the general services agency. respondents who are prequalified will remain eligible for consideration and contract negotiation on an as needed basis for five years from the prequalification notification date. we look forward to keeping you apprised on this issue, and i'm available for other questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor fewer: colleagues, any comments or questions? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number eight? seeing none, public comment is now closed. do we have a motion to continue this item to our next regular item on march 16? >> so moved. >> thank you very much. moved by commissioner pollock and seconded by commissioner ronen. without objection, the panel will continue item eight to our next meeting on march 16. item nine.
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>> consideration to approve the agreement with renne sloan holtzman and safai. >> supervisor fewer: i wanted to allow teresa tristricker to present on this item. >> i am speaking here in my individual capacity and not as your legal advisor as the contracts before you pertains to the firm that i am currently affiliated with and the firm that i will be affiliated with starting next thursday. our firm that has been providing legal services to you is splitting. the firm will be splitting into two firms. a new firm is being created called renne public law firm, and that is the group that i will be affiliated with,
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starting on march 1. we will be located in the offices that are currently located in, and have a similar name, but it is a brand-new firm. in order to allow me to continue to provide legal services, we have made the request that the lafco agree to an assignment of the existing contract with the existing firm under the same terms and conditions without any additional extension from the old firm to the new firm for services beginning on march 1. any services that are provided between now and the end of february , including, for example, my attendance here today, will be provided on behalf of the current firm, and the current firm will eventually submit a bill for those services for anything between now and the end of february . and so with that, i'm going to go ahead and defer to your interim administrative officer for any additional questions, but if you have any questions
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about the split of the firm or how that is going to work or what this means for you, i'm happy to provide that information. but as far as from my perspective, you will not see any change. the only change will be the name of the firm that i'm affiliated with. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. yes, miss calvillo? >> yes, thank you, miss stricker. the other point that i wanted to make is we had the city attorney's office review the terms of the assignment agreement, and they have signed off on all of the language. we're happy to provide that to you, as well, members of the commission, and that beginning march 1st, the assignment agreement will take place, and we will have all of the files transferred from the hyde, miller, owen and troste to the new renne law group. >> supervisor fewer: okay. colleagues, any questions,
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comments? okay. let's open this up to members of the public. are there any members of the public wishing to comment on item nine snoo seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to approve the contract for renne law group, llc. great. moved by commissioner ronen, seconded by commissioner pollock, so approve the contract for the renne law group, llc as our law group. madam clerk, can you please call item ten. >> item ten is public comment. >> supervisor fewer: this is the time for members of the public to address items on the panel's jurisdiction and not on the agenda. are there any members of the public that would like to speak. >> yes. eric brooks. this time i'll speak on behalf of our city, san francisco and the san francisco green party. as you move forward and start working on affordable housing, there's a desperate issue that's not being addressed in
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san francisco and that is small businesses, local small businesses. they are going out of business as if there's a wildfire going through the city. the costa hawkins repeal bill and ballot measures that are in planning are not going to solve the problem. in my neighborhood, we've lost micano's possibly the best greek restaurant in the united states. polk street produce went out of business because of increased rent. the gangway bar, one of the most historic bars in san francisco for the lgbt community is going to have to go out of business or move. in commissioner fewer's district, she knows there's a
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natural food business that's being driven out of the district because of the decision by the building owner. we are losing key businesses so fast in this city that san francisco's not going to be recognizable in the next decade if we don't do something about this. so as you move forward on supporting affordable housing and the homeless, we also need to think that some of those homeless may be small business owne owners that went out of business because no one can cap their rent. and that in turn is replacing all of our businesses with formula retail. it's just -- we're not going to have san francisco unless we solve this problem, so i'd urge you to put that on your future agenda. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. seeing no other public speakers, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, can you please call item number 11. >> item number 11 is future
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agenda items. >> supervisor fewer: are there any future agenda items that my colleagues would like to comment on or discussion. seeing none, let's open this up to members of the public. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 11. seeing none, item 11 is now clerk. madam clerk, are there any other items of business before us today? >> that concludes your items of business for today. >> supervisor fewer: there being no further items of business, we are adjourned.
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>> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the 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
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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
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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
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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
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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 own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion.
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>> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the 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
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much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the
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chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring >> ladies and gentlemen chair call the meeting to order. can you please turnoff your electronic devices as they interfere with the electronics in the room, and can you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance ]
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>> vice president, i 'd like t call roll. >> sure. >> president turman is excused. [ roll call. ] >> vice president mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is the chief of police, bill scott, and the deputy director of police accountablity, eric killshaw. >> also i'd like to welcome tonight our new police commission sergeant walter ware, who will be joining us with officer ryan jones who
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will be joining us as part of our staff. welcome, and hopefully after tonight, you will be staying with us. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the february 21st, 2018 police commission meeting. tonight we have an agenda full of a lot of reports, many, many reports. it's reporting night. so with reference to reporting night, i'd ask that the reports are high and tight and concise. all the reports have been published on-line for you to read, and commissioners, i'm sure you've all read them, so we'll go through with a brief summary in the report, and if there's any questions from the commissioners, we'll have those, and then we'll have public comment. with public comment given the length of the reports and the complexity of the reports, public comment will be limited to two minutes tonight. so with that, call item one. >> item, adoption of minutes from the meeting february 7,
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2018. >> commissioners, you have the minutes of the meeting from february 7, 2018, are there any comments or corrections to it? move to adopt the minutes. >> second. >> public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. all in favor, please say aye. >> opposed? please call item 2. >> commissioners, you also have this in your packet. it's received and file consent matter, do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> any public comment regarding our consent calendar? hearing none, public comment's now closed. item three. >> item three, reports to the commission discussion. 3-a, chief's report, report on major police department activities, weekly trends, including crime trends
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including update onnen al bill 2018, presentation of the limited english proficiency annual report 2016-2017. presentation of the department's collection and analysis of sexual assault kits, evidence and reporting of sexual -- and reporting of results to sexual assault victims report percommission resolution 16-28, adopted april 20, 2016, and presentation of the audit of electronic communication devices for bias, fourth quarter 2017; and presentation regarding strategic planning 1.0. >> thank you very much, sergeant willshaw, well come, chief. >> thank you very much, vice preside president. i had i have several reports tonight, and i'd like to start
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on crime, and i have one of our key doj reforming issues, and i'd like to update where you are and where we'll be going with that process as part of the chief's report, so i'll start off with crime and i'll just highlight the major issues with violent crimes. our homicided are at eight for the year. we were at eight this time last year, so we were actually even with last year, which is not a good thing, but it's a good thing that we're not up. we did have a homicide on friday night in the panhandle, off of stannion, and basically who were shot. he did not survive, and the suspect ended up being apprehended later that night pursuant to an officer involved shooting, and we do have a town haul coming up next week on the officer involved shooting. luckily in the exchange of gun fire, none of us were hurt, and
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we were able to take the person into custody without incident. he is in custody, the charges have been filed, homicide and attempt murder on police officers for that particular individual. in terms of our shootings for the year, we are at 20 nonfatal shootings for the year, and we were actually at 20 this time last year, so we're even with last year. our homicides with firearms, however, are down. we're at six this time last year, with firearm related homicides, we're at four this year, so 33% decrease in our gun related homicides, and our total gun violence victims, we're down 8%. we're 26 in 2017 and 24 year to date, so we're down 8% there. the next phase of the chief's report, i'd like to talk a little bit about the strategic planning process, and if i could ask deputy chief michael -- i'm sorry, mike
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tunnelly to come up. basically, this'll be just a quick overview. doj recommendation 39.1 speaks specificallily to strategic planning and the recommendation with the department invest in strategic plan to provide a road map for the future, and kind of lay the foundation of where the department would like to go strategically. late 2014, we partnered with the mayor's office for a program called city bridges where agencies partnered up with governmental agencies pro bono and assisted in whatever the initiative that the different city agencies needed to work on. in our case, we were able to partner up with price water hou waterhouse cooper who partnered with us in starting this
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strategic process. in order to get a couple of things process. number one it was to start on the process and number two, get our folks trained, our internal sfpd personnel trained on the internal strategic planning process, and i think we did accomplish both of those goals moving forward, although we have started and begun this strategic planning process, we have a lot more work to do. the consulting firm advised us that it will probably be a year to a year and a half before we are able to -- if we do it right and thoughtfully, to craft a robust strategic plan, so we're now in the midst of that process. so what we're going to show tonight is strategy 1.0, which is the beginning of this process, and basically, the department chief will go through the process. and what strategy 1.0 is basically they were able to help us craft strategic clusters by basically overlay
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with our departmental priorities, and present a statement that we wanted to present to the commission today before we move onto the more ro-2.0 which will be the strategic plan looking ahead for the next five years or more. so 1.0 is the start of our process, and deputy connelly has a short presentation. >> good evening, commissioners and acting chief scott. very briefly, first, like, ten months ago -- well, when chief came on and was hired on, part of his philosophy was to create this strategic planning process. with the help of the mayor's office in innovation, we were able to partner with price waterhouse cooper. over the last couple of months,
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we engaged in focus groups. we had a steering committee which activi consisted of senior command. we had sfpd members from all stations in representative groups, including civilians. we had internal and external focus groups, which included citizens, sompz and communi citizens, officers and members. and price waterhouse cooper initially engaged them. the senior external advisors were hand chosen by the chief to represent community, industry practices, clergy, and it was a very comprehensive senior group that weighed in very heavily on this process. some of the key documents that we reviewed were obviously the doj cri report, and in the cri
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report it mandated that we come up with a strategic plan. additionally, as a process summary report of where we were in relation to the port and where we are now, that was an evaluation of the ongoing progress, and we have an i.t. gap analysis which has been out there for the last five years. so that was some of the documents they reviewed. they also engaged outside departments, open departments, san jose, a number of outside departments to look at how their strategic planning process was formed. so with the input of information from those focus groups, they came up with this statement, and i'll read it: san francisco -- sfpd stands for safety with respect for all. we will engage in just, transparent, unbiased and responsive policing, do so in the spirit of dignity and in collaboration with the community, and may i approach tain and build trust and respect as guardian of
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constitutional and human rights. this statement is key because every word was word smithed, and every word was taken from the actual artistic bids in the focus groups, so i can't over emphasize how this becomes a central part of our strategic planning, how everything we do in the future is going to point back to this strategic statement. as you can see in your handouts, it points to different parts of that statement, and there will be a much more comprehensive report coming out in the coming months, along with an implementation plan and a timeline associated with how we're going to roll this out and how it's going to build into version 2.0. i will tell you at this point, the commissioners will be involved in 2.0. 2.0 is going to be a much more expansive program. it'll be another couple of years, and that will possibly be a five to ten year plan. these are five strategic initiative clusters that we
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arrived at at the conclusion of these ten months. obviously i don't need to read this to you because it's in your packet, but what's significant about these pillars it addresses a number of issues in emergency room its of the doj report, the chief's priorities or goals in terms of fighting crime, addressing homelessness, and a number of engaging the community, so the chief's goals, which he laid out when you first came to the department will file under these clusters, and then, we will be assigning these clusters to personnel to ensure that they are built outlet and adhered to while building to 2.0, and that is at tight as i can get this. >> thank you, that t's perfect. the strategy statement's really well done, and it does have a lot of words that we've heard throughout our collaborative reform efforts with our many community groups, and with many diverse members of the police department both civilian and sworn. this is great, great job. i really appreciate it. commissioners, any questions or
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comments? commissioner dejesus? >> so i brought this up in some of the meetings. this is a good start, but one of the things is we have all these separate groups, you know? we have recruiting, we have use of force, we have all these different ones, and what i want to know is how, in terms of the overall strategic plan, how is each group going to meet its goals? how is recruitment and promotion going to meet its goals for more women and minorities? and part of this strategic plan, too, is how are we going to change the culture within the department? i don't know if we're working towards that, you know, but it's nice to have a statement in what we're going to do, but really how we're going to affect change in each one of these departments. how are they going to incorporate into the strategic plan in terms of doing their part to do what's necessary as well as checking off the boxes, yeah, we've changed a couple of dgo's, we're alternated that.
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those are hard, cold facts, but how are we going to move this department in a way that's going to change. >> multipronged answer. i can answer that. three of the groups have a multiplan that they're going to develop that will go under this umbrella. in their strategy, they have to develop the answers that you're asking to the questions that you're asking. so while the strategic plans in those groups may not have the hard numbers associated with it. it should have the spirit and the influence to actually create it. >> do those groups have goals and timelines of when we'they' going to meet this eir objecti? this is going to be an ongoing kind of thing. we're not going to say we have five new promotional groups, and thent