offenders and following the letter of the law. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor stefani. we're pleased to have with us today, supervisor jeff shery. he was appointed by mayor lee in 2017 and serveses as the chair of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. 20 years ago, mr. sheehy helped create and defend san francisco's historic equal benefits ordinance. making san francisco the first city in the country to require employers with city contracts to offer equal benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. supervisor sheehy recently declared support for the march 20, 2018, march for our lives, where commonsense gun reform and commended the students in san francisco and around the nation for leading a movement to demand

commonsense gun laws and school safety measures. please help me welcome supervisor sheehy to the podium. [applause] >> thank you, chief. you know, the movement by the kids has really been inspiring. my 13-year-old daughter at her middle school, public middle school here, her whole class, whole school participated. to see this next generation take the baton and show leadership in fighting against the scourge of guns is something that i am so proud to see. what i also find very interesting is having watched the kids from florida, they're insistent on not being coopted by politicians like myself and insistent on driving the movement themselves for the nation. i'm particularly focussed on this day, on the issue of

domestic violence. i actually -- i think maybe worked in 850 brian. i worked for the district attorney as a victim advocate for victims of domestic violence. i think in almost no other setting is it more important to get weapons out of hands of the people who are committing the crimes. i know from my experience that the vulnerability of women, the intense fight to escape the power and control of the men who are abusing them, is a huge challenge. and the irrationality that surrounds the perpetrators, they're focus on maintaining power and control, even to the point of killing their victims, killing the family of their victims. i think -- it's one of the most dangerous situations i believe for a police officer to be put

into, walking into a domestic violence situation. it disproportionate number of murders happen to victims of domestic violence. and so i really want to salute the effort to get the funding to make sure that no guns remain in the hands of people who commit domestic violence. so again, i want to thank the city for the initiative. thank you, mayor, for your leadership and it's an honor to be here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much for your support supervisor sheehy. it is my pleasure to introduce beverly upton. she serves as the executive director of san francisco's domestic violence consortium. a 7-member panel of domestic violence organizations and their supporters committed to the effective delivery of services and public policy. ms. upton has actively supported

individuals who have lost loved ones to domestic violence. through court hearings, and regularly attending community events to promote domestic violence awareness. ms. upton and the department on the status of women have worked with the sheriff's department and the probation department to identify those crossovers to collaborate to keep the guns off our streets. please join me in welcoming beverly upton. [applause] >> thank you, chief, thank you, mayor farrell, thank you to the doctor for her leadership and everybody who is with us today. i am also proud to be one of the tri-chairs of san francisco's family violence council and it shows that domestic violence threats with weapons are up 50% in san francisco. we have to stop this trend and this will help us.

this weekend alone, the thousand oaks mall shooting started with a domestic violence incident. the parkland shooter was set off by relationship that ended poorly. who knows what got the young man that shot today at his high school in delaware? but as supervisor sheehy reminds us, domestic violence is at the kernel of so many of these dangerous mass shootings and taking entire families out around the country. this weekend in brooklyn, a family was shot and killed. four members of a family. including a one-year-old. there have been 15 calls of domestic violence to this household. the gun was still in the home. the prerp traitor of the

domestic -- perpetrator of the domestic violence took out four of his family members. we have taken every effort in all of our careers to make sure this doesn't happen here in san francisco. we need to take the guns out of the hands. perhaps getting the gun out of the house in brooklyn would have saved lives. it's a first step, we have more work to do. we hope to see other programs this year, but it is a first step. it's a first step toward safety and healing and as chief karen said, safety for all. we're hopeful. i'm hopeful and i hope you're hopeful, too. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, beverly, you are a champion for victim rights throughout the city and beyond and we appreciate your efforts.

as stated over and over today, proposition 63 is a historic and unprecedented step forward for gun safety in california. this really is an effort to bring agencies together to ensure the safety of the residents of this jurisdiction. and we are certainly proud to be part of that. since the implementation of this mandate, the adult probation department has received 63 referrals for investigation. we see all kinds of people come through the department and people referred and it is critically important to work together to identify where individuals have legal weapons and illegal weapons in their possession that are going to result in crimes and death. we support and applaud the support that we have from our board of supervisors and from our criminal justice agencies. each of them has been a viable

partner in making this proposition a reality in terms of how we can implement and save lives. the adult probation department is pleased to partner in this process of removing guns from prohibited persons. we look forward to the collaboration with the sheriff department, police department, board and mayor farrell in making this a reality. we thank you for attending today to support the city's efforts in this initiative. we certainly at the close of this press conference will be open to questions. so again, thank you so much for being here and supporting the effort. and we look forward to the collaboration in the future. thank you. [applause]

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i want to thank everyone for coming here, all of the guests

and leaders standing behind me. we're here today because history, earthquakes and climate change compel us to protect our city. history. over 100 years ago, the 'em sea wall was built and we're fortunate it lasted this long. it was built at a time when they didn't know how to stabilize against earthquake risk. we know the big one will strike us at some point over the next three decades. and if it does, we'll see flooding along the water front. climate change, despite climate deniers we know that the estimates of sea level rise by the end of the next century are 4-10 feet. we need to fix this sea wall. what is it that we're trying to protect? millions of san franciscans and

californians who live work and play along the waterfront. we see 24 million tourists visiting our waterfront every year. it's imperative we protect this asset not just for san francisco, but the bay and the california economy. i want to again thank everyone standing behind us, our mayor, board of supervisors. when i was on the board of supervisors, i served on the capital planning committee, where we planned for how we took care of tens of billions of dollars of assets. this is at the top of the list. i want to thank my current colleagues in the legislature. you'll hear from scott wiener. in 2005 they established the financing district we're talking about today. she had drafted the legislation to ensure we're investing in infrastructure as well as historic resources, the bill

we're discussing today is to ensure we're expanding what it is that we're protecting. protecting our shoreline, ensuring we can rebuild our seawall. before i introduce our next speaker, i want to say two things. we're here in part because we have to come together as a community. you'll hear about the efforts at the local level, as well as at the state level and what we had hoped was going to be the federal level, but despite what donald trump is saying what he is doing about infrastructure, none of us are holding our breath. so san francisco and california need to act. we're here for our kids. and our grandkids. none of us are going to be around when the next century turns. but my hope is my son and his friends and his next generations, will look to this day as a day that our city leaders came together to care for and steward the assets of our city. our next speaker is someone who

has children of his own, and i know that he cares very much about ensuring that the future of our city is in good hands. i'm delighted to help introduce the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, mayor mark farrell. >> thank you, david. i am proud to be here as the mayor to thank -- [horn honk] i'm going to start off. i want to thank mr. chu along with assembly member ting, but specifically on this issue here. leadership is critical to the future of our city. critical to the future of the waterfront and proud to be here at this announcement today. our waterfront is one of the most iconic parts of san francisco. it always has been. subjects of pictures, it's why tourists come here. it's one of the most beautiful

parts of our city. and holding up the waterfront is our seawall. these are the buildings, the waterfront, the restaurants, the small businesses, but it's been holding back the bay to make sure that our tunnels are not flooded. holding back the rising tides of our san francisco bay to make sure we can walk along the waterfront in front of us here today. it is critically important to san francisco today and to the future of our city. we need to do everything we can as a city to make sure it survives and it's strong for the next generation. this project is not cheap. i want to really thank elaine for her leadership and the entire port commission for making sure we plan for the future. it is a $5 billion project that we have to plan for. the voters of san francisco will

have a bond on the ballot going toward this effort. and the bill is going to play a huge start in kick starting the project. and let's be clear, this is about planning for the future of the city. it's about infrastructure and making sure our city is resilient when the next earthquake hits. the next earthquake will hit. it's not a matter of if, but when. we need to be strong and ready to respond and make sure our infrastructure is ready to protect the residents of our city. proud to be here today and really want to thank assembly member chu for his leadership. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, mr. mayor. some 13 years ago in 2005 when they established the legislation to take what were known as public trust lands owned by the state to turn them over to the authority of our port department

for stewardship, i want to thank elaine and her department and commissioners for bringing this to our attention for so many years. i championed the earthquake safety emergency response bonds. there were two of them over the years. unfortunately, we were not able to the bonds to develop or create the assets to protect what we have here at the port. with that i'd like to bring up elaine forbes to tell us where our seawall infrastructure needs to go. >> thank you so much, assembly member chiu. i'm representing the port staff. we have the port commission president by my side and she'd she's been a steward of the waterfront for 20 years. i can say this is a dream come true day for us. it's remarkable to see the leadership behind me embracing and supporting the need for investment in the waterfront. as our mayor and assembly member

has said, this seawall is a work horse for the city. so much economic activity. the infrastructure. and there is other things, too, that the seawall does that goes unseen. it's going to be the place of emergency response. we expect people to go out by water in the event of a major earthquake and goods to come in by water. this has to hold up. if we're preparing and preventing disaster, it will be five times less to do so proactively. this represents how we can get this done. how this daunting task of a $5 billion effort will come to fruition because the leaders behind me are making this a priority. we start with the $500 million phase, laying out the improvements for 20-30 years and then tackling the most critical

pieces first. i want to give a huge thank you to naomi kelly behind me. she pole vaulted this project along with mayor lee by identifying it as a critical piece of infrastructure for the city. so we're so -- port staff, port commission and i are so excited for the day, so thankful for the state leadership for assembly member chu, ting, getting us $250 million for the project, should this be approved, we'll work hard to get it done. we're so thankful the leadership has heard our call and is going to prioritize a safe and vibrant waterfront. thank you so much. >> i'm grateful to my colleagues for representing this effort. phil ting, as well as our next

speaker, senator scott wiener. >> thank you, david, i want to thank assemblyman chiu for his leadership. when we served on the board of superviso supervisors together, we all care about infrastructure, but david took so much leadership on not just the sexy infrastructure, but on the infrastructure that we depend on but the people don't see. and the seawall is certainly part of that. i want to thank the port. i am really trying to work and support the port's effort to move this bond to the ballot. i want to thank elaine, my neighbor, and the entire port staff for its leadership on this critical issue. this is really about two realities of life. sea level rise and earthquakes. and as much as we want to wish them all away, we can't. the big earthquake is going to

come and unless we take radical, radical action today around reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change, we're going to continue to see sea level rise. and sadly because of the disaster known as washington d.c., there is no bold action happeni happeni federally to address climate change, and we're doing what we can but this is a national problem we have to resolve. we're going to continue to see significant sea level rise. our downtown is so at risk of inundation, we're doing what we can to reduce carbon emissions. doing what we income the bay area. just a year ago we passed a tax to start restoring the wetlands destroyed in the bay area 150 years ago, because that will help us to mitigate sea level

rise. but with everything we're doing, we have to have the seawall. it has to be intact, has to be able to with stand an earthquake and be able to protect us from the bay. we love the bay, but the bay is going to cause us problems when it floods the muni subway tunnel and downtown areas. we need to get this bill passed. this is just one step. we need the bond. we need this bill and a lot more work to fund this project. i look forward to collaborating to get it done. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, senator wiener for reminding us we're putting the sexy back into infrastructure. i want to thank everyone for coming together. i want to invite the next speaker, someone who has been a champion for infrastructure in our city, supervisor london

breed. >> thank you, everyone for being here today. you know, it's easy to talk to residents of san francisco about the need for more housing. the need to address challenges with public safety and homelessness and things we can see. what is harder is trying to help people to understand the significance of the things that we can't see. the infrastructure needs that hold our city together. we know the consequences when we don't do what is necessary to protect our infrastructure. we only look at new orleans and what happened with the levies and how that devastated that particular city. and so we in san francisco, we must be proactive, we must take these kind of bold moves and creative solutions. i want to thank assembly member david chiu for finding a very creative way to help us pay for it. i want to thank the voters in advance, because this fall,

we're going to have a ballot measure that is going to help with $350 million to help in this effort. we know that there is so much work to do in san francisco. and as the president of the board who now serves on the unknown capital planning committee, the needs of our infrastructure are at the top of my list on a regular basis. i want to thank not only noemie kelly, but also elaine forbes. she would reach out and say, supervisor, i want to meet with you about the seawall, i say, wait a minute, i have to work with this challenge. she always brings it back to how important it is not just to protect my district, but to protect the entire city. her leadership along with port commissioner president kimberley

brandon that been outstanding. they've been in sacramento, in d.c., they've been all over the place trying to put together the money for this particular seawall and i know with their leadership and the work of all the policy behind me, we're going to get this done for the people of san francisco. thank you so much. >> thank you, president breed. our final speaker is someone who represents the district we're currently in who knows that it is her residence and businesses that could be flooded if we do not invest in the infrastructure. please join me in welcoming supervisor kim. >> thank you, assembly member chiu. as someone who represented your sister district when we both served on the board of supervisors, we understand the importance of strengthening our seawall, shield that prerkts our residents and workers and many of the tourist attractions up and down the waterfront. mayor mark farrell, myself,

supervisor cohen and peskin represent the districts that are along the boundary lines of the seawall lot that we're here about. so much of what we love about our city is just along the waterfront, our housing, offices, jobs, transportation, the giants who i see in the audience today. it is important to make prudent investments today to strengthen the seawall shield and strengthen the unbreakable bond between the city of san francisco and the waterfront we love so much. i want to thank our san francisco delegation in sacramento, for making sure we're prioritizing the very infrastructure that will keep the city beautiful and running, thank you very much. [applause] >> that concludes today's press conference. again, appreciate everyone coming together around a plan to protect the future of our city

and our seawall. any final questions? we will end the press conference and open it up to folks to ask individual questions. thank you very much.

>> supervisor tang: good mornin morning -- >> supervisor kim: i want to acknowledge and thank our county clerk, john care ol, and thank the staff at sfgov tv for making sure that our meetings are available on-line and to the public. mr. clerk, do you have any

statements? >> clerk: items acted upon today will appear on the april 3rd, 2018 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much, mr. clerk. can we take a motion to excuse supervisor peskin? and we have a motion to excuse supervisor peskin. we can do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you please call the first item. >> clerk: item number one is a resolution approving an historical property contract between patrick mooney and steven g. tom, the owners of 60 to 62 mooney street, a. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. this is, i think the third time we are now hearing this item, but supervisor sheehy did request that we bring this back to gao, and i know that we have sharon johnson from supervisor sheehy's office as well as tim frye from the historic

preservation to present on this item, and my understanding is the owners, steven mooney and patrick tom is here as well, and i also want to thank supervisor malia cohen and supervisor aaron peskin. mr. frye? >> thank you, supervisors. tim frye, planning department staff. 6062 carpal medicalita street is a contributor to the duboce landmark district, and it was ordered and prioritized as part of the landmark district as part of the octavia plan. it is a concentration of homes built by the master builder fernando nelson in the unique setting of duboce park. at its october 4th hearing, the commission unanimously approved the maintenance plan for said property with an amendment to remove the scope of work to install a garage.

since then, the project sponsor has been amenable to making that exclusion, and at this committee's meeting on november 21st, 2017 they requested some over ja overall information on the move in program. we did forward that information and learned from the rent board there is an agreement between the former tenants and the current property owners that the former tenant were not a protected class, and the owners can speak more to that when they present, the department believes to date there is no change to bring this back to the historic preservation commission or to change our positive recommendation for support at this committee. so i'm available should you have any questions, and the project sponsor is here, and i believe would like to say a few words, as well. >> supervisor kim: quick question. you said that the property

owners agreed to the exclusion. the exclusion of the property garage? >> to include it as the scope of work in their mills act contract. >> supervisor kim: i got it. and just to clarify, is 6062 two units exactly? >> yes. >> supervisor kim: all right. so seeing no further comments from staff, we are going to open up for public comment on this item, and i do have both steve tom and patrick mooney, the property owners, so please come up. >> good morning. >> supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. we first wanted to apologize for not attending the november 1st meeting. we did not get any notice of the meeting, so we were not able to attend, but we would be happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> supervisor kim: yes, thank you so much. so at the november 1st meeting, members of the committee had questions about a possible eviction on the site and recording with the rent board and staff, at that time did not have answers to the questions, so we continued this item because we just want to

make sure that our landlords are acting accordingly to the law, and so i just wanted to confirm, as mr. frye said, that this is a two unit building, and i have a letter from one of your tenants that said that they lived in the unit before you bought the residence and continue to live there. i. >> it's our primary residence. >> supervisor kim: oh, it's your primary residence, and it's a buyout are the tenants. >> peradvice of our counsel at that point -- we're new to this. we want today have somebody guide us through it, and he was guiding us through. and at that point, the existing tenant was not being cooperative, so we thought, perthe lot we filed a notice with the rent board, perthat,

we were able to come to an agreement of waivers on both sides of any obligations and to close the lease, so we were able to have that executed, i believe, in february 2018. >> we also wanted to make sure that we did everything perfectly -- >> supervisor kim: could you move up to the mic. >> we also wanted to make sure that we did everything correct and we didn't take any missteps so there could not be any allegations of improprieties that this were hidden agendas or anything else there. >> supervisor kim: no. no. thank you very much. this actually answers my questions, and i don't see any questions from the committee. i apologize. you didn't get a notice from sharon ferguson about the november 1st meeting? >> not until about a day and a half before the meeting. >> supervisor kim: okay. i will bring that to their attention. >> we actually did resolve that. >> supervisor kim: okay. i'd just like to say thank you

for coming to answer our questions. >> i'd squlust like to say this is our home. as you can see by the letters that -- of support we've gotten from our neighbors, we've gotten a home that was -- it was very badly neglected, and we've spent a lot of time working with our neighbors and experts to essentially renovate it to something we would be proud of. i'm a fourth generation san francisco, and this is essentially my legacy that i'm going to leave for the city, and you know, i'm very proud of it. you know, our tenants basically, we're very proud to have them be part of it, also. you know, that when we bought the building, they were a family of three, and now we're very proud that they essentially have added one more member to their family. >> supervisor kim: thank you

so much. thank you so much, mr. tom and mr. mooney, and we appreciate all of your work. we do support our homeowners; we just want to make sure that there weren't any unnecessary or unlawful evictions on your site, but i'm satisfied with the answers that you brought. you know, the mills act, just for members of the public is -- can be a significant discount on your property taxes and in exchange for up keeping a historical property. we want to make sure that when we do that, that we have landlords that are complying with our existing laws, so i just want to thank you so much for being there. all right. so is there anymore public comment on this item? >> good morning, supervisors. sharon johnson from supervisor sheehy's office, and i'm just here to support mr. money and mr. tom's application, and the supervisor really wants to sponsor this. we find them very caring and very loving owners and tenants and support their application. thank you. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much miss johnson.

soying no further public comment, public comment on item number one is closed. >> thank you. i just also wanted to mention to staff that you know when these applications are brought to us, you know how very sensitive the board of supervisors is about evictions in general, and so it would be preferred that we clarify that information and provide it in a documentation before we even mention it because i think that, you know, unfortunately by even mentioning it, it set off an alarm with this particular property when, in fact, that wasn't the case. and so now that that has been settled, i'm comfortable with moving this item forward with positive recommendation to the full board of supervisors, and i just want to make sure that in the future, if we could add that as an additional responsibility on your plate to address those kinds of issues in advance with the appropriate documentation, it will help us

become more efficient in moving forward with this process. >> supervisor kim: agreed. so i think we have a motion to move this item forward with positive recommendation to the full board, and we can do that without opposition. thank you very much. i am going to skip over tight number two, which is a staff report on the budget legislative analyst's performance and move onto item number three because we have quite a number of individuals here to speak at public comment. i know folks are time limited, so i do want to get to that item as quickly as possible, so mr. clerk, can you please call item number three. >> clerk: item number three is a success or item memorandum of understanding between the city of san francisco and the san francisco police officer's association. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much mr. clerk, and the author or sponsor of the hearing, supervisor malia cohen is here today. supervisor cohen, i want to thank you, and hand it over to

you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. i'm so excited and thank you. the reason why i called this hearing today is because it's the right and the authority of the san francisco board of supervisors to provide consultation and input to the mayor and to the department of human resources on the successor mou negotiation between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police officer's association. and for the first time in over ten years, we are negotiating the terms of this mou. it is appropriate that the board exercise its role in bargaining as a branch consider consider bargaining as a branch of the employer, meaning that as an extension of the mayor's office, particularly given the sequence of acting an appointed mayors over the last 3.5 months, excuse me, this is an important conversation that we're having on behalf of the people of the city and county of san francisco, and i just want to ensure that we're doing

a good job of making clear the scope of what is legally discloseable, what exactly is being negotiated, and whether those items reflect the public's desire and sentiment. while it is the mayor's job to consult the board of supervisors through dhr, that's the department of human resources before any final agreement is negotiated, it is the board's job, this body, to approve the mou submission. so before -- before i'm comfortable on approving anything, i thought it was appropriate to have a hearing. i want to publicly express a few concerns that i have already about specific -- a few specific issues that i will detail shortly. i also want to identify the changes that i'd like to request publicly, that the mayor and dhr press in -- press for in their final award. first, since his appointment, the mayor has not shared anything with the board to date

with regard to contract negotiations. second, i am concerned that up until very recently, one of the mayor's current senior advisors, nate ballard, was also a consultant to the boa, third, beyond this perceived conflict, this mayor's recent endor endorsement of the tazer ballot initiative made him quite frankly the only elected official to take such position. now this position not only undermined our own sitting police chief, the police commission, and many other elected officials, let alone concerned citizens and community members, including myself. we are all vehemently opposed to proposition h, as it is shown that the mayor is opposed to show that he is on once again the wrong side of the

issue. so ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be a fiery conversation. i hope you're in for a good time, and going to be with us for the long haul because this is an important conversation that we need to have publicly to ensure that there is transparency and sunshine on an issue that has an impact on people's every day life's particularly people of color that are adversely affected by law enforcement. thank you. but i have to remind you there is no applause in the chambers. if you like what you hear, just snap your fingers, but no thumbs. all right. we are here today because we want to be sure that the mou done on behalf of the people of san francisco is done with effective unbiased leadership. the bottom line is we must make every possible effort to improve our public safety and the efficiency of our he

esteemed police department. mou negotiations may impact safety and efficiency, the city should seek to accomplish those goals through bargaining. it's important for me to make clear that this is not intended to be an antagonistic exchange or statement of position. i am making statements of historical fact, so to you members of the public -- i mean, of the press, make sure you report it right. despite everything, we believe in fair wages and benefits for officers, particularly those on the operations side. every day, human beings who have taken the oath 20 protect and serve and put on the uniform ask ask go o-- and go out in the world and protect tus on our behalf, they make split second decisions. i don't want to and i'm not trying to undermine their work.

we want to select the best candidates for our police force. we want those who believe in the value of good community policing. we believe in approximate our police chief and acknowledge that he needs flexibility to do that. sfpd cannot provide necessary -- this is all bad. i was on a roll. all right. we want elegant, thoughtful public safety, and we do not want the ham handed leadership style of mr. donald trump. not in this city, not in this town, so we are in the midst of a national conversation about police reform and police safety, and i think it would be negligent for us to ignore that reality as we move through negotiations. with that, i'd like to begin my questions. madam chair, may i begin questions or may i -- >> supervisor kim: no, no. you may ask since there are no further comments from committee members. >> supervisor cohen: to be fair, i want to acknowledge we

have a stack full of public comment cards, and we will get through each and every public comment. just a reminder, everyone will have two minutes. you'll have a soft chime, indicating 30 seconds remaining on your two minute allotment of time. we're going to hear from the department of human resources, the county attorney, the leadership of the police officer's association who respectfully denied an opportunity to come to this body. now that said, could the representative from dhr come on down. come on down and introduce yourself to us. >> am. >> supervisor cohen: good to see you. >> my name is carol izen. i'm with the department of human resources. i have prepared some remarks. >> supervisor cohen: and we would be happy to hear them. >> and i'm happy to deliver

them. i just want to start by letting the audience know and you know that the department of relations division and department of human resources is very receptive and interested to hear and listen to the concerns and complaints and incorporate that into our process and into our practice and i'm going to talk a little bit about that after i create some context. i'm here with chief scott, as you say. we've been actively working together as two agencies, the department of human resources and the police department to do everything we can to ensure a fair and decent labor agreement between the city and the police officers association. but i just want to provide a little context for the committee and for the members of the audience. the setting of wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment for p.o.a. represented employees is subject to charter section 88.590. this charter section

constitutes san francisco's local agency reasonable rules for labor associatinegotiation are mandated under california law, the myers millions background act. the rules have been in police since 1 # 91. they require the city and department meet in good faith. they require january 20th of any year that we are renegotiating the contract, that we name a tripartite panel who may be called on in the event the parties cannot reach agreement. the same section requires that we submit to the board by may 15th even a negotiated agreement or in the event an agreement cannot be reached the awhere the of the arbitration panel, and i can assure you committee members that deadline will be met and we will be back here with one of those two things before the deadline.

as you stated, supervisor cohen, the labor agreement between the p.o.a. and the city has not been fully renegotiated since 2007. it has been amended on five occasions, and anybody who wants to go to our -- the dhr's website and look at the contract, it's there for public viewing. you'll see that it says the agreement between the p.o.a. and the city amendment number five. it's been amended five times, mostly for economics, in some instances to add money to the contract, and in other instances and notably in 2011 and 2012, to take money away from the contract when the city was in financial distress. so this is our first full round since 2007. it is being led by our very able employer relations manager, luanna preston who has many years in labor relations working with unions and public agencies. she could not be with us today

so i am representing the whole team. we have been meeting with the p.o.a. and with the union's negotiating committee on a regular basis since october. the mediation and arbitration dates have been scheduled in the event that they are need and had will continue through the month of april and early may. as you state correctly, we do report to and take direction from the mayor. we've had very unusual circumstances in this round of negotiations where we've reported to three mayors, and i will say that because of the nature of labor relations and the generally stablizing influence that this charter section provides, those directions have not very substantially changed. there have been various 'em if a cis a -- emphasises and we've tried to meet those under the approach. we're happy to come back

whenever you would like us to come back. we also work closely with city departments in labor negotiations. those departments typically serve on the city's negotiating committees. in this instance, it is one city department that is impacted, the police department, and we work very closely with the executive leadership team in that department to work our way through the various issues that are in the contract. we do hope and our intention is to reach a negotiationed agreement and present this to the board of supervisors for consideration. but if we do not achieve that, and we deadlock and we cannot reach agreement, then the matter is submitted to a tripart item arbitration panel, and the factors that that panel must consider are enumerated in the charter and i just want to make sure everybody's aware of what they are. they're very common. they can essentially be

describeds described as the conditions dealing with out in the community versus what the department can pay for awards. the amount paid for goods and services, the wages paid to employees performing services compared to other departments performing similar services, wages hours and terms of employment of employees in the city and county of san francisco. as you know we have other active labor contracts that have been established for the coming fiscal year. and finally, the financial condition of the city and county of san francisco and its ability to meet the cost of the decision of the award. one thing of note, and i'll end with this. the charter does exempt certain key aspects of employment

conditions from the interest arbitration provisions in the charter. it doesn't mean we don't have to meet and confer about them, it just means if we deadlock, the arbitration panel has no jurisdiction to rule on them. these are key matters between the city and its police union. number one, disciplinary procedures are not subject to this proceeding. two, the procedures and practices relating to the processes and disposition of complaints handled by the department of police accountability. crowd control policies and compliance with antidiscrimination laws. there are others. these are the ones that i'm calling out. and finally, the matters not specifically in the jurisdiction of the police commission generally are subject to interest arbitration provisions. as i said earlier, we are aware of the concerns of the no justice, no deal coalition, the human resources director, miss callahan recently met with representatives from the

coalition to address the concerns and describe the restrictions that we operate under labor negotiations, but we're sensitive and concerned and we're here to listen to you, and we thank you the opportunity to speak to you. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> thank you for coming here. sorry. you're not done. >> i was hoping to come back. >> supervisor kim has some questions. >> supervisor kim: i just have some questions. if you could talk about the package that the p.o.a. is actively negotiating for for police officers. >> i really -- you know, these -- they're in flux. where we started is not where we are, and what will happen and what always happens -- >> supervisor kim: i understand it's a negotiation, but i'm asking what is the value of the package that the p.o.a. is currently negotiating on behalf of the officers in terms of the budgetary

allocations that we afford and the mayor would be considering to add to our general fund budget? >> i think that would probably prejudice the negotiations for me to announce that number right now, and i'm not sure that the number that it was walking into this meeting is the same number it will be when i walk out of this meeting. it's a number that is constantly in flux. >> supervisor kim: that, i understand. there are numbers that are being reported in the press regardless of what you state here today. is there a number that you're comfortable -- >> we don't sunshine -- we don't sunshine the initial proposals of either side. we've explained them in closed session to the board, and we're hoopy to come back and tell you the current state of affairs in terms of any numbers or issues that the state is seeking at this point. >> supervisor kim: how is it that the press has put out numbers? >> i cannot answer that. it has not come from our negotiating committee. we've -- we've been at this, between myself, mis-preston and

mis-callaha miss callahan, we probably have a solid 100 years in labor negotiations, and discussing with the press is not something that any of us would do. >> supervisor kim: thank you. impressive to see that there's 100 years between you ladies, and i know you'll get it done. >> supervisor cohen: i just want to follow up on what supervisor kim was talking about. in a letter from the p.o.a. that they sent to us yesterday, they said that san francisco police officers are below market in total compensation. would you agree with that statement or would you not agreement with that statement? >> i don't want to comment on the specific question of whether above or below. i will just say this: that policing, in terms of recruitment and retention of professional police is a constant struggle for this agency and for the other large

policing agencies around the state of california. it -- one of our key goals in coming out of negotiations is to ensure that the department has the tools available to them to retain a highly professional workforce and that includes competitive wages. >> supervisor cohen: okay. well, where does sf fall in the region, fall in the region for total compensation. maybe you can take it like the west coast versus the east coat or across the entire country. we're just trying to get a feel of where we're standing. >> well, surveying is an art, not a science. and one of the things if we do end up in an arbitration will be a point of contention is what that survey universe is. generally speaking, we are not -- certainly not the top pai payers in the bay area, but we are nowhere near the bottom. we're able to recruit with the salaries that we pay, but these things can change, and we're -- you know, policing has become a more difficult profession to

recruit to, and so we need to make sure we keep our police in the labor market. we are a player in the labor market because we employ so many police officers, so this is a concern, but i would say we're certainly in the top third of police officers in the bay area. >> supervisor cohen: very good. do you know which department employs the highest paid police officers in the bay area? >> i believe it might be santa clara, from what i remember, the data that we looked at. so there are really two key factors that we look at. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> one is the wage itself, and the other is total compensation. santa clara's a very high payer for base wage, but it varies across all the agencies how many members of these agencies contribute to their pension, their medical, what the medical is, what the other related benefits are for special