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some of the other features would be beneficial to timma as clipper 2 is implemented and one is account base which will help us to do accumulator if we want it for timma. a smart foen application or -- a smartphone application or web portal to manage to see how people are traveling and using this pass. and if we are really meeting the needs of the pass holder. also be able to integrate with third party such as bike share, car pool, so people can have one seamless transit experience. and open payment will help with the fare integration so you can pay your payment or fare at one platform, not in different pieces. again, a kind of seamless experience of using transit modes. next step is we are preparing to
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share some of the findings in spring and summer outreach and starting a multimodal integration concept as part of this study to look at some benefits for timma to integrate with a third integration and what it means to have the seamless experience. and we will release the report in summer or fall of 2018. thank you so much. questions? >> i actually have a question that is not directly related to your presentation. but it is sort of related. what is the projected maximum population that's going to be residing in on treasure island eventually? we are expected to have 8,000
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unit uni units with the resident population. >> and with the bart and potential second tube, but what the second tube, is there any consideration to maybe have a stop at treasure island? >> we appreciate the question. it is really early to say yes or no or preclude any option, but so far no one has suggested or highlighted that level of detail in the planning. it is very early, but i would say it is possible, but nobody is focused up that level. >> i guess my argument is if you want to have 20,000 people there, that is probably more people than some of the stops that we already have for part. >> fair point, thanks.
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>> all right. any other questions or comments? we will open for public comment. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. i have been getting a ton of feedback on the mobility management program and the access pass program and there continues to be a lot of concerns for existing residents in particular the low income and are considered market rate and frankly don't make market rate wages. because this program is to many years away from the current date, i imagine that is why the public is not really coming out yet. but just as we continue to move forward, i think that we should really have some income or means programming with the market rate residents as well because market rate covers such a huge range of
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salaries. we'll see where we are as a city in a number of years, but i think that residents continue to question and bring concerns to our office about what the future of the program is. but we have a lot of time. that being said, i think it's a very interesting program that we are putting together and really looking at innovating on how we pair transit and housing development together. and a little bit of news work to do to not overburden working class families as well. thank you very much for that. at this time, mr. clerk, can you call item six and seven. >> item six, introduction of new items, information item. item seven is public comment. >> is there introduction of any new items by commissioners? okay.
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item seven and we will open up public comment for item six and seven as well. >> good morning, commissioner yee. the one kindness and one should take the right path of patriotism, wisdom, and great courage upon your missions. on behalf of the people apart from pains and difficulties of world tragedies, one must seek solutions for offering open help for our people. this must be the true way of economic development and lick prosperity of the the current good for our society to fight for justice and areas of injustice and inquality. one must work hard for the unity of the nation to show patriotism and righteousness. and even undergoing big challenges and difficulties, one should march forward along the
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path of your missions. one should tolerate one's mighty spirit for working on the common good and well being for our people. we have the hard work to do and to seek further world peace for our nations. thank you. >> thank you so much. is there any other public comment on six or seven? seeing none, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> no other items. >> meeting is adjourned. you.
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>> today, i wanted to kickoff and welcome you to the first every family well forum (clapping.) >> compromising is carmen chu currently which this of the family forum we put this event dough went to a lot of community meetings and we're he and she about families worries and troubles aaron planning for the future and ahsha safai for buying a home and college and retirement and for many of the seniors how to passing on their prompts to their kids.
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>> the family forum benefits throughout san francisco i'm supervisor norman yee representing district 7 people are homeowners fritter buyers and they don't thinks the planning. >> what you'll notice if you walk around today's activities multiple languages transactions available for people in the seminars and 101 counseling and the today, we not only have vendors that have come here the seminars where people are lining about important topics was of most unique pieces we have one-on-one free counseling for people so important that people understand about taxes and how you transfer your assets to our next generation because we do it wrong as you may know to lose much money. >> we did if grassroots on the
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radio and worked with all nonprofit and partners to get the word out we personally went to community meeting to tell people about this event we'll have a whole line of people that will wait to ask skews i'm thinking about passing on my property or so glad i can speak but i cannot speak english well we created in first every family forum and hope that will bring a lot of people good information to plan for their future three hundred people signed up for 101 counterand we so hope that is a model for success for the future and hope to do more if we learn from this one to be better
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>> they tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victim's vehicle, i would say from 10-15 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and they're gone. yeah, we get a lot of break-ins in the area. we try to -- >> i just want to say goodbye. thank you. >> sometimes that's all it takes. >> i never leave anything in my car. >> we let them know there's been a lot of vehicle break-ins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. >> this is just warning about vehicle break-ins. take a look at it. >> if we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps.
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>> a please rise for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. commissioner, i'll be taking the roll call. president julius truman. >> he is en route. he will be a little late.
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>> vice president thomas mazucco. >> present. >> a commissioner dr. joe marshall. >> present. >> commissioner petra day jesus. >> present. >> commissioner sonya molara. >> present. >> commissioner robert hirsch. >> present. >> thank you. it appears we have a quorum. >> thank you very much, sergeant ware. ladies and gentlemen, some bookkeeping before we move into tonight's meeting. agenda item line 4 -- strike that. make line 9b is taken off calendar with reference to line 3a under the chief's report, the last presentation of the first quarter 2018 firearm discharge review board findings, that is also off calendar. that is not ready for this evening. with reference to line 4, we'll have to separate the two motions
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with reference to the patrol special and also for the record, i am recused from those matters as i am a client of the patrol special. with reference to public comment, we have a very long and complex agenda this evening. a lot of it is in closed session dealing with litigation and other related matters that are personnel records that are protected. so in light of that, we're going to limit public comment tonight to two minutes. so that we can get into our closed session maters and deal with those issues. without further ado, please call line item number 1. >> commissioners, thank you. i would like to offer my apologies and welcome chief scott. and also d.p.a. director paul henderson. >> no need to apologize, sergeant ware. this is the first meeting you are running, so you're doing a great job. >> thank you. line one, discussion and possible action to support the youth commission's resolution urging the mayor and board of supervisors to reduce the imprisonment of transitional age youth, implement alternatives to incarceration for transitional
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aged youth, reject any funding for major renovation, reopening, or construction of jail facilities, and instead invest in programming supporting at-risk transitional aged youth and positive youth development. discussion and possible action. i would like to announce to that the youth commission's power point and letters from the city administrator and human rights commission will be available tomorrow, thursday, online, as it was not made available to the commission prior to the start of the meeting. hard copies will be available at the commission office. >> question for the city attorney, in light of that, is this still remain an action item? >> yes. >> commissioners, yes, you may have action on the resolution itself. it's just alerting the public that there are two pieces of items not available to the commission office prior to today, and they're being distributed tomorrow.
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>> great. thank you very much, deputy city attorney herrera. i'm going to turn this over to commissioner da jesus who has been walking us through the process. it's all yours, commissioner. >> all right. i believe this is a resolution that the commission has been working on, so i'm going to hand it to you and explain to the fellow commissioner rs and the public what this is about. >> so we have a presentation ready for you as well to discuss what our resolution is about. so my name is -- >> can you put the microphone up a little better? there you go. >> i am bob vigil, and i am here to present to you on behalf of the youth commission, specifically the justice and employment committee. >> a my name is kylie huffman and i am the director of the youth commission here in the capacity of running the power point and supporting our commissioner. thanks for having us. >> good evening. welcome. >> all right. so again, thank you for having
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me here. what is the youth commission? youth commission was made in 1996 for the san francisco voters and basically a body of 12-23 year olds who are with 11 appointed by supervisors and seven appointed by the mayor's office. some of the things that we have worked on with our previous successes were the free muni for youths, voter 16. why are we here? the justice and employment committee is sponsoring the resolution to address alternatives to incarceration for tran editional age youth -- transitional age youth, t.a.y. for short. we would like the police commission to support us in our endeavors. some background context, this is subsequently unfit and will have to be closed. last december it was announced that employees would be moving out of the hall of justice to accelerate the timeline in our
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mind for the closure of 850 bryant. the youth commission and board of supervisors have taken stances against further investment in the county jail systems. if we reduce the number of people in jail, we can avoid capital expenditures to retrofit slash rebuild additional jails. some key facts, young people are overrepresented in our county jail system by a factor of three. minority communities are overremitted as well, especially the african-american community by a factor of 10. 85% of people incarcerated in the county jail system are on pretrial and have been denied or cannot afford bail. efforts to enact similar policies in the juvenile system have been successful with a 37% reduction in the daily average incarcerated juvenile population between 2011-2015. the t.a.y. collaborative court which has had a modest success
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rate has had to close the doors to applicants three times due to lack of capacity. the district attorney's office has informed us even with the investment to open a second calendar day, that it is expected to reach capacity almost immediately. what is the solution? increased funding for programs like the t.a.y. collaborative court, reform the bell schedule and continuing ability to pay efforts. and increase in housing and behavioral health services for transitional aged youth. advocate to the district attorney to restructure how certain nonviolent felonies are charged, specifically snatch and grab phone thefts. these are offenses which earn strike, potentially impacting young people for the rest of their lives. prioritize the development of low income supportive housing for justice involved young people. these are some of the nationwide responses. these issues are being debated
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and other municipalities throughout the country. june 16, the state of vermont raged the age of criminal responsibility to 21. february 2017 the state of connecticut introduced similar legislation. january 2017 the state of new jersey completely eliminates its system resulting in a 20% reduction in the incarcerated population. so our goals. one of our goals is to reduce t.a.y. incarceration and fully support at-risk transition age youth who come in contact with the system. as civic leader, we firmly believe it is our duty to advocate on behalf of young people of san francisco. as young people who will be paying taxes in the city for the foreseeable future, we don't want our tax money going towards servicing debt for further investments in our justice system. this system is broken and it is important we do more than just say it. so these are some of the key
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stake holders and correspondents and community co-sponsors including center for juvenile and criminal justice and project what. and matters of support include larken street youth services and office of transgender initiatives and civic institution and the human rights and commission of status of women voted unanimously to support our resolution. we are awaiting the next meeting to request an action item from them as well. current status, we have met with professor fewer who has supported our request for a budget and legislate i have analysis report. we met with the staff a couple of weeks ago and eagerly await their report. we have published our first draft of our budget and policy priorities. and that will incorporate our funding requests for the budgeting cycle. engaging young people and community stakeholders to create a coalition behind our movement.
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again, i want to say thank you for your time. it was an honor to be able to be here to present to you on behalf of the youth commission. we ask that you take a vote to draft a letter of endorsement in support of our legislation. if you have any further questions, please hesitate to ask. if we don't have the answers to the questions now, we will email the answers once we get them. thank you. >> just to cap that, i mean, one of the things when i saw this was important, 18 to 25 year old adults represent 25% of the county jail, and they have the highest number of bed days in the county jail. and important, african-americans remitted over 5 # a% of the -- over 55% of the incarcerated population and only 5.3% of the overall population of san francisco. i want to commend the youth commission for really looking into it. the way i see sit there is four points that you're looking at is to reduce the imprisonment of
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transitional age youth, to implement alternatives to incarceration for transitional age youth, to reject funding for major renovation of jail facilities, and instead invest inme menmen menment in programmg at-risk youth. and looking into this further, they talked about youth and the juvenile justice system being labelled and coming out labelled and moving right into the criminal justice system. and they have the least resources to get out. and one of the alternatives is a community court, but that's full at its capacity and it can't take anymore. we're looking for other avenues for diversion, for community courts, more funding for that, and also asking what i think is great is for behavioral health sciences and more counseling. what i find interesting is the warrant. and just missed court and don't have warrants and asking for same-day warrant service to go in and just get it on calendar which is a great idea because usually you have to lock
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yourself up for three or four days before you get in front of a court. these are great ideas, and i think we should support or we should pass this resolution and ask the board of supervisors to explore all of these things that you have -- that the commissioner has asked for, especially in light of also have the foresight to put in to request a budget and legislative report on financial and incarceration impacts on the strategies. i think that is really comprehensive. well thought out. and i think it would really be in our interest to advise the board of supervisors to follow through on this. i want to commend you for all the hard work. >> any questions? >> commissioner? >> thank you. for me, it is just a question related to this, and i was wondering if anybody in the commission -- not the commission taking up a position, but if anybody is following sb10 which
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would change the bail system in california. and would apply bail on the basis of the case itself. the judges will have the jurisdiction over determining whether the person is dangerous to the public. and so i was wondering if anybody is looking into that because that would also help this particular issue. >> i'm not 100% sure, but i can definitely look into it. >> i can chip in here. the commission on status of women also asked a similar question regarding what is happening statewide and out of san francisco. our response to that is that we can look into stuff like that, but the youth commission's charter duties are specifically around what is happening in san francisco. >> i understand that. i think you could be educated so that the public would know that it is something that would definitely affect the number of people in jails.
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>> absolutely. so we can also look into that as well. if there is any recommendations or gaps that we're missing, we are also coming to the bodies to get as much information as we possibly can. and it was the commissioner on the status of women that said, hey, we notice you don't have anything on here regarding gender. how does gender play into young people in the jail system? and so we're including that also into our b.l.a. report. thank you for that. >> thank you. thank you very much for coming. one more question? dr. marshall, go ahead? >> just curious, how long have you been working on this? you can't remember. must be a long time. >> late last year. >> and in all honesty, he is a first-year commissioner and i am new to the director position, although i was staff for a year and a half. and this was not my priority area, so ls a learning as we go with our commissioners. and as far as i know, we have been pushing this every single
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year, and this is the year that i think we're finally gaining some traction. >> one of my kids is on the youth commission, so if i wouldn't go for it, he wouldn't talk to me. >> okay. he mentioned your name in a meeting. >> voted for him, right. >> okay. >> and thank you very much. there is a change that is happening. it is because of the youth and it is exciting for us older people to see what the youth movement has done. i am speaking more myself, yes. and it is great to see what you are doing, and on this issue, i think it is incredible. obviously agree with it. and i would like to participate a little bit in the bail issue. i have been following that debate a little bit. and having practiced law as a prosecutor in the state system where there is the cash bail and practicing law in the federal system where it is a different bail structure, not bail bonds people, but based upon criminal history. based upon failures to appear, based upon threat assessment, so
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there are some familiarity and the federal system a much, much better system because it doesn't concern themselves with affordability or the ability to pay, but the history of that person offending. and also if you look at some. o'er -- why do we have these demographics that are what you are talking about? there are other causes -- education, the school system, the school district, and i am sure you read that article about in "the chronicle" that a young man in the last year of mission high school and got all f's. that's a problem. i look forward to working with you on this. if you need any assistance especially on the bail issue, and i think it is great. it is refreshing. thank you. >> f i have one commission. >> a commissioner dejesus. >> a since you are asking for suggestions, also, if the youth, transitional age youth get six months or a year in the county jail r you -- are you also looking into seeing whether young adults have programs that they can come out the and get re-established with? assuming they come out of the
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system and they don't have family in the area. in terms of getting a place to stay, getting employment, or going back to school. >> we have had conversations with presenters around programs like coming out of jail system, and we have definitely touched those conversations. >> thank you. >> commissioner, before you the resolution number 1718, so what i will do is take a motion. if there is a second, we will open it up to public comment. >> an i would like to make a motion to accept the resolution in support of the youth justice reform asking the board of supervisors -- >> second that. >> any public comment with reference to this resolution number 1718? a al06? you can move aside a little bit. public comment. two minutes. >> the clock is running. >> okay. this is directed to the students and the youth. your choice be to deal with symptoms at the core and yet you have the power to shut down all war. we are all under spiritual law
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whether we under them or not. same is true for law enforcement. and since 1970, neither students nor labor haveme embraced the power of a boycotter o complete economic system shutdown of a strike. the system is broke as many have spoken and the youth and student strike of school and labor slipped through the slaughter house industry that lays down the saber and after a 40-day shi shutdown, law enforcement works for you. first time ever as the corrupted system over law enforcement you truly will sever. truth be greater than facts. whether they be actual or fabricated. almighty creator sees all. so now it be for all to see, almighty to bless accordingly. the likes of dianne feinstein, the clintons and trump with far more than just a slap on the rump. commanded as well the weld filly's cracked liberty bell and now and ever more forcefully, i truly compel law enforcement to be uniting with california vets
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under the u.s. constitution to arrest these high up persons as part of the resolution -- >> can we stick to the item on the agenda? >> it is. >> no, it's not. >> becoming the america militia escorting out or unwelcoming fema and ice. the hour of mercy is over and nothing less will suffice. and so for the record, i said this in pennsylvania just the other day that ed rendell ordered the murder of philly officer faulkner -- >> excuse me, sir. come back under general -- >> you are going to wind around. you don't know what i am going to say. >> nowhere near reality. >> i am both the witness and the son of the son of the one. and dianne feinstein, a.k.a. in revelation, be the woman whose drunk on her power, so to the youth i said, rose bud, rose bud, come now to flower. i am, peter. i say it. it is done. >> any further public comment regarding this item? >> that wasn't very nice to interrupt me. >> hearing that, public comment
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is now closed. next line item. >> please come forward. >> this is my first time here, so i didn't know. >> i just wanted to say i came to actually talk about the taser issue which i know i can do later, but i wanted to say hearing with the youth commission offered, it is very exciting, and i hope it will two through. and thank you, all, for hearing it. thank you. >> thank you and welcome. any further public comment on this mat we are the youth commission? >> hello, mr. bonner. >> good afternoon. >> how are you? >> very good. how are you, sir? >> an i am very pressed with the youth efforts here. i would like to suggest they consider an alternative to incarceration for the little petty crimes. easily -- you can sit down, kevin. this is just on this. sit down. these little petty crime cans easily be addressed with a photograph and a citation rather than incarceration. and i would suggest they add that to the particular agenda. >> thank you, mr. bonner. >> mr. bonner is a very
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well-known and prominent attorney from east bay and is very helpful. thank you, sir. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. let's take a vote. all in favor? it's unanimous. congratulations and good work, commissioner de jesus. >> thank you. thank you, youth commission. >> thanks. >> item two, consent calendar, receive and file action. request of the chief of police to accept donation of k9 vehicle heat alarm temperature sensor system valued at $8374.28 from the police and working k9 foundation for the use of the tactical k9 unit. commissioners, in your packet, you have a memo regarding this device that they install in the
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police k9 units because the dogs are in the car for prolonged period of time. and it has an automatic device that turns the air conditioning on so the dog doesn't get heat exhaustion or possibly pass away. >> motion to approve. >> second. >> any public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. all in favor? >> aye. >> please call the next line item. >> item 3, reports from the commission, discussion 3a, chief's report. report on recent police department activities including major events, weekly crime trends, including staff iing. okay. thank you. including staffing, current staffing levels and overtime, and announcements. and update on supervisor yee's sfpd staffing resolution. >> thank you, sergeant ware. good evening, chief. how are you? >> good evening, commission. i have a fairly brief report
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this week. i will start with the crime trends. year to date. we are 18% down and nonfatal shootings, which is 39 this time last year. 32 year to date. we are 58% down with the homicides with firearms and 12 this time last year and five year to date. and our total gun violence victims were down 27%. 51 last year and 37 year to date. so i am really pleased with that news, and we hope to continue that momentum into the summer months. the year to date homicides were also 38% down. we were 16 this time last year. 10 year to date. and we just to go through some of our other crimes. in property crime, we are overall property crime at 13% down. and you all probably know we have been facing challenges with our burglary and theft from
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vehicles over the past several years. and we put a number of strategies in place, so i'm very pleased year to date we're down 18%. we had 7,748 this time last year and 6,341 this year, and i know the commission was very interested in this topic, and we're working real hard with our strategies and working with the community and stakeholders to make sure we do everything we can to bring these numbers down. so that's good news, but we still have a lot of work to do. our burglaries, we are down by 9%. we had 1404 this time last year. 1,271 year to date. motor vehicle thefts were down by 32% for the first quarter. 1,385 last year this time. 938 year to date. we're slightly up in arsons by 3%, 3.57%. 56 this time last year. 58 year to date. and our large city and theft
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were down by 12%. 11,189 last year this time and 9,761 this year. the total property crimes were down by 14.29%. and total crimes down by 13.06%. a lot of hard work by our officers, command staff in working with and in partnership with the community. we are seeing some good results, at least for the first quarter, and we hope to continue that momentum into the next quarter and the summer. the major events for this week, we have rock 'n' roll marathon on sunday and actually walk against rape on saturday. rock 'n' roll marathon will be estimated attendance of about 15,000. we have no issues or concerns at this time. and then the walk against rape will be from on saturday the 7th
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from 9:00 in the morning to 4:00 p.m. from 18th street and go through mission district. this is an annual march and we don't anticipate any issues on that as well. if -- i would like to, if it's okay with commission, defer the overtime report to next time. i just caught some that i had a question. and if i could defer that to next week. >> no problem, chief. >> the last part of the chief's report is director kathrin mcgwire who will update the commission on south korea yee's request for a staffing task force. >> thank you, chief, and welcome, director mcgwire. >> thank you. >> director henderson, chief scott, i am the chief financial officer for the department, and i am here this evening to talk through what is in your packets already as a letter proposing
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and talking through kind of the approach and the timeline for the staffing task force as recommended by supervisor yee's legislation that was passed about a year ago. before i talk about the actual task force, just to give you kind of the high level overview of staffing analyses in the department in general, as you know, there are three kind of major efforts moving forward right now. one is the budget and legislative analysts office that works reports to the board of supervisors. they are currently conducting a staffing audit and that work is due to be completed in a report due to the board of supervisors in may. another component is we are working with the mayor's office very closely in developing a budget submission to the board of supervisors due on june 1, as you all know. the -- and so that's another effort that we are in the midst
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of. and then finally, the bigger, broader effort which includes this task force is identifying and moving forward with an analysis that has a workload-based analysis of our staffing needs and the department as a whole. so that effort has been broken into two phases. the first phase is in the final stages, and the controllers office really worked on that analysis, quantitative analysis of our sector patrol workload, and that workload being represented by calls for service and the duration spent by individual officers on each call for service aggregated up to city wide efforts in sector patrol only and the controller's office is finalizing that work and should be -- and we are actually in the midst of looking at a draft report and then it will be finalizing that and getting it out to the public
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very soon. so phase one, again, that stress sector patrol represented by half of the department is in the district stations and about 71 or 72 percent of our officers or our personnel at the district stations are sector patrol officers. it represents a very large chunk of our personnel and the department. that's phase one. phase two is everything else. so including and also includes a functional analysis, so that is currently underway, and those results should be due at the end of may or early june. the functional analysis is just basically looking at our department and making sure that we're doing what we -- what most police departments do. and comparing us to other jurisdictions and if we're doing something that maybe we don't necessarily need to do anymore, we'll talk about that.
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and if we're doing -- but then by the same token, are we missing things in the department that other police departments do as a best practice? and what are those and how are they staffed? so that functional analysis is part of phase two. another part of phase two is the effort to ungauge a contractor to review either quantitatively or qualitatively the remainder of the workload in the department that is not represented by sector patrol. and then over the next year we'll put everything together into -- it will be released in portions by big sections of the department, but at the end of it we will have a total look at what the staffing needs are in the department. so essentially for the task force, their job will be to inform that methodology. and so inform the development of the methodology and take a look and