patients and can give the highest level of care to these patients. by refusing new patients admissions to subacute units patients requiring this level of care must remain in acute care icu beds while case care seek out of -- often in nonhospital subacute beds. unless cpmc a i degrees to provide subacute unit -- using qualified and acut rns they wiln jeopardy. >> thank you so much for your attention to these important issues through today's hearing as well as the previous ones

last year. as is clear, we face a city-wide crisis in access to long-term and post acute care for seniors and people with disabilities with most severe impact on patients who are predominantly people of color. who need income health care services to proventing the lost of the subacute units. the h2j2 coalition has shared with your solutions to the city to the complex crisis, and we really focus on the need for the times of levels of care most? jeopardy. given the focus of today's hearing on cpmc's proposed closure of subacute

units. the city needs to use all power available to stop the cpmc proposed stopping of the unit. this is critical for the quality of care for those 17 patients and critical to address the interests o nurses who are h taking positions at davieses. beyond the issue of their obligation to do it's part by keeping the subacute unit open, there is also a need for broader solutions so again i would refer you to the proposals for action that h2j2 has shared with the

supervisors and on number eight we had proposals for framework for city policy and lesion that could prevent situations like what is happening from the st. luke's subacute unit from happening. >> i have that and i did discuss that with the group when we met in advance to talk about the opportunity to propose legislation and i will talk about that at the end. >> i am one of the nurses. >> supervisor sheehy: i understand. we are going to open up the public comment. okay, that is fine. go ahead. >> good morning i am a registered nurse at st. lukes been working there 42 years and

am also the chairperson of the st. luke's -- we deal with safety and concerns and we meet once a month. indiscernible. becausagbecausewhile case managr placement they are kept in icu waiting for placement. the wait can be long. because of this in some instances we were able to accept more -- indiscernible. this led trecently in our ten be

care for patient awaiting lung transplant and the most appropriate unit to care for this patient is sub-acute but this request from nurse case managers refused to allow this patient to move to the empty sub-acute bed. downstairs to e patient was held in icu for close to a year even with sub sub-acute beds empty on the floor. as one of the nurse case managers - -- we are committed o

do everything in our powers to provide shar -- indiscernible. as nurses we need to be able to care for patients at the appropriate time. thank you. >> thank you. are we ready for public comment? >> so for members of the public that wish to testify, speakers will have two minutes please state your first name and last name clearly and speak into the microphone. those with written statements are encouraged to leave a copy with the city clerk. no booing. speakers are

encouraged to avoid repetition of previous statements. i think kim then theresa palmer. >> good morning supervisors kim with the national union of health care workers. i have just find it hilarious that there is no care in sutter health and this is another example that we are here again. i think it's ironic that the hospital association continues to talk about the need for sub-acute beds but won't poney up and come up with a solution. that is laying it your hand to force a solution. i think it's a travesty that cpmc will not continue to admit subacute

patients. it puts the current patients in complete danger. furthermore, they say there is a plan but there is not a plan. they have not notitied -- of the new subacute patientnew subacute patients that the nurses will need training and they have not if there is a plan in place they have not met with us or inferred with us so clearly they do not intend to do a whole lot with these patients. the way they have treated the family councils is a travesty. cpmc needs to do better. they have the ability

to do better, and i am tired of hearing excuses that oh, space is more important than patients. they clearly have patients with needs, but their space is more important than the needs of their patients. the irony of that is i don't know, go into real estate, do not be in health care. >> next speaker please. >> trying to have a hearing here. if you guys wanted to organize this, it would be helpful, so i did call one, two, okay, then i will try to dig through here and figure out which ones are from the family council. >> just come forward. .

>> my name is gloria simpson. i am concerned with cpmc and delivering their messages to us. as my sister mentioned earlier, we requested to have a group meeting so we can all hear the same thing and that didn't happen, so here we are coming with a message to cpmc in regards to the information that they shared with the family members that was inconsistent. i spoke with joshua anderson and i asked a is few questions an specific with the activity coordinator at st. lukes. she

is so involved with our patients in a loving, caring, affectionate way, and i asked him if we can please have her since it's a nonunion position to be transferred with cpmc because basically she would be the only one there which the patients are comfortable with, and joshua mentioned they couldn't because she didn't have a degree, so the person they hired has a degree. so i said well carmen has 27 years experience with these patients, so unfortunately he said no. i wanted to read here a mission statement of cpmc. the mission statement states we are inspired by our northern california community and work tirelessly to deliver top-rated affordable, health care doctors and

employees are always looking for a new meaningful way to care for your loved ones. we believe that every moment matter when it comes to helping you live a longer life. >> thank you. so i have ton rivera and comer marshall. any other family members that would like to line up. >> thank you for taking your time to speak with us. my name is ton rivera. and my sister is a subacute patient. dr. warren browner is right with him says it's not about money. last year sutter health had $893 million in profits after

expenses. this is about choice they are making a choice to close down subacute the same way they made a choice to temporarily house subacute and they made a choice to find space at davies. thank you. >> i am comer marshall and i want to thank you for your support. my sister francesca is a patient at the hospital, st. lukes, she has been there for about six years. i want to support the family coalition the commitment they have made. my sister met with sutter and she is very disappointed because she was not clear of the timeline specifically how they were going

to handle my sister and as mentioned before we need continuity, and she is not clear about what that is going to be. the timeframe, i understand there are four rooms being prepared with 17 patients, what is the timeline getting those completed? i think we need clear on that, and the new subacute patients as we moved forward, we need to make sure that as we get new patients there is a plan in place to keep these people because they are not able to speak for themselves. we don't know what is going to happen tomorrow but i would request this be thought out very clearly so that we can move forward and keep your patients here in the city and county of sa san

francisco. >> do we have families of patients? do we have families of someone dells? swindells? if they would come up. i want to give them an opportunity to speak if that is okay with everyone else. >> my name is rick. my sister has been a patient there for seven years and i have a cold but i just want to say this i know the time is brief. i want to give you my experience. before laura was taken to st. lukes, they fractured her shoulder, they let her go early and we didn't want to bring her back so took her to ucsf. they

don't have a stepdown so we tried to get her into st. lukes but they weren't expecting anyone and they sent us to kent field across the bay, and they said they were concerned with laura and me not ever dealing with anybody with a trach and so she was only supposed to be there for two weeks, it turned out for me to be a three-month nightmare. her -- was dislodged and her abdomen filled with fluid and for three months i was going back and forth to the city from kentfield. kentfield whichs the golden gate bridge. people were telling me at work you don't look good you look tired

and thing. i would ask that the city do something for the future so no one experiences what i went through because i'm sure my case is just one of many. >> thank you. next speaker police. >> anne ludwig. my husband is 79 and has advanced alzheimer's and has lived at skilled nursing.age sutter healther decided to close this facility with 25 licensed beds and move the 17 residents remaining there. we have their proposal to move as many as 14 of them to alma via. this would be a great relief if it's developed, however, so far we have nothing in writing to guarantee the

subsidy for comparable services there where the space they will occupy is under renovation and unable to see, yet we feel pressed to make a decision to accept the proposal as soon as possible, but at least by june. if all goes well, our loved ones will have somewhere to live and receive care but they lose their devoted caregivers and the city loses the institutional know-how of this 20-year-old skilled nursing, there will be a 11 bed loss of care in san francisco, what about the need for more critical care beds for this frail population, which could include any of us. we think hospitals have a responsibility as nonprofits and a civic duty to partner with the city to provide skilled nursing and dementia care in our city and we call on your our elected

representatives to provide policies that will make that happen. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> linda rosario and my mom is at skilled nursing for almost three years she is going to be 104 in september. my main issue is the future families who have to look for memory care for their loved ones and to be able to pay for. i put my mom in irene swindell hoping to sell her home but that can't be done because i cannot evict my sister who is also a senior and disabled. struggling for funds managed to get subsidy grants from irene swindell and from

there it was medcal which doesn't pay for memory care and went through va because my mom is a widow of a veteran, so they managed to help pay half, and the other half would be her social security, and the remainder will be me, so right now i am holding three casual jobs trying to make end meet and i'm hoping in the future that there would be assistance to help family members find memory care which they could afford. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is jeff tanaba, and

my father is a resident of swindell unit since 2016. his diagnosis was a devastating blow all we are fortunate enough to say that the smartest man we knew was also the kindest. i have won't discuss my father's wonderful life, instead i will discuss the effect this rushed closure is having on our family and although we must discuss the possibility of this for all of us, i won't discuss how this takes away our loved ones and leaves us emotionally, physically, and financially lost. i will discuss the implication of losing these beds on all of our futures. swindell has been home for all of us and this has been a huge life change for pau all of us and the rush h which this is implements and the fact that it's due to the

almighty dollar is sobering to us all. the leaders among the swindell have fought for a suitable venue with affordable care, costability and the ability to move with new staff to a cpmc venue. we have been promised these results with the exception of the staff and we will miss the staff. we are hopeful that dad will be cared for as promised. we are less so for the future of elder care due to the implication of losing these 25 beds. i hope that our children will not have to face this difficult situation in the future. we are seeing aging populous and growing shortage of beds particularly in a city such as ours.

>> thank you. >> my father jack is also a resident of swindell. i will assume that this deal with swindell is a good deal, which we don't know that. we don't know anything about it. we haven't seen a written contract. let's assume it's a good deal. once our family believes alma via, dies, eventually that's going to happen they die or leave, the new residents will have to pay the going rate which is $10,000 for expenses. that is a lot of money. so the loss of swindell will mean the loss of 25 beds of

affordable care, memory care. alzheimer's and dementia is a fact of life and $10,000 would be an extreme burden for most families. my family is lucky because we do have this deal, but we don't know about the future. are the next generation families going to be as lucky as ours? we don't know that. >> thank you. can i call up theresa palmer, melanie. >> raymond holland, memory of the family council for swindell as well at the california street facility. a lot of what you have heard today is really on the right issues. i hate to say

it, but i think it's all part of the affordable housing crisis that you are focused on today it just has a few twists to it. 150 years ago your predecessors had a similar problem and that problem was they had too many cemeteries on the outside land and so they exhumed the bodies and shipped them to calma and lincoln park and all of those areas on the outside became populated and became used for things other than cemeteries. i think we are seeing today the tip of the iceberg in terms of skilled nursing and sub-acute care facilities that are affordable for housing and affordable for care. what is happening is it's all being pushed outside of san francisco

it's something that really should occupy your attention. i think the issue is when and to whom will there be an end to all of this so we can get back to business and do that. my wife passed away early last year unexpectedly and she spent a month over in the east bay in you wilultabates also owned by r healther. you are on the right issue. i applaud you. >> theresa palmer retired geriatrician. what i wanted to ask about the sub-acuteth and

skilled nursing crisis and i wanted to ask cpmc also if the state and city would cooperate with cpmc over issues of licensure, which i am sure they will because this is an emergency, what is the hurry about building medical office space when we should just stop, keep the subacute people at st. lukes even if the acute services move across the street there is no hurry to build medical office buildings. i'm not aware of sort tajes of medical office buildings in san francisco. for reasons of profit and plan to maximize revenue wants to get out of the

sub-acute business, at least wait until there are other options and it seems to me that this could maybe bedi bedeclarea public health emergency and we could ask the state and the city and the planning people and cpmc to all work together and keep the sub-acute unit open and work together on licensure for distributer subacute agencies in the future. >> michael lion with senior disability action. cpmc is the largest, richest and most powerful hospital group in california. the department of justice even says that cpmc they have such a strangle hold on northern california hospital it

is able to jack up the prices of all hospital care, so when the hospital council produces a document like the post-acute care council's report, you know that it's cpmc that's talking here and sutter healther health, and ssuttersutter healther heall care and they talk about -- so g thing of what cpmc's group is saying is still a regional care

forcing people out of the county. they talk about using existing facilities within san francisco like exploring unused space in hospitals medical office buildings. are they talking about the open floor in davies and empty med call medicl facilities. their main thing is trying to expand university based care. >> thank you. next speaker please.

>> my name is linda carter and i'm a retired nurse and i worked at st. looks for almost 50 years and i wanted to just talk a little bit about sub-acute patients and their needs. many of the patients come to our icu that need sub-acute care. sub-acute means they have ongoing issues and many of them are ventilator dependent, they are vital people and they are not just the ventilator and not just a body there, they are people. the aim is to get them out and back into the community, but the sub-acute is close to all ad admissions at st. lukes d

those patients that need those beds, it is really part on them sub-acute patients need a place that is home. many of them have been there for years and you can't dismiss that fact. that is home for them. some of them are able to get out on to the street a little bit on a mobile wheelchair with a ven ventilaton the back. they are needing to be part of the community. sending them out of the city the jus,when they are closed by attrition then we are minus more sub-acute beds and we are going to have to go out of county to get them. i hope that st. maries is abl mariys marri -

>> thank you. next speaker please. >> my name is elizabeth halifax visiting o ombudsman at st. luks i have witnesses first hand the anxiety this has generated for families and residents and i have been truly disappointed by the lack of -- shown by cpmc and their failure to develop trust and give reassurance to those affected in many many, many yeas

working as a nurse, i have never witnessed this degree of lack of compassion. >> i had stated in the beginning that i have to leave at 12:30. i have another something that i have to leave and prepare for. i appreciate department of public health and director gar sey for preparing the report. we talked about the possibilities whether or not cpmc sutter healther were going to continue their subacute care and we came to the agreement along with h2j2 that it is a priority for the city of san francisco. we will continue to work with you. i have personally met with chinese hospital. i know that you have been working really har hard. e

need to bring in kaiser and ucsf and continue to work with dr. browner and see if there is a way to find additional space -- i want to thank h2j2 for coming out today and advocating on behalf of proper level of care. it saddens us to think that people of these economic means that indigent would be treated in this way and this is not a criticism of anyone in particular, but it's being caught up in a transition of our city's history where this has not been a priority and we need to make it a priority again. we have to have this level of care when you look at this report presented today to see how los

angeles has over 2,000 sub-acute beds and we have 17. that is crazy. all over the bay area there is sub-acute care and san francisco is not. i understand it's a cost and a space and there is all different kind of things that come up, but we need to work with the community based organizations, labor and the department of public health and my colleagues to come up with the right solutions. i know there are proposals for legislation and we will aggressively look into those. we will continue this conversation and continue to push. i think we will have an additional hearing because we want to come back and have a discussion when the patients are getting ready to be transferred and we will continue to work with -- on the plan for subacute care. sorry i have to leave

now. >> thank you for supervisor asophe. we will go back to public comment. >> under title 42, the patients have appeal rights against involuntary transfer. this right is included to notices given to each family and patient member. what happens when a patient appeals is that an administrative hearing officer will hold a hearing at st. lukes and preparations made of the patient to a new location. each patient had the right to appeal if they feel that the new location may not adequately provide the care that they need the ombudsman program will

advovat for each patient's right for good care. >> any other persons interested in testifying before public comment closes? seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> supervisor ronen: i want to thank every for coming out today and especially families who are going through such a difficult time. every time we have a hearing on these topics, i just feel a little bit heart broken that we don't have a single payer health system because to put families financial jeopardy and ruin when they are trying to care for a loved one is just so deeply wrong and to not have a medical care system that is built around the needs of patients, rather than a profit motive is so deeply wrong, and i am hopeful that in my lifetime

we will see a single payer health plan in our state anded in our country. it just can't come soon enough. having said that, i will also be continuing to watch this issue very closely. i would ask cpmc to continue to consider what it would take to continue a subacute unit in your system in san francisco. i know space is an issue, and it's a legitimate issue, but if we partnered with you, the city, the state, what could make it possible if we had a yes attitude? i am certainly willing to be involved and give it my all and fight within the city to make it happen and to make a similar partnership like the city is exploring with st. mary's possible with you. i also just

wonder for all of the systems, i know we are focused on cpmc and sutter but for all of the systems you see kaiser. these are your patients that need these services and to put those on another entity doesn't make sense and it's not fair, and certainly the city is ready and willing as director garcia has shown to work with any system of care who is willing to step up and partner with the city to serve this essential need of our residents. i will just put that out there that i would love to continue to work with you on this issue and to partner to address this need. in terms of the other eight suggestions of the commune and h2j2, did i get

that right? we will consider looking at these ustio suggestions. i wily like in so many arenas it's frustrating at the local level when we are preempted on acts on some of these more prescriptive pieces of legislation. i wish we had more power than we have, but we will continue to look at these and take these suggestions very seriously, so i want to thank everyone for coming out today and we will continue to pay close attention to this issue. will that, i will make a motion to continue this item to call of the share when supervisor sheehy is read. >> supervisor sheehy: we do need single payer and we need it yesterday. i will comment the city and director garcia on the work and identifying twocyte for

subacute beds so we can start to address this capacity that we are using. i want to thank everyone for coming out today. i think we need to stay on top of this issue and rationalize this system so we can meet those needs within the city. the issue of alzheimer's memory care was brought up today and i think all of us that are getting older had that on our mind and i would like to add that to the list of issues as we prepare for health care for san francis cans. i would like to encourage cpmc to take that large step with the arrangements they are taking with the swindell patients. sounds like there is something positive that's moving forward and if that work can get done and i know it will leave the angzies orelieve theanxiety of g

gone with my father who had alzheimers all the way to the end, but when you have something of this magnitude being a i believable toresolve that and ge peace of mind, the sooner that can happen the better. i will take your motion to continue to the call of the chair. the motion passes and mr. clerk any other business before this body >> >>clerk: there is no further business. >> supervisor sheehy: then we are adjourned. thank you.

. >> welcome. good morning, everybody. thank you for coming out on another amazing sunny day here in the city of san francisco. i want to thank you here for being on this critically important topic. you know, last year was a very challenging year for our residents here in san francisco and for our visitors and everyone else who parked their cars on the streets of san francisco. nearly 31,000 cars were broken into in 2017 in our city, which is a crazy number. a total of 25% increase over

the year before. and let me say i'm going to be the first to tell everybody and to make sure the residents of san francisco know that we believe that this is completely unacceptable. the status quo on our streets is completely unacceptable, and we have to do things better. our city cannot continue to thrive if people are afraid to leave their car unattended when they're here to live, when they're here to work, when they're here to shop or visit any of our amazing attractions here in san francisco. as i said many times before, parking your car in san francisco should not be a game of roulette. and i will say that since becoming mayor and previously as a member of the board of supervisors, i was the first one -- one of the first people to point out the problem and to acknowledge the problem, though, and i think it's critically important. and also to acknowledge the

work that our police department has done in response to this epidemic that we are seeing and we have seen in our streets beginning really in earnest last year. and the first to commend our police department for the efforts that they have done. you know, chief scott did not point fingers or blame others or make excuses. our police department went to work. last year at the end, they doubled our foot patrols here in san francisco, creates a unit specifically to deal with property crimes in san francisco, and we dedicated more resources at our district stations to report and investigate these crimes. and today as you've seen in the papers, we're proud to announce that there are results from some of these efforts. for the first three months of 2018, we have seen an over 17% decrease in our auto break-ins. we are seeing real progress. but again, the status quo is not okay on our streets, and as a city, we are not going to rest on our laurels.

we have a ton of work left to do. we will continue effective, targeted campaigns to address this challenge. so today, we're doing a few things. first of all, we are rolling out officially across the entire city of san francisco, our park smart campaign. what you see on the bus behind us, it will provide more informational resources to our residents and to our visitors. we are canvassing our car burglary hot spots and posting public messages throughout the city of san francisco that if you love it, don't leave it. and i want to thank in particular kelly nice and his entire team for their work on this advertising campaign. we do not want to give thieves the opportunity to take possessions in our cars. and i want to say this is a very coordinated effort between our police department, numerous city agencies, our community partners, and officials from the tourism industry.

this initiative is a key part of our effort to make sure crimes don't occur in the first place, and i'm going to quote chief scott in saying a crime prevented is much better than a crime solved. we are complementing these efforts as well with greater resources fore investigative teams. today we're expanding new efforts to expand fingerprint training at our different police stations throughout the city of san francisco. some three dozen members of the captain's staff from all police stations will have fingerprint training. they'll be joining our officers on the force who already have these skills, and by expanding these services and this training, we're going to expand our fingerprint database, providing new resources to crack down on car break-in offenders, and particularly those who are serial offenders, and we've seen some of them being caught in our papers over the last few weeks. we know these measures, however, together are simply

not going to solve the car break-in epidemic here in san francisco, we they are important next steps and important next steps to residents of the city, to visitors of the city to make sure they know and everybody knows that we are moving forward, and we recognize the issue and we are going to continue to do more. this approach is also going to include additional staffing in our police department. earlier this year, i asked chief scott to conduct an internal staffing analysis within the police department so we can determine the resources that we need within our police department to make sure we tackle this epidemic. let me say this very loud and clear: we have some of the best police officers in the country. the men and women that serve us in the san francisco we should be incredibly proud of, and we need to give them our respect every single day. they put our lives on the line to protect us here in san francisco, but we need more of them, and i am committed to

funding additional increases in our police department as we roll through our upcoming budget season here in san francisco. i am also urging our criminal justice partners, our judicial branch, our public defender and district attorney to work together on our proposal to have one judge specifically dedicated to auto break-ins. we need to make sure that there are consequences to the actions that are happening on our streets. like the other major issues facing our city, we are not going to solve this alone or with one single solution. by exploring a wide range of options and by collaborating together, we are going to make -- and let me say this, we are going to continue to make significant progress in this area. i want to close by thanking a number of different people and groups who have been involved -- first of all, chief scott, to you in particular, to the entire police department, many of which are behind me today, to our 311 department, to the office of economic and

workforce development, to our department of emergency management, to our office of short-term rentals, sf travel, and the partnership with our tourism industry, our community partners today, like troy from our fisherman's chafsh community benefits district. i mentioned kelly nice, but i'm going to mention him again, from nice advertising. thank you for their incredible help. and everyone else in the entire city family and every single resident that is demanding that we make san francisco and we are working to make san francisco a much safer place for everyone. so thank you all for being here today, and with that i would like to introduce the chief of our police department, chief bill scott. [applause]. >> first of all, let me say thank you to mayor farrell for the leadership that he's providing on this issue. as you stated, collaboration is the key. it takes all of us working together to fight crime. to my left, i have some of san

francisco's finest, our police officers from central station. we have our community, troy, and members of our community. we have our parking department here. it's a collaborative effort. no one entity can take on this issue alone, and we are so proud that we do have collaborative partners in this city. we're thrilled to be working with our fellow city agencies, our community ners, our leaders in the tourism industry, and we as a police department, as i said, we can't do it alone. that said, the news that the mayor just reported is very encouraging. but in addition to that, i'd like to point out, too, first three months of this year, our homicides are down by almost one-third. our burglaries are down, and we know as the mayor stated that our auto burglaries are down, and we will not rest on our laurels. those of us that have been in this business know that we have more work to do. now the mayor has outlined some steps that we have already taken, but i want to put some

context to what that means in terms of the drop in auto burglaries. we're talking about 17% for the first three months of the year. that's over 1,000 less victims, 1,000 crimes that we believe were prevented. doubling our foot patrols, we know that especially hads deter crimes, and these officers standing behind me are some of the best in what they do. we've reallocated resources towards our property crimes. last week, those investigators put together a spring of investigations that led to the arrest of several serial burglars in our city and the region. i want to go back to something that the mayor said and something that you'll hear me say over and over again. when we talk about crime and particularly auto burglaries, prevention is the key.

prevention is the key. we're asking people not to make themselves easy prey. make no mistake, we're not blaming people for being victimized. that is not what we're trying to do here. this is about doing everything possible to keep your property safe and to avoid being an easy target for somebody who's willing to take your belongings. the park smart message isn't just a reminder to drivers, it's a reminder to those that want to prey on others that we still have police officers that will make arrests. we still have undercover plain clothes officers doing surveillance. we still have a district attorney that are going to charge those crimes. we still have prisons, and we still have jails. that is a a part of law enforcement that will never go away, but we want to turn the tide a little bit because those things are very important, and we will continue to do them, but we have to put more emphasis on prevention.

we talked about the fingerprinting, and the mayor mentioned this. you know, we've had a lot of good arrests, and we know we need to increase our fingerprinting capabilities, so as the mayor said, we're training 36 personnel to do just that. we're encouraging people if they do have an auto burglary, go get your car fingerprinted. we need to get those fingerprints in our databases so we can help solve some of these crimes. in addition to that, with the mayor's leadership and guidance, we hope to have more officers in the field. we encourage the public, if you see something, say something. we encourage you to call us when you see these type of crimes or any type of crimes being committed. together, we will continue to make this city safer for everyone. again, i'd like to thank mayor mark farrell for his support and his leadership on this issue. we could not do this without strong leadership, and that's what it's going to take is

leadership from all of us to turn the tide on these crimes and make our city safer. thank you. [applause]. >> and with that, i'd like to introduce actually one of the two people that helped create the park smart slowigan, and that's commander david lozar. >> well, i want to begin by thanking our mayor, mark farrell, and our chief david scott. a little history about park smart. back in 2014, i served as the captain of central station, paying very close attention to all the auto burglaries that are that were taking place, and as the chief has mentioned, arresting those responsible is a primary duty of ours, but what's equally or more important is prevention, the message that those that come to our city, who enjoy our city, the mer chapters and the residents and the visitors to

simply keep their car empty. it was back then, supervisor mark farrell, district two, we worked together on putting ambassadors up on lombard street, and they had a goal of messages all the visitors coming through about leaving their cars empty. i'm sure mark farrell, you remember when we worked on that, and thanks to you, we got the ambassadors up on lombard street educating everyone. but i went to my police advisory board at central station about needing their help, and the community is very important in education and crime prevention messages. and i went to troy campbell who's the executive director of the fisherman's wharf district. and i said troy, we have to get a message that catches people's attention as they come through. we thought about park smart, and so locally here, we put up our signs, letting visitors

know they need to keep their cars empty while visiting san francisco. we're excited today because our mayor and our chief have decided to roll this out citywide, and inviting the marketing person -- marketing people that definitely contributed, the nice marketing firm, as you see the bus behind us. we're taking it to a whole new level in 2018. so we're grateful, we're grateful for all of our community partners. we're grateful that we're able to get the message out on crime prevention, and as we work on getting the message out of crime prevention, you can see the results that are taking place. with that we'd like to invite up our community partner, the executive director troy campbell, who was behind this from the beginning, to say a few words. thank you very much. [applause]. >> good morning. so again, another round of thank yous, but thank you, mayor farrell, chief scott,

commander lozar for making this a public service announcement. i would also like to thampg the d.a.'s office because we were awarded a neighborhood justice fund grant last year that helped us produce more of those materials. when park smart message was skeeved by the central station police community advisory board, it relied on cid, dic's, community organizations, all to put up the money to produce these materials and share them in their respective areas, however the goal was always to get this to be a citywide initiative and have it proliverate across the city. so for me, this is a great day. this psa is something that everyone can help do to help curb this issue. fisherman's wharf alone, we had 45,000 people a day that we're turning over, so just handing

outpost cards with this message is not sustainable, so having it in static locations on signs, on meters, on buses, i think is going to do a lot in helping get this message out. will it solve this problem? no. it's one cog in the machine with the d.a.'s office, with the mayor's office, with the police department to help curb this problem. and i just want to ask everyone out there listening to me, to make it part of your vernacular. when you're talking to visitors, friends, anyone you run into at a cafe, the importance of this he is a message. this is something that people need to know, to park smart. thanks. [applause]. >> so thank you, troy, for that and again for all of your leadership here, and thank you all for being here. we're wrapping up right now this part of the press conference. what i want to do is direct everyone. commander lozar is going to lead everyone there on a fingerpr