. >> 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 fingerprint demoto see what we're doing, so if you have any questions or want to see that, go over there. i just want to thank those behind me, and all of those who made this happen, in particular, our police department and the men and women who keep us safe every single day. thank you for being here.

>> good morning. oh, my god, what a day. what a day to be at the port, what a day to be outside. it's so beautiful chl the sun is out. happy earth month.

i am debbie rafell. i am the director of the department of 1r50ir789, and this is the most fabulous and gorgeous place to be at this moment in time. it's very fitting to be at the waterfront, of course, during earth month. who needs a reminder of the poshs of protecting our environment and the importance of protecting this planet. we're here today to announce another step forward in our environmental stewardship journey. our jurny towards taking bold climate actions, to preserve this planet for us and for future generations. clearly -- and there's the nice sound. clearly, to address our climate needs, we're going to have to tackle the transportation sector. in san francisco the transportation sector accounts for about 50% of our emissions, a huge part. this is a city that believes in leading by example, and our transit fleet is one of the cleanest in the nation, and

part of that cleanliness, if you will, has to do with fuel switching, where we're getting off of diesel, dirty diesel, and replacing it with renewable fuels. we are electrifying when we can, and we're using renewable fuels when the technology hasn't quite caught up with us yet to get off of dues will and nonrenewable fuels. this allows us to take action using existing equipment and existing technology. the san francisco department of environment, the mayor's office, the port and all of our community stakeholders with us today ahave been working hard o introduce renewable fuels into this new form of transportation. so i'm pleased to introduce to you today mayor mr. mark

farrell who will be making the announcement that we are all looking forward to listen to. so mayor farrell. >> thank you. debbie. it's good to be here, and love the interaction that we're seeing on our waterfront behind us. so thanks to the introduction, debbie, and i want to thank everyone for coming out today for this announcement. you know we're all here today because we care very deeply about our city of san francisco, and we care deeply about our environment in the city of san francisco, and i know we all have concerns about the federal leadership or lack of federal leadership on environmental issues right now coming out of washington, d.c. the head of our epa seems to be more concerned about flying first-class and the cole industry than pushing environmental policies forward that will have a positive impact if our communities. and while they continue to stick their heads in the sand in terms of climate change in washington, d.c., san francisco

is once again stepping forward as a leader in our country for the environment. thanks to our innovatetive practices here in our city, we are on our way to meeting our goal of 50% renewable power goal by 2020 and 100% by 2050. in san francisco, we are proving our dpost wropg every single day. we have reduced greenhouse gases by 20%. at the same time our population has grown by 19%, and our gdp has grown by 75% in the city of san francisco. we are proving washington, d.c., we are proving the skeptics wrong. i am here to say that as mayor of the city of san francisco that i am convinced that not

only the san francisco but our korld with coexist by having strong environmental policies and a strong economy at the same time. they go together. this is called climate leadership. this is what san francisco is all about, and today we are excited to announce the next step in that journey as the city of san francisco. so today we are announcing the transition of the san francisco bay area water fleet to 100% renewable diesel. we are taking this bold step, and when we do, we will become the first region in the entire country to achieve this goal. let me repeat that. once again in the city of san francisco, we will be the first in the country to lead on the environment. it will help reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by another 60% on the water and cutback on the diesel pollutants that affect our air. four of the bay areas ferry providers will be making the switch to diesel here in 2018 and 2019, including our fire department, which will make the transition this year in the

city of san francisco. i do want to thank all the ferry providers for joining with the city of san francisco to make this happen. this does not happen alone. it takes strong partnerships. i want to thank our fire department in particular, chief hayes-white and all the leaders that are here today on this issue. i want to thank debbie with the department of the environment, elaine forbes, and her staff at the port. i want to give great thampgz to our former mayor, ed lee, who started this conversation years ago. tyrone chiu, who i know he's been at the forefront of this issue for a long time. we're going to be the first in the nation to make this change, but we will not be the last. this is just the beginning, and san francisco once again is stepping forward as a leader in the country on the environment, and that's something we all

should be very, very proud of it. our city deserves it, our country deserves it, and our world deserves it. thanks, everyone. >> wow, thank you, mayor farrell. our country deserves it, our city deserves it, our planet deserves it, our world deserves it, indeed. so transitioning a water fleet demonstrates what's possible when public and private sectors work together. and as the mayor said, this did not happen overnight or by accident. this transition happened because we put our heads together and collectively we problem solved, and we brainstormed, and we figured out what was the missing information, what do we need to have happen to make this change? because no one had done it before. we couldn't even look to europe as a model because we were the first. and i would like to recognize some of those leaders, those partners who made this possible from our regulatory agencies,

the environmental protection agency, the california resources board, and the water emergency transportation authority, our local ferry and water transit operators, red-white fleet, blue and gold fleet, golden gate ferry, horn blower and alcatraz tours, to the marine manufacturers and mtu. they had to figure out, would this renewable product work in their ferries. and so our own san francisco fire department, which has a fireboat fleet, and one of them is behind us, and hopefully we will be enjoying a demonstration of their prowess today. i'd also like to thank the leadership and cooperation of our commission on the environment. commissioner eddie ong is here with us today to encourage us on and to ensure that san francisco continues in a leadership moment. and of course, the real leader in all this, the mother of the leaders is our port director,

elaine forbes. i get to say that as a woman. she leads with courage, she's a role model for all of us, and she's a resource for cities and ports all around the world. under her leadership, the port is an environmental champion, from shoreside power to 100% greenhouse gas energy procurement, to solarizing buildings, elaine is fearless and determined, and this could not happen without her support, so let's welcome elaine forbes, port director. >> thank you so much, debbie, for that absolutely amazing introduction. i'm quite shy now about that, and thank you so much mayor farrell for your commitment to climate change and to our city's waterfront. hello, everyone and thank you for coming to our world renouned waterfront. this is a spectacular resource. the san francisco bay is so

pristine and so defining for our city. and our ferry operator tenants, along with the city and the port are at the forefront of environmental stewardship. i'm very proud to say that. i'm speaking today on behalf of port staff and port commission. we have port commissioner lessee ka lessee -- leslie katz here. thank you for your leadership. since 2001, we have removed 300,000 square feet of dilapidated peers, improving the bay quality. we've cleaned up contaminated properties, and in every location, we have plans to open up the properties to san francisco and the region, further connecting people to the bay. we have wonderful new buildings that are lead certified and we have a building at herron's head park.

we've cut emissions by more than half. we privacy row emissions hydropower to our cruise ship at pier 27 and to our large government and commercial ship at pier 70. and with this announcement today, we are a making our air and water healthier for everyone. and i want to talk about how this initiative started. mayor farrell mentioned our y late mayor lee. back in july 2016, we toured our mayor for the late mission bay ferry landing. on that boat ride, mayor lee made the connection, hmm, if city owned industrial equipment and our fleet can transfer to renewable diesel, could the ferries, too? he had a big vision for this waterfront and for growth in our water transportation and linked this vision to environmental stewardship. his point person, tyrone viewed got on the job, teamed up with

my key person, rich furman, and teamed up with important staff from the department. and ferry operators stepped up and agreed to make this change. so now with their partnership, we will have cleaner air for everyone in san francisco. and we are becoming alternative fuels leaders for ferries in san francisco at the exact time that we're expanding our ridership. it's such a great partnership to see more people on the bay and more people in ferries and knowing that's true ae going to be cleaner. we are so graceful to our late mayor for his call to action and for city staff and ferry operators who saw his vision through. and it will not stop here. we will be advancing other environmental initiatives, and we will be rebuilding this harbor to keep it safe, environmentally secure and keep it great for future

generations. this is a beautiful waterfront, and we aim to keep it that way. thank you all for coming. [applause]. >> thank you, elaine and thank you inform poto port commissio port staff who have been such champions of this. so as elaine said, we can't do this alone. we might have an idea, we might see a possibility, a window of opportunity, but we need the ferry operators to step up. and the person behind me was incredible. he said yes, we will try this, yes, we will do this, and i will make sure it happens. we are incredibly lucky to have such forward thinking, committed operators here in san francisco. the water fleet exemplifies

that can do of why not? why not here? whatever they can do to push the envelope to make ferry ridership part of the equation to heal the planet. so let us well come our champion, tom escher, to talk for a moment. [applause]. >> thank you very much. i'm not sure who you were talking about. one of the things i don't believe in is fake news, so mr. mayor, i have to say that the fleet has been using renewable fuel since last year, and there's been no operational problems. this is another step for the red-white fleet, there is another one to our zero pollution. and the next step is for us in august of this year, we will

have the anhydra, which is an electric ferry boat coming here. she will be here in august. and in 2019, she's going to be completely electric, no pollution on the boat, completely electric. in 2020, we're going to have a -- a hydrogen fuel cell boat, which is here. zero pollution. now all these things i'm talking about, you can buy on-line at amazon, so all we're doing is putting the pieces together, and because we believe in zero pollution. our board has said we have to be zero pollution by 2025 for all of our boats, and we will make that, if not sooner. why are we doing this, you're going to ask. all of this is proven technology. there's nothing new here. we're like a chef, we're making a stew. all of this is going to give us a reasonable business return.

and the last most important, nobody in the audience is going to be affected here. this is your children, your grandchildren. this is what we're looking for. we can't kick the can down the road anymore when you can buy all this stuff on-line at amazon. it is insanity. so from a point of view, i'd like to thank the mayor, mayor lee started this. we have a new mayor now. he's continuing it. the department of environment, the port of san francisco, elaine forbes, mike martin, rich bierman, and all sorts of other people who i haven't mentioned. nesti is the provider of the renewable fuel who's great, and also aaron peskin, our supervisor. one last comment i'd like to make is our vessel the xalaphus is there, and yif you don't knw what that is, you should look

it up. thank you very much. >> i have no idea what xalaphus means, so that's my homework. wow. thank you, tom, and i think what you heard there is that pioneering spirit, that why not. that's why you keep things in notebooks. all right. so tom talked about the long version, getting to zero emissions boats and ferries. just with this one action of moving towards renewable decembering, from traditional diesel from dinosaur bones, we're going to be able to reduce 22,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases. this is a significant action that can be today. i would like to encourage everyone, the next time you are going to oakland or alameda or coming into the city, ride in one of our wonderful ferries.

you'll get the best view of the bay, the best view of our city, and you'll be doing it knowing that you're healing the planet at the same time. i want to close by sharing one of my favorite talking points, which is that i believe that the world is one by those who show up, and that every person out there today is showing up to heal the planet and showing up to make a difference, and this is done when government works with the private sector in close partnership. my team, suzanne lucen and zach thompson, as well as rich berman and tyrone chiu who lead with their hearts as well as their mind dos. it's because of all of you that we're all able to do this together. so with that, i am hopeful that behind me will be something

spectacular and worth looking at besides -- what is it? xaluphus. >> it's called the xaluphus, and if you look at the spelling, you can google it and then tell me what it means. >> that's my homework, the xaluphus. oh, there we go, soon to be operated on renewable diesel, the fireboat. it's right now -- excuse me. we don't want fake news. right now, at this moment, the fire department has adopted renewable diesel, and that boat is leading the world right now in environmental stewardship. thank you, fire department. [applause]. to

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to make a couple of announcements as we start