is supported by every league of women voters in the state of california. we hope that the six of you who have not yet endorsed this will endorse it because as you know, it needs unanimous support. when prop 13 was passed in 1978, many people warned it would hurt our schools and that has proved to be all too true. by requiring big commercial properties to pay their fair share of property tax, it would be an enormous boon to san francisco schools as well as community projects. so we hope that you will give this your unanimous support. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

my name is [inaudible] i speak on behalf the [inaudible] buyers. taxi business in san francisco is terrible at the taxi industry has been collapsed. interest is no hope this will improve. we have no hope and it is too late for them to bring business back to us. they look for the baker pay checks. taxi medalon owners are looking to make a living. no one take taxis. like the demand and supply. 700 medallions you say abundant. you can do that and stop the 700

medallions you sold to us. sfmta employees are -- you is cn advise them. give the taxi owners morn any back as soon as possible. we are dying by inches to make money to pay these medallion payments. we are waiting patiently to get our money [bell rings] >> back from sfmta. today, there is a convention and no one take taxi. we are struggling to get like $10 ride and we didn't get it. everything is captured by ride sharing companies. bring you to your tax did i

agenda [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you, sir. thank you for your testimony. >> thank you, sir. sir, thank you. thank you kindly. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon to everybody. the same issue for the taxi medallion that is been bought from the poor 700 peoples. there are black, latinos, asians, kaw ka caucasian and the there. i have seen that you people are listening here and everything is seems like very good and specifically president breed i would invite you to come to the airport because the taxi drivers cannot afford $6 parking in the

parking garage and come over here and seek your help. $3 after 3:00 p.m. and we want you to come all of the board of supervisors to come to the airport and listen and see the miserable life of the taxi drivers who bought their permit for $250,000. and again, black latinos and hispanic and asian and all kind of peoples. but basically minorities are being crippled. and, it would be if you do not act now then you might have to represent the member ra member . and my humble request is to change the goals and at least come once to the airport and the talk to the peoples directly. [bell rings] >> clerk: instead of listening

from the sfmta, you should confront or talk to the drivers face to face at least you can see and hear the reality by yourself. and another thing before i leave, this item number 23, it is a good thing, but it is only a peanut to the mouth of the elephant. [bell rings] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. supervisors. david elliott lewis. i served two terms on the city mental health board. i currently serve on the boards of nami san francisco, the mental health association, community housing partnership, and also work as a trainer for the san francisco police department's crisis intervention team training program. i say this because i know something about our city's behavioral health system and i know something about our state's behavioral health system and i

have a lot of concerns about your agenda item 55 coming up to support scott weiner's state bill 1045. we already have laws on the books for conserve atoreships and laws for people who can't care for themselves. to enact additional legislation which strips people of their rights is really troubling. we have a system of care that is broken. we do not have treatment on demand. we don't have housing on demand. we need housing and treatment and community supports. and, to enact another law that can deprive people of civil rights to address a political need of seeing homeless people on the street is really troubling. and i hope you will not pass this resolution. i know there is support on the board, but i really hope you will -- it will give you pause. again, we have the

opsconservatorship laws. we need more community supports and housing for those who can't care for themselves. [bell rings] >> clerk: i hope yo. >> i hope you will continue to support housing and demand and not support laws that take away rights and our liberties. no on sb-1045. thank you foryour time and attention. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is abdul. i'm coming to file the same thing like for the taxi business. taxi business is so bad and unfortunately we are struggling a lot in this matter. and, most taxi drivers are immigrant and just only move here with their family like me. i have four young kids going to the school. two go to the school and my daughter go to the university and one go to the college. please help us to bring our money back from the sfmta.

we need that money for our business, for our kids. no more business and if you guys not help us, i think very soon we come in to here with the family and with the wife and wee got a divorce because wife need the money and we do not have the money. and kids need the money and we do not have the money. thank you for your time. this is serious matter. do not take this lightly because you know, the taxi business is unfair in the city because the 700 medallion sold by the immigrant people and people used to have the medallion free and if we go by the listings and mostly people i'm not talking about anything like that but the thing is when the sfmta a list, mostly immigrant people they sold the medallion to the immigrant peoples and mostly still like 1600 to minus 1700

the people have the free medallions. welches. >> this is unfair business. help us. thank you for your time. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speak please. >> honorable supervisors. i represent the bay area armenian national committee. on behalf of the san francisco armenian community we thank you very much for consider, the resolution commemorating the 103rd anniversary of the armenian genocide perpetrated by the turkish government. in the first genocide, armenians lost more thanfu than half of te population. 1.5 million living on their historic homeland. after the killings it didn't end. the genocide continued with the complete dispossession of

armenian properties, schools, hospitals, churches, businesses, farms, the entire civilization they had built over centuries beginning before the turks arrived and then all imsimpley erased or appropriated by the turkish government. the da it is effects are compod every day in real ways. as a direct result of the massive government campaign of genocide denial within and beyond the turkish boundaries. denial is the major road block preventing any mod did i come of recovery and reconciliation between the two nations and responsible for the dangerously destabilizing and tense relationship between the two neighboring countries today serving as an ongoing threat to the security of armenia. [bell rings] >> your remembrance will not only serve to honor the victims and educate the public, but it will also be an important stand

against hi historical revisionim which leads to the reputation of the saddest chapters of history. we urge the board approval of the resolution as it has commendably done for many years running. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your testimony. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon i 57 am an organizer with evolve california. i wanted to thank the supervisor for your leadership in introducing the resolution to reform prop 13 and support the schools and communities first act. i want to thank supervisors peskin, sheehy,ee, ronen and kim for cosponsoring this important reform. we need this now more than ever. my wife is a public school teacher here in san francisco. and, i get to see every day just how heartbreaking it is for her to see her students cheated out of the future that they deserve.

i see her every weekend we go down to target and buy classroom supplies for her kids and she is in no, no way unique. all of our teachers have to to this every year. and this is in san francisco. we have it better than most is thofthe states. can you imagine what it is like for teachers, for parents, and most of all for students in other districts around the states who have far less resources than we do? and at this point in time, how can we continue to justify allowing large corporations like chevron to get away with paying pennies on the dollar in property taxes savin saving huns of millions of dollars while the schools are in the bottom 10 in per pupil funding and we have the most overcrowded classrooms in the nations and the rest of us all pairing four fair share. [bell rings] >> we need california so show a

better way. i hope you will adopt the resolution. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> i am with evolve california. i want to thank supervisor fewer for introducing the resolution to support the schools and communities first initiatives. i got involved with this campaign two years ago because i felt it wasn't fair that the young students i was mentoring felt discouraged to learn and stupid when in actuality it is because of the chronic underfunding of our state pub live schools that they were not given enough resources or time to succeed. and, after 40 years it is about time that we reform prop 13 and restore over $800 million every year to our city's schools and communities. no more tax breaks for large corporations. our students deserve better than that. i urge the board to pass this resolution. thank you so much.

>> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is joshua and i am a richmond district resident, student and an intern with the evolve california. i urge you to pass the schools and communities first initiative. my sister is a new special education teacher in california who hasn't start the her position yet and already told she needs to by supplies for the classroom out of her own pocket which is ridiculous considering the low salaries teachers already make. this will give students and teachers the resources they deseb. it ideserve. it is tame we invest in the students of california. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> my name is susan van kikens. i grew up in michigan a long time ago and as i was probably a teen i knew somehow we all new that california had the best schools in the nation.

what has happened, prop 13 came along and things started to change. i came here in 1994 and i have known a lot of young teachers who had to aah pl supply their n classrooms. i'm a supporter of evolve because i want changes in the city. we need to support our children. how can we expect our country to grow more healthy and more wise if we don't support our children? so please support this resolution. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm here in support of the resolution to ry form proposition 13. my name is megan able. i am the organizing director of the tech equity collaborate eastbound. we are a membership organization representing hundreds of tech

workers in the bay area who think that the tech driven economy can and should work for everyone. while tech didn't create the underlying issues causing the housing crisis we recognize the fast growth of the industry has contributed to the pushing out of long time residents and vulnerable communities have, we feel that we have a responsibility to use our voicee to advocate for a policy that will make it possible for everyone who wants to live here to access housing affordably. that is the i'm here today and why the organization supports prop 13 reform. we are excited to be one of the hundreds of grass rots faith and labor room -- grass roots groups. we believe prop 13 is the root of california's housing crisis. we forming the law would generate $10 billion in new funding for the state which would go to local governments to support local service programs including housing.

this funding is desperately needed to fund antidisplacement services because we know very well what has happened across the bay without adequate attention being paid to antidisplacement. as members of the tech community we want to be sure that all san franciscoansster the resiliency to ride out the wave and not get washed out by it. it is estimated san francisco would receive $800 million in funding from prop 13. [bell rings] >> which could be allocated for affordable housing development, antidisplacement services and homeless supports. we ask that you pass the resolution unanimously to show that san francisco is on the leading edge of the progressive tax reform. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is karen roda. i'm a resident of district 4. and i would like to invite any once who hasn't had an opportunity to sign the petition to put the initiative on the ballot to meet me after class.

i will be waiting outside. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i currently serve as the president for the san francisco mow flower mart and i want to urge you all to pass the urging of the property exchange at 2000 m200marin for 639. is the critical for the 50 tenants at the san francisco plow flower market to have a location they can thrive while the new market is being built. so i hope you all support it. i also want to thank supervisors kim and supervisors peskin for helping us to get this exchange. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> my name is otto duffy. i'm a resident of the neighborhood around city hall. i think matt gonzalez was the first person i heard mentioning that corporations never get a bump up in their taxes. the issue that they are bringing up. it isinit is long overdue to che that. i'm also notice something about pedestrian injuries and car accidents and pedestrian fatalities. some time ago, i noticed that while the vision zero is focusing most of the effort on the dense neighborhood of the tenderloin and the downtown area, the fact that there are more incidents in the area is an artifact of it is just a more dense neighborhood. if you look as a pedestrian walking around on the streets in san francisco, your odds as a pedestrian of getting hit by a car are approximately equal anywhere in the city. and so there probably out to be a little more focus on the other

neighborhoods and even in my neighborhood around here, on any given year there is probably about average of a couple hundred, 300, 400 deaths every year, lost years of life and a small fraction of that is actually pedestrian-caused problems with cars. if you wanted to increase life expectancy and quality of life you would be looking more at more housing. particularly for small units for stepup housing for homeless people which is what all of the con at thiconstituents are compg about and universal healthcare and a single standard of care. that is what you would be focusing on. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> i'm kelly cutler with the coalition of homelessness. the rest of my comrades are in sacramento regarding the bill

1045. and i thought i was getting out of having to go to meetings today. but then apparently not so i'm here. so we are in very strong opposition to it. and basically, it reminds me of like the tent ban. if there is no resources that are available, it just doesn't make sense. it is really facade. and so i'm here to strongly urge against that. and there is so many people that are service providers that are advocates that are healthcare professionals and so many other fields that are opposing this because it doesn't make sense. that's it. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment? please proceed. >> thank you, madam clerk. ladies and gentlemen of the board, today we heard about ucsf. warm the coccals of your heart

much, i would like to remind you about some facts of which you probably are aware but could bear reminding. about 15 years ago ucsf engaged in a major project of expansion in the mission bay neighborhood of the city. many of the buildings down there, i'm sure you have been down there, are closed to the public. you might have been allowed to go inside because you presumably have security clearances but i am not. this is a campus that has been dedicated to the medical sciences and yet they are doing classified research at the mission bay campus and this is a new step for them. the old campus has no classified buildings closed to the public. executive order 13-526 of what goes on in that kind of environment. section 1.4, classification

categories. information shall not be considered for classification unless its unauthorized disclosure to provide describable damage to the national security? accordance with section 1.2 of the order and pertains to a, military plans, weapons systems or operations. c, foreign government operation. intelligence activities. [bell rings] >> clerk: methods are. >> foreign relations or foreign activist thes united states. e, scientific techno logical matters. f, united states government programs for safeguarding nuclear materials or facilities. g, vulnerabilities or capabilities of infrastructures. i'm out of time, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. madam president. >> president breed: are there any other members for public comment? they are now closed.

read [gavel] >> president breed: read the items for adoption. >> clerk: items 53 -- an a-team may be severed and considered separatory. >> president breed: i will remove item number 55. supervisor yee? supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: i would like to sever item 56. >> president breed: before we take the vote, madam clerk leaks can we entertain to excuse supervisor peskin? without hundred, supervisor peskin is excused and on the remaining items including 55 and 56 please call the roll. [roll

call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president breed: adopted unanimously. let's go to item 55. >> clerk: a resolution to support state senate bill 1045 expanding california mental health conservato rship law. severe drug addictions repeated psychiatric committens or excessively frequent use of medical services. >> president breed: i would like to make a motion to continue the item one week to the meeting of april 24, 2018. is there a second? >> seconded by supervisor tang. can we take that without

objection. approved. item 56. >> clerk: a resolution to support the california schools and local community funding act and reaffirming the board of supervisors support for a split role reform of proposition 13 this order to close the commercial property tax loophole and restore billions in revenue. >> president breed: supervisor fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. this would support proposition 13 reform which would effectively close the unattendant corporate loophole of prop 13. while the intent is to help homeowners loopholes in the system permitted major commercial and industrial properties to avoid reassessment, a windfall to property owners at the expense of vital public services. as a public school student and parents of three public school students and school board member i have seen the impact prop 13 has had on the ability to fund

schools. california schools have gone from some of the best funded in the nation to now being the bottom 10. as a pta president of 12 terms i have raised money through fundraisers of carnivals and bake sales to buy paper, window blinds, pencils and crayons basic necessities that schools should be providing. and also, this prohibits us from being able to serve the neediest students in the community with the resources they need to make their academic potential. corporations have gotten away with not paying their fair share for 40 years and tax cuts by number 45 compounded the growth inequity. a common sense fix that will generate $10 billion per year for schools and public services across the state. $800 million for san francisco alone. nearly 80% of the revenue will come from just 8% of commercial properties in california worth $5 million or more. long-time commercial property owners will no longer be able to

sit on valuable vacant land while paying almost nothing in property taxes and this would help with our vacant store fronts. today, colleagues, i ask for support of the resolution. >> president breed: can we take this item same house, same call without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel] it is my understanding we have one imperative item. >> clerk: yes, madam president. on behalf of supervisor peskin a resolution mending kearney street workshop on its anniversary and proclaiming april 28 to be kearney workshop day in the city and county of san francisco. >> clerk: supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: supervisor peskin had to leave due too a family emergency. i have volunteered and performed at one of their events when i

was part of a band and this is commending on the location of the 45th anniversary and declaring april 14, 2018 the can workshop day. it was funded by jump an jim ana and michael chin in 1972 at the ground floor of the international hotel on the last block of keen any street that was part of what was then the historic manila town where many manong sunday and filipino seniors lived. it was a strugglingle for decades to maintain an sro hotel that has many of our growing senior population filipino community who worked in san francisco for decades. and, was a place of really just amazing activism and hi history where women and the black panthers and asian american activists came to protest before all of the seniors were evicted

including the kearney street workshop dragged out by the sheriff. we were able to rebuild the hotel as a site for affordable housing for seniors here in san francisco. it is the triumph and victory, of course, an immense loss that for 40 years this housing did not exist. but amazing that we were able to bring it back and just want to commend kearney street workshop for their role in the hotel struggle and their continuing work to support emerging asian pacific american artists the last 45 years here in the city and county of san francisco. >> president breed: supervisor kim, are are yo you going to may motions? >> supervisor kim: thank you, president breed. i would like to make a motion to add this to the imperative agenda. >> president breed: and certify that it is purely commendatory and that there is no need to take any further action because

it doesn't violate the brown act. >> supervisor kim: yes. >> the board before acting must make motions that it is purely commendatory and also that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda of today's meeting. >> supervisor kim: the motion to move it forward as imperative item and it is purely commendatory and i didn't hear. >> and that it came to the attention of the board after the publication of the agenda for today's meeting. >> president breed: okay. so supervisor kim has moved what was said by our deputy city attorney. and is there a second? seconded by supervisor yee. supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: i'm glad this was brought to you our attentio. is slipped my mind also. i was a member of the kearney street workshop in its infant stages in the mid 1970's.

being a teacher of arts and crafts type of things and eventually joining their photography sort of unit i guess and she helped publish books and document what was going on around the chinese or the chinatown community. it has been that long. i didn't realize that. but my goodness. i actually almost forgot i was a member of it. so, i'm glad we are doing this today. >> president breed: thank you. so there is a motion and second. and can we open it up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment. seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take the motion without objection? without objection the motion passes unanimously. on the actual item, same house, same call.

without hundred the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: even behalf of supervisor peskin for the late players ernie bile and mr. steven fong. and for the late miss merial dunaway. and on behalf of supervisor tang for the late ms sharon balmier. and for the late doris ward former assessor, recorder and president of the board of supervisors and on behalf of president breed and the entire board of supervisors for the late mr. james hennessy. >> president breed: supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: i have a question that has to do with the imperative agenda that is item number 5 of an 56 and i'm not qe

procedurally how to. >> president breed: we would need to rescind the vote. >> clerk: the california schools and community funding. >> president breed: i need to rescind the vote to discuss it, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: really? >> president breed: so you would like to make a motion to rescind the vote. supervisor cohen has made a motion to rescind the vote. is there a second? seconded. the vote has been rescinded. on the item, supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much for allowing an opportunity. supervisor fewer informed me and i want to make sure i understand this correctly. sorry, ladies. this resolution is there exemption for -- so the reason i'm flagging this when you talk about split rule i'm concerned it adversely affects small business owners and women

minority business owners in particular. can you talk to me about the exemption? >> supervisor kim: they would be provided with direct tax relief. they would no long verducci to pay taxes on any of their equipment or fixtures and things like that which they now are assessed by. >> supervisor cohen: okay. >> 550 employees for less. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. we can continue and make a motion to -- >> president breed: to colleagues, can we take this -- >> supervisor cohen: sorry, one more question. madam clerk, in terms of procedure are we able to send this back to committee to discuss? >> clerk: this item is a resolution and it is the single privilege of a super vicar to send it to committee. >> supervisor cohen: i would like to send it back to discuss a little bit more. >> president breed: so we could either send it to committee or a

continuance for one week. >> supervisor cohen: i'm happy with a continuance for one week. >> president breed: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue to april 24,. >> clerk: clerk, madam president. >> president breed: 2018. roll call vote. >> clerk: supervisor cohen made a motion to continue. a second? >> president breed: seconded by supervisor kim? no. no, supervisor kim does not second. supervisor fewer seconded for a one week tin wans. can we take that without turn? without hundred we will continue one week. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> president breed: thank you. [gavel] >> president breed: so ma madam clerk have you finished reading the in memoriams. >> clerk: yes,. >> president breed: there is no further business before us

today. thank you, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned at 5:38 p.m.] >> 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. cut. >> we are here to celebrate the opening of this community

garden. a place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and it's beautiful and it's been completely redone and been a gathering place for this community. >> i have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. that is not a joke. i live in an apartment building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. >> let me tell you handout you -- how to build a community garden. you start with a really good idea and add community support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have.

this is great. it's about environment and stewardship. it's also for the -- we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. that is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. i don't know how they do it. >> there is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through golden community garden. we have it right in the middle of . >> 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.

>> i'm going to call the meeting to order. good afternoon, everyone. it is now 1:04 p.m. with our brand-new monitors. you all will look gorgeous. it's 1:04 p.m. this is the regular meeting of the commission on community investment and infrastructure, the successor agency to the san francisco redevelopment agency for tuesday, april 17, 2018. welcome to the members of the public. my name is 34 arilee mondejar, and i am the chair. madam clerk, please call thei . madam clerk, please call t