departments are, because i think it's really important to acknowledge those who are stepping forward and wanting this training. so i'm curious who those are, and what the strategy's going to be for the next round of departments and when that training's going to happen. 'cause my guess is the ones that need it the most are probably not the ones that are necessarily the early adopters. so got that. could be wrong on that. >> i am excited to say i think some of those first points of contact for people are early adopters, so human resources and the educational placement center are the leadership in both of those areas. i'm very excited to be part of this, and so -- and as you know, they both are a touch point for job seekers and potential parents as well as current employees and current parents. and then, we're also really excited that the financial services division is interested also because they -- they work

a lot with our internal clients, so they interface with many different administrative assistants as well as principals and other staff in the district, so i think we have a good cross section. we've heard interest in other departments, as well, and the superintendent's leadership team knows that this is a priority for the superintendent, and we are planning to continue on with the training after this pilot phase we'll be picking up again in september and october. >> with a plan to have all departments trained? >> resources allowing, that is our plan. we are still identifying all the resources to be able to do that. but i think to commissioner merase and your suggestion, we have been trying to find also some potential training partners that could help develop that capacity without a big cost to the district. so we -- we have explored some possible avenues for that, but it sounds like there may be some that we can still explore,

so i'm excited about that. >> great. and i mean i don't know about my other commissioners, but i think this is a priority of ours because it has a ripple effect for so many other things that we do, so we should work hard to figure out where those resources can come from. any other questions or comments on this item? okay. thank you all. appreciate it. [applause]. >> it's nice. you can applaud for them. it's very sweet. it's good customer service. section i is a consent calendar. items removed as a previous meeting. there are none. section j is an assignment of proposals and rejection by committee. so board policy 3110, transfer of funds.

let's see...are these all going to the same committee? okay. so board policy 3110, transfer of funds. board number three, board policy 3514.1, hazardous substances. number four, board policy 5111, admissions. board policy 5111.1, district residency, and board policy 5117, interdistrict attendance. board policy 5113.1, chronic absence and truancy, and dp 35112, all of those items, miss hock, will those go to rules? >> rules, and then you may wish to refer some of these items to additional committees.

for example, item number two, transfer of funds, you may wish to transfer to the budget -- or excuse me refer to the budget committee. and item number four, you may wish to refer to the student assignment committee. >> okay. okay. so miss casco, so item 2 will go to both rules and budget, and item four will go to both rules and student assignment, ad hoc. okay. and i don't have any public comment on those items. item six is the superintendent's proposal, 184-24 ft 1. this is the first reading of authorization to grant or in alternative deny the petition for the mary l. booker leadership academy charter school. so this item is being referred to curriculum and program and to budget and business services. could i get a motion and a second for the first reading of all of these policies and

superintendent's proposals? >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. i do have speakers for item six, which is the reading of the authorization to grant or in alternative deny the petition for the mary l. booker leadership academy charter school. i have ten speakers on this item. we usually provide for five minutes on first readings, and -- but i will call your name and please come up, and you'll each get a minute. so susan solomon, alida fisher, julie robert fong, castro walker, c.m. bivens, come on up. terrence davis, betty hunter, susan fong wong, tiana cuman,

and geraldine anderson. >> thank you, commissioners and superintendent. my name is alina fisher, and i am the chairman of the advisory for community education. as i've stated before, the c.a.c. board and our membership is in agreement that we have very serious concerns with charter schools that opt out of the governance and oversight structures put in place by our c.a.c. here in sfusd. we have found that charters who come into the schools and colocate impact our most marginalized students, our students with disabilities by displacing our intervention room and supports. so we would actually encourage the mary l. booker family who's here to consider joining the san francisco unified school

district scpa and make yourself available to the families of sfusd and provide the same accountability and oversight and parent involvement and parent oversight that we do as sfusd schools do. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening. i'm susan solomon, executive vice president of united educators of san francisco. first of all, we also have concerns about colocating. we've heard that might happen. you heard from malcolm x community members last time, and we do have concerns, especially colocating six to 12th graders with elementary school. i have a couple of other concerns that i'll try to cover tonight. one is that the school specifies that because of the charter school's specific target students, the charter school's rascial and ethnic

balance may vary somewhat from sfusd as a whole and instead reflect the neighborhood demographics of students that may attend. i believe this is code for segregation for intentional segregation. back when we -- the coe decision back in san francisco, our schools immediately resegregated, and we should not be intentionally going back there. i do want to make one more quick point. it also says traditionally students with disabilities are pulled out of their academic classes to receive intervention. that is not traditional what's happening in sfusd. we are proud of the fact that we have fully inclusive practices in this district, and we have at this time. thank you. >> thank you, miss solomon. next speaker, please. [applause]. >> good evening, commissioners. my name is terrence davis, and

i'm the school founder of mary l. booker leadership academy. i'm excited to be in front of you tonight and formally submit the petition for mary l. booker leadership academy. we've been working for the past year to design a school that will meet the needs of all students. a little bit about myself. i'm a special educator. i'm also a father and husband to my two boys, jaden and elijah. we're a community school. we've been designed working with our parents. we recognize the needs of each individual students. our core values are equity, community value and leadership. community is how we are designed with the families that are standing behind me. equity is making sure we're meeting the needs of all students, and leadership is

developing the next great generation of leaders. thank you again for hearing our petition. >> good evening. i'm sam bivens. i'm the parent of a middle school aged child, and i've -- i'm urging the board to support mary l. booker academy. vote yes. it's absurd that we have to send our children out of our neighborhoods over to other neighborhoods to hopefully get, you know, what they need. teachers feel helpless because they know they're failing our children, our black and brown children. you guys know that you're failing our children. it's clear that you can't even retain teachers at your high potential schools. the ship is sinking, and we

want out. we demand that our right to choose, whether our right to choose education for our children, whether it comes from world class education -- i mean, whether it comes from private school, montessori, private school, charter, public, we need to be the decision holders on that. we don't -- we don't have another five years to wait for you guys to fix your schools. the schools are in bad shape. everybody is aware of this. >> thank you. >> that's it. >> next speaker, please. >> honorable commissioners of education, i am dr. aurelius bishop, pastor of church of god in bayview. i've been pastoring 50 years

next month in the bayview. i'm socially involved in education and housing and a variety of things. one of the thing i want to speak, because i only have a minute, is to my experience. my experience -- i spoke at this board sometime three months ago that the african americans, there's the latinos, and the pacific islanders are totally overlooked and they're not being taken care of as they should, and matter of fact, a coalition which i'm a part of, they passed a resolution. the directors of tcdc as its scheduled meeting of january 3rd, 2018 voted to endorse and support the establishment of urban education academy, the

charter schools in the bayview, and mary l. booker academy, and we're standing strong behind that. and i would urge the board to allow this mary l. booker school to also survive to be implemented and support it. thank you very much in advance. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, superintendent, dr. vincent matthews and board of education commissioners. my name is shari taylor. i am a teacher and a product of the san francisco unified school district, and my own children were products of san francisco unified school district. at mary l. booker leadership academy, we will assist all students in increasing their grade point level average. as we know, many students go

from one grade to the next, and they're pushed socially. there are students that do not -- that are promoted and graduate at three and four grade levels below. we have seventh and eighth graders in the public school system that still do not know how to do long division, they do not know how to read the analog clock, they do not know how to write effectively, and we would like to build a community -- our academy, mary l. booker leadership academy would like to build with the parents, so we can have a parent involvement, a relationship where they can trust us, and we can lead our children to victory. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is betty hunter. i'm a parent of an 11-year-old child here in san francisco school district. i'm also a product of this district, and i'm just here today to speak on behalf of mary l. booker leadership

academy. our son, if this school is opened, will be attending as soon as it opened. not only that, but i've sat here this whole entire time and watched the board talk about equity, and this school will provide that type of equity. not only that, but every speaker who's got up here to have and make a public comment has stated abouten witne equit. the superintendent of this board has stated that this is an equitiable education and district andum is, and it's not showing because san francisco's unified school district at this point is failing all of their after american and latino students, and me as a parent is completely frustrated. my son will be graduating fifth grade this year. he is not at the level that he should be at, and that is not on my child, nor is it on me, but it is on the school district, the teachers, the principals and all of you board members. and if you guys have a heart or

even care remotely about equity as much as you guys speak about it, you guys should implement this school immediately. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you. my name is susan wong. i'm a mother of three current and former students in the school district. i've been -- so i've been involved with the school district for 17 years as a parent. with this experience, i thukly support the chartership of mary l. booker leadership academy, a much needed six through 12 school in the bayview in light of the low achievement of many bayview mission and excelsior schools. i support a new school which offers fresh hope and greater choice to these communities. mary l. booker leadership academy deserves your support so that the long-standing achievement gap that we see in the latino and african american community can be closed. i haven't seen any progress in

the last 15 years. we've had no child left behind, we've had every child succeed, and to me, they're just empty slogans, because san francisco hasn't changed. so me, the under served students in san francisco would like a school like mary booker that would value their children. thank you. [applause]. >> good evening, board members and superintendent. my name is geraldine anderson, a single mother of two boys, who attended schools in the bayview. i come in support of mary l. booker leadership academy. she was a woman in the bayview who captured the support of the community while teaching children, young adults and elders to make the bayview neighborhood a better place to live, work, and raise a family. as a single mother, i look to

the schools my children have attended to be a support system for my children and myself. i ask that you take into deep consideration allowing this school to not only open but stand to commemorate on our neighborhood, especially our children. i understand the district is in full throttle, trying to make positive changes in schools in the bayview, but i would like to see immediate remedies that are current active in our bayview schools. our children desperately need mary l. booker leadership academy. thank you. >> my name's julie roberts, and i'm with the san francisco families union and have been working closely with m.e.c. families who have been facing forced colocation under a charter. i have some questions about the mary l. booker academy. they say they're going to offer

seats for 420 people, but i'm wondering where these students will go, and i think there's real concerns about ge gentrification and displacement in the city. the folks at mary booker said that he would love to see a school located at malcolm x. or willie brown. all of them have been showing significant progress for students, so i think as we're asking -- talking about choice, we also have to ask, where's the choice, what's the process for schools that are being forced into colocation and who are losing resources because of charters? i want to notice that even though folks say bayview schools are failing students, that didn't stop them from stealing some of the carrar language in the mary booker proposal, which i think is in recognition of the great work that carver's doing. and i want to acknowledge seven out of the nine board members for mary booker are people who

did not live in san francisco a year ago. thank you. >> thank you. [please stand by for captioner switch]

>> i wanted to congratulate the middle school performing arts group for their amazing performance of little shop of horrors. it was really fantastic. the middle school has become this hub for students who are interested in the arts, and they are now feeding many students to the school of the arts. so i want to congratulate everyone who made that possible. i wanted to recognize a few folks who participated -- who received recognition from the school health programs for their

artwork against tobacco and alcohol -- i want to congratulate a couple of students. there was an lgbtq themed contest. i want to congratulate the youth outreach workers, johnson chan ooflincoln high school. our family coalition's night out is scheduled for may 11th, and the latin america teachers association is having their annual scholarship dinner on friday, may 4th. finally, i want to publicly acknowledge quad for their first ever youth take over in the month of april where some of our public school students are reciting poetry, reading excerpts from essays.

it's a great way for talented. our final meeting of the school year on thursday, may 3rd. hope folks can come to that. >> thank you. any announcements from board members. meetings or other reports? >> rules committee will be meeting 6:00 p.m. may 8th. >> 7th. >> 7th. sorry. >> okay. thank you. before we go to committee meetings, i want to just make a couple announcements. i want to reiterate our great thanks to the san francisco symphony and their adventures in music. they've been with us for 30 years and our children get to go down to the symphony and they get music in the schools which is just fantastic. this week on thursday, april 26th, it's youth advocacy day at city hall.

so many of our young people will be meeting with supervisors and advocating for the needs of students. so i'm really excited to see them doing what they need to be doing especially at city hall. then i wanted to congratulate the filipino teachers association in particular freedom from balboa and cherry from lincoln high school who led the charge to provide scholarships to our filipino students. any other committee meetings that you want to announce? budget and business services? commissioner haney? may 23rd is not -- that's not -- okay. buildings and grounds, we have a schedule for may the 28th. curriculum and program, commissioner, do you know what that is in april 30th, does that sound right. >> that's correct, april 30th at 5:30 p.m.

>> 5:30. >> okay. so curriculum and program will be monday, april 30th at 5:45 p.m. okay. ad hoc committee on student assignments. >> may 3rd. >> okay. that's thursday, may 3rd at 6:00 p.m., ad hoc committee and personnel matters. commissioner sanchez. april 26th, does that sound right, at 5:00 p.m. >> yeah. we have it then, but i don't know if it's confirmed. >> that's when we have it tentatively. ad hoc for school district and city college joint committees scheduled for june 14th at 6:00 p.m. that one will be held at sfusd. okay. section m, other informational items. we have two items, first item is

on peer assistance and review or par. we have margaret reyes who is going to be presenting on this matter. you have two minutes to present on this matter. >> press the button. a light will come on. >> all right. i want to say thank you to the san francisco school board and mr. matthews for giving me the opportunity to speak today and thank you for everyone staying this late. my name is margaret reyes, and i'm a teacher here in san francisco unified. my employee id number is 18505. i'm here to respectfully request an immediate moratorium and investigation into the uesf sfusd peer assistance and

review or par program. mr. kelly, the former president, while he was uesf president stated and i'm going to put a quote, par has a bad reputation. that's where you put a teacher when you want that teacher dead. during the recent fraudulent skelly hearing, the representative stated on audio recording that par was being used as a weapon. with that said, it seems that both uesf and sfusd have an obligation to look into par. on december 26th, 2017, the school board and dr. matthews and members of uesf rereceived a whistleblower letter and attached was a spreadsheet that had been provided to me and had been provided by, i believe, labor relations, and it had the

participants in par for the last 7 years. she attached a mathematically sound argument to prove that the par program is operating in a discriminatory manner and targeting specific groups of people. i personally have asked both sfusd and uesf to answer the allegations and both have refused. the uesf president stated they don't know how the data is gathered, stored, or reported. i made a public reports request regarding the storage and reporting of par data and sfusd told me that they diligently searched, but don't know how they store the data. par is siphoning a million dollars a year from proposition a funding. there is much about propsation a and appendix x that warrants additional review. >> your time has passed. >> okay. thank you for your time. thank you.

>> then i do have two speakers on this item gill. >> he had to leave. >> and steve. >> hi. >> thank you. >> again, i'm with defend public education now. i think we're not talking about san francisco. we're talking about a program that's been implemented all over the state in lausd, thousands much teachers have been put in teachers jails. in berkeley it was challenged by a steward of berkeley federation of teachers because it was -- he found it was being targeted senior teachers and african-american and latino teachers. and after he began to defend those teachers, he himself was put in this program. so there's a -- i think it's becoming apparent and clear this program is used in a discriminatory way with a lack of transparency and also that there's also some other things that are going on here in this district.

that is, teachers are being requested to have nondisclosure agreements when they go into the par program. secret nondisclosure agreements to they can't talk about what's going on. i think it's illegal and n. a public body to require nondisclosure agreements. why with you do that? why would you do that for a teacher? the reason is, there's a lot of bullying -- workplace bullying and discrimination going on against the teachers and staff in san francisco. we have examples with the martin luther king middle school where teachers were being bullied by the principal and the assistant principal, harassed out of the school. there was a frame up against a staff member to fire him and one of the problems is there's not transparency. i think there needs to be an investigation of this program, and i think it should be terminated or at least moratorium should be put on the program and action against teachers until there's a full investigation.

i found it -- we found it outrageous that $1 million is being spent on this program when that money should be going to the teachers, should be going to the staff. it's coming from parcel a. it was teachers were unaware this was going to be happening. the public is unaware. if it's going to go places should go to the teachers and staff and not consultants and programs that bully and intimidate the teachers. we say enough is enough. it's time to stop harassing and bullying the teachers out of their jobs. >> okay. thank you. the next item is 2, posted in the agenda a listing of cash donations. also, of supplies and equipment items donated to the district item n is the memorial adjournment. this is in memory of ann austin, a retired district administrator. educator ann austin served in an exemplary manner for more than 30 years as a teacher,

counselorrer, assistant principal, program director, and principal of the san francisco unified school district. she was known for wearing eye-catching african attire. educator ann austin started her career as a teacher at polytechnic al high school and retired as the principal of ida b. wells. a learner, she was reared in alabama, graduating from the local high school during the segregated south and learned a degree from a and m, a distinguished school where she spent her life as a supporter and active member of the san francisco bay area alumni chapter. she earned an ma from an educational administration from san francisco state university. educator ann austin worked with african-american and latino

students. she wanted to help students from single family households and students raised by grandparents. in order to help her students in the business courses that she taught at gallileo and the former school of business and commerce, educator austin was a visionary and called her students -- and taught her students the king's english using rap. educator austin would go around the city sharing her poetic talents, released a cd and became known as the education rapper. she was an active member of the san francisco alliance of black school educators and a sorority. she served as the alliance isn't with a passion for serving on the oratorical festival and raising funds for student scholarships, many were the first generation to attend college. on monday april 16th, when she

arrived at ida b. wells, the school was like a ship turned on its side in turbulent waters at sea. educator austin urned it the school around. she implemented the 3as, which the school uses today, first is for attendance. second is for attitude. third is for achievement. she coined the terms i rise for the exemplary saturday school program held at dr. martin luther king middle school in partnership with the sfusd and the san francisco alliance of black school educators. ann austin passed away on march 13th, 2018, and the board of education, the superintendent of schools extend our deepest sympathy to her husband of 52 years, dr. therman austin. she now takes her rest. however, she will never be forgotten by her students, colleagues, parents, and family who make up the sfusd.

thank you to virginia and emily for providing us this beautiful tribute to educator ann austin. thank you. [ applause ] >> so at this time, we would like to take any public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed session items. i do not have any cards at this time. so section o is closed. the board will go into close the session. i call this regular meeting into recess, and we'll be coming back . ess, and we'll be coming back >> section p is following the closed session. we're going to resume the regular board meeting and i'm going to report on the closed session action items. a vote on approval -- i move approval of a stipulate

expulsion agreement where the parties agreed to waive the expulsion hearing of one high school student case number 2018-13 and stipulated to the expulsion of the student from the district for one year from the date of the board's approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement. i move approval of the expulsion pursuant to the recommendation of the administrative hearing panel of one high school student case number 2018-14, from the district for the remainder of the spring 2018 semester through the fall 2018 semester. this is the readout of the april 24th, 2018 closed session. the board by a vote of five ayes, two absent, cook and norton approved the -- of two

principals in. the board by a vote of five ayes and two absent cooke and no, sirton giand -- no, sir -- ton -- -- [ inaudible ] >> -- give direction to general counsel in the matters of 123d usd in the matters of hl versus sfusd and dc versus sfusd. the board authorized the general counsel to initiate litigation. so those are the closed action items this even. item p is adjournment. this hearing is adjourned. thank you.

>> hi. i'm shana longhorn with the san francisco league of women voters. i'm here to discuss prop h, a measure that will be before the voters on june 5th. the san francisco police commission is a civilian body that sets residence lation for the police department tazers are weapons that discharge electrical currents into an individual. auto mated external

defibrillators are portable electronic devices that are used following a heart attack. san francisco police officers do not currently use tazers. about half of police department patrol vehicles versus defibrillators. any policy control on tazers or defibrillators cannot be changed by the commission. tazers may be used when a person is actively resisting, assaulting or exhibiting any action likely to result in serious bodily injury or death of another person, themselves or a police officer. proposition h would authorize the police department to purchase tazers for each police officer subject to the following conditions: the officer has successfully completed the department's use of force and threat assessment training, uses only police department issued tazers and holsters. holsters the tazer on side of his or her body opposite from the firearm. police department vehicles are equipped with defibrillators in districts where tazers are

carrie, and there is an investigation and report each time an officer uses a tazer. this may be amended only by a majority of the voters of san francisco or by an ordinance adopted by a vote of four fifths of the board of supervisors. a yes vote means if you vote yes, you want to set a policy for the use of tazers and authorize the purchase of tazers for each police officer by the police department superintendent to specific conditions. a no vote means if you vote no, you do not want to adopt this measure. i'm here with tracey mcray from yes on h and a proponent of proposition h. welcome? >> thank you. >> we're joined by john roy, a proponent of no on h. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> we're going to start with tracey. why do you believe this proposition is so important. >> so i'm a native of san francisco. i was born and raised here. for the past 29 years i've been

a police officer in the city and county of san francisco. currently i work in the bayview district which has had a number of high profile incidents, shootings, assaults. as police officers, we need the best tools available for us to do our jobs, to go home safely, to keep the public safe, and this ballot measure will do that. i know that people have often times felt that tazers are inherently dangerous, we don't need them, we've been in a long, arduous fight trying to get tazers, even though when the d.o.j. collaborative reform recommended in their 27 two-page evaluation that we have tazers, that people have always stated that no we shouldn't. and numerous police departments throughout the bay area have them. >> thank you. john, why do you feel this proposition is so important. >> well, i think the most important thing for people to take away is just the

unbelievable opposition to the scope of h. if you heard what tracey said, if it was really that simple and true, you have to ask yourself why are both protazer people and antitazer people opposed to it? why are progressives and moderates, why is the san francisco chronicle and san francisco activists? because it's not as simple as tracey portrayed it. this is not about tazers, yes or no. the police commission already approved tazers, and the p.o.a. went ahead and put this measure on the ballot. this is about when tazers are used and more importantly who gets to regulate them. this ballot measure is reckless and dangerous. it would strip the police chief and the commission from their ability to make any changes in the policy that was carefully created, no matter what happens, and i look forward to getting into greater detail. >> well, that is going to lead us into our questions, and the first question goes to you, john, and it's what are the advantages or disadvantages to this proposition. >> well, honestly, i don't see

any advantage because even if you're protazer, the policy has already been created through the process recommended by the justice department, the obama justice department cop's office, and just to slightly correct tracey here, they didn't recommend tazers, they recommend that it be strongly considered, and that a collaborative process be used to try to develop the policy, a collaborative process that has been tried all over the country. i've worked with the department of justice, departments all over this country. you bring in the union, the stakeholders, experts, medical people, and you craft the best policy possible. this is what happened. the police commission approved tazers in november , and they adopted a policy on march 14th that the mayor supports, that the police chief supports, and yet, the p.o.a. is going forward with this measure because they do not like it, and they want to strip the commission and the chief from the ability to regulate it. there are two big differences between what prop h would allow and what the p.o.a. law would

set into stone. one is prop h would strip the requirement that officers try deescalation deescalation before using force, especially important on as weapon as dangerous as tazers. second, the commission looked at this weapon and said this is a dangerous weapon. they need to use this only when there's resistance, and they have proposed in this law and locking into place no physical dangerous whatsoever, moorely bracing, moorely verbally noncomplying, and you can use this weapon, and it's dangerous. >> thank you. tracey, same question to you. what are the advantages or disadvantages to this proposition? >> well, i respectfully disagree with him about the language. so the language of this proposition, the way the police commission has it, has been very restrictive. so the most restrictive language, the less the officer will likely use this device. so we're getting into semantics will assaultive behavior, like he said, bracing.

no, it's clearly spelled out in the p.o.a.'s language for proposition h about the training and the need to deescalate and having proper training, the 40 hours of c.i.t., another ten hours of deescalation practical exercises, so the training is there, having the medical equipment on-site. it -- it boggles my mind that the sheriff's department has tazers, and we never had this sort of diversion about getting this piece of equipment. they took away the carotid restraint, which we never had a negative use of force. i've used that numerous times, but then it was taken away. we were given shields and long batons to use, but there was no training given to us on how to use those. so it was here you go, they've taken that away from us, but

here's a baton and shield. our position is the language is too restrictive. if they want to down the road revisit language, the police commission can do that, so -- >> thank you. the next question will go back to you, tracy. should voters be making decisions about police weaponry? >> the voters are part of the community. the community is a stakeholder. they should have a stake in this. i'm a citizen of san francisco. i vote, so why not have a say in what we do? the police commission, now two commissioners are leaving the police commission board, so when are we ever going to get to meet and confer about this topic? so it's incredible that it's taken this long, eight years, that we've been talking about this, when other departments have this. the sheriff's department, their tazer policy is four pages long. you have oakland that has this, san jose that has this, but all

of a sudden, san francisco, we're a world dlsh class cit-- class city, we should beequipping our officers to keep the people safe. >> same question to you, john. >> they shouldn't be locking into law a standard that cannot be changed. i need to correct here what my friend from the p.o.a. said. it's clear in the language of this law that it cannot be changed. the police commission will have no power, the chief will have no power to change anything that is inconsistent with what is being proposed here. that is what is so dangerous and radical. it is unprecedented, and i'm not aware of a single police union that has actually tried to take something like this away. this is an unbelievably radical

measure. and with respect to the particular standard, it's right here in black and white, the terms the p.o.a. chose to use were active resistance, which is defined. it's a police term of art. it's defined in sfpd manual as tensing or running away or not complying. we want to see if we can make a looser standard over time, why not start with a more restrictive policy, on a weapon that has been this controversial. again, tazers have already been approved. this isn't about whether or not you get tazers. that's already been decide dangerous dred. that's not the issue on the ballot. >> thank you. closing statements, i'll start with you, tracy? >> like i said, it's been a long process trying to equip our officers with tazers. voting yes on this proposition

will ensure that officers do their annual training, complete deescalation. they will be required to have accountability, which we do right now. as a sergeant, i fill out a very long form to do that. with he will have medical equipment, defib railators on board if we do use this tool. prop h, i believe, is the correct policy. people have the choice to vote yes or no. obviously, we got enough signatures to get it on the ballot, so obviously, people want this -- this tool, this device for us to use. if that wasn't the case, then we wouldn't have been able to put it on the ballot. >> thank you. your statement. >> this is a deeply cynical argument. the p.o.a. has put $180,000 on this campaign already. they spent $140,000 on a paid campaign to gather signatures to mislead voters. they told them this was about

whether or not they have tazers, when in fact the police commission already approved it. this is why the league of women voters and sffovtv did this. we strongly encourage you to read the voter guide. there's more information on our website, votenoproph.nationbuilder.com. you will vote no like most of the people who have looked at it have already decided. >> thank you for your time. we hope that this discussion has been informative. for more information on this and other measures in the ballot initiative, please visit sfelections.org, remember early voting is available on may 7th from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and if you don't vote early, be sure to vote on june 5th.

thank you. ♪ >> not only did the total death on our streets from traffic collisions decrease dramatically in 2017, pedestrian deaths did as well. since 2013, fewer pedestrians have been killed on our streets. this is really good news. you know, no one wants to see the accidents on the side of the road, no one wants to experience going to a crime scene on the road knowing your loved one has been hit by a car or sadly tragically killed. this is about bringing that number of 20 from 2017 down to zero. we don't want another death on our streets because of human

error, because of anything that we can avoid. if we change our behavior, we change our roads and we do a better job here in the city and county of san francisco. >> my ask of the public, number one be aware of your surrounding, be aware of the law, be aware of the street signals and crosswalks and try to work within the laws designed to keep you safe. look at where we were and look at where we are. this vision will be a reality. >> we all have to remember that all of us, all of us every single day, no matter how you get to work, school, wherever you go, all of us are always pedestrians. this impacts all of us. >> school starts again on monday, so i hope as you are reporting today you will encourage people to slow down, to be mindful, to recognize that you're going to have more cars on the street on monday. we're going to have more kids on bikes, more kids walking.

please, be slow, be safe and be mindful. >> i just want to urge everyone at the sound of my voice to make some corrections. if you operate a motor vehicle, think about it, think about the person standing on the corner. think about how fast you're driving. think about the stop sign you're about to come to. just think. and just doing so, you'll help someone live another day. i guarantee that. i guarantee that. ♪ francisco. >> my name is fwlend hope i would say on at large-scale what all passionate about is peace in the world. >> it never outdoor 0 me that

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>> clerk: commissioner seriñá. commissioner lang and commissioner loo is excused and commissioner pappas. commissioner jeremy wallenberg. and please note that the executive director is present. >> thank you. we have amendments to the agenda. items k, l, m, n will not be discussed today and we're making the agenda shorter, please. and item b is the approval of the fiscal year 2018-2019, and area plan update, not 2017-2018. with those two amendments may i have a motion to approve the agenda. >> so moved. >> a second? >> second. >> thank you. any comments or questions? all in favor? >> aye.