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wastewater and water capacity. so that can be shown or proven to the p.u.c., you shouldn't be setting an unmetered account on some of the properties for us because you will get your fees, significant fees. if i can demonstrate that to the p.u.c. i wanted to make that clear. >> president kwon: do we have a staff answer for mr. rossi? >> we've been working with our customer service division who does handle new meter installations. and so they've worked this into their new meter installation process. so when somebody applies to put in that meter, they would trigger them not being subject to the property meter charge. >> president kwon: thank you. any other public comment on this item?
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okay. all in favor? opposed? approved. next item, please. >> clerk: item 13, approve water infrastructure finance and innovation act in agreement with the e.p.a. in an answer up to $699,242,023, with a 35-year repayment period starting at completion of the project. authorize the general manager to issue the wifia loan agreement and documents to the transaction. >> good afternoon. charles pearl, c.f.o. this item requests the approval of a wifia, water infrastructure finance and innovation act. if i could have at slides, please, that would be great.
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here's an overview of what i will cover today, starting with our 2018 capital financing plan. i will cover how the transaction fits into the strategy, including how we're considering low-cost alternatives as opposed to bonds. and i will present the wifia and legal structure. going to click through all the checked boxes here. here we are. here's our capital financing plan, which way first shared with you one year ago last year in september. as you can see, it's been a very busy year in terms of capital financing efforts. and the wifia loan is the last item on the list. we are working on the capital financing plan for the current fiscal year '19 and we'll share
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that with you in september. staff has been developing a capital financing plan to fund wastewater's large capital program, including the ssip in a measured way to mitigate the upward pressure on sewer rates and charges. so actively managing our capital financing costs is very important. and the points that are noted here is what we look at all the time. we look for opportunities to refund our outstanding debt we're a leader in the issuance of green bonds, with being able to attract a larger investor base. through the latest bond you approved at the last meeting, we introduced that to a capital financing program that can result in overall lowered
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borrowing costs. so in terms of loans, loans can serve as a cheaper alternative. we have actively pursued the loans. and we've entered into the loans for just over $100 million that are funding our ssip projects. in terms of the cost savings, the loans bear interest rates of 1.6% to 1.8%, well below the current 4% average revenue bond rate. we, of course, will continue to pursue state loans and to that end the states recently adopted the intended use plan allocated $171 million to the sfpuc with $8 million being a grant. so good news as it relates to the state loan front. the reason we're here today is to talk about wifia, the federal
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loan. complementing the state loans, we've negotiated a $699 million loan with the federal government. wifia was enacted in congress in 2015 and issued by the e.p.a. the e.p.a. requested applications for the inaugural round of funding. we submitted an application to fund 49% of the $1.3 billion project, maximum allowed to finance a project, 49%. we were one of 43 agencies to submit an application. it was one of 12 selected for funding and our loan represents the largest in the entire country. so we feel fortunate to present this to you today. since this selection from the e.p.a., staff has been consulting with advisors and legal team to negotiate terms
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for the loan. with your approval today, we're scheduled to close the loan this friday, july 27. the remaining costs of the bio solids project would be funded with combination of additional state loans and revenue bonds. in terms of the loan terms, the amount, as i noted before, $699 million, consists of $625 million to fund the project. $47 million of financing costs. the interest rate will be set on the loan of the execution, again, scheduled for this friday. it's estimated to be 3%. so the 1% difference represents about $200 million of assumed debt service savings over the life of the financing, so an
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incredible amount of potential rate payer savings. in addition to lower interest rates, it allows for longer, more flexible terms. so it can be deferred until two years after completion. and the loan allows for debt repayment to occur over a period of time, in this case, 35 years, rather than the 30-year repayment for revenue bonds. unlike revenue bonds, where we take bonds up front, wifia is a disbursement loan. that means we repay ourselves after disbursement occurs. the interest of 3% on the loan begins to accrue when proceeds are dispersed. rather than doing that, the sfpuc has developed a line of
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finance to provide more interim, cost-effective financing, which are bond appreciation notes, b.a.n.s. so in today's market, b.a.n.s can be released at 1.5% to 1.8%, lower than the 3% wifia loan rate. so we'll issue these as needed at the lower interest rate to finance project construction. we'll come back to this commission for each of the b.a.n. approvals. stay tuned for that. when sfpuc would make full dispersement to pay off the loans, we would do that after the construction is complete. with this plan of finance, it can be achieved at a lower cost than making the loan disper
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dispersement during the funding phase. and it preserves our wastewater funding program for other wastewater capital project needs. in terms of the loan's legal structure, loan repayment is secured by a senior pledge of wastewater system net revenues and the loan would be on parity with our outstanding revenue bonds and s.r. bonds. the wifia is rated as same as wastewater revenue bonds, which is aa from s&p 500 and aa moody's. the loan will conform with our current wastewater indenture. here is the sb-450. we present this with each funding transaction. the goal is to present some
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information that the state wants to be sure it's communicated to you in the public. true interest cost is all in, 3.13%. finance charge of the loan, cost of issuance, estimated to be $817,000. amount of the proceeds received is the loan, amount of $699 million. and the all-in costs, including principle and interest repayment is a little over $1.3 billion. the documents with you today is the sfpuc describing the loan terms and the agreement between sfpuc and the trustee. our trustee is u.s. bank. december rubing contractual loan, repayment and redemptions. the next two slides are, again,
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standard slides that we include when we're talking about financing transactions with you. i will not go through the details directly. you can read them at your convenience. i do want to make a point that the financing transaction is not a public offering of securities as is the case when we issue revenue bonds. this was a direct placement transaction between sfpuc and e.p.a. there is no public offering in the form of political official statement. so it will be posted on-line and will share it when ready.
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the schedule is noted today, requesting your review and approval of this item. we're scheduled to close later this week on friday in washington, d.c. deputy general manager will be flying out to attend that closing, along with some of the folks from my team as well as alexander ganell from infrastructure. it's been a large team effort and we're excited to be able to close on this transaction. we've included the other dates, so you are familiar with that. you approved the wastewater bond transaction. and we're scheduled to close on the wastewater sale and receive that on august 6.
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and the recommended action for you today is to approve the loan agreement and delegate to the general manager authorization to execute and deliver the final documents, as needed. i'm happy to take any questions. >> president kwon: commissioners? >> i move approval. >> second. >> president kwon: before we vote, any public comment on item 13? with that, all in favor? opposed? it's approved. terrific work. next item, number 14, please. >> clerk: authorize general manager to execute a second memorandum of understanding with the city of daly city for groundwater storage and recovery project for an amount not to exceed $435,000 with a duration not to exceed two years. >> steve ritchie.
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this is a second m.o.u. it's to continue payments for consulting services, which is part of the groundwater storage recover rag project network of wells and for groundwater modelling services not to exceed $435,000. i would be happy to answer any questions. >> move the item. >> second. >> president kwon: before we vote, any public comment? all in favor? opposed? it's approved. next item, 15, please. >> clerk: approve the selection of moffatt and nichol-ags joint venture award pro-0092, not to exceed $3,750,000 and duration of five years. >> good afternoon, commissioners. cathy how. this item is before you today
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because we have one proposer on the project, but we're confident that the proposer meets the minimum qualifications and, in fact, exceeds them. we did public outreach. it's for erosion control of lake merc merced. they've had previous contracts with the port related to waterfront protection of assets. >> commissioner moran: is moffatt and nichol on one end and a.g.s. the other? >> yes. >> commissioner moran: are they independently capable of bidding on the work? >> they are, but they chose to joint venture. >> commissioner moran: in the process of doing that, they had
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no other competition? >> pardon me? >> commissioner moran: there was no other competing bid? >> correct. >> commissioner moran: do we have the authority -- do we review joint venture proposals like that? do we have the right to approve or disapprove? if this is a strategy for eliminating competition, that's something we should care about. >> we can't tell them they can't joint venture. that's their -- that's the consultant's prerogative whether they want to come in as a joint venture or not. >> if i could restate your question slightly. you are asking if we have the authority to say that we will not entertain joint ventures, it has to be a single entity proposing on the project? >> commissioner moran: no. there are legitimate uses for
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joint ventures. >> i understand that. >> commissioner moran: if it's part of your portfolio that doesn't meet a certain need and you need a partner, that's reasonable. and it's a nice way of building ownership interest for smaller firms. so there's a lot of good reasons for the joint venture stuff. it also appears to me that there is opportunity for limiting competition and that's something we should care about. i'm not sure what the strategy is that we should follow on that, but i would like to hear about that. >> that's sounds great. i think we'll formulate a question and give it to our city attorney. >> commissioner moran: thank you. >> president kwon: any questions? any public comment on this item? do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> president kwon: all in favor? opposed? approved. next item, please.
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>> clerk: item 16 authorize the general manager to negotiate and execute a purchase and sale agreement with alameda county to sell approximately 5,484-square-foot road easement and an approximately 22,548-square-foot slope easement to be designated portion of calaveras road and sfpuc. >> i move approval. >> second. >> president kwon: any public comment? all in favor? opposed? it's moved. >> clerk: item 17, approve cleanpowersf integrated resource plan compliance filing and authorize to the general manager submission to i.r.p. compliance filing. >> president kwon: welcome back.
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>> we're seeking your approval of the integrated rye source plan or i.r.p. compliance filing attached to agenda item and to authorize the g.m. to submit the i.r.p. to the california public utilities commission by its august 1 deadline. senate bill 350 required programs like cleanpowersf to prepare and file an i.r.p. an i.r.p. is a plan that efrm -- shows how affordable rates and meeting other environmental goals. it requires that electric energy providers file individual i.r.p.s every two years with the first to be filed this august. the sfpuc obtained a firm,
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technical advisors to conduct analysis and support the development of the draft report for cleanpowersf. that was provided to you as a communication item. we'll come back to you with a more detailed presentation and discussion of the draft i.r.p. in the next couple of months. the analysis conducted to date has been designed to help cleanpowersf make informed procurement decisions as full enrollment is completed and identify resources and actions required to meet state mandates in city and county renewable energy and greenhouse gas reduction targets. the cases featured different mixes of resources, pred predominantly solar and wind as well as local resources as well.
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we focused on wind and solar as the dominant resources analyzed because they stand out as the most cost effective over the i.r.p. planning horizon. under each case analyzed, all existing state and city energy supply requirements and goals are met. case five in particular with higher wind energy and local resource mix represents the lowest cost portfolio. as since we believe it best meets the goals for cleanpowersf and meets the requirements for submission. the filing attached to this action item reflects the use of this case. the submission on this case represents the beginning of an
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ongoing, long-term planning process at the cpuc. while the cpuc will be required to use this as a pathway to energy and climate goals, cleanpowersf is not bound by the resources or locations of resources that the plan identifies. the city can update its plan and provide it during the next i.r.p. cycle the i.r.p. will be updated as needed to reflect changing market and technology conditions as well as policy directives from the commission, mayor and board of supervisors. with that, i'm happy to take any questions you have. >> president kwon: any questions? okay. any public comment on this item? yes, ma'am.
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>> i would really like to encourage some more converted effort to speak directly to community residents, citizens on the ground, with this issue, to make sure that we, in fact, benefit from this plan, especially considering that the new plant, the updated plant, which is half a block from my house, i live on phillips and newcome is capturing and burning methane, which bay view hunters point spent 30 years giving the pg&e plants that burn methane out of our neighborhoods. since we're going to be more highly impacted by that piece,
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we would like to also see what some of the benefits in the i.r.p. plan are to help reduce that burden on our neighborhood and our communities specifically. thank you very much. i'll be bugging you. >> thank you. you answered my question. i wasn't initially understanding what the mechanism would be for concentrating the impact on your neighborhood. i think you address nad and i t. i see you were talking. thank you for coming and bringing this matter to us. >> any other public comment? i think we had a motion and a second, is that right? >> i'll move it. >> second. >> all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed. >> it is approved. so we are not going into closed session. there's no closed session today. and so i am going to move to the end and the other new commission
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business. i will note again, august 14th, that meeting is canceled. is there any public comments on new business? meeting is adjourned, thank you, everyone, for your time. >> so what brought you out here for the bike ride today? >> i grew up in san francisco but i have been living in new york. i wanted to see what san
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francisco is doing with infrastructure. >> cities are where people are living these days. the bay area is doing a lot with construction and the way to change the world starts here. >> we are about to take a bike ride. we have 30 cyclist. i'm really excited to hit the road and see what the city has in store.
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>> i definitely recommend it to people. it's a fun afternoon and you learn so many things. >> this is so much fun. i go to parts of the city that i don't come to. this will make the come to. this will make the city a more susta - working for the city and county of san francisco will immerse you in a vibrant and dynamic city that's on the forefront of economic growth, the arts, and social change. our city has always been on the edge of progress and innovation. after all, we're at the meeting of land and sea. - our city is famous for its iconic scenery, historic designs, and world- class style. it's the birthplace of blue jeans, and where "the rock" holds court over the largest natural harbor on the west coast. - the city's information technology professionals
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work on revolutionary projects, like providing free wifi to residents and visitors, developing new programs to keep sfo humming, and ensuring patient safety at san francisco general. our it professionals make government accessible through award-winning mobile apps, and support vital infrastructure projects like the hetch hetchy regional water system. - our employees enjoy competitive salaries, as well as generous benefits programs. but most importantly, working for the city and county of san francisco gives employees an opportunity to contribute their ideas, energy, and commitment to shape the city's future. - thank you for considering a career with the city and county of san francisco.
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>> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner mazzucco: please do. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us tonight is paul henderson, the director of the department of police accountability and acting assistant chief moeser on behalf of chief scott. >> commissioner mazzucco: and chief scott is on his way. >> clerk: yes. >> commissioner mazzucco: and do have a deletion on tonight's agenda? >> clerk: yes. we have item four. that will be placed on a later agenda. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. well, ladies and gentlemen welcome to the wednesday, july 18, 2018 san francisco police commission meeting.
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without further adieu, please call line item number one -- actually, we're going to have -- the first matter would be the chief's report, and he's not here. >> clerk: well, do you want me to take it out of order? >> commissioner mazzucco: we'll take it out of order and go to the d.p.a. director. >> clerk: item 1(a), chief's report. item 1(b), d.p.a. report. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. that's a lot. we have a lot on the calendar tonight and a lot from d.p.a. specifically, so i just want to do the overview in terms of cases open and my staff's, we are at 346, so we are at a higher number now than we were
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last year, when we were at 306. we have 296 cases that are pending versus last year, we were at 363 cases that were pending. and cases that are mediated, i do want to talk about that a little bit because we are at 12 this year, and we were at 14 last year. but as you know, i've been revamping and expanding the mediation. i've hired two specific employees to focus on the mediation. those numbers are going to go up, but i want to talk about that just briefly. right now, we have 40 cases in the pipeline that are in mediation. they're just working their way through the process. those numbers will hit throughout the rest of the year. it's a pretty high number, and they're coming in the pipeline, but i wanted to talk about it a little bit because they're -- these are some of the things that we talked about last year that i said that i wanted to do, which was to expand
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mediation because they are our highest rated cases, in terms of satisfaction from the public for things that people appreciate and want from our department. because i had the new staff that i hired make presentations to the investigators and so the referrals went up over 100% since we started doing that, so those numbers will start bearing out well for us, i hope. in terms of the hiring, we are still in the process of hiring, you know hiring is a long process. we're in the middle of interviewing for many of our investigative positions and the attorney positions. we are already at capacity of space, so that's another issue that we're starting to work out
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now in terms of where these folks are going to go. i'll keep you updated as i make the new hires and as people start joining the staff and doing the work. in terms of outreach, we have been doing a lot more outreach than in the past. the past few events have been the safety fair at the elementary school here at shared school yard. we also did a town hall. we were asked to speak by assembly man david chiu, and then, this weekend, we had booths at both sunday street fairs in the mission. and then, with here me today is my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, my director of policy, samra marian, as well as my senior investigator, steve ball. and as you can see in the audience, as well, my trusty
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interns who have come in to work with us during the summer, and i am really excited about this, and they are really excited to be on tv. here is marshall hamons from hastings university, camille bridge from u.c. berkeley, cocozoo from u.c. berkeley, and enrique zau, and they're going to make presentations for you about the work that they did during the summer. i will also add one more thing. i have the annual reports are here and finally printed and ready, they weren't on the agenda because i didn't give notice so i'll put them on the agenda for our next meeting, but i have copies, as i promised for today that i'll pass out. i also wanted to add one thing that was new that we were going to start doing or have
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available now are the fliers that we had -- the old fliers which we've had since 1972 have finally been redone -- 1982, actually. they've finally been redone and revamped, so the information is much more clear about how to make a complaint, what the office does, how to get in contact with us, and i will start bringing these at every meeting so that the public can take them and have that information. they will be setup there. i will say one of the things that we've done is make them compliant, so these are in six different languages -- seven? six. six different languages, and they are available. these are going to be distributed, along with i.d. cards about how to get in touch with d.p.a. and the station. here are the interns, and we're ready. >> commissioner mazzucco:
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well, thank you very much, and welcome. >> i'm a rising 2-l at u.c. hastings, just down the road, and working here for the summer has been an absolutely invaluable experience. i worked on language access and the mediation program. for language access, i adopted our current policy, or previous policy, which was very short and not very comprehensive on compliance with section 91 of the city ordinance as a language access ordinance, and so i drafted, implemented, and reviewed our current policy, reached out to ocea, bounced some ideas off of them and really flushed out our policy so it's really in depth. it meets ocea's requirements and the department is moving onto the next step of printing all of the signs and the things that we've worked on, and you can see that in the brochures and the things that we've given out today.
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the second project that i worked on was the mediation. expanding our mediation policies program. i dove really deep into our current policies, procedures, steps, etcetera, looked to outside agencies, made a lot of phone calls and kind of got a feel for what works and what doesn't work to increase these mediations so when the recommendations of paul and sharon our director of mediations, i was able to draft a very comprehensive mediation policy with proposals that would very shortly increase the number of mediations, dropping that number in the pipeline down to a number we could mediate. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. next presenter. >> good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. my name is mar cucus grimes.
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director henderson -- [inaudible] >> -- to take part in this vision as i tern with the d.p.a. -- intern with the d.p.a. i've worked on three particular projects, but the first i'd like to share with you. this is particularly important to me just because i see that it showcases the different and diverse areas that the d.p.a. tends to impact with the city and with the police accountability with the city, so i feel like it's really important for us to have a document that showcases exactly what we do as a department. the second project that i'd like to speak on is a language access ordinance training that marshall and myself have worked with which we'll be giving the training tomorrow. tion he not sharing the policies and standards that have been created within the
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language access ordinance and how the d.p.a. is complying with esthose -- with these standards. we'll be teaching the staff and just opening ourselves up to help the limited english proficiency clients that we deal with. and the last project that i wanted to speak on is my work with the launching of the twitter account that we have, which is -- you can follow us at sfdpa. we're looking for more followers because we just opened up. that's a way for us to connect with the community, and that is an important goal for us, because director henderson wants to have us conglomerrate together. all of these measures will have a lasting effect on the department for the city of san francisco. last week, i was able to do a ride along with two officers and witness just how officers can impact the community as
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they take on their job. it was really important for me to have that experience, and i think a lot more people should take that experience because it does help you to see exactly what the officers do. and this emphasized the importance of director henderson's vision as the d.p.a. continues to grow and you know, mature as an organization. so i look forward to seeing where the d.p.a. is after my internship, and i hope that we can continue to progress. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. members of the commission, my name's frank myron nunez. i want -- i am a 3-l, at hastings school of law. i saw this opportunity and i wasn't aware that the
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department even existed. i've always been interested in civilian oversight, so i wanted to take advantage to learn what actually happens with change in the department. i've been assigned a variety of projects since working with the department of police accountability. i was tasked to research federal and state disability laws and provide a summary and recommendations for when the department -- when the department hires somebody who has a disability and what they need to do to provide the correct accommodations for that person. i was also tasked to perform legal research on the police officer's bill of rights, and -- and provide a memo and recommendations on what the department of -- department of police accountability can -- what information they can provide from investigations. my research gave me the opportunity to learn how limited the d.p.a. and other
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civilian oversight agencies in california are when it comes to disclosing information because of the statutorily confidentiality protections for peace officers in california. i also had the ability to take part in two separate investigations for body cam -- body wearable camera videos and apply and create summaries of those videos and work with investigators who taught me a lot about what to look for during the review of body cam footage and whatnot to look for. i would say i can recommend this to anybody that has the chance to do it because you are given a lot of variety of projects to work with, and if you're interested in city government, i would recommend that, too, so thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> good evening, everyone. my name is camille. i'm a junior at u.c. berkeley.
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i study political science. i was interested in this internship because it gave me the opportunity to see how government and law and policing work in real life outside of the classroom every day, and i really enjoyed the experience. i've been focusing on outreach, so we've been working on accessibility, so we want to make sure there are no barriers to access or resources, and so the fliers have been a big part of that. we have them in different languages and they have information about how to file a complaint, where to file a complaint, what else our agency does, the mediation program, things like that? and next week, we have plans to start distributing them starting with police stations, city agencies, community organizations. we already have some at the law library, for example, and -- yeah, so that's really exciting, and we have them in different languages, like director henderson said. we also have been working with different organizations, so we're hoping to develop long
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lasting relationships with these organizations in the city to again work on accessibility to these resources? we've been present at different events, we've been at pride, juneteenth, sunday streets. we have different projects lined up with the mayor's office of economic services, but we have a template of annual events and regular events and contacts that we can use for years to come and add to as we go along? and yeah, i've really enjoyed this internship. i think i've learned a lot, yeah, so thank you very much. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. my name's coco, and i'm a rising junior at university of california berkeley, majoring in media studies. like camille, i'm working as an intern outreach for d.p.a. i would like to characterize my
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experience as a combination of my academic preparation and my interests, which is something that i was looking for. this internship led me to doing some things that i already enjoy and good at doing, which is media communication and informs others but also led me to exploring areas that my future career interests may lie, which is law. the first thing i was interested in doing was the translation the our brand-new brochures. as camille just mentioned we now stand in the critical phase of reintroducing ourselves to the public and it's extremely important to us that all community members have equal access to our service? so we are offering the brochure in six more languages in addition to english because chinese is my native language, i got to become the second pair of eyes that helped fine-tune the chinese brochure to ensure fluidity and delivering our intentions. this is an example of it? it's, like, my baby. in addition to brochures, the other major part of our outreach efforts is to engage
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the public directly and build relationships with san francisco's community-based organizations. and we've done that in the past through going to outreach events, such as the san francisco housing expo, juneteenth, and a college and career fair for high school students. in addition to outreach efforts here at d.p.a., i've had the chance to be exposed to the legal realm. i've helped investigator review body worn camera footage, and a project i'm currently working on is helping our policy attorney compose a new know your rights brochure for use after the state of california passed a new welfare and institution code. i'm extremely about -- excited about the fruition of this project because it's a product that informs the public that is informative but also is legal related. as i mentioned before, it's a combination of media and law,
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which are two of my biggest passions, and i'm very excited about how it will turn out. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. good evening. >> good evening. my name is britly salter, and -- brittany salter, and i'm a 3-l. i chose an intern for the department of police accountability because i want to be a part of building a better relationship between minorities and women of color. i have witnessed how minorities are treated by those who have the authority to enforce laws. while working with the d.p.a., i have been able to see all of the hard work director henderson and his staff do to improve these interactions, particularly with the mediation program. i've also developed a new found
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appreciation for the work that the officers do, and realize we have many of the same goals, which is to ensure safety for the entire community. i worked with the investigations unit. i reviewed body worn camera footage which gave me firsthand knowledge of how police incidents unfold in the real world. i did legal research and prepared memos on legal issues such as felony stops, searching a person of the opposite sex, and use of force. i also helped create a presentation on the use of force by police officers which director henderson presented at the regional training in june. working with the d.p.a. has given me the chance to see there are many ways to better the relationship between community and the police. the d.p.a. is not focused on finding reasons to ferm-nate officers, it is -- terminate officers, it's about holding these officers accountability and changing policy work. i've grateful to be given this
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opportunity and hope to continue this work into the fall semester. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> so i just want to say thank you guys. also to thank danielle, who is here today, who has managed many of these projects and personally is responsible for getting these big documents out that you are going to get, which is the annual report, and just is really responsible for making these new documents and brochures look all slick and fancy and all of the great words that are in them. so that was a big deal. i will also just say, just as a reminder, i know mark has talked about it, but he will be fired if approximate we don't get -- we don't get new followers on the twitter. so everybody should be following sfdpa to learn about the new changes and everything that is going on with police oversight and civilian oversight. and i was going to mention as well just as a follow up to
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some of the things they introduced, the website, i will have on the website next week the annual report that we will discuss next week. the new annual report i think is user friendly. you can understand it and read it. it is 20 -- it's under 30 pages. last year's report was 130 pages. well, you'll see them. they'll be on the website, but i think the new reports, as i've revamped them are much clearer, easier to rt read with the same information compressed with charts and data that is more palatable with more information. i think that concludes my report. i will say as a precursor, we do have the sparks report, so i'm looking forward to have the conversations about that. >> commissioner mazzucco: well, thank you, director henderson. more importantly, thank you interns for spending your
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summer away from your law and graduate studies. we really appreciate it. the most important part is i heard a comment that we're looking at things outside of the classroom, and i heard some conversations about we understand what the officers go through. we went on a ride along. we heard the necessity of looking at the law about search and seizure. this is so refreshing. you know, many times, we say the differences will come from your generation, the youth, the future lawyers, and the future college graduates. so i thank you, it's great to hear your perspective. director henderson's done a great job for the d.p.a. i'm a little biased, because i know him, but he's done an excellent job. you know, it's important -- you'll ask any police officer, it's important to have accountability and the trust and respect of the public. i want to tell you, for many of us on this panel, public service has been our career. there's nothing more rewarding than public service.
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you've gotten your first taste of it. continue to serve your community any way you can, 'cause this is so refreshing and it's just so great to see. thank you. commissioners? >> i just want to say thank you. i enjoyed your reports tremendously, especially mediation. i think you can see how important it is to try to resolve this not only with the department but with the citizens so they can get a better understanding of what the officers are going through in this healing process, so i'm just looking forward to seeing that expand much more. but it sounds like you did a lot of work. the brochures looked slick from here, much better than they were. so thank you. thank you for your hard work. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: please call -- go back to line item 1(a), please. >> clerk: item 1(a), chief's report, report on weekly trends, crimes, and analysis. evidence and reporting of results to sexual assault
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victim report percommission resolution 16-28, adopted april 20, 2016. >> good evening, chief. how are you? >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, and director henderson. >> good evening. >> so sorry i was late. lieutenant yamaguchi had to clear a traffic hazard on the way in, so that's why we were late. i'll start off with the first portion of my report, which will be the update on crime, and i'll finish with the request that commissioner dejesus made last week to have a public report to the commission on the arrests that were made on july 9 in front of the federal building on washington. so i'll be very brief with the crime report, starting with violent crime. homicides, we are down -- >> commissioner mazzucco: excuse me sir, you are out of
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order. you need to take a seat. sorry, chief, for interrupting. sir, you need to take a seat. take a seat. you're interrupting the meeting. that's your first meeting. please take a seat. sir, please take a seat. >> your office has already pulled guns on me. you think i'm scared? you think i'm scared. >> commissioner mazzucco: sir, you're disturbing the meeting. >> stay calm after you try to murder me? you think it's only cops, and you move on. >> commissioner mazzucco: calm down. just slow down. you can't do this. in time, we'll do that. >> i need my documents as received. >> commissioner mazzucco: why don't you take it easy, take a seat, and calm down. now, calm down, take a seat. >> can i get my documents signed as a receipt? >> commissioner mazzucco: no. why don't you calm down and take a seat. >> you've got plenty of guns here. why don't you shoot me now?
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no. back up. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. slow down. why don't you sit down. if you don't sit down, i'm going to ask you to leave. >> well, i want my documents received, stamped as received. >> commissioner mazzucco: i'm going to ask you to leave, please. >> no. once i get the documents, i'll be happy to give it to you outside. >> why not? why not. >> one more minute. they can't do it right now. >> commissioner mazzucco: they have to look it over. you're interrupting the meeting. >> well, it's one page. she has a copy right now. >> commissioner mazzucco: why don't you go outside and talk to sergeant mcray? >> commissioner mazzucco: no, no, no. at this point, you're out of here. >> can i get my document's received? >> commissioner mazzucco: sheriff, he's out of here. [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: you're out of here, sir. take your stuff and leave.
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>> we don't trust you. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. chief, you may continue. >> thank you. thank you, commissioner. so homicides, we are still in the negative 39%. we have 23 year to date, compared to 38 this time last year. our shooting victims, we're 3% where we were by last year, by two, 69 to 71 last year. homicide by firearms, we are 56% below where we were last year. we have 12 homicides with firearms compared to 27 this time last year, and our total gun vials victims were 17% down. 81 currently, compared to 98 this time last year. our violent crimes in total, we are 1% but low where we were --
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1.98%, almost 2%, below where we were this time last year. that's a difference of about 64 crimes. and in terms of property crime, we are 12% below where we were last year, a difference of about 4,000 crimes. of interest is our auto burglary statistics. we are still 20.64% down from where we were this time last year, a difference from about 3,500 auto burgs, so i'm definitely pleased with that. we will continue our strategies and going into -- now we're midway through the summer. we are actually looking pretty good compared to where we were this time last year, and we'll continue to make adjustments as we need to on that. okay. i don't have any other significant events from this week to report. i'm going to go back to the arrests operation that we had on july 9. so first, let me start by
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saying our mission always is to protect public safety and to do that with respect for all san franciscans. we're committed to facilitating the first amendment expression for anybody that wants to exercise them, but we have a duty to maintain peace and public safety for all of our residents and visitors and protect property. in terms of this particular operation, it occurred on july 9, 2018. the past monday -- not this monday, but the past monday. and basically, we were called and received numerous calls throughout the week from july 2 until july 9 regarding a shutdown of the 400 block of washington street. now, it initially started as a first amendment activity in front of the federal building. that's the homeland security-i.c.e. building at 444 washington. after the 2nd, the
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