presented. and then comes the public voice which raises issues and anything with can communicate and that is where i feel my primary questions are. i like to basically stand with the san francisco for healthcare housing and jobs and justice questions raised about the seven issues. you have those issues in front of you. i do not want to spend time going over them but each and all of them individually and together. the matter and require further and in-depth examinations including the strong infusion of the the human voices which testify to the fact that there is a big gap between the words and the deeds. the other points that i was raising is and i'm reading them off as i take notes.

they're not necessarily listed in the order of the importance but i would say if i could speak at all of them at the same moment they're leaky as important. the issue of the chinese troops. a transition to new facilities and the lack of coordination at note giving, preparation and training. there is the ever-important nursing staff testimony that i have witnessed now for the entire time that these two commission have had a dialogue about cpmc and changes. there's a patient care testimony which each of us could find ourselves in in no time. and there is the hiring and job creation and retention issue. those were the ones i wanted to summarize and stand in the room knowing that they were most likely be echoed by all of us. >> thank you commissioner moore.

>> thank you, again, to all staff involved from all the departments, all the companies. again, good to see the health commission here as well. i do have multiple comments regarding to the construction site of this project. >> rebekah gregory: i'.i'm not e hospital side. i'm an electrician by trade. before i got into this position, while still working in the field, i worked at multiple of the cpmc campuses on california campus and pacific campus and later on, it was fortunate enough to work on the building of the new general hospital. i clearly remember the day where i was capable of filling out my local resident paper work and photo copying my driver's license and submitting that end. and it is a big pride for build

like hospitals and we frequently see hows and commercial projects but hospitals are a essential corner stone to a well-functioning city and it's something we take seriously here at the planning commission and i'm sure the health commission does as well and i wanted to acknowledge ken and josh. with the office of economic workforce development and their continuing efforts to keep city build an extremely successful pipeline for all types of minorities from disadvantaged neighborhoods, parents with or without children or parents that are going to have children, and we're definitely keeping an eye on increasing we're taking it to the next level. something i have honestly nothing to do with. we have been noticing a higher acceptance of the lgbt community

within our trades and since this increase of diversity, this created the electrical workers minority caucus which has, proud to say, had a float in the pride parade for the last two years. the building trades is really making it strong effort to diversify, stay inclusive and what we've been doing specifically with city build to increase access to all residents, is workout partnerships and deals, for example, a lot of people cannot pass the entrance exams to get accepted into apprenticiship programs. about what we've done is workout a deal with city build where if you have perfect attendance and a b average, you are able to buy pass the entrance exam and go straight to the interview stage of an prentice ship acceptance

process. it gives access to a lot more san francisco residents and all the other zip codes but it's just giving people a chance to reap the benefits of organized labor healthcare benefits. prevailing wage. i'm up here today because i was accepted into a trade. i lived here in the city. i was interested in construction. it took me three times to pass the exam and actually gain acceptance into the electricians programs. it's no easy task for anybody. the building trades and city builder are working tirelessly to increase the diversity of our construction workers and also the employees that work for the construction companies but off site in the offices. it's something we all take very seriously. if i could just address some of

the project-specific notes i wrote. exceeding the proposed timeline almost never happens. this should not be overlooked. the fact that construction, i always look at organized chaos and so many things were scheduled on top of each other that if one small thing goes wrong, the whole entire project is pushed back sometimes months or years. and i i was lated to go to the cpmc project of the there was a time line of projects that was a one, two, throw step where ucf mission bay was the first one to begin and all the of the residents from that job were supposed to go to the job and those residents were supposed to go to the ctmc of van ness and gary project and it was helped up by a year.

things were playing to work in those residents and the hold up at van ness and gary threw a wrench into that. i do know that -- to make sure as many residents are working on this project in the office and on the job site as possible. so, 30% local hire are considering that this is literally the busiest times the construction industry has seen in their existence and over 130 years, 30% local hire for the van ness and gary and st. luke's is in full compliance as far as i'm concerned. i can't help but emphasize that

this is a model project that ideally we can duplicate on other projects with more development agreements. you've got san francisco contracting businesses, building a hospital project in san francisco and employing san francisco residents that attend apprenticiship training centers in san francisco they're paying payroll taxes to the city. some people have said in the past that local hire and local contractors are bringing a higher cost to the project but when you think about it, we're just reinvesting i in ourselves and we're paying a wage where they might be able to stay in the city. buy a house in the city. stay here in the city and not commute four hours each day. that's just the way i think it should be done and this is the way it's being done on this project. so, again, as far as i'm

concerned, from the construction side and the office and on the job site this project is in full compliance. >> thank you commissioner bernal. did you have something else. >> yes, thank you. for the opportunity to just add. i'd like to speak to the responsibility of serving residents the tenderloin. i understand this partnership is only less than a year in existence but when you look at the numbers, 180 versus a goal of 1500, that's only about 12% of that goal. and when you look at the residents of the tenderloin, serving them alliance with the priorities of the department of public-health and i'll use a presentation that we just received the other day about san francisco's getting to zero initiative. san francisco is exceeded in radically reducing the number of h.i.v. transmissions over the past several years far out pacing the rest of the country. we're about to see a leveling off now. where we're seeing the new infections continuing to happen, is among many of those

populations. people who reside in the tenderloin. people who are marginally housed or homeless. people dealing with mental illness. people who use injection drugs. the data shows not only that even if someone does become infected with h.i.v. that if they are able to be retained in care, and get into treatment right away, it reduces, many in cases, eliminates their ability to transmit h.i.v. data shows that being marginally houses is your adherence to your medication. these are communities that really need to be served and we would like to see better numbers in terms of the community members that you are ability to engage in the tenderloin through saint anthonys. >> thank you. so, i am not going to repeat any

of the other comments that my fellow commissioners have made. everybody has had ever point that i have. the exception that i do want to stand with healthcare housing and jobs and one of the particular things that i would expect at our next time reviewing this item is a much deeper analysis in the areas where we're not hitting the numbers. i hear you that, hitting the 30% in a time of all-time high construction is good. i don't -- i wasn't satisfied with the level of analysis of the numbers that we represented, particularly around th the decre

of apprentices so i would like a newance analysis of why that is happening and what we're doing to rectify it and under the purview of the planning commission, especially at the public transportation benefits and what the plan is we are seeing a decrease in car ownership in san francisco. and a major employer with 43% of its workforce living in san francisco is that those public transportation numbers would be higher. i'd like to have a deeper analysis presented of what we're doing about it and how we're going to see those numbers increase. thank you very much for the presentation, and for the staff, the presentation was clear. for the members of the public who continually come out to keep tabs on this project on making sure that the public benefits

that were negotiated in the development agreement are being held. so thank you very much. >> i would just like to also conclude with a few remarks and what i hope we will also troy to carry out some of our obligations from the health commission and the department to try to respond to some of the questions and answers and clearly in one area i did not actually get to go into, also i think it's the same issue that we've raised here and while we can check the boxes, for example, under the cultural and linguistic standards, we don't have an understanding of what those actually meant in terms of i.d. and analysis, i did a study, i did this and what were the results and findings? to also then, i think coming

back to that question, just as an example of -- if we're using people who came to the diabetes clinic at st. luke's, it doesn't seem to capture the -- an analysis needs to be done if the question is should there be that type of service. of course, since it's now been moved to the foundation, i'm glad to hear the foundation has those services but we would now and that's another example of moving these services from the public side of scrutiny to the private foundation that we then really count on the good will of cpmc. just to conclude then, what i

have heard and what i believe that our department would be able to do to help respond to some of the concerns that both the public and our fellow commissioners have raised, i first want to indicate that i think i'm one of the members here who have been through this entire process from even before the construction started. not too many people remember that i sat even on a blue ribbon committee in regards with what to do with st. luke's and prior to that, there was all the issues also of the rebuild and how big the rebuild should be and where the rebuild should be so it really is wonderful to see that a new community heights area has been built.

that is part of fulfilling the public-private partnership in order to have a healthier san francisco. there is no way the public itself, the public side, can actually handle all of the needs that will create a healthy san francisco to respond to the disparities that as another example, st. luke's has been doing as commission sanchez pointed out. and the development agreement in its spirit called for a continuation of that commitment to the city and that while yes, and it's wonderful that the project has brought $300 million to san francisco, it is not without the needs also to continue to remember the obligation then that as a non-profit hospital, and even just using the historical basis which is why so much was written into the development agreement,

to try to be sure that it would not just be a facility to treat those who could afford it. but to be able tol to participae with us. i want to acknowledge that i think cpmc has been working with us. but you know, it seems that we always have to actually keep asking for that to happen and it would be so much nicer if we had hey willing proactive collaboration, even at our commission meetings when we were looking at the potential of changes, it takes almost that public hearing in order to make some of the accommodations that were needed in order to respond to the needs of our residents. i found that the sutter model of we and you was very interesting. i think at the moment, from what we can hear in the testimony,

there's a lot of we and very little you. and instead, i suggest to cpmc that we could have a true we and you if we really didn't look at this as we versus you but we should be we and you. there's an outreach to the community that really is needed, continues to be needed and along that line, we as a department, specifically would be looking at the issues that i believe the coalition has raised validly and has been also brought up by all commissioners here in terms of -- we're going to only look at the health side. we'll leave you to look at the workforce and all. i believe that we're going to ask our staff to actually try to look more in depth into understanding that not only is

it technically done but what was done. i commend san francisco foundation report that is in here that showed you what was done when they received the money? who actually got help and how it happened? i think it's also important we try to where the issues are at saint than on' an anthony and te tenderloin. it's been a year this happened and we only have this small up take. is it transportation? is it access even at a primary level. welt review this again and try to see if we can also be continuing to be helpful in the partnership that has been put together. again, the center of excellence

is certainly something that we would all be concerned about. that could be something and with working with cpmc in terms of the understanding where the issues are. dr. barnes has also outlined his vision obviously the vision is one that needs to be developed by cpmc but i think the consideration is a very good example of working with the community could get a farber far acceptance and product that meets the needs of the residents in that community. so in conclusion, our department does continue to be eager to work with st. luke's. i will get the new name one day. but with cpmc and sutter. you are very important part of

the city. sutter is with the assets that could be placed to great use so that we can continue to enhance the public-private partnership that we've been enjoying between all the hospitals and providers in san francisco with the public sector as we achieve our goal to improve the health of all san franciscans. i do want to thank everybody who participated. the staff who did such a hard work and analyzing this but i think in our next review, i believe that we've heard a lot more details should be also provided to understand what happened after the check mark. thank you. >> thank you. >> that concludes your agenda

today. >> make a motion to adjourn. >> motion to adjourn. >> second. >> should we ex back at 1:30 maybe? >> for those members of the public who are here for the 1:00 meeting of the planning commission, i imagine the commissioners who have been here will wanted to take a quick lunch break so we will convene no sooner than 1:15. >> 1:30? >> very good. >> thank you. >>

>> clerk: ladies and gentlemen, the chair has called the meeting to order. can you please turnoff your electronic devices.

they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room, and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> 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 chief scott and the director of accountability paul henderson. >> commissioner mazzucco: and thank you very much, sergeant kilshaw. ladies and gentlemen, well to the sept 12, 2018 police commission meeting. before we begin tonight, i want

to let everybody know we have two brand-new commissioners, freshly minted and one sworn in. we're -- damali taylor is not with us tonight on a preplanned vacation, so she's out of the country right now. we do have with us our newest commissioner, deon jay brookter, who was sworn in about an hour ago. he's going to get a crash course in the san francisco police commission. d.j. is a native of fresno. he was a star football player. from there, he went onto utah state, where he was a star athlete. he'd come out of college, he got his m.b.a. at the university of phoenix. following that he's been working in the community as a community activist, community member working with many departments of the city for

several years. he got the greatest compliment in the world when he received a phone call the other night from former police commissioner dr. joseph marshall, who said d.j. is who i was 30 years ago, and once i heard that, i said god, we really got lucky. i want to thank mayor breed and the board of supervisors, so i just want to turn it over to d.j. to give a little bit about his background that i have not included, so welcome board. >> first and foremost, i want to say it's an honor to be here with you all, and it's an honor to be on the accomplice commission. i actually applied down in fresno to be a police officer, at one point in time. i remember growing up officers were coming into my elementary school and middle school and spending time with us as we bridged the gap between communities and law enforcement. it was a lot of fun, so much so

that i took the test to become an officer, and unfortunately, chief, i scored in the 80 percentile, and they were taking folks to folks in the 90th percentile. i have given my life to public work. being on this commission it ensures that we continue to have a community voice and be have the community heard as we continue to push reforms that the department is doing so well on thus far. but i'm looking forward to rolling up my sleeves, working alongside with you, just excited to be here. >> commissioner mazzucco: well, strap it on. we're we'd to go. with that, call ice one. >> clerk: item one, award presentation action, presentation of award by the american legion for officer of the year award to ana

cuthbertson. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening. >> good evening, and thank you for having us here in your busy agenda. i'm gary gee. i'm the commander of san francisco police post 456, the american legion, which is the nation's largest military veterans organization, celebrating its 100th anniversary. i'm also a member of the american legion statewide law and or the commission and represent eight varied counties, including san francisco. each year, the law and order commission honors two california law enforcement officers and two firefighters. one from each of those classifications for value oor the other for community. nominations are submitted to the legion's respective law and order commissioners. in may, the six commissioners

convened to discuss the nomination and determine a winner from each of the four categories. in june, the winners received their awards at the legion's annual statewide convention, which this year was in sacramento. ana cuthbertson was unable to attend the ceremony in sacramento. she joined the san francisco police department in 2007 and is assigned to the richmond district station. prior to becoming an sfpd officer, she served in the u.s. army for six years. during officer cuthbertson's career with the sfpd, she signed nine years with the army reserve. in 2010 and 2012 she was deployed to afghanistan, responsible for supporting and

building a local women's center where she developed and taught classes to help afghani women increase their birth rate and become self-sufficient. she was an advocate for afghani women and the challenges they face. as a police officer as richmond station, she volunteers to deliver food to seniors and spends much of her off-duty time volunteering at many of her daughter's social and school activities. last year, officer cuthbertson learned about 64-year-old june greelus and her family. mrs. greelus was suffering from end stage renal disease and waiting for a transplant for 3.5 years.

cuthbertson who was 16 when she lost her mother, thought about how she could help since joan's daughters and husband were not a match. in a self-less act, ana determined to donate one of her kidneys to mrs. greelus. she was not a match but they were put into a registry of pairs of individuals who wished to donate and receive organs but aren't matches for each other. cuthbertson was subsequently a match for another stranger whose willing donor intern paired up perfectly with someone else. as a result of chain of matches would affect 18 persons, nine donors, including cuthbertson, and two patients, including greelus. last december, greelus

underwent a successful kidney transplant, and ana underwent a surgery that would save another's life. this all while employed as an sfpd officer earned the law and order commission's unanimous vote as officer of the year for community service, to please join us in honoring officer ana

cuthbertson. [applause] >> commissioner mazzucco: first of all on behalf of the commission, actually each commissioner will probably talk to you, what you've done, what you've always done, joined the military, joined the san francisco, your reputation for being a good, hard working police officer, but doing what you did here is far more than what he have we've ever asked for anybody. and it's an honor to have you on our police department. you're an incredible person, and i'm sure you did a lot for your mom's memory by doing this. you truly deserve this award, and you're a hero in my heart. commissioners? >> i've never heard of you before, but you're astounding, and it's an honor to know you. >> commissioner mazzucco: absolutely. just hearing that story i think restores some faith in human kindness in who we are as a

people. i remember i got the opportunity at utah state, actually it was right around of time of katrina to help folks that had been displaced and less fortunate. in my line of work, working with a community based organization, it's refreshing to know there are other individuals out there just like you that are doing things to ensure that human kindness is still prevalent and it's there, and i just want to thank you for your service and thank you for who you are. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: the fact that you're helping women, afghani women in need, is impressive, and juggling what you do is also incredibly impressive, so just thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: i also want to thank gary gee who was the chief of the b.a.r.t.

police. we also have with us retired captain greg corrales, former marine, who's also part of the post. thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> commissioner mazzucco: please call line item number 2. before we move into that, we have -- ladies and gentlemen, we have a real, real, very heavy agenda of closed session matters involving litigation and discipline, so for that reason, we'll be limiting public comment to two minutes tonight. please call line item number 2. >> clerk: commissioner, we need public comment on item 1 or its presentation, although they've left the room. >> commissioner mazzucco: any public comment regarding item 1 in seeing none, public comment is closed. call item 2. >> adoption of minutes, action item. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners, in your packet are the minutes from last meeting, august 15.

are there any objections? hearing none, do i have a motion. >> so moved. >> do i have a second? any public comment on the adoption of the minutes? hearing none, all in favor -- all right. >> yeah. last week, i was asked about the special meeting of the task of conducting an investigation pertaining to the catholic church. >> commissioner mazzucco: what we're talking about is our minutes. is there anything in the minutes there -- have you looked through the minutes? >> i haven't seen the minutes. >> commissioner mazzucco: this is about the minutes. you can talk about that the next time in the public comment. hearing none, public comment is now closed. please call next line item. >> clerk: item 3, reports to the commission, 3-a, chief's report, including weekly trend, crime trends, update regarding

secretary quarter 2018 report and compliance with administrative code chapter 96-a. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, chief, and welcome. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, commissioners, director henderson. i will start the chief's report with the crime statistics and transfer this week. happy to and pleased to report that we're still holding steady at 28% down in homicides for the year. we have 34 as compared to 47 this time last year. our total gun violence, we're also down 18%. 109 year-to-date total gun violence victims as opposed to is 33 this time last year, so really, real ly pleased about that. also significant in that same regard is our weapon seizures are up by 32%. we seized 966 weapons -- firearms year to date, so very

reflective of the work that's being done to reduce gun violence. with our property crime, overall, we're 6.87% below where we were this time last year. we're at 40,162 as opposed to 43,126. almost 3,000 property crimes below where we were last year. auto burglaries, of course, have been a topic for quite sometime now. we are 15.09% down in auto burglaries, 17,968 this year, year-to-date, as opposed to 21,153 last year, so over 3,000 crimes fewer than this time last year. couple of things i want to update on, there was a major incident of crime this past week, a homicide on 6th street. actually, it happened on 9-6,

at approximately 12:50 a.m. it involved an aggravated assault with a metal cane. we have video evidence that was able to capture the incident, showing the suspect got upset at the victim over a slice of pizza. the suspect then hit the victim with the cane resulting in injuries to the victim. the victim was transported to san francisco general hospital sucker bu zuckerberg and ended up succumbing to the injuries on 9-9. we have some information, but as with every homicide, we ask for the public's help. if you saw anything, know anything, please reach out to the san francisco homicide unit on that particular case. also want to update the commission and the public on some work that we're doing just across the street at u.n. plaza. you know, the san francisco police department recognizes that the u.n. plaza has long

been problematic. there are a number of illegal behaviors that are commonplace there. drug dealing, quality of life, public urination, just bad behavior. we have targeted efforts over the past year, and we've seen some success along market street and the u.n. plaza on that. in terms of just arrests, the tenderloin station has 588 arrests within the plaza itself and within 500 feet year to date -- actually, the number's higher. 637 either bookings or arrests. so we know that the work is being done, but just the arrests by themselves, in and of themselves, is not going to solve the long-standing issues that have been happening there. so to address the issue, part of what the department is doing, first of all, we're working collaboratively with the other city departments, the department of public health, the department of public works, the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and really under the mayor's leader

should be, looking at this as a team effort. the department has put our mobile command vehicle in the center of u.n. plaza. we've upped our number of foot beat officers there. you will see some of the hondas, some of the bicycle officers. we really want to have that public space usable and user friendly to anybody who wants to come in enjoy it. as you know it's a major transportation hub. a lot of people use the u.s. civic center b.a.r.t. station to get to work and enjoy market street and this area. we've gotten a number of public complaints about the behaviors, the drug dealing, the drug usage there, so we're committed to making that public space safe for everyone, and you will see a large presence of officers there for the foreseeable future. if you want to follow what's going on, our tenderloin

district captain does a great job in terms of at least letting the public know the arrests are being made, and you can look on the tenderloin twitter and follow that. also the work that we've been doing with the healthy streets operation center, that will be integrated into our efforts at u.n. plaza. the bottom line is we do have a lot of issues that are long-standing issues that are far more complex than just the criminal justice issues. one of our officers and myself right in front of us ran across somebody that had overdosed, and thanks to tenderloin officers, food beat officers that had narcan in their possession, that person survived to see another day. when we got out of the car, the person that was with him was actually doing c.p.r. because he was unconscious down on the

ground and did not appear to be breathing. they were able to revive him, but that just points out some of the complexities that we're dealing with. we do have a problem and it's going to take all of city government as well as the public getting vested. i want to follow that with the city's endeavors, safe injection sites. i've been asked this question of many public venues and meetings, and asked how i feel about it as chief of police. i'd like to say it from the department's perspective, rather it is our mission to protect the public, to prevent injuries, deaths, whether it be from violent crimes, suicide, drug overdose, just like i experienced today with the officer that i was with, we know that this opioid crisis that we're dealing with, not

only in this city, but this country often leads to fatal out comes, and addressing that crisis includes a multifaceted plan, including different approaches to the problem. safe injection sites have been spoken to avert overdoses, and the city is, under the mayor's leadership, is looking at that as an option. as far as the san francisco police department is concerned, whatever we can do to save lives of the people in our city, we need to try that. we still can endorse the law. drug dealing, drug possession, it's still illegal, and we still will enforce the law, but the bottom line on saving a life is saving a life, and we need to try whatever we can to save lives, and that includes enforcement, and whatever other public health options we have at our disposal, so we're committed to working with our department agencies on that front, working with the stakeholders and doing our part

in terms of trying to prevent deaths on our street like almost happened today right in front of me. the next topic, staffing and overtime, as i promised the commission probably six months or so ago, we would give periodic updates on our over time. i'm pleased to report that ending fiscal year 2017 -- 2017-2018, which ended on june 30, we made our overtime budget. and i know commissioner dejesus has been very much on top of keeping up with that and tracking that, so i'm very happy to report to commissioner dejesus as well as the whole commissioner that we made our budget. year to day we're 3% below our over time budget, so we're doing really well on that, as well. again, i know the management of public dollars are very important. we want to use the funds that were given by the taxpayers

efficiently and just happy and pleased to report that we made our budget and we're tracking very well this year. last thing i have before i turn this over to deputy chief connolly is our staffing for the year. we are currently at 1,834 full duty officers, we have an academy class that's about to enter at the end of this month, and we have a class that about graduate in about three to four weeks, so that will increase that number somewhat. we did get approval this year to increase the size of the police departmen police department, and i think it's a great idea to expose and be transparent in terms of how we're tracking in terms of the police department.

we're 6.5% down with the class about to graduate and a class about to go in, and that concludes this portion of the report. now, we have deputy chief mike connolly. >> commissioner mazzucco: actually chief, before deputy chief connolly comes up, i have a question for you. with the narcan situation you were faced with today, i understand there were four revivals in the tenderloin today. without the narcan, they would have died, and that would be four did yeaths. i notice in looking at the tenderloin twitter accounts, they post the drug dealers that get arrested on the corner, and the quantities of heroin that they have is much, much higher than i used to see when i was a

d.a. it's levels that would get them federal prosecution yet, there's this revolving door with this drug dealers, they're going out and selling this heroin that's possibly taking lives. they say selling is a victimless crimes, but tell that to the family members who have lost loved ones because of it. is there anything you can tell to the judges, to get them to take this a little more seriously, that it's not a victimless crime? >> that's a really good question, and it starts with the district attorney. we do our jobs, file the reports and to work with the district attorney on really trying to address the -- the dealers is really important, as much as we can impact the supply, but in terms of your question with the quantities and all that, we do have officers assigned to task forces -- or a task force that

work with our federal authorities and the u.s. attorney's office. i would like to see more of those cases that meet qualifications with quantity or whatever circumstances that put them in that category prosecuted federally because there is some value to that in terms of consequences that go beyond what we're able to do on some of the state cases in some circumstances. the bottom line is we just really have to be consistent with the enforcement piece and integrate that with all the other things that we need to do as a city to address this crisis. but the enforcement is a part of that, very much a part of that. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner elias. >> commissioner elias: thank you. i'm very happy to hear the narcan is available at the police stations for officers' use, so thank you. the other question i had -- well, the question i had was with respect to the mobile

command at u.n. plaza, i think it's a great idea but is that going to take away some of the beat officers from the tenderloin. i know when commissioner hamasaki and i attended a community meeting, that was a concern for many residents, the police presence in terms of beat officers seemed nonexistent other than the sort of u.n. plaza area, and so i wanted to know what effect, if any, having this mobile command center at u.n. plaza will have on the foot beat presence in the tenderloin. >> yeah. overall, that's a -- thank you for asking that. overall, a couple things we are planning to do. we met with captains on this issue. it really does take a lot of resources to manage that. and what we hope to do are a couple of things. number one, get it to a place

where it's not as resource intensive. so if you have been out there in the last couple of days, if you've seen the same thing i've seen, is a lot of the behavior that was drunking police, you -- drawing police, service calls and complaints from the community, the command post, just the visibility alone makes a difference, so we're hoping overall that it will lessen the demand for resources there. but we have to sustain this effort for a while to change the narrative of what goes on there. the captain of the tenderloin, captain favry has added just this week four additional officers to the tenderloin outside of the u.n. plaza. that will help. also as we get into a longer term strategy on this, what we plan to do is redeploy some resources from around the city to really focus on this area, just like we've done with some

of the hdot work, and done a better job that collaboration calls for, being more efficient as a collaborative team. there's a lot of parts to this, and i'll talk to the acting director of d.p.h. and the director of d.p.w. we have daily conversations about working together. and i think that efficiency, over symtimtime, can free up t other officers in the other parts of the tenderloin, but we have to start somewhere, and we have to get this area cleaned up so it's not such a resource drain. there's so many things going on, there, between drug usage, drug sales and property being fenced there, just a number of things going on there that we need to get a handle on. i think once we do that, we're probably going to be better off because those officered won't be sucked into that u.n. plaza area, and