>> an i would like to call roll. commissioner. >> please do so. >> present. >> a commissioner dejesus. >> present. >> commissioner hirsch. >> here. >> commissioner elias. >> present. >> commissioner taylor. >> a present. >> we have a quorum. also present is filling in with the director to and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the wednesday, october 10, 2018 police commission meeting. ladies and gentlemen, we have a very large closed session and timely closed session matter, so with that in mind, we are going to have only two minutes of public comment tonight. so without further ado, call line item number one. >> thank you. line one, the chief's report, weekly crime trend, provide an overview of the system occurring

in staffing levels and overtime for fiscal 2018-19. community engagement division highlights to provide the overview of recent activities by community engagement division and the update on the division's strategic topic on the international association of chief of police website and will be limited to brief description of the significant incidents. commission discussion will be limited to calendaring any incidents to describe for future commission meeting. >> thank you very much. and good evening, chief scott. >> good evening, vice president, commission and acting director hawkens. i'll be brief and concise on the cream report and the violent homicides down 25% year to date.

total gun violence down 19% and total weapons, gun seizure, up 29%. and how those numbers look over time, homicide is 38 at the yearened a looking at a five-year trend. we are lower than we were the last three years. and we see by where we were in 2014 and week c by where we were in 2013. so still good news to report. we have three more months of the year, but good strategies are in place and officers who are out there getting the job done and community support. we hope to see this trend continue throughout the rest of the year. in terms of total violent crime we are down.68%. >> all the categories, actually, there is a decrease in crime.

where we are up significantly are in the human trafficking and the policy changes have enturjed people to come -- have encouraged people to come forward that didn't before and working with community stakeholders and that policy change helped us. and we are up in burglarlies by 13% with a 500 burglaries. motor vehicle theft down about 16%. about 600 less than last year.

arson down t 9. and larceny down 18% which is 3,000 less larceny incidents. almost 4,000 crimes below where we were this time last year. car break-s in, which has been a big issue in our city, down 14.85% which is roughly 3500 crimes fewer than this time last year. i'll be brief on the staffing and overtime police report that we are underbudget year to date on our overtime by about 1%. we have had some pretty significant event this is past week with the harley, fleet week, italian heritage parade, and we still managed to keep our overtime at or below budget, which is good to report that, particularly to commissioner

de jesus who has been very interested in that. in terms of staffing, we are currently at 2,278 total sworn staffing. some of those officers are not deployable in the field. our full duty demroibl ployable staffing is about 7% below the mandated level of 1971. so we do have an academy class that will graduate this week. that will help. and we have academy classes that have started, and of course, with the mayor's approval and the board of supervisors approval of our budget, we hope to grow the department and get up and beyond the 1971 number in the coming years. the next thing is our community engagement highlights which is a new thing that i want to start reporting to the commission. a lot of good news to reporten o the front of community engagement.

so i just wanted to share with the public and the commission some of the highlights of what we have been doing in terms of community engagement. so throughout the month of september, we had a number of community engagement events, but i want to highlight 10 major event this is year. we had the china town night out on september 4 where 1,200 boxes of food were provided to residents of chinatown and the surrounding area. and these boxes of food came from donations of local restaurants, businesses, and residents. really good community engagement and relationship building event. it's been going on for a couple of years now or several years now. but a really good turnout and really good event. our community policing academy, we had class that began on september 13. this class number 33 and we had

25 members from the community that take a 10-week course where community members learn sfpd policies and procedures and get to know the department. i know commissioner elias has visited one of the sessions and a graduation actually. it's a really good event for community members that are interested to really learn about the department. again, they spend 10 weeks of their time where they could be somewhere else, with somebody else, their family, and they learn a lot about the department. we're happy that we have our 33rd class starting this month. team up project, this is a partnership through the community engagement division with the san francisco 49ers organization. the 49ers are working with us on community engagement, designed to bring local police and youth together. this event uses football as a common theme to forge relationships. they host a police officer and a

child to a regular season 49ers game so the officer can spend time members of the community and the 49ers have been very gracious in sponsoring this event. it is a very good community relation and engagement endeavor. we also had a disaster preparedness fair on september 18. this was designed to prepare the employees of the san francisco federal bank for major event. the alert volunteers assisted with this and passed out learning materials and brochure. san francisco annual golf tournament on september 20, and again, great cause. the police activities league which funds a lot of our youth engagement events and including our sports teams, and that was on september 20. we also participated in kevin durant back to school event in which sfpd, alaska air and the kevin durant foundation actually surprised hundreds of kids at a

middle school, and mr. durant made a guest appearance and a donation of $10,000 to support youth charities, which was great. and this is all to enrich the lives of at-risk youth from low income backgrounds through educational, athletic, and social programs. alert training on september 29. and we also had our old navy fair on september 29. the mad walk on september 29, so that was a busy day. then we participated in the annual cortolla block party which is similar to the chinatown night out event on september 30. really good work being done by the officers and the district station captains as well as the leadership provided by our community engagement division there. and the last thing i would like to report, we had an article that was published in the police of -- in the international association of chief of police magazine, and it was posted

online and probably be in hard print this month as well, but it's article about our community policing strategic plan, and i just wanted to point out and give kudos to commander david lazar who really was the heart and soul behind this along with director david stevenson who also helped on this. really good useful information about our strategy and our strategic plan as it relates to community policing. as the commission knows, this was a big deal in our department of justice, collaborative reform initiative that was a recommendation that rang throughout the 272 recommendations about strategic planning, particularly when it came to community policing. there was a lot of work that went into this process, and it took almost a year to get this community policing strategic plan done. and the article explains how we did it and gave some kind of a

bullet point on any other department, for any other department that would like to undertake this underdoing. a great piece of work by community engagement division and led by commander lazar. really good piece of work, and i am pleased and proud that our department got highlighted by the international association of chiefs of police. nos easy to get an -- it's not easy to get an article published in that publication. that concludes my report. >> thanks very much, chief. commissioner hirsch. >> chief, i just have a brief questioned. you mentioned as one of the factors that you think contributed to the decline, the 25% decline in homicides is community support, and i am just wondering, specifically what you are thinking? >> well, a couple of things. in many of the cases we can't solve the cases without the community's support, and some areas is very hard to get people

to come forward. and we have been working with a number of different forums in the community to encourage participation on cases when people see something, say something. and our rate is really, really high for this year, most of the year over 100%. you can't do that without community support. we have the scientific evidence and fingerprints and d.n.a. and all that, and that definitely helps make the case as you all know, but really when it comes down to it, you need community support. we have had communities walking through -- community groups, rather, walking neighborhoods with us. we have a homicide and one of the keys to keeping homicides down is trying to stop the next one, particularly with retaliation and gang-related homicides. through the mayor's office and svip which are community members that are now employed by the city, and they go out and help do that work to prevent retaliations, to calm people

down when somebody loses their life, and particularly when it's gang related. that's really, really important. all those things, i think, have helped. like i said, we're 25% up in gun recoveries and confiscations. we had a really good turnout for the gun buyback program that united fairs did the heavy lift on that, but the more guns we get off the street, the less chance they will be used in homicide. we are down in 50% in firearm-related homicides this year, so the community plays a huge role in that, and we know that. we appreciate that. and we do everything we can to incorporate the community in our crime reduction strategies. >> that is great. thank you. >> commissioner elias. >> chief, am i correct in understanding that the staffing is about 2,278 but in the field was about 1829? what accounts for the 400 number difference? >> officers on disability, restricted duty, injuries, bonding, family leave, fmla

lever, a number of factors that play into that, but we usually stay around the 10-14% rate of officers that for whatever reason they can't work the field. and that's not uncommon in policing. but something that we constantly work on to try to get better at, but trying to get officers through injuries and recover quicker. and working with d.h.r. and we have some processes i think that will help in that area. but there's a variety of reasons, but all that amounts to we have over 300 officers that aren't in the field. >> is there a trend meaning each year is it increasing? is it decreasing? is that number usually the same? >> it's decreased over the years. there's been policy changed -- i'm sorry, decrease. there's been policy changes over time that i think have helped. some of the general orders that have been the commission has

approved over time have helped. there was a time where officers were kept on restrictive duty forever, and now the commission has had to hear some case where is officers no longer can perform the essential job functions. those officers have to be sometimes released from the department. so those policies have changed over the years. that does help us. somebody can't work and they end up being pensioned off on disability or whatever, we can replace that with a person that is full duty. we can replace that person with a person that is full duty. it's something we're always looking at and working on, but it's still a challenge. >> i understand this this ability to stay here and replace them with hiring as well, right? >> yes, it does. >> there is also people on

military leave. >> military is leave is one of them as well. >> thank you. i appreciate that. i am really proud of the article that is in the paper and lazar has done a great job. that is really good. looking at the new items and how significant event that you bring to our attention to ask questions we might want to schedule for a future thing, one of the things after our meeting last week, besides the good, there was some negative. there was an article regarding a lawsuit from the aclu regarding discrimination by the san francisco police and citing numerous studies done. and you didn't bring that to our attention, but that happened afterwards, and we should at least know about that. we should mention it to the public that we are aware it is there. and something that we should be looking into. and certainly something that i would like to add whether it's going to be in closed session, or something that the commission should know what that lawsuit

entails and what articles they are referring to. i don't know if they are a succession of older articles -- studies, i mean, older studies to newer studies or current studies or outside studies. we should know what the basis of that is. that met with something that was a significant event to me after we left here in the paper. >> i agree. >> i have actually spoke with commissioner elias about that, and we're going to schedule for the next meeting here in closed session a briefing from the city attorney's office on that issue. and for the record, the commission was -- i don't think you were present that night when that issue first arose, we were briefed extensively like about an hour and 20 minute briefing by the city attorney's office about the issues involved in that case. so we'll be rebriefed for all the new commissioners. >> the lawsuit was just filed last week. i don't know if it's the same or different. but it is a significant event that i think we should bring to the public's attention that we are aware of and know it's there and something we are going to look into. >> given all the interested

parties, i think it is very important. >> yes. >> very thorough briefing last time. i think you will be surprised to see what it's really all about. >> commissioner brookter. >> yes. thank you again, chief. i want to piggyback on commissioner de jesus. commander delazar has done a wonderful job around community engagement. one of the things i would like to see if it correlates with the mummer bes -- the numbers coming back. if we are doing an event in a certain area, are we seeing more calls and less events of cur and happen because we have been engaged an events that have been there to replicate that across communities to say, hey, we saw this worked and in this area. we had this event. we got the officers engaged, involved, community was there, we need to replicate that in another community. i just want to make sure we are cognizant about that as we're having some of the events and doing some of the things to see how it correlates to the numbers. >> you got it.

>> thank you, sir. >> commissioner. >> thank you. just one follow-up question to commissioner elias' question regarding staffing and what is it? deployable, is that the term you used? >> full time. >> what percentage or do you have a number of officers that are not able to be put into the field because of brady issues? >> we do have that information, and i don't have it on this report, but we do have that information. brady and disciplinary. >> significant or small percentage? >> not a significant number. >> we can follow up offline. >> thank you. anything further for the chief? thank you. call next item. >> line 1b, d.p.a. director's report. it will be limited to a brief description of d.p.a. activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. >> thank you. good evening, acting director

hawkins. how are you? >> good evening. i am well. i will be brief. we did not have any celebrities at our outreach event. however, d.p.a. has participated in the following recently. on october 5, we were part of the juvenile probation department meet and greet. on october 6, we participated in the resilient bayview neighborhood fest. and today we were part of the fourth annual s.f. adult provision care event. other really positive news is we have recently promoted four investigators to senior investigator positions. this is exciting for many reasons. one of which is just that we have more senior investigators. also, they have already passed backgrounds so we got to have them start today. one of them is susan gray who is in the audience today. she has been an acting senior since february and is now a permanent senior investigator, so we're very happy to have her on board. >> congratulations. >> she joined brent began, and two others as the rest of the

senior investigative team. we're excited about that. we have started the process of hiring new investigators to back fill those spots. that will take a few months. city hiring and backgrounds will have to happen. we also are restructuring just slightly to have one senior investigator completely devoted to helping us develop our o.i.s. protocol and eventually develop the critical o.i.s. response team, so that's something that we will now be able to do thanks to having adequate staffing. two of our new lawyers start soon. one got cleared from backgrounds today and will be starting october 29, so that's great. and hopefully she will be joined by another second new attorney on november 5. we recently returned six of us went to the civilian oversight conference in st. petersburg, florida, so it was great to be able to have the training and to be part of the civilian oversight community and learn what other agent sus in multiple

jurisdictions are doing. and the last update i want to give everyone is regarding our technology. so we have partnered through the city's civic bridge program with a group of consultants from slalom who are helping us improve the user experience essentially. we've got them for about a month. at the end of that you are engagement, they are really taking a look at our technology and our processes and coming up with a way that we can improve those things so that our services are better delivered to the community. >> thank you. just so it's clear to the community, you talked about critical response team to officer-involved shootings. it is true that the d.p.a. responds to every officer-involved shooting already. >> that is correct. >> you are just enhancing the team. >> exactly. we have been responding to every o.i.s. and investigate every o.i.s. whether there's a complaint or not. we are trying to develop specialized in-house experience

that is more responsive and has specific training and a specific team, kind of like a specialized unit at a d.a.'s office or public defender's office. >> thank you. questions? commissioner hirsch. >> i have a simple question and should probably know the answer. what is the difference between a senior investigator and regular investigator? >> that is a great question. the way the investigative staff is structured is one senior manages a team of two to four investigators. so the investigators do intake and are kind of the on the ground people doing the day-to-day work. and the supervisors handle the more complex cases as well as work with the investigators to develop strategy and investigative plans and follow-up. the senior investigators are also the ones who are on call for the officer-involved shootings, not the investigators. >> anything further? thank you, acting director hawkins. please call the next item.

>> 1c, commission report. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities, announcement, and discussion. and commission discussion will be limited to calendaring any issues raised for future commission meeting. commission president's report and commissioner's reports. >> i would like to thank the men and women who participated in the thai and culture heritage parade on sunday and commissioner de jesus who walked with us in the parade. the italian community appreciates it. and mayor london breed was with us and all things italian. it was a great event. plenty of food and people were very happy. thank you and i was honored to have you present celebrating with my community. commissioner, any announcements? commissioner de jesus. >> an i want to say the first time i went to that a parade. and it was actually pretty exciting. it was very hot. and the police department was real lu well represented -- really well represented and they did a great job of handing out

stickers and stuff to the kids and really enjoyed it. i do want to also thank commissioner -- or vice president mazucco for being the grand marshal. he and his lovely wife were riding, the rest of us were walking, but it was great. thank you. >> anything further? >> next line item. >> 1d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for considerations at future commission meetings, action. the next meeting will be held and will be a community-based meeting on october 17 at 6:00 p.m. at saint ignatius college. and that will be on 10-17-18. the next regularly scheduled meeting will be back here on november 7 at 5:30 p.m. >> thank you very much for that. and some folks have wondered why it's saint ignatius and not

another place, but it's a beautiful place. with reference to matters for future calendaring, i would like to ask to calendar a discussion about what role the police department is playing in this opioid addiction and the problem we're having on the streets. if we can discuss everything from what our role is, what we need to do, obviously c.n.n. is now doing a special on this. the "new york times" did a feature on our street on high street and those all affected by that. and it is, it's awful. and we're getting national attention. what is our role? and do we start using 11550 and the health and safety code which is a way to get people off the streets and do it right without criminal convictions, but we all know people that are addicted need to be removed from the situation. they can't make that decision. what role are we playing? what role is the drug enforcement administration doing with supply demand? and is there -- i have not read or heard about any major heroin arrests or busts.

that is the supply. what are we doing about the dealers? what is the court system that they are getting arrested with large quantities and back out on the street and even violating stay away orders? what can we do to keep those folk in? and do we need to work with the federal partners? it is an issue and causes a lot of homelessness issues that we are dealing with are related to that. just walk down post street the other day and two people that were nodding -- they were like zombies. we're hitting them with narcan and helps and saving our lives, but what is our role to understand and help better? and calendar that for the first meeting in november. >> so governor brown signed into law a couple of -- two bills. 1421 and 748. one of them is making police misconduct records in certain cases available to the public.

and then the other one, i believe, is making the body camera videos available within 45 days of a critical incident. there is no rush on this, but i think we should be briefed as a commission to what exactly does that bill entail. i don't know if we got to the point where we know how to respond to it, but plan to put that on a closed session so we can understand that. or if it's a public session. >> the city attorney is also preparing some guidance for us on that. >> good. >> that is good. i want to bring it to our attention that we should have something so we can also understand that. >> just as a reminder, we were asked to look into this issue by a number of commissioners, so he will be providing a confidential attorney-client privilege memo. in terms of the new pieces of legislation and working with the department on revising policies and procedures to address them. >> thank you. >> will we get a memo on that?

>> it is a two-prong thing. the department will tell us how to move forward in the future and give us a presentation so the public can see it and an internal memo, confidential memo -- >> with respect to police officer records specifically. >> and then the second thing i want to do, i brought it up at the time last week when we revised the agenda. the chief's agenda and a brief description of significant incidences. i would like to discuss with the city attorney and discuss with the whole commission that maybe we have a catch-all kind of phrase here and if it's a significant incident that we have the ability to have a larger discussion if it is something that happened, like a mass shooting on a tuesday and we meet on a wednesday, i don't want to ask you where, when, how and lever it alone. it would be incumbent upon us to have some type of discussion. i don't know if that is possible, but talk about a phrase that works for us as well. test relevant, significant, something that is really important, not just anything we want to discuss because i

understand we can't do that. but i don't -- the idea that we are limited to determine whether we want to calendar it, i don't know if that goes over on a major incident. wanted to put that out there. >> will that be calendared for november 7? >> let's meet with the city attorney and fe if there is any way to phrase something like that so it's limited to something that is incredibly significant versus anything we want to discuss. >> a commissioner taylor. >> going off what vice president mazucco just talked about, our city is becoming more and more notorious for being unsafe and dangerously unsanitary. when i think about that, i think about our children literally who are kind of having to navigate the streets that are unsafe for us as adults, much less little feet. so i also would like to know what we are doing and i can think in my mind of playgrounds

that are notoriously hotbeds for drug activity and really dangerous conditions. what we're doing to help keep our kids safe here. and in dealing with this opioid crisis and just the crisis and the drug crisis in general in san francisco. how we're -- how we're addressing the needs in particular of our smallest citizens. >> thank you. anything further, commissioners? >> the public is now invited to come up and comment on items pertaining to agenda lines 1a through 1d. >> good evening. my name is john jones. i am deplorable. chief scott's report is typical of police chief reports that i have witnessed before this commission for years.

it is uninformative. he reads a z if he is reading from crib notes. tells us little or nothing about the state of the city. and what's missing from his report is what some of the commissioners here have commented on. the fact that the city and county of san francisco is a laughing stock. it is the locusts of property -- it is the locus of property crime in the united states and hard to walk around downtown without seeing ongoing evidence of social decay. when i criticize chief scott for is not saying something about it, but what i want to tell you is, that's not something the police department can do anything about. poli police departments are -- but aside from doing that, police

departments are by and large useless. you are on the losing end of a culture war. the people lie around in the streets who consume heroin are the casualties of that war. and what i don't hear from this commission is a recognition of your own impotency and the impotence of the police department. that is not a criticism. that is not a putdown. but the tools that you have, well trained people, well paid people, with guns is not the tool to deal with it. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i want to comment on the kind of piggybacking off what he said about the homicides are down and this has been said every year

since i have been coming here that the homicides are down and they are doing this and doing things to gun buybacks and all this, and the unsolved homicides. people are still suffering. people are still -- what about the people walking around with bullets in them? they're just not dead. and we were talking about police-involved shootings. both people, the community and police, they're both getting away with the murders. what are we going to do about the unsolved homicides? nothing is done. one gunshot is too many. so something needs to be done instead of every year i am hearing this from every new police chief that things are down and things are getting better. it's not getting better. parents like myself are still suffering. you talk about people coming

forth and they are suffering from post trau trau t maic stress disorder, so if you can solve a homicide without a body, how come you can't solve our homicides, people of color? this is appalling that this happening and the same thing is said every year from different people on the panel and different police chiefs. the same things are being said. and i'm tired of that, too. i'm going to come here every year talking about my son and keep saying we need the community involvement. we need the community involvement. something else needs to be done. thank you. >> thank you, ms. brown. any further public comment on the line items? please come forward. good evening. >> hi. i got some things for you. >> give them to sergeant ware. thank you.

>> it is regarding the community engagement. and so my name is kelly cutler a human rights organizer with the coalition on homelessness and we presented here about the criminalization of homelessness and the impact that it's having on people. and the board seemed to agree about the recommendations, but then since that time, spfd even to they requested to work with the coalition on this and community partners to reform 311 and 911, this hasn't been happening. and the big thing i really want to draw your attention to is ashock. healthy treat operations center. this is a coordinated effort to respond to homelessness in our city. makes sense. that would be a good thing for a coordinated effort in theory, but we don't have the resources. we have over 1,000 people on the single shelter wait list and the average wait list for a family with children is 111 days.

what we have now is the command center and h.s.a. and the housing department, the homeless department, has had such extremely minimal role within this because we don't have the resources. we have seen a massive increase in enforcement and traumatizing people and taking narcan and h.i.v. medication and doctors working on the street where they have done a sweep and someone overdosed and they didn't have narcan and the person died. that is one example. the packet i gave you is a presentation that was done at the local coordinating board which i sit on and we can explain more about that and the article about that one as well. there's been no transparency, no communication -- i am on the

sfpd advisory board. >> thank you for everything you do. it's actually greatly appreciated. obviously there is a need for -- there is frustrations on both sides. we will have to find a middle ground. appreciate you working with us. that is right. thank you. go ahead, commissioner. >> ms. cutler, may i ask one question. i'm sorry. i was trying to read and listen. when you said there is no transparency, i am not sure what part. >> i had to rush in the packet is a 15-minute. >> public comment is now closed, but respond to that question. >> there is a 15-minute presentation at the local coordinating board last monday. week ago monday. so we have been meeting here and it is within the packet where we have done the spfd homeless advisory board, but then 3% of the advisory board meetings have been cancelled. and another 10% have been rescheduled without actually community input and just rescheduled. and also there was no mention or

discussion of hshock and then it appeared. there's been no discussion or transparency of policy, no community involvement. and i am on -- >> with hsock. and the lead is commander lazar, the policy is in response to homelessness. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> please call the next item. i apologize. i broke the rule there is. line number two. >> approval of the awards committee recommendations from the awards committee meeting of june 19, 2018, recognize members of the department for their actions in the line of duty. action. >> members of the commission, commissioner, this is approval of the awards committee. i was the commissioner who sat in on these awards. and again, it is for those of you who have done it before and those who will do it in the future, it is pretty incredible process. what happens is the commanding officers write the officers up for an award of valor.

and there is a presentation done by the commanding officer. and then the officers are asked questions by the entire command staff. only people allowed in the room are the rank of captain and above and the police commission secretary and one commissioner. and there is a thorough vetting. a lot of questions asked. and at the end of the day, then the committee votes by using colored marbles. gold for gold. white for silver. and bronze for bronze. and then there is black for police commissioner commendation and blue for meritorious conduct. and this goes through and count and the majority of the votes and one marble to get that. very few gold medals are ever given. they are rare but there are some here. and so we went through that process. i had the honor of being there for this process. and we were there for about six hours, if i'm not mistaken. these are the folks and commissioner de jesus chatted earlier and i chatted with the

act acting director of the d.p.a. we have a department general order 3.09 which dealing with vetting these award. i have gone through and there are certain criteria we have and if these officers that are present in front of you today, they meet the criteria, do not have any pending investigations or charges based upon what i have been told, and we did move one over because of that. we have done the vetting and so if there's any questions, feel free to ask myself or the chief. chief was present for the entire event. and after that i move to accept. any questions? >> is it possible to provide -- i don't know if like a summary of the conduct that led to the award as part of this report or packet? i think it's helpful for the public to know what our officers go through and what they see and some of the conduct that underlying the awards. >> whats a going to happen is

the public is going to know because once we approve these, we are going to set the awards presentation and at that presentation, the very same presentation that the captain made on behalf of his or her officers will be made at that presentation. so the public will be present and hear exactly what the officers went through and what they did. so it will be done then and it's actually going to be a long one, this one, because there are several incidents that have come forward. so the public will know. in fact, dr. marshall has asked it be televised, so the public does know and it will be televised if i am not mistaken. >> right. i would guess that most people can't make it there. and view these. i think it would be helpful to have some way -- it could be distributed so people could understand. >> actually, that is a great idea. maybe we can talk to david stevenson and see if we can get this out. again, this was numerous

incidents and incredible valor. and the officers very proud about where this department has come in the last, you know, eight, nine years. it is amazing. and that will be done, but that's where it is. >> thank you. >> okay. >> anything further? do i have a motion to accept? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> any public comment regarding the medals of valor? hearing none, public comment is now closed. all in favor? aye. passed unanimously. thank you. please call the next line item. >> number 3, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter and jurisdiction of the commission. speaker wills address the commissioner as a whole and not to individual commission, department, or d.p.a. personnel. under the rules of order during

public comment, neither police nor d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussions on speakers during public comment. >> thank you. now time for public comment. perfect timing, ace. >> ahh, thank you, jesus. looky, looky here. two minutes. can i do this? i am trained. first of all, i wanted to present something to you in official way, chief. this is the juneteenth festival. and i see you in the picture wearing brown, and let me tell you what is really going down. there we go. trying to tell y'all. now you done seen it all. anyway, i am just here passing

through making my announcement and i'm back at city hall, y'all, down in the press room. representing the black media. and i have to read papers. the population is down to, what, under 3, whatever, so i am here after 10 years. i'm back. thank god. and thank my persistence that kept me driving for my community. and now there's a lot of issues we must go on. first of all, the new commissioners welcome to city hall. i call it silly hall, but see if we can change that. and all you new commissioners that i don't know and the ones that i do know for a while -- hello. and the tv audience because i can't see you. i'm responsible for san francisco building the channel, the san francisco government channel. i don't want no credit. i rater have crash, but i started the tv that you are looking at. it's peg now, public access

government channel. and the government channel. and i am working like trump did. i know how to work this thing. and through the difference and the billionaire, but i'm a black man. he in the city by the bay. we're going to put it back on the map. we going to make history with london breed. we come from the same community. we going to put the feel back in the mo. oh, don't you know. and i want to invite you all to watch my brand-new show called this week at city hall, y'all. that's all. >> thank you, ace. >> mr. jones, you are next. >> all right. thanks, ace. mr. jones, you are on the air. >> my name is john jones. and i am deplorable.

i wanted to -- go back to my point about losing the culture war. and the impotence of the police department in dealing with that. what i encourage and i know you are not supposed to talk to people individually, but i would encourage police department and members of this commission to tell other members of the political branches in the city that the police department is not the agency with which to deal with the cultural war and the detrius of the newspapers comment on all the time. san francisco and the popular press is a laughingstock. it's not your fault. it's not the fault of the board of supervisors. it's not the fault of london breed or gavin newsome. we are the losing end of a culture war, which is insulting our sensitivities daily. and the people you step over on

the street, the people defecating in the street, the people dropping needles on the playgrounds, those are the victims of the culture war. they didn't go to high school doing that. i ask myself when i see them, what were you like in the fifth grade? did the coach ever grab you and say, hey, u you would make a great guard? how did thatment codown in their lives? -- how did that come down in their lives? so what i would like to encourage members, the people on the dais to do, is to tell your political pa political masters that the ball is in their court. they will turn around and say, no, you have the guns, go out and i a rest them. don't stand for that. even if it means your jobs. thank you. >> thank you, mr. jones. ms. brown.

>> good evening again. i would like to use the overhead as usual. concerning my son who was murdered august 14, 2006. still to this day his homicide isn't solved. i did speak with my investigator the day before yesterday or yesterday. and he's kind of saying the same thing. we're supposed to -- there is some things he was supposed to do, but i have no qualms about his family, but he said he is going to his son's wedding and going to this and going to that. and even though his son is awe live, my son is dead, i still have the same feelings and if my son was alive. so i mean, i need to hear something more than you going on a trip. and we talked about that. we don't know who killed and we need the community to find out who killed them. you have mayor gavin newsome saying we know who killed the

son. i know who killed her son. the police know who killed her son. so if you know all of this, then how come the community don't know? he even know and he wasn't there. so why isn't my son's case solved? he said we can name names, addresses. he helped gavin newsome had the name. you guys have all these names. they're still walking the street to kill again. my son, this is what i am left with of my son. my son had a father. this was a two-parent family. i have nowhere to put this thing that where are you when i was murdered? we need a venue for our children. this is what they left me with. i bring this because i need you to see how feel and what i'm going through. this is my son.

dead on a gurnee that i have to live with every day. >> thank you, ms. brown. ms. brown comes here every week to talk about the murder of her son aubrey and if anybody has any information, it's like a broken record, but please call 415-575-4444. that's the anonymous tip line. and again, at some point we hope and pray that somebody comes forward. this murder took place in the western edition, and you are right, some of those clowns are out there, out and about. social media and on the streets. give it time. it will work. >> this is not a broken record. his life will not be a broken record. >> you are right. thank you, ms. brown. >> any further public comment? hearing none, public comment is closed. >> public comment on all matters

pertaining to item 6 below, closed session, and including public comment on item 5 whether to hold item 6 in closed session. >> hearing none, public comment is now closed. please call the next line. >> line five, vote on whether to hold item 6 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10. action. >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. we are going to move into closed session. >> okay, commissioner. we are back in open session. line 7, vote to elect whether to disclose or discuss any item on section 6. all in favor? please call the last line item. >> line eight. adjournment. >> do i have a motion?

>> moved. >> a second? >> good. >> and to good luck. have a good evening.

>> good morning, everybody. good morning! my name is >> in the community that when we

build affordable house north a community, we build it for the residents in that community who need it the most and who can barely afford to live here. china town is an amazing neighborhood by it has low income residents who badly need affordable housing. a great project is being built nearby, 88 broadway, which also includes. this will provide 178 homes for families and seniors many of that's really exciting. many of the affordable unit in the senior housing development are unfortunately still too expensive for the seniors who live there. in fact, 56% of all seniors living in all of district 3 are

at 30% of area median income and below and for chinatown, the percentage is even higher. opportunities for affordable housing must reflect neighborhood needs and that means, this senior housing cannot be set at affordable levels that chinatown seniors can't afford. the city is making these senior housing units even more affordable. today is why we're here to announce that we're going to be doing this by buying down the affordability levels on 13 of those units, which will move these homes from 60% of area medicinit willcost $710 a month.

the deepen affordability is made possibility through the city's investment of $1.5 million. this investment represents my commitment that when we build housing that our city meets and we need to make sure the people in these communities where we build affordable housing can qualify for the housing we build. i'm truly proud of the work that has gone into this project. i want to thank bridge housing for john stewart company, the port of san francisco, the mayor's office of community housing development. i want to acknowledge our community partners in this effort. china town community development center, the chinese progressive

association, the community tenants association, and i also would like to thank barburcy coast neighborhood for this support. this is a project that is a part of this community and we haunt to make sure have a real shot at being, maintaining and continuing to be a part of this community which is why this investment is important. one of our champions on the state side, as it restate relato affordable housing and someone who is working hard, not only for the residents here in china chinatown, our assembly member. [applause] >> thank you. it's fitting that this morning, as it's been raining, just as

this press conference is starting, the sun is coming out. as our city has been experiencing the intensity of the housing challenges that we have, today is a bright spot and an important announcement on how we move things forward. let me start by thanking mayor breed, your city departments for your investment in real affordability. and ensuring projects like this move forward. as a resident, i'm grateful to you and what everyone here is doing. i will say as a former supervisor of district 3, i want to thank the neighborhood associations, particularly the barbury coast neighborhood association, our non-profit organizations from ccdc and the pca and i want to thank bridge housing and the john stewart company and others, for moving forward this important project. i will say, as a chair of the assembly housing committee, i want to thank governor brown and my fellow colleagues for voting and