for, it is highly likely that we can't take that up yet but it is highly likely that we'll get continue to. there will be opportunity for comment on it but it is likely that item for, in my view, will be getting continue to. i will be asking for a motion to do that when the time comes. for now, if there are no further comments and questions, we should take public comment. so if you have public comment, line up over there. may be folks can just come forward to. ok. to reiterate, two minutes each. please state your name for the record. all right. who is first?

good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is phoebe vander horst and i was one of the 39 people that sat through meetings for a year. since everything has been said so if sufficiently and succinctly, i am just going to add my little comment to this. san francisco does not need a new jail. we do not need one. we need to invest in cooperative housing and neighborhood based services and support transformative justice practices instead of imprisonment. we do not need more police and we do not need a new jail. the population of the jail on this state as 85% african-american. african-americans his are three% of the city's population. we need to address the institutional racism in san francisco. that sheriff is threatening to

send prisoners to alameda county and santa rita as an alternative but that is blackmail. we have the money for the housing. we have money for the alternative. the fact that the police are not arresting white and asian techies, who are the rising population of the city, building a new jail says that san francisco is locking up people of color rather than providing services like -- that offset property. and part of a workgroup that proposes dozens of policies that are centred on community remedies and alternatives to policing, arrest and imprisonment. yet there has been little accountability for funding and implementation of these policies i have sat in those meetings for a year. as i have said over and over again, sometimes i just wanted to scream. the idea that san francisco is liberal and progressive is belied by the fact that san francisco locks the people of color and discriminates against women, trends and transgendered.

we don't need a new jail. we need the policies that a group i long to recommend it to the institute. >> thank you. next speaker. >> the demonstrations made before you is a mixed characterization of the truth and a violation of the inmates' rights. especially the inmates that have mental disabilities. you are in violation of the american disabilities act. when the case law matter of people versus ferreira, the supreme court ruled that the criminal justice system is an enterprise to keep inmates in jail in order to hire employees to keep their jobs and to keep their paychecks going. this is more evident in this article. you commended him on. you have your values mixed up. he says it very clearly here

that the funds that they are given in this $2 million grant would be used to hire new employees, behavioral clinic employees, for the inmates to see how they are eligible to be evaluated by new employees to work at the jail. that jail is a violation of standards and you are creating a hazard to. not only for your staff, but the inmates too. you need to take this inmates out of that jail k.? you are putting that risk by keeping them in the building that is not earthquake proof. and a good example of how you have liability, over in slanted -- santa clara county, there was a lawsuit that was just granted that the inmates and the law firm sued that jail for $1.6 million.

and an additional $200,000 for violation of constitutional rights of the inmates' in the county jail. you are violating their equal protection and due process of the 14th amendment by keeping them in a jail that is not up to standards. >> thank you. next speaker, please be back next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is calvin quick. the youth commission legislative affairs office. on october 15th, the youth commission voted unanimously to deport -- we have long been supportive of this work group and its recommendations and outcomes. we believe that this has been a productive way to move forward in the spirit of avoiding the construction of a new county jail. the youth commission is a longtime supporter of alternative to incarceration including opposing the construction of a new jail.

in april 2017, the youth commission passed a motion urging the board of supervisors to hold a hearing on alternatives to incarceration. in february of this year, the youth commission passed a resolution highlighting the need for youth justice reform. transitional aged youth make up a disproportionate number of incarcerated adults in san francisco. twenty-five% of the jailed population are trends generational aged youth and they make up only eight% of the total city population. frankly, one of our biggest concerns is that a jail environment is no place for a young person whose brain is still developing until the age of 25. we need to be reducing our incarceration rate. not accommodating it in perpetuity. the youth commission thanks supervisors and his committee for holding this hearing and we hope to see more and more

progress on the implementation of outcomes and recommendations in this work group going forward thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is brooklyn and i am a seventh grader at millennial middle school. i'm also an internet san francisco pretrial. why should we focus on making a building designed to lock up people when we can focus on preventing people from going to jail in the first place? the fact that some people think that we need another jail shows that we need to work harder to find an alternative to locking people up. as a kid to, i get punished by my parents. however, punishing me does not make me stop doing the things that annoy my parents. for example, let's say i get in trouble for fighting with my sister. and i get punished. the punishment is not going to stop me from fighting with my

sister again. so when you put someone in jail for committing a crime, what will stop them from doing it again? thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i represent the young woman's spirit centre and i work with young people and the county jail and juvenile hall. thank you for holding this hearing. i want to bring up two things. they both have to do with who is in custody over the past four or five weeks. we have been asking young women when they were arrested and what does the population of both the women's groups and girls group at juvenile hall sometimes are doubling the numbers. the women's groups in jail went from 5-12 and a juvenile hall from 6-15. many share they arrested around the time dream force happened. i want to share that there were -- they were not drug dealers, but homeless. this is who we are holding in

custody. we don't want to underestimate the need to focus on reducing racial disparities in the jails. most of those in custody, as stated in the data, are black. many of them are also homeless. as long as this disparity exists , we have a crisis. it needs to be addressed. a new jail will only give way to needing to fill it and if we don't address the racial disparity, this will further exacerbate the number of african-americans who end up in custody. want this committee to continue to prioritize the jail closure plan so that san francisco can constantly be focused on finding ways to reduce these disparities finding real solutions that allow people to be in their communities, connected to their services, that address their needs of adequate housing, treatment and rehabilitative services and advancing a plan to close it down. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hello. i am on the g.r.p. committee. i want to remind everyone here that the committee also had a primary charge of reducing the ethnic disparities between those in the jail and in the community is still stands at 53% of those in the jail are african-american while only three% of the adult population. in the g.r.p., we voted with 96% approval to adopt measures that would reduce racial disparity. there have been some measure is undertaking that would impacted disparities. however, at the jail population has grown. we have heard a lot from the police today about heightened policing of crimes related to property which are widely understood to be related to poverty. to echo the supervisors, the strategies are not impacting these crime rates because they do nothing to solve the real issues of poverty and marginalization. the criminalization fuels racism

and poverty and makes our social economic problems worse. nearly 40% of the jail population is almost 25% -- if you take this data and synthesize it to african-american youth, 80% of them have been booked and in jail. these numbers parallel apartheid states. i want to say in 2016, the d.o.j. found systemic racism and the practices and gave 272 specific recommendations. to date, we don't know what has come of them. we need an independent audit and oversight of the police practices of arrest, charging and booking to confirm measures of accountability. only 27% of the g.r.p. voted for new pages and it is unconscionable that the city can come up with money for this rather than residential program space which was voting in bite 92% co-ops that were voted on by 73%. interventions are significantly

less costly. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is darcy. i'm here with the justice project. i think, you know, what we have been saying over and over, we know what the solutions are. we need more housing in many supportive housing. we need better treatment options everyone is saying this. it has to happen. instead we are getting 200 new cops on the street, increasing enforcement will not reduce the jail population. increased sweeps will not decrease the jail population. rebranding sweeps as some kind of homeless outreach program when they are being performed by cops and the department of public works is not going to decrease the jail population. and also, you know, sheriff hennessy, you need to take responsibility for this. you can't stand up here and say my hands are tied and threatened

to ship inmates out to santa rita or we have to reopen another jail. we rejected the funding for a new jail. we need to reduce the population and provide alternatives. we cannot reopen and shipped anyone to santa rita. we cannot build a mental health jail instead of a regular jail. i think those things are clear. meanwhile, the jail population has remained 53% black in a city that is 56% black. that is completely unacceptable. i did not hear anything from hennessy addressing that. so i think the solutions are clear. no new jail and less cops on the street and more housing and more supportive programming. >> thank you. next speaker. if there are folks in the overflow room who do wish to speak, they should come up and take their place in line. >> hello. i completely support all of the demands of the no new jail coalition.

i am speaking for myself. we need to not just simply reduce the jail population. for instance, today, we had heard that because people are delaying their trials, they are clogging up the jails and adding to the beds. so justice and reducing the numbers are not necessarily going to go in hand. we know that blacks are still ten times overrepresented in the jails. the people in who are released from emergency, 40% of them, psych services get no referrals to additional health and this not only is does not solve the problem, but they also lead to suicides. so i think -- we have talked a lot today about things that need to happen in long-range. but there is something that is

coming up right away that needs to not be done. and that is that conservancy ship the programs that are in the making right now that are being pushed so hard right now are very dangerous. over 60% of people who get conserved to get locked up. so this is a whole new group of locked up population that we are talking about. it is aimed at the homeless. the program has nothing to do with increasing any of the services that we need so badly. homes, psych services, anything like that. it is simply a program of targeting the homeless. >> thank you. next speaker.

>> hello. i am here to oppose any new jail construction or renovation of c.j. six or funding for planning of renovation c.j. six. we have heard today that jails don't keep people safe and jails in san francisco are locking up poor people of color. we know that has to end. and the presentation today referenced a lot of services. a lot of the people coming into the jail population are previously homeless and then more so afterward. so it is clear what the city needs. i think we have heard that today i urge this committee to think of public safety as the previous speaker and public comment mentioned as the welfare of people. not around increased enforcement or increase to jails but rather how do we provide services to the people of san francisco?

i want to emphasize that these services must be community-based and neighborhood based and they cannot come through increased policing or jail services or probation or the court. these need to be community based >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is julian. i was born and raised in san francisco. i am a little confused. we heard today you don't have funding for this jail. we just also heard that you passed a very generous subsidy to the police department. i am wondering what that is about. we are also continuing the trend of not restoring the jail. it is dangerous for an earthquake. in south carolina, during the hurricane, their prisoners left to die. do you want to be a part of the continuous process? do you want to be responsible for another one of those accidents. do something about this. i am also going to bring up a point from the no new jail coalition.

it says that there are already $190 million allocated in the capital plan for existing prisoners in 2021. we can use that money instead for housing formerly -- we can house formerly incarcerated people and impacted communities in order to bring the jail population down. we should be using this money to build housing, not cages. you need to reverse the legacy of white supremacy in this country so that you don't continue this. this is an atrocity. you all are just complacent in all of it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is jenetta. i wanted to talk about our privilege and access and i want to acknowledge that to me being a 55-year-old african-american transgendered woman, sitting here and hearing all these people sharing about this new jail and locking people up and keeping people in cages and shipping them from one cage to another, it feels like the

people that are over these projects need a lot more support they need to access services. and also, looking at some of the clips with jane elliott. this is ridiculous. you have all these people, white people overseeing black bodies. get all the oppression that black people have faced. these people need to be educated on how not to oppress black people. that is exactly what is happening all over again systemically. i think that there are some trainings and there are some organizations that white folks and people with light skin privilege insist people should gain access to and learn how not to further perpetuate the violence and the oppression that has historically been put on

against black people. all i see is the majority of white people talking about locking black bodies up in the city and county county. we need more opportunity. specifically, no new jail in san francisco. we have 1300 people in the jail. build housing for those people. take that land and that plot and mangle it and make it rubble and build housing for these folks. opposed to creating further cages. there is also property by caltrain that is right down there where it is very free and you can build -- >> thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you. next speaker. [cheering]

>> hi there. my name is carl and i carl and i am an organizer with the rest of regional. sheriff hennessy, the only time i have ever agreed with her if she said the jail is an embarrassment and that is true. this whole process is an embarrassment. i have been here for year is demanding there be no jail in san francisco. i was on the g.r.p. workgroup. it was an embarrassing process. and to see what has not come out event and to see how the city has continued to only prioritize those responses is embarrassing. it makes me feel sick. and supervisor ronen, you are asking who possess responsibility it is. in large part, it is your responsibility to take on this issue. there is not much we can actually do as people who are just living on the ground and our loved ones are in jail and dying. >> this is a very specific

question. >> ok. it is your responsibility. the g.r.p. has a lot of solutions that are not options. the no new jail coalition has a platform about how to close 850 bryant including building cooperative housing and building multiple colocated services and community-based centres and passing proxy and building transformative justice centres and space to resolve problems without using the criminal legal system. i also wanted to talk about the embarrassment of sheriff hennessy. i believe that what she said here today was that she does nothing with her job. so i wanted to say that hennessy , you are an embarrassment. if you are not doing your job, can we abolish your position? thank you. [laughter] >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is salima. i am an organizer with critical resistance. earlier today, i heard a lot of

talk about the crimes committed in san francisco. first of all, a crime is only a crime based on the definition of the state of what a crime is. my definition of a crime is not your definition. in fact, the word crime is not even in my vocabulary. the word harm is. until we can begin removing the criminalization of people in san francisco, there will only be more imprisonment of people. the city needs to reevaluate the necessity to address harm rather than crime. we need to address a number of unhealthy people that are being swept off the street and arrested and detained and locked up with nowhere else to go. we need to address the criminalization of youth, black communities, sex workers, trans and queer communities. we have recommendations provided by the g.r.p. working group. we need to close 850 immediately without any possible proposal for the construction or renovation of a new jail.

without any proposal to move people from 8502 another county jail, such as santa rita. earlier, you asked who was responsible for undertaking this issue and making sure that 850 permanently closes. that is your responsibility. you have been hearing with the community needs in this room. it is time to prioritize those needs and invest in transformative and healing opportunities. no new jails. no new cops and close 850 now. [cheering] >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i work with the project. gosh. what an oppressive room and in in a passive -- oppressive process. i'm so nervous. this -- the first step you can take is to make this entire process more accessible for the people who are the actual

experts and not the people who got paid to be here but the people who had to take time off from the jobs and all the youth who came from school. if that was actually something that was interesting to you. the main thing i wanted to highlight is that briefly, you mentioned how the building is an earthquake hazard and that is scary for the people inside who might be harmed. but you didn't necessarily mention all the people who are harmed just like being in the building in the first place. if their safety was something that you were actually entirely concerned with, than i think it just goes to reiterate the point that they can't just go and be transferred to another prison. there are women in prisons who experience sexual assault and stuff that happens in prisons. there is death processes that happen on the way into prison. and out of prison. and if we can't work to actually

eliminate those steps, then why are we even bringing up the earthquake process? mother nature will do her own bullshit but we can take steps to save people. prison has proven that. you wanted to get more data because it has proven to be 100% traumatic for black people, trans people and all people who have to go through that process. that is the only data that anyone needs. it is your job and you are getting paid to put all these voices together and create a better system. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am the assistant director of the supported living program progress foundation. i'm here to talk a little bit about the progress foundation. i heard a lot of talk today. i have been here the whole time. about appropriate housing for people with behavioral health issues and progress modifications.

we have an a.d.u. system which is an alternative to inpatient psych emergency. sake emergency walk-in. people come to our door and urgent care clinics and walking off the streets who are referred from the psych emergency department. they go through -- they come they are in crisis. and they are moved to a slightly lower level of service where they stay for two weeks. i have heard the term beds used a lot. i know that that is supposed to be a shorthand for spaces for people but it also has been a conjured an image of someone lying down in a bed and getting better but we believe, at progress, it is important to provide a homelike environment so it speaks to appropriate housing environment. homelike environment meaning kitchens where people can cook food and get food. meeting having groups of people. meeting having communion and

fellowship with people going out on walks and experiencing life and trying to have a life to restore a normalized experience for the people in the a.d.u. we have rtf which are three-month just three months out of the year. i work at the co-op his. and some quick stats, 30% of the people in the co-op his, which are long -- long-term housing that we worked with yet last year, have been to jail in the past and none of them have been back to jail since they have been in the co-op. out of the people we work with in the supportive living program , one person has been back in the entire time that they have been with a co-op. those are the basic statistics that evidence based. shows how it can support people. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is canon i'm the

president of the deputy sheriff 's association. i want to thank you for your time and allowing me to speak. first of all, i would like to say i have a great deal of respect for sheriff hennessy. a great deal of respect for the sheriff process department and a great deal of respect for the deputy sheriffs that have a difficult job and work on a daily basis. some of them are here today and they will get a chance to speak as well. part of our responsibility is to protect the people. we have a fast revolving door in our criminal justice system right now. throughout the day, from the beginning, i have been here all day and we have had a large discussion, starting with police and starting with crimes and reducing crimes. i hear and i have heard a lot of discussion on reduction of crime but now we are at the point of discussing replacing a jail but yet what are the consequences if you are trying to balance that we reducing crime and making arrests, protecting people,

stopping crime and protecting the victims of crime. there has to be a balance. the balance has to be in the middle. crime is a reality. there has been an increase in crime. an increase in some cases of specific crimes like property crimes. you see the drug use out on the streets and you see the drug scales on the street. during this presentation, a public defender spoke and he talked about prop 60 for legalization of marijuana. marijuana and arrest decreasing yet the d.a., and the public defender mentioned, in colorado, where marijuana is legal, there has been an uptick. the uptake is in d.u.i. d.u.i. are mandated state time in jails. we have to look at that as well. it is not a perfect world. right now, at this time, i believe the sheriff's plan to remodel c.j. six is the best plan and the best option. we are here in support of the

plan for c.j. six. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is abdul. i'm a deputy sheriff. i am on the board number with the deputy sheriff association. i'm here to show support for sheriff hennessy's plan to renovate c.j. six. i currently also work at county jail his five and c.j. six is the neighboring facility. it is a much cleaner facility. it is ready immediately to accommodate the inmates of c.j. for. we can renovate the san bruno facility without losing technology and with the program to already provide. we already do the high school therapy or could do a lot of programs that are already constructed in c.j. five." be moving those inmates to c.j. six. we have the room to accommodate all the inmates at this time.

i would like to say that i personally did a little cadet work in santa rita. based on me working out here, sending any of those inmates there, you are sending them to the line's den. that is a very maximum, hardcore facility. the programs aren't as lenient as the ones we have in san francisco. you are also talking about, right now, we can accommodate shuttling the visitors, the family members there. we already have that set up. c.j. sex is already set up. if you're talking about cost of savings of setting -- sending someone to santa rita, you are kind of -- you are trying to save money but you are putting the inmates inmate to go down there and risk their lives. you have other rival gang members out there. now you have family members and you have lawyers who have to make their way up to santa rita. c.j. six is already set up and it needs to be renovated.

it is ready to go and it would be a better plan right now for the immediate shutdown of c.j. for. that is all i have. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i am here with the transgendered gender varying intersects justice project. a nonprofit that works with trans people in prisons and jails and supports them as they come out. we know first hand the jails and policing are not what keeps communities safe. this oppressive system only targets poor folks, black and brown folks and further harm. this is true for san francisco where 53% of the population is black and the city population is only six% black. in addition to be inherently violent, 850 bryant is seismically unsound. further putting the lives of those who are locked inside at risk. the answer is not to expand the jail or move people to a different jail or build a new one. the no new s.f. jail coalition

has put forth multiple recommendations on what the city should do instead of constructing a new jail. this should be an easy choice for the city of san francisco. you care of people of color and if you care about poor folks and trans- folks and houseless folks , you need to invest in the communities by closing 850 bryant and building affordable housing and providing people with community-based services that they are telling you you need. you have been told time and time again what the solution is. but to act as if your hands are tied we do not want to know what to do negates the hard work that so many people are put into create a clear plan for the city to show up for his residence. [applause] >> my name is scott. i'm also with the justice project. i want to call in each of you to use their positions on the board to work for the immediate closure of 850 bryant and release inmates being held there and use some of the money allocated to the police towards the reason that people are

locked up in the first place. he is at war his implementation of alternatives of the no new jail coalition. affordable cooperative housing, community-based mental health services and transformative justice centers. we don't need more institutional mental health centers that replicate the conditions of jails that are not humane or conducive to healing. we don't need to renovate a current building in order to keep people locked up. we don't need electronic monitoring or more surveillance. we need to provide housing for the 30% of people in s.f. county jail who are homeless prior to incarceration and get communities of resources we need to care for our own to decriminalize a daily survival of people of color and folks experiencing homelessness and survivors of trauma and others who are disproportionately locked up in the jails. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. jackie flynn. executive director of the philip randolph institute of san francisco. i was one of the original working group members as well. i believe that community organizations really need to be

supported to help provide services to reentry clients. more than 50% of the population is black. i want to know if we are addressing what is really driving our black population into jails. poverty, education and opportunity. these are things we talk about but how do they get services they need? i want to see a continued effort to establish a body like the g.r.p. working group that monitors and takes action on findings that have come out through this effort. i want to see a planned cap not only to move folks out of the system but to keep folks from entering. i just was at a probation hearing for a juvenile yesterday who was finally released off of probation. but if we look at some of the inter- workings of the actual system, there are little hiccups and little barriers that not only jade to the clients from

continuing on, but it makes it very difficult to also -- and it is also time-consuming and costing the city a lot of money. we need to see the racial disparities in jail, the arrests , the resources provided to inmates and we need to check on what the city is doing. there are stigmas around black culture when it comes to police and mental health. i just don't believe that the young people that i work with are often being treated properly i think through this effort, we have learned a lot. i'm not in a rush to build a new jail. i would be willing to continue to serve if we did put another body together. i appreciate this. thank you. >> supervisor peskin, supervisor ronen, thank you, very much for staying in talking about what we will do. my name is jessie. i live in selma.

i was not a member of the re envisioned workgroup jail project but i did go to all of the meetings. and i want to stress that i think it is clear, from the public comment and from the jail work group process that the community does not want to build a new jail. i think supervisor peskin's comments are exactly on target when we talk about what will we do with $119 million in the capital plan instead of building a new jail? that money could go to health care and housing and education and other human services and social services that san franciscans want to help people instead of hurting people with tax dollars. i value that input from the community. i hope that that is the direction we are able to go in. san franciscans don't want a new jail. we don't want to send people there and punish them with even greater extent. it was fantastic that we had public comment here earlier today from the progress foundation. that guy is a san francisco hero if we can take people and put

them in subsidized housing co-ops where there are mental health services and substance use services available, instead of in jails, we will save money and so much suffering. please spend our money on things like housing people in cooperative housing where people will visit to council once a week instead of in jail where we will deliberately cause them to suffer extra unnecessarily. i went to the jail work meetings all last year and i wanted to share one of the things i learned. apparently in california law, the penal code section 185 a said that it is illegal to keep someone in jail after 48 hours for that -- without a rating them. this common practice in san francisco. hundreds of people are arrested and kept for more than 48 hours. the district attorney is violating the law by keeping people in jail for more than 48 hours without arraignment.

>> afternoon supervisors. i will make this quick. you know i am ace on the case. [singing] ♪ for all the people out there, we really are in this place ♪ >> this is silly hall. [singing] ♪ just shake -- just check the black history ♪ ♪ i have been working on cases with a lot of conspiracy ♪ ♪ some people don't like me >> let me say this. i created this. i am like trump. i'm not rich and blond headed but i am black and i am right here. i will work this t.v. system to the gill. i i am formally letting you know , i have been extra extra. i have been handed for life from the press room. right where my black community needs me the most.

i was coming back after a ten year absence of how they put me out but i have racial problems in there with the chronicle. i want to have an investigation about the press room. you all know nobody -- nobody has any keys they are. you know who gave it to them? it was silly willie. willie brown. i have no commitments. no one is keeping us black folks down. my name is ace, dammit and i have been on the case. i'm going for the protected act. i have been banned for a year. i am scared now. i am like a black man running scared. and i have a target on my back in city hall. when they are trying to censor me. what is so healing about it, i am mayor. our c.e.o. is black and the gentlemen who give me that letter comes from the department of real estate who is black. do i look black? something is wrong in this picture.

my name is ace and i am on the case. [indiscernible] >> my name is antonio. i was going to say that the hiring officer is right. he just past the cannabis tax and a lot of people want to see the office paying a better rage -- wage. needs to be taken seriously. the sheriff and the sfpd put a lot of energy into this. it is not fair to not consider bettering their quality of life. it is our quality of life. hiring 200 more people is amazing but i love to see the people that are there having a

better quality wage. thank you. >> my name is angela jenkins and i originally put a card in to speak as one of the first people i went over to the overflow room i would like to thank you for this hearing and to listen. i applaud that no new s.f. jail coalition. i watch them do miraculous things against the government entity. i appreciate, as black folks getting up here. i. i am a person of means. i do things that some people -- it may not have me incarcerated but i fear it. i fear that somehow, some way, it will be a fate for me and i appreciate people spending an analysis of who is inside the jail. and some of them got the use of force statistics, you look at 96 a. you see a stark disparity on who

is pulled over upwards of 43% in the first quarter and probably in the second quarter at san francisco publication of who is actually identified as being someone police are concerned with. again, to everyone who is working to end incarceration, 2d police. i stand in support of that. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors ronen and peskin. thank you for giving us the time to speak and for listening. my name is mohammed and i am the communications director. supervisor peskin, you had just joined the board of supervisors when the vote was made to oppose the jail replacements. but just provide context, we are here hearing date at statistics,

numbers, proposed solutions and we are seeing some changes. but it has taken the no new s.f. jail coalition. we have moved mountains to get to this point. and we have been fighting the jail project construction since 2013. we had a victory in 2013 and we are starting to see the fruits. it will take some time. just to put things into broader context, what we are opposing and what we are up against is over 50 years of policies that have criminalized a wide range of practices, behaviours and that are very much based on racism and racial discrimination we talked about san francisco where you heard the gross disproportion of how black people are overrepresented in jails.

but the way that we got here was to cut social services and to actually bolster policing. i think it's great what we are hearing here and your commitments to housing and junk -- and healthcare. that stands in contradiction to hiring more police officers. we have to reverse this fifty-year long process that brought us to the point where we lock up more people than any other country at a higher rate in the world. it starts with divesting from the systems of policing and imprisonment. >> i was just curious if the agencies might be operating across purposes. do they co- relate with an increased number of psychiatric bed days? we is there a revolving door at the jail for drug dealers and also, can you

divert any portion of the $80 million mentioned into a mental health facility if you are going to have some kind of conservatorship? or temporary conservatorship program. i guess that is about it. >> madam vice chair? >> is there any more public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. i want to thank everyone so much for this hearing. i think it was very informative and important. if there is no further comment, there is? >> no, i just wanted to make a high-level observation, which is in addition to what the last speaker said, and it is true that my second meeting back on

the board on december 15th, this issue came up. i recall that there was an attempt to delay seeking me because i did not want me to vote on it. i also want to note that in the time that i have been on and off the board, the jail population of san francisco has plummeted. and i remember when i first got on the board, the daily consensus was in the 3,000 people a day range. and today, while it has crept up a little bit, is in the 1400 range. san francisco has done a very good job, under many different leaders in moving in the right direction. and i look at everybody who is involved in this and there is no bad players. i mean, you have the d.a. who said what he said today who is a former police chief. and you have a history at the sheriff's office that has had a very progressive history. my heart goes out to the

conundrum that we are in and the position that the sheriff is in. yet, the controller's office was right in their predictions relative to the upward grief that they project it has happened. i don't think anybody manipulated the numbers or artificially incarcerated people to do that. but this is a very tough policy issue to grapple with. i don't think we've landed on the spot. i really want to thank roma and all the people who have spent the 39 individuals who have been part of this process. but we still have some figuring out to do. it is really not easy. the one thing i said earlier, i remain concerned about it every day. which is that 850 bryant is a seismically very vulnerable building and we know that it is not a secret. we have to figure something out in time is not our friend. >> yeah. i would agree. i would say the hard part of

making a big difference right now is that -- it is a longer space. in the state's role in making a difference there. i do think we can make some progress around the edges, as one speaker put it on increasing efficiencies with a pretrial diversion program, et cetera. but the majority of bad days being those that are waiting for trial or for transfer to the state. it is the big issue for us. that is why i'm so glad that we have this $2 million to look at this issue and find a way to make a difference there. i also think that we will make a difference and the majority of members on this board want to make a difference in terms of having homeless and people

suffering from mental illness. no longer be housed in the jail but be housed in appropriate in appropriate settings outside. and hopefully we will win the revenue that we need in order to make that difference quickly. but if not, we will not stop for one second fighting. and we will have to make some tough decisions during the budget process this year to make sure we find that money within the budget that we currently have. because -- what we have control over the near term that i think most people agree on. and we have to close 850 bryant and county jail for as soon as possible. we need to close it yesterday. i wanted to thank everyone for being here. i will ask to make a motion to continue this to the chair since

our sponsor has left. >> so moved. >> without objection we will pass that motion. thank you again. thank you, so much everyone. if the clerk can call the last item. >> agenda item number 4 is the hearing to consider the transfer of a type 20 off stale beer and wine liquor license to 711 inc. and doing business with 711 located at 195 pine street. it will serve the public convenience and necessity of the city and county. >> thank you. >> i'm with the san francisco police department and with the alcohol liaison unit. i have before you a report for 711. they have applied for a license and if approved, this will allow them to sell off stale beer and wine. they have three letters -- letters of protest and no letters of support. they are located in plot 162 which is considered a high crime area and they are in census tract 117 which is also considered a high saturation

area. central station has no opposition to this license and our unit approved with the following conditions. number 1, sales and services of beverages shall be permitted only between the hours of 7:00 am and 12:00 am daily. never to, no more than five% of the square footage of the premises will be used for the display of alcoholic beverages. number 3, sales of beers or mulch beverages in forteo his containers are larger is prohibited. number 5, wine shall not be sold in bottles or containers smaller than 750 millilitres. number 6, beer, mulch beverages and wine coolers and containers of 15 ounces or less cannot be sold by single containers but must be sold and manufactured and prepackaged multiunit quantities. number 7, loitering which is defined as to stand idly about and linger aimlessly without lawful business will be prohibited on any sidewalks or property adjacent to the licensed premises under the control of the licensee.

lastly, it should be noted the applicant has agreed to a public city condition. >> i went through the package and i did not see the throw protest logic -- letters. i saw letters -- petitions of support but i didn't see the three protest letters. >> i have here in front of me the letters if you like to take a look at them. the three letters of protest you are talking about? >> yeah. nor have i heard from many constituents of course,. >> do you have further questions or should i call the applicant? >> thank you so much. >> no problem. >> i will hand them back to you in just a minute. it looks like the first protest letter, they wanted the conditions that you imposed.

>> the protester was asking that you imposed the conditions that you did impose. sometimes they process them and we put these conditions on these licenses to help mitigate the protest. that is why we came to the conclusion that the conditions that we set forth. sometimes is protest will come in prior to us setting conditions on the licenses and we address their concerns and their protests via the conditions we use. >> it looks like you did that. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon. i am here with representing the 711 applicant. as the officer stated, we have agreed to the conditions. we will address the concerns and objections that we heard from the neighborhood. additionally, this brief history , you guys had a long day this location actually had a piece approved a year ago and went through the full process.

before the application was granted, the franchisee no longer operates the story. we are back to square one. this has been through this process. nothing has changed since a year ago. the public wants -- there are needs that need to be met in lb has -- happy to answer any questions. i don't want to not address anything. >> thank you. >> i appreciated. >> thank you. we will open this up for public comment. his or any member of the public would like to testify? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> i would move we send this to the full board with a recommendation. >> without objection this item will move forward with positive recommendation. is there any other further items >> there is no further business. >> the meeting is adjourned.

>> chair c. brinkman: we will go ahead and get started. i would like to call to order this san francisco municipal transportation agency october 16th 2018, ms. boomer please call the roll. >> clerk: [roll call] madam chair, directors, you have a quorum. >> chair c. brinkman: thank you. >> clerk: item 3, announcement of the prohibition of sound producing devices in the meeting. you may be asked to leave the room, phones set on vibrate do cause microphone interference

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