linked with a harm reduction group at the cask and is now in a positive relationship with respect to drug use and taking his mental health medication. this is only three of probably about 30 examples they have had whether the lead referrals had led to positive out comes and as we all know it really is a work in progress getting people off the streets. it's not a one-time thing. we know jail isn't working because they are released into the same thing. it's very frustrating for officers who see these people day-in and day-out. even if they arrest them it's not making a difference. we are finding other collaborative efforts are having an impact on our community. i was happy to have you include the lead program in your presentation and i am hopeful that your mission station and tenderloin station will continue to refer people to this program. because as you said it is a pilot program but we are hoping if it turns out well, that the

city will implement it into something more permanent. the other thing i wanted to address, i guess i just had some concerns with partnering with federal partners. especially in light of the a.c.l.u.'s lawsuit with respect to the bias and discriminatory policing and arrests of several individuals in the tenderloin. i thought we were supposed to have a presentation or more information provided to us about that situation and what was happening because it was my understanding that because of the federal practices and what the federal prosecutors and federal law enforcement agencies were doing, some of our officers got caught up in that and it was not a good look for our department. so i have grave concerns about partnering with federal partners, especially in light of the fact we don't have all the information with respect to what really transpired and the basis for this lawsuit that has been filed by the a.c.l.u. so i would like to agendize it and have more answers with respect to that situation

before we start exploring partnering with federal partners. >> so operationally, absolutely, we would be happy to talk about anything the commission wants in terms of a partnership with the d.e.a. or any other federal agency. this particular case you are speaking of, there's litigation pending so that's going to be limited to what we can talk about there. rest assured though, when we do the operations that we do conduct with the federal partners we are keenly aware of some of the issues that you raised and i will assure you in terms of bias and those type of things we are not going to engage in operations that are influenced by bias or that type of thing.

we have an issue on our streets and we need federal partners to do it. we have, i think the right system and management and oversight. we have to learn from mistakes of the past and move forward but we do need to engage with federal partners as well as other non law enforcement agencies to address this issue because it is a daunting issue we are facing in the city right now. >> mr. hamasaki? >> thank you. i'm not sure where to start this. if i go down to the tenderloin tonight after all the successes we have had recently, will i still have the opportunity at all the known corners to buy the known drugs everybody knows exist on each of these corners? >> i was going to say yes.

i don't need the d.a. to say objection. there are drug sales in the tenderloin. we are focusing on the sellers. but what's unique and innovative in our opinion and the chief eluded to the recent work we have done under our chief's leadership is grabbing those users and getting them connected and those are the successes when people are ready for treatment. >> right. and that's what i was trying to circle back around to. and i really appreciated the chief's words. i know the second prong of the strategy, i really enjoy being on this commission and enjoy my colleagues and our diverse backgrounds but i just don't want us to have the idea going back in the last 40 years of

the drug war has been an abysmal failure that's decimated, black and brown communities. we're not going back. there's only so much failure that we can take before we realize that we really need to focus on the underlying cause and the root problem and i commend vice president mazzucco for bringing this up and putting it on the calendar. we all walk through the city. we all live in the city. i'm a defense attorney and i have represented people that have sold drugs and used drugs. and nothing, you know, on the streets it just doesn't feel like anything has changed after all this. i hear it from you and from the

chief and i was grateful to hear from commissioner elias about the successes she has witnessed working with the lead program but we really need to make a change and focus on the second half of the strategy. i'm not saying not enforcement but i'm wondering if there's, the blocks are the same. is there any different way we could do enforcement, i drive by civic center everyday and we are holding the block. is that something we can do in the tenderloin? can we hold these? i mean, it comes to territory and this is our streets and our city. and you know, locking people up. as long as there's probably going to be somebody out there selling it, it's easy money, good money, people are hungry and people need to eat and people need to get high because they are addicts. but is there something we can do differently other than locking up all the dime bag dealers on the corners.

the bigger ones are great but as commissioner taylor said, you know, we all know it doesn't -- that's not the way to stop this. is there another strategy on the enforcement side? >> there are some other strategies on the enforcement side. and some of them are high-level strategies that deal with the supply at a much higher level. and some of the strategies also include the fact that we have to be consistent with the enforcement we are doing, we have to be consistent. you mentioned holding the block. i think one of the prior meetings you mentioned that displacement occurs. that's a part of it. we know if we hold this block some of those individuals that want to make quick easy money will go to the next block. there has to be consistency and an expectation that this is not

okay for people to come in our city and just do whatever they want to do and sell drugs. so the enforcement has to be a part of that because with that comes at least the expectation that when i come to san francisco and deal drugs, there's a chance i will get caught. whether i get convicted, the process in the courts is the process in the courts. but the expectation that people can come and do this unfettered, cannot be the rule of the day. that's where enforcement is key. we have to be consistent with our enforcement. and on top of that some of the higher level strategies. we know we have to disrupt supply where we can. there are some things we are doing differently. it would not be appropriate to disclose in an open forum because these are investigations ongoing and just starting but there are some things we are doing differently in that regard we believe will address the issues in terms of supply coming in a the city.

the other theme we have to be very cognizant of as well is, really, you have to put names with the faces out there. who are the people that are doing this? who are they? are they local folks? are they coming from other places? and if so, why? there is a piece of this we have to study what we are doing, and research what we are doing to identify the trends anld patterns. how much does public transportation play in that? how can we impact that issue? some of those answers we have, and they are a large degree of the people that we arrest or come in here to work. they come here and do what they do and go home like they have a regular job. we have to impact some of that stuff. some that we have been doing on that front is different on the back end, the investigations

where we do longer-term investigations that end with search warrants and we are able to actually impact this in that way too and often times that leads us to other counties and other cities. but there's no easy answer to this. as you said, we've got decades of issues dealing with this issue but we have to be consistent and always think of new ways. >> is there a long term strategic plan? an over arching plan so it's not just the things we have talked about where it's piecemeal? it's great -- i think we are all a little frustrated. it's beyond what the department can handle on their own, obviously and it's great you are working with all these partners. but from the -- and i've asked this of some of the district stations that have

been severely impacted with this. but it seems we have to do something different and it seems we have to have a plan to clean up these blocks because my son goes to school on polk and we go through this everyday. it's not what i want to see, it's not what i want my child to see. and everybody else has to see it. i would like to see something different. >> right. part of this is a resource issue as well. if we are talking about putting officers on every block, that's a very resource intensive proposal that we actually don't have the resources to do that. so yeah, there needs to be strategy. there is strategy in terms of the way we are approaching. part of it is the collaboration that commander lazar talked about.

i think we have been particularly over the last year, we have expanded our collaboration with other agencies. and that will pay dividends. this is not just a criminal justice list. we have to have the department of public health in, we have to have part of this over lies with the issue of people living on our streets. all these things have to come into play. that's, i think, is where we have turned a corner where we are doing business collaboratively, which is part of our strategic plan. we knew we had to be better collaborators to push the needle on this. >> right. >> commissioner taylor? >> i want to thank commissioner hamasaki. there are perspectives about the war on drugs and what levels. it looks like we are doing what we need to do, and commissioner elias has worked with those in the lead program. the flip side comes from the federal side of this is that,

you know, 2017 is 193 homicide, people come in poisoning people in our community with fentanyl-laced heroin and other drugs. there has to be some sort of consequence for that. and you talk to family members of those 193 people who died on the streets of san francisco because of a heroin overdose in 2017, they would probably have a different opinion. it's interesting. the war on drugs wasn't perfect. i don't know if it really worked, it hasn't because we are still going. but the deal is, at the federal level, when you take out somebody with 25 kilos or 100 kilos, you start limiting the supply. it's a long process. but it's got to work on both sides. that's just my opinion. commissioner taylor? >> that's where i was going with this. the war on drugs has been a

failure in so many respects. and things have escalated to a place that no one in our lifetime or any lifetime has seen. certainly in san francisco, it's just, it's insane. but you know, to that end, we're not talking about dime bag dealers in the tenderloin, no one will fight the war on drugs on dime bag dealers, $3,000 might mean something to them but means nothing to the cartels. we are talking about targeted efforts taking out international cartels who are killers with limitless amount of products. i don't know how we do that if we aren't partnering with federal law enforcement, d.a. whose job it is to attack those cartels to get at the source of who essentially are killing our people city-by-city here in the u.s. it seems like an overwhelming

problem and it's a multi-pronged problem. but i just don't know how we -- we have to take it from all of these multi-faceted multi-dimensional areas. >> if i could close with this piece of good news, i think it's good news for our city. those of us in this profession in the 90's when we had crack epidemics across the country, the violence associated with street level drug sales was off the charts in this city and others. and we aren't seeing that, which is good news, not to say some of the people we engage with aren't violent. but we haven't seen that really in a while here in san francisco. so that's good news and part of it goes with our efforts on gun sees ir. -- seizure. we confiscate quite a few guns off those in the tenderloin.

that's a positive note, homicides are down, we haven't had a lot of narcotic-related homicides this year. that's a positive. we always have to keep an eye on how law enforcement and how narcotics relates to the violence because in the past we have seen that to be a huge, huge issue for our city and other cities. right now that's not the case. so i think that is a piece of good news. >> thank you, commander. appreciate it. please call next line item. >> 3c da dpa director's report. the report will be limit today a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar any item raised. summary of cases received

mediation of complaints, adjudication and director reports. >> good evening. >> good evening. tonight will be longer, just because i need to explain what i'm presenting. you will be getting a lot of information but moving forward it will be summarized. i want to include some of this stuff you are used to hearing and then talk about how we switched what we switched and what the differences are so we have clarification moving forward on the documents you will be seeing and how to read them. the cases open, 566 so far this year. this time last year we were at 444 cases. i sent a little bit of this out with the commission because there was an article talking about how there's a trend nationwide and state wide with numbers going down. that's not the case in san francisco. and we can talk about it afterwards but i just want to articulate what the numbers are here in san francisco.

in terms of cases closed, we have 501. 287 pending cases. and we have 37 cases this year that have been sustained and 18 cases that have been mediated through completion so far. in terms of cases that are past the 270-day mark, which i'm still going to include because i think that number is important. we are at 20 right now. this time last year 38. of the 20 there are 12 told, obviously those are the cases that time has been suspended on them. it's essentially that number is eight. but i just wanted to explain all of that. in terms of the updates of what's going on in the agency. i explained that we were selected for the bridge, our partnership with the tech agencies that have come in, they have been working with our agency with the past few weeks and they just completed their first phase. i turned overall our books and

staff and had them go through everything they wanted to in order to give us some of their best practices and what their final project will be, which is a big project, is upgrading and getting us a case management system. [please stand by...] .

>> the 100% attendance for our mediators who are able to get some training in terms of subject matter expertise, doing the work that we do in public safety with our mediation cases. any way, so that's the outreach. i have a substantive announcement in terms of the work that we do, before the quarterly report. in terms of the work that we do, this is the first time ever that we have hit this new milestone, that the average caseload is now 14 cases perinvestigator, which

is a big deal for our agency. it's been well over 20 cases for a number of years. this time last year, it was at 23. so the most recent report that had been critical of the agency a few years ago talked about the best practices number for the investigators. we've never been at that number. i believe it was 16 perinvestigator, so this is the first time we have been there, and -- as long as anyone who's been keeping records, where we are actually at the property caseload for the investigators. we're still in the process of bringing in investigators. this number was achieved by bringing in the latest wave of investigators, having them trained and having been finally able to spread out the cases appropriately. the other big milestone for the agency is our average case closure has finally dropped

significantly in terms of the length of time that the investigators are able to complete their investigations. we are currently at 140 days for the average case closure. that's 4.5 months. this time last year, we were at 266 days, which is over nine months, and the numbers were bigger than that in past years. so we are becoming more professional in addressing the length of time that it takes for us to both investigate our cases and the inclusion of

343 cases where the organization lost jurisdiction, so that number's even bigger if we count those cases. and again, as a reminder, we have had no 3304 cases since i came on in july. we've been able to address those. in terms of the -- it's been included in the material, and i think this is the second part of the report. the monthly stats, what we've done in the past as i read them -- and i think i announced this last year -- or last month, that we were no longer going to be doing the older reports that you guys were used to getting the e-mails on, the ten-page summary with a number of charts, but i want to walk-through a little bit about what the new

charts are, how they are and what they mean. we made a number of important changes. many of the reports that are duplicitous. all of the charts will have all the same information, just new reports. what we've added is a side by side comparison of the cases that have been received each month versus last year. we've also added a five year comparison to add more information and greater transparency about the work that's been done. we've also divided how the complaints have been received into color coded tree graphs. i don't know if you can see,

it's in color, but it's in black and white. you just have to trust me. i'm color blind, but it's -- trust me, it's in color. trust the color blind guy. they tell me it's in color. i believe them. hopefully, they're telling me the truth. the other thing we did was we took out the dispositional sustain complaints -- well, we didn't take it out, but it's in the quarterly report. you're having a more thorough analysis in the quarterly reports, and we're going to go over those in a second, as well. the other thing, we want to give more explanation, we're looking at the 1421 compliance to figure out what we're allowed to put in that information, so that's a

flag for what's to come. the other big thing that's important i think is our six month goal. in the next six months, what i'm trying to do is get all this information available on-line on an interactive on-line dashboard, so you'll be able to click on the graphs and filter by date to see the number and types of complaints that are filed whenever you want. i will note what i did not change or modify was the information about the types of cases or complaints that are coming in so you can still see all of that information. you're not losing any information from what we've presented. in the pa -- presented in the past. it's just a little bit hopefully easier to read. i'll leave that to you to see if that's true, but everything you looked for in the reports should still all be there. and just by recognizing that if

anyone has commentary about the organization here present in the room are two of my staff, who are here and able to answer questions, as well, for anyone. >> thank you. that wasn't that long. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: thank you. i do like the visuals. one thing i was going to ask, i had asked last time numbers with respect to -- and i don't know if this was going to be in the quarterly report, but sort of your recommendations when it comes to discipline and then what happens when it goes to the chief and how you're tracking that data because i think that data is very important for us to also analysis -- analyze and review. >> that's going to be in the quarterly data, and it's going to have tracking discrepancies versus what was reported and

what was ultimately decided onto the agree versus what i recommended and the department imposed. >> commissioner elias: yes -- yeah. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki. >> director henderson, regarding outreach, have you or anyone in your office done anything to coordinate -- looking down this dais at all of our criminal defense and prosecutors, have you coordinated with the public defender's office and district attorney's office to help distribute materials to people that are on the front lines, the victims, witnesses, defendants in the system? it would seem like those are some people that definitely had an interaction, maybe positive, maybe negative, just neutral. >> i'm glad you asked that because i forgot to talk about it. it was on here, and i forgot because it just happened today.

so today, d.p.a. staff went out to the public defender's office and made those presentations and did a training for the entire staff out there about both how the organization works and how complaints and information can be sent to the d.p.a. i will say that -- that same thing was already done or is included in the m.o.u. that the organization drafted and signed with the district attorney's office, as well. so i think there's still some -- some areas that i'd like to flush out in the future, both with the courts, because i think there's an opportunity for us to have, if nothing else, a better relationship about how each other is operating and when there are instances for us to work together and share information. but literally, it just happened a few hours ago. they just finished it. >> great and are they provided

with the materials to distribute? >> they were left with material both for the organization and for them to share with their clients. >> thank you. >> that's why -- it just happened a couple of hourgz. that's why i forgot. >> thank you. i can remember as a young d.a., the o.c.c. and the public defender's office shared the same building, it was one stop shopping. their public defender's would send them down stairs, and they would make a complaint against the police officer, and one would wonder about that motivation, so i just wanted to put that on the record, they would meet with the public defender and literally walk down stairs and file their complaint. >> there were issues that came up that many of the public defenders had and wanted to know, like whether or not they had to make their client available for interview when and if they could say information and what would happen to their

clients. >> it was interesting dynamic. >> that was years ago, i mean, right? >> it was a long time ago. >> thank you, commissioner elias. yeah, long before. >> i did have one other thing to mention in case i didn't mention it during the changes that we were making, these files and forms that you were getting contained some obsolete information that is no longer relevant, the old one. used to contain information like complaints that had been withdrawn and they were tracking weird stuff. these forms and reports have not been updated to this commission in over ten years, so i just wanted to give some context to -- >> commissioner mazzucco: i just want to put on the record, commissioner dejesus, who was in the public defender's office at that time, did refer clients to the o.c.c. >> thank you very much.

>> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. please call next line item. >>clerk: commissioner items and reports. commissioner discussion will be limited to any issues raised for a future meeting. commissioner's reports, commission president's reports. >> commissioner mazzucco: i don't have anything to report. commissioners? call the next line item. >>clerk: commission announcements, line items, ideas for future meetings. >> commissioner mazzucco: do we have an announcement? >>clerk: we do. next week, the commission will be attending the sfpd commission of valor at 6:00 p.m. the commission will be dark for november 21 and november 28 and meet again here at city hall december 5, 2018, room 400, at

5:30. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: yes, thank you. we received yesterday a 96-a report, the quarterly report, and it's 130 pages long, and there's an executive summary that's about 19 pages long. i find that stuff fascinating. it's important data for us. it has arrest data, it has use of force data, it has the demographics of the population that's involved, it has the demographics of the police officers. and i know the department had gone to an outside agency, maybe a university, to help us analyze that. and i'm really anxious to hear a report on that. i need help -- because there's some data in here that's really promising, and i think there's data in here that's disturbing, and i really can't decipher it. so i hope we can get somebody in the next meeting or the meeting after that that can come and

make a presentation on 96-a. the other request i'd make is we get it more than a day in advance of the meeting. i'm reading it now as i go along. i read the executive report earlier this morning, but i'm reading the full report now, but i need help. >> commissioner mazzucco: if we can put that in the second meeting in december. i know when it came in the mail, it was 3 megabytes. >> chief, do we now have a university group that has given us an opinion or an evaluation of the reports? [inaudible]

>> it would be great to hear either from them or somebody in your department who has the expertise to explain what they've received, but i'd really like to hear from somebody to help us decipher what we're seeing. >> we can definitely do that. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, president mazzucco. i'd like to schedule a hearing to discuss what the department is doing to address and combat the rise and the proliveration of white nationalism and right wing violence in our community. we've seen a lot of things at the national level, the terrorist bombings that were sent to our local politicians, including kamala harris. we've had a synagogue massacre of our jewish brothers and

sisters. i know we had a some incidents a few years back relating to some demonstrations, and i think there was an article in the new york times a few days ago about law enforcement's addressing white nationalism. i'd like to hear what the department's doing to address this, obviously, within the confines of dgoa 10 of course, but i'd like to hear that. >> commissioner mazzucco: when would be a good time to schedule that? it would be when our special investigations unit would be involved, along with the f.b.i. >> yes. we can do that through operations and f.o.b. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. maybe we can do that along the 5th of december? [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: all right. commissioner dejesus?

>> commissioner dejesus: and i'm sure the people saw that the building 606 raised its head again, the e.p.a. said the navy is using antiquated or obsolete technique for testing, and that they don't trust it and they're very upset with the navy. i did discuss it with commissioner mazzucco, and we were going to put it on today, but i think we're going to delay that and have it a little bit down the road so we can find out what we're doing, and if we're able to move our personnel there. given the fact that the two government agencies, they're having a discussion, and given the fact that the e.p.a. is very concerned about the obsolete way it's being tested. >> am, and we were still working, still waiting on some testing results. but in the meantime, we're preparing for that report, so -- >> commissioner mazzucco: i will say i did speak to the chief and the p.o.a. about it, and suffice it to say, it's not ripe for tonight, but there are plans being put in place to do

what's necessary. >> commissioner dejesus: and also distributing the information to the beat officers. when we visited the local district stations, that was a concern that some of the officers had. that question arose, and commissioner hamasaki and i -- it was after the meeting where commissioner mazzucco and commissioner dejesus had addressed some of the issues and we had a presentation, so i just want to make sure that information is being trickled down to the local district stations so they have that information with respect to the status of the building. >> commissioner mazzucco: and also present with us is matt brave with the p.o.a. regarding that situation. anything further? please call public comment. >>clerk: public comment on items 3 a through 3d? mr. jones? >> good evening. my name is john jones.

i'd like to comment briefly, if i may, on commander lozar's report. i mean none of this discourteously. an alternate strategy is described in michael moore's movie. i don't remember the name of the movie, but he went around to various countries around the world, and one country he went to, as i recall, was portugal. and there, they don't use the criminal justice system to deal with drugs, and there was some information how it worked, and it worked out well. i'll get the name of the movie if you're interested. commander lozar's report i think leaves out various aspects of the drug situation. the burden of incarceration, our government activity supports

high drug crisis, and most importantly and rarely mentioned, the chaos inflicted on mexico by american drug habits. but one thing that this -- commander lozar's report cannot describe because it is indescribable is how good this drug makes you feel. i had an operation maybe 30 years ago, and i had access to demerol, synthetic heroin, and let me tell you, the first time i had a shot of demerol, i knew immediately why people would live that lifestyle just to get access to that drug. i think it is unreasonable to request a typical --

[inaudible] >> -- not to get access to heroin if in fact it were available. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. any further public comment? >> thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: hearing none, public comment's now closed. please call the next line item. >>clerk: item four, discussion and possible action to recommend that the board of supervisors adopt a resolution authorizing the chief of police to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $5,304,000 from the bureau of justice statistics to implement the national incident based reporting system for sfpd action, and i would like to announce that director mcguire's powerpoint was made available to the commission just prior to the start of the meeting. there are copies here for the public, and the commission will post this powerpoint on its website tomorrow morning. >> commissioner mazzucco: good

evening, mr. mcguire -- director mcguire. >> vice president mazzucco, chief, members of the department. my name is kathrin mcguire, i'm the chief financial officer for the police department, and i am glad to meet all of the new commissioners. you'll be seeing me coming this new budget season and perhaps sooner. today, we are asking for your consideration in the process to move forward to an accept and expend process with the board of supervisors to accept a $5.3 million grant from the bureau of justice statistics in order to get the department compliant with the new nivrs system. so with that, i'm going to give you a previous overview of what that is, the resources that will be needed to comply, and then of course, lastly, a little bit about the grant that we applied

for and have been awarded to get to compliance. so nivrs in general is going to be the u.c.i. replacement. this system, nibrs, national incident based reporting system, will be replacing that method. so it is incident based rather than summary based, so when we submit reporting to the federal government, our reporting is tallied up into categories and submitted as a package, as a total number. and so in this case, we would actually be sending every incident that happened and some of the high-level information about those incidents to the federal government rather than a summed total.

this -- nibrs is always all offenses -- all offenses in an incident based system. this is all very technical, so when we send a crime to the f.b.i., we are tallying only the most severe crime that happened in any incident, and many crimes may have actually occurred in each incident. so you may have an assault and theft and many other things that occur in one incident, but we only send the most severe type of crime when we report. so how does nibrs help the department? eventually, it allows for more granularity. it allows for better data collection which allows us to better analyze data in the long

run. and then, the question becomes how do we implement this? so the resources that we really need are we need a lot of planning and -- 'cause we don't know what we don't know yet, and one of the things we need to do is assess the impact to both our crime data warehouse and our records management systems of varying types and sizes, and we have to be able to then design a business process as well as design a system that then will being compliant with nibrs. so get back to our system and other systems, i'm referring to other agency systems that plug into our system. so juvenile probation, for instance, has a system that connects to us. we would need to understand how

nibrs affects us and the system and, say, juvenile probation. and then, the protection side, we would also need systems development, and this -- as you can imagine, planning is going to be a very big component of this grant. and the actual systems development once the planning is over should be relatively easy. the testing and go live also is another component that we would need resources to get us fully compliant. so this grant that we have been awarded gets us there. it gets us essentially all of the things that i just listed out -- the planning, the scoping, the business design, the actual development of our system, it gets us those things. so the total being $5.3 million. it is over the next three years, going from october 2018 to

september 2021. and that's the general -- just the high level information about this grant. some other information is we believe that this is the last year that this funding will be available, so the ex-banding this money at the federal -- expanding this money at the federal level. finally, this is a contribution of nongeneral fund dollars that we don't have to -- we have now obtained. we've obtained this money, we've been awarded it. if we were to go and ask these funds from the general fund or from the city, the chances of us getting the money is a little -- we're competing for a lot of technology dollars all around the city, so this $5.3 million really represents a significant

investment for the police department. and then, finally, the things that are in scope and out of scope. finally, all of the implementation things listed above, and out of scope are any development required in other departments. as i said, we don't know what we don't know yet. the grant helps us understand what we don't know yet, as well as actually doing the development in the police department. with that, i will conclude. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: any concerns, downsides to accepting this or any limitations on the funds, other than the ones you mentioned, that in scope and out of scope? >> i'm not aware of any limitations or downsides. we are looking at all of the

terms and conditions and doing a final review of the terms and conditions in the grant agreement. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: last year funding means going forward, you're going to have to go and ask city hall for money, and the costs will increase or remain the same incrementally. >> that's correct. >> commissioner hirsch: so this is not something that we will be -- that will be getting less expensive going forward? >> that's correct hirsch hirs. >> commissioner hirsch: that's a problem going forward. >> yes. technology seems to get more expensive as we go along. >> commissioner hirsch: is the current funding being cut because of the administration in washington or you're not sure? >> i think nibrs, there is a deadline of 2020. i really couldn't speak to what the logic at the federal level

was on this particular funding stream. >> commissioner hirsch: okay. thanks. >> commissioner mazzucco: any further questions? do i have a motion to accept $5.3 million for our reporting, which is actually required by the d.o.j.? >> so moved. >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a second? >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: is there any public comment regarding these funds? hearing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? [voting] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. please call the next item. [agenda item read]

>> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, mr. jones. >> i'd like to allude briefly, if i may, to the iacp police chief community police policing strategic plan, which was introduced last week. the plan is flawed, and it's flawed for a basic reason by city government and government in general. that is if the society that you're dealing with lacks social capital, the way to improve that social capital is not through the action of government, especially the police department

what this plan describes is how members of the san francisco police department interacts with the community. it is fraught with failure. that's not what police departments are for. i'd like to make a comment with regard to folks who live in the tenderloin. if you're dealing with someone whose life has devolved, living on government grants on skid row, it is not reasonable to expect that person to abstain from the use of illegal drugs.

>> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, mr. jones. is there any other public comment? hearing none, public comment is now closed. please call the next item. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: any public comment regarding our closed session matter? hearing none, public comment on closed session is now closed. next item. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> second? >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: all in favor? [voting] >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. we're now moving to closed session.

>>clerk: commissioner, we're back on the record in open session, and you still have a quorum. >> commissioner mazzucco: all right. please call the next line item. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a motion for nondisclosure? so moved. >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: all in favor? [voting] >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. thank you very much, please call the last line item. [agenda item read] >> motion. >> commissioner mazzucco: all in favor? aye. [voting] thank you very much. >> commissioner hamasaki

>> so ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the incredible community here in alice griffith, on behalf of the resident leaders and community organizations, madam mayor, leader pelosi, president cohen, distinguished guests, i welcome you all to the reopening of the alice griffith community. thank you. my name is theo, and i'm the director of the hope sf, and it

gives me great pleasure to bring up aurelius walker for the invocation. >> distinguished guests and the community leaders from bayview-hunters point, and to my brothers and sisters that are here today, what an exciting day, what an exciting day. i hope through hope church, in the back of us here, and also tabernacle community development organization, i am on the board of directors of that particular program. what is so exciting, all those times, all those years at the planning commission, at the

board of supervisors, and talking in our community meetings, one of the greatest excitement that one can have to see their dreams realized -- somebody said what a tragedy assist not to continue your dream, but the greatest tragedy is not to have any dreams, not to have any hope at all. so about 50 years ago, 50 years ago when i came to bayview-hunters point, when i came to this particular area, i saw land space and all those -- and i had a dream, to do why we're here today. and today, that dream is released. anybody here know what i'm talking about? come on, given great hand praise. [applause] >> i'm going to do the invocation, but before i do, i'd like for any grand kids just to

stand, wherever you are, just to stand. i also have great grand kids, about six of them in this complex. and my lovely wife, she didn't walk down here, she rode down here on her scooter. would you just raise your hand. some of you may be aware of aurelius walker drive. some of you may walk that particular street. and also, my daughter, tanya, would you stand. tanya and nadine, they are the one that petitioned the board and all that to make that happen. and then -- all right. so in time, we appreciate you here. is the mayor -- the mayor arrived yet? i'm sorry. i'm just looking forward. yes, sir -- when i do this thing, i'm going to pray.