to corporate interest. and we need to make sure that more red lanes are implemented aren't implemented until these changes are made and that these red lanes are only for public transit. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon. i'm with united to save the mission. research has found that a greater preference for urban amenities, retail, entertainment and service establishments as a main reason for the movement of the young college educated demographic into the central core cities like san francisco. these high income earners are more attracted to the proximity of amenities such as theaters, bars and other less sensitive to changes in housing prices. it only facilitates the travel to the amenities and the travel toward many of whom are not employed in the city. investment and private transportation encourages their proliferation and sensitive neighborhoods like the mission and so macaque it creates increases in housing prices that are small burdens for them, were

devastating to low income communities and communities of color. we did have a rally this afternoon at 12:30 pm. i could talk for 20 minutes about some of the impacts of the business owners have had as some of the secondary results of the mitt -- red lanes in the mission going forward, we demand a robust process. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i think one of the things we need to do is look at the impacts that they have had in the missing -- in the mission district. a lot of our businesses have suffered for quite some time. we have reports out on percentages of income that they have been using. we need to look at those things first before we move forward to try to allow private bus shuttles on these bus lanes. i think we need to look at the bigger picture and how business attracts transportation and it is not working for the folks who are riding the buses on mission street. it is hurting everyone. >> next speaker.

>> hello. i'm glad you brought this hearing. i'm here and looking at the red lanes for a long time. i wanted to make them faster. i did not like they were putting the red lanes in. but it was a 1% fighting against the neighbors picked the poor people and the colored people who ride the bus. it seems to be working but still hasn't addressed the businesses that are being affected. besides the businesses that have been affected in the mission district, we are looking at it as a whole and the red lanes that have been affected. let's get rid of that problem before we get into another problem with privatizing these bus lanes. thank you. >> thank you. >> overhead.

>> thank you for this hearing. you had a great turnout. i'm sorry we only have one minute so i will try to speak fast. if you have a hearing on any sfmta subjects, you will get this kind of a turnout because the public has given up on sfmta boards. the reason i brought this picture is about the red lanes that are coming to 16th street and the 22 fillmore project. the trees are in front of our building. it is our building. the historic red stone building. when i saw the notice that they were taking out a tree, i looked into it and i looked into why. and what i found was the 22 fillmore project is taking out 61 mature trees all along 16th . that will affect many businesses

>> duly noted. thank you very much for bringing that to our attention. thank you. next speaker, please. >> thank you supervisors. i am with the mission economic development agency. we really appreciate you holding this hearing today. we appreciate the sfmta has begun to address some of these trends that we have been raising with them. for the sake of time, i have just the facts we know them of great concern in this framework. the definition of transit as we are hearing does not include these private shuttles. there is no data to show that these will not have a detrimental effect on public transit. it is just another experiment on vulnerable communities. nor do we know what the effect is on incentivizing further corporate shuttle programs now that they can move faster than everybody else. speaking of speed, they keep saying the buses move faster, but the sfmta is proving that

humans move faster. as we know, they move slower because they have longer walks and especially if you have mobility issues. we need to move from transit first to transit -- >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> the m.b.a. claims that it is projects and programs that are data-driven. where is the data that verifies that red lanes even accomplish their goals while besides the red lanes, there are nonredlined transit only lanes which appear to have been -- have no demonstrated purpose or need than being part of the project. and where is the data on the unintended consequences of transit only lanes? what are the economic impact studies about the negative impacts on merchants and also on displacement and gentrification clock all this happens even though 25% of the m.t.a. budget is from the general fund, taxpayer's fund. it is not surprising that some

san franciscans have come to perceive their tax dollars is being used against them. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you for holding this hearing. i sent a letter so i will only mention a couple of things. i believe everyone here is concerned with the privatization of our public space and the corporatization of our public process. so i am going to ask that the private enterprise is applying for preferential treatment on our public transit red lanes. they are attempting to compete with public transit entities and also at the san francisco airport and public curb spaces and sidewalks. we need to see the documentation that proves that they have the right to do this. the process is lacking and the public is totally annoyed by the whole process and does not trust it at all. thank you.

>> thank you very much. next speaker. >> hello. my name is dylan. i am a student who commutes all the way from the east bay. i ride muni five or seven days a week. in my experience, waiting at the station to travel half a mile to the campus on a crowded bus is unacceptable to me. that is why i think the redline should only be available to public transit and not for private. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> afternoon, supervisors. thank you for holding this meeting. i am with senior and disability action. we have heard a number of times how the red lanes are good for public transit and how private -- privatization defeats the purpose. i want to also emphasize the point of people who use public transit but cannot use

munimobile due to their disabilities. it has the same effect. the red lanes for paratransit which is group transit and accessible vans and taxis. these are for people who want to use public transit but cannot, with a red lanes help them. when you privatize them, as you know, we are already having a lot of issues with reliability where people wait up to an hour and a half or two hours just to get their vehicles to pick them up and drop them off. privatizing the lanes makes it even worse for them. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am here representing the mission emergent association. sfmta has failed to do an economic study of the impact of the red lanes on mission street. we did our own. we surveyed 357 businesses. 301 half reported that they have had a loss of revenue from the red lanes.

thirty-three employees have been laid off due to the loss of revenue. fourteen businesses have closed due to the red lanes that have been installed on mission street three current businesses are going out of business due to this impact that these red lanes have affected our neighborhood to. in addition to that, you have all of these no right hand turns that have been installed and been affecting us. as well as all the parking that has been taken away from mission street so we are here to ask you to pleas remove all the red lanes on mission street. >> thank you very much. any other public speakers? scene none, public comment is close. colleagues, supervisor? >> i just wanted to respond to one of the commenters regarding

the trees or the treatise that would be removed. i think that is something that sfmta should look into. that particular building that was shown, that is a historic building in the mission. i'm not exactly sure why mature trees need to be removed. i know that the same thing happens when an improvement project was done on potrero avenue. there were a significant number of large mature ficus trees that were removed. it changes the character and the composition of that street. one of the things that is beautiful in the mission are the large and mature ficus. i would say that whatever decisions are made to moving forward to, i can tell you right now, the supervisor does not support removing any trees. i am not sure what the justification would be for removing those trees along the path. >> thank you. i will look into it. it is not related to the transit

scope. from what i understand, the water and sewer were. we will look into it and make sure that that doesn't happen. >> i understand that. often times, you see a finger-pointing with departments with these larger infrastructure projects along the transit corridor is. people will come in and say this is being done because of this. this is being done because of that. i don't believe in a sewer replacement project and any justification to removing mature trees. the two are not mutually exclusive. they can coincide and be balanced out. in a process, there is environmental review that has to happen for your project. wherever it is, it has been brought up in the context of moving forward to. so we would like a report back to this body, particularly in my office to understand exactly how the two are correlated. i'm happy to follow up with d.p.w. as well. >> great. thank you. >> thank you very much.

mr kennedy, i think what we heard today is people have a deep affection for the public transit system. as frustrated as they are about rail liability, they realize the importance of public transportation and that the goal of public transit should be that public transportation is the main mode of transportation in san francisco. and that public transit is the people's transportation system. having said that, if there is interest in this board, myself, quite frankly to see a narrowing of the type of vehicles allowed on red carpet lanes, can you clarify the process for doing so , and whether or not that is within sfmta charge a jurisdiction. >> from my understanding, that is an empty a jurisdiction. so i think making a formal request of the m.t.a. to look into trees is the right process to go through. as far as i understand.

the process going forward. >> sure. thank you for coming today. i would like to say that the intent behind transit only lanes is to increase the reliability and i do think it is a time to really explore the responsibility to protect red lanes as a public infrastructure for publicly operated transits. so i would like to work with the community and sfmta. i think to revisit division i and division two of the transportation code so we are clarifying and protecting our red carpet lanes or transit and taxis and paratransit. lets have an agreement to work together on that and see what we can do. i want to thank everyone who came out today to give public testimony and also to voice your opinion and also your adoration or frustration with our wonderful -- wonderful system. thank you for using muni and thank you. thank you very much to my

colleagues for allowing me to hold this hearing. i would like to make a motion to have this hearing be filed, please. >> okay. thank you for this hearing. we well, without objection, filed file this hearing. all right. mr clerk, are there any announcements or any further action items? >> there is no further business. >> this meeting is adjourned.

>> hi, everybody. we're going to get started. welcome, welcome, welcome to the last day of the old margaret hayward playground. that's worthy of some applause, i think. [applause] >> before i introduce the mayor, i just want to say thanks to all of the amazing community partners who have worked with us to pull this off. this was a complicated planning effort, and we have some really, really, really passionate community partners and stakeholders, who i'm going to acknowledge in a second, and city agencies, and we have just an amazing design that is really going to serve this neighborhood, that is really going to serve the institutions around this neighborhood, the nonprofits around this neighborhood, and we're so excited about this project.

so my special guest here to the right is a community member that grew up in this park, and that's what makes this so special. i've had the opportunity to talk to the mayor about her own memories, playing in this park. this was your park, right? and so we are so honored to be able to think about the next generation, so let me announce or mayor and park -- our mayor and parks champion, london breed. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. i am so excited to be here today, because i spend many years in this park. in fact, this playground structure that is here is not the playground structure that is here when i was used to play. it was wood. it was made out of wood. we used to get splinters in that park on a regular basis. the swing -- the slide was really, really high. nisha, you remember that.

the slide was really high, and we used to jump off the slide. i mean, we were -- we were -- don't do that. don't do what we did. i used to eat lunch here through the free lunch program, and i used to get snacks here. i played chess and checkers when kids played board games. i basically spent my entire childhood in this playground, and it was a place that was safe. it was a place that i loved to come to and language out, and i was so grateful that it was just in such close proximity to where i lived because it wasn't a far walk. and so renata, who was the rec director here at the time, she was absolutely amazing. and you know, we miss her dearly. she passed away a few years ago, but anitra is going to be the new person to run this rec

place with a lot of the kids that are standing here behind me. and it does take a village, and it does take a lot of support, especially for our young people, who deserve to have every opportunity that is available to them. and it was because of programs like what existed here at margaret hayward playground is the reason why i was able to grow and to thrive in san francisco. living right across the street at plaza east, which didn't look like what it looks like now, too, large towers of public housing, and my grandmother, she raised me, and in order to get me out of her hair, she'd say go to the park to play. but it's amazing to be with all of you here because we are going to make this park, this

playground, this rec center, we are going to make it into something that is absolutely incredible. in 2016, a plan began with so many community organizations began in this neighborhood to say what the people wanted, what the people who live here wanted, in terms of a new playground and recreation center, and how are we going to deliver to make this place an incredible place, not only for this generation, but for generations to come. so this $28 million project, $28 million -- [applause] >> the hon. london breed: it's going to usher in what i think is absolutely incredible. i'm so grateful for the leadership of rec and park and phil ginsburg and all the work that you continue to do to be a champion for our parks in san francisco. i am so excited that rodney -- is rodney here? yes, rodney and the ymca, and

anisha's here. i'm excited that they're going to be implementing great programs that the ymca provides, and i'm looking forward to being here in how long, phil? >> 15, 16 months. >> the hon. london breed: 15 months when we cut the ribbon of the new recreation center and playground. and hopefully, the swings are going to be strong enough to bold adults, too. >> both of us. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, phil. appreciate it. because we are still kids at heart, and that's what parks do for all of our citizens. we want kids to get outside and play. we want adults and others to enjoy our basketball courts and our tennis courts and our rec centers and all that san francisco has to offer. so i just want to say thank you to the voters for continuing to

support parks funding every time you see it on the ballot. thank you to the community of the western addition for not only supporting this and being actively engaged, but continuing to support parks in this neighborhood. and i guarantee you that even though this park is utilized, especially during the summer, this park, when it is completed, it's going to be hard to get into, i assure you of that, and i am looking forward to being here within the next 10 months to cut the ribbon so we can get to playing and swinging and enjoying ourselves. thank you all so much for being here today. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] >> did i say 15 months? no pressure -- yes, i did. you know, the mayor talked about the importance to her of being able to walk to a park, or maybe it was the importance of your grandmother being able to send you to a park.

>> the hon. london breed: yeah, that too. >> you know, mayor, you ged to preside over the first city in america where everyone in the city can walk to a park. it really is an extraordinary thing that sets san francisco apart. so it's worth noting. it's my pleasure to bring up our newest district five supervisor for whom community is definitely first, vallie brown. [applause] >> ms. brown: thank you, phil. i remember when we were talking about this probably in 2000 -- and what was it?

10? >> it was a long time ago. >> i don't know. it's been a long time. but i want to thank mayor breed and parks and rec for saying that parks are important not only to this city, but this district. this district is very special to me, and the people who live around here. and i really am happy to see us keep moving forward with green space. but this process just wasn't a city hall or department effort. this was a community effort, and you have to remember, and all the people standing behind me, we have sheryl davis that used to be with mo' magic, and she was there, pushing for it. there's james -- where's james? he was part of it, also. and then, there was kelley groves, and barbara, who started the process.

i know judith cohen is here. rodney's here from buchanan y, and then, spencer, are you here? oh, well, boys and girls club has been part of this, but you know, they're busy with the kids today. but one of the things that i really always admired and truly respect in the western addition is that the community comes forward and says look, what's best fore the community, and they look at it as a whole. and kids have always come first in this community, and that's all something i think we all some strive for when we're looking at legislation or we're looking at things in this city, what is good for the kids that are here, and i'm just really happy to be part of this, and i will be there in 15 months? >> you betcha. >> cutting that ribbon with mayor breed and everyone behind

me, and kamaya from mo' magic. but thank you everybody for coming, and we'll all be back in 15 months. it's on my calendar. thank you. [applause] >> i should have said 17 months. supervisor brown started to introduce some of the community members, so let me acknowledge -- more formally acknowledge our amazing partners. judith cohen. you're going to hear in a second from chuck collins and rodney chin of the ymca. they've just been such amazing partners not just at this site, but all across the city. bobbie sisk from bethel a.m.e. bobbie -- without bobbie's help and bobbie's support and encouragement for this

renovation, it might not have happened, so thank you, bobbie, for really understanding the bigger vision here. a special shoutout to gary cannonand melinda schrade. they've made an incredibly generous gift that will enable us to convert the fields us us into athletic fields that can be used year-round. we're just going to get more kids playing on the fields because of their generosity, so thank you very much, sacred heart. the mayor and supervisor brown gave a shoutout to sheryl davis, but sheryl deserves as many shoutout as we can give her. before that, sheryl running mo' magic was amazing.

i was to recognize the western addition, prosac for all of their help. so many partners, and it just speak to see what the mayor said about the importance of this space. very briefly, let me just acknowledge the design and construction team because they are extraordinary. this is a design done by our very own department of public works. i want to thank mohamed and jen and the entire design team for their work. it is an extraordinary design. i want to thank the construction team, bachman. we ended up with a great, great contractor. they've worked with us on our civic center playgrounds. they really understand the level of excellence that is required of them on a city public works project. and i also want to acknowledge

a special thank you to mary ellen keller. i am going to conclude with thanking my own staff, but before i do that, let me bring up chuck and rodney from the y. the ymca has been a long-standing tenant at this site, working with the kids to give them the love and support, attention, recreation, and culture that they deserve, and they are going to continue to be here with us. our partnership with the y is really extraordinary. it's at bodecker, it's all over the city. i am really excited for it, and with that, let me invite up rodney and gary from the ymca. >> thank you, phil, and thank you, mayor breed. the last time i saw the mayor

here, we were having a program for kids about sugary beverages. and then, mayor breed came over and spent the better part of an hour with them, being involved with them on a really personal level. and i didn't have such the great appreciation for her relationship to this park, but it was clear in her relationship to those children. and i want to thank you for that leadership. also, supervisor brown, i may be the oldest person here right now, but i was born here. we lived on pine street, and the history of my family in san francisco really started in what we call the fillmore, and now the western addition. so this is really sacred ground for me personally, and a place where i had the opportunity to become who i am because of everybody who worked so hard for young people at that point in history. and now, we're on a different time frame, where young people

are less visible in our city, and whether we need to come together and say whether or not we're going to have a city that really embraces young people, and the department of health is a focus of so much work, but it's also a folk you go of sheryl and so many other people that are here that enable us to do what we can for young people. there's not a representative of the boys and girls club, but let me be that person for a second and say they appreciate the opportunity to work together. as phil already said, we're working together in other parts of the city, and bodecker is a really complex and difficult community right in the middle of the tenderloin, and how community partners come together and not compete, but really learn how to come together and partner and collaborate in the margin of difference in the victory whether our kids are going to

learn to thrive. i want to thank all of our leaders who come together to make us a better city. thank you very much. rodney? >> thank you, everybody. [applause] >> i just first want to say, what a beautiful day, and i first remember over six years ago when this bond was proposed and announced. i was standing up there on the stairs, and just imagining what this would be. and i must say that the current plans that the rec and park and the public works people have put together is beyond any imagination that i could have thought of. so nothing left to say but let's get it done, and i will make sure that we're here to do the work in the community. thank you, everyone. >> thank you, rodney. >> and what rodney didn't mention is like the mayor and like chuck, rodney lives just a block or two away, so the community roots grow deep. so madam mayor i don't remember, would you lead us in a ground breaking. let's get around this pile of

dirt and put on our helmets. [inaudible] >> the hon. london breed: all right. you guys ready? you going to help me count? all right. ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. [cheers and applause] >> you got it.

as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country

this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed.

>> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and

this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity

you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way

out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation

for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the

tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for

>> all right. good afternoon, everyone. i am paul yepp. i am the kmonding officer of the central police station. and i want to thank you for being here today. irts to thank o . i want to thank our supervisors for being here today, first of all, mayor london breed, supervisor aaron peskin, and on cue, the chief of police, bill scott. executive director of sf safe, kyra worthy. park and rec commissioner allen low. park and rec area manager zach taylor. chief of the park rangers, mike celeste. president of self-help for the elderly, annie chung.

from the chinese benevolent association, charles chow. and from the san francisco police department command staff, deputy chief ann mannix, commander dan perea, commander david lozar. oh, and -- i'm sorry -- oh, and i'm sorry. reverend malcolm fong -- the latest commander for the san francisco police department, darryl fong. congratulations, darryl. this is about you. [applause] >> and of course the executive director for the ccdc, malcom

yo. i am proud to share with you the grand opening of the san francisco police department public information drop-in center, and it was quite a collaboration between city partners and our community leaders. and i can't be more proud to have got this done with everyone in this room, so thank you for that. and let me go ahead and introduce our first speaker, the honorable mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, captain. i'm really excited to be here because this is a really incredible opportunity for the chinatown community. what we ultimately want to do is make sure that people are safe, and part of making sure that people are safe is not only a police presence but it's also people feeling comfortable with reporting crimes. when i first became mayor, one of the first thing that i did was to add additional beat

officers here in chinatown, and we're continuing to add more beat officers in civic center and other parts of the city as those new academy classes continue to graduate. thank you supervisor peskin and members of the board of supervisors for supporting the additional academy classes which will ensure that we are able to get more officers on the streets. but we know that police presence alone can't address some of the challenges that exist, and in particular, in communities where people speak different languages, there are often times, you know, just really a disconnect between the crime that happens and their ability to report those crimes. and so this drop-in center will be used as an opportunity for people who are a part of this community to basically come in to develop relationships with the officers here and to report crimes if they occur. and so i'm excited about that because i know that captain yepp has done an outstanding

job in this community with building good relationships with the people in this community and also commander lozar who was the former captain of this station has also been instrumental in continuing to bridge that gap. this is just the next step in ensuring that people feel safe, that people feel secure in their community. that they have a comfortable place to come and to meet with police officers. and i want to thank annie chung and the work of the self-help for the elderly and all that you do to also work with so many of our seniors in this particular community. we definitely have a lot of work to do, and this is just one of the first steps in trying to meet people where they are and come out into the community so that people are comfortable with having conversations and building relationships with our police department. it's something that is really important to me as someone bho

grew up in the western addition and worked really hard to bridge the gap between law enforcement and one another. it's a way to stop crime from occurring, but once they occur, we have an obligation to work hard to address those particular issues, and this is just one step closer in getting us to a place where people can feel that their voices matter, that they will be supported and protected in their community, so i am grateful to the san francisco police department for providing the bilingual officers who will work with this community. i want to thank chief scott for his leadership. will i i also, i know that supervisor peskin will be hosting office hours in this location. who knows, maybe one day, i'll join you. it's just another way to bring

law enforcement, to bring all of these things directly into the community, to make the community not only a better community but a safer community who every who lives and works and spends time in this neighborhood. so thank you all so much for being here today, and i'm excite thad this space is opening to provide this opportunity for the folks in this neighborhood. >> thank you, mayor, for your leadership and your support. the next speaker is my favorite district three supervisor, supervisor aaron peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, captain nepp. to our mayor, london breed, chief scott, to all of the dignitiaries gathered herein, it takes a village, and what you see in this place are many different agencies and nonprofit partners coming together. so we are here at portsmouth square which is the living room

for this very, very dense community. everything that happens in this community happens in this treasured park, and we are on rec and parkland, which is leased to an organization that has been taking care of this community, particularly the seniors, since 1966, self-help for the elderly. and we have company a. why is it called company a? it is the first police station in san francisco. i like to say all of our districts are created equal, but district three has central station, and we are more equal. why do i say that? because i know the working men and women of central station company a, and they're not just police officers. they do wellness checks, they know the people in the community. a long time ago at the board of supervisors, some 15 years ago, there was a big conversation about community policing. and when it was explained to me, i realized that i had

community policing. all of my beat cops, they know the folks, whether they're in the pings or in north beach, and it really is the essence of what makes a safe community. and they're culturally competent. as a matter of fact, there are 460 officers in the sfpd who speak a multitude of languages, some 30 languages. the beat officers in chinatown speak fluent cantonese. they engage with the seniors, they engage with the children, and this is an unparalleled opportunity for the people to have direct access twice a week in this treasured spot. as you all know, we come here for press conferences, for celebrations. this is a community that has under reported crime. i get to read about it in the

journal and sing tao. this is an opportunity for people to come in and speak in cantonnese to report what's happening on the street. i'm incredibly grateful to the police department. chief scott, you have a great worker in paul yepp. captain yepp, thank you for making it happen, and -- [speaking cantonnese language] >> thank you. and our next speaker is chief of police bill scott. >> thank you, everyone. and i won't go over the points that supervisor peskin and mayor breed said, but i want to reiterate a couple of things. first of all, thank you mayor breed for her outstanding leadership. you know, part of what makes

this work for us is the executive leadership of the city. the budget that we received this year was very supportive, and it will enable us to continue the path of increasing our foot beat officers and that really speaks to our goal to engage better with the city of san francisco, the residents of the city of san francisco. the other part of that is, you know, this community center will allow us to get to the root of policing, and that's getting people comfortable to report crimes when they occur, because that impacts how we deploy, that impacts how our resources are distributed throughout the city. so this is a great step in that direction. before i go any further, though, all this doesn't work without the people standing in the back of the room, and those are the officers that are

assigned to this district, the central foot beat officers and supervision, captain yepp and his team. they make it work in conjunction with the community. i know they're behind the cameras, but i just want to thank the officers for what they do in this community, because we do have great relationships in this community. we do have some really good things happening in this community. we are a police department that wants to be responsive to the community that we serve, and that all starts with the officers. the command staff, we do what we do. we lead the department, we set the course and the chart and all that, but the work gets done at the field level, and i can't say i'm so proud to have the officers in this room as the team that's doing this work. so thank you for what you do. as supervisor peskin said, we have over 460 -- i think the number is up to 490 officers that speak 30 different languages. we want to engage with our city. we want to get better at that.

we want to be better at policing. we want to be the best police department in this nation, and i think with the leadership of this city, we're well on our way to do that. this is just another step, so thank you for kwbticontributin our city, what we know is a great thank you. thank you so much. >> thank you, chief. as i said earlier, this project doesn't happen without our community partners, and one of our great community partners is the president of the self-help for the elderly, miss annie chung. >> thank you very much, captain yepp, and thank you mayor breed, thank you, supervisor peskin, who knows our place very well because you hold a lot of office appointments here. welcome, everybody to our portsmouth square clubhouse. as mayor breed and supervisor peskin and chief scott said, we know that partnership with the

sfpd is very important to our community. we are the second most dense part to san francisco, probably second only to manhattan, new york, because as you see, a lot of our residents lived in very crowded housing in s.r.o.s. you see a lot of seniors walking on the street, talking on their phone, not a very safe thing to do. because we heard that crimes usually get underreported in this community. no matter how hard, commander lozar, when you was our captain, and captain yepp come around to our senior centers and keep reporting the crimes, no matter how big or small the crimes are. when paul came to me and said, annie, you think you could rearrange a little bit of your schedule to accommodate our drop-in center, i said yes

without the blinking of an eye. i know it will be a welcome sight. our merchants, our residents, our seniors who live around here, our children, you are welcome to see our police officers, especially those who speak the language. they feel comfortable of coming in to ask questions, and i think that through our work, we could also arrange for small groups of residents to come in to get some public safety education with our officers. so thank you, mayor. community policing is all about the community. and if we build our rapport with our police officers, i know that i am krcrimes reportl increase, and i thank you very much for all of your leadership. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, annie. and then, our final speaker from the community is executive director of the chinatown community development center,

malcolm yao. >> well, paul, thank you for the promotion. i'm not the executive director, i'm the deputy director of chinatown community center, but i'll ask for a raise. thank you very much. you know, this drop-in center is really all about community policing. i think we've thrown that term around quite a bit, but captain yepp personified that. community policing is taking leadership and pulling the threads together necessary to make this happen. it wasn't easy, it wasn't from command on high. it came out of paul's head. he knew that reporting needed to go up, he knew that it needed to come back to the community, and this was captain yepp's brain child, and he took the lead in pulling all the threats for doing this. so i really want to thank you for this, captain yepp, for your leadership in the community. i don't say this lightly, when i say that auntie rose would be

proud of you. she absolutely hated the koban, but she's going to love this. thank you. >> okay. that concludes the speaking portion of this press conference, but i did want to take the opportunity to introduce our officers new to the station but well known in the police department is lieutenant doug farmer, sergeant paul rogers, sergeant klobuchu, officer bob duffield, officer pauli tang, officer jennie mau, officer reggie pena, officer matt fambrini, and officer alex anton. [applause]

>> thank you very much. [applause] >> president cohen: thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i want to welcome you to the december 4, 2018, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. thanks for joining us today. madam check, please call the roll for