shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining

area and espresso bar. you can have a casual meeting if you want to. it's a real community gathering place. what makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, it's a great pedestrian street. there's people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. the businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned small businesses. it harkens back to supporting local. polk street doesn't look like anywhere u.s.a. it has its own businesses and personality. we have clothing stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. there's a music studio across the street. it's raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great

street. i think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, it's very important that you do so. today we are going to talk about fire safety.

we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that

the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so you can loosen it up and use it when you need it.

>> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may

have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove.

after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine. >> here we have some alternative cooking areas.

>> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for being here. we will get started, and i want to introduce the mayor of our city, maryland and breed. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, good morning, and welcome. i see our public defender is here. thank you for attending as well as our police chief and the command staff, the leadership of the san francisco police department. i'm excited to be here and i

want to thank the police department for hosting this overview about the progress we've made in improving public safety throughout san francisco this past year, and what challenges that we face in the upcoming year. the progress would not have been possible without all of the hard work done by the san francisco police department, as well as the street violence intervention program, and community members working together in neighborhoods to collaborate to make our community safer. to effectively address our most pressing issues, our police department and our community will continue to work together. they are working hard to implement some of the important effective community policing efforts. this includes one of my top priorities, which i know chief scott shares, and that is a beach patrol officer throughout our city, especially in the commercial corridors. when people see officers walking

in their neighborhoods, they feel safer, and they develop a connection, a personal relationship with those officers yes the presence of these officers can't help stop crime alone, but it does build community trust. our police district captains also help build trust by working with our community leaders to help address the issues in our neighborhoods for all residents, and as someone who served as an executive director for a nonprofit organization, i can tell you how important the relationship i had with so many of my captains in the northern station, and many of them actually serve on the command staff, amazing leaders for this department to continue to develop and retain those community relations. as we grow our community policing efforts, we need to continue to make sure that our police department has the resources and the services to protect and engage with our residents.

this includes our ongoing plan to make sure that we hire another 250 police officers. we want to make sure that everyone is working together to keep our city safe, and that's what community policing is all about. taking office in july, i've been working on a number of efforts to improve public safety. people would notice in the tenderloin, the south of market and the midmarket areas. there has been a noticeable presence of beat officers, the mobile control, the mobile van control, is that what it is called while the command post, located at u.n. plaza to support these areas. we are increasing the number of foot beat officers, as well as the number of drug arrests, and the chief will talk about those efforts. these are some of our most challenging areas, and we are committed to making sure that we address what we know are issues that people in the city continue

to be frustrated with. i am continuing to make sure that i am on the front lines out there on a regular basis, reaching out to the chief, reaching out to some of our other city departments to ensure that they know that not only am i paying attention, but i am listening and hearing from so many of the residents of the city who want to see us address this issue. i know chief scott will go over the 2,000 -- the 2018 numbers in detail, but i want to highlight some of the trends, because i think too often we focus on what is wrong with san francisco, what is wrong with what is happening with some of the crime that exists, but today we will talk about the achievements and what is right, and what we have been able to accomplish by working together. first we saw a significant drop in homicide, the lowest that it has been in four years, and we know that although one loss of life is one lost too many, that

is an incredible accomplishment. this corresponds with a significant drop in gun violence for the second year in a row. every homicide is tragic, but we have to recognize the progress that we made. our police officers have successful -- have been successful at getting guns off our streets, which is helping us to prevent gun violence, which also includes working closely with the street violence intervention program, and also assisting with gun buybacks in some of the arrests that they have made as well. if you are weapons and stronger community outreach is how we will continue to reduce violence in the city. we also so i focused by the department on attacking the epidemic of car burglaries. this year we saw a significant drop. though i know we still have work to do. in fact, even with good numbers over all, we know we have to work across the city because we still have challenges, and more importantly, we don't want one san franciscan to be a victim of crime.

i know our police, our officers are working hard, i know chief scott is working hard to, and i know we will continue to make progress on these important issues. we want everyone in our city to feel safe in their communities. i want people to feel and see a difference in san francisco. i want to thank chief scott again, on the leadership of the san francisco police department, as well as so many amazing community members like the street violence intervention program, as well as united players under rudy corbett. working together with all of these great programs and community members will continue to keep our city safe. thank you all so much for being here, and i will turn it over to chief scott. [applause] >> thank you, mayor. as the mayor said to, we are really pleased with the trends

we are seeing, particularly in violent crime. as most of you know, our department publishes a report monthly that provides a snapshot of where we are with crime. as you can see on the posters to my right, we are doing pretty good, and we did pretty good in 2018. homicides are down 18%. homicide by firearms were down 37%. nonfatal shooting incidents were down 30%, and navigated -- aggravated assault dropped 3%. thanks to the hard work of the men and women of the san francisco police department that work hours streets, our investigated unit, and all of our bureaus, through the hard work that they've put in, at great risk to their own personal safety to protect the people of this city, we are -- we would not be where we are today. i want to thank the leadership of the san francisco police department, many of which you are standing to my left ear on the wall, because this is a total team effort to. thank you for what you do. we believe that these are good

numbers, but we have a lot of work to do. we had to waddle homicides at the end of the year and we started the year off with three homicides already this year. four actually. and we know that i sit here and i talk in numbers but these are lives that we are talking about, and these are families, and we want to do our best to stay in front of this and prevent these crimes from occurring, rather than judge whether it -- rather than react to them. a large part of our strategy will be preventive, rather than reactive policing. it is our goal to prevent crime before it happens. in doing so, we want to work with the community members and the faith leaders, it as the mayor mentioned, the intervention workers, and all the people that make the city a great city to continue to build confidence in public safety, and continue to keep crime down. we know this works in our city, and we know it because we have seen it. we have seen how it works. the mayor mentioned foot patrols

and i want to thank her for fighting for the budget to increase staffing of the police department, and for making foot patrols a priority, because we know that type of policing for this city is the right thing to do. we stepped it up in 2018, and we continue to do that, and will continue to do that through 2019 we want to be more visible. we want to get more officers on the streets, and strengthen the bonds with the community so we can communicate better with san franciscans to make our city the safest city in the country. this has increased our ability to do our jobs, and it is evident, in the work that was mentioned by the mayor and u.n. plaza, we put a command post vehicle out there, but more importantly, the staffing was increased. the interaction with the community was increased, and we saw things change. i can't tell you how many people have come up to me, and the leadership of this department to tell us how big of a difference

that that it has made in civic centre plaza area. we will continue to work hard to make sure that we sustain those efforts. we look forward this year, thanks to the budget that the mayor put forth, 25 academy, classes, which will need -- meet the need of our growing city. and also, it will help us continue our role to prevent crime instead of reacting to it. we also want to focus on education, specifically reaching out to the public to make our city more resilient, to make it hard for people to victimize people that come in our city, or live in our city, particularly when it comes to property crime. we stepped up our campaign this year, and we think that helped address car break-ins. we were down significantly from the previous year, and the park smart campaign, and just prevention and awareness, we believe helped drive those numbers down. we also have enforcement. we note that is part of law

enforcement and part of policing , particularly in the communities that have been targeted by predators. the mayor mentioned the tenderloin. we are working very hard to arrest the dealer that are dealing in school zones, where children are going to school and trying to get an education. we are working very hard to interrupt some of the street behaviors that we see that is associated with substance abuse. we want to intervene and get people help. people that wanted or needed, we want to get them help. we are doing this from all levels. and we will continue to do that. we want to get the guns off the streets, the methamphetamine, the heroin, the fentanyl, and all the poisons that are help hurting our city. we will do that in conjunction with the community that we serve a key component of our strategic plan, which drives how we address crime in our city is collaboration. with other city agencies, with community partners, and working forward -- looking forward to

2019, will collaborate with other city agencies, other federal agencies, and we will address the problems that we face in the city in a collaborative model. that is one of our strategic initiatives, and that is something we are really focused on continuing to do. we know that that works as well. a good example of that is the law enforcement diversion. i see mr dodge either. it is our goal to help address substance abuse, not necessarily through arrest, but giving people an option to go to treatment through diversion before the case gets into the criminal justice system. we have 236 successful referrals to leeds this past year and we will continue to work that model , and it is really a good partnership and a collaborative model that is good for our city. will help improve public safety, reduce criminal behavior, and

provide health and housing resources for those in the most needs. when you look at the report, you can see we also have a few challenges. burglaries were up for the year for 2018, and going into 2019, that will be a priority to make sure we turn that around. we put a structure in place thanks to the people on the wall thank you to the deputy chief his, the commander, we have put a structure in place to better address those type of crimes. our investigation bureau has burglary detail thanks to the mayor's leadership and the staffing, we hope to be able to increase that staffing to address the needs, but we know it is a challenge moving into 2019. we do not want to take a step backwards. we have done a good job this year but there's a lot more work to be done and we will work as hard as we can to continue to make our city a safe city. being here, and thank you for all of your support to, because

getting this information out to the public is one of the keys to being unaware safety, and a resilient city. thank you. [applause] >> we will take a couple quick questions, and then we will do interviews afterwards. [indiscernible] >> there is a jump and we are looking at that very hard to. we believe two things. there are things that happened over the past year, we increase the training to our patrol officers, there was a lot more awareness, and we wage that cost and some of the increase. we actually are looking at the impacts of the closure of a red brook, which was one of the sites that facilitated a lot of the activity, the prostitution

activity. that close down. we drove more activity onto the streets. those are factors we are looking at, and also how we report. we believe the increased training expanded the amount of cases that were actually recognized as human trafficking, and we wanted to make sure that we captured these crimes. it is a very serious issue in our city, and in our country. we are digging more into that to have a clear understanding of where those numbers are coming from, but we believe those are some of the factors at this point. >> your staff focused on individual crimes, but are there any specific neighborhoods looking forward that you are trying to focus on why i know the tenderloin is really active on social media with things going on in their neighborhood, are there any neighborhoods that you are trying to focus on moving forward clasping act tenderloin is a focus. they have done a great job. if you follow their twitter site

, posting some of the enforcement efforts. there's a lot of challenges in the tenderloin community, and we made that a priority. we made it a quite priority. we increased our foot beat staffing. the tenderloin, we did good and a lot of crime -- prime categories, but there are a lot of challenges they are, and a lot of them center around drug sales. we have dealers on the streets, and people come to and from what they do, work or leisure, and they have to see that. as i mentioned earlier, there are a lot of schools in the tenderloin. they have the highest concentration of families and kids in the city. we can't tolerate that. that is a focus. we have property crime challenges and fishermen's worth , it is a high tourist area a lot of property that people leave in their cars, and that is where the awareness and the prevention campaigns come in. we have violent crime in some of our communities, not just the baby with the gun violence.

we have confiscated a lot of guns off of the streets this year and the gun seizures are up we know that this city is composed of a lot of individual communities, and each have a distinct character. every communities different. we have to address all of the needs. of the ones that i mentioned are a priority in terms of folks in the area. that is the hub of our city. we want to make sure that we do the best job we can to make sure it is clean, it is safe, and people can enjoy the beauty of our city. >> your police unit was there, and the community was there. if you can't get a substation, we really would like that, is that in the works class you mentioned the tenderloin. >> we can move them around as we see a need to do that. we don't have an unlimited supply of mobile units, really,

for that particular thing, the most important thing is that officers are out patrolling the area. that crime happened early in the morning. officers needed to be out there. and that is a form of deterrence if there is a need for a mobile command post, we meet regularly, the deputy deputy chiefs and the assistant chiefs and i am the commander talk about strategies of what will work. it is not off the table. right now that mobile command's still in civic centre plaza, because there is still a need their, and the main thing is we need to catch the person that committed that crime and get them off the streets. that is the main thing because we believe this is a one off, but people don't just wake up and beat 89-year-old women, that is not something that people do. that person needs to be removed from the streets and the criminal justice system needs to

take over from there. we have not taken that off the table, but at this point, there is no command post there. >> we will take one more and then we will wrap up. you said before that you'd you doubled posts around the city. what do the numbers look like right now for officers who are out on the street while. >> there's about 150 officers working foot beats. that is give or take a few. about 150 officers working the beat. some of you may have read the report by the california policy lab that actually did a nice piece of research and show the positive impacts of foot beats. we were really pleased with that if you haven't read it, i would encourage you to read it because all the numbers are there in terms of the increase in the past year, ended paints a good picture of why this is so

important. if you have not read it, i would encourage you to read it. it really speaks well, and you will hear me stay over and over again, the importance of foot patrol officers and foot beats. >> thank you all very much. [applause]today. >> (clapping.) >> i've been working in restaurants forever as a blood alcohol small business you have a lot of requests for donations if someone calls you and say we want to documents for our school or nonprofit i've been in a position with my previous

employment i had to say no all the time. >> my name is art the owner and chief at straw combinations of street food and festival food and carnival food i realize that people try to find this you don't want to wait 365 day if you make that brick-and-mortar it is really about making you feel special and feel like a kid again everything we've done to celebrate that. >> so nonprofit monday is a

program that straw runs to make sure that no matter is going on with our business giving back is treated just the is that you as paying any other bill in addition to the money we impose their cause to the greater bayview it is a great way for straw to sort of build communicated and to introduce people who might not normally get to be exposed to one nonprofit or another and i know that they do a different nonprofit every most of the year. >> people are mroent surprised the restaurant it giving back i see some people from the nonprofit why been part of nonprofit monday sort of give back to the program as well

answer. >> inform people that be regular aprons at straw they get imposed to 10 or 12 nonprofits. >> i love nonprofits great for a local restaurant to give back to community that's so wonderful i wish more restrictive places did that that is really cool. >> it is a 6 of nonprofit that is supporting adults with autism and down syndrome we i do not involved one the wonderful members reached out to straw and saw a headline about, about their nonprofit mondays and she applied for a grant back in january of 2016 and we were notified late in the spring we would be the recipient of straw if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer thems in the month of genuine we were able to organize with straw for the monday and at the end of the month we were the recipient of

10 percent of precedes on mondays the contribution from nonprofit monday from stray went into our post group if you have any questions, we'll be happy to answer theming fund with our arts coaching for chinese and classes and we have a really great vibrate arts program. >> we we say thank you to the customers like always but say 0 one more thing just so you know you've made a donation to x nonprofit which does why i think that is a very special thing. >> it is good to know the owner takes responsibility to know your money is going to good cause also. >> it is really nice to have a

restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand

restaurant in san francisco we're doing an average of $6,000 a year in donations and multiply that by one thousand that's a lot to >> the goal is simple. it's to raise women's voices. >> learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. >> we had own over 300 -- over 300 people who signed up for the one-on-one counseling today. >> i think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively.

the assessor's office is a big one. there are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in san francisco. one of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2.6 billion worth of revenue to the city. often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. for every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our police officers, our fire departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. but i think what most people don't know is 34 cents of the

dollar goes to public education. so it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. so this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. it's an interesting place to be, i have to say. my colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. in my day-to-day life, i don't think about that role, being the only asian american assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of san francisco well. by being the only asian american assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. i hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can

look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. i grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. when my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the united states. they had very little money, and they didn't know how to speak english very well. they came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i can't imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. so my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. as we grew up, we eventually had a small business. i very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. we went to the restaurant every

weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. it really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing public service the way that i do. one of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. we lived in southern california at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. i can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. it was incredibly scary because we didn't know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. and i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me.

it stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. >> make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. >> and then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why you're doing what you're doing, you know, i think you can't go wrong. it's funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. i became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, i'm shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, i'm sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. for many of us who are going through our public service, it's very interesting, i think,

what people view as a leader. sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. and i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with -- out ways to work with people to get things done. i hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of city government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. >> take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the one-on-one counseling. >> i wouldn't be where i was if i didn't have very strong people who believed in me. and even at times when i didn't believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of

people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. if there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether it's being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think it's really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful.

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[gavel]. >> chair mandelman: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the january 23, 2019 regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i'm supervisor raphael mandelman, the chair of the committee. to my right is supervisor ronen, to my left is supervisor peskin. the clerk is john carol. i'd like to to thank the group at sfgovtv for televising this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any