they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it. >> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great lesson.

>> meeting will come to order. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, seat of the committee. short by we will be joined by rules committee member supervisor gordon mar. our clerk is victor young, and also like to thank jason goldhammer and jim smith from sfgov-tv for staffing this meeting. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of devices to be included as part of the file submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be on the february 12th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> item number 1. >> ordinance amending the administrative code to revise definition of tourist or transient use under the hotel conversion ordinance, change of term of tenancy from less than

32 days to less than 30 days. >> supervisor ronen: ok. and i understand that sunny was going to be here from supervisor peskin's office seeking a continuance, since i don't see her -- huh? ok. >> i would like to make a motion to continue. if the sponsor's intent to have amendment language but working with the city attorney on the exact language, so if we can continue to the next rules committee meeting. >> supervisor ronen: ok. fantastic. we have a motion and before we vote on that motion i would like to open up -- >> public comment, yes. >> for public comment. any member of the public like to speak on the item or the proposed continuance? seeing none -- ok. >> two minutes for public

comment? >> yes. you'll have two minutes. >> thank you very much. brian patterson on behalf of the azuro coalition. we have submitted some public comments. we object to this legislation for the same reasons that we objected to the previous legislation. this, we see as an end run around litigation, as well as around public notice. the public notice for this agenda item stated the current rule is 32 days, moving to 30. the reality is it's seven days, and you are proposing to move to 30. property environmental review has not been done, and needs to be done. rule 3.23 was waived, the reverse order how it's supposed to work, and we extend the same argumentation regarding property interest, all the other reasons

previous legislation was unlawful, still apply here as well. so, urge you to do further review and amend to make this not illegal. thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. any other member of the public like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. there's been a motion to continue this item to the february 11th rules committee meeting. without objection, that motion passes. can you please read item number 2. >> clerk: 2, hearing to consider o one member march 1, 2021, to the in-home supportive services public authority. >> supervisor ronen: mr. pappas. >> i stand for you today to seek my nomination to fill the

department of aging adult services seven on public authority governing body. a brief synopsis of engagement with issues related to aging adults and people with disabilities. would be helpful background in rendering your decision today on my worthiness. 12 years, executive director of the interfaith council. it was formed to respond to the city's homeless crisis. what began as a one-year emergency interfaith winter shelter is now in its 30th year of providing shelter and meals to between 60 and 100 homeless men each night. beginning the sunday before thanksgiving, through the end of march. 18% of those self-identify as aging adults that are our clients. at present, our organization in collaboration with the major

faith-based social service agency has applied for substantial grant with the hope of expanding the interfaith shelter for care for seniors and those during the inclement winter months. due in large part to the success of the interfaith winter shelter and the council's work in responding to homelessness, in late 2014 the city called on the council for the recipient of anonymous $3 million donation which enabled expeditious funding for the first navigation center. the success of the pilot led to the replication in other neighborhoods throughout the city. mission of our organization is to bring people of different faiths together to celebrate our rich diverse spiritual and religious traditions, build understanding and serve our city. we count as our constituents the 800 congregations in the city and county of san francisco. can i continue? >> supervisor ronen: if you would just finish this sentence,

please. >> ok. i think you received these remarks in writing. i did bring with me someone who does sit on in-home supportive services and a member of the human services commission, rita semil, to say a few words. >> any of my colleagues have any questions? no? thank you so much for applying for the seat. and with that i will open up the item for public comment. would you like to speak at public comment? >> always has to be adjusted. thank you very much, supervisors, for this opportunity to support michael to be a member of the board, in which i have privilege of serving.

obviously i'm a big fan of michael's, i've known him, we hired him 12 years ago and he's done wonderful things for the interfaith council and i don't mind saying for the city in general. it's a wonderful organization and we serve 40,000, excuse me, 20,000 seniors and disabled every year, work is engaging, important, and vital and michael will be a great asset. thank you very much. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any other member of the public who would like to speak at public comment? seeing non, public comment is closed. >> one, i want to say i think that michael pappas will be a great addition and i make a motion to appoint, to approve the appointment. >> supervisor ronen: no objection, we --

motion to send this item forward with the positive recommendation. >> mr. pappas to seat seven. >> supervisor ronen: to seat seven. without objection, that motion passes. congratulations, mr. pappas. thank you so much. clerk, please read item 3. >> clerk: hearing to consider a term november 19, 2020, to the bicycle advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, colleagues. this is an applicant that i have recommended. kisai henriquez. unfortunately, she was unable to get the day off of work today but she has submitted a letter that has been added to the file. i'm extremely excited about her potential appointment. she came highly recommended by others in the san francisco bike coalition. we are excited to have her as a

new and young voice representing the concerns of cyclists and especially cyclists of color in the city. so i'm very, very excited about this appointment. and with that, if there's no other comments from my colleagues, i'll open this item up for public comment. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. would you like to -- >> make a motion to move the item forward in favor of the appointment for kisai henriquez for seat nine to the bicycle advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, no objection, that motion passes. can you please call item number 4. >> hearing one member february 1st, to 2021, park recreation and open space advisory committee.

one seat, one applicant. >> supervisor ronen: also my appointment, very excited to appoint karen rhodes. she has brought a ton of volunteer work to the district, including much beloved tomkins street stairs project and excited to see you, hoping to broaden your impact in district 9. nice to see you here. >> thank you, good morning, supervisor walton, supervisor ronen, supervisor mar. i'm karen rhodes, very grateful for the opportunity to serve san francisco which has been my home for the last 30 years as a member of the parks, open space and recreation committee. a year ago i wrapped up a 40-year career in higher education fundraising and communications and a long standing interest in what i call urban liveability.

immensed myself in reading and volunteer work and study to learn about the factors that contribute to a high quality of life for the city's diverse population, and what factors detract from it. housing, jobs and transportation are key aspects of liveability but i have become convinced that parks, open spaces and recreational assets are also critical in making this city more livable. our parks contribute to our physical health and emotional well-being. some of them, like golden gate park, are world class tourist destinations and thus contribute to our economic base. parks and open spaces bind our neighborhoods together and if properly managed are able to promote social equity. the issue of equity is especially important to me and i know that you, supervisor ronen and the board as a whole all share this concern. i have reviewed past agenda and

glad to see equity and measure progress toward achieving it is a key priority for the recreation and parks department. i would be honored to set and meet equity goals. i love every square inch of this city and look forward to stewarding it for the benefit of all in san francisco. >> supervisor ronen: any questions? seeing none, thank you so much. any member of the public that would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. motion? >> i would like to make a motion that we recommend appointing karen rhodes to seat two on the park recreation and open space advisory committee. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, without objection that motion passes. thank you so much, miss rhodes. mr. clerk, can you please call

item number 5. >> one member, january 1, 2020, to the sheltering monitoring committee. one seat, one applicant. >> supervisor ronen: is mr. summers here? colleagues, we, i believe mr. summers was going to try to make it but i don't see him here. is there any questions or comments on this item? public? oh, yes. is the staff here that -- thank you. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> good morning, members of the rules committee. howard chan, policy analyst with the sheltering monitoring committee. we did not receive any prior notification that mr. summers would not be able to attend the hearing today. it was my understanding that he

would be here, so it's a bit of a surprise to find he is not in attendance today. >> supervisor ronen: have you worked with mr. summers before, do you have any relationship with am? >> he has been a client of the shelter monitoring committee but never had any professional working experience with mr. summers. >> supervisor ronen: ok. thank you. it is extremely rainy day today. >> just a question. do we know who -- >> supervisor ronen: he applied for the seat. any member of the public can apply for the seat. is my understanding. is that correct? >> yes, he did submit his own application with the qualifications of seat two. >> supervisor ronen: ok. so i guess the question is if we want to move this forward or should continue it again to the next meeting to give the opportunity once more for mr. summers to make it or at least let us know why he is not able

to make it. we did expect him to come today but of course the weather to horrendous. so -- >> i make a motion to continue. i would like to hear from him. >> can we continue this to the call of the chair? >> sure. >> supervisor ronen: ok. there's been a motion to continue this item to call of the chair, without objection, that motion passes. >> public comment? >> did i not -- on the continuance. >> any member like to speak on the item or proposed continuance to the call of the chair? seeing none, public comment is closed and the motion to continue this item to the call of the chair passes unanimously. item 6. >> hearing to consider appointing one member term ending march 31, 2021, to the pedestrian safety advisory committee. one seat, two applicants. >> supervisor ronen: great, we have two applicants for this seat. are either of the applicants

here? would you like to both come up and speak as to your application? >> good morning, my name is cyndi bakir, sorry, my voice is terrible. here, appreciate this opportunity. respectfully seeking confirmation for the pedestrian safety advisory committee. i had the privilege of being on a committee two years ago, and at the end of the long struggle, so impressed the way the city gathers information from its citizens about changes occurring, and you know, and i enjoyed being part of that process. i've been a sustaining member of the sfbc for probably 15 years

now. i owned a car maybe ten of the 30 years i've lived here, so i have extensive experience with bicycle commuting, working with the bicycle coalition on safety redesign for things like the 8th avenue greenway, repaving, a number of safety issues, and we have had meetings and did walk-throughs, and i support vision 0, the vision 0 of san francisco and state legislation to roll out more pedestrian bicycle safety on all roads as they are built. i think senator wiener is supporting that. in my work experience as a clinical nurse specialist, emphasis was identifying groups of people with similar problems or issues in order to improve care for them. and i see that in this position,

too, there is an opportunity to do that as well. thank you very much. oh, i have a letter, sorry, from, of support from kristin lucky from the bicycle coalition, she sent it to sandra fewer, and i can submit my resume'. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? no, then thank you so much. now if phillip korbernick would like to speak. >> thank you for your consideration into my application to the pedestrian safety advisory committee. my catalyst for applying for this position was the tragic death of two pedestrians near where i lived in the haight ashbury for ten years, fell and oak, high injury corridors. and unfortunately two more people have died in the last couple months, one near me at

stanion and haight street a month ago. i care deeply about helping the city and the commitment to vision 0. i look at this as an opportunity to do what i can to help the city meet that goal. i also really care about the city's commitment to sustainability and reduction of v.m.t. in the next decade or two, and the two are very linked, especially with encouraging transit usage, every transit rider is a pedestrian at some point. about me personally, i moved here about ten years ago and immediately sold my car and i'm thankful to be living in a city that makes that possible, although definitely room for improvement. i'm a daily transit rider, on days where it's not like this, a bike rider as well across the city. a member of san francisco bike coalition, have been since i moved here, walk s.f., and s.f. transit riders. my application also includes a letter of support from the coalition and supervisor brown as well.

professionally, i work in oakland and work on transportation logistics, so part of my daily job is green our transportation operations, vehicle fleet, and then coming up with ways to encourage our employees to not drive to work. so that's very much a part of kind of what i do every day, professionally, as part of my day job, and then as part of my advocacy and my sort of passion i pursue here in helping the city become more green and pedestrian friendly and friendly to bike and transit riders as well. thanks. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? no. thank you. is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. well, colleagues, here is the impossible part of our job. so, this is the first competitive seat that this new rules committee is considering, and you are both incredible and

i just wanted to start out by thanking you both so much for being willing to serve the city in this way. you've both been recommended by the bike coalition, which is one of the, you know, coalitions that you know, cares so much about pedestrian safety and so thanks bike coalition for making this even more difficult for us. so, i will turn to my colleagues and see if there is any comments. i wish we could appoint you both, quite frankly. supervisor walton. >> it's great to see two people wanting to serve in this capacity, truly appreciate you both coming out and being highly recommended by the bicycle coalition, who has a lot of respect here in san francisco. so i just wanted to make sure i stated that before we begin with the impossible.

>> supervisor ronen: any -- >> i would just echo my colleagues' thanks and appreciation for both of you and all of your work that you've done around pedestrian safety and other related issues for the city. so, and i think both of you really reflect the diversity of residents here in san francisco that care a lot about particularly pedestrian safety and transit issues. so, i think it's wonderful that we have both of you applying and we need to move to the, yeah, the decision. >> supervisor ronen: i think they are going to leave it to me. so -- so, i -- this is impossible choice. i -- i'm going to make a motion to put forward cyndi bakir for this round, and the reason for that -- it's an impossible situation. you are both equally qualified. i do think that the work on the

gary b.r.t., that's happening to have a voice that's on that committee, that's very familiar with that project. and who can bring that cross knowledge from another board makes sense right now. i do hope mr. korbernick will do it again, and we will bump you up. and appreciate that. so with that i make a motion to recommend cyndi bakir to seat four on the pedestrian safety advisory committee. >> we need a second. >> or just -- yeah, with, without objection, that motion passes. thank you so much. thank you to you both. mr. clerk, can you please call item 7. >> hearing to consider appointing one member term

ending january 1, 2024, to the elections commission. one seat, two applicants. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. i'll just mention that applicant anu menon could not be here today but she sent a letter about her experience. i know miss menon, she is absolutely incredible. but i'll leave it with that. because we have another incredible applicant who served in this role for a long time, christopher jerdonek here today, and wondering if you could come up so we could hear from you first. >> good morning, chair ronen, my name is christopher jerdonek, board appointed me to the elections commission in april 2014. rules committee then supervisors

and others recommended me. over 15 years improving elections my main civic passion. more representative through reforms, more transparent, and more secure. i've also been a point place inspector 20 times in san francisco starting in 2006. i have a detailed understanding of elections, and i've worked extremely hard on the commission over the last five years. i've always made myself available to the public through email, phone and in person meetings, and on a range of issues. i had perfect attendance at all commission meetings. also done a lot to make the commission itself be more transparent. and feedback lead to concrete improvements the next election. december 2014 the board of supervisors passed unanimous resolution committing the city to create an open source voting commission.

as a new commissioner and software developer by day i took the lead on the issue. authored a resolution, secured initial funding and led the formation of now chairing the commission's five-member technical advisory committee. i would like the privilege to continue my work on the commission. committee members, if you reappoint me, i promise to continue working hard and i'm always happy and available to talk about any elections issues that you may care about. thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. any questions? nope? we'll open this item up for public comment. any member of the public would like to speak, now is your time. each member will have two minutes. >> good morning, my name is greg penington, 42-year resident of san francisco. volunteer for the california clean money campaign. we have 15,000 members in san francisco. i'm an open source paper ballot voting system advocate, very important to get transparency in

our elections. i've worked with christopher jerdonek personally for the past two years on this issue and his expertise is absolutely incredible. i want to thank you, supervisor ronen, for the $1.55 million budget support you gave last year for open source paper ballot voting in san francisco. i ask all of you to pass the additional 3 million request for the coit budget for this project. chris has 15 years experience on election and voting issues. san francisco voting system specific knowledge which is important. he's a software developer and he has excellent expertise on open source software, and it is critical that we don't change horses in the middle of the race. this project is critical, not only for san francisco but the nation. san francisco is the only place working on open source paper

ballot voting. once we do it here, the software can be shared nationally. so, i just want to say that christopher jerdonek is critical for this project and ask you to please reappoint him to the commission. thank you. >> good morning. my name is fred hernandez, senior policy at fair vote, formerly at fair vote california, a lot of education and analysis on the elections throughout the last few years. i'm here because the role of the elections commission is vital to the role i'm able to do in the efficiency of our advocacy in providing greater transparency and ballot reporting, robust education efforts by the part of the elections and the open source voting projects.

i've known chris personally over ten years. when i first ran for my election at u.c. davis and he helped create a way to kind of visualize the information which was super helpful. but since then, chris has been on the elections commission, really working hard to make sure that reporting is done well. one of the best things i can say about chris is his ability, or give him praise for his ability to listen carefully and analyze like make himself available. and you can tell that through his work. so, it's my honor to support him here today. thank you so much. >> i am a volunteer with california clean money, and you know, i don't know personally christopher jerdonek, but i know california clean money really stands for him and that he, and

i just want to say open source paper ballot, like san francisco an innovative place and it's, this is the perfect -- and corporations shouldn't have any place in our voting in my opinion, and i think it would just be great to get this going and maybe publicly funded elections at some point, and ensuring democracy and i want to thank you, ronen, for, supervisor ronen for putting aside the 1.3 and supervisor walton and mar, if you could consider putting an extra three toward that, just so we can ensure democracy in our future. we have not had any major problems with corporate voting software, but it's just something that should probably be in the public realm and chris supporting it, so we are supporting him to keep that. >> good morning, my name is john

chan. just retired commission secretary. so i worked with chris. i just want to say that this is a reappointment, and this is an opportunity to get somebody who does a good job, and if the person in there is not doing a good job, the time to change horses midstream. that's not the case in this case. chris is so committed to this thing, he made my job a living hell because he wouldn't let things slide. there was just too much at stake, too much importance. open source voting has been a life, and it should be a life for the city. chris is the person you need to have on this. he set up the website for the technical advisory committee. he chairs the technical advisory committee, as well as when he was president of the commission he chaired the committee, so there's a lot at stake. you don't want to jump back to square one, and -- with, at this

point. you want to continue the progress forward. so -- i'm here in support of him, despite what he did to me. [laughter] >> supervisor ronen: any other member of the public that wants to speak, if you could line up to, on this side of the room, that would be helpful. >> paula randle, i live in the inner richmond, in san francisco for 17 years. and i want to ask reappoint christopher jerdonek. i don't have anything to add to this. he is so obviously qualified. please reappoint him. as you've heard already, its a way for you to not just move open source voting forward in this city, county, but also in the state and really in the entire nation. and i can't think of anything that's more important right now. thank you. >> thank you so much. any other member of the public who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor ronen: i have

never seen a commission secretary come to the rules committee to speak on behalf of a commissioner, especially one who has made his life miserable. so, thank you mr. chan for coming and offering your support. i did get overwhelming support for mr. christopher jerdonek and i want to thank you. your work has obviously been so profound and important to the elections commission and i just wanted to personally thank you for giving all that time, passion and energy and to be willing to continue to do so. i think people forget often times how thankless these jobs are on commissions and that they are volunteer jobs, and so your work has been extraordinary. i want to say to miss menon, had the pleasure of going to law school with and no doubt would be an amazing elections commissioner that i really do hope she reapplies in the future. i do have to agree with the

public system that now is not the right time to change course when we are in the middle of a major, major project that there's so much excitement and enthusiasm for and will protect democracy. it's not the right time. but i would love to see her on this commission or another commission in the future. so with that i'll see if my colleagues have any comments. no? so i will make a motion to appoint christopher jerdonek to the elections commission, seat one. and without objection, that motion passes. mr. clerk, are there any other items? >> clerk: like to check to see if mr. summers has arrived late. does not appear so. that completes our agenda. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. the meeting is adjourned.

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>> public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. >> you were awesome. >> 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]

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