>> good evening welcome to the march 6, 2018 board o 2018 boar. to my slept deputy city attorney who will provide legal advice this evening. at the control is the board legal assistant and i'm julie

rosenberg. we will also be joined by representatives from the state department that have cases before the board this evening. we expect scott sanchez acting zoning administrator representing the planning commission. the board request that you turn off and silence all phones so they would not disturb the proceedings. please care on conversations in the hallway. members have up the three minutes to rebuttal. please speak in the microphone. to assist the board in the craft

preparation of minutes, you're asked but not required to submit a speaker card or business card to board staff. speaker cards are available on the left side of the poem yum -- podium. this meeting is broadcast live on s.f.gov tv and rebroadcast friday on channel 26. the video is available on our website and downloaded from sfgovtv.org. if you intendl intend to testife your hand and say i do. if you're here to testify,

please rise. do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. we are now move on to item number one. which is general public comment. this is an opportunity for anyone who like to speak on a matter within the board's the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i

think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need

information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need

the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and everybody.ery much for joining

i'm scott adams. i'm board chair of the a.p.a. heritage foundation. we want to thank you for joining us this evening as we celebrate lunar new year, the year of the boar. we wish you and your family the best of fortune, prosperity and much happiness. we are a nonprofit organization dedicated to securing funds and coordinating resources to support the city's annual a.p.a. heritage organization festivities. our organization is made up of a very small board, and i'd like to introduce to you our directors. we have our treasurer, irene yee riley, our incoming treasurer, j.j. lara. board member matt mooey, and

our founder and president, claudine ching. [applause] >> so although we're a very small organization, we're able to put on celebration events every year because of the dedicated members of the a.d.a. celebration committee, and that's a group of 30-some odd representatives of the community that makeup the a.p.a. community. so if you are a member of that group, can you please raise your hand? okay. everyone give them a hand. [applause] >> want to thank you so much for being part of the a.p.a. team. now please give a warm welcome to our president and founder, claudine ching. >> thank you, scott. [applause] >> thank you, everyone for helping to come celebrate lunar

new year. today is the third day of the new year. some of us were in chinatown for the first day of the year with mayor breed, and when i friend, walter wong, celebrated the biggest celebration in chinatown with eight pigs, is that right? and firecrackers, so i want to acknowledge of the presence of the mayor who will be speaking shortly and the members of the council and community members of the so eve-- members. every year, we kick off events in the community with the lunar new year celebration. we can take the opportunity to tell you a little bit more about what we are doing for a.p.a. heritage month this year. some of you may not have been to our a.p.a. heritage month celebration, so i want to take the opportunity to talk about the a.p.a. heritage month. last year, we celebrated the

40th anniversary of the law that established this particular celebration. so the month of may, why is it the month of may a.p.a. heritage month? congress decided because of two reasons. the first day of 1943 marked the rival on may 7 of the first japanese immigrant into the united states in the record so that was one reason. and the other reason was on may 10 -- 1843 -- 1869 was the completion of the trans-continental railroad. so that's why the month of may was selected, and this year was the 150th anniversary of the trans-continental railroad. so for this year's celebration on may 1, as you all are invited to our event, together with mayor breed, we'll be

celebrating two significant historic events. one is the completion of the trans-continental railroad, and the other one actually is the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the college of ethnic studies at san francisco state. this is unbelievable that to this date, although there are a lot of ethnics -- different studies classes in many universities and colleges, our san francisco state remains the only ethnic studies department in the whole country where asian american studies african american studies, all ethnic studies had a part of. this is a momentum decision. we are very happy to be celebrating these two significant occasions this year, and during our event, we will be presenting the second annual edwin mah lee public

service award. last year, the winner was our assessor-recorder carmen chiu. we're very happy to have her -- in the month of may be able to bring to our city a whole month of activities. we have plenty of events because we have celebrations, partners such as the asian art museum, san francisco public library, and the country's largest asian american themed festival. with all of these organizations, i think we have a healthy calendar. but back to today, we are happy to be here, celebrating lunar new year. we are very lucky to be in a city that we have cultural offerings with the different

cultural offerings. so some of you -- some of you may not have met mayor breed. mayor breed is a native of san francisco. she grew up in the western addition in the public housing, graduated from schools -- from schools in san francisco, from galileo, as i remember, and without taking the time to read the mayor's long bio, many people have asked me how is it working with mayor breed? and i just have to say, i am not jewish, but if i were jewish, our mayor has a lot of chutzpah. no matter what issue she is addressing, housing, transportation, public education, every time i hear the mayor talk about this, she's open-minded. she's willing to look at other solutions of the city that have been -- of problems of the city

that have been around for years and decades. so we're very proud to have mayor breed with us today. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, claudine. you know, when i first started on the board of supervisors, i attended this event, and it was always in room 201, in the mayor's conference room. and i would always say, claudine, we're growing. we need more space. and finally, she took me up on my word, and she decided we were going to move this incredible celebration to here, the north light court. this is our great celebration of our a.p.i. heritage month kind of kickoff. even though it's not in the month of may, it is during the lunar new year which is of course fitting that we celebrate such a time honored tradition here in our city. i want to thank so many people who are joining here -- joining us here today, including so many folks from the leadership,

many of our sister cities, folks from manila, from osaka -- yes, you can clap -- from seoul, taipei, ho chi mint cities, places that we share more than our brotherly and sisterly loves, but relationships of community, of business, and a number of other things that are so important and vital to the success of not just san francisco but the entire world. i also want to take this time to recognize that we have a number of council generals who are with us here today. starting with the council general of the philippines, who is -- i hope i don't butcher your name council general. i apologize from the philippines, and his wife.

thank you so much for being here. council general for the republic of korea is here, as well. and council general from japan. thank you so much for joining us. we have really an incredible relationship with so many of our sister cities as well as the council generals from all over the world, and san francisco, as you know, has been the gateway to the pacific, and we truly value our relationships which promote trade and cultural and educational exchanges. we -- we know sadly we're living in a time our immigrant population and our cultural diversity are sometimes not welcomed in other cities across the united states, but i want you to know that here in san francisco, it's not only welcomed, it's celebrated. it is celebrated in a way that really honors our rich history and our traditions. and we have many celebrations

throughout the year, including during the month. we just kicked off black history month here in the rotunda in city hall, chinese lunar new year, which is amazing, along with an amazing parade and a number of festivities, and we will kick off asia-pacific heritage month, which we started celebrating in 2005. when i served on the board with supervisor -- well, actually, only supervisor president yee was on the board when we passed that resolution, making it official in san francisco. and here he is now, the president of the board of supervisors, along with his colleagues, and they'll be talking in just a minute. so i am just here to say thank you to so many of you, especially because as we know, it takes a lot of resources to put together so many amazing community activities that promote our diversity and our

culture, and i just want to thank the a.p.i. heritage committee for their continued work and fund raising and bringing people together. and claudine, at this time, i'd like to honor you and the members of the committee with a certificate thanking you for your service and the work you continue to do every year, not only asking for support, but twisting our arm and making us all participate and help us to understand how important this is to so many of our asian communities around the city. thank you for being a real advocate for the a.p.i. community in san francisco.

[applause] >> the hon. london breed: thank you, everyone. [speaking chinese language] >> so understand board president norman yee's here with all his colleagues, and from the dinner we have in chinatown recently, i was shocked to hear that every single one of the board members of supervisors speak beautiful chinese, japanese, all kinds of languages. so in the interest of time, because i understand that mayor breed might have to leave, so i'm going to ask you to maybe just say two lines of greetings in your own language, whatever you prefer. and try not to repeat what the -- what the preceding

speaker have said, okay? but maybe we should start with president yee. >> president yee: thank you, claudine. [speaking native language] >> president yee: happy new year to every one of you. this is a great celebration that happens every year. i want to thank the a.p.a. heritage foundation to sponsor this every year because it really means a lot to our community. yes, mayor breed, it's true. in san francisco, we embrace our diversity. in san francisco, and probably the only city, the public school actually gets a day off for lunar new year. probably the only district -- we should give them a big hand.

[applause] >> president yee: and that was made possible because of the leadership of supervisor fewer and myself and a few other a.p.i. school board members that were able to provide to say you know, it makes a difference to 50% of your students, and they made it happen. now another thing, every year, we get to look at the new stamp. by the way, claudine, i still have the original one, 1993, when you unveiled that, that was such a happening. this is something that took a little while to get the federal government, the post office to actually engage and make this happen for us because they didn't -- there was a little rip resistance there, but after a

while, they said wow, this is pretty good. to all of you, to all of my colleagues here, we are here to celebrate, and we are here to honor the a.p.a. heritage foundation. so on behalf of the full board of supervisors, we'd like to give you this certificate. claudi claudine scott, would you come up and accept it? [applause] >> president yee: so come on up. just say happy new year. >> supervisor fewer:

[speaking native language] [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is matt haney. i'm supervisor from district six. congratulations and thank you for all your work to the a.p.a. heritage foundation. i have to say i've been to a few celebrations around the year of the pig, but this is the first one that i've seen where there's a whole pig to eat. happy to celebration with you. >> supervisor brown: hi. i'm vallie brown, the proud supervisor of japantown. unfortunately, can you please tell me how to say happy new year in japanese?

[inaudible] [applause] >> supervisor safai: good evening. my name is supervisor ahsha safai. happy new year. very happy to be here for the third or fourth year. congratulations to claudine and all the leadership for a.p.a. this is a wonderful celebration. i actually am also an asian supervisor from western asia, from the -- from the country of iran, so i'm going to say happy new year in farsi. [speaking native language] >> supervisor safai: thank you. [applause] >> thank you. ve we want to acknowledge d.b.i., the head, tom, and mohamed nuru from the department of public works. we have captain link from central station, and commander

lozar. so the highlight of today's program is unveiling of the lunar new year stamp. as board of supervisors president yee mepgsed, inntion u.u u.s. post office issued the first series of stamps in 1993. this is the last year of the series of stamps. we are not sure if we're going to get the new ones. so there is a pgs for all of you to sign after the program because we want to make sure the united states postal service unders we in san francisco, just like many people around the country, we love our stamp that celebrate our cultural heritage.

i would like to invite post master abraham cooper. >> good afternoon. or i should say good evening. you know, it's an honor to unveil the 12th and very last stamps and celebrating the lunar new year. as the post master of san francisco, i'm proud to present such a beautiful and meaningful stamp. it represents a lot of significance not only to the community but also to the people that we serve in san francisco, but our employees, as well as we celebrate, and they also celebrate lunar new year. the lunar new year stamp is currently available for sale at the local postal service and also independently also as booklets. the board believes to represent luck and good fortune but also symbolized hard work and generosity as trust and also

sincerity. i'd also like to think that the postal service fits that description well as the relationships between the san francisco district community and the leaders that's in the room today. and without further adieu, i'd like to bring up the mayor as well as norman yee and claudine chan for the unveelg of tilinge chan for the unveiling of the stamp. [applause] [inaudible] [applause] rsh i'd like to take

call. [roll call] filling in is sarah hawkins. commissioner, have you a quorum. >> commissioner: thank you. good evening everyone this is the march 6, 2019 san francisco police commission meeting. we have a reasonable agenda so we will allow three minutes for public comment. with that we're ready to start. >> line one, adoption of the minutes for the meetings of february 6th, 13th and 20th

action. >> commissioner: can i have a motion to adopt. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: any comment? hearing none all in favor. >> aye. >> opposed? >> clerk: the motion passes unanimously. line two, a chief's report for and a brief description of the significant incident. commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar the incident the chief describes for a future committee meeting and planned events or planned activities and events since the previous meeting. include brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion the chief describes will be limited to determine of the future meeting

and a response of a burglary in the good orchard bakery. and the expansion of the internship program. update on the protocol for addressing encamped vehicles during inclement weather. and presentation of the budget report and resolution 13-26 and adopted may 7, 2014 and enforcement of ride share program violations. update regarding the fourth quarter 2018 compliance with administrative code chapter 96a. i'd like to add there's a vision zero report provided prior to the beginning of the meeting and it's on the public binder on the table. >> we're ready for the report. >> good evening.

on behalf of chief scott on the east coast attending a law enforcement seminar. i'm begin my presentation with the weekly stats rate. crimes are down 21% and homicides, aggravated assaults, rapes and human trafficking. we have a total of five homicides for 2019. this is a decrease over 2018. there was one homicide in february. of the five, four have been cleared so for. gun violence. we're down 38% over 2018. there have been two fatal shoot and 14 with injuries. property crimes are down 19%.

they include burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny including auto burglaries. burglaries are down 18% and auto burglaries down 23%. hot -- homicides this week. shooting updates, none to report this week. traffic cases we did experience two fatal traffic collisions this week. the first at manzel and visitation and there was a head-on collision. one vehicle traveled the wrong direction and collided with the second vehicle. the driver of vehicle one was pronounced deceased at the scene. the second fatality occurred at 225 woodside. the vehicle struck a pedestrian causing serious trauma. the pedestrian was transported to the opt with critical

injuries and succumbed to the injuries and the driver stayed on scene and is cooperating. we have events planned this week one at the misconi center the annual rsa security technology conference. they're expecting over 40,000 attendees. we will also have the sunday streets on sunday on 26th and a dabose. there'll be peace parks at the hurts playground including barbecue activities an health fair and we'll collaborate with the city park and rec with that event. that concludes my portion of the presentation. i will now call upon commander mcec ern and they'll provide an

update on sfpd's response to the burglary at good orchard bakery january 19th and the subsequent investigation and arrest. >> good evening. director and chief of staff and acting chief. thank you. as you know i'm here to present the time line for the orchard bakery and our relatively slow response to the crime. at happen at 119 at 100 hours and the owner was robbed by two subjects. a call was received at approximately 1228 hours and interpretations services were used by dem at which time the call was classified as a b

priority. initial node notification and broadcast was made to police at 1237 hours. due to active impending calls there were no available units at that time at 1410 and 1405 hours they were advised of multiple pending calls. there continued to be no available units at those times. at 1620 hours an available unit was dispatched however, it was pre cemented -- pre cemented preempted to a higher priority call and made contact with the victim. we have three priority calls, a, b and c. calls are classified as a, life-threatening emergency, weapon used, known parties involved and the location. a b priority which this was classified, would be there is potential for harm to life,

potential for harm to property, location of the incident, when the incident occurred, suspect may be in the area and there may be a description of the suspect. and then our lowest priority call which is a c priority call. there's no present or potential danger to life or property. suspect is no longer in the area and the crime scene is protected and description of the suspect may be known. as protocol dm broadcast the rating runs several times offer the course of the four hours and the sergeant did acknowledge it twice over that time period. i met with the higher ups to discuss the incident and others

around pending runs and we came up with an agreement to review procedures and improve performance. i meet yet and the prior week with all the field bureau captains and advised sergeants and if they're not available, lieutenants have to triage waiting assignment. it's not uncommon to have waiting assignments and there's 3300 calls a day distributed throughout the stations. i want to close with this shouldn't have happened. we have to do better. chief scott said the four-hour delay was too long no matter what the priority was classified. we're all in agreement we met with media and discussed the issue and the chief continues to messed we can do better and

working with the partnership at dem to improve our response. now we'll have more on fallup -- follow-up investigation. >> commissioner: i have a quick question. on the day of the incident there was additional staffing there was a march. >> the women's march was held that day. >> my concern was were we fully staffed enough to cover our district stations while taking officers from stations and sending them to the march? did we have enough officers? the following weekend we have the march for life and we look at city wide staffing and only think what we think the station can give for an event and supplement that with overtime. both were large events and required a large police

presence. >> you take officers -- >> four from ingle side station. >> and we had an incident with an assault victim. >> commissioner: maybe next time we can have more officers in overtime. i know there's a concern on overtime but when you hear the calls for service were hanging for that period of time, the public expects better. if there's no cars available and i hear there's a priority they have to go to, again, every call's very important to the public when they do call the police. so i just wish we would next time have more staffing available because that's more important. it's important to have all these things staffed but to have something like this happen is detrimental to us and we need to have more officers on the street on these days. >> we absolutely agree. >> commissioner dejesus.

>> commissioner: before we get to the investigation i'm the one who asked for the hearing and there's things i want to ask and i it doesn't matter what it's classified, an elderly person was beaten and i guess i need clarity on this. when you say the sergeant acknowledged this call was waiting at least two times but one of the ways you're going to try to fix this is when the sergeant instead of a lieutenant waiting for a sar guest -- sergeant to assign are you saying only they can send someone out the lieutenants can't help? >> anybody can make the decision to send a unit. absent a sergeant doing the actual triaging, a lieutenant

has to step up and do it. i'm not following the logic. wouldn't they step up it to either the sergeant was on top of it and didn't have a car? i need clarity? >> the sergeant that acknowledge the run twice is the same sergeant and a very conscientious sergeant that acknowledged the hanging run. again, it was a busy day in the district. >> they knew it was a person who didn't speak english so they talk about an injury or a broken hand or --

>> that's what a was told you but they're not here? >> commissioner: there was an injury? >> they used an interpretation service and the interpretation service didn't get that information -- didn't put it out. >> commissioner: so they didn't know there was an injury. >> correct. >> commissioner: what's going to be different next time we're busy and you take any units from a particular district and get a b, a robbery with a "b," injury/no injury. how will a lieutenant assist in this process if this occurs again? >> generally speaking, sergeants run the street. they supervise officers on patrol and they're duty to

acknowledge the pending run. as part of that duty they should be triaging the run. a person like this should take priority over a non-injured or we didn't know at the time he was injured but a non-victim kind of b priority like maybe a traffic collision which is classified as a b priority. >> when they call in they say there's a robbery. they didn't understand there was an injury. are they trained to ask if anyone was injured at the scene through the interpreter? >> that's d.e.m. and i'm told they are, yes. >> commissioner: you're told or you know? >> do i know. what happened was they used the service and later personnel reviewed the conversation between the service provider and the victim. the service did not reveal all

the information the victim had told that person. >> commissioner: are we going to talk to the service to all information is given to the d.e.m. people. >> that was discussed in my meeting with d.e.m. >> commissioner: who will ensure the interpretation services gets the memo and understanding the training we need for the department? who's in charge of making sure that happens? the initial call comes from d.e.m. and we're working together to remedy it. >> commissioner: but right now we know there's a problem between the interpretations services does not provide all the information to our dispatch. who's in charge of contacting them to let them know what we expect going forward?

i hope they did. that's what i was hoping. we need to find out more information. there's something missing here. it didn't get transmitted and we've had this before in other situations. working closely with d.e.m. and the interpretation services to clear it up and do a better job in the future is -- it shouldn't have taken four hours. >> commissioner: i'd like to follow-up with other question if the same thing happened today with the exact same circumstances and everything else was going on today, how would you expect it to be handled today? >> a b priority it take 11 minutes max. >> commissioner: i'm asking how it gets handled with this service. what would be the way to address

this now that didn't happen back in january? >> it would be speculation but i would assume we would again prioritize the calls. they'd look into the cad call itself and see there's a little more to this robbery and dispatch a unit off maybe a 7a assignment. >> commissioner mazzucco. >> how many unit did we have for ingleside that day. >> i don't have that number with me. i can get back to you. >> >> commissioner: maybe we need three units. >> there were multiple units working that day. >> commissioner: i want to follow-up if i may, this is an anomaly. this has never happened on the commission and i want to congratulate you for coming forward and saying we made a mistake and it's a an anomaly

and i am concerned of taking a significant part of coverage out and making sure we're fully staff when we have an event like the march we had that had resources and i know there's a tug of war between overtime and moving people around. when people dial 9-1-1 they expect the police to show up. i think we should provide the overtime if necessary. i want to thank you for being candid and the chief and everybody. it's greatly appreciated but i want to be clear, this is the first time this happened since being on the commission and upset about it but the reality is, we came forward and admit mistakes and make things better. we're not the once doing the translating. that's the dispatch which is not affiliated with the police department. we need to work with them better. thank you. >> chief. >> just to clarify something that maddux mentioned when the

sergeants are tied up in days like this sergeants start handling run to try to clear the boards. what we're asking the lieutenant to do is step in the role and evaluate what the officers are doing and what calls are on and if need be, take them off a lower priority call and assign them to these b priority runs that may need an expedited response. that's what we're asking to do for the lieutenant to step out of their role when they know there's a lot going on and it's a busy day. that's the difference and constantly evaluating the calls for service waiting against those the officers are currently on and yank them off the lower-priority calls. >> that was into the the case in january, is that right? >> it's something that's done but now we're pressing the lieutenant to play that role when we know we're busy. >> commissioner: one more clarification, the way i'm understanding what you say, there's a printout of what is

determined of the a, b and c call but you're saying you're also asking the captains and lieutenants to dig deeper and not look at the one-liner but go knee cad to get more -- into the cad to get more of a description. is that across all locations? >> all have been advised. >> how many lieutenants were at the station because typically there's more than one. >> there's one on duty per watch. i don't know if that was a case. i don't know what the staffing level and what the lieutenant was working that night. i don't have that detail. >> is the investigation concluded or ongoing?

>> that's my queue. so i'm here to give you an update where we are with this investigation. as chief mentioned the incident happened january 19 and the investigative team had the case and was out looking for video. we often times as a matter of fact, every weekday we have conversations on the phone at 11:00 with the investigators at the station and make determines whether a case stays at a station level or we take it at the bureau level. often at the bureau level we take other incident and we took this at robbery on the 23rd of february which would have been -- sorry, january, which would have been a few days after the incident occurred.

once we took the case, we were out and had assistance from the personnel at ingle side station and looked for video in the area. we got video from businesses in the area and we put out a crime bulletin where we identified we thought were two individuals that were the suspects and asked all officers to look at the bulletin to determine whether or not they could identify who the two individuals were. just a couple days later we then went to adult and juvenile prowe often work with and asked them whether or not they could identify who the individuals were because it appeared the individuals were younger age likely teenagers. we had assistance from a juvenile probation officer who identified one of the individuals. we were then able to follow-up

and identify the second individual in the instance and confident based on the video and information we had obtained we had both individuals identified. we authored a search warrant february 3 and served it february 7th at a couple residences and arrested two individuals. one is 16 and the second is 18 years old. both case now working their way through the judicial system in the city. >> i have one more question. when they did arrive, did they know there was a language issue or were there interpretive services. >> the officer that spoke the same language ended up -- >> did they have to wait and call? >> they had to wait a little bit

longer. >> that's another thing. it's bad enough we didn't have a b call but when we send someone four hours later we didn't understand it needed interpretation services. >> correct. that was the first available unit. >> would that be remedied once they delve into the conversation with the d.e.m. will that be remedied too they know they need an interpreter present or an officer to discuss that language? >> we did discuss that. >> >> how are we going to remedy that by opening it up and reading it and the lieutenant has to understand it's more serious and interpretive services was necessary. >> the cad did say there was a language barrier. >> commissioner: how long did the person have to wait? >> a nominal amount of time. minutes. >> commissioner: thanks.

>> commissioner: next the protocol on responses during inclement weather. >> good evening, commander i'm captain lazaro and have been asked to give an update on inclement weather and i'm here to talk about the healthy streets operation center and the collaborative effort. and the sfpd are all participating in working to get individuals off the street into shelter and working on encampment resolution and working with the individuals drug addicted.

options for addressing illegal encampments and there's an e-mail to every police officer to reemphasize what we're doing in the importance of what our strategy is in term of getting into shelter whether officers are assigned to a station or homeless effort, their goal is to go out and see an encampment whether it's wet weather and they're asked to make contact and they're adding extra shelter beds and placement because we've experienced a lot of rain this year and the wet weather protocol is in place. the officers go to an

encampment. the first goal is to look at medical attention that needs to be provided to an individual. once they determine that medical attention may not be needed we lead with services. we're talking with individuals about have you had something to eat, do you know where to get a shower. are you interested in shelter. how can we help you, can we call the team out, etcetera. then we resort to a couple different options. our first option is we'll say to an individual do you want shelter whether it's navigation center or any shelter available. and we'll cowl -- call back and they'll say i'm out on division and i'd like to know what's available and they'll say there's an nav center bed is

available and take them to the nav center. the officer will say, okay i know you want to go to the center, i know it's raining. we're not going to enforce laws and if you want to go voluntarily we can help you pack up and they can take their tent with them and off to the nav center they go. that's first option. the second is if an individual during wet weather or not during wet weather says they want to go to a shelter and one is not available which is rare these days we don't enforce laws because we can't provide a shelter we don't give a citation for illegal lodge. in the third instance if we say we have shelter for you and the individual says no, i'd rather not go, we'll issue a