regarding our homeless, the quality of life issues in the bayview and concerns, we're meeting regularly with hsoc and department of public health to address concerns we have two officers work full-time at bayview station assigned to homeless outreach. we're actively in the community every day addressing the community offering service, making referrals to help improve on our homeless concerns in the community. then with the trust and accountability reform, i think part of that is just with us talking the community. our foot beat out every day talking to the merchants in the community. they are out in the street and go into businesses. our officers are out talking to people within our housing project and engaging the

community and trying to reassure them and make sure they understand they're being heard. with our resources, i think we're ahead of you but there's always room for improvement with technology since it's a fast-growing thing. then with diversity, the district is diverse. and we want them to know we understand them and can meet them where they are and can all work together.

that is the end of my presentation and if there's any questions i'm happy to answer them. >> on the part one crime statistics, i want to know if i'm reading this right. the homicide year to date last year was five and year to date nine. so there's been an increase in this year over last year. then for burglary and autotheft and i'm concerned about the homicides and the rate obviously. i want to know if bayview has the resources and help you need to be able to address this. >> since i've been at bayview station we have had three

homicide. so you know, at one point i worked in homicide as sergeant prior to my assignment at bayview. i was the captain of major crimes and overseeing the homicide unit. i'm very passionate about any homicides in the city and particularly in the bay view. yes, i am getting the resources i need. the chief is concerned and the command staff has been available in giving me resources which have been deployed on a regular basis each week to help address crimes and to be the visual deterrent. and i don't expect moving forward, god willing, that our numbers will continue to increase. >> thing on the human trafficking, is that -- i don't know what that means? it seems like these are really

low numbers and seems good but i don't know if it's difficult to track or means something different. >> i think it's somewhat difficult to track. in order to track it, it has to be reported. as we all know with human trafficking it's one of those things rarely report. it's more so reported in downtown where there's -- they're more visual but here when it happens it's not on the streets. don't typically have people walking around that you can engage and have conversations with so if people don't call the police we're not aware or given information it's possibly occurring. >> thank you for the presentation and the work you're doing. >> my pleasure. >> any other questions from commissioners?

>> thank you for the presentation. i thought it was great. i want to go back to the staffing on page 5. i was wondering what the captain's staff, the three officers and two civilians do, what their role is as the captain's staff. >> well, two of the civilians for example, one was my secretary that was kind enough to work the power point presentation. she's one of the civilians on my captain staff. the other civilian is the station's facilities person. he deals with things involving the station and assisting us with events and things like that and solving problems. then the three officers moin captain staff, they work directly for me. they assisted with putting together this power point. they help with all the events that we have in the district they deal with community issues.

they work at the pleasure of the captain helping you as a captain facilitate whatever have you going on in the district. >> my other follow-up question is respect to the plain clothes officers, there's seven of them. is that number high? i remember going to other district stations and they amount they had was lower? >> well, each district is different. as you know, when you look at crime as a whole in any city but particularly in san francisco, it's important to staff your officers in positions that reflect the needs of the district. so in the bayview, for example werk have five areas of housing projects. our plain clothes officers are actively working those projects with housing officers. the plain clothed officers in

the bayview get more guns off the street than in any other part of the city and also assist our gang task force unit, our homicide unit and when we have acquisitions from other cities that come in to san francisco a lot of times their cases relate to the bayview. and that's why we have six. it's just based on the needs of the district. >> any other questions from commissioners? >> on page 9, the focus on the five and looking at 2017 at 40% and 2018, 28%. i'm trying to understand how to read that.

>> it mean in 2017, 20% of the sites done were in the group on the focus of the five. the police depend's priority is on the lights, stop sign and failure to yield and failing to yield when make left turn. that's what the numbers represent. what i will say is if you look at the chart, you will see, yes, a lot of more tickets were written in 2017 but we've worked to correct that and why we have three officers assigned specifically to do traffic enforcement. i expect our numbers will be

increasing greatly with that support. [off-mic] >> i understand the difference. when have you spikes you bring traffic enforcement officers and there's like a militia feeling into the community. i get that. i thought focus on the five was

seven to eight and where people will work on the traffic lights. i thought we were aggressively enforcing that and wondering how to interpret this. is 28% a good number or one that needs to be improved on. that's what i was trying to get a handle on. [off mic]

>> i understand. some were down by one-fourth. >> how we enforce city wide is a concern. we've been fortunate in the bayview. we've had one serious straight traffic collision but even one is too many. anything we can do to keep traffic collisions down and save lives we want to work hard to do that. >> one other question. on page 6 for staffing

demographics you have 28 supervisors and 18% black and 14% hispanic. how many black supervisors and how many hispanic does the 18% and 14% represent. >> you can tell me offline.

>> good evening. i wanted to follow-up on one of the points you raised with the strategies on page 7. it seemed like or that homelessness and quality of life and mental health are there a substantial portion of what you're dealing with now and if so has it increased? since come back to bayview, it has increased but i think there's a lot of reasons. we're working hard with the community and with other agency to address homelessness and

mental health issues. >> okay. you think you're having success in working with the other agencies in addressing the issues? >> yes, we've had great success. one current success i can talk about is the san francisco produce market. it's a huge market that serves pressure produce all over the city and it was a large encampment and we've worked together on how to clean up the area and remove the homeless how to secure it and we had meeting and came up with a plan over a month so outreach can take

place. we never want to just displace someone so the plan was to meet with them and try to figure out who wanted to go to a navigation center. what was in need of what services and were children needed to be considered. they were told we'll do an vacci evacuation of the site. we came in with hsoc and d.p.a. and clean up the whole site. to this day that site is still clean. we don't want it anywhere but you have a business dealing with food and it's important things are sanitary, it was concerning.

that was a great combined effort project. that was one of many. >> is there a navigation center out here? >> yes, in bayshore. it hasn't been here long and it's been successful and we have people who regularly go to mother brown. when she can't take you in, she's specified to me she has people that fix 350 sandwiches at night. say you show up late night and you can't come in but you're hungry. you can at least get something to eat. that's amazing because it shows kindness because no one should be hungry in the city. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. there's the church across the street and that feeds folks well. first and foremost, captain, thank you for the presentation. i want to commend you for your

work and step kneeing station and you've been -- stepping into the station and you've been visible and i want to note that as a redent in the district -- resident in the district. 84% of the people in the district don't identify as white and 62% officers tlaetd station who identify -- at the station who identify as being white. when we talk about ensure diversity inclussive -- inclusive workforce what are we doing? that's one part and the second part and this you addressed the community is relationship based but how's it look nor -- for the

62% of folks involved in the process and hope we're not utilizing the 38% that reflect the community. >> anyone who comes to the bayview and works is a really unique officer. bayview is not like anywhere else and once you work there they say you can work anywhere in the city. everyone here is officers who want to be here. i don't want you in the bayview if you're not going to be fully engaged in the community. if you're not comfortable with people who don't necessarily look like you and if you're not fully committed to participating in activity in the bayview. we're still striving even through recruitment to get more diversity into the department which is a challenge but we're still striving to do that and striving to improve our numbers

with people of color and people from the monolingual community to come to the bayview. there's room for improvement but with what we have, i think we have great officers and it's going to be a continual work in progress. [off mic]

>> absolutely. that in reference to the 96a report we've been reviewing thoroughly. thank you. >> i do have a question for you also. it's about the advisory board. the captain's advisory board. i'm curious, who's on there, how they get selected and what issues come up and how do you deal with the issues raised at your advisory board? the captain's advisory board work at the pleasure of the captain. they're assigned to work on projects i deem are important within the district.

i have a total of 14 people on the advisory board. it's a very diverse advisory board when covers the district in terms of what part of the district they come from. my requirement was people willing to work and attend meetings. i doesn't want somebody signed up but doesn't have the time to come in and do the work. it required a commitment from those individuals and then what they do is when we have a meeting, it could be talking about national night out. they've been working on several things within the district. some of them are concerns of mine. some are things they may have mentioned or a thing community

may have brought to my tension. so we meet and they have sub-commitees that work on the project. they're selected by me, basically. >> thank you so much for the presentation and hosting us. i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> ready for the next item. >> clerk: line item 3, general public comment. public is welcome to address the commission with items on the agenda and items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address the commission as a whole and not individual commissioner or department or d.p.a. personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment neither police or personnel or commissioners are required to respond but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and

personnel should refrain from entering into debate or discussion with speakers during public comment. >> anybody want to make a general public comment? this is the time. please come up to the mic if you don't mind. >> i'm alonzo walker. life time resident of bayview hunters point. it's a pleasure to be here. i get on the internet and do

some research and i was born here and i live at 57 building 18, 57 section d. i was hear when the riots took place in 1966. when the national guard marched down third street here in this opera house and there used to be a pool hall here. they shot the opera house up and i wasn't shot but a friend of mine. i knew the individual who lived in the house that got shot. i've lived in bayview hunters point all my life and passionate about the opportunities made available to the residents in bayview hunters point but when

you spoke about homelessness, these are things i became aware of through my research. trying to hold the redevelopment agency san francisco housing authority and hud to what they're supposed to do for upholding the interest of the area they go in to make the changes for the community. the department of public works. the department of housing and urban development, excuse me. the san francisco department of housing are in violation of three various codes that require them to do certain things.

one is 33334.3, 33334.4. these are requirements where the department is supposed to have a database up for public review to show where the available of housing put into development for the agency and now the office of infrastructure and community development an investment. to take a long story short, the homelessness you talked about in report 34171.1. it's a requirement for the

office of infrastructure and investment and the department of housing to ensure the percentage of housing required through legislation be made available and occupied by those individuals that is specified in that particular legislation. >> commissioner: i have to ask you to wrap it up. we have a three-minute limit. >> okay. when you spoke with the homelessness, the mayor's office of housing and community development hasn't extend the funding made available and

extended the money towards homelessness. there's money there and more than willing to work with anyone from the police department or commissioner for oversight or one who holds those entities account and for the people in the community and for the people to realize the benefit they're entitled to and not just a bunch of smoke and talk. >> commissioner: okay. thank you. any other speakers? members who would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. next agenda item. >> clerk: line item 4, adjournment action. >> commissioner: we have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> commissioner: all in favor of adjournment. >> aye. >> opposed. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

>> supervisor mar: the meeting will come to order. this is the april 18, 2018 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i'm joined by supervisor vallie brown, and aaron peskin. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements today?

>> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> supervisor mar: thank you, mr. clerk. please call items one and two together. >> clerk: agenda item number one is a resolution authorizeding mayor to sign petitions in the affirmative for a proposed expansion to be named civic center community benefit district. agenda item number two is a resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to renew and expand a property based improvement district known as the north of market tenderloin community improvement district, ordering and setting a time and place for a public hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole on june 18, 2019 as 3:00 p.m., directing environmental findings and directing the clerk of the board of supervisors to give notice of the public hearing as directed.

>> supervisor mar: thank you. and we have a representative from the office of economic and workforce development to present on these two items. >> good morning, chair mar and supervisor peskin. if it pleases the chair, we would like to present these as item one and then go into the presentation for item 2. thank you. oewd has been working with the civic center c.d. on the renewal expansion since 2018. this will allow the mayor to contact affirmative petitions on behalf of the c.b.d. which will help the c.b.d. reach the 30% necessary to hold an expanded election. this will generally be bounded by golden gate avenue and church street to the north. market street to the south rkt 7 street to t

7 -- 7 street to the west, and goff street -- gough street to the east. without city and county participation in the petition process, the c.b.d. would be required to get an approximately 80% positive response rate from the provide entity petitions within its boundaries. in oewd's experiences, that is highly unlikely. the district currently has approximately 16% of weighted assessments in favor of a special election. 14 parcels that would be able

to represent petition represent slightly over 30% of assessments. as a result, the city's petition response will be 25% of the needed 30%. [inaudible] >> with me today is tracey everline to perform a brief presentation on the renewal, and the director of the city's real estate division to discuss outreach to the city departments and get their opinion on this. any questions for oewd? >> good morning, supervisors,

tracey everline, executive director, t of the c.b.d. the first is our boundaries now and what they could become december 1, 2020. so our core services are community ambassadors, our cleaning and maintenance team, and we're also doing a lot of activation work right now, especially in the three plazas that stretch from the steps of city hall down to market street. and this is our proposed budget. [inaudible] >> okay. so this is our budget.

slightly less attractsiive sli, but the important stuff is here. you can see 67% goes to our core services, and 17% for contingency, so the overall budget, 3.2 million. with that budget, our goal is to provide more cleaning and maintenance services, more ambassador services both in the day and in the evening. we will continue our civic center garage greeter, and we will have a lot more programming throughout the district. we are doing amazing things during the holidays. we have an annual safety summit. just completed the annual summit last week, and the tree lighting which we do in partnership with the mayor's

office recreation and parks department and over a dozen community partners, and we're going to make sure that our workforce development program team can continue in civic center, so we'll have the hunters point family stewards and the downtown streets team doing a lot more work out there. and we really need to work to protect investment that's already been made such as the helen diller civic center playgrounds and the bi-rite cafe. starting next summer, we're planning more farmers markets and more things for the fulton street center mall. this is the information for our dispatch office, and i'm here if you have any questions. >> supervisor mar: thank you so

much. >> thank you. >> good morning, chair mar and supervisors -- >> supervisor mar: one moment. supervisor brown? >> supervisor brown: thank you, chair mar. i have a question. because of a lot of the activity and police, what's been happening the last five or six months? they've been pushing a lot of the homeless into hayes valley, and i know the c.b.d. has been actually going into the alleys and trying to clean, but i'm just wondering, are you looking at putting stewards on that side or your day ambassadors because hayes valley doesn't know really -- they're overwhelmed, and i'm getting e-mails every day from the merchants because of the push here. not everyone, but a lot of the people are going over there.

i think it would be really good to have your day ambassadors, your stewards, to go over there to really be around hayes valley, that area. >> absolutely. we've been paying attention to all of the neighborhoods impacted by the improvements made to u.n. plaza. the south of market has been feeling a lot of pressure as has hayes valley. we'll continue to meet with hayes valley merchants to ensure that we're continuing to hear their concerns and their concerns about their hot spots. yeah, we've ramped up the ambassadors in the alleys and strengthened our relationship with the city's hsoc team, which handles these complex encampment issues, primarily in

hayes valley. we've meet with gail, and we're going to a couple of upcoming meetings with gail and her folks. >> supervisor brown: okay. thank you. >> supervisor mar: i'd just like to note that we're joined by supervisor vallie brown and raphael mandelman. >> thank you for giving the opportunity for me to speak before you this morning. i wanted to just briefly add my voice of support for this item. a lot of the property as you heard, 40%, that is in the proposed renewed district, is city owned or leased property. we have reached out to the city departments to advise them of the assessment increase should it pass. we believe this is money well spent. we have not only the

cleanliness and safety issues, we also have, as you know, just using the bill graham auditorium, it's had a drug problem, and we do have city employees that virtually have to walk a gauntlet to get from city hall to civic center b.a.r.t. station, which is also true of some of our properties on market street. so we believe this is not only assist us in reducing the maintenance costs for our assets, but reduce the cost for city employees. thank you for your support. >> supervisor mar: thank you. all right. we'll move on. this is item number two right

now. >> supervisor peskin: i have a question on item number one. i assume that all projected costs are going to be put in each department's budget for the year? >> all conversations on the budget have been included in this. >> supervisor mar: supervisor brown, do you have a question? >> supervisor brown: no, i just have a comment. i have downtown streets in my district in haight-ashbury. they're doing a great job with t.a.y., transitional age youth, and they're great in tenderloin. i think they're a great organization. >> item number two, the tenderloin intention for the proposed renewal and expansion. >> clerk: agenda items one and

two are called together, and we will take public comment for them together. thank you. >> the resolution of intention to renew and expand the north of market tenderloin community benefit district, there is an amendment needed on this resolution moving the committee as a whole date from june 18 to june 25, in order to comply with state requirements on a 45-day special assessment district election. if a member can make an amendment, that would be great. >> clerk: the motion can be made after public comment. >> today, i'm proposing the proposition by supervisor haney. the tenderloin c.b.d. has been working on the renewal campaign

since 2017 to determine if there was interest among property owners, merchants, and residents and community stakeholders in renewing and expanding the c.b.d. what should the renewed c.b.d.'s boundaries be to continue to meet their goals. what services should be provided to meet the goals of the area? how should the assessment methodology be structured to more accurately assess costs to benefit receives in relation to statute, and how long should the renewed and expanded district be in place given the goals of the renewed c.b.d.? the c.b.d. reached the needed 30% threshold to authorize a special election on march 31, 2019, with a total of 32.75% this would allow the department of elections to conduct a special election for property

owners on the renewed c.b.d. ballots would be mailed out by the department of elections on may 10. the election would close on june 25, and a ballot hearing would occur where ballots would be counted. if the required ballot threshold is not met, the board of supervisors may meet to discuss to review and expand the proposed district. if approved, the expanded district would begin collected fees june 1, 2019, and the new district would go into effect january 1, 2020. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is simon bertrand. i'm the chairman of the north of market tenderloin community

benefit district. we have a board of directors comprising six property owners, three residents, and three at large members currently oversees our management and our current f.y. 19 assessment is a little over $1 million and our current budget is a little over $3 million. we have a vision for a healthy neighborhood in the tenderloin and a vibrant community for everyone in the tenderloin, residents, workers, people on the sidewalks and that includes a framework that includes both clean and safe and creating inviting spaces but also looking to neighborhood pride and economic opportunity. our proposed assessment renewal is for a new 15-year term. again, as chris said, beginning january 21, 2020. we have some changes to the boundaries which i'll go over when we look at a map, and then, we have a continuation and expansion of the supplemental services we would

be providing. and the proposed assessment is increased to just under $2 million. here's a map showing the proposed boundaries. i would draw the attention, the blue shows areas of the tenderloin that would be included in the new district boundaries. you note that the north side of o'farrell is included and also three blocks of polk street between turk and o'farrell. also missing from this map is u.n. plaza. the current boundaries include u.n. plaza, but we would be not including it in the proposed renewal and civic center c.b.d. would propose to take over u.n. plaza and provide services there as part of the larger vision that the city has for the civic center area. our proposed budget is almost $2 million collected and 66.77,

it looks like there's a little error in the spreadsheet -- it's 66.7% would be clean and safe. 15% would be marketing, economic development, 15% be administration, and there's a graph on the left that shows the relative weight of those programs. our clean program collects hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash from the sidewalks and gutters of the tenderloin each year, tens of thousands of needles, and we do thousands of pressure washing events, including many code browns, as we call them, health hazards on the sidewalk. our proposal is to expand that cleaning program pretty dramatically and to take an approach we call the microneighbor approach where we will have a single cleaner whose responsibility is four or five blocks in the tenderloin, seven days a week, who is walking this area, getting to

know the neighbors, getting to know the businesses and making sure that the sidewalks are clean for the people that are using them. it includes sweeping, including pressure washing, includes needle pick up. we also do graffiti abatement. this seven-day-a-week operation with this many cleaners is almost a doubling of what we currently do in the tenderloin, and we also have a contract with downtown team to supplement the service. we have tenderloin safe passage which has been created ten years ago by moms and now fully integrated into the c.b.d. we have dozens of volunteers helping kids and seniors across the streets and getting to and from school safely. we also have neighborhood block programs to support the groups that are emerging on a block by

block level that are emerging because of lack of safety on the sidewalks. we have a camera program in the tenderloin where we are the stewards of a network of cameras to improve safety and accountability. that is for after-the-fact footage requested by the police department, the district attorney, or the public defender. and finally, we have our neighborhood pride program that tried to tell stories about the tenderloin, the gritty nature of the tenderloin. it's a wonderful neighborhood full of a lot of incredible people and a lot of vibrant businesses. we tell those stories in a newsletter, live events, and we could advocacy and connection for our merchants. thank you, and i'm here to answer questions if there are any. >> supervisor mar: thank you so much. colleagues, any questions? there's that -- that's the full

presentation, mr. corgis? yeah, thanks for all the presentations and thanks for all the great and important work that folks in the community and oewd have been doing in the tenderloin and north of market community benefit districts. i think we can move to public comment on items one and two right now. are there any members of the public who wish to testify? speakers will have two minutes. please state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the microphone. those persons who have prepared written statements are encouraged to leave a written copy with the clerk for inclusion in the file. no booing or applause are permitted. speakers are encouraged to avo avoid repetition of the previous statements. >> i agree with the statement that you say a petition process has taken place. i would like to give a

demonstration on how a petition process for people who are involved in stablization of apartment rent process. we just had a hearing on that. people in those brackets are afraid of having their rents increased and losing their apartments. sf, viewer, please. got to stop my time while you're getting this. you're taking off seconds. okay. i went to the law library and looked up the latest information pertaining to the tenants rights pertaining to the housing situation pertaining to the stablization of housing under the rent board, and it says right here

rent increases. if you have at least for more than 30 days, rent cannot be increased during that term of the lease unless the lease has rent increases. the people that came in complaining don't have that type of lease with the owners, but yet, the owner keeps trying to raise their rent to 7%. you need to have legislation to have the owner come in before the board and demonstration the reasons why you giving a rent increase to most disadvantaged and economically vulnerable people who are not getting the increase in their income which would result in them being homeless. and as far as you expanding the homeless, i object to demonstrations claiming that you are giving housing at 50%. i'll get to that later on another item. >> supervisor mar: thank you. actually, i have six speaker cards, so i wanted to call

the -- the people that filled out speaker cards to speak next, so if you hear your name, please come to the line or get to the front of the line and speak. [names read] >> hi. good morning, supervisors. i work for tenderloin housing clinic. i'm also on the board. i'm the president of the board of tenderloin c.b.d., and i've been on the board of c.b.d. for last four years. i definitely would like your support to authorize the assessment election for the next 15 years, so i just want your support for this. thank you. >> good morning, honorable supervisors. my name is riannon baylor, and

i'm the executive director at u. u.s. hastings law. we've been in the tenderloin for 140 years and we plan to remain in the community. we have a vision where we're going to bring together multiple graduate level institutions. we will look upon students to utilize our local businesses, activate or streets and be -- our streets and be responsible participants in the community, and we can think of no better partner in this than the tenderloin community benefit district. we have seen them do amazing work. everything of course from keeping our streets cleaner and safer to the graffiti abatement and needle pick up, but we've

partnered with them on larger initiatives. we recently partnered with them to integrate a camera on our ca campus to deter crime as well as aid in criminal prosecutions. we also look to support them in their ongoing work on economic development, but even more important -- oh, 30 seconds. but even more important than the initiatives and activities is the sense of neighborhood pride that results from this organization that brings together everyone within the tenderloin, residents, local business owners, people who are hitting hard times, everyone coming together to create a livable and sustainable tenderloin. that's why u.c. hastings law supports this renewal. we are a nonprofit entity and could view an increase in our

assessment -- >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, supervisors. my name is renee colorado and i'm one of the founders of the festivals that the community recently had. i'm on the board for the tenderloin community benefit district. as a small business owner and manager on larkin street in the tenderloin, i just want to share a story that i have. when i was first planning this festival, i didn't have a lot of support, i didn't have any money. when i came to the tenderloin c.b.d. for help, simon bertrand, he told me this is good for the neighborhood, renee. do it. i'm like, i don't have any money. and he's like, just do it. with this support, this festival was able to come to

fruition, and it was a big success, and i wouldn't have been able to do it without the tenderloin c.b.d. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for this hearing. my name's eric rudenbeck. i'm a 30-year resident in the tenderloin and a business owner on o'farrell street. i think under the leadership of simon, the group is evolving into something that can really make a difference in the neighborhood that so many of us call home. we need more from the c.b.d. we need more than other neighborhoods. we are a unique and sometimes challenged neighborhood, but we have a strong backbone to work from, and if you can support their efforts to support everyone that lives there, i

think we can see a neighborhood that is both economically diverse and socioeconomically diverse but also clean, safe, and a good place for the kids that live there, including my son. please support their efforts. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. good morning. [speaking spanish language]

[inaudible] >> in all this time, i have been noticing all the importance of the safe passage for the community of the tenderloin or tenderloin community. i am daily on the corners, helping all the childrennd