meets and that's to name a view. this is a picture of another engagement effort in the bay view and because our district is so big we want to go around to the different areas of the district to address our community. this was an event in the potrero portion at goat hill pizza. it was a pizza with a cop event which was a great event. we had pizza available. officers available. the community came by and had a slice of pizza and engaged us in conversation and asked questions about the community and district. it ways great event. and have a police hub and the purpose is to specifically work with our monolingual community.

in the bayview we have a large monolingual community roughly 38% and sometimes because of language barriers they only always report crime. they don't all feel comfortable coming into the police station. it's our responsibility to meet them where they are. two days a week they can come in to the police hub and do translation and give advice and talk to them about their concerns that may arise. operation genesis is a program that's gone on for the past six years. officer jason johnson now assigned to community engagement but initially worked in the bayview has a program that take children to ghana every year. they've gone the past six year

for 64 children that have been able to participate in this amazing trip. there's a total of 150 students that are involved in operation genesis. and not all of them obviously have gone on this trip but there are several events throughout the year they participate in. these are all students from the bay view and 96% of them have graduated high school. this program is doing great things in the community. this is a list of events we've done in the bayview. some have already occurred and some are coming up in the near future. next big event coming up will be our gun buyback next saturday

9:00 am to 12:p.m. in conjunction with this being gun violence prevention month. we understand there's a lot of people that won't want to give police their gun but there's people in the community who have a family member who that is no longer here or had an old gun in the closet or somebody's grandfather or someone who doesn't know what it do with the gun. we have an opportunity to turn the gun in and depending on what type of weapon it is, they'll be paid a stipend. this is no questions asked. this is done in less than five minutes. you basically pull up in your car and hand the officer the weapon. you're handed the stipend for turning in that weapon and drive away from the area. it's a great program. we've partnered with grace cathedral and they've been kind

enough to partner with us as well as the healing circle and mothers against guns. that's another great event and we had meet the beat. the officers passed out 350 donuts and coffee to the community. it was a rainy day but that did not deter the community from coming out and talking to the officers and myself and enjoy donut and some coffee and because it was in mendal plaza it ways great event because there's been a huge renovation in randal plaza and supervisor walton will be there as well as myself and there will be music. there'll activities. it will be a great opportunity for everybody to come out and

come to mandel plaza and see what is happening there every thursday, friday, saturday. it includes music and you can audition and sing and play instruments or you can just come and play games if you'd like it play checkers. if you would like to play dominoes or cards, it's just a great place to come be part of the community because the whole area has changed and it's a family friendly environment and if you're free come out around 4:30. this is showing more flyers and individuals for some great events we've had and the pizza with the cop event. we had dim sum with the cop event on san bruno avenue which was a great well attended event. i actually even ran into people

before i was in the department when i used to get my hair done on the san bruno avenue. it was well attended. everyone loved it and more important, it's officers getting involved with the community in different parts of the district. we did a bayview takeover and that event consists of me being able to send as many officers as i could spare to attend a church in the district. i held a church breakfast with the ministers in the district. one thing that came from the breakfast where we all got aquited was -- acquainted. they wanted parishioners to see police officers not just when a crime occurred but wanted to

fellowship with officers and have them come to their place of worship and engage them in a positive way. i sent several officers tout churches and the community loved it and appreciate the effort. then the prayer vig you'll we had cornerstone church took the lead and for the next six months i asked church to volunteer. cornerstone church was the first to step up and then five others stepped up for the next five months and what we're doing is we're picking an area where there's basketball -- been a history of community violence and praying over that community as church goers in the bayview. it was well attend and we'll do

it against next month and the information is listed in the bayview now's letter coming out. you'll be able to get information on the time, location and what church is taking the lead initiative in that prayer vigil. we had the first african american read day. that was in conjunction with black history month. we had officers that read and played games with the children and had a great time. the other events are powe toe --

potello area. we stand for public safety with crime reductions. our numbers are good and have decreased in terms of crime but any crime committed is too many crimes. earlier today at 10:00 at bayview station i had a meeting with the church ministers and their designee and had 46 churches participate to talk about crime in the bayview and how we can work together with sf safe and the captain of the burglary unit as well and our station assistant district attorney to work collectively, answer questions, give advice,

set up appointments for different churches and work together and get on the same page. that's how we're working to reduce crime. it's not just the police going from call to call and being proactive. we want to engage the community. we want to reduce their concerns and fears and provide them with information so the community can help us to help them. 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. .

>> good morning everybody on this beautiful tuesday in the city and county of san francisco. i am so excited to be here. today we are proposing to remove barriers that prevent employment for thousands of san francisco for some people a speeding ticket or parking ticket are annoandannoyances. for others they can be a major financial set back.

in 2015, a report showed in cities and counties across the nation, thousands of people were struggling to pay their traffic tickets and court fines and fees. i have first-hand experiences how the fines can force someone to decide between paying their car to get out of tow or issues of that nature and paying rent. in san francisco before december of 2015, if someone could not pay the traffic fines, their driver's license were suspended. imagine already struggling to pay your bills, then you receive a notice in the mail your driver's license was suspended. not only can you not drive legally, but more and more companies now require a driver's license specifically for employment. in fact, studies show that people who have their driver's license suspended, almost half

will lose their jobs in a year. this is not equitable. i am grateful that supervisor walton is here with us today. sadly, we knew in bayview-hunters point they have three times the average of the number of driver's licenses that have been suspended statewide. that is why san francisco was the first in the nation to stop suspended driver's licenses for failure to pay fines. [applause.] over two years ago, we were the first to top suspended driver's licenses for failure to appeer in traffic court. after we discovered the biggest reason people do not show up for traffic court date is because they cannot afford to pay the fees. people are also worried if they show up, they would be forced to

give up their driver's license, and, sadly, some are afraid they might gee arrested. he on o get arrested. while we stopped the suspensions. we discovered 88,000 driver's licenses were still marked as suspended in the super-your court date take base. thousands of residents were unable to drive legally because they did not show up for traffic court date even though the super-your court no longer suspended licenses for this reason. when we looked into what it would take to lift those previous suspensions, we were told that the superior court only needed $15,000. $15,000, which we provided. for $15,000, we could create a clean slate for everyone across

our system. [applause.] it may seem like a small amount, but it is going to have a tremendous impact on so many people's lives. so today, thanks to the work of everyone here, i am proud to announce that all holds on driver's license for failure to apfear in traffic court have been lifted. [applause.] what is so great is that we are the first city in california, according to our research so far, the first city in the nation to do this. [applause.] now, to be clear, if you have had your driver's license suspended because you were driving recklessly or you have holds from other counties, your driver's license will be suspended until you resolve those issues. if you are one of the thousands

who could not afford the traffic convict and therefore did not show up for traffic court dates, you can take action to get your license back. we have flyers explaining how to call the dmv. how are you going to get through to the dmv? nevertheless, we have flyers explaining how to call the dmv to find out exactly what you need to do, and we will make sure that all of our city departments and websites have this information. while we need to have consequences and penalties for people who break the law, we do not want to do this in a way that makes it harder for people to get a second chance. in san francisco, we know that we can hold people accountable without putting them into financial distress. whether by eliminating wasteful administrative fines and fees in our court systems which we did

here in san francisco or getting rid of overdue library fees that prevent people from accessing our public records, or offering discounts for low income residents to pay their traffic fines. the announcement continues the commitment in this city to help lift people up. by taking this step, we are making it possible for thousands of people to get back to work, to grow our economy and create better lives for themselves and their families. i would like to thank everyone including the financial justice project. [applause.] the office of our amazing treasure jose and so many who have worked on these issues for

years, including many of the community groups who helped us to focus on the courts over the past several months, and members of the san francisco fines and fees task force that led the research on starting this effort. now our next speaker is someone who has dedicated her career to fighting for the legal rights of low income residents and working on a more equitable and financial justice policy. please join me in welcoming elisa from lawyers committee from civil rights. thank you. [applause.] thank you, mayor breed. it is wonderful to be in san francisco, which is a leader on common sense policies to increase public safety and benefit and protect our lowest

income residents. as many of you know, traffic tickets in california are expense expensive. we did a study that showed they were twice as much as places like new york. $500 for coming around a right hand turn for a red light. for many families that is out of reach. we have had person after person coming to us to say i can't afford $500. if i could have my driver's license i could keepny job, take kids to school and not risk arrest because if you drive on a suspended license, that is incarceration. that is a criminal offense. this step that san francisco is taking is saying we don't want driver's license suspension to be a collection sledgehammer. we want it to be about public safety. we want those in san francisco

and the bay area who drive here to be able to work. we want our residents to have fair and be common sense policies around driver's license suspension. san francisco is a leader in this. we call on other communities to follow san francisco's lead. 88,000 suspensions lifted. that means more people who can work. that means more people who can drive safely and legally. i will say one thing, if you go to the courthouse in san francisco and you are there right as the court clerk's office closes, then you have seen the person every day there is at least one person who took off of their work at risk to their job, tried to get to the courthouse and was two minutes late after they shut the door. when you see that look on that person's face, when you know what they had to sacrifice to make that effort, you know it doesn't make sense to punish that person more than a person with money would be punished.

you can mail in the pavement to avoid it. for low-wage workers and communities of color this is a punishment for being poor. congratulations to san francisco and all of the organizers who worked so long and hard to make this happen. we are grateful for san francisco as a leader. thank you. >> thank you to the lawyer's committee and all the work they continue to do. now, i would like to ask the supervisor from district 10 to provide a few remarks. [applause.] >> i am definitely going to be brief. i am trying to get my voice back for a long time. this is true equity at work. so many times we fine people for infractions and the punishment is to increase the fine.

the punishment for that is to increase the fine and take away the very things that allow you to be economically self-sufficient to put you in a place where you could possibly pay a fine. we have learned over the years that does not work. what does work is information and helping people learn how to be responsible so going back and retroactively eliminating the unnecessary fines that stifle folks who are trying to work hard to earn a living is the right thing to do. i just want to thank the treasure's office and everyone from the task force and committees that continue to work on equitable opportunity for low north carolinas to make sure -- low income communities to make sure they are not punished. this is important. this l make a major impact. i want to thank mayor breed for

standing up to lead the city toward these equitable policies in san francisco. >> thank you, supervisor walton. now, i would like to welcome the aclu of northern california. >> hello. i am the chief program officer of the aclu of northern california, but i have worked in civil rights and social justice for 20 years. i am the daughter of california and native of the bay area. i live here and raise my children here because we are a community that believes in diversity and equity and inclusion in our society. i think we aspire for what martin luther king talked about as the beloved community.

we aspire to create that community. we cannot do that if we punish people for being low income and poor. we live in a city, region, state and country with great resources and opportunities, the greatest. also, we have great and unanswered racial and economic inequities. as we invest in these wonderful programs, minimum wage and investment in education and training and wenvist in the folks left out of the prosperity of this golden state, we have to simultaneously route out and end these unjust practices and policies that drain financial resources from these exact communities. if we don't, we are trying to build a house on quicksand. we neat to stop and look how equity plays into the work we do not just in building community but making a solid foundation. this is about economic and

racial just tuesday. this is about civil rights and liberties, removing burdens that hold people back from jobs and education and from fully participating in the community. this is about moving closer to the dream of the beloved community. it is about smart on criminal justice. it is about bold leadership, and it is about time so thank you, mayor breed. thank you again everyone for being here. this is just bringing us one step closer to dealing with what we know are a number of inequitable things that exist in san francisco that we need to address. i want to take this opportunity to acknowledge cheryl davis. director of human rights commission, who has already started work and research on how we can make sure that even be in

the city and county of san francisco within our various departments that ther there is equitable access to job opportunities in our city. we know there is work to be done. today we celebrate an amazing accomplishment, thanks to so many incredible people who believe in the work we are doing and because of this work we are going to positively impact thousands in san francisco and hopefully change their lives and our city for the better. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause.] ♪ ♪

>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. this is april 24th, 2019 a regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. i am sandra lee fewer, chair of the committee. i am joined by supervisor stephanie and raphael a madwoman our clerk is linda wong.