. >> good morning, everyone. this is october 9, 2019, regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. our clerk is ms. linda wong. i would like to thank those from s.f. gov tv for broadcasting. can we excuse supervisor fewer.

please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the next minutes. >> can you please call item number 1. >> clerk: lease amendment - lexington lion san francisco, lp - 350 rhode island street-north - $2,600,000 rent credit. >> i would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. before that i will take public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none, that item is closed. i would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16.

>> clerk: item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health, behavioral health services to enter into a multi-year organized delivery system intergovernmental agreement for substance use disorder services with the state department of health care services, in the amount of $171,714,918 for the term of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2022 . >> thank you. >> i have been working on this contract for about 27 years. >> please continue. >> the first thing i want to point out is that the contract is retroactive. the source of the retroactivity was we first received the agreement for our perusal on october 20.

there are changes in the funding since the crime prevention public safety act of 2011. it involves them work through centers of medicare and medicaid services. our services get back and forth before signed, so it's not unusual that they're slow. >> okay. >> having said that, not guilty 1922, all of the amendments to this will be retroactive to july 1st. so they'll all be retroactive contracts. anyway, this contract is practically the same as it was last year. the big changes came two years before. it's really a pretty straightforward contract. basically what it is is the rules and regulations and procedures for billing -- if one

successfully follows those rules, you get paid whatever your legitimate costs were. so it's delightfully straightforward. >> okay. colleagues, any comments or questions? >> good morning. the board is being asked to approve a grant agreement from the state department of healthcare services for substance use disorder services. this is $171,000,000 grant. the city would be reimbursed by the state. the amount in each year is shown on table 1 of $57.2 million. i think you probably know historically in each year of the grant is the state budget changes. they do come back for an

amendment so the second and third-year amount could potentially change from the amount in this agreement. we recommend approval. >> thank you very much. any members of the public like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. this is moved to the board with a positive recommendation. madam clerk, can you please call item number 3. >> clerk: resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the treasurer & tax collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $962,892 from the california student aid commission every kid counts college savings program for the office of financial empowerment kindergarten to college program for conducting outreach to families and provide incentives for families to contribute to college savings accounts for the period of may 1, 2019, through june 30, 2021. >> again, eric mankey with the office of the treasure and tax

collector. i'm here to seek an approval for our office to spend $926,000 for the california student aid commission. this funding will go to support the kindergarten to college program. just as a way of background, this was started in 2011 based on research that shows kids with college savings for up to seven times more likely to attend college if they have a college savings account. since 2011 kindergarten to college has automatically opened more than 42,000 accounts for students when they begin kindergarten. including we just opened 11,000 new accounts this year. the city and county provides $50 as an initial deposit into that account, and we use private funds to incentivize families to further save.

the incentives work. since the inception of kindergarten to college, families have saved $4.6 million into those accounts. if you include the city funding we have a total of $7 million in those accounts. what this grant will do is allow us to continue to do outreach and continue those incentives. as you see, we are seeking retroactive approval. this is because being a state grant we didn't receive the information and the grant approval from the state until the end of may as the budget was closing. so we decided to hold off since we couldn't get it in our budget submission for 2019 and 2020. >> thank you very much. let's open up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on item 3? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, any comments or

questions? seeing none we will move in to the board without objection. >> clerk: item 4 resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the total amount of $2,300,400 from the california department of state hospitals to participate in a program, entitled "pre-trial felony mental health diversion," for the three-year budget period of september 15, 2019, through september 14, 2022. >> thank you very much. >> good morning, supervisors. as is also stated, we are requesting the ability to accept and spend a three-year grant from september 14, 2022, from the department of state hospitals that would fund services for those who qualify for mental health diversion. this is a pre-trial diversion program for those competent to stand trial on felony charges

who also have a mental illness. this grant would fund intensive case management services as well as funding for stabilization rooms and a behavioural health clinician that would work in the jails to support evaluation for the courts to admit people into the program as well as expeditiously making refers into treatment. of course i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> seeing no comments or questions, there is no b.l.a. report on this. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item 4, seeing none public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. taken without objection. thank you very much. >> clerk: item number 5 resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of san francisco ("city") to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness; authorizing the director of the

mayor's office of housing and community development ("director") to submit an application and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee ("cdlac") to permit the issuance of residential mortgage revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $56,700,000 for 410 china basin street >> i am a senior project manager with the mayor's office of housing and community development. the resolution before you will authorize an application for bond proceeds to pay for the construction and related development costs for mission bay block south 9 and to approve the hearing that the city conducted already to comply with the federal tax equity and financial responsibility act. this project is located within the mission bay south redevelopment plan area and it's administered by the office of community investment and infrastructure. the block 9 team is comprised of bridge housing and community housing partnership who have formed a limited partnership.

the project will provide 141 units, including a manager's unit, of affordable rental housing for formerly households. units will be all studios and a portion of the studio units will be sized to accommodate in-home care support and medical equipment. the project will receive operating support through the local subsidy program. the building includes a large courtyard and adjacent community room, lounge, closed bicycle parking. the project also includes a community garden that will be operated by a non-profit organization. this bond does not require the city to repledge the bond. if approved the sponsors will submit an application to the planning committee in january. we anticipate that we'll return to the board of supervisors in march of next year to approve the issuance of the bond.

the project is scheduled to begin construction in june of next year and will be ready for occupancy in september of 2021. this concludes my presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. i'm joined by a representative from the development team. thank you. >> thank you very much. there is no b.l.a. report on this. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number 5? seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $26,967,500 for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and rehabilitation of a 67-unit, affordable multifamily rental housing project located at 385 eddy

street >> good morning. i'm from the mayor's office of housing community development. item 6 is a resolution to approve of the issuance of the $28.9 million in tax-exempt bonds for the rehabilitation of an existing single room occupancy development. the issuance of the bonds will allow the project to be acquired and undergo a significant rehabilitation, which would include systems and unit work. there will not be -- tenants will have a right to return to those units. there will be internal relocation within the portfolio. the units will continue to serve hopefullies at the 60% line and below. we ask for the committee today

to recommend approval of the resoluti resoluti resolution. and the project sponsor is here if you have any additional questions about the project. >> thank you very much. any comments or questions? seeing none -- there is no b.l.a. report. any members of the public that would like to comment on item 6? seeing none, public comment is closed. if we can move this to the board with a positive recommendation. >> clerk: item 7 resolution authorizing the execution and delivery of a multifamily housing revenue note (tax-exempt) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $76,680,000 and of a multifamily housing revenue note (taxable) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $30,000,000 for the purpose of providing financing for the construction of a 167-unit multifamily rental housing project located at 242 hahn street

resolution approving and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute an amended and restated loan agreement with block 6 housing partners, l.p., a california limited partnership, for a total loan amount not to exceed $18,647,014 to finance the construction of a 167-unit multifamily rental housing development for low-income households . >> i am the senior project manager with the mayor's office of community housing development. i am here to present on item 8. for item 7, the transaction fundamentals have not changed since the presentation was presented in april of this year. the issuance is still a conduit and financing. the project is in compliance with all city requirements, including prevailing wage and

l.b.e. requirements. since then, the developer has secured a debt limit allocation from sidlak and with the city-identified financing team, including a lender, equity investor, bond counsel, other attorneys and the city's municipal adviser. the financing team has met several times and pretend the package before you today. for item # 8, this is to enter into a loan of $18 million. the block 6 project is the first on-site affordable housing development for sunnydaily hope s.f. the development adjacent to the site was completed construction last week. we're excited about that. and it will soon house families. block 6 is going to consist of

167 units, of which 125 of them are public hufing replacement units. the other will be tax credit units and all of them are under 60% tax credit a.m.i. the 125 replacement units will be subsidied by project vouchers. affordability is maintained at a 99-year ground lease with the housing authority that continues to own the land. construction closing for block 6 is expected at the end of november when the documents before you today would be executed. blocks 6 construction will start soon after that with completion expected in december 2021. here with me is the director of hope s.f. we will be glad to answer any questions you have about the project. on behalf of this project, we would like to thank you for your consideration and ask for continued support of the project. >> thank you very much.

any comments or questions from my colleagues. there is a b.l.a. report. can we hear that. >> we reported on item 8 which is the $18.6 million on gap financing. in terms of sources of funds, we showed that in table 1 on page 11 of our report, and then these funds would be used specifically for the non-construction costs, the development costs, for this project. the total project, as you're going to see here summarized is $148.7 million including other sources of funds other than city funds. city funds total on page 12. they add up to about $129.6 million. in terms of the policy consideration, we call out in our report that the per-unit cost of this project is now

about $890,000 development cost. the city's share is in table 2, which is $177,000. but the overall cost is $890,000. we consider this high. we've seen over the years the housing cost construction has gone up. we do recommend that you request from the mayor's office of housing a report back on the drivers of these housing costs. we are revising it a little bit to have the report back for december 9, 2019, to allow them to have the work. otherwise we do recommend approval. >> thank you very much. are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item 7 or 8? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, any comments or questions? yes, supervisor mar. >> thank you, chair fewer. i know there's a recommendation

from the b.l.a. for a report to the board on -- with more explanation about the high -- the relatively high per-unit cost of this project. i was wondering if you could touch on that a little bit right now. >> so in regards to the overall costs, one of the things we need to think about as well is the amount of city subsidy in this project. in general we see on average about $229,000 per unit in subsidies. this particular project which has infrastructure costs associated is at $171,000. so it is less than most of our projects in our pipeline. one of the reasons it's so expensive is general, it's a hope s.f. project, the topography of the. it's very difficult because it's sloped and they are grading issues. we also have relocation issues to move the residents on site to

this new housing. that's an additional cost. we're also building parking which is not something we would see on any of our infill sites. those have assisted in keeping these project costs lower. >> had there been other projects where the cost per unit is in a similar range of $890,000? >> yeah. you'll see it on other hope s.f. projects. you'll see some of our projects that are higher density. we will put the reasons in our report. >> thank you so much. >> i also have the same question because parcel q i think that

was two years ago, it was dlsh $770,000 per unit and that was two years ago. are we on a time constraint for this because i would like to continue this item and see a detailed charge side by side the expenditures and also why this is costing so much. you were just telling us very casually that topography, blah, blah, blah. i would like to see some of those numbers on why the cost is so expensive. i would like to make a motion continuing this item unless you have a chart with you today. i also think when we got a briefing on this and i looked at it with my legislative aid, it never mentioned the cost per unit which should have been included in a briefing to the budget chair and it was not included. is there a time constraint on this today or can we pick up this item next week, as we are going to have a meeting next week? >> we can pick it up next week.

>> that would be great. let's take these items separately. i would make a motion to move 7 to the board with a positive recommendation without objection. thank you very much. and i would like to continue item 8 until the meeting of next week. we can get a detailed breakdown why the cost is so expensive for this project versus another, for example, project q. if i can take that without objection. thank you so much. madam clerk, do we have any other business for today? >> clerk: there's no other business. >> thank you. we are adjourned.

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commission meeting of october 9, 2019. i want to welcome a new employee of ours, phil lowhouse. welcome aboard. he'll be working with the commission as an adviser. we don't have an extremely lengthy agenda tonight, so there will be three minutes for public comment. with that, we're ready for the first item. >> line item 1(a). chief's report. update on youth engagement. weekly crime trends provide an overview of trends occurring in san francisco. chief's report will be limited to a brief description of the incidents. the discussion will be limited to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future commission meeting. major events. provide a planned summary of events occurring since the previous meeting. this will include a brief overview of unplanned events in san francisco having an impact on public safety.

commission discussion on unplanned events or activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether the calendar for any future meeting. presentation of the early intervention system second quarter 2019 report. >> okay. good evening, chief. >> good evening, president, vice president, commissioners, and director. i would like to start off this week with commander daryl fong presenting on our youth engagement. we have retired command officer rick bruce here. so we want to highlight some of the work done with our youth engagement. commander fung. >> good evening president, vice president, commissioners, director. my name is daryl fung, commander of the department's community engagement division. at the commission meeting on september 11, we presented an

overview of the department's participation in a 2019 summer intern youth program. at the conclusion of that presentation, the commission requested the department submit follow-up presentation following metrics which is contained in the report contained in front of you today. regarding the summer youth intern program in summary, over 2180 youth have participated in the s.f. p.d. sponsored projects including future grads, project poll, youth works, and a youth career academy. the largest group presented was african-american with 55% of the participants, followed by asian youth with 18% followed by latin-ex. currently the department does not have a system implementation in place to follow up with

interns after the program. however, it was determined that the community engagement division will work with the recruitment unit to develop a process in which a career in law enforcement presentation will be provided to summer interns as a component of their program participation in the future. this presentation is currently done for the paid part-time police cadets as a means to encourage and nurture those interested in a career in law enforcement to pursue a career with the san francisco police department. furthermore, the community engagement division will provide the list of participants from the 2019 summer program to the recruitment unit to conduct outreach to these young adults to gauge their interest in future career in law enforcement. now, in regards to the paid police cadet program, there have been 146 paid cadets hired since the program was reintroduced in 2015. there are currently 43 cadets on

staff with funding available for an additional 23 positions. now, while we do not have statistics on whether or not any of these paid cadets have participated in summer intern programs, we do know that at least 15 were graduates of the san francisco pal summer cadets academy. of the 146 cadets, 30 have been hired as police officer recruits with our department, with eight currently in the basic academy. we also currently have 15 paid cadets going through the hiring process at this time. in addition, there have been an additional 15 cadets who have accepted positions with other law enforcement agencies throughout the region. that concludes my report and update regarding our youth intern programs. >> thank you. any questions from commissioners? i don't see any, so thank you. >> great. thank you, commissioners.

now it's my pleasure to introduce retired captain rick bruce, long-standing board member, to present an overview of the s.f.p.l. cadet program. >> good evening. >> thank you. good evening president and members of the police commission, chief scott. it's our honor to be here tonight. we wanted to give you a brief overview of the p.a.l. i've been involved with the p.a.l. for 25 years and we've been a bit remiss because we haven't made a presentation during that 25-year period. we celebrated our 60-anniversary. chief scott has been a tremendous supporter of the p.a.l. and that's one of the reasons we're here tonight, just to express our support for chief scott and everything he's done for this program. in terms of why we're around and how p.a.l.s came into being. it's 105 years ago in 1914 in

new york city, a police commissioner named arthur woods looking at these millions of children streaming in and there were no playgrounds. so he directed his police officers to go and find vacant lots. he did that and he would station a police officer at a vacant lot and the kids were free to go and play. they ran out of vacant lots. so they started what they called the play streets program. what he did was cordoned off blocks in man hat tan. he would barricade off a street. that program grew into the new york police athletic league at that time, eventually the athletics league. they had a famous guy on their board of directors, babe ruth. that program spread around the east coast. in 1954 there was an officer named joe martin.

he was working in the louisville, kentucky, department. he was approached by a 12-year-old boy who told him that his bike had been stolen and he wanted to go out and get the bullies. officer martin told him he wouldn't do that, but he would teach him how to box if he came down to the gym. the boy came down and between 1950 and 1960 he won golden gloves championships. he went to rome and he was a light heavyweight. there was this old cop from the louisville police department, martin. those two remained friends until his passing. that's kind of the background in terms of why p.a.l.s are aren't

and the type of mentorship that can take place. in 1959, a group of san francisco police officers got together. they literally went to the police credit union. they took out a small loan of a few thousand dollars. they started what they called the police athletic league at that time, so 60 years ago. if you were a kid growing up in 1960s san francisco and you had any athletic ability at all, you were a p.a.l. kid. all the great athletes participated in p.a.l. programming. we didn't have the type of programming we have across north america. so the p.a.l. filled a void in san francisco. it became co-educational in the 1970s and expanded to a lot of different types of programming, hence the change from police athletic league to police activities league. in those ensuing 60 years, our program has produced some incredible san franciscans, including two chiefs of police.

chief heather fong was a p.a.l. cadet. we've got a couple of cadets with us tonight. if you go back with those of you who are sports fans, just a few years ago, when the 9-ers were still a candlestick, there was a year where jason hill and donald strikland were on the field at the same time. they came out of our program. that's a broad-brush stroke to what the p.a.l. has done. our commission has been keep kids off the streets and on the fields. we were a large umbrella organization when i got involved in the early 1990s, where we had, for example, 3,000 soccer ki kids. but we didn't have a huge level of involvement for police officers. we made a decision at our board of directors that every p.a.l. program was going to have a

really large stake of police officers involved. we've done that since that time. our current programs, i'll go through them for you very briefly, we still have our football program, it's out there at kimbell playground. they're on the field as we speak. chief scott decided to literally dedicate police officers to that program. they are on the ground. they are on the field. i've been familiar with that program since the 1970s and this is the first time since then that we have police officers coaching those kids. one of those police officers is here with us. we have a jew -- jujitsu program. one of the officers is on the mat every night. when the kids go out there, they're with a police officer. just like when the kids go to football, they're with a police officer. we have a program called the

kids games. it's a track and field event we hold. we get hundreds of kids out there. we have a high school marching band, and they march down with an opening ceremony. they compete. we've got a medal stand out there. the kids get ribbons and medals. there's san franciscan kids out there who have an opportunity to have a medal from the police chief. our cadet program has already produced one police chief. we've got the deputy cheer here. he was a cadet in our program. he's kind of a shining example of what our cadet program can produce. we have got a -- we still call it a fishing program. fishing program goes back to the 1960s. there was a famous san francisco police officer, herb lee. you may remember him. he passed 'a few years ago.

he had a fishing boat and in the 1960s he decided he was going to take san francisco kids out on the bay. a lot of kids have not only not been on the bay, they hadn't seen the bay. this was an unbelievable opportunity for san francisco kids. we brought that program back and we call it a fishing program. it's really a whale-watching program now. i've gone out on the boat with these kids. they have a wonderful time out there. for a lot of these kids, you've got to remember, we have kids from all across san francisco, they've never been out on the bay. to go out on the bay is one thing. to do it with police officers and make those contacts with police officers is really something they can't experience any place else. what i'd like to do is introduce a few people. these people are kind of the backbone of our sergeant darmani. you can just wave. he's the officer in charge. he runs our program and does a

phenomenal job. he runs the day-to-day operation and he's nails. officer mike costello is here. he runs the cadet program. this is a political ploy, but i'm going to do it anyway. this is an actual p.a.l. kid, jujitsu, two years, he's very tough. his bad tells me he throws him all over the house. this program, the jujitsu program runs out of a police facility. we have police officers there. it's a program now that has a long, long waiting list. officer leonard morel is out on the field with our football kids three nights a week. he's out there game time. this is the third season thanks to chief scott. the mentorship, i'm out there on

the field with these guys. to watch them interact with the police officers is heart-warming. these children who have these contacts and are developing these contacts at very young ages, they're never going to forget this. when you talk to people in the filmore they talk about the generations going back playing in this program. they remember kelly waterfield from the 1970s. they remember police coaches they had from way back in the day. sabine modrano is our civilian in the office. sergeant ray padmore does unbelievable things with our cad cadets. i'd also like to acknowledge that we have some command staff people here in addition to chief scott who literally serve on our board of directors. we've got deputy chief ann manox is here. we were deputy police officers

100 years ago. deputy chief david lazar on our board. again, he was a cadet. we've got commander poreia on our board. we have assistant chief moser who was on our board. let me see, did barts -- no, we're missing one of our kids. they got tied up on bart. i'd also like to call up a couple of our cadets. come on up here. we've got aaron hemenes here. this program produced a chief of police. we've had -- we do a summer cadet academy where the kids get to go through a police academy. many of the kids who have gone through this program are now serving as active san francisco police officers. so the program has produced a lot of police officers, but beyond that we call it a leadership program because it's produced a lot of kids who've

gone on to college and do things in san francisco and serve their communities in other ways. who am i forgetting? captain falby is here also. he's another member of our board. any questions? i'm happy to entertain any questions about the p.a.l. i know i gave you a lot of information there. that's a thumbnail sketch of what the p.a.l. is and what we've been doing for the past 60 years. >> i want to thank you for the work you do. i grew up in new york city in the 1950s and 1960s and i was a p.a.l. athlete and it was a great part of my life. i thank you. vice president taylor. >> i want to thank you as well, especially for the young people who are here. thank you so much for volunteering your time and being wonderful stewards of this city

and great representations of folks in our generation. i wanted to ask you about the program and thank everyone who's here and involved in this. i think it's fantastic. i'm always concerned in programs involving children, and this is not specific to p.a.l. involving children. it's always important in any program that our children are safe, for better or worse. sometimes programs can be attractive for predators and for people who would harm our kids. i just want to make sure that p.a.l. has the right training and the right oversight and the right monitorship. if you know, if you could talk a little bit about that. >> yes, we screen everybody who is involved as a volunteer. the good news is a lot of the people who are out there as volunteers are either active or retired police officers. but as a retired police officer, because i'm still coaching, i actually have to go down and get

fingerprinted every year. we do screen everybody. we get some people who have criminal histories. we are faced with a bit of a dilemma because a lot of these people have turned their lives around and want to get back to the community. so we have to make some decisions of who is suitable for the program. we are aware of that and we take it seriously, putting the right people on the fields with the kids. >> thank you very much, retired commander bruce. i'm one of the p.a.l. kids. i went fishing -- >> another success story. >> i don't know about that. [ laughter ]. >> i went fishing with sergeant herbeau. that was fun. every summer we go fishing with kids throughout the city. also played p.a.l. baseball. we played throughout the city. probably officer moreau did the same thing. it provided foundation to keep us busy throughout the summer. also kelly waterfield, at the

time they were the cobras, not the seahawks. those people were influential in my life and our lives as athletes growing up. thank you for what you do. to the cadets and the young officer costello and his young son, congratulations, it's a lot of fun. we hear a lot of things about police officers. these are the positive things people don't know about. to have officer moreau and with the families. i thank the chief for putting the officers out there. that's really good. thank you for what you do. you retired from the police department a a long time and you have a successful business, but you still do this. thank you. >> i want to echo some of the comments of my colleagues. thank you for what you do. i want to thank commander fung

because i think i was the one who asked about the statistics around the program and the things we've been doing. i want to thank the command staff for that. i think commissioner taylor began to allude to it, but i would love to hear from some of the cadets about your experience and being exposed to the program. being a part of the program i'm a big fan of. i just want to hear a little bit about your exposure and your experience being in the program and what it meant or means to you. >> you're on the spot. >> well, i'm not sure. i really like it. it gives me a lot of athletic activities. the judo program that i was in a couple years ago and track and field event. and junior giants as well, baseball. >> you know me from last time,

some of you. [ laughter ]. >> here's the thing -- yeah, i know, i know, i know. it wasn't my original intention to join the program. my mother introduced it to me. i wasn't very sure at first. i've got to be honest with the news, you know, saying stuff about how cops are like, you know, bad. i kind of got mixed up in that, you know, with the same mindset just a little, but p.a.l. completely changed my mind, like completely. this was an amazing experience over the summer. once i got out of it, of course i knew that most things that you hear on the news now are just sometimes complete bogus. so yeah.

[ laughter ]. >> i was introduced to the program by my mom. she works for the chief of police. i am grateful for my experience with s.f. p.a.l. i learned a lot about cops. it helped me understand cops a lot more. i'm really grateful for my experience i had over the summer. >> thank you. >> thank you all. >> i didn't mean to put you on the spot. [ laughter ]. >> we're not going to do that. we don't have to do that to him. >> i like jujitsu. it's fun i mean. my favourite part is bulldog, but we don't really play that anymore. we also do the wrestling game. i don't know what it's called, but i like it. one time people put me back in

jujitsu, but i was the last one on my team. >> [ indiscernible ] -- >> a lot. >> we'll see what we can do about getting bulldog back. >> thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ]. >> thank you very much. >> thanks. >> thank you. i just want to say thank you to rick bruce, retired commander bruce. he could be doing many other things in his retirement years, but he is committed to this program for life and really, really has made a difference in keeping it going and taking it to the next level. thank you, rick. >> thank you. any other items, chief? >> yes, sir. i will quickly go through the crime trends for this week and we had two other reports. for crime this week, we are -- we had a fairly quiet week. we had no shooting incidents, no

homicides in the past week. we are still at 29 homicides for the year, compared to 37 this time last year, so we're down 22%. overall we're down 8% in part 1 crime. our violent crime is down 10%, a 22% decrease in homicides. also, we have had a 22% decrease in our shooting victims. we have a total of 101 victims of gun violence this year, so we're 22% down -- i'm sorry, 84 this year, compared to 101 this time last year. our property crime, we are 7% down and continue to show a decrease in auto burglaries compared to this time last year. we're still 7% down and 19% down compared to this time two years ago. significant incidents this week.

we had a stabbing incident actually on a muni bus and it involved a 17-year-old victim who was actually stabbed by another juvenile. we just today picked up the juvenile who was 13 years old. unfortunately, he had two very young people involved in this very violent incident on a muni bus. our defectitectives -- our investigators did a good job on this. more to follow what happens here. but hopefully we can get both of the people involved in this incident to a better place and get some services in place, particularly for the 13-year-old suspect. that's an ongoing case that we'll continue to investigate until its conclusion. we had three major traffic injury collisions this week. one resulting in a fatality in the bayview. two others -- there was also two serious injuries in that incident.

that one occurred on 10/6/19, october 6, at 3:39 p.m. it was an evans street in the bayview area. party one was driving a corvette and tried to negotiate a turn at a high rate of speed. he crossed over into oncoming traffic and hit a car coming in the opposite direction. the car coming from the ongoing direction succumbed to his injuries. the case will be presented to the district attorney to consider criminal charges. we also add a hit and run at clipper and sanchez in the mission district. the vehicle involved was actually a stolen vehicle. our suspect hit, as he tried to free -- was involved in a

traffic collision and injured the other driver. that person has been taken into custody. so we do have him in custody, and that investigation is ongoing. one other accident or collision to report, this one was a vehicle versus pedestrian on october # 8th at 9:50 in the morning on freemont and harrison in the southern district. the driver remained on the scene on that one. that one is also under investigation. we've had a number of events at the chase center in the past couple weeks. i'm happy to report, although there has been some traffic congestion, the events have gone really well. we are deployed and working with the chase security in terms of the interior security, but the outer security are working with m.t.a. and our other city partners to make sure that we do what we can to mitigate the

traffic concerns. the third street bridge is finally opened, so that's going to be a huge relief to the traffic in the area. that has already made a difference. as we get closer to the start of the season, we'll continue to work through the traffic bugs. we encourage everyone that is attending events at the chase to consider public transportation and make sure you allow yourself plenty of time so you can arrive on time. other events this week include fleet week. fleet week is a really fun event for everyone. san francisco is one of the bilgest fleet week events in a nation. we want to make sure we show appreciation for the men and women that serve our country in the armed services, particularly the navy and the coast guard. we have events all week in fleet week, highlighted this weekend by the blue angels flyover which attracts a good crowd. we are deployed for that. we are encouraging the public to

use public transportation if you can. also, if you must drive, reminding everyone to be smart and be vigilant. park smart. don't leave your valuables in the car. don't leave yourself as a victim. if you see something, say something. if you see behavior that merits an emergency call, please call 911. otherwise, report it and we will be out in force. the last thing on special events, harley strictly blue grass was this sunday. it went smoothly. this year we have some additional security measures that were put in place by the organizers of the event, including fencing -- even though the event is free, those security measures were successful. we were happy to report no significant incidents at the harley strictly blue grass. just one other