>> dr. scott? >> yes. i just want to say thank you so much to all of you that have spoken. i also want to just commend five-point ocii for your due diligence. i'm a native, oscar james, veronica, honey-cut. i've been here for years. in the '40s, we were moved to hunters' point area. it was an underserved community for years but now the story has flipped and it's different. we have the opportunity to go forward like the force and mission bay and all of the other communities that just started. and we can change that storyand be not the forgotten, not the

underserved but the overserved community district, historical district in this city and promote our small businesses, promote our young men, our children that deserve too b to a community looked up to and revered across the nation and the world. so i do approve of this. >> any other commissioners? hearing none and seeing none. so first i would like to say thank you to reverend walker for speaking today as a church that's been in the community, helping people, especially single mothers. i was very happy to see that five points make sure that they preserve the childcare center

which anchors a lot of residents from alice griffith and throughout bayview using that center for their children because there aren't many childcare facilities in the neighborhood and also his work and his church's work in building housing for the community, as well, especially seniors. i want to say thank you to kimberly hill-brown for her comments about the fact that candlestick park has had on residents and the community and how the draining of being left desolate without a teen that tet anchored the community and i want to thank five-points nadia nadia sessay, but that they had

the 124 units to this plan and thank you to mr. rhodes and mr. mavry because it's near and dear to my heart. 20 years ago when they were just starting their outreach to local businesses, to make sure that they were bayview and the remediation portion and the build-out and there would be bayview businesses, especially black businesses on every phase of this development and to see them here now 20 years later speaking and talking about how successful those programs have been not only to them as pro firproprietorship and owners ane want to see to continue to improve and expand. i believe this project gives us an opportunity as a community to move forward and to see some stability around that.

and then, also, i wanted to say thank you again to oscar james, linda richardson and miss scott. and just knowing that we have a legacy of generations in san francisco and we do still have that historic tie and knowledge still here present and seeing this project go forward with people being able to see that which has been kind of one of the biggest issues with the whole redevelopment agency, as well as cop program. the only comment i have is that i know currently small businesses were not included in the october 7, 2008 meeting and i was mainly done for residential, be bu but if thereg in to do moving forward to possibly add in something around cop businesses as the project moves forward, thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> commissioner ros aralis.

>> my comments are brief. i think we studied, listened and heard from a technical standpoint, but what moves me as a commissioner and a san franciscoan is for the community to tell us what moving this project moving forward at every level. my own experience as a commissioner tells me that i can trust lenar and five point to follow through. early in my days, when i first heard about this project, i had a -- you won't say a doubt, but a question, and i wanted to make sure the community was fully backing the plans, that this was not a city thing or that kind of thing and i've been convinced through not just the records that we've heard, the reports wave beewe've been given and thb

development programming and the small business development, the numbers, of course, and making sure the numbers are real. we rely on our staff for all of that and the community to tell us and so i'm impressed with the work that's been done so far. i think the becauseview community is incredibly resilient. we're talking about folks on this commission that have been experiencing -- and the room, thiawaiting this moment, if you will, for a long, long time and i am in full support of these items. >> thank you, commissioner rosalis. i just want to say that, you know, i was on this commission when -- and i said this before, when it came to redevelopment. i was appointed by mayor nusome, as a redevelopment commissioner, and i remember the long hours of discussion regarding this project.

but i can't believe it's happening. and having grown up in the mission, the southeast, part of our city has been historically neglected over and over again. and to see us be able to do something right, i think we're still lucky, especially the last few years, you know, we've been working with the lawyers and the chase center and everything we asked them to do, they did. they hired locally. they got local artists. they got local vendors. it was a community building and it was a community effort and i feel equally as bless ed this we've been working with -- i can't even -- they should be

lucky to have you, coffey, your passion for running a business but lifting a community, which most people say cannot happen and you proved that it can. cheer char. and you put a team together. be proud knowing this is one of your legacies. this project has been able to bring out some of our most

incredible leaders. ann leaders who didn't agree all of the time, like dr. jackson. [ laughter ] you heard her and never made her feel like she wasn't heard and lifted her up, even when she didn't agree and that says a lot. of course, we have others that have spoken before us today. and so, i just want to say thank you, thank you to all of you. thank you to the future workers of this project, to the future janitors, the future residents, to all of you who know that this project has come in a concontinuum of grace, passion, of hard work and this is one of the thingthe thingsi'll be the .

fellow commissioners, we'll take these three items, 5b, 5c and 5d as one vote. so being a chair, i can't move this item, but i would ask for a motion, commissioner scott some. >> yes, i would love to make the motion. >> may i have a second motion? >> i would like to second the motion. >> madam secretary, please talk your roll call. >> please announce your vote for 5b, 5c and 5d. pai (roll call). >> mr. chair, the vote is four ayes. [cheers and applause]

>> madam secretary, please call the next item? >> the next is item 6, public comment on non-agenda items and we have one speaker card. oscar james. >> mr. james. >> oscar james again and you know the last commission, something has been on my mind since that time when i first brought up the mission during the model city's area. larry decarlos was a director when we started programs in the mission. so that's been on my mind, to get that name to you guys. when you have senior moments, which you guys will be there pretty soon, you will come back to the same first step. you think of something, you go

down to your basement and forget and go upstair. this is me coming upstairs, where i had that senior moment. but i want to commend this commission like i do several times a year. your dedication and the cac, their dedication didn't our community to make things happen. without both of you, things wouldn't be possible. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. james. >> anybody else wishing to speak and if not, ok, i'm closing public comment and we'll go to >> item.auto >> report of the clear? >> no report. >> the next is item 8, report of the executive director madam director. >> none, ok. >> the next order of business is commissioner's questions and matters. >> any questions, seeing none, hearing none. next item. >> item 10, closed session and

next is 11, adjournment. >> a motion to ajourn. >> i move we ajourn. >> i second. >> thank you. . >> shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping

and diane within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services we help san francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. >> my name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if san francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop

off of a lot of bookstores both national chains and neighborhoods by the neighborhood stores where coming you don't want to - one of the great things of san francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own- that's [♪]

>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my

parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having

something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place.

there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared.streets. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i wanted to wish you a best

wishes and congratulations the community has shifted a lot of when i was growing up in the 60s and 50's a good portion of chicano-american chinese-american lived in north beach a nob hill community. >> as part the immigrant family is some of the recreation centers are making people have the ability to get together and meet 0 other people if communities in the 60s a 70s and 80s and 90s saw a move to the richmond the sunset district and more recently out to the excelsior the avenue community as well as the ensuring u bayview so chinese family living all over the city and when he grape it was in this area. >> we're united.

>> and growing up in the area that was a big part of the my leave you know playing basketball and mycy took band lessons and grew up. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> allergies welcome to the community fair it kicks off three weeks of celebrations for the year and let's keep everybody safe and celebrate the biggest parade outside of china

on february 11th go best wishes and congratulations and 3, 2, 1 happy enough is enough. >> i grew up volley ball education and in media professional contrary as an educator he work with all skids whether or not caucasian hispanic and i african-american cumber a lot of arrest binge kids my philosophy to work with all kids but being here and griping in the chinese community being a chinese-american is important going to american school during the day but went to chinese school that is community is important working with all the kids and having them exposed to all culture it is important to me. >> it is a mask evening.

>> i'd like to thank you a you all to celebrate an installation of the days here in the asian art museum. >> one time has become so many things in the past two centuries because of the different did i licks the immigration officer didn't understand it became no standard chinese marine or cantonese sproupgs it became so many different sounds this is convenient for the immigration officer this okay your family name so this tells the generations of immigrants where they come from and also many stories behind it too. >> and what a better way to

celebrate the enough is enough nuru with the light nothing is more important at an the hope the energy we. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> relative to the current administration it is, it is touching very worrisome for our immigrant frames you know and some of the stability in the country and i know how this new president is doing you know immigration as well as immigrants (fireworks) later than you think new year the largest holiday no

asia and china those of us when my grandparents came over in the 19 hundreds and celebrated in the united states chinese nuru is traditional with a lot of meani meaning. >> good afternoon my name is carmen chu assessor-recorder i want to wish everything a happy new year thank you for joining us i want to say. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> (speaking foreign language.) >> i'm proud to be a native san

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. >> would you like to take roll. [ roll call ]. >> president, you have a quorum. >> thank you. you always know the a students. they always said "present" as opposed to "here" in class. this is the san francisco police 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.