copies of all of the work that they had done and place them in this box. next, a member of the clerical team would collect all the forms from the box. they would walk to a different work station where they would enter the same data again in two different places. i'm happy to tell you that with our new case management system, investigators now only enter information one time, and we have retired the wooden box, which was an integral part of our work flow. we have a new case management system which is based on sales force technology and eli hill is going to tell us how it all happened. >> thank you, commissioners, chief scott, and director henderson for having me here today. i have some prepared remarks, so i'll be reading it. my name is eli hill. she says i'm a client partner

at slalom consulting. for disclosure, i serve as a member of san raphael fire commission, but in my role today, i'm only speaking as a slalom consultant. so building on sarah's conduct, this leveraged a paper-based system as she mentioned, but the d.p.a. this year made a focused investment on d.p.a. technology to introduce a foundational tool to introduce timely and accurate report with specific reference to 1421 in mind. the tool provides near real-time visibility to cases in progress and opportunity for improved efficiency in collaboration. looking forward, the d.p.a. can leverage case data to drive policy recommendations. and in considerations of lessons learned on this endeavor, i would raise a couple categories, namely

training and adoption of the system as well as data. so a couple comments about that. time for training and adoption of the new technology by d.p.a. personnel was insufficient. we would have included an additional month of training. and although there is 100% data integrity, there are still mappings that need to be completed. i think director henderson made mention of a couple of kinks in the system, and we're still working to get these ironed out. but in closing, we believe that the system aligns with the core tenets of the d.p.a., promoting information sharing specifically with sfpd and other agencies moving from core screen access to more fine grained access bidirectionally, looking for patterns to inform policy recommendations and overall improving the complainant experience. those are my comments. i thank you for your attention.

>> president hirsch: thank you. anything else from d.p.a.? -- oh, you know what? we're going >> clerk: line item 3-c, commissioner reports. reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. discussion will be limited to determining whether to schedule any items for a commission report. >> president hirsch: the only report i have is i was told to schedule 1421 for next week, and i was told that neither the commission nor the staff people for the department are going to be available, so i'm going to move it to the 14 of december for the commission reports. >> commissioner elias: so the 1421 policy is going to be

moved to december 2 or just the presentation? >> president hirsch: i'd like to move everything. i'd like to have a full discussion of all of it at one time, so the policy and then the presentations from the departments as to where they are i think should all be done together. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: so since you braought it up, i think this falls into that area. but i'm been inundate -- i've been inundated with e-mails about 1421 and surrounding, and whether they got in the seminar or didn't get in the seminar. this is covered in 1421? hirs >> president hirsch: yes. i've asked the department, the commission, and the d.p.a. to present on 1421 where they are, what they've produced, how they go about it, what the issues are, and that is going to be

scheduled for december 14. >> commissioner dejesus: so there's a presentation. >> commissioner hamasaki: is there a policy? >> commissioner dejesus: we can't do that on the 13 of november? >> president hirsch: we're not available. i don't think we have a meeting on the 20. there is no meeting on the 20. >> commissioner elias: there is no meeting on the 20? thanksgiving is the following week. >> commissioner dejesus: so now, the presentation, i guess the question that i have is how is this -- maybe the d.p.a. should tell us how the -- hu >> president hirsch: well, we shouldn't discuss that because it's not agendaized. at that time, i will ask the d.p.a. to address the issues

that have been raised on 1421 by the public defender and by your office and give us a presentation. >> commissioner elias: and can we have the opportunity for the public defender to address their issues so it's both and not one sided. >> president hirsch: well, it's 1421 and they'll have an opportunity to address that. that's not calendared for a full discussion top to bottom for the d.p.a., which i think we had today. okay. next item on the agenda. >> clerk: commissioner's report? no commissioner's report? >> president hirsch: no, no more. >> clerk: line item 3-d, items identified for future commission items? >> president hirsch: okay. any items? next item. >> clerk: as a reminder, the next commission meeting is scheduled for wednesday, november 13 at 5:30 p.m. at

city hall room 400. the public is now asked to comment on items 3-a through 3-d. >> good evening, everyone. i just want to say that i appreciate what mr. henderson and others said about the conversation about the annual report. that was good to listen to the discussion that you all were having surrounding those issues. those are some of the issues that we've raised. a lot of times, we come in here and it seems like we're being critical, but we're just trying to make sure that folks do their jobs just like we're held accountable. this is the only outlet that we have, so it was good to hear that, as well as the public defender have that type of conversation. one of the things that i want to suggest, one of the reports

that i heard today is there's these little copies that you have. i think that, for example, you know, the incident where they were talking about the person told to go back to a country, well, ultimately, all of that stuff is printed, i believe in openness reports. and so all of those summaries are there. and so what we at the public defender's office, if i'm correct, someone correct me, when you get that openness report and you try to match it up with the quarterly report and the annual report, because of the length of time it takes to try to match those up, it's so time-consuming. so one of the ways to possibly track this so it can be more transparent to the public is maybe put a number on the quarterly report and then the openness and then on the annual. and in none of those reports is the officer's name mentioned. i think that's a way to deal with that because we've dealt with that same problem as well,

is to be able to track and then that way, members of the public and other agencies can look and find if there is a pattern with other officers. additionally -- well, i'm out of time, so i'll save it for later. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, president hirsch and commissioners. i am jim salinas, sr., native san franciscan of the mission district. so it's almost daily that i have people coming in asking me for information on different things as though i have the same level of knowledge that you do at this point, given that you all have been serving on this prestigious panel for some time. but let me just say this. one of the biggest conversation pieces that i have -- and i live in mira loma park, so we

deal with glen park and pacific heights and those particular districts. people in these departments, the issue of not having enough officers, and that's the reason why crime is at such a high level. i know i hear different reports, but the perception is crime is almost rampant in this city, and it's as a result of the fact that we don't have enough uniformed officers, so i was delighted to hear that commissioner mazzucco was saying we should be at 2400. i've been saying for years that we should be at a minimum of 2200. but the reason i got up here is commissioners, each one of you have an impact. every one of you knows, it's too political, i'm not going there, and i understand why. but we lose the best candidates as a result of it. so all of you -- most of you are attorneys. you know that we have to be fair and unbiased, and that's

what we have to do. so i appreciate all of you that are working to make sure that we reach that level. we have to treat everybody fairly, including those guys and those gals that wear the uniforms. thank you, commissioners. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm a community activist and abolitionist and community fighter concerning justice for san francisco and 15 years in bayview. my son was murdered in a quadruple homicide that happened in hayes valley. the four young men and one young man who was just simply trying to cash his check, working on his half an hour lunch break. the reason that i am here -- i am here because i'm very, very distraught concerning the leadership that's going on in bayview at the department. the leadership, i don't drop

names, but what i am requesting is a group of women, ourselves went to the community meeting on yesterday to explain ourselves because we are now working on feed the babies up in westbrook and also potrero hill because the children are hungry. so a lot of issues going on in the housing development, and the babies are hungry. so myself and i organized some mothers so we can start feeding the babies some breakfast. so we went to the bayview station to find out what we should do and build a relationship, and it was devastating of the attack that we experienced, the brutality, the brutishness, the meanness, the harshness, and the leader there would not allow us to speak. the leader that's been there three months, that's shocking. i feel for us to have leadership and for us to be an example over the officers, you have to be the example. and if they're not the example,

if they have to come to this agency to experience this type of energy, we are in trouble. we are definitely in trouble because these officers are going to go out and they're going to be very, very mean because of the leadership. so we are requesting a private meeting with you, chief, in regards to this issue. i've been working to uplift this community and to let them know that we trust them, that we -- that they need someone who trusts and let them know that they're not just there for the political issues, so that's the reason i'm here. and i think that we just need to show positiveness -- and one more thing. >> president hirsch: your time is up. i'm sorry. you can address him after the meeting. after the meeting, please. >> i mean, the police accountability, my son, yolani, was beaten. >> i have people in the audience for this. >> president hirsch: all right. if we have somebody that can

address this? is there somebody that can meet with this woman? okay. again, public comment. this is not general public comment, this is about items that we've discussed. go ahead. >> my name is john jones. during the 70's, i worked for the san francisco department of social services as an eligibility worker and after being trained, by fellow eligibility workers told me that if i were ever to get into a physical altercation with a client, a welfare client, that management of the welfare department would come down on the client's side regardless of the facts and my job was on the line. this left me with a very, very empty feeling. needless to say it colored my entire attitude towards everything management did. i have time and time between left these commission meetings

with a feeling, wondering who would really want to be a police officer in the san francisco police department. the -- i come in here and listen to the d.p.a. report which brags about the high number of, what is it, sustained findings they make, 7.5% or 9%, however you count it. i think commissioner mazzucco's comment was very well taken. it has to be a morale buster to be half aware of what happens at these commission meetings. i would like to applaud commissioner mazzucco's recognition of the morale problems caused, and i'd like to applaud in the strongest terms the disciplinary attitude articulated by chief scott. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you.

any other public comments on the items we've addressed already on the agenda? okay. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> clerk: line item four, general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to an individual commissioner or d.p.a. personnel. neither d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may present a brief response. d.p.a. and commissioners shall refrain from entering into debates from speakers on public comment. >> president hirsch: okay. public comment. >> hello. my name is reeta lark. it's been a long time since i'm here, on october 9, i called them because i wanted to document the conditions i live

under. my power was off for five weeks. it was an endangered situation because if i needed to buzz the police or ambulance in, i couldn't do it. i would have to come out of my apartment 24 hours a day to let somebody in. i also wanted to let them witness the condition that's going on since mother's day weekend about the stink that's stuck in the structure of the building that comes into my bedroom. an officer said that they would make a report, and then they turned it into a c.a.d. report, and all it says on this c.a.d. report is talking about strictly landlord-tenant issues. i wanted them to give more detail in the problems that i'm having, and so when i went to the station, could you please write a letter, the same officers that came to my home and make it more details, i left my -- make it more detailing, i left my number and never heard back.

and i'm going to court next week to hear all of these issues, and i'm trying to use that as part of my witness problem. so i'd appreciate it if someone can look into it and i can get this letter. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. general public comment. >> thank you, commissioners. so about three, four months ago, i was contacted by a senior citizen in the sunset district regarding a situation that developed as she was parking her vehicle around the corner from her home, an individual certainly less than her age came out and was very aggressive and very offensive to the extent that at some point, the woman was so angry, she'd seen fit to park her vehicle on a public street.

she blocked her vehicle. things became very tense, and the police were called out. a police report was taken, and the individual, the senior citizen who had, by this time, decided to take refuge in her home and had not come out as a result of the fact that she felt that the police had sided with the young woman as opposed to hearing all the details as to what led up to the incident. so i had the good fortune of running into commander dan perea, and i relayed the incident to him, and unbeknownst to me what he did was he contacted the commanding officer out at the sunset station, and a couple of wonderful officers came out and knocked on her door and said we're here to take a little bit more information on the report. they did so, instilling trust and confidence in her that the police were there to take care of everyone, including former

retired u.s. park rangers. but all it takes is a couple of people with a little bit of sensitivity to instill trust and confidence in the citizenry, and i thank all of the folks that were involved to make sure that she gets out because our seniors deserve to get out and about. they've contributed, too. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. good evening. >> linda chapman. i wonder whether that report of statistics on sexual assault includes jewish home, although i told it was actually sexual battery. and you know, i see all the publicity about laguna honda, and that's there because everyone did the right thing. and the reason there's no publicity at this time because of course i haven't gone to the press is that nobody did the right thing at the jewish home

except central station and the advocates who came on when they sent their report. i was talking with emily merase about the special victims unit that creates special victims. you know, i didn't feel that much like a victim. i was a professional, and by the day after the event, i was giving advice to the jewish home staff on what -- how to manage this for their own protection and so on, which unfortunately, they didn't take, you know? but i really felt by the end of four months of police investigation, i was drained, you know? it was like a rag being thrown out in the street. today, i went to get -- oh, after -- this is the first time, a little bright note from the last time i was here because i really am quite sure you want to change the special victims unit, but i went right back into the black hole after that, and i was told, go to the d.a., go to the city attorney, and go to the public defender, not the police. so today, i got a card, which i

think was helpful. however, this afternoon, i made a long trip to public records -- i mean, police records because there was no records in the d.a.s. when i did finally call them, nothing but the incident report, which was never corrected. nothing in the police records, either. four-month investigation. the things that i signed for him to go and get what would have been evidence, the medical reports, the r.o.i., all gone. the administrative -- okay. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. >> president hirsch: good evening. >> just a few days ago, an author penned an opinion in the sacramento bee expressing

frustration with the speed of sb 1421. i hope you read it. i want to just read a new snippets of her piece because they bear on why i'm here and why i will continue to be here at these police commission meetings going forward. access to the records is necessary to preserve public trust in the integrity of the criminal justice system. an officer's word can often end up being the difference between innocence and guilt. in los angeles, dozens of cases have been tarnished by -- although sb 1421 has given us a way to begin identifying potentially problematic convictions, the process isn't

working smoothly. the state's largest law enforcement agencies still are not releasing records that are public undered law. and when departments have released records, they have been so in a deliberately slow and increasingly frustrating manner. we must commit to using these tools. senator skinner cuts right to the heart of the matter. san francisco can either be a leader on this issue or fall behind. as a letter we submitted to the commission last night made clear, we take the release of misconduct records seriously. i implore this commission, chief scott and director henderson to get all the sb 1421 records out so that anyone charged with a crime has a fair shot at justice. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. >> commissioner dejesus: wait. you said there was a commission letter you sent last night? >> president hirsch: it's on your e-mail. >> commissioner hamasaki: not

everyone checked their commission e-mail every day. >> president hirsch: all right. >> commissioner hamasaki: we all check our e-mail by the minute. >> commissioner elias: yeah right. >> president hirsch: okay. next speaker, please. >> good evening again, commissioners. >> president hirsch: good evening. >> chief, and mr. henderson. we are 310 days into the year, and unfortunately at this point, there is no written policy, and that echos what senator skinner was writing about. you know, come december 4, we'll be 328 days into the year and there still may or may not be a written policy at that date because the matter keeps being continued. we came here in may of this year, and there were working groups after working group and other issues and now we're being told that certain folks aren't available when we were told that this would happen, this meeting in october.

additionally, at this point, we've received 21 letters of extension from the san francisco police department. i want to submit one of these to the record -- for the record, as well, and this friday, we would expect our 22nd. in the mayor's budget for 2019-2020, it indicated that the city is committed to ensuring that public safety services are transparent and accountable to residents and the mayor's proposed budget allocated for the two years $7.4 million for technology and staff to help departments comply with this law. mr. henderson and chief scott were in front of the board of supervisors and they asked for 11 positions, that's the police department for d.p.a., and i presume that many of those positions were filled. but yet, there was a conversation earlier today about, you know, stanislaus county and how they get paid -- like, there's more pay here and

there's less pay there, but there's less pay, like senator skinner mentioned in an article, in the modesto bee -- i know because i'm from modesto. on that date, they released 57 incidents of misconduct. and in san francisco, we still have not received 57 incidents of misconduct from any condition, and they are able to do more with less there. we should be able to do better in san francisco. >> president hirsch: thank you. commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: one thing i would note that the policy for 1421 that commissioner mazzucco and i did is posted on our website. it was posted last friday. it was scheduled -- it was scheduled to be heard by the full commission and voted on on november 13, but the -- but commissioner hirsch just moved it to december 4. but the policy is on-line and posted, so i suggest the public go and look at it because it's up there, and that's what we'll be voted on -- >> president hirsch: do you want to have that calendared for the 13 of november and not the same day -- i'm willing to

do because we don't need the people who are unavailable. >> commissioner dejesus: deposition in tahoe. >> commissioner elias: well, i think commissioner mazzucco and i spoke that we do want the 1421 altogether. >> president hirsch: right. i think that makes sense. >> commissioner elias: and i had requested to agendaize that d.p.a. address the public defender's issue, and the public defender address d.p.a. issues so that it's all in one session. >> president hirsch: okay. next speaker. >> my name is john jones. i would like to address the situation at the 200 block of hyde street, which is a ve veritable jungle. i used to work as a seaman as a younger man. been around the world through

t the mediterranean a couple of times. what i saw was not that bad. i don't think it will end well. i don't think it's a police matter. i don't think it's something government can do anything about. i think our government is downstream, if you will, from the larger culture, and what we're seeing out there in the 200 block of hyde street is a cultural phenomenon. but what i'm asking the commission to do is say that. everyone's running around, and we're getting more needles, build more million-dollar affordable housing for people, whatever. but i think this commission has t the expertise to turnaround and say cut the crap. we need something done, and we need it fast. >> president hirsch: thank you. any other speakers for general

public comment? good evening. >> good evening. i'd like to use the overhead, as usual. i'm here concerning my son, aubrey abrakasa who is murdered -- who was murdered august 14, 2006, and to this day, his case isn't solved. i bring this with me because it was former mayor good afternoon newsom -- former mayor gavin newsom say they know, the police know who killed my son. the police can identify individuals and addresses. so he said all of this to tell you that he had the names of everybody that murdered my son, which is thomas hannibal,

anthony hunter, and marcus carter. still, this day, no justice for my son. i come with this poster because i still ask for a venue for our children, and i bring this because megan -- megan rohrer. police department suggested that they can fund a placard for my son on the ground where he died, and she sent me some of these things from a placards that -- in the castro that are in the castro, and there are people that have been deceased or gone. and i was wondering if you guys can work with her to get this placard for my son on the corner of grove and baker. she's talked with vallie brown, and she's in for it. she's willing to do it, but i need more help because it's not happening right now, and it's almost like a promise, what

people have been telling us all of our lives, we're going to do this and we're going to do this and we're going to do this for you mothers, and it never gets done, so i'm asking for help. >> president hirsch: thank you. >> thank you. >> president hirsch: the tip line, again with a $250,000 reward is 415-274-4444. any other speakers for public comment? >> hi. my name is heidi peterson. thank you guys for your time and spending your effort on this. i can tell you guys care. i know the police does a lot. it's a -- it's hard to police a city like this, but one thing i really want to note is my concern is about the lack of enforcement of vision zero. i'm a pedestrian and a cyclist. i am regularly getting into

dangerous situations just crossing the street, walking my dog, getting to and from jobs. it's hard. my -- vision zero has a focus on the five. that's five things most likely to kill a pedestrian. more pedestrians died this year than homicides by gun violence, i realized, in this meeting because i hadn't heard those numbers compared before. one of the issues we have, we all know about, is there's so many uber and lyft drivers. these are people that are unfamiliar with the city. they don't know how to drive here. our streets are complicated. it's not fair -- i agree it's not fair to charge somebody with, like, as if it's, like, they're trying to kill people if they get in an accident and kill somebody, but at the same time if they've never been taught, it's -- you know, it's hard to feel more pressure from the person honking behind you because they're not turning right on red, but they need

counter pressure. the only thing that can do that is police pressure, that people have to yield to pedestrians. the only people that can provide that is traffic enforcement. northern district is not doing that. other districts are doing it as much as last year. last year is more than the year before. saturday, november 17 is the day for world remembrance for traffic victims. you're welcome to join us at city hall at 4:00 p.m. just please continue to provide the safety for enforcement for pedestrians as well as enforcement for crime. >> president hirsch: any other public speakers? okay. public comment is closed. next item. >> clerk: line item seven, public comment on item listed below, including item six, vote to hold closed session.

>> president hirsch: okay. is there any public comment on closed session? okay. next item. >> clerk: vote whether to hold closed session, section . >> clerk: all right. president hirsch, we are back in open session, and you still have a quorum. >> president hirsch: okay. next line item on the agenda. >> clerk: next item, vote whether to disclose items discussed in closed session. >> president hirsch: is there a motion not to disclose? >> so moved. >> president hirsch: all in favor?

opposed? next line item. >> clerk: motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> commissioner dejesus: i move we adjourn this meeting in the memory of buck deventhal. he was the brain trust of the city attorney's office. he knew everything about the charter. he was brilliant, he was dedicated, and he played a role in all the ground breaking work that the city has done, and he was a fair and kind man, and he will definitely be missed. it's a loss to the city attorney's office, and it's a loss to the city, as well. >> president hirsch: thank you. is there a second to that motion? >> commissioner elias: second. >> commissioner hamasaki: second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? opposed? we're adjourned. thank you.

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parties that have worked really hard to make this all possible. i'd first like to thank our budget analyst and project management team that have worked really hard to make this run smoothly. thank you very much for that. [ applause ]. >> they've also worked very closely hand in hand with the mayor's budget office. i'd like to thank kelly kirkpatrick for coming here today. thank you. [ applause ]. >> next i would like to thank our public facing team who provides excellent public service. our public service team and our recorder division. thank you very much. [ applause ]. >> they provided excellent customer service even throughout a lot of -- yay. they provided a lot of excellent service even throughout a lot of construction. thank you for keeping the office

running. we also are joined by some neighborhood friends. so thank you to them for coming. we have some people from the women's building here. yay, thank you. [ applause ]. >> and we also have people from the dog patch northwestern petril hill green benefits district. it's a little bit of a mouthful. thank you for coming. of course thank you to our neighborhood historians who have joined and helped us go through a lot of historic photos that we have and we have been able to create a little wall. thank you for that. we have the western neighborhoods project, s.f. heritage, glen park history project and sunny side history project. thank you. [ applause ]. >> so now i would like to introduce our beloved assessor

carmen chu who is newly back from maternity leave and later we will be hearing from our director of public works and also our city librarian. thank you. [ applause ]. >> i have to say that it's rare that i ever hear the word "beloved" and "assessor" in the same sentence, but here we are. i want to thank isabella from my team. they've done quite a lot of work to help and partner with our public-facing folks in order to make sure that our lobby is well thought out and we have a great plan to help improve service. thank you to isabella and vivian. [ applause ]. >> so when i first started as assessor years ago, i think when i first came in, i think i walked into this office and probably like a lot of taxpayers i came in through different doors at different points in

time and at the time it was confusing. how do you get into the office and where do you go for service. and if i couldn't speak the language, which luckily i could, where do you go for help and who could assist? it was with that eye that we started to take a look at our front lobby area to see how is it that we are able to improve customer service and access and be cognizant of the different people coming to our city every single day, whether you are an immigrant who can't speak the language well like my own parents or someone with a disability who needs assistance or people who don't know how to find documents in our system. how is it that we as a public service and government serve our public in the best way possible. we started on this process to say, well, the first thing they do is come into our office and try to figure out way-finding signs and the way forward. we need to make sure that when people come into our office they feel welcomed and they feel that

we have an abundant amount of services available here. with that, we really started to say let's do a few things. i think today when we're doing our big unveiling along with the blue angels out there cheering us on that we're showing our good faith. a few things that we want to point out to you here, and this is something we couldn't have done without the partnership of our dpw is that we've done a few things to reconfigure our lobby area to improve public access. we've transformed the physical space. we have a wonderful and lovely seating area for people to come here and wait comfortably, to be able to get their documentation and information. we actually have implemented a kiosk system so when people first come into our office they can directly find and get tickets, that they're served in an expeditious way. we have implemented a lobby navigator, someone who is

greeting people when they come in to make sure they're in the right place to make sure they're not wasting valuable times waiting in the wrong lines. that does happen at city hall. we want to make sure we're preventing that. if you look around our office, you will see many of our kiosks and information are in multiple languages. we're cognizant of the fact that san francisco is a universal city with universal languages that we want to access and share with people. this is also something that is part of our lobby system. of course we're doing a lot more to make sure that it's a welcoming environment here. so we hope that some of these improvements are really going to show that government is open to everyone, it's accessible, transparent, and we welcome you here. we're here to serve you. with that, i want to say thank you. we hope you're going to take a look at around. we have more spaces for people to be served. we know this is going to be a public improvement for the public as a whole. we couldn't do this without the

partnership of wonderful people. i know some of our folks behind the scenes that were helping. i want to thank the mayor's office for helping us fund this, but of course i want to say if we bring in the money, help us serve the public better. thank you for all of your assistance and your partnership. no further ado to bring someone forward who i've known for quite a long time, who most of the time is doing work outside on the streets, picking up litter or cleaning up graffiti, but one of the lesser known things he does is help our buildings function better and stay in a state of good repair. with that i want to introduce mohamed nuru and thank him and his team for the fantastic work helping us make these improvements in a historic building. thank you, mohamed. >> thank you, carmen. yes, kelly and carmen bring in

the money. i get to spend the money. [ laughter ]. >> i think a few years ago when carmen brought up the idea of doing the project, we were very excited. it had a lot of different work that needed to be done. it is a historic building. so trying to match things and to really make a place that really works with all the things we heard from carmen was something that we were excited about. what's great about this project is it involved many parts of our building of bureau repair, carpenters, glazers, locksmith, laborers were all involved -- well in fact, every shop in public works was involved in one way or another in making this happen. it's a very unique project because we have a lot of staff that actually custom-built many of the shelves over here, matching the doors, all the things that we had to work with.

all of those were built at public works at our shop. it was really an exciting project for the team. i think we delivered. i think you're very happy about that. just so you know, we do a lot of these type of services for all over the city departments. city hall was very special, trying to match the wood, the different glass and just making the rails, building all the cabinets, painting and sprucing it up. you know, the paint was actually peeling in some cases. so doing all the scraping and going through all the processes making the space happen. i'm excited and our teams are excited. we'll continue to serve you or any of the city departments that want us to do work for them. we actually do many of the jobs in many of the city offices. thank you very much. we'll enjoy it.

thank you. [ applause ]. >> mohamed's nickname is mr. clean. now that extends to cleaning up our city buildings as well. thank you, mohamed. when we talked about the services here, again, city hall is very special and unique to all of us because of its historic nature, but also because it is an essential place people go when they want to access government and the people who represent them. it's important to make sure that these doors are open and accessible to everyone who comes in. i think there's no other patron group that feels that same way than our public libraries. we know that no matter which branch library it is that we go to across the city, we have an open door where people can find a safe space and learn and get educated and borrow materials and really explore. we have worked in great partnership with our city librarian michael lambert who is

also working with us. you might seen behind me is a wall of 15 different curated historic photos. one of the things you may not know is in order for this to be accomplished, we had to clear out many of our old property files. we went through this intensive process to digitize over a million files. when we went through that process, we found many, many historic photos we thought was not only worth preserving but sharing and putting out to the public space. something that is important to our history, buildings that used to look a different way but are important of our fabric, it is important to share that with san franciscans to come, not to put the away in a box never to be seen. we worked with the library to make sure we cataloged and got those photos to them to be

accessible. we're proud to announce we have over 92,000 photo images that are available at our san francisco public library in order for people to see our history and our shared buildings and resources. these photos here are just a small set of the photos that are now available in our public library. we couldn't have done that without our city librarian's staff and time. i want to invite michael up to say a few words. >> thank you. it is so wonderful to be here with my esteemed city colleagues and so many members of the public. this lobby is magnificent and sparkling. i want to congratulate assessor chu and all of her staff. what a remarkable job you've done with public works to transform this space. i admire the commitment to service excellence with all the tenant improvements and significance enhancements.

what a warm, friendly atmosphere you've created here. i appreciated the office of the assessor-recorder, not only for providing the library the biggest book budget in the country, but also for the partnership we enjoy. earlier this year, assessor chu and her team transferred over 92,000 photographs to the public library. you see a sampling here on this wall. it really makes history come alive for all the visitors to this space. these photographs are priceless. they are an invaluable snapshot in time of san francisco and some places that don't exist anymore. these photographs are now accessible to any member of the public that wants to view them. they can come into the library to the san francisco history center and they can take a walk down memory lane and reminisce and relive some treasured

memories of their past. it's so wonderful to have this partnership. i want to congratulate assessor chu and her team again. thank you so much for the partnership. [ applause ]. >> all right. so now i'd like to ask evelyn and amy from glen park and sunny side to come up and woody and nicole and david from western history project to come up as well. thank you.

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>> we broke ground in december of last year. we broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. it's really great to see the silence that we experienced then and we've experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. >> 321, okay. [ applause ] >> the park was kind of bleak. it was scary and over grown. we started to help maclaren park when we found there wasn't any money in the bond for this park maclaren. we spent time for funding. it was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. a lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and

we didn't have any grass. it was that bad. we worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. we worked hard collecting everything. we had about 400 group members. every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. there is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now it's safer by utilizing it. >> maclaren park being the largest second park one of the best kept secrets. what's exciting about this activation in particular is that it's the first of many. it's also representation of our city coming together but not only on the bureaucratic side of things. but also our neighbors, neighbors helped this happen. we are thrilled that today we are seeing the fruition of all that work in

this city's open space. >> when we got involved with this park there was a broken swing set and half of -- for me, one thing i really like to point out to other groups is that when you are competing for funding in a hole on the ground, you need to articulate what you need for your park. i always point as this sight as a model for other communities. >> i hope we continue to work on the other empty pits that are here. there are still a lot of areas that need help at maclaren park. we hope grants and money will be available to continue to improve this park to make it shine. it's a really hidden jewel. a lot of people don't know it's here.

[gavel] >> good morning, everyone. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. we will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman -- what is wrong with me, gordon mar. excuse me, gordon. our clerk is victor young. i'd like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. mr. include, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: silence all cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the