and i'm not calling into speak for or against the appointment of supervisor cohen specifically, but i did want to say something to, you know, address and frame one of the former supervisor and the candidate mentioned this morning, which is the possibility of things like, if there are, you know, quote, unquote, bad cops, rogue cops, that they can be on desk duty until their retrained. that doesn't go far enough in my opinion and in the opinions of a lot of people in the community, i think. i think that if you are a cop who sends racist texts or have had complaints against you for x, y and z reasons, the quote, unquote consequence shouldn't be you're on desk duty for a month

or until you complete this online training or all of this, whatever the process is. it should be you don't get to carry a gun around any more.

>> i'm here to support miss cohen. if a cop has had negative spikes against him or her, they do not -- we do not hire them in san francisco. we absolutely need someone and that was -- i know leah cohen would help the people, especially out for american citizens in san francisco and especially african-american young men who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. we need someone to speak up for the people and i whole heartedly believe that a she be appointedo

this position. thank you. >> next caller, please. >> speaker: good morning or good afternoon, i'm britney and i'm calling in as a member of the san francisco community, born and raised here in san francisco, where the majority of my family still leaves and as a former staff member from when she served as president and member of the board of supervisors and i'm very enthusiastic to support her candidacy for the san francisco police commission because i have worked incidentally with chair cohen for over five years, including criminal justice and i've come to know her professionally as a skillful and magnificent leader. she refuses to be labeled, despite the imposition of her other politicos and her record

speaks for herself, not only her many policies regarding law enforcement but more broadly across racial and social justice. her record represents, i think, the most exciting aspect of this opportunity to approve this appointment. melia is the added benefit, really, the added spark that the police commission needs, she's an unapologetic and unsung champion of marginalized communities, not just in her words but actions and she's a bold leader and i think most importantly, she's a student of the work. melia never wanted to shoot from the hip. she wanted to learn more from her and even if on paper, it seems they may be on different sides of the proverbial aisle. whashe's unafraid to directly engage people that disagree with her. chair cohen has a humble quality when it comes to learning from a diversity of stakeholders and grows and develops her own

positions before taking them publically. so please support chair cohen's appointment to the police commission. thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> we've always had a great working relationship when melia cohen was supervisor and she as a unique perspective that had to deal with a lot of community violence and all of the different constituencies that are impacted in and affected by that violence, including sfpd and the mothers of murder victims. i think that unique perspective

can serve this in making sure that fantastics ar folks are wor with creating safety communities and feeling the harm and has occurred in neighborhoods. we are really excited for change and we know that so much is kind of on the precedence of that and i think that's important we have leaders that are strong and dedicated and have experience in these areas to get to the san francisco that we can all love and be proud of. thank you so much. >> are there any additional callers? >> madam chair, that completes the queue. >> i will make a motion to remove the word reject and send this item forward with positive recommendation.

supervisor cohen, i wish you so much luck in the birth of your first child. >> thank you. >> i know you'll be an amazing mother and we're all routing for you and i don't know how you feel about the public thing, but i hope you'll share pictures with us because we're all excited. thank you. and with that, can we take a role call vote? (role call). >> enjoy your last few days of rest. [ laughter ] >> thank you to the members of the public that have voiced

their vote of confidence. i appreciate that. >> mr. clerk, can you read item number six. >> a reenactment to temporary require private employers with 500 or mo employees to provide public health emergency leave during the public health emergency related to covid-19. >> supervisor mar, any comments. >> yes, thank you, chair ronen. this emergency ordinance is a second reenactment to help keep this in place for an additional 260 days. the original ordinance was adopted bit board and signed on april 19th with mayor breed and this second reason actment will ensure this remains in

place. we prepared an amendment and this amendment would not require a continuance and simply clarified that this reenactment ordinance would apply retroactively to the date the prior reenactment expired and this amendment avoids any potential gaps in coverage for this crucial benefit for essential workers. >> unless supervisor stephanie has any comments or questions, we can open this item up for public comment. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call (415)655-0001 and the meeting i.d. is (146)971-4708 and press pound and pound again. if you have not done so, press

star three and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been un-muted and you may begin your comments. any members online to speak. >> no callers in the queue. >> then public comment is closed. >> i do have one caller that just popped in. >> ok, if we can hear if the caller. >> yes, i think it's a little bit silly to just have a law specific for covid-19. you know, if you're just going to keep on having to renew this, why not extend it to any pandemic affecting a certain number of people?

>> that completes the queue. >> public comment is closed. on the motion to amend, can we have a role call? (role call). >> the motion passes. >> and then, supervisor mar, would you like to make the motion? >> yes, thank you, chair ronen. i would like to move we recommend this as a committee

report to the august 8th to the board of supervisors. >> and can we have a role call vote? >> yes, on the motion to recommend it as a committee report as amended, supervisor stephanie. (role call). >> the motion passes without objection anobjection and the me referred. >> any other items on the agenda? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> the meeting is adjourned and have a good day, everyone.

>> mayor: i'm san francisco mayor london breed. i want to thank you all for joining us here today. i'm really excited about this small business forum that is so desperately needed for so many businesses in our city. this pandemic has had not only a tremendous impact on our overall city and our public health, but it has also had a tremendous impact on our financial health, and especially many of our businesses in the city. the people who own these businesses, the work force of these businesses, it all will

be very difficult as the few -- as the months to come, when we begin to look at ways in which we can open and provide new guidelines around opening businesses. we know that financially so many of our businesses are hurting now. they need support now, and also will need support in the future. some of the programs that we put forth here in the city, immediately, almost, was to defer the payment of business taxes until next year. we actually extended the deadline for fees, as well. we provided resources for paid sick leave so businesses can extend paid sick leave payments to their employees. we provided grants and loan opportunities with no interest and flexible repayment schedules. we have also provided arts grants for so many of our artists who rely

on performances and other events in order to take care of themselves. as someone who not only loves san francisco, but as someone who uses so many of our small businesses, whether it is the drycleaner that i have been going to since i could afford a drycleaner, or the person who does my hair or my nails or the musicians that play at the lounges and restaurants that i love to go to all over the city -- all of these very unique businesses are what matters to the people of this city. they are part of the fabric of our city. and i want to make sure that as we propose more funding and more support on the local level, that we are connecting to the people who need these resources the most. and we are also making sure that federal and state resources are reaching all of you. so today we are here with the director of the

department of the office of economic and work force development. joaquin torres, and if you want to look up some of the services we have, visit oewd.org. joaquin runs that department. and even before this pandemic, i have been really laser-focused on trying to eliminate fees that make it difficult for small businesses, in particular, to be in business in san francisco in the first place. so even though this pandemic is challenging, i am so hopeful it will be an opportunity to provide some much-needed long-term relief for our businesses in san francisco. joaquin will be leading those efforts. we also have the president of the small business commission, cynthia huey, who will be moderating this discussion, and we have the director of the

chamber of commerce here as well, native san franciscan rodney fong, who has been a business person pretty much his whole life. the wax museum -- i don't know about you, but i went to gallileo high school,and we used to sneak into the wax museum when i was a kid. so i owe you some ticket money, rodney. so between the wax museum, the restaurants and the hair and nail salons, the barber shops, the masseuse locations, all of these great things are really what make san francisco so special. and we know that the sad reality is that because of the pandemic and because of the requirement around social distancing, it is not as simple as those institutions and those businesses can actually go back to work, number one. and, number two, when you go back to work, the

likelihood that you're going to be able to make sufficient revenue to cover the expenses you haven't been able to cover for months is going to be challenging. so this is our opportunity to hear from businesses, to make sure that not only are we putting forth good options to support you, but they are affectively working to serve your businesses, and that we are doing everything we can to come up with the kinds of things that are going to help you in the long run. so with that, i want to turn it over to our director of the office of economic and work force development for a few words. and then rodney fong will say a few words, and then we'll get to cynthia, and she'll moderate this discussion. thank you all for joining us here today. >> thank you so much, mayor breed, and thank you, again, for your leadership and the pressure you place on our office to make sure we're reaching the needs of our small business communities across the city and in our neighborhoods. and thank you for the idea of bringing us all together through this

townhall so we can have an opportunity to hear from each other, and our answers about some of the most pressing questions facing small businesses, and the relief you have been driving us to deliver for our small business communities. whether we talked about grants or loan products or deferral of fees, it is all grounded in wanting to see our small businesses be successful here, not only with what the city can provide, but complementing the wrap-around efforts of the state and federal resources that both essential to our relief and recovery efforts. a few things before we jump in, we know generally, based on some conversations that we've had, we've seen a 70% decrease city-wide. and certain areas and industries are hit even harder in terms of the sales that are out there. we know that we're already seeing 14,000 businesses being affected, 166,000 employees at this moment in time.

we're expecting larger hits as time goes on. in addition to over 70,000 people that have already applied for unemployment in san francisco alone. we know that we are dealing with unprecedented challenges here in san francisco, but we, through our office of economic and work force development, and mayor breed, we're standing ready to support the small business community at this time, and especially with the partners we have joining us today and in our communities. both in the past and also in the present, and we're very much looking forward to the future. so looking forward to answering some questions here today. now, i'll pass it over to the president of the chamber of commerce rodney fong. >> thank you, joaquin first of all, i want to say hello to everyone. we're in this together. we're all feeling the same things, we're all feeling the same frustration, the level of fear going on, but hopefully we'll get through this together and support our way through a great recovery. i want to thank mayor

breed and all that her office has been doing, and joaquin has been working like a work horse over the last four, five weeks -- it seems like months, i'm sure -- but he and his staff are doing a great job. they have been working extremely hard. just a little bit of recap: over the last few weeks, the city and the mayor have deferred some of the business registration fees. and they deferred them until september. that adds up to about $49 million in cash flow to the city of san francisco. several fees that apply to storefront businesses have also been deferred until september, helping to preserve another $14 million in cash flow. i want to be very clear that the mayor is clear about this, we are going to be looking at a significant deficit in the city of san francisco, the bay area, the state of california, and so we're talking about a million dollars out from the city that we won't have in revenue. we will have to all pitch in.

we'll all have to figure out how we save and go back to san francisco in an even better way. if we want to start talking about recovery tomorrow, we've got to start planning it today. i'm happy and delighted to tell you that the recovery task force kicked off last friday. it is about an 80-person task force led by myself, carmen chu, jose gonzales and rudy representing labor. 80 seems like a lot of people, but when you look at all of the different sectors and industries and non-profits, it is a good representation of a lot of people who have shared interests. again, we're going to have to all work together. it is not just one industry here in san francisco that is better than another. i want to also mention that we're going to have to rely on our public health department to lay out new guidelines. we are essentially reinventing ourselves in a great way, bringing in

technology that might be able to help us in a better way and create a better san francisco. i want to touch on three points, though, if i can, pretty briefly. this is one where probably from a commerce perspective it doesn't emerlogicalseem logical. the public school system and private school system implementing guidelines to get kids and teachers safely back into the school affects the whole area. not until moms and dads feel safe, do we get a full workforce. it is important because a busy downtown san francisco supports so many businesses as you know. all of the sandwiches get bought and kids get picked up at lunch, and it is important that somewhere e that wehave a busy . the second main point i want to make is small businesses will need to

pivot. we'll have to reinvent ourselves, get creative, and we're going to have to be entrepreneurial problem-solvers that we naturally are. there is no greater test than this one to figure out how it will be different. restaurants may have to change their seating arrangements, going town to not a full house. here in san francisco and los angeles, it is very difficult to make money without a full-seated restaurant. and we're going to have to figure that out. that means takeout and maybe retail inside of a restaurant. maybe other clothing produced by someone related to the restaurant, creating a lifestyle. all of the pivots are going to require us, the city, government, and private sector to be flexible with our permitting process. to look at permit streamlining, to allow change of use permits to occur. maybe temporarily, just as we get back up, and then we can tighten them back up, but we need to be in this all together

and be flexible. the third thing i want to mention is public health. the mayor has disown such done agreat job in listenig to public health. and we'll rely on them to tell us what is best practices. i hope the departments listen to small business, and small business actually steps up and says, you know what? no one knows how to run this nightclub better than we do, and here are some suggestions we think we can voluntarily put down, something we can live with financially, operationally. we look at the changes and the way they're going to occur, they're very much operational. there is one piece that has been floated around, and that is an idea of a certifcate of healthy places, voluntary standization, much like standization -- standardization, much as a food place has to have a safe handling permit.

i, again, wanted to stress that creativity and ingenuity will get us largely out of this. and what will set one business apart from another is how safe and clean it is. if we can do that independently and collectively, san francisco can be a better city. so i'll stop there. >> mayor: all righ all right. thank you, rodney. commissioner huey, if you want to get some remarks, and then we can go right into the question and answer. >> sure. thank you very much. thank you, everybody, for logging in today. my name is cynthia huey, and i'm a small business owner in the city. and most recently, as a commissioner on the small business commission. i just really want to express how grateful i am to be a san franciscan right now. i was just outside on saturday, singing with my neighbors, and it was an amazing feeling. so i'm incredibly

appreciative of show everyone in our communities have come together to fight for and support the health of all san franciscans. you know, just a quick story i wanted to share. i was recently in a west portal merg merchant's meeting, with mayor breed as well -- you probably had no idea i was there. i was watching you during a meeting, and i could see you in your little zoom box, typing away. and i was just floored that this is our mayor. this is our mayor. you were in the chat to try to answer everybody's questions and connecting people. and i was so proud of the fact that i live in a city where our mayor just digs in and is doing the work. and so i just wanted to say from the very bottom of my heart, thank you so much for trying to help us all through this. it is an incredibly challenging situation, time.

i can't even imagine, but i know we're going to all get through this. and i believe in your leadership, and i really thank you. >> mayor: thank you, commissioner. >> so, i think, also, all of us have all of the programs and things memorized right now, all of the wonderful grants we can apply for and all of the loans and all of the different things that i think have been mentioned already, but i also wanted to highlight the work of the office of small businesses. they've been fielding hundreds and hundreds of phone calls and e-mails every week, trying to get business owners connected with resources, and really doing a lot of one-on-one counselling. so i wanted to thank them. and thanking everybody on the panel. rodney, your expertise today, and also leading us into the recovery. and joaquin, i don't know how you do this. you're in every single meeting, and somehow you're in 20 places at once, but thank you very much.

so at this point, let's -- i just want to move into the questions, if that's okay with everyone here? >> yes. >> great. just to give everyone some context about the questions, the vast majority of people who are c.p. for today's talk are also c.p.'d with a question. and these are questions that have been asked over and over again. starting with joaquin, what is the status of the city's grants and funding programs for small businesses impacted by covid? >> yes, thank you very much for the question. as the mayor said, for up to date realtime information, please go to oewd.org, and click on covid covid-19, and it will list all of the resources available, and what is implemen complementary from the state and local levels, ready to reach

out with you online, connect with you on the phone to guide you through the process and help you navigate this very difficult time. in addition to that, also private resources available, newly-announced grants that are accessible to you. please do frequently visit that site. it's where we try to put everything we have available. we started out with a million dollars before we had the shelter in place, to support small businesses with grants, up to $10,000. since that time we have doubled that grant pool so we could serve over 200 businesses through that effort, with grants up to $10,000. we also heard that some of the resources were not reaching some of the soul proprietors. and we'll be publicizing that on our website. we have a little over

127 grants from that first allocation. and secondly, the mayor introduced the gift to s.f. fund here in san francisco, so we could coordinate, and, mayor, thank you so much for the leadership there. so we will have private resources available to support us with a loan program, a zero percent interest program. we have a partner surntlcurrently that accepted applications. we received over 4,000 businesses who submitted that application. we want to reinforce that the resources we have able right now, from a city's perspective, are greatly exceeded by the demand. which is why it is so important that today, if folks have not been aware -- i'm sure everybody is in the small business community -- thae federal sba program -- those applications opened up this morning at 7:30 a.m again, go to our website for more information there.

where you can learn about additional partners, financial institutions, who can also help you in getting those applications filled out. why is that important? because many banks are only working with their clients, and prioritizing them on a first come, first serve basis. there are billions of dollars being held for other smaller lenders, other smaller banks and cdcdfis, and making sure thethat the public knows they are there. please do take the initiative right now, reach out to our hotline, as you mentioned, cynthia, and get realtime information from us, with any questions you may have, you will get a response and talk to a person when you reach out to us. so i think i'll leave it with that. as a final piece, the mayor also introduced a

neighborhood mini grant program on friday afternoon. it is also meant as another fill the gap in some of the most underserved neighborhoods. given the fact we do have a financial crisis, we wanted to make sure we're finding those resources as we have them available, and delivering them where they are needed, again, focusing on those who may not be able to access other resources in other ways. and also ensuring that women entrepreneurs, from a city-wide perspective, had access to those grants as well. thank you so much. >> thank you. so many of the fees and fines that small businesses have been experiencing have been deferred now, i think, until september, is what you mentioned? are there long-term plans for small businesses to be able to navigate those fees beyond that? since many of us were

already struggling to pay those before this. >> mayor: definitely. thank you, cynthia, for the question. that is one of the areas that i'm laser-focused on. because the fact is some of the businesses that are being required to close under our ordinance are not generating any revenue. and the fact that we would expect businesses to pay these fees during times that they're not even open and able to generate revenue is not right. so we are working to figure out how we can deal with the fees overall, and what it would mean to reduce, or to eliminate, certain fees for a time period, or what have you. we are definitely looking into that because as what was said by rodney, what we've

seen, we're talking about somewhere around $49 million. the city is facing a significant budget deficit, but we also can't balance our budget on the backs of businesses that won't be able to reopen if we continue to burden them with even more city fees. so that is something that we're definitely focused on. it is something that i care about. i care about dealing with that, to try to remove that barrier. but i also want to be clear -- i think, first of all, we have so many businesses that are going to be struggling even after we begin to reopen. there are businesses that are having challenges now. they're going to have challenges after this. but then there might be businesses that are okay. and we want to make sure that those businesses that are okay, that they continue to pay what they owe, if they can afford to do so. because there are going to be a lot of businesses that can't. we want to be fair

because this impacts all of us. when the city is not able to generate sufficient revenue, it makes it more difficult for us to provide more resources to those businesses that are struggling the most. in fact, we mentioned gifts to s.f., where i'm actually raising private dollars to support small businesses. there are only three categories in our give to s.f. program, and one is food insecurity, one is for housing and to help with people that might be facing eviction, and the most important category here is small businesses, and making sure that we have more resources. we need to maximize the amount of resources we're able to provide in order to help carry businesses that need it the most through this pandemic. so it is definitely something that i'm committed to addressing. and this is where i'm going to count on the business community as i try to propose

legislative changes through the process. we're going to need people to be supportive of that. because it is really going to be -- it's going to hit our budget hard, but i think the benefits of supporting our small businesses outweigh the need for us to collect these fees from our already suffering businesses. >> thank you very much. this question, i think rodney would be the person to direct this to. along with the fines and fees, i think one of the things top of mind for small businesses is also commercial rent. so what programs are there, or what types of resources do you have to help some of our small business owners with, to negotiate rent changes, rent relief, with their commercial landlords? >> that's a good question and it is a tough one because at the moment, there is not necessarily any relief

for landlords. in san francisco, a very old city, many of our landlords are small businesses, too. they have mortgages, insurance, and their own obligations. so i think the battle is they want to not have vacancies. i don't know any land owner who wants to have a vacancy. if you're a tenant with a small business, you should begin a dialogue with your landlord, if possible, to see if there is any kind of deferment. i stress to you they are also under the same pressures, with mortgages and such. but there are private arrangements, and those kinds of conversations would be very helpful. >> okay. thank you. mayor breed, many small business owners have not even heard back from the sba jet o yet on their loans. do have you an update on the federal assistance

program? i know this morning there was new funding added to that, but do you know anything beyond, or how the city can help advocate some of the small business owners who haven't even had a chance to -- >> mayor: yeah. and joaquin can provide some insight into that. his office is working on trying to get access to that. >> absolutely. that is one of the biggest questions for us, in terms of where is accessibility happening. almost immediately we were on the phone with financial institutions when we were getting questions across the city about what does this program look like? everything was rolling out so quickly, everyone was scrambling to understand -- even their own lenders, who they had a relationship with, would provide them guidance or even a response. what we're monitoring very closely now, both treasury sisnaros and the recorder, cameron chu, reached out to the financial institutions

to ask, how are you communicating with your clients? what is the process by which you will be processing applications? what is important to know right now, is based on those conversations, the mayor asked us to make sure we were submitting those concerns from the general politics to the speaker's office, part of our federal advocacy. that's why we saw this funding that was reserved specifically for smaller lenders, so folks had many outlets to access though federal relief funds at the same time. so as we see that program roll out today, we'll be monitoring it in realtime to find out what the responses are like. the silver lining for us that we're seeing right now, but we'll still be watching closely, is the fact that there are those dollars that are held for smaller institutions, and we can see what relief is provided to the small business owners that take that path, as they begin to work with their financial clients, the

large banks and the sba around their own applications. i do encourage every small business owner that has an application to reach out to their lender with some followup questions, in terms what have will their process be? we'll also be feeding that back on our website at well. we'll have that additional information, too. but we're looking forward to monitoring this and seeing how this new version of p.p.p. is going to be administered, and what we'll need to provide. >> and just a followup question about the p.p.p. how will small businesses reach the levels so that we're eligible to receive those loans from the federal government? >> mayor: and i will say that one of the reasons why i created the economic recovery

task force is so that when we're able to provide a window of opportunity for a particular industry to open, we want to make sure that before that happens they know what the requirements are going to be. and so that they can get ready. so on day one, they know what to expect. we have been talking to the speaker about that particular requirement because when you think about it, with restaurants, if we're going to be looking at reopening restaurants and changing their capacity, then there is no way that they're going to not only be able to afford to bring back all of their employees, but the likelihood that they will even be able to afford their rent and other expenses is going to be really, really challenging. and so i think that part of our goal with the economic recovery task force is to look at ways, working with the department of public health, to provide guidance for these industries, to help people to get ready, so on day one they know

what they're going to be able to do. but the speaker has been absolutely incredible, and is aware that this could potentially be a challenge in light of the need to impose new restrictions on businesses that may make it difficult for them to be able to bring back their employees. the other thing that the economic recovery task force will do is also look at ways to ensure that our workforce adapts to what our new normal is. we have folks from the academic world who many of our institutions were asking them to look at their classes and what they have available, in order to retrain people for maybe a new opportunity that they may not have thought was possible. because they're not able to return to their job. and so we're looking at other industries. we're looking at how many contact tracers

we're going to need, because until a vaccine is found, there is a need to identify when someone has a virus, who have they been in contact with? not just in their immediate family at home, but others in other parts of the community, along with more testing. this is going to be necessary for us to open and to remain open so that we don't see a significant surge in the number of cases. so it's going to take a major effort to start thinking differently about things won't necessarily go back to the same. but i think that there is an adjustment that we can make, if we're prepared to make it, and our economic recovery task force is going to play an important role in helping us do that. and i'm going to continue to advocate not just the speaker, but our senators as well, we have a great relationship with kamala harris and other. we have con tact contact with te

mayors about what adjustments need to be made because we'll all be in the same boat. >> i'm going to kind of backtrack a little bit into a question that was asked many times. many small business owners are reporting seeing an increase intents and street, unsheltered homelessness in commercial corridors and other in other words. in otheother neighborhoods.whao help the homeless, who are at a greater risk of contracting coronavirus? >> mayor: if you own a business, you know the challenges of homelessness don't go away because there is a pandemic. in fact, they've been worse for us. although we've been able to get close to a thousand people into hotel rooms, the ability to address homeless in

the age of social distancing has been so difficult. and so what you're seeing is we are ramping up our hotels, but we also have to have staff and meals and cleaning and services and management of these hotels to ensure that staff and the folks who work there are safe, but also the people who are located in those hotel rooms are safe as well. it is a massive undertaking, requiring a significant increase in our capacity. and it is really taxing on our workforce. and when i say our workforce, is no it is not just people in the city and non-profits, all of the employees that are disaster workers -- we've had to retrain librarians and rec and park staff and other people who have not hired to do these jobs, to work with this population in these capacities. we are not going to be

able to place our entire homeless population into hotel rooms. but what we're trying to do is get creative around how we're able to provide them help and to find safe locations where we can divert the tents off of the sidewalks, off of the streets into larger areas and larger parking lots. specifically we're looking at everett middle school as an option, and we're working with supervisor mandelman on that. and we're looking at other locations in the bay view. we have trailers that we received from the state and that we also purchased, that we plan to place at pier 92, to move people out of tents and into the shelters, people who are residents of the bay view. we're trying to get creative to try to get as many people off the streets as we possibly can. it is challenging and will continue to be challenging. but we're going to continue to do the very best that we can. and i cannot, you know,

commit to seeing this major change around the removal of tents if we don't have places for people to go. we have to make sure that we have restrooms, wash stations, and other things when we take responsibility for any of the folks that are housed intents at this time. we're going to continue to get creative and provide informal locations and work with the department of public health and the department of homelessness to do just that. and i will say, as much as we've been able to do, not only providing meals to our shelters, meals to these hotels, and meals to people who are in tents, and cleaning services and other support, it continues to be a challenge to ramp up to the number of staffing that we need in order to meet what we see a significant population

of homeless people in our city. >> just to kind of start talking a little bit more -- to talk a little bit more about recovery and reopening, what do you think will the new standards look for operating a business in this city? we have different types of needs for different high-contact industries, such as restaurants, hair and nail salons, like you had mentioned, dental offices, things like that. what are your thoughts on that? >> mayor: so i'm glad you asked that question, because, again, part of our goal with our economic recovery task force with a lot of the different industries, we want to work together to provide those guidelines. so, for example, most of what we see happening with the department of public health and the decisions that are being made are centered around

what we need to do to protect public health. so it focuses on trying to keep people apart from one another in order to avoid getting the virus. and what we're experiencing with our economy, and what we're seeing with the numbers, they have real concerns about opening up too fast because we still see the number of hospitalizations have gone up. we still see, every day, an increase number in the number of people who are positive for covid-19, and we've had 23 deaths, over 1400 cases, and about 85 people who are hospitalized. so they are not comfortable we are out of the woods because those numbers continue to rise you say flattening the curve, but it is pretty flat, relative to most other major cities, but it has not dropped. and what we've done today, for example, in extending the stay-at-home order for an additional month, during that time or goal

is to not sit around and wait until direction is given from the department of public health. we are going to provide the guidance for how we can get back to opening up some of our businesses. so, for example, just think about it, the restaurants have delivery and pickup services. we have non-essential businesses that possibly, with the right kinds of guidelines, could potentially be open for the same pickup and delivery services as well. the place where i buy my candles, you know, where they have, you know, all these knick-knacks and things that i like to buy. why not make sure that those small businesses that serve our communities have the pickup and drop-off service. and what we have to do, and what i'm hoping or economic recovery task

force will do with these various industries, are what are some new guidelines for various industries? because i'm not going to wait around for the department of public health to say, okay, yes, it is okay to open our hair salons and our barber shops. what i want to do is get ready for that and provide for them the suggested guidelines, get them to agree and to allow some of these places to start to reopen. because that's where we are now. we have to start working on this now. so, for example, if we set up guidelines today, that three weeks from now, or four weeks from now, this is what a beauty salon needs to be doing in order to get open, then they can get prepared for that. and they can start booking appointments and working with their costumers. if they can only have one person in the shop at a time -- what does that mean? i'm not suggesting that that is going to happen, because part of it is

contingent upon what happens with our numbers. what happens with the number of people who are infected. and so we are open to suggestions from our business community. if you have a unique business and you don't necessarily interact with the public, but you have items that you sell and your not online, but there is a way you could provide pickup and delivery, what does that look like? i think we have to start having those discussions now, so that we can get people ready. if they're going to need to wear gloves and masks when they're doing certain services, we need to get people ready so they have the supplies that they need. that is a continued conversation i'm hoping we will focus this additional month of may on those kinds of solutions because when we reopen, it will not be business as usual. things are going to be a lot different, especially in light of not having a vaccine. there are going to be some challenges with

large-scale events. there are going to be challenges with nightclubs, with hair and nail salons, but it doesn't mean that we should not look at ways we can reopen and make sure that we're practicing certain techniques or requirements that will help limit the number of people that would be infected. >> this is our last question, maybe for rodney. how can small businesses and small business owners be leaders in the recovery efforts? >> yeah. i think the mayor spoke well about creativity and ingenuity. we want everyone to figure out what they want to do next and how their business is going to shift. i will share that there is one website, where there is a public survey put out by the recovery task force.

1san francisco.org francisco.org/covid-19 recovery. we want to have more students foopportunities for pee to give structure. hopefully we'll have a playbook. there will not be an exact plan, but a whole list of plays that we can put into play, that she can pull from that will have a matrix of. as this changes, it is very different -- in fact, maybe an earthquake recovery would be somewhat easier than this recovery because it may have some start and stops. we'll try to have as much information with regard to making opportunities from the public. >> thank you. i wanted to thank everybody for being on this panel today and sharing advice,

encouragement, all of these things, for all of us because we need it right now. mayor breed, would you like to close this off today? >> mayor: yeah. first of all, thank you, commissioner huey, for your work with this. you mentioned in the beginning that you had a number of people who registered and provided questions. so i want to ask you to make sure that joaquin gets that list with the questions, and he and his team will respond to those questions to try to do what we can to make sure that we are answering them. you can also e-mail joaquin or e-mail me at mayorlondonbreed mayorlondonbreed@sfgof.o rg. it is better if you reach out to me by e-mail, not on social media because i'm not allowed to get on

official media because my staff, they are trying to -- they won't let me do stuff. [laughter] >> if you respond to me, we'll get back to you as quickly as we can with your questions. joaquin and his team have been great with providing resources for small businesses. i'm on the phone regularly, not only trying to raise private dollars to support our small businesses, but also trying to redirect funds and figuring out creative ways to support our small business community. i also just want to repeat one of the things i've said. as we start to propose policies that can help our small business community, we're going to really need the small business community to rally around those policies because we know that it's a matter of whether or not you will be able to even reopen as we start to open our doors here in the city again. so it is important that we hear from you, that

you, of course, are paying attention to what is happening around the policy discussions, that you're contacting your board of supervisors and making clear to them what is important to you. again, i know it is a real struggle. it is a real struggle. and what we want to do is make sure that we are helping to meet the needs of people who need help now. and we want to get to people, and we want to be as supportive as we possibly canment and we can. and we know that we are all going through it, whether it is our business or in our personal lives, as all of us are required to stay at home. i just really want to express my appreciation to so many people in this city who have just followed the orders and have put us in a situation where our numbers, in comparison to other major cities, are absolutely remarkable. we're not out of the woods yet. we can't let up just

yet, but what we can do is start to look at creative ways to get back on our feet again, to get back to opening businesses or industries with certain guidelines that are approved by the public health department. that's really where i want to get to. so send us your suggestions. send us your comments. send us your love. no complaints, please, because (laughing) -- you can send complaints, i'm just kidding. send us e-mails with what you suggest that we do to help make things better for you because we really are in this together. and it is going to take a lot of hard work and a lot of patience to get through it. we appreciate you all being with us today. and hang in there. and, you know, make sure that you do everything you can to bring our businesses back to our city.

and i'm going to do everything i can from the mayor's office to support you in doing that. >> thank you. thank you, mayor breed. >> mayor: thank you. >> chair peskin: good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am the chair, aaron peskin, joined by committee member, dean preston, and soon to be joined by supervisor ahsha safai. the clerk is miss erica major. miss major, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. due to the covid-19 emergency and to protect members of the board and public, city hall and the hearing chamber are closed.

since precautions are enacted, committee members will call in and participate in the meeting to the extent as if they were physically present. public comment is allowed on each agenda item. the number to call in is streaming across the screen. to participate, call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 146-286-9171. then press pound, and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, please dial

star-three to be added to the speaker line. you will only need to press star-three ones to be lined up to speak. best practice is to call from a quiet location, and turn down your volume on your speaker or radio. if you submit public comment via e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisor and be part of the official file. finally, items acted upon today are expected to be heard at the board of supervisors agenda on august 25 unless otherwise stated. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk, and before you call the first item. we have been joined by vice chair safai. with that, miss major, could you please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. item number 1 is a reenactment of emergency ordinance, ordinance number 84-20, to establish protections inform

occupants of residential hotel or s.r.o. residents during the covid-19 pandemic. members of the public who wish to comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 146-286-9171, then press pound and pound again. please press star-three if you want to speak. >> chair peskin: thank you. and thank you to the members of the full board who voted to pass this ordinance that is up for reenactment today. i also want to thank the department of public health and my or some of our former colleagues, katy tang, who has been a remarkable liaison between the department of public health and the board of

supervisors in this and other matters. appearing before us is dr. stephanie cohen and jim marks from the department of public health, and let me say that i am quite aware that testing is under a lot of constraints in the city, in the state, in this country as testing resources are being moved to other parts of this country where there is much more transmission and death. i am also aware that i have -- i'm not aware of, i have been a champion of making sure that in residential hotels that exist in northbound beach, chinatown, the tenderloin, the mission, for the most part, which are

extremely transmissive environments with congregant shared settings -- shared kitchens, shared baths -- that we do everything in our power to decrease the spread of covid through increased testing, and we've done that in a variety of ways. colleagues, i want to say that given the constraints that i've earlier mentioned, we've been in contact with members of the s.r.o.s -- advocates and s.r.o.s. to that end, i think transparency and data is

paramount. that has been rather opaque for all of us, and i know that d.p.h. has been trying to get that data and, most importantly, accurate data, before everybody. and i want to thank the department of health and former supervisor tang and dr. cohen for engaging in discussions with s.r.o. collaboratives last week. i think that is the beginning of the building of that trust. what i'd like to do is get a presentation from d.p.h. and then, subject to public comment, make a motion to continue this as that data becomes publicly relation and the development of that relationship, which may or may not lead to trust, evolves. so thank you, dr. cohen, for your work with me and my chief of staff, sonny angulo, over

the last couple of weeks, so i'll turn it over to you. >> thank you, supervisor. i'll share my screen to you can see the presentation. can you see that? >> chair peskin: no. >> okay. how about now? >> yes. go ahead. >> thank you for the opportunity to present to you an emergency ordinance regarding s.r.o.s today. since april 2020, i've been serving as the med epilead in

san francisco's department of public health emergency response team. this figure shows our team. we are located in the outbreak management group. we have been growing our team as fast as we can and have an incredible dedicated, talented group that includes nurse practitioners, nurses, social workers, health workers, disaster service workers from across city agencies as well as volunteers. half of our team is bilingual and spanish, and we work closely with colleagues in the command, including the investigation branch. we work closely with the seating unit, h.s.h., our

community-based housing providers, and others. our work really starts with surveillance. as you know, laboratories are required by law to report covid-19 tests to the health department. on a daily basis, all new cases are matched by address to a database of all buildings in san francisco that are s.r.o.s per administrative code section 41.4 or that are permanently supportive housing s.r.o.s. all cases are interviewed, assessed about their ability to self-isolate and quarantine, and asked about their facts. the contact tracing team then follows up with any close contacts, assesses their ability to safely quarantine, and refers them to i.n.q. if needed and refers them to

testing. the s.r.o. team reviews each of these investigations for every s.r.o. residents and reoffers i.n.q. to the case if not already done. as mentioned, we work closely with our community mitigation branch who has a community liaison who notifies the branch if there is a case in the s.r.o. the community liaison provides community assistance to the s.r.o. manager, including mitigation measures and the health officer's order on environmental cleaning standards. our liaison also interviewed the manager to get more information on the information. we try to ascertain the number of people in the building, and we ask about other important factors, like the number of residents who are over the age of 60, whether there are private bathrooms or shared,

whether residents are working, whether people are masking, etc. we then determine the risk of interbuilding transmission based on this case interview as well as other investigations. if a building is low to moderate risk and only a single case or a few cases spread out over time, we conduct a mitigation site visit. during the visit, a team of field staff, dedicated, really cultural competent staff go door to door in the building. they talk with residents, they deliver masks and cleaning supplies, and they provide education and support around covid-19 prevention and refer to community resources -- for instance, where folks can pick up food and things like that. this is absolutely essential to our prevention efforts. this is really the way that we prevent covid from entering a

building in the first place. since april 2020, we have done site visits at 44 s.r.o.s, reaching an estimated 1760 residents, and you see here the breakdown of where we have made visits based on neighborhood, and this really reflected -- reflects where we're seeing cases, and we're training volunteers for mekos and ucsf, and they've gone on these visits, as well. so for buildings with multiple risk factors and for more than one case in a household in a short period of time, we're concerned that there was a cluster or out -- there is a cluster or outbreak in the building, we do on-site testing.

we send a team prior to testing to obtain the names of all the people in the building. we provide pretest counseling, refer residents to i.n.q. creating this list is a resource intensive but necessary step so that we can create the lab orders in advance of testing and so that we can assess the number of residents at risk. we need to test as many people as we can, so we need to know how many people are there, and isolate them from the cohort, essentially, the folks who test positive from the folks who test negative. what we have found is that many residents -- and this flier here is a picture of one of our i.n.q. hotels. but what we've found is that many residents do not want to

go to i.n.q. hotels. there are many reasons for this, including they're just afraid of the unknown. they don't want to leave the family members that they live with, they're afraid of evictions, loss of income, and loss of job. so residents who decline i.n.q., we arrange for food delivery, delivery of cleaning supplies, and try to support them to isolate in place, and refer all residents who qualify to the i.n.q. program. [inaudible] >> can you still hear me? >> yeah. >> okay. thank you. so we have conducted 27 events at 18 s.r.o., and when there is an outbreak at an s.r.o., we

continue to go back and test until we find no new cases. in our partners with chinatown hospital and v.r.o., we've tested 4,000 residents. >> chair peskin: miss cohen, just relative to the seven in chinatown, is that in addition to the 27 or does that include the 27? >> that's in addition, and the seven are not all in chinatown because, as you know, supervisor peskin, chinese hospitals has tested at three sites, but there were four sros that had a number of v.a. veterans living with them, and in those instances, the v.a. provided on-site testing. those were not in chinatown. so to show you some of the data that i think illustrate overall

how we're doing in terms of prevention of s.r.o. residents would be first to show you the positivity rate. the positivity rate for s.r.o. residents is similar to the positivity rate for others, for non-s.r.o. residents who live in the same neighborhood in which that s.r.o. is located. so on the left, you see, since the beginning of the pandemic, the positivity for people who live in the tenderloin has been 6.7%. for mission, 5.1, and chinatown, 2.4, and you see the positivity just for the month of july 2020. highlighted in the yellow, across those same time periods, you see the positivity rate of those who live in an s.r.o. so this suggests in the absence of an outbreak.

an -- out break, an s.r.o. resident is not at higher risk of an outbreak than any other resident. >> chair peskin: and, miss cohen, can we chair that to the rest of the population of san francisco and the rest of the population statewide? i mean, these numbers tell us that we're all in deep trouble, but that we're doing a better job in s.r.o.s, even though they're more transmissive environments. but can you compare those numbers, whether they're all-time or for july, not only between the rest of the neighborhood but the rest of the city? >> so, supervisor peskin, i think it's most appropriate to look at that question locally. i think that comparison statewide and nationally would not be as relevant because positivity is very reflective

of rates of testing, and in san francisco, we are doing much more testing than in other places. and i think i will just show you the next slide on testing and then see if jim marks is available and wants to comment specifically on your question because you have to take this positivity rate into account in the context of testing. so to that point, what we have found is the rate of testing of s.r.o. residents than the rate of testing overall. overall, everyone who has been tested for covid in san francisco, 10,310 tests are linked to s.r.o. residents. and as i mentioned through on-site testing, we've tested about 1,000 folks, so most of these tests are s.r.o. residents who are getting tested through their health care provider or through our

safety net system of access to testing, and that comes out to about 45 tests per 100 residents. overall, our rate is 36 tests per 100 residents. jim, if you are on the line, would you like to add anything in terms of supervisor peskin's questions? >> chair peskin: jim, i'd like to get an apple-to-apple comparison, and i understand what dr. cohen is saying having an apples-to-oranges comparison with the rest of the country to the rest of the state, but going back to my question, that would be great if you have an answer. >> yes. so for san francisco, the overall, would you go back to that slide that has positivity. so all of the san francisco since the beginning of the pandemic, the positivity rate

on about 340,000 tests is 3.8%, so lower than what you see for the tenderloin and mission, and a little higher than what you see for chinatown. and positivity in july, where we've had a surge of cases is 3.55% for all of san francisco. and again, there's significant variation in the positivity rates by neighborhood and by census tract within the neighborhood, so the tenderloin and the mission throughout the pandemic have had higher positivity rates than much of the rest of the city. western addition and vis valley had higher positivity rates than what we're seeing here.

stephanie's point is very well taken, which is to say the less testing you do, the less -- the more testing you do, the lower the positivity rate is going to be testing positivity is probably overall -- and there are websites that indicate this -- questions the amount of disease -- [inaudible] that said, san francisco is in the

3.38 to 3.55% when surging, and that is lower than the state of california as a whole. i think the rate for california is 6% as a whole. right now, san francisco's testing at about four tests per 1,000 population per day. it's higher than any county in san francisco, so we're definitely testing at a very high rate. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. marks, and i don't know if there's somebody -- i've got a bunch of static on my line, so i don't know if there's somebody that needs to mute -- oh, that is so much better. thank you for that. so dr. cohen, why don't you go back to your presentation, and thank you, mr. marks or dr. marks. i don't know if you're a doctor, but if you are, i'll call you doctor. i've written a whole list of questions, but why don't we go back to your presentation, dr.

cohen. >> great. thanks, and thanks for adding that, jim. so one other data point to share, which i think is a very important one is the last death of an s.r.o. resident occurred on june 3, 2020, and we have found that s.r.o. residents -- the mortality rate of s.r.o. residents is lower than the rate of san francisco and the entire state. overall, since the beginning of the pandemic in san francisco, we have had five deaths among s.r.o. residents, and so that comes out -- out of a total of 502 cases, and that comes out to a case fatality rate of 1%. so as you see here, slightly higher than the case fatality rate for san francisco as a

whole. certainly lower than the california case fatality and the u.s. case fatality rate. i think just as -- sorry. this is also a reflection to a certain extent of testing because through aggressive testing events, we're finding individuals with asymptomatic or mild disease. we're not just finding the people who are coming in sick, seeking testing. i'm sorry, supervisor, were you about to ask a question? >> chair peskin: no, i was about to say something that is entirely irrelevant. please proceed. >> we know that making this data publicly available or available is very important to this committee, to the board, and to the public, and the emergency ordinance does require us to share data on the s.r.o.s on the city's data tracker, including the elements or specifically the elements listed here.

and the dashboard is almost ready. there's an anticipated launch date of friday, august 28. there will be a seven-day lag, meaning the data you see on the dashboard will represent what happened up to a week prior due to the intensive validation procedures that we go through to really confirm the address of each case. in terms of the emergency ordinance on protection for occupants of residential hotels, i think just to start to say that we appreciate and are aligned with the board of supervisors' commitment to protecting this population. we are asking the chair and the committee to reevaluate the requirement that requires testing of all s.r.o. residents

within 48 hours of a single test. [inaudible] this approach is not a strategic or efficient use of our limited testing resources, and we really want to use those resources strategically and efficiently. our experience has shown us that a single case in an s.r.o. does not predict that there is a cluster or outbreak. we use all of our tools to guide us so we can predict where and when to test. secondly, we are asking the committee to reevaluate the requirement to deliver face coverings to all s.r.o. residents within 12 hours of a single confirmed case. this is section 3.g.4. we have provided s.r.o.s information how they can get masks, and we reinforce that

through the department of building infection, community health inspectors, as well as our community liaisons. we would like to respectfully request a continuance to the call of the chair such that we can obtain verification on some privacy rules that you had requested, supervisor peskin, so that we can continue to maintain our dashboard launch and our overall approach of prevention of covid-19 in s.r.o.s. thank you for allowing me to speak today, and please let me know if you have any questions. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, dr. cohen for taking this very seriously. and let me tell you, as i've told you privately, that i know that you are deeply committed to the health of our population and the health of this particular set of populations that live in congregate

settings, and i know that we are all constructing this plane as we're flying it. so having said that, i would like to first turn this over to my colleagues, supervisors safai and preston, to see if they have any questions or comments, and then turn it over to public comment, and then i have a series of questions that you and i have personally discussed with former supervisor tang that i'd like you to discuss publicly. so supervisor safai and supervisor preston, do you have any questions or comments? >> supervisor preston: no questions, and just incredibly important legislation. i'd like to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i'm okay, chair. thank you.

thank you for this very informatiinfor informative. it's good to know for people living in s.r.o.s, and thank you for focusing on this. i know when we had our initial conversations, i know this could have been a situation that turned out to be really bad for the community. could have been an explosion in passing as a source for covid, but instead, we got out in front of it. thank you for your leadership and thank you to d.p.h. and everyone here today for all your hard work. i know the minute you moved on this, we were focused on this back in march. >> chair peskin: i actually appreciate that, supervisor safai. when i asked what i thought was a related question to the rates in s.r.o.s compared to the surrounding neighborhoods, and i receive the answer from dr.

cohen, compared to not statewide or nationally, but the rest of the population, for one hand, chinatown, for reasons i had my own nonmedical beliefs about, has fared well, compared to the mission and the tenderloin that are elevated beyond the rest of the population. so while i sincerely appreciate your laudatory comments, supervisor safai, our collective job is to bring the percentage in the mission and the tenderloin less than the recent average. that is the reason for my admonition and the fact that the department of public health

work with the best people which aren't actually a bunch of politicians but are the leader of the s.r.o.s. it is my intention to continue this to the call of the chair. by the way, just to be very clear about that, given what you heard, which is that this data dashboard should be available on the last friday of this month, was going to hear this on august 31. but we will be at the height of our budget deliberations on that day, and we may or may not have a land use committee on the 31st, so i will continue it to the call of the chair, but it is my intention that this be heard and reenacted in no more than three weeks, and i will

ask that this be sent in the first meeting in september as a committee report to the full board of supervisors. and meanwhile -- and i don't think both bridge lines

have been muted. we will need a minute to reestablish a connection. >> chair peskin: okay. take your time.

>> okay. good, supervisor peskin. so last week, i had a good talk with barbara garcia. >> chair peskin: oh, good. >> and we agreed -- i mean, we didn't agree. she was the boss. she agreed with me that, true, some of the s.r.o.s are so filthy -- and used by the san francisco general hospital. i said what? the san francisco general hospital still continues to use

the s.r.o.s for patients because the san francisco general hospital, with a 2-p s $2-plus billion project, there is no reason for that. the officials are bullshitting us. no women should be living in s.r.o.s. let me tell you, no persons should be living in s.r.o.s, and dr. -- i'm not directing this to you. you're a good person. i can guess you have done whatever you could, but i have to speak the truth, and the

truth hurts. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. madam clerk, are we having technical difficulties? >> clerk: we are, unfortunately. >> operator: supervisor peskin, i think we're waiting for the next speaker. >> chair peskin: okay. go ahead, speaker. >> hello, can you hear me. >> chair peskin: yes, we can. >> this is anastas anastasia ionnapoulos. member of the antidisplacement

coalition. what impresses me in dr. coh cohen's presentation is they give cleaning supplies, but these are congregate bathrooms, congregate kitchens, and this is where it spreads. so, you know, are the people supposed to do the cleaning or the management supposed to do the cleaning? how does the cleaning get done? and the next thing that doctor said was that people are reluctant to leave their s.r.o. well, maybe there needs to be a little bit more outreach and work to get to these people that are isolated, that their homes are safe.

they can return if they're going to go to some hotel to be isolated. so these are things that the s.r.o. communities -- that you can work with them, the collaborative people and, you know, make a difference to people's lives. the cleanliness, and whether they're going to be -- have a home and not be evicted. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you that comment. and while we're not supposed to engage in comment during public dialogue, i do want to say pursuant to one of the earliest. i think the earliest emergency order issued by the mayor, it is actually upon the managerow that s.r.o. to utilize the cleaning standards issued during the pandemic. with that, next speaker, please.

>> clerk: hello. next speaker, please. >> hello. jim fujioca with the chinatown community center. i submitted an e-mail to the committee earlier this morning or this afternoon, signed by the mission s.r.o. collaborative, united families s.r.o. collaborative, chinatown c.d.c. partnership and senior partnership. i'll extract a few portions of that letter. we are very concerned to learn that the department is requesting an amendment eventually to water down a key component of the legislation. we think that the testing

mandate is essential aspect of the order, and that we note that the order has gun to serve its purpose by enhancing testing in s.r.o.s, and the -- what -- what was noted in the presentation by staff is that in some of the tested buildings, there have been more than 40 residents who have been infected. many of those who tested positive, we informed, were workers in the service or construction industry and shared rooms with these workers. given the high concentration of cases of people of color and people living in s.r.o.s and a resurgence in cases, this is no

time to scale back in testing. we note that the department was not in compliance with the order regarding compliance of data until last week, when we received the initial consultation. >> chair peskin: i'm sorry, madam clerk. mr. fujioca, if you could please finish your statement. i am in receipt of your s.r.o. collaborative's e-mail of 1:31 today, 1:31 p.m., so mr. fujioca, please finish your statement. >> clerk: i'm getting a message from d.p.h. that it

looks like the caller hung up. >> chair peskin: okay. yes. next speaker, please. >> [inaudible] and i can support to continue what we call the mission s.r.o. collaborative comments. >> chair peskin: i'm sorry, ma'am. do you support the continuance? is that what you said? >> yes. i don't know if you folks can hear me. my name is deanna florez. i am the director of programming at the delores street services. we signed onto the letter of the s.r.o. collaborative, and we deeply appreciate the elements of this order and want to echo the equity lenses that is needed to address the local response for congregate settings. it was pretty alarming to hear the overlapping of the

workforce and the residents of the s.r.o. in san francisco. we need to have an outreach in education that folks will feel and need to be supported in these resources. we also feel that the city of san francisco can do more to address the challenges that are being encountered in both the challenges around testing and the i.n.q. as well as contact tracing and contact mapping. we believe that there's -- this order should be renewed and reinforced in particular districts and zones, particularly because the mission has 52 s.r.o. hotels, and i believe that seven or 11 have been tested right now. thank you so much. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. florez. are there any other members of the public that wish to testify publicly on this item?

>> operator: we have two more callers. >> chair peskin: next caller, please. >> yes, hi. so i would like to raise some concerns about the privacy of s.r.o. residents? you know, i don't know exactly how extensive the contact tracing measures are, but certainly, there have been some instances where, you know people who have been identified -- publicly identified as tested positive for covid-19 have been discriminated against, beyond just simply being asked to self-isolate, but they've been physically attacked and so on.

i do think it's important that we have public health safety measures put in place, but i also think it's important that we also respect the privacy of s.r.o. residents. and i don't know how expensive these contact tracing measures are, but i think it could possibly set a dangerous precedent for future outbreaks. and so, again, that's my main concern with this legislation, so that's -- thank you. that's all i have to say. >> chair peskin: thank you for those comments, and when public comment is closed, i'm going to ask d.p.h. about some questions that will probably not be fully answered in regards to public health and these comments. next speaker, please.

>> hello? >> chair peskin: yes, please proceed. >> hello? >> chair peskin: yes, we can hear you. >> my name is eric marcoux, and i'm i'm on the neighborhood council and soma resident. [inaudible] once someone positive in an s.r.o. has occurred. i just believe these places are -- once something happens, it can go like wildfire, you know? you've got to stay on top of it. also, the data has been incomplete. they're supposed to give us daily update on it, and that should be done, as well. these populations are really --

it's just the populations of s.r.o.s are frequently low-income or seniors or people of color, and testing should be available especially to these populations. >> chair peskin: thank you for your comment. are there any other members of the public wishing to testify on this item number 1? >> operator: we have one more caller. >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. >> hello. regarding item number 1, this just invades the privacy, and again, the city -- it would make its policy to place the residents in solitary confinement and isolation hotel rooms, you know, that's -- i don't support this policy.

i think it's an invasion of privacy, it's an invasion of personal liberty and freedom, and just because you're poor and have to live in an s.r.o. doesn't mean that your freedom and right to choose who you want to be is violated. thank you. >> chair peskin: are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item? >> clerk: we have no more callers. >> chair peskin: thank you to clerk staff for that, and seeing no more callers, public comment is closed. dr. cohen, i'd like to drill down into notification and how that actually works, and if you can explain that to all three of us, none of whom are doctors, and the public, that would be really helpful to me.

>> thank you for that -- for that good question. i think that you and many other people who work with this population there's a big range of s.r.o.s and a big range of buildings that are defined as s.r.o.s through the administrative code. some of them have rooms with provide bathrooms. the degree of congregate space in each building is actually quite variable? and in addition, the specifics of each case are quite variable. so a single case in an s.r.o. does not necessarily predict that there will be many cases in that same s.r.o. in many cases, we find that a resident works, and, for instance, was tied to an outbreak at their workplace and actually was in isolation and

quarantine before they even tested, so maybe weren't on-site during the time that they were infectious, and those are the type of details that we are able to look into during our investigative process. the reason that's important is going into a building and not finding any cases is not a good use of our resources, so when we go test, we want to test in places, and we want to find cases there. and that is really the purpose of the risk stratification. the test doesn't do any good. it doesn't protect the individual who was tested, and it doesn't protect the individual's loved ones, work colleagues, etc. the goal of the testing is to find cases, so we want to go to buildings where we know there's a risk for multiple cases in

that building. >> chair peskin: so there are any number of questions -- thank you for that explanation. why don't we move to the notions of privacy, which i have been very vexed by not only because our society's outlook on privacy and public rights that i'd like to be i've been a champion of for a long time. but i've heard from the community, and it's been unclear to me, as a disease which comes with stigma, where the city wants to wraparound -- wrap our arms around these cases and provide opportunities for isolation and quarantine

without financial burden for things like p.p.e., to make managers and owners of these buildings to do their part. it is unclear how hipaa works. probably some of this should be the subject of a presentation by the county attorney of their findings, but if we could riff off of that a little bit. >> i think the city attorney is the best suited to comment, but i will say that as a physician who takes care of patients as my regular job, protecting each individual's private health information is, of course, a tenet of our work. and it's really only in very

unusual circumstances that we would risk disclosing someone's personal health information, including their covid status, for the sake of public health. right now, as you know in san francisco, there's widespread community transmission, and people are at risk of coming down with covid wherever they go, so they need to follow the mandates of social distancing, masking, and hand washing whenever they're out in the world. it's hard to find an exception around that core tenant protecting a resident's personal information. >> chair peskin: no, the issue

is really about making sure that other residents of these congregate settings have access to information that d.p.h. and other health officials have that i get not through d.p.h. but through the community because after 20 years of working in the community comes to me. and as we discussed yesterday -- and thank you for your candor yesterday -- the department of public health says we have an outbreak at m.s.c. south. the department of public health says we have an outbreak at public circle or laguna honda. it's not very hard to figure out where those addresses are. yet in the same breath, i am aware of and you are aware of -- despite the fact that you can't tell me, but the community tells me of any number of other addresses, and some of those, your stratification -- i mean, not

you, personally, but the health department's stratification, and you have -- whether or not we're in contravention of the community ordinance that we're talking about today and reenacting today, that you have implemented in an amount without wasting resource. and in other cases, in an unnamed building in chinatown, where you, we, were first informed early this month that went from four cases to ten cases, that stratification didn't work, and privacy was not our friend. and that's both a question and a comment. and to add to that question and comment, you stated earlier pursuant to the originally enacted legislation on may 19 that there is an affirmative

obligation to contact the manager. and, indeed, in the case of the afo aforementioned but not identified building, you did that. but there's also an obligation to contact the owner, and owners are actually much more responsible and have a much higher obligation as the owner relative to sanitation standards, relative to what one of the earlier callers spoke about, which is allaying fears of isolation and stigma. so i want to get our arms around how we not only notify managers of professional buildings, but managers of those buildings. so i know those are two different questions, but if you want to riff off of that, go ahead. >> sure. thank you. so as of the duty to warn, the

obligation to warn people in a building, we do notify close contacts of individuals in an s.r.o., but not every resident in an s.r.o. meets the c.d.c. definition of a close contact to covid, so that's where the risk stratification comes in. one the positivity in the building is high enough, we do consider the entire building is close contact, and we offer -- not require, but offer isolation and quarantine in hotels to all the resident. but for residents in a multiunit, multistory building with provide baths and provide kitchens where the person maybe got tests two weeks after their symptoms began and are no longer infectious, all of these

things come into play and there's not an obligation to notify every single person in the building. so it's complicated because there's so much rumor and there's so much fear around this infection in our community? and people hear things or they see things. they hear someone coughing, and they make assumptions. it's really hard to filter through that, and that is what our team is trying to do every day to make the best decisions for the folks in the building. so that's the first point around your decision to notify. the second point is, we were not notified of the case in the beginning of august, and we identified that as a high-risk building immediately, worked with our partners at mekos to

get the fliers going up. that's a community that needs a lot of additional support. we were back at that building today. we'll probably be back at that building again next week, and it's very upsetting. there's older folks in the building, and it's not what we want to see, but it's what our attem team is here to respond to. i think our stratification did work. i am as disappointed as you that there is an outbreak at a building in chinatown, and the unfortunate thing with covid, again, is we're experiencing a surge, and the only way to prevent it from affecting these buildings is to keep it from entering in the first place. the last point, your statement about owner versus property manager, i think we need to make changes to our process based on that feedback, and

we're very open to doing that and working with you to figure out how to do that. >> chair peskin: thank you, dr. cohen. we can do that in public or in provi private the rest of this week. i do want to thank you for all of the work that you and your team and your colleagues are doing. and if i have one request or admonition, is the best people in this aren't supervisors -- and yes, they are partly doctors and health professionals, but primarily, they are the folks in the community who have advocated for generations of folks who have lived in these buildings who have always been vulnerable but now are particularly vulnerable. and i am -- maybe proud is the wrong word, but deeply appreciative that as least as

to the s.r.o.s in chinatown, those numbers remain below that 3.38 and 3.55 number. i not only want to keep that number down in chinatown, but i want to replicate that number with the latinx community in the mission, i want to replicate that number with the many communities that are low-income/disadvantaged in the tenderloin, and that's why that's so important and why i've pushed on this. having said all of that, my admonition is the best people that you can work with are the representatives, the advocates of those communities, and i know you're committed to doing that, and i know you're committed to making all of this information public and transparent. and with that, if there are no comments or questions from supervisors safai or preston, i

would like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair but intend to hear this no later than the first meeting in september. hearing no objection, madam clerk, roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. madam clerk, can you please read item number 2. >> clerk: yes. item number 2 is an emergency ordinance to temporarily prohibit construction projects in buildings with any residential rental units that require the suspension of water or utility service to residential tenants without providing alternative sources of water and power or reaching an agreement with tenants due to the covid-19 pandemic. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on

this item should call the number 415-655-0001, press 146-286-9171. please press pound, and pound again, and press star-three to provide public comment. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. members of the committee, we heard this item last week. are there any members of the public who would like to

provide public comment? >> operator: we have one caller. >> chair peskin: first speaker, please. >> clerk: hello, caller? hello, caller? >> operator: the caller has unraised their hand. >> chair peskin: are there any other members of the public on this item number 2? >> operator: there are no more callers on the line. >> chair peskin: and before i ask my colleagues for their questions, comments, and make a motion, i will say that there were some suggestions that were made with regard to removing from this shelter in place ordinance removing buildings that were undergoing seismic

recei retrofits, and i will say i do believe our colleague, supervisor mandelman, is working on introducing legislation to extend the deadline of the fourth and final tier of those mandated retrofits, which is why i chose not to accommodate those potential amendments. and with that, i will turn it over to colleagues. supervisor preston, or supervisor safai. i see supervisor safai's physical hand up. do you have any questions or comments? >> supervisor safai: yes. i appreciate that because that answered one of my questions today, chair peskin, about the seismic retrofit, so i think that's good. i think that can be very disruptive, similar to what you've referred to during this time of sheltering in place, of sheltering in peace.

the one thing that gives me concern that i want to talk about with you is the mandatory fire system upgrades because that is something that we've talked about many years on this board. i know it's something that you've put a lot of time and effort into. in regards to the conversation with s.r.o.s, a few years ago, we had that horrible fire in the mission where the systems were not upgrades, the sprinklers were not in, so it seems to me we would extend the seismic portion of this conversation, because it seems to me that we're buying ourselves more time, but the seismic thing is something that could happen any time, and it's something that's been happening very often in my district, or at least we've experienced quite a few fires in my district. i'd like to hear what you have to say, but it seems like

making an exemption for fire system upgrades would be a smart amendment, unless you're looking at another amendment. >> chair peskin: so let me just ask you, are you referring to then-supervisor, now governor newsom's sprinkler ordinance that i amended three or four years ago that requires certain buildings to install sprinkler systems because i believe that that ordinance has been fully or almost fully complied with. so i am not sure what you would like done? >> supervisor safai: i think there was something that we might have heard related to the fire alarm systems? >> chair peskin: right. so then, let me get to the -- my presentation of last week

and my comments of last week, which is, number one, this ordinance says that if there is an interruption in water or electrical service more than two hours, accommodations have to be made to the tenant through the provision of water or alternate energy through a generator enough to power a computer and the wifi service associated there with. as i said last week, it is actually relatively anemic. i do not understand how the insertion of a fire alarm system would have to do with that -- hold on one second, supervisor. >> supervisor safai: yeah, that's fine. >> chair peskin: yeah.

if they shutdown the power, you've got to put a generator up if it's more than two hours to allow people to have a modicum of power during that time. i don't see that as a remarkable burden. >> supervisor safai: i'm not sure either, but i guess it was similar to what we were talking about last time. it could cause some -- ser certainly, it could cause people to have some pause if there's work to be done in other units. so maybe it's similar to supervisor mandelman -- i know it's not the best solution, but what i'm concerned about if workers have to go into other people's units, which would be kind of a contradiction of shelter in place -- i think the deadline is coming up, july 1, 2021. >> chair peskin: you are absolutely right, and

interestingly enough, i've incide interceded in a number of cases, as mr. dicoscio knows of individuals who had to shelter in place in individual units. but i don't think any of that is implicated by this ordinance. this ordinance is quite narrow and quite specific. if you're shutting off the water and power for more than two hours, there are protocols for notice, and there are protocols for replacement energy or water. i don't think any of that implicates what you're bringing up. i think the larger question that we addressed had to do with receipt otrofits. we heard from a resident of

genoa, and as you'll recall, the reason that this item was continued one week was in and around the provisions around creation of large amounts of noise for folks who were sheltering in place to shelter in place. >> supervisor safai: right, of course. >> chair peskin: but i don't that any of that is implicated to the extent that you're raising it for firearm alarm systems. so to the extent that someone has to gain access to an individual's tenant's unit, and it does not involve the shut off of water -- >> supervisor safai: no, it's that you have to enter the unit and shut off the power for a period. >> chair peskin: so the entrance is not implemented in this legislation. if the turning off of power

requires notice and the provision of what could be a battery or could be a generator, i don't think any of that, respectfully, through myself, to you, are implicated through -- [inaudible]. >> supervisor safai: well, back to you, through to yourself, i think probably one of the things that might be worthwhile is also talking to supervisor mandelman because maybe it's a deadline thing. i think the other thing that i've heard from folks that are concerned aboutface they want want -- about this is they want to comply with this ordinance, so maybe we can take this system and put it all together. >> chair peskin: these are extraordinary times, and we are putting in place extraordinary measures. i am happy to speak to supervisor mandelman and happy

to speak with mr. dicoscio as to whether he has any concerns with the current firearm alarm legislation. >> supervisor safai: okay. >> chair peskin: madam clerk, out of an abundance of caution, are there any members of the public who would like to speak? i will reopen item number 2. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. >> operator: we have one caller in the queue. >> chair peskin: first speaker, please. >> umm, yeah. i just have concerns that this legislation would, you know -- we're having very difficult economic times right now, and so construction -- in some ways, this is a good time for

construction because there are fewer people on the roads, and, and so, you know, we need to have that economic -- sort of get back to where people need jobs and allow people to go on. so i have concerns about the economic impacts of that, and yeah. i'd rather construction being happening now as compared to when people don't need to be using the roads than later on in the future. and i believe that the concern about noise, people are concerned about noise, that they can go take a walk in the park or something, so yeah, thank you. that's my comment. >> chair peskin: are there any

other members of the public that would like to comment on item number 2. >> operator: we have one more caller. >> chair peskin: yes. >> yeah. about this whole thing, it's really going to hurt all the businesses and the contractors. they are the ones making a living doing instruction, and i just don't really see anything. we see everyone's already leaving san francisco, so i think there should be minimums, you know, like the building has to be occupied, enough of the apartments have to be occupied at any given time, something like that. there needs to be more leniency in this. yeah, that's all i have to say. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no other members of the public comment, for the second time, public comment has been opened on this issue, public comment is closed, and i will say that -- to the previous two

speakers, this is not road construction, my friends, this is construction in apartment buildings in a rent controlled city where we have seniors and low-income individuals who actually cannot leave their house to go to the park. and respectfully, those were two of the more ignorant comments i've ever heard. with that, i would like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. madam clerk, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion to sent the report -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: yes. item 3 is an ordinance amending the health code to establish cleaning and disease prevention standards and practices in tourist hotel and large

commercial office buildings to help contain covid-19, or other contagious public health threats, to require training relates to these standards for employees, provide certain protections to employees as they perform cleaning duties, and prohibit retaliation against employees for refusing to perform work under conditions they believe may be unsafe or for reporting such conditions or exercising rights protected by the ordinance. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. major. colleagues, i would like to continue, as i did, with item number 1, this item to the call of the chair but would like to schedule it, if we have a meeting on the 31st day of this month, if we do not, at our

first meeting of september. if there are no questions and no objections, i'd like to open this up to public comment and continue this to the call of the chair. madam clerk, are there any speakers on this item? >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. sean from d.t. is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. sean, please let us know the status. >> operator: there are no callers in queue. >> chair peskin: seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. i'd like to make a motion, pursuant to my earlier comments, continue this item to the call of the chair. madam clerk, on that item, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion to continue to the call of the chair -- [roll call] >> clerk: you have three ayes. >> chair peskin: thank you, madam clerk. we are adjourned. [gavel]

>> good evening. welcome to the august 12 meeting of the police commission. please call the roll. [roll call] >> i a quorum. chief william scott is here and chief of staff is here with us

tonight. >> thank you very much. for members of the public who wish to make a comment on any of the items on the agenda the phone number is (408)418-9388 access (146)187-6545. the board of supervisors meeting is still happening right now. this is viewable on sfgovtv.org. for anyone who would like to watch it live, it is streamed on that website. members of the public please mute any devices.

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members of the public and presenters there are three different english proficiency reports tonight. after the sfpd report i will ask sarah from d.p.a. to start so they can be heard together. when members of the public are able to comment they will have her presentation. please call the first line item. >> 1. adoption of minutes. the meetings of july 1, 8, 15 of 2020. >> motion? >> motion. >> second. >> please call the roll for the vote. >> we need to make public comment. members of the public to make

public comment online item one for adoption of minutes press star 3 to raise your hand. we have one caller. >> you have two minutes. >> this is mimi clausener. i have asked you to separate the chief's report, dph director's report and commissioner's reports. you refused to do so. the sunshine ordinance restricts combining of discussion or action items independent from each other and must allow public testimony on each item for discussion or action. specifically, section 67-point 7-a agenda requirements regular meeting said at least 72 hours before the regular meeting

policy body shall post agenda containing meaningful description of each item of business to be transacted or discussed at the meeting. the statement is for discussion only. a policy body shall post the agenda on the internet site 72 hours before the regular meeting. since it has been several months i have to conclude you are discouraging meaningful public comment. i ask you what is so threatening about hearing from the people you are supposed to be representing? >> can everybody mute themselves? >> thank you. this is to note briefly. this is something the previous

commissions looked into and specifically made a decision about. this commission is waiting on advice on this specific issue as well. any more callers? >> no, that is it. >> next line item. >> on the motion for the adoption of minutes. commissioner da jesus. >> yes. >> hama stocky. >> yes. >> elias. >> yes. >> brookter. >> question. >> taylor. >> yes. >> the motion passes. next line item. >> consent calendar. request for approval to accept donation of 244 backpacks from the park quell foundation to be distributed to community-based organizations b magic and mo

magic valued at $2,440. d.p.a. document protocol quarterly report. >> are we just voting on this. >> we are just voting. >> do i have a motion. >> so moved. >> second. >> any public comment? >> members of the public that would like to have public comment online item 2, consent calendar hit star 3 now to raise your hand. >> there is no public comment. >> please call the vote. >> on the motion to request approval of donation of backpack. commissioner dejesus. >> yes.

>> hama saki. >> yes. >> commissioner elias. >> thank you for the donation, and yes. >> commissioner brookter. >> yes. >> vice president taylor. >> ditto on the thanks and yes. >> you have five questions. >> the motion passes. next line item. document protocol quarterly report. >> is someone presenting on this? >> no. >> do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> is this the d.p.a. report that commissioner taylor spoke about moving it to september? let's take this off the calendar today and move it to september for a more complete matter about

the d.p.a. and document protocol and the issues between d.p.a. and the police department with regard to access to documents. we will take this off and discuss this in september. >> line item 3. reports to the commission. discussion. achieve's report. weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents. activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to the determining whether or not to calder for a future meeting. >> update on 20-44. presentation of the family code. presentation of the department's

collection analysis of sexual assault kit evidence. 16-28 adopted april 20, 2016. presentation of the limited english proficiency annual report 2019. you. >> about evening, vice president taylor, commissioners, chief of staff and the public. i will start my report today with crime trends then move to the significant incidents and update on resolutions expressing support for black lives, 20-44. after that we will have deputy chief give a presentation on family code 6228 quarterly report and then we will do a presentation on the department's collection analysis of sexual

assault kit evidence and reporting of the results to sexual assault victims report then a presentation about the limited english proficiency annual report 2019. >> crime trends for the week. we are overall down 22% year-to-date. sorry down 22% come teared to last week. year-to-date 19% compared to 2019. looking at the crimes this week we were 19% down over last week. year-to-date down 18%. however, the bad news is that homicides are up 13% as of august 9th. i have a report of several homicides since then that i will

give a quick list and we will have more details in next week's report. as of august 9th there were 27 homicides in 2020. that is a 13% increase. there are no homicides between august 9. then five homicides in july. 13 of the 27 cases are clear and 12 were cleared by arrest and one cleared by exceptional means. gun violence down 4%. we had a shooting in the reporting period. one shooting causing injury to two victims. total 59 incidents resulting in 75 victims. this report is sent to the commission. if you look at gun violence for the five year trend, we have

modest reductions this year. we are still below where we were last year when you look at the previous five years. we are significant lee-l signift year. property crimes last week versus this week down 22%. year-to-date 19%. auto burglaries down 17%. 52% when we compare to 2017. again, good progress. we know this year has been affected by covid and that caused percentage decrease this year. i want to go back to shootings district by district contrary to

year-to-date analysis. bayview district leads in terms of volume of shootings. 27 shooting incidents this year in bayview. that is compared to 24 last year. they are significantly above the other districts. the next closest is tenderloin with 14 shootings this year compared to 7 last year. there are several district stations that have had modest reduction. northern district 4 compared to 3. the district is even. increases include 6 from last year to 10 this year. mission from 8 last year to 9

this year. >> someone should mute themselves. >> significant incidents this week. i want to share with the commission you are familiar with the case of avacasa. his mother is frequently at the commission reminding everybody the public and the commission not to forget her son's death, which happened in 2006. every year on august 16th ms. brown and her family and the police department and community members have a memorial service at the site where he was killed at grove and baker. she plans to do that again this year. i talked to ms. brown today.

we know what we are facing with the pandemic and social distancing and face coverings will be part of this event, but i would like to mention this will be this friday, august 14th. this will make the 14th anniversary of the shooting death. our investigators continue to pursue leads related to the incident. we are seeking public assistance to solve this cold case. he was shot multiple times at 3:14 p.m. on august 14th. we hope that somebody out there saw it and knows what is going on. after all of this time we are still asking for the public's assistance to bring this for a resolution for the family. on friday, ms. brown will speak about her son's murder and to remind the public there is a $250,000 reward for information

leading to the arrest and prosecution of the suspect or suspects in the death. as i mentioned earlier. we had nwe had since august 9th. since then we had a homicide on august 10 in the 1900 block of sunnydale. multiple rounds and the victim was transported to the san francisco general and succumbed to his injuries. he had some affiliation with one of the local neighborhood gangs. we are looking for video evidence to bring this to a resolution and hold those responsible who committed this crime. an additional homicide on augus. campus. we are cooperating with the

u.c.s.f. pd who has jurisdiction over the crime. we are asking for public support. unknown suspect stole the victim's phone plugged into a wall at the location. victim and suspect got into a fiscal altercation and immediately following the altercation the victim exited and collapsed on the sidewalk. he was pronounced deceased. this did occur on the hospital property. we will assist in any way possible. we have an m.o.u. with the police to give them the jurisdiction on this homicide. we also had a shooting in the 1300 block. this occurred on august 7th. victim transported to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen. two other occupants in the

vehicle. one left the hospital and one helped the victim in the emergency room. the victim made statements to investigators to shed light on this before surgery. our location is unknown. we are using our technology to try to pinpoint the location of the shooting so we can investigate to figure out who committed this crime. anyone with information please call our hit line. there is an aggravated assault in the tenderloin district regarding an aggravated assault. victim was 75 years old unconscious and bleeding from the head when officers arrived at the scene. the victim was transported.

the investigation revealed the suspect walked up behind the victim and knocked him to the ground. later that day the tenderloin station officers detained the man matching the description who was arrested and charge chargedh with the crime. using a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony and inflicting great bodily injury causing the victim to go into unconsciousness. again, good work by the officers. that is unprovoked and unfortunate incident that is unacceptable. we are glad we are able to make an arrest on that incident. before i move to the resolution and update. i will pause if the commission has any questions. >> i was really excited to see

zero homicides last week. it is unfortunate we couldn't keep that up. i hope that this will be the beginning of a continuing trend of decrease in violence and the community will come together in a special way. that is my prayer and my hope when you first started talking about ms. brown i thought you were going to say someone was arrested. i got so excited. unfortunately, that is not where the conversation went. again, i hope that this is the last year that ms. brown will have to have the vigil for her son on august 14th. next year i hope she spends it with her family in a very different way. >> we are still working that case. we are going to continue to work

it until we solve it. >> i don't see any questions from commissioners. >> update on resolution 20-44. on july 15th. the commission passed 20-44 expressing support for black lives. this directed that the department develop and post a sign 32 by 24 inches at all district stations featuring the expression of black lives matter. this was voted on unanimously by our commission, and sponsored by commissioner brookter and the poster that the department was given was to have the poster in place with in 30-days of the passage of this resolution. i want to talk about the process of developing this poster. i will read what we came up

with. first i will say this is a very positive experience for me as chief of police of this organization. i want to take my hats off to the commission for their leadership and also for the members of our police department traembraced there. i won't tell you every member of the police department is excited but most of us are. as we roll out the finished product, we actually reached out across the department to get in put on the creation of this poster. we will talk about what that resulted in. to develop not only the expression but what it means to us as an organization and we wanted to do that in a very broad and complete way. what you will see in a second is that we reached out to every

corner of the police department, every bureau and station. what does this expression mean to you? to your station? we wanted each commanding officer sworn or not sworn to get a committee together in their command of officers and/or personnel to ask that question. we asked for at least two statements. they could come up with more. we put together a committee representing all ranks. once we got those statements to vote in a democratic process on those statements we felt that exemplified the values of this commission and police department. the poster was bigger than minimum to get everything on there that we wanted to express. we wanted to take this

opportunity to reaffirm the values of this police department. the first paragraph states our values. how they come to play in terms of the expression for black lives and that they matter to this organization. that is followed by our why statement from command staff to every district station, we were asked to come up with why? why is this important to you? as you talked to every person. everybody asked do black lives matter to you, that answer was yes. we are going to do away with the butts. we are going to answer the question why does it matter to you? that is what they were asked. sergeant youngblood has a video. we want to roll out our finished

product. i have a prototype printed. we wanted to be ready for the update. i will turn to that right now so you can see it. sergeant youngblood will put this video on so you can read what this means. we will turn the camera. you can't read the words. we have a slightly bigger than movie size poster mounted on a metal frame that is very durable. these are the frames we have at the academy on our hangings on

the wall to reemphasize what is the organization. you can see the color scheme. black lives matter is in the black and green. commissioner brookter talked about what that means in terms of the san francisco police department in blue. we wanted to stand out as black lives matter to the san francisco police department. followed by you can see this and you will read it in a second about reaffirmation of values. everyone in the department has why it is important. it ends up with what i will read to you. it is very important. this was a quote by our 44th president barack obama. eloquently stated our nation's

44th president barack obama. i quote. i know there are some who criticize the phrase black lives matter as if the motion as if other lives don't matter. all lives matter, blue lives matter. i understand the point they are trying to make. it is also important to understand the phrase refers to the motion there is a specific vulnerablvulnerability for afrin americans to be addressed. last paragraph is what we are trying to do to make this narrative better. there is a link for anybody interested in seeing with what we are doing to make this better and affirm we are going to walk the talk in this police department. anything that anybody wants to see about what we are doing to address these issues. that is the highlight.

one other thing. when you see this, when you walk into the district station, that statement will be highlighted. if you walk into the station the statement will be highlighted. residents of southern station or anybody doing business at southern can see why this is important. that is for each individual station to have their own highlight. we wanted to go above and beyond what was asked of us. we wanted something special and affirm the values of the police department. we have achieved that. thank you. would you play the video.

>> this video, i will hand the camera so the commission can see the statements. this is difficult for the public

and the commission to read. we will reposition the camera. >> chief, if you don't mind and have the vocal chords, if you could read it for me, i love how every borough and district station has their own station why black lives matter. i thought it was really powerful. that might be easier than trying to read the poster. >> i will do that. thank you. >> unless the other commissioners object. that might be easier for the public. i will read each one.

black lives matter to the san francisco police department. prologue. reaffirmation of our values. as our nation and city grapple with the reality of social and racial injustice facing our communities of color and past and recent deaths of black people resulting from police interaction the san francisco police department reaffirms this statement and values that we stand for safety with respect for all. our strategy statement and values are on the following tenants: we will engage in just, transparent, unbias and responsible policing in the spirit of dignity and in collaboration with the communities. we will maintain and build trust and respect as the guardian of constitutional and human rights. when any member of the san francisco police commission is asked the question do black lives matter to the san

francisco police department or commission? the answer is resoundingly yes. answering yes is not enough, however. it is important to the members of the san francisco police department that you know why black lives matter to us. following is our why from every corner of the sfpd beginning with command staff. we are committed to respect, dignity, equity inclusion and healing. special operations. black lives matter because human lives, equity and voices matter to us. investigations borough. black lives matter to us seeking peace and justice for victims, families and the community. history has under mined trust will not set the standard for the future. humanity and transparent builds

trust. we are in this together. airport borough. since 1619 the value of black lives is at the center of our challenges as a nation. it is a way of existing that should permeate every aspect of being an american. operations borough. we celebrate diversity and value voices of change. that was central district. southern district station. actively seeks justice and equality for black lives gives us as police the opportunity to live up to our oath and a chief true noticeability. >> the officers at bayview station choose to serve a community that has been underserved and discriminated against. black lives have always mattered to us and we will continue in partnership and with pride.

mission district. black lives matter to us. an expectation of equality in all aspects of american lives, education, healthcare and employment and application of law. northern district station. we reaffirm our oath and duty to respect black lives to continue the practice of unbiased policing while recognizing the impact of policing on black communities. district station. black lives matter to us at park station because we want to be part of bettering our society and institutions by overcoming systematic racism and racial inequality in all interactions as well as society and institutions. richmond district station. systematic oppression annual it is time for change. equality is required by and for

all. we have seen hate in every form. we have seen racism and oppression. we are here to fight for justice for all victims with this kind of motivation. black lives matter to us in the city. we value black lives among all the lives and we are stronger with black lives among all lives and stand against racism. >> we hear the call for racial equity from the police and are committed to unbiased and fair policing. tenderloin. black lives matter because we believe all of us are brothers and sisters. racism will never be tolerated in our ranks. >> as stated by the 44th president barack obama. i know that there are some who

criticize the phrase black lives matter as if all lives don't matter. yes, all lives matter. blue lives matter. i understand the point they are trying to make. it is important to understand black lives matter severes there is a specific vulnerability for african-americans. last paragraph our comprehensive reform initiative one priority is to address vulnerabilities long standing disparities with policing in black communities. to learn more about our progress in addressing these issues, please go to our website sf police.org/reform. just note that our technology team made it easier to find the website as a result of this resolution. that is a new link created this

week. you don't have to search through the website to go to the website. you can go straight to it. that is a result of this resolution to make ourselves more efficient and available for people to see what we are doing. that is the result. one note. we have to go to reprint. as noticed on the final print that our administration borough stated got omitted. they did have one and we will make that change when we roll them out to the station. >> thank you, chief, so much. i have to be honest. that made me teary when you read it to me. i have never heard anything like that coming out of any police department anywhere. you know, there is still work to be done. we will do the work. it makes me proud to be on this

commission at this time and you went above and beyond what we asked you to do. it makes me proud. >> thank you. >> the conversation we had and dialogue today, we weren't expecting anything at this level. one of my favorite authors talks about start with why? i think for a police department let alone other departments here in san francisco given the injustice that we have seen in black communities for our department to have the statement taking it seriously as you have and to produce what we have, i think it speaks to that first step. this is also sparking

conversations that are not only had in communities but within the city and county of san francisco. really again just it is moving. i want to say thank you to my fellow commissioners for unanimously voting for this. i think when we first mentioned it, commissioner hama saki and i said it is visible. it is going to be mounted. that speaks to how seriously you have taken this what has come from the community. i want to say thank you. again, this is one step in the right direction as we continue to push for reforms that we need you to make this department better and the community safer. it is one step towards that.

>> what is next? >> next we have deputy chief on the presentation. the quarterly report. >> good evening. chief administration to present the first 2020 to june 30 of 2020 of our code in the releases. as you can see through this last quarter 7133 reports were requested with 72 in the category of family code 6228.

the vast majority requested by e-mail under covid situation. all reports being processed in 1.4 days, a day and a half to get these reports back and ready domestic violence and assault on page 2 no delays or denials from these requests. this past quarter. the vast majority of the victims and were made in english with two spanish and three chinese speaking requests. it has been working to comply

with the code. >> i keep hearing background noise. please mute yourself when you are not speaking. that would be great. i don't see any comments on this line item. thank you very much. i am happy the department is in compliance. >> next we have the reporting of the sexual assault victim's report. >> good afternoon.

what i will do is go over the report that was submitted to you regarding sexual assault evidence kits for the reporting period january 1, 2020 to june 30, 2020 you should have the hard copy with you that was sent to the commissioners. this is pursuant to police commission resolution 1628. this basically expanded. >> can everyone mute themselves. someone is on the phone having other conversations and coughing. i want to hear the presenter.

thank you. >> thank you very much. on this resolution. this was expanded. this was adopted pursuant to 680 of the penal code at the same time the sexual assault survivors. is everybody on mute? i am getting some kind of feedback. i will continue. please let me know if you don't hear me. it is basically builds upon the sexual assault survivor's act of 2016. for this reporting period we have 119 kits submitted within the five-days. outside of that there were three that were beyond the five-days. of those three, those are outside jurisdictions. one in san diego pd, one is another police department

alameda pd and another one is out-of-county submittal through the property division. the crime lab within 120 days, the requirement they did 105 tests. out of those 105, the turnaround time is one of the best we have ever had. it is 14 days. when we did last year we were 45 days. the last reporting period we were 23. 14 is an amazing turn around time. again, i think that is something definitely to highlight. out of the kits the dna was profiled and got 49. out of those 49 they are entered

into the code. it is a dna index. out of that dna index the 49 we had 18 matches. from those 31 did not match within the index. 59 did not result in foreign dna profile that is equal to the amount of tests that they did. if you go down. one of the requirements of this law is notifications and outcomes to the survivors. with the special victims unit they will contact every person that is a victim of sexual assault and tell them what the results of the tests were, if it was submitted and tested.

out of those we have 100. we made 100 moat fixes. 14 -- notifications. 14 did not want contact or action. 134 were tested at -- some were tested at san francisco general they did not want police contact. what we do is if they don't want police contact we work with the advocates in the rape crisis center and make sure contact is made and they are provided services outside of the police department. out of agency cases eight. inactive cases 55. clear cases there are 18. those are arrests or action taken on that. open cases there are 49. some of these profiles not hit

again submitted through cold cases at a later time. somebody might not have the dna profile in the index but later in the future they show up. the cold case unit keeps track of the ones that we don't get actual bids on. those are inactive but open and retested. they are resubmitted. a number of cases charged by the district attorney were five and number of cases discharged were four. is there anybody that has any questions regarding my report? >> i see no virtual hands. thank you very much. i will ask you to call the next

line item. >> i believe the next line item is the presentation of the lep annual report by the department. >> yes we will present on the annual limited english proficiency report. >> good evening, commissioners chief scott and members of the community. this evening i will present on the department's annual limited english proficiency report for 2019 as mandated by order 5.20. i would like to begin the presentation by showing the department's video.

we speak your language to demonstrate the multiple languages spoken by our members. if you could play that, please. [ inaudible ]

>> thank you. next slide, please. the department currently has 352 certified bilingual members certified in five languages, spanish, cantonese, russian. there are 498 bilingual officers

self-identified speaks a foreign language beyond the five core. there are 94 civilian members and 31 civilian members totaling 975 bilingual members in the police department with 30 members from american sign language, arabic, french, japanese. portuguese, samoan and vietnamese. >> under order 5.20 section 303 requires reporting data in four areas. one, the number of calls for service contact and investigations where an incident

report was required regarding limitted english. 3602 such incident in 2019. two, the the manner in which interpretation was provided to limited english proficiency individuals in 2019. there were 1177 in person interpretations services provided by certified and non certified members. there were 6150 language line application interpretation services provided to members of the community totaling 7327 interpretation service incidents provided by the department. three, the complaints received concerning language access provided by the department includes accountable in 2019.

the department reported four total complaints. three were not sustained. one deemed to be proper conduct. two deemed after investigation as insufficient evidence and one was dropped by complaint. there was one complaint brought forward including a perceived complaint in which view determined a man darrin interpreter was provided. there were three complaints reported in review of the department of police accountability report. review of that determined that the constituted one proper conduct, one was unfounded and one complaint withdrawn by the complainant. four, department's resolution to

language access complaint entails continued commitment to language access by providing training, resources available, policy changes and consultation with office of immigrant affairs for best practices as well as ensuring compliance. in 2019, next slide, please. in 2019, the department achieved a number of accomplishments. first was collaboration to create a process to identify and track calls for service requiring language access services or response from bilingual officer. the goal was to improve response for tracking the calls involving members of the community. the department of emergency

management issues a training bulletin which involved secondary code assigned to the computer dispatch calls designated as lep. the call is closed out by dem indicating the language interned as well as whether or not the officers provided the services. calls closed by dem with code. spanish was span 1. that was to better track our language assistance that was provided to the community. the department also issued a department bulletin outlining what the officer's responsibilities as well. is notes reviewed secondary codes designated in the calls for lep to prioritize and review

for expedited response as needed. officers at conclusion will provide confirmation to the department of emergency management of the language interpreted and the disposition of the call. now, an additional accomplishment was facilitation by the department of the language line inside-out, smartphone application. this was training provided to officers at five stations including the tactical unit. the reason this is important, this provides direct access on the officer's smartphone with access to over 400 languages for interpretation available to provide to the community. in addition. the department facilitated trains for 103 academy recruits and aid of the general 5.20 involving limited efficiency

practice scenarios and report writing. it also administered four update courses for interpretation for law enforcement for certified bilingual and aids best practices on interpretation, different modes of interpretation and preserving the meaning of interpretation from the source to target language. in addition, the department coordinated with the department of human resources the testing and certification of 35 academy recruits at the academy. this helped to expand the pool of bilingual officers as they engage with the community and dhr committed to this process moving forward. language access provided interpretation services for district station and specialized units as needed in addition to public events such as town hall

meetings, summit and lbgq meeting. they also attended training hosted by the asian pacific island nonprofit association with the police bureau on best practices related to best training. that brought back to collabborate with the office of immigrant affairs to enhance training content for members. to date our 2020 accomplishments include completion of our department training at all 10 district stations. i have mention on the previous slide we completed five stations in training them on the mobile app. this language line mobile app which was available to the

officers. we have now trained at the station and deployed on all officers cell phones in the field. this provides greater access to language interpretation services within the community. we will continue to move forward in completion of training with all units within our investigation division. ensure all members have the language access tool to serve the limited english proficiency community. the department implemented an lep scenario in advance officer training as well to help provide members update on the best practices related to language access. now some of the 2020 goes we have moving forward the department continues to work on memorandum of understanding with the department of human resources enabling the department to proctor internal language certification and re-certification process to help

expedite certification of members. we collaborate on the expansion beyond certified five core languages based on data which is sourced from various resources from department of emergency management and self-audit to meet the language access needs. department also looks to explore higher standards of interpretation and certification with dhr based on research of internal needs. current city-wide certification for all departments is currently customer service level of proficiency. the goal of the department is to attain public safety level of proficiency specific to law enforcement. they are working to update our d.g.o. 5.20 training video to include updates related to the

mobile app language access app and to update best practices for members. the department will work with our language line vendor to help create district station and specialized unit codes to help track and identify lep needs to better serve the needs within the specific districts in our city. the department is committed to work with the department of police account ability to refine the notification of the language access complained to the departments language access lie liaison to remedy these through training. we appreciate the support to assist in des moines of this report and want -- in this report and timely resolutions as

needed. they will work with the language group to develop a mechanism to share recommendations with the department on a monthly basis for timely review and consideration. the department also is working to complete design and approval of a limited english proficiency pin for bilingual members and police service aid. the design is in process. upon completion will be forwarded to the safety committee for review and approval. i would like to thank the lep working group for this recommendation to help elevate importance of our bilingual members through this process. lastly. the department will work to consolidate the language in a number of our department bulletins, updated 5.20 to help

consolidate and mitigate any redundancies in our processes at this time. that concludes my presentation. i would like to reiterate the department will better serve the needs of the diverse communities moving forward. i am happy to take any questions now as needed. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see questions from commissioners. i think the next line item will go to the d.p.a. report and sarah hawkins will report on the d.p.a. language lep report next. can you cull the next line item. >> item 3. d.p.a. director's report.

annual access report. followed by report on d.p.a. activities announcements. brief description of activities and announcements. >> good evening. i am here today to talk about the lep report from the d.p.a. i want to acknowledge that i am lucky to be giving this presentation, but the work i am going to speak of was speer headed by our former director of policies and so many groups that were acknowledged and were part of the language access working group. they did a lot of work in this very critical area. will you please pull up the d.p.a. slides.

>> first slide about the 2019 cases. one discrepancy in our report versus department report there were three occasioncation three. when a case is opened it doesn't mean it is closed in the same year. three cases opened in 2018 were closed in 2019. that is the only difference in the numbers between the two reports. unfortunately, if those three cases were not captured. they weren't opened and closed in one calendar year. most cases aren't opened and closed in the same calendar year. you can see 11 cases opened or closed in 2019 involving four different languages. four were spanish, four mandarin, two cantonese and one

aurarabic. three cases had insufficient evidence to prove or disapprove allegations. two were proper conduct. two by complainants and one unfounded. you can add vance the slide. d.p.a.'s perspective on the top three accomplishments. first timely release of police reports for domestic violence be and sexual assault survivors that is important for the working group. sfpd is providing the incident reports for the survivors within five days of request. incident request forms are available in multiple languages on the sfpd website and police head quarters. second was a draft for the officers. this addressed the critical

roles they play as first responders to domestic violence and calls for service. this includes determination. language access for lep and deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals, interviewing children and obtaining emergency protective orders. third deaf and hard of hearing working groups several community organizations including the deaf advocates and the commissioner drafted the d.g.o. in 2019 which was recently adopted. sfpd has expanded to deaf and hard of hearing communities and full implementations. advance to the next slide.

i think that is it. thank you. those are the partners we spoke of. i won't read all of them. the department acknowledged many of these organizations. i hope that some representatives might speak to the commission tonight. this is an important area of policy work that d.p.a. has participated in, partnered with these organizations and the department. we are committed and look forward to continuing all of our joint work in this area. thank you. >> thank you very much. i am getting feedback. do you have a question? >> thank you for that

presentation. i understand you you are filling some big shoes for the moment. remember the manual we worked on. can you tell us where it is in and when we can see it implemented to ensure it is in the field officer's hand with this information? >> right now i can't tell you. it is something that i am aware of. i have in the notes what it is. i will report at next week's commission. >> that was my only question.

>> as far as domestic violence manual that is in the final stage. we had a meeting on that manual. the second one is scheduled for tomorrow, i think. once we do that. we hope to be finished to get that manual in front of the commission. [please stand by]

our prior productions by category and case. previously, we were counting the number of productions, which made the numbers a little bit confusing. for example, some very large cases would have multiple productions broken into parts. the first half would be paper records. the second half would be transcribed interviews. we're going to continue to do production on a rolling basis, but what will note is case one, part a, part b, part c. and that will clarify the actual numbers. so it's a work in progress, but we've done a lot and we're just

really excited to have the information publicly available and i'll talk now about our latest releases. so since the last commission meeting, we've released one injury file and one officer-involved shooting file which was over a thousand pages worth of documents. that brings our new total to -- 7 officer involved shootings, 19gbi cases. we have 13 cases pending production in the dishonesty category and d.p.a. has determined we have no records in the sexual assault category. i think that summarizes everything. >> okay. sorry.

any questions? >> it was on the language access, but i just wanted to thank everybody involved on that. and i really can't impress how important it is that committee continue to go forward and that was it. i just didn't get my hand raised in time. thanks. >> all right, thank you. >> thank you. we should have -- [inaudible] -- i just want to say thank you to d.p.a. for working with the -- i'm sorry, i'm going to be a pain, but do you mind muting while the commissioner -- i'm getting a lot of feedback and i'll mute as well. >> thanks. i want to give a huge shoutout to d.p.a. for working diligently

getting 1420 online. this is one of the things very important to me and i work to get the policies and procedures in place for the department and d.p.a. and the commission to get the documents released to the public, because i feel that transparency is so important. and it's so amazing to hear in this short period of time, d.p.a. has been able to get an online portal so the community can go to the website and see the reports. i'm hopeful the department will follow suit. i'm told that they are also working on this and will hopefully have their online portal up and running within the next few months as well as the commission office as well. so we can have these records accessible to the public immediately. so thank you, sara, thank you, d.p.a. for your hard work. >> thank you. >> is that all from d.p.a.?

great, thank you. can you call the next line item? >> continuing on line item 3, reports to the commission. commission report is limited to a brief description of activities and commission president -- activities, commissioner president's report announcement. limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future meeting. scheduling of items identified and the commission action. >> i see no virtual hands. oh. commissioner? >> i'll be very, very brief. i wanted to give a shoutout to d.p.a. and the interns. i had an opportunity to have a discussion with the interns

about the commission and our work that we're doing around reform. and i'm always just delighted to speak with young people about the work we're doing and listening to them around what it is they're doing. sara, you'll be happy two of them reached out to me via e-mail, as i always make sure they're networking and staying connected. that was fun. >> great. thank you. and the rest of the d.p.a. and the interns. i see no other hands. next line item. >> we're going into public comment on line item 3. at this time the public is welcome to make public comment on line item 3.

you can call. for those already online -- >> did we have public comment on line item? yes, i'm sorry. ignore me. continue. i wanted to make sure people could comment on the presentation and that's exactly what you're doing. >> if you like to make a comment on line item 3. so far, commissioner, we have three public comments. >> great. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening, commissioners. i want to make sure you speak in term. i wanted to comment on the black lives matter posters inside the of the police stations. is that the appropriate time to comment on that? >> yes, go ahead. >> this is angela jenkins, i want to commend the chief, the commission and all of the people

who are putting together memorial to black lives. the one thing i see missing is the context of the black lives matter movement. i think we all need to know our history that we have in our midst, in the bay area, garza, a person who coined the phrase in a love letter to black people. the hashtag went viral when patrice turned it into a hashtag. i don't know that we're looking at that. it was actually created in the wake of trayvon martin's killing. in november of 2013, the i adequatal of his -- acquittal of his assailant created the black lives matter movement. it was done in affirmative action, a love letter, equating black people with being deserving of love.

so if we do move forward, maybe this should be taught in the academy. the whole history. that those people are local. alisa garza is local and still working actively to preserve and humanize black lives. thank you. >> thank you so much, ms. jenkins. next caller. >> good evening. you have two minutes. good evening. this is beverly from the san francisco domestic violence consortium. we've been so honored to be part of the d.p.a., and the community language work group for many years. and we love hearing the accomplishments. this is so great everything. it's a huge step forward. but i really want to encourage us to take the complaints

seriously. because those who speech english may not go forward with their complaints, there are certainly many more out there. we want to take each one of the complaints very, very seriously and recognize they represent more. also language access continues to be a barrier for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. we need to do more together. we need to keep the work group going and we need to get serious about taking the next few steps. i'm also very excited about the -- not only did it elevate the status of bilingual officers, but it helped residents identify officers who can offer help. we stand ready to help. we need to do more. let's keep going. >> thank you very much. next caller. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> it's been a few years since anyone talked about this, but

the police commission need -- and the city in general, but it's the police commission -- this is where everyone talks, needs to stop the direct energy that the city is in possession of. there is documents that prove it. that the city is in possession of microwave protection weapons and they can aim them at people's homes. and it doesn't hurt. you don't notice it. but over time, it causes organ damage and other things. so the city needs to look into the direct energy weapon and stop it. further more, the black lives matter signs, they don't mean anything if they're told to put them up. like, you could make a law that said that white supremacist that normally have a nazi flag must put up the black lives matter

flag, even if they did it, you know they don't really mean it. it needs to be optional. if they choose to put it up, that actually means something. thank you. >> thank you. any other callers? >> one more call. >> okay. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> thank you, good evening commissioners, john crew. i have a couple of items under item 3 i would suggest for calendaring of an item. first i want to compliment and thank commissioner brookter for taking the lead on the black lives matter posters and chief scott for the execution of this. i think we can't forget the p.o.a. opposed that and claimed it would be a wedge issue and to go forward in such a way says a lot for the department. but i wanted to point out that the examiner broke the news there is a proposed contract with the p.o.a. that has been

agreed to that the membership of the p.o.a. is going to vote on this weekend that will award them annual 3% pay raises. to my knowledge, this has not been discussed by the police commission and it was only a couple of months ago the chief association released a letter signed by chief scott and other chiefs of police from around the country that said in part in reaction to the george floyd killing that the balance of labor and management is often out of calibration, hamstring efforts to rid departments of problematic behavior as law enforcement executives we call for a review of those contracts and laws. i agree with chief scott and their colleagues. there has been no review of this contract. the police commission should put it on the calendar and before the board of supervisors approves this contract which apparently had no attempt to deal with reform issues, it should be discussed by the

police commission. you can make a recommendation whether or not this deal is a good one or bad one. they have a contract that runs until the end of june next year. there is no reason to rush into a sweetheart deal with them and get nothing return. i hope you support sb731. if you want to lead on reform, you have to take positions on important state legislation. thank you. >> thank you. next caller? >> commissioner, that is the end of public comment. >> okay. thank you. can you please call the next line item. >> line item 4, discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order 5.17, bias-free policing, discussion and possible action. >> thank you. i'm going to ask you to put up on the screen, so the public can see, the changes to 5.17.

the public may recall this commission voted to pass 5.17, the bias-free policing on may 20th. it then went into be confirmed. we've all been pushing our lawyers, our representatives, to make the process a quick one. i'm very happy to see it back before us. i want to walk with the public through the changes that were made as a result. and we think they're pretty minimal and i think everyone will agree. so if you don't mind, scrolling down, sergeant. this is the first change as a result of switching the order of age and religion. continue. this is the second -- this is the second change. there was a comment that there

was no such thing as -- you know, it was difficult to explain what would be lawful bias, so it was an extraneous word and that's a minor point and one we agree with, because you know, we want to prohibit any bias. so, yeah, that was deleted. that word. and then the very last change is grounds the bias policing with this g.o. and the g.o. this defines it. these are very small changes and this commission's view and this is what we were willing to agree with. there was, you know, quite a bit we were not willing to agree with, but this is a result of the process and now it's back before the commission for adoption.

so with that, if no one has a question, i'm going to ask for a motion. >> second. >> okay. i think we need public comment? >> yes. members of the public who would like to make public comment on line item 4, the department general order 5.17, bias-free policing. please hit star 3 now to raise your hand. so far we have one comment. >> okay. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> thank you, commissioners. john crew again. i agree these are non-substantive changes, but i think you cannot ignore how messed up this process has been. there is no explanation why this

went to meet and confer in the first place. this department is claiming to do collaborative reform, but it's not collaborative if you give the p.o.a. a chance to go behind closed doors. if they had concerns about these minor changes they could have and should have voiced them with members of the public if they wanted to collaborate. and they could have and should have in mid may publicly, during the hearing on this matter, said change these items. i appreciate the commission pushed back and it's only been three months, but this process is going to be repeated. after i had made issues about this and the bar association of san francisco thankfully, what in fact the p.o.a. was proposing. it was labelled by d.h.r. as a counterproposal as though the police commission had to ask the p.o.a. for permission to pass policies. that is completely wrong. i'm confused also that you went into closed session under the

public promise that you would only talk about legal advice. and now the next public discussion it turns out you've agreed to something. i don't mind about the substance, but i object to the commission going into closed session and talking about the substantive policy that is not within the scope of meet and confer. that is a violation of the brown act. i think for the future this needs to be clarified. if it requires a change in the contract, you need to make sure that d.h.r. addresses that as they apparently reached a tentative deal with the p.o.a. you're led around the nose by d.h.r. and undermining the public confidence in the collaborative process. if you talked about the issues tonight in closed session, that was a violation of the brown act. i'm not going to object, because i want this policy implemented. >> thank you very much. is there any further public comment? >> yes.

good evening, caller, you have two minutes. caller, are you there? we'll go to the next one. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening, again, this is angela jenkins. i hope at this point let me be correct -- if i'm wrong, that i can speak to the new policy bias-free policing. is this the correct point to talk to that? >> absolutely. >> i do want to say that i'm pleased to watch this particular policy come forward. it was a hard-fought and hard worked on d.g.o., department general orders. it also had in the past that i enjoyed the policy for bias, policing other civilians and that is what happened in trayvon

martin's case, where i referred to the black lives matter movement came from a proxy case. that of trayvon martin, a young man killed by a neighborhood watch person. so, please do approve this policy going forward. let it be the only one in the nation, hopefully, where law enforcement officers are aware of their own bias, but also prevent the bias from nonpolice officers or other civilians. thank you. >> thank you so much and thank you for your hard work and contribution to the working group on this. >> thank you. bye-bye. >> any other callers? >> last one. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> hi. this is rebecca young from the racial justice committee. i was a member of the working group. >> hi, how are you? >> i would like to urge the commission to adopt the revised

d.g.o.5.17 on bias-free policing. this new d.g.o. is light years ahead of the prior 5.17, the policy is simply stated and easy to understand. the definitions are clear and comprehensive and include the new category of bias by proxy, which is essential to what we're seeing today. the requirement of respect and courtesy and the intersection with 5.03 is tremendous. and i also want to thank chief scott for his leadership on this d.g.o. and for commander yuen shepherding the process. so we urge the commission to adopt 5.17. >> again, thank you for your work and contribution to the working group. any other callers? >>o