welcome to the august 19th twept twenty meeting of the san francisco police commission. thank you for bearing with us. we had a few technical difficulties. could you please call roll. >> (roll call) you have a quorum. also here tonight chief scott from the san francisco police department. >> commissioner is not on video tonight due to some internet

connection issues. but he is here on audio and able to participate in the meeting. members of the public who wish to make comments on items on the agenda can call the number on the screen. access code. as always please mute your lines. mutiny televisions or devices that could contribute to background noise. it becomes difficult to hear speakers when comepter commentee things that are not muted. i think-you said we have two minutes of public comment. if you could please call the first line item. >> line item one.

reports to the commission. provide overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. provide summary of plan, activities, and events. any unplanned events occurring in san francisco having an impact of public safety. presentation of the monthly report. presentation of the monthly initiative and dri update. >> hi, chief. >> good evening. i will start my report this week with-major and significant incident. we'll present the monthly s c 142 1421.

we'll go to our collaborative update. i'll ask lieutenant eric to chime in and present with me on that. if the commission has any follow-up questions, he can answer any questions. starting with-item two is commander darrel song who will present the manual to the commission for consideration for approval. this week overall, year to date we are down 19 percent. the unfortunate news is we are up in homicides. violent crime is down overall, we are up by 28 percent. itotal number of homicides is 3.

that's up from last month where we had five. we are making progress with the clearances. year to date, twenty five cases. which is good news. the goal is to prevent these homicides from happening in the first place. we're working hard to do that with our community and internal processes to prevent these homicides from happening in the first place. the gun violence is scabbingl in with what we had last year. eighty-one victims total this year. those victims resulted from seventy three incidents year to date. i'll go more into homicides on the significant events portion of this report.

burglar riburglaries we're stilp overall. we've made some significant arrests. several in the last couple of weeks. the good news on property crime is we're down overall significantly. we know that covid plays a part in that in that there's not as many people out and about. not as much property in vehicles. never the less that's good news to report. that follows a three year trend of auto burglaries in our city which is a good thing. i'm going to go to some of the significant events this year. possibly more about the homicides and shootings. this has been a busy month in

homicides. good news is we'veade arrests. at 18119 this morning. the victim was walking in the 1800 block. the person turned around and fired one time. the victim was struck in the upper torso and fell to the ground and later was pronounced at the scene. the encouraging news is we were able to get evidence including a good suspect description and earlier this afternoon an arrest was made on this case. we are proceeding to work with the office but the investigation is on going. like any case, if anybody has any information please call.

or you can tip-tips can be sent via text at text to tip.

>> there was a vehicular and it occurred in ingleside. the details are as follows. on that date at 5:00 p.m. an armed robbery occurred in castro valley and a suspect vehicle

being identified and that broadcast was sen out regionally. at 6:15 p.m., one robbery victim contacted sfpd to ad advise ther phone was pinged in the southern district of san francisco and our officers met with the victim in the area and at the same time the suspect's vehicle was seen passing by the location. our officers stopped the vehicle and conducting a traffic stop, the suspect vehicle failed to yield. our sfpd units ultimately soft site of the vehicle. shortly after losing sight of the vehicle, it entered against the red light and striking another vehicle. unfortunately, the driver of the other vehicle was killed in that collision and was declared

deceased at the scene. two passengers were safely injured and transported to the hospital in critical condition. the driver of the suspect vehicle attempted to flee and was arrested nearby. a firearm was located on his person. there were four other occupants in the suspect vehicle and they were treated for minor injuries and transported to the hospital. the driver of the vehicle has been looked for felony charges including murder and several other vehicle code violations. in that case has been filed the district attorney's office. the investigation is ongoing. the alameda county sheriffs are vexininvestigating the robbery d coordinating with our investigators on that case. also he want to give you an update on the homicide that i mentioned last week that happened at fourth and mission. the victim was talking on fourth street towards mission when the

suspect feared to follow the victim many of the suspect and victim edge gaged in a brief fishal and a physical altercation when the suspect shot the victim multiple times before fleeing. suspect left evidence behind at the crime scene and the victim was transported to the hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. the suspect was seen fleeing into the fifth street and mission garage where sfpd units established a parameter and conducted our officers located a firearm during the search that was believed to be used in this murder and it was located on the garage as well. our suspect is incompetent

viewed and booked into custody for murder. this case has been filed by the district attorney's office. so, we are making progress on the cases but again, our priority is really prevention of these cases in the first place so we will continue to update the commission and the public and we need the public's help on the one we have not been able to solve up to this point. so please, call us if you have any information. in the city and the first amendment demonstrations and some are planned and some are unplanned and facilitate activity and facilitate peaceful activity and we do that my monitoring the size and nature of the event and deploying

resources when appropriate as appropriate. these events by and large continue to remain peaceful and we have not had any major issues of concerns associated with our the police department is involved in going out with our cadets giving facial coverings and masks to the public in places like dalores park and marina green and other places where people get out on the weekend just to get fresh air and enjoy their families. so we will continue to do that and we're also involved with daily conversations around the response to slow the curve of this pandemic in our city. we're working with all the city entities who have dunph done a phenomenal job in terms of the collaboration in order to have the type of response we've had in our city which is over we

willingloverwhelmingly positive. the last thing i'd like to discuss are the wildfires around san francisco county. mutual aid has been requested from the san francisco police department by the regional mutual aid coordinator, our first assistance will be sent tonight. we'll be sending officers to be dispatched, mostly used for assist ing evaluations and evacuations and also ensuring that evacuated places remain safe and are not looted or people's homes and businesses are being broken into. we will support as long as that call goes out but at the same time, we are deployed to provide public safety in the city as well. the last thing i want to go into before we get to the cra

presentation is i just an update on the commission and this is good news as far as progress and reform and we will ask this to be calender by vice president taylor and i want today share good news that the body-worn camera policy that has been in the process with the police officers association is actually been agreed to by the police officers association and they sent a letter to the commission that confirms that the policy is concluded so that's really good news and we're looking forward to implementation of the policy that the commission has asked and i want to give a thanks to both who works for the police department with the specific purpose of speeding up this process so we can get the reform done at a quicker pace so they

have done an outstanding job since they've come afford in the last couple of months and also i would like to thank the p.o.a. because, we've asked them to work reform and get them through with ex pend yen see and they've agreed to do that and this move pretty quickly when we got everything in place so, i'd like to thank them for that and i look forward to this continuing into the future. that will be calender for the commission and to consider and for discuss or ask questions and again, i just wanted to share some good news with that. before we go to the c.r.a. presentation i will follow-up with any questions from the commission? >> a couple things, i want to thank the members of the department and fire department

as well i mean, we rarely think of first responders, you know, in emergencies like this but the truth is, we couldn't exist without them and so, just thank you for the department this is off topic but last here there was a news report that came out and about pain negotiations happening and the commissioner and i expressed some kind of shock about it. can you give us some sense if that includes the department is involved in and i talked about calender for future commission meeting but i'm trying to figure out who the actors are here. >> yes, vice president taylor.

that is dhr is in charge of that negotiation. it's my understand tag the departmenunderstanding that then negotiating that. dhr is in charge and that is about as much as i know. these negotiations are happening confidentially as they always are and, you know, just library everybody else, the department is waiting to see the results and hear how that goes. that is a dhr function and process and i've reached out to the director of dhr to just verify what i can talk about in this setting and what i was advised is they would be happy to come in and explain what is going on. they won't be able to talk about

confidentiality of the negotiations but, just general or what's going on which is basically an economic understanding -- an economic discussion about, based on the current economic climate in our city and county. they are not reopening the contract for anything other than that is my understanding. >> i will take them up on that offer. commissioner -- you are muted. >> can you hear me ok. >> yes. >> thank you. so, when we -- thank you commissioner taylor for raising the p.o.a., the police union raised issues. you know, i think there's an a lot of concern about that because when everybody's hearing at least in the media is the p.o.a. is getting a 6% raise while we're in a $1.7 billion

shortfall. and we asked last week to have someone appear on that. what can we do -- i'm concerned because we're not going to be back until september and is this something that's going to be passed and signed and sealed and we're not going to have a chance to weigh in as the police over side body? do you have any information about that, chief? >> >> my understand asking this is a board of supervisor issue in terms of approval or not approving. like other contract negotiations, it goes to the board of supervisors so that is about as much information as i have for you. and again, they are dhr is in charge of that process. >> ok.

>> to the drove that there are terms in that contract that it impacts our ability to do our work on the commission so, i'm hopeful our supervisors will take a hard look at that and determine if there's ways we cae with a suspect vehicle that ended up in a death. so, i'm not really that famine -- i thought we stopped doing these high speed pursuits after another person was killed in a different pursuit.

is that -- are there concerns that this is the fatality occurred because we're engage in a pursuit or did had he just crash. can you fill in the details a little bit, chief? >> well, there was a pursuit that was initiated by our officers at the time of the crash. they lost sight of the vehicle and were no longer in pursuit. it was -- with that said, though, pursuits are always evaluated and they determine the appropriateness and whether they're in the policy and guidelines of their pursuit policy, however, set of the crash the officers lost sight and were not near the vehicle as it ran through the red light and collided with the other vehicle.

>> how long before the crash had the officers, the vehicles stopped pursuing? >> i don't have the report in front of me so i don't want -- i know it was some minutes but i don't have the report and i don't want to miss speak but i was told it was several minutes before the officers lost sight and the vehicle crashed into the other officer. policy compliance whether or not there's an accident involved. this one, the officers were not in active pursuit when the crash happened. >> was there a high-speed pursuit prior to them losing them? >> there was a pursuit.

>> what was the underlying crime again? >> armed robbery. >> ok. >> is it possible that we can get a report back at some point about the conclusion of that investigation. it's not an ois and it sounds like there's some time to pass which is good to hear and lowers my concerns but i remember this was a while ago but there was a pretty bad situation where a civilian was killed and one of these pursuits and i thought we retaught our approach so i thought it would be nice to hear after the investigation. >> yes, absolutely. you mentioned the first amendment demonstration, the on going first amendment demonstrations and the -- something that come up during that was around surveillance and the use of private companies

surveillance by the department. i saw the department drafted a response letter and the demonstrations that followed have they all adhered to our protocols under first amendment dgo8.10. >> yes. >> have they been signed off on the commission, commissioners? the ones involved on the first amendment activity. they're supposed to be essentially signed off on or reviewed by a commissioner? >> well, i believe what you are referring to is if we conduct an investigation on first amendment activities, there are restriction and protocols that have to go up through the chief of police and to the commission. we have not had any protest to

fall in that category. we need peaceful protest and we're not conducting investigations into them or criminal investigations no any of these protests that i referred to in this report so they don't qualify for that protocol. >> let me ask, because the whole surveillance issue came up because you were conducting investigations about some property damage that occurred and the property damage that occurred was in the first amendment activity so, you know, i didn't rush up on 8-10 but it was to implicated on the high level of oversight that we wrote into that general order? >> i think we're talking about the same issue. the investigation and the video retrieval was for crimes that had been committed.

setting of fires, looting and buildings, that's not first amendment activity it's criminal activity and even under other county ordinances, the sfpd can retrieve video when it's connected to a crime. and a report and response and talking about and that was activity and that was investigations into looting, burning down the buildings, assaults and other criminal activities. >> right, but it's all occurring in the context, right. there's tens of thousands of people out there and then there's 15 to 20 or 50 or however many people that are doing the property dax damage, right. you are investigating first amendment activities and they a roadwayarise there's an overlapn

the activities and criminal conduct. i do think it implicates it and i maybe we should talk off line and maybe see if this is something and is demonstrations and i apologize for asking questions and it's been a while. i saw this press conference with the feds and taking one of our san francisco cases, a homicide

that occurred and it wasn't arising out of a federal investigation it was a shooting that occurred and obviously a tragedy but, we've talked about this before about seating our local jurisdiction to the trump administration, not something i'm a fan of. i'm expressed that repeatedly. i know that is going to change in come january and what are tht made that case, why did you bring that case to the feds instead of our local district attorney who has prosecuting local state matters? >> it's part of a larger federal investigation which is still active and the actual federal authorities actually were working that particular case as well with their own evidence.

we collaborated with them on that case but that case was one that being persuade federally but it's a part of a larger investigation. >> you mean this is the situation where the young man shot and took another young man who had been working with the -- i think one of the community groups and so you are saying that the feds began an investigation at the same time that sfpd did into the homicide? >> no, what i'm saying is there is more to this investigation than just that case and that is followed a under federal jurisdiction. >> ok. >> it's a larger investigation. >> ok. >> let me finish up. i think this is probably something we should have a bigger discussion around. thank you for your responses,

chief. >> thank you. >> yeah, i'll be short. definitely want to make sure i echo what commissioner taylor and commissioner brought up in terms of the p.o.a. so really what to hear more about that and the chief. the one of the things that stood out for me was the uptick in homicides. i think what i would like to see, chief, as we're almost in the third quarter, is if we can get some statistics on which districts these homicides are taking place in, and i would like to hear what we are response is to not share the strategy what are we going to do understanding that there's an up stick in homicides in districts here in the city and what the department is planning to necessarily do about that. i think it's something that is on the forefront of community members and i think all fellow

commissioners as well too, we talked about and having zero homicides but now we have an uptick this year and during a pandemic and whether we really doing as a department to address this is something i want to hear about. >> yes, commissioner. we can have that conversation and test base off line to see exactly what you want by way of data and then we can also follow-up on the other things that we're doing. director said and it's already calender, we'll present to the commission some of the other strategies we're employing

working with california partnerships save communities and so that will be a part of her presentation, which i believe has been calenders in the very near future. >> thank you. before i forget to circle back and make sure that i know sergeant young blood is in this meeting and chief you mentioned that dhr presented to the commission and i want to make sure we set that up for the next commission meeting itself. if you could work with the chief's office to i'm not sure who you spoke with but i want to make sure that doesn't get lost. >> thank you. and i'm really happy we will be agenizing it because that was my request to have this agendaized as soon as possible. i understand the privacy and personnel issues which prohibit information from buying disclosed but chief, it's important that especially in this time and in this moment that we provide as much

guaranteed to the public about this issue as we can. it's my understanding major cities chief association wrote a letter emphasizing the needs for a review of the labor contracts and laws regarding the police department and i know this effects your budget and it will have an impact on your budget which is something you present to us. i am going to, even though dhr is limiting the amount of information you are able to provide, that you still come back and report to us on what is happening and i'm glad dhr will be front of us but it's important for the public to see and know what is going on and it was a shock to the commission and apparently the board of supervisors that this negotiations was even happening. i think supervisor peskin and survalton had some great

ideas how to handle the contract negotiations of the future i would like you to be transparent and addition to the dhr presentation that we will be receiving. >> you are not part of these negotiations and you are not? in the almost where it happened. >> that is correct. >> i want to make sure we're getting information from the source here. thank you, chief. you can go to the next line item. >> if you can put up the cir presentation. if you want to go out of order. >> yes, sorry about that. before we do cri, sb21 monthly presentation by commander owe sullivan. >> thank you, chief. good evening vice president

taylor commissioners, chief-of-staff sarah hawkins, risk manager office i am here as the chief mentioned to provide the monthly senate bill 1421 report and i'll begin as i always do with background information for those that may be watching that are unfamiliar with the senate bill. it was enacted in january of 2019. california senate bill 1421 requires the disclose your of records and information concerning four types of incidents and they are as follows. an officer's discharge of a firearm at a person. an officer's use of force against the person which results in great bodily injury, a sustained finding that an officer engage in sexual assault involving a member of the public and fourth a sustained finding of dishonesty by an officer. since january, 2019, the department has received 189 public record requests related to senate bill 1421. for the period june 24th

through july 31st of this year the department received 39 additional public records requests. we also produced 110 new releases. the release is to find production of records and or determination letter which indicates to the requester that the department has or has not by identified records responsive to one or more categories of disclosure for a specific officer and it relates back to the four types of officer i just referenced. during this current time period, we released or we closed three public records request and released two officer-involved shooting files through july 31st beginning in january of 2019, we've released 29,727 officer-involved shooting related investigative pages. for the past couple of months,

the commission, chief myself and others have discussed. >> they worked in the risk management office have worked with gov qa for senate bill 1421 specific portal you through which the public may have released 1421 documents and as we move forward, new production and released will be put into this portal. the beta site has been created and it's functional and i looked at it today as a matter of fact. we expect to go live with the portal next week. that concludes my report and i'm

happy to answer questions. >> thank you, commissioner. >> i am so happy and thank you chief for making this happen and this is i want to commission records because we received 1421 request i want us to be able to have access to that portal so we can close our release able documents as well. >> i don't foresee a problem with it and the question would be whether or not we wanted to create a separate tab, if you will, for lack of a better term that would identify the documents within that tab or going through that portal were released documents otherwise,

you know, i don't think that that's going to be an issue. we should probably have a discussion whether or not you want that and if you don't, how you would provide us in the risk management office the documents that you have released and you will release and we facilitate having those uploaded to the website. or in the world, excuse me. >> if they were able to stories and you are able to use because of getting space so if you can reach out to the commission office and make it happen, i would appreciate it because i like them to be or us to be up and running as well and the other question i had, the other question was respect to the filled positions in the 1421

unit and i know the last time -- it wasn't you but the chief reported the filling of positions to get the 1421 unit filled to the backlog of a request can be decreased so i wanted to know the update on that. >> the update is frozen and the fiscal situation so as recently as april, we had -- we had identified a higher supposed to have started in april and the pandemic and the resulting fiscal situation that is on and it may have been mentioned and if it doesn't i can tell you there were throw internal candidates that kate had identified as candidates for the position and they had been processed from one working class

to another. the issue is that because of the hiring froze now, we are not able to not corporate them into the unit because they're coming from very vital positions within risk management and they handle things such as being responses to dpa requests and they work in the brady unit so it goes without saying those functions have to continue. so, there's going to be a lot of discussion with regards to positions but that is the current climate that we're in and essentially the short answer is that it's frozen in place. >> thank you. >> if there's nothing more on 1421, let's move on to updates. >> thank you. >> if you can put the

presentation so, i have eric on the call as well. i want to start out and give just an overview of moving forward and how we plan to present monthly updates to the commission and these are you get two purposes and number one, i know our last update was very long and we want to break these updates up and not as time-consuming so to do it monthly, we can keep the commission update and the public updated and ao think it's more digest able. in these long presentations because it's a lot of work being done.

>> it needed to happen so i'm still not faulting you for that. >> thank you for that. >> we want it to be more digestible and i think this format which we can always modify as the need to do so but we're going to try to break it down on a monthly basis also it will highlight, hopefully, in ce of reform which i will get to in this presentation between myself and acting captain. as can you see the first slide really is about the steps to progress and sustainability and one thing i want to point to as we have in the midst of budget discussion and the like about this whole process, can you go back to the first slide before the second one.

this whole process, the foundation of this process is really important. the foundation of how we get to a place in reform where both sustainable and we can i am 7ment it and you we've modified that structure in the last three years at least a couple of times. within the professional standards unit itself and the bureau, now strategic management and a professional staff commanding answer and executive director request mire. director mcgwire. we've had at least three to you len antlieutenants.

the foundation and the infrastructure is important because if people come and go, we have to have a strong foundation and a strong answer so we can plug in and keep going. i can't emphasize that enough because it's the same discussion in our budget discussion of how important infrastructure, structure is to get to reforms and to be able to adjust when we lose personnel and we were able to work through covid and keep going and we picked up the pace. that's where i want to start and these steps really illustrate what that is about from the bottom, the red circle, to when the initiative started and the second part of this process was seeking out academic partnerships and researchers, information, that would month our work moving forward and and

in terms of all the different strategic plans that this reform initiative calls for and taking time but we're at a place right now where we're getting some dividends from what started in 2017. technology and data collected and analyze and reported and you know it's a backbone of this process and # lookin looking ata and infrastructure to collect the right data and take that data and turn it into better processes and better policies and better action that will lead to a better policing of our city and a better police department. and training, which is training. a circle five. a function of our ability to educate and our workforce in terms of them really understanding the policy and breaking the policy and it's a

direction function of training. we're having more capacity to training. ke the use of force -- >> can remind everyone to mute their microphone if you are not speaking. >> and just quickly, number six is policy process being the result of that and that is also a really important part of this process. so the fact we have this five-year rotation of revising our policy, it will take a lot of other pieces in place to make that work. the training piece, the top policy development piece that we're more streamlining and we can get those before the commission in timely manner but that really, all those infrastructure and the way we're

structured and putting the right people in those positions. the next slide. so, this slide is demonstrating where we are in terms of the 272 recommendations and i won't read the entire slide. you can read through it. we have implemented a new process in the past year. the pre screening process. and what that has done for us is our executive sponsors, the people that are the workers in this process consult with hillard heinz and the california doj along the way and when we get towards the end, before we submit, we have a pre screening. it will give them an opportunity to look at everything that we have on the table in terms of a particular recommendation and we have an idea if there's any shortcomings and if there's

anything that is needed that pre screening process is streamlined the time it takes for and california d.o.j. review so that is one of the modifications we made, as you can see in should slide, we have a number of recommendations and we have five that moved in july and five in july and we have it's 13.

>> we want to get highlights and how we plan to do this is the monthly highlights of and use of

force is the most advance body of work we have analysis for administrative investigations and of officer involved shootings and we also have developed unit orders and solidifying our administrative investigations of oiss and in conjunction with the district attorney criminal investigation. we have a protocol checklist that assigns step-by-step shooting investigations and and

particularly the bias by proxy language and the policy and we hope it's language that other department model and we were one of the first if not the first to actually put that type of language and definition in our policy so as commissioners ally as and vice president taylor know because they were on all those calls working through this, that was a very involved process and we definitely appreciate the collaboration with the commissioners on that project but that is a highlight of what can be accomplished with this reform. the bias working groupaction we plan tgroup, we planto and it wd we believe we have worked out some of the process issues that cause 5.17 development to be longer than we would have hoped,

we are satisfied with the end product and hopefully we can shorten the process. we so we don't have these working group processes take multi years to get to to the finish. we created during this process or and commander owe sullivan was a big part of that and it's really good work and definitely has gotten us to some of those bias recommendations actually have been approved this month so we'll report on those next month. so those are some of the

highlights for bias. this was kind of a foundational body of work as well. so much of this work really goes back to the general order that the commission will hear in a couple of weeks, 1.08. and also, the community policing working group that was led by commender now deputy chief that was a very involved process and we actually had loans from the controllers office to help strategize and put that workgroup together and there was a lot of input from the community about this processes that were really good processes but it took over a year to get that work done. there are many recommendations that are tied to that body of work and those are in the process and the pre screening process right now that i mentioned, and the recommendations will -- we anticipate goes will be brought to substantial compliance and

this foundational work and so, we can go to the next slide, please. accountability. it's the next body of work and here our academic partner shifts that i spoke of that many of them, the foundations were laid in 2017 and 2018 and they are starting to pay dividends in terms of the work we're doing and and having that outside perspective including the foundation to make those recommendations so as we get better, commissioner ally as is heading work collection and we look forward to making that work come to fruition but it will pay dividends in terms of future recommendation and the

compliance on the accountability front. this month we want to highlight in addition to the academic partnership is the research and the side benefits and the booking photo notice and it will be a d.g.o. and those relationships made it very easy to reach ought to those academic partners to get their input on that policy and that was really important for us to have that informed academic perspective on that policy and we will do that moving forward and our work in this body. those foundational developments are really, really key. the last section on recruitment, highering and retention, with the passage of two unit orders that were passed this month, and the implementation of the process contained in them, throw recommendations have been pre

screened and submitted for review by the cal doj and hillard hines and we expect those in substantial compliance in the near future. this is a section that we have a lot of work to do, as you can see, we have substantial compliance at this moment as four of the recommendations and we can request for information and and those to move and quickly and some of them the next six to nine informs. i will go to the next slide. it's just the timeline and you all have seen this before but this is a timeline is that is the last four years and the

highlights of some of the challenge and some of the successes within the last four years starting with the actual report itself and the reformulate after the recommitment and i want to point out also, out of the -- as far as reaching out and finding a collaborative partner to validate the work and actually, putting our money where our collective mouths are in terms of funding th contractor to evaluate and write the evaluations and the structure of accountability with this commission and we are as far as we know the only city that has recommitted to this level. that's something that i hope

that the people of our city and we hope the commission is pleased with that but it demonstrates our commitment to finish the work we started. this is a list of some of our partners and our workgroup partners who are very familiar with because you work with all of them. most if not all of them. but again, this is a part of the process that we're very happy with and i know we've had some very honest and open feedback on things that we have to do better to work with these groups in terms of moving this work along and we have taken that to heart and i think we have turned the corner on many of those criticisms to get passed it and to work in a more collaborative and quicker pace as important as the collaboration. that actually concludes this

update and i have lieutenant for both questions and if our acting captain, if he would like to add something. we would like him to talk about what he has seen in the last couple of months and before he goes, it is part of this discussion, i want to just highlight his leadership because when captain bailey retired last month, again, this is putting right people into the system, acting captain, not only is doing his job but is also doing captain bailey's job and it's a heavy lift. he has risen to the occasion. the pace is quickening and he is a big part of that so i want to highlight that work and the team that he has brought on, we brought in additional personnel into this process a week ago and

and really doing double work right now so eric. >> thank you. >> good evening. i think what the chief touched on that has been is the pre screen processing and that developed in late april to may of this year but what that was was reaching tout hillard heinz and trying to gain technical knowledge and try to get a baseline of what the recommendations calls for and trying to understand, you know, their philosophy in stems of identifying our ability to gain substantial compliance and that kind of morphed into a pre screening meeting in which every thursday we internally concur some recommendations that are

turned in through acting captain and myself and re reach out and we have some formal meetings where they'll review our progress they'll review our supporting evidence and at some point i think we've been averaging about 25 to 28 recommendations pre screened through june and we're scheduled out i think 28 recommendations through august and we're seeing substantial progress so that is an amazing step that we've been fortunate to have and then i think it's reasonable to take into consideration that although this process did begin with the initial report with 2016 when the california department of justice came in 2018 we kind of had to put the breaks on and

start over they were required to be reviewed again and created some additional work. i'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have. >> thank you. thank you very much for the presentation and the work. i have just a foundational and what the numbers are so, what are the totals as of let's say august 19th. i'm looking at the second to last page of the presentation the timeline and it has 40 total recommendations complete in 2019 and then in 2020 as of mid-august 40 recommendation have been completed so there was a total of 80 and you expect another 100 by spring of next year so what are the totals right now that we can kind of pinpoint? >> sure, so, currently, we have 145 that are in progress and we have 46 that remain -- it means

that they were submitted to hillard hines but returned to the department for further information or questioned and we have 12 recommendations right now and review three with hillard hines and three with cal doj. what is important to talk about that and those recommendations are past our pre screening process. prior to submitting those for whether it's external or review external validation is essentially we've already been given an unofficial these have met our standards and we think these are in substantial compliance and we do it in the process which the file has to be formally reviewed. so when we talk numbers sometimes, they get a little skewed because you know, we do

have substantial compliance but we tally that as 81. since this process is started and knock on wood i don't want to jinx myself but we have not had a recommendation or term to us after it's been pre screened and formally submitted. >> so 69 have already been deemed to be substantially compliant and you have another 12 that will pass the pre screening process that you anticipated will be substantially compliant soon. >> correct. which use that in terms of our projections as the chief mentioned it's really important that we get over the century mark and we're trying to get an additional 100 recommendations done by april and we use those numbers in terms what we have to get to the cri meetings and what we have to make sure gets to the pre screening and as i mentioned because of this and we

make sure we have two recommendations for the next three cri meetings and -- >> so just one more thing. you have the review and is the additional 100 you expect by spring on top of the 81 or on top of the 59? >> well, on top of both. technically it's 69. we view it as 81. >> that's a line that my father

uses very and has raised me by and with all due respect we've run out of time. the public is done waiting for us to finish these recommendation, we need to work at lightening speed rather than just a quick pace. we know the recommendations and so we can do this. while infrastructure is important, so is getting the job done and doing it quickly. i was looking at your side too, which is the substantive stability and one of the things that i wanted to know was the academic partnership why they're valuable and they do provide us

with guidance. i don't want to get lost in that because while academic snow squallacademics isimportant so . we don't need a academic and solution and solve some of the issues and i don't want to be in a place where it's the end all be all. i have questions about the numbers and am i correct in understanding that the 46rfis that -- i'm going to mess up your name. >> it's -- everybody does. no problem. >> i'm going to say distinguishing speaker said there were 46rfis and aim correct in understanding you said rfis meant we sent them

to hillard high and they came back to the department because they were not sufficient, is that correct? >> yes and no. within the recommendations, we have several compliance measures so we might get an rfi back that we've met three of the four com ployance we've been working for years and we should know what they need in order to fulfill substantial compliance so why are we still getting rfis back, don't we know by now what they're looking for or what we need to provide in order to get it out of because i know that even though the 46 right now, before that, there were -- the

number was twice as many that we were getting back from them so i'm concerned that we're not either one, hillard heinz isn't being clear what they're expecting for us in order for you to be substantially and we're not what it is to provide forward to get this out of the rfi box and into the substantially compliance box. and i'm sure you can understand that. some four years later and we're 69 out of 272. >> if i can speak to that, so this process is -- if you look at the com ployance standards, it's not prescriptive to the letter of do abcde and f. there's standards and really when this whole process was started, the police department was supposed to own it and take its policy and it's nuances of

whatever city it was applied to and push that with collaboration with the partners to meet the standards that we create so it's not prescriptive to the point where it's telling us, you know, do these three things and you are complete. it's a little bit more, a lot more, actually, subjective than that. that's where this pre screening process helps because when we create policies that we believe are the right policies for the recommendations, this eliminates some of that subjective tee on the back end. in other words, when they see where we're going, they may have recommendations of well, we like that and we recommend you do xy and z. we have a discussion on what xyz and whether it's the right thing

for this department or not. it's exactly the same thing as our where we come up with the policy and we give recommendations to consist and we decide whether or not those recommendations are right for our police department. some of them have been and some of them didn't make it into the policy so if that type of process is not an exact science, and unlike some other reform initiatives where a lot more prescriptive, this is more subjective. that pre screening process is cut down on a lot of that subjectivity. when we give the evaluate or something to look like. >> it's important because this is an issue i raised before. i was in on the phone conversations that the department was having with hillard heinz about submitting these folders to them and having them review them to see if they're substantially compliant and that was my concern, what you just said, which is they're

not giving us a list of what it is that they want from us so how is the department supposed to know what to provide and it seems like it was sort of a whirlwind of what they are expecting and what we're provideinprovideing and it was . if you are telling me now the pre screening process eliminates that ambiguous tee but we need to come up with another solution, because again, just like you said, there is no list of instructions or checklist that they're look for. it's very subjective and it's, we submit it and if they feel the it's com ploy ant and it's not, it hurts the department. we need guidance on what they're looking for in order to be substantially compliant and not spinning our wheels for no reason. >> it helps, commissioner, where we are now with this process. but a lot of the poundation work, it's where the technical assistance and the past we would

have these meetings with the collaborative partners and really get us off on the right track but if that wasn't prescriptive, it was more broad and you look in this area and consider this and consider that but it's really up to the department to create the policy that work for or city and our department and of course with the commission and what you all do in terms of oversight and policy approval, but it's not exact science and there are other things, just to put this work into context and i'll say this for the public, in terms of reform. i don't know of a reform project from the 23 or 24 in place over the last couple decades to the 13pri projects that has been done in a short amount of time. they're usually five years body of work or longer and some of them and i don't say that to make excuses but so much of this work is foundation a you have to

put the foundations in place and we have taken two years to develop holl seize to no fault of anybody and that's how long the work takes and when we have to go through budget psyche the and things like that to get to the next level work, i just want to put that into context because i hear you and i respect what are saying in terms of ex speed antsy and i'm going to give you my knowledge about building a house too quickly. >> whatever they're doing is not relevant to us. we're the trailblazers, so i appreciate what you are saying but we have to put a pep in our step and get it going, you know, how does it take four years.

i hear what are saying and i appreciate your efforts and like i said, just i'm going to keep repeating my dad's favorite line, you got to put your money where your mouth is and if that's the attitude we're going to have from this point forward, we're going to be really successful. >> thank you. >> i don't mean to cover what commissioner all just said but reiterate. i was part of this process for a while and i do understand the foundational worked that had toe done to begin.

>> if we don't have some real changes come january, and the expectation is to get 100 more of these up and online and passed by the spring of 2021, i'll support that and calling for federal oversight. i think that would be helpful to everybody and the chief includ included. we just need to get this done. the city placed a lot of expectations on you and on us

and perhaps the federal partnership might be the way to go at that point. you know, i was just thinking about the one working group relating to our vision that i was on which is for dgo7.01 and you know if you remember that process, i had started to try to start a commission working group to deal with that and the department said we're putting one together and this is the middle of last year and steve sent e-mails and i did a quick search and the last e-mail was from i want to say june. and i sent a response asking for the contact information for the group so we can begin do some of the process and i never heard

back. to to me is emblematic of the challenges that we've had with some of the people working on these and i just don't know that they have the right attitude about it and i don't expect you to have an answer to that but i will say that if this doesn't change and we have a new administration i will join the community's calls for federal oversight. >> thank you. is that all, chief? >> that concludes presentation. >> ok. please call the next line item. >> >> clerk: next line item is dpa director's report. dpa activities and announcements. this report will be limit today a brief description of activities and announcements determining whether the cander issues raised for a future

commission meeting. >> commissioners and chief scott. i am subbing in for director henderson this evening. i will start with the fie of our staff and i have information requested by commissioner a lias. as of today, we have 530 cases that have been opened in 2020 we have 5030 versus 471 cases opened at the same time last year. i thought it might be helpful to add that in the last week, since commissioner last wednesday, we've opened 14 new cases. in terms of cases closed, we've closed 585 compared to 411 at this point in 2019. we've closed 15 cases in the last week.

we currently have 380 cases pending as opposed to 370 cases pending this time last year. we have 25 sustained cases, one of those cases was sustained in the past week. currently we have 31 cases and 33 cases last week and two cases in the past week of those 31 cases, 18 are under toll in currently and the rest are delayed for a reason such as requiring extensive investigations and delays because of the shelter in place order and following applied previous. the new stats that i'm reporting on is the number and chases

forward the commission from that point. that's the staff we will continue to report on those numbers and provide the cases that we have pending with the chief and with the commission. as everyone is well aware, it's budget season and we did our presentation last week to the board of supervisors and have our second round of presentations tomorrow.

outreach wise, we focus on virtual outreach opportunities. between last week and next week, over the course of two weeks, we have five virtual presentations including one that we completed on august 13th regarding oversight and auditing. and information session that we're hosting on august 25th, regarding oversight and sb1421. the controller has approved the relief of the address report of the audit and it will forwarded to sfpd and we will review and they will have an opportunity to respond and we will finalize the audit and bring it to the commission as soon as we can. also in our audit team, the audit have a follow-up meeting with the commutation policy lab that can leverage san francisco

police department and dpa data. that is all for the dpa update. we're obviously here to listen to public comment if any issues come up with regards to investigations and make any questions that the commission has. >> thank you, very much. commissioner. >> thank you, thank you ms. hawkins for providing that information. it's really important for the public to know, not only the cases that you have, b ao what is happening to the cases because often times we get so many requests and complaints from the public about they feel that the cases aren't being investigated or there's nothing really happening. i think being transparent in terms of where these cases are going if they're going to the commission or to the chief that is very important so i do appreciate you putting those into context. the other question i would have is time limits. out of the 31 cases with the chief and the 13 with the commission, how long have they

had them? if they've been with the chief or how many months or the commission for how many motion, it's information that would be useful as well. and my second question or my second thing is that the audit that you're talking about that the controller finally released for approval, that's the audit that is described and outlined in the 2016 legislation. is that correct? >> correct. it's a reporting on use of force audit and so the 2016 legislation gave us audit power overuse of force and disciplines as well as other discretionary issues to be determined so those are two key areas that we are planning to audit. (inaudible). >> maybe next time you can get the lick know why it's been four years or why it took four years to get this audit to come into

fruition which is my understanding not all dpas fault but i think having some background would be important. >> we can report on that at next commission meeting. >> thank you. ms. hawkins, can you tell us is there any concern with the budgeting process of dpa losing the ability to do some of its work, are you being asked for the cutbacks or can you tell us where that to the degree that some of us might want to agitate and the cuts about have an impact on us. for example, how we are fulfilling the cuts that were

requested are largely through attrition. meaning not hiring certain positions. two of the position that's we're giving up are auditing positions, right. so that will impact the speed at which we can complete our charter mandated audit. we're also giving up technology position which is not -- it's one of those things where, it's not necessarily an essential employee at dpa but obviously the better and more efficient our technology solutions are, the quicker we can turn around our investigations. we also had proposals to do bias auditing and that was related to the charter mandate and to some other requests that we had had from people and being able to do that without the extra positions will be possible and we're working really hard to find partnerships and volunteers and we are concerned, as every

agency is in the city, so i don't, we all share this pain. we are concerned about our ability to provide expeditious and excellent service with the proposed cuts. (inaudible). >> of the positions that may go unfilled, i hope that that's not going to be miss marion's positions. >> that position was not one of the positions we submitted as being cut. also, she's still on the dpa's payroll and on our employee list until the end of october. the issue is once the budget gets approved we have to request permission to fill the positions and so, we have no intention nor

to be clear have we heard from the mayor's budget officer that plans to cut that position and so we're definitely hoping that that doesn't happen. >> ok. >> you know, you can't quite -- the great reform and she was one of the biggest forces in keeping this so you know, again, i would encourage you to with as much. >> we agree it's a crucial role and we're trying to fill those shoes and to accomplish that framework but grow that that is a crucial -- policy recommendations are one of the

very core functions of dpa. we grow that that is a position that we are trying very hard to hang on to and to still with an appropriate person. >> thank you. >> >> thank you. >> did we lose you? >> we don't have a quorum. >> can we take a five-minute break? while you figure out how to bring her back on. >> it looks like connectivity issue. >> seems to be a lot of those

tonight. >> uh-huh. >> all right. >> what you have is contagious, apparently. [laughter] >> can i talk about -- are we on break? >> yes. >> let's take a five minute break.

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>> welcome back everyone. thank you for being patient. due to technical difficulties we know longer have a quorum. we lost a commissioner. what we plan to do is we will continue this meeting until the next meeting which will be september 2nd. at that time we will take general public comment on the matters discussed thus far and we have not had an opportunity to have public comment on. given that, at this point i am going to ask t to adjourn this meeting given the unusual circumstances.

>> do we need a motion. >> we don't have a quorum. >> we can't do anything. >> okay. >> let's adjourn the meeting. >> we are adjourned. good night everybody. today we

mayor london breed, health

director grant colfax. director of the department of emergency management mary ellen carroll and abigail here do you to the bad air quality due to the wildfires. you can submit up to two questions by chat only. submit them as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. we'll do our best to take your questions in the order received until the q&a begins. we'll be happy to take your e-mails. welcome, madame mayor. >> thank you, very much and good afternoon, everyone. fire season unfortunately has begun in the state of california. and with that here in san francisco comes challenges with our air quality. in a normal year we'd be able to

focus entirely on the air quality challenges but as you know we are not in normal years. we're living in covid. even as we have been focussed on responding to the covid public health emergency, we haven't lost sight of the need to respond to other emergencies. whether that's an earthquake or air quality event due to wildfire smoke. in san francisco we know we have to be prepared. now, i want to start first by recognizing that while our air quality here in the city is a challenge, we have to focus first on those communities that are being impacted by the fire. when people's lives are at risk and their homes are at risk, that has to be the top priority. we all have friends and family all over the bay area in california. our communities are connected and we are there to support each

other during these very difficult times. as we've provided hospital beds for counties overwhelmed by covid, san francisco is proud to offer mutual aid for other jurisdictions battling fires. recently we sent the san francisco fire department to assist with the river fire and we will send the personnel wherever we can in the weeks ahead. we do this because we care for our neighbors and we know that when the san francisco in the eye of the storm, they'll there be for us. with that being said, we are still 100% focussed on keeping the people of san francisco safe and healthy. unfortunately, we've been through this before. in 2018, following the camp fire when our air quality was severely impacted for days, i

issued an executive director to strengthen san francisco's response to future air quality emergencies and other weather-related events. as a result, we revised and improved our air quality emergency plan. this plan includes specific strategies to reach out to our most vulnerable residents especially our seniors, including working with existing community networks to get the word out and make sure people have the information they need. we all need to look out for one another and make sure our residents know what to do to stay safe. right now, our air quality is red, which means the air is unhealthy. que know this can -- we know this can shift and we will continue to update the public as things change. the best thing you can do is avoid smartphone to outdoor air

by staying indoors with the windows and doors closed. and for those unfortunate enough to be able to work from home, please continue to stay home as much as possible. it is important both for the slowing of the spread of covid-19 and minimizing your exposure to poor air quality. we know not everyone can stay home and we need to take steps to protect our unhoused residents. the department of homelessness and supportive housing will provide an update on what we are doing for our homeless residents but we are prepared to do everything we can to keep people safe. as with covid, our ultimate goal was to keep the public informed. when we have information to share, we will share it.

the affects of climate change are already being felt and sadly we know events like these are only going to become more common with dryer weather and hotter temperatures. but we will do everything that we can in this city to keep people safe and healthy. we'll be providing updates throughout the day online and will continue to notify the public in the coming days and weeks with more information. if you have questions and concerns and don't have access to the internet call 3-1-1 and i'd like to thank the people of san francisco for continuing to listen to our public health guidance. to be clear, we're still on the state watch list around covid. we anticipate hopefully tomorrow we may no longer be on the state watch list but in the midst of these wildfires and everything we're dealing with, we have got

to use common sense and good behavior if we want to beat the virus and make sure we make it through this challenging time with this poor air quality. please, don't forget, wear your masks, keep your distance, cut back on your social engagement, make sure you are taking care of yourself, your family and your community. we all play a role in ending covid in our city. and now i'd like to take this opportunity to introduce dr. koufax who will talk talk more specifically about the facts of covid as well as air quality.

>> dr. grant koufax is having technology difficulties. we can take another update for now. >> if someone wants to start the video i'm ready to go. thank you so much and thank you madame mayor. today, as we've already stated we're experiencing poor air quality with smoke and ash visual throughout the city. we have faced hazard after

hazard in this year in 2020 and the city has been prepared to respond to the incident we faced during this time of covid. in the past seven days we've dealt with a heatwave, rolling power outages, rain, thunderstorms and now poor air quality as a result of the wildfire. we have been and will remain prepared to tackle multiple hazards while continuing to respond to the global covid-19 public comment is closed. san francisco's covid command center will lead response to the multiple simultaneous hazards. the air quality will vary depending on the amount and impact of smoke particles in the air. if the situation gets worse our response will increase. we've been fluctuating between

earning and red air quality levels index just today. red is considered unhealthy. that means we already initiated city wide coordination for widespread public information and messaging through our social traditional media and our emergency alert notifications, alert s.f. through the incident we'll continue to push out messaging to the public so everyone stays up to date on the risk level in the city and knows how to protect themselves. if the air quality in san francisco remains unhealthy or gets worse, we're prepared to respond by protecting the most vulnerable and ensuring the public gets the information they need to stay safe and will issue personal protective equipment as the air quality continues to be healthy we're distributing n95

respirators to the unhoused and those in shelters. we'll evaluate our officering outdoor operation -- our existing outdoor operations. if we reach the high range we may pull back some of our outdoor operations such as neighborhood outreach and distribution of door hangers and sliders. we'll activate respite sites. if we reach an air quality level of purple, which is considered very unthe, we'll activate -- unhealthy we'll activate centers. the locations will be based on a neighborhood approach that focuses on the areas of highest need and promoted through community use. we will keep the public informs. multiple times a day we'll issue updates on the current status of air quality in san francisco and

the actions the public should take to protect themselves. this professional will be conveyed through our emergency notification system and alert sf and our traditional social media outlets. we prepared due to planning and we have learned lessons from previous heat waves and power outages. after back to back years of devastating wildfires and resulting poor air quality, we embarked on a regional effort to make sure each area, city and county were coordinated in our response for air quality. the resulting effort ensured we are all communicating with the same health and safety guidance to our residents. i'm proud of our regional efforts as they have laid the groundwork for successful

response in san francisco. we're also better coordinated because city departments and our partners have been united in our fight against covid-19. here at the covid command center we overcome the challenges of the global public comment is closed. this helped us in times of additional challenges like air quality and extreme weather. finally, please remember whenever smoke is unpredictable as we've seen today we're going back and forth between air quality index levels and residents should be aware. if you smell smoke, keep windows and doors closed, if possible. stay up to date by signing up for for instance emergency text alert by texting the zip code where you live or work to 888777. the department of emergency

management will continue to share information via these alerts and alerts to sf72 dot important we all know people from san francisco are resill interand have taken care of each other during the public comment is closed and i know no matter what emergency is layered on top of this one, we'll get through this together. thank you. . >> thank you, dr. mary ellen carroll. i present to you dr. grant koufax. director of public health. >> i'm director of health for the city and county of san francisco. thank you, director carroll for your cooperation and collaboration and leadership during covid-19 and now during the speak events. there's -- smoke events. there's multiple fires burning

throughout california including in northern california and santa cruz county. today, for instance is experiencing unusually hazy and smoky air as a result. the air quality index is currently at level red which means unhealthy. in other words, everyone may begin to experience adverse health effects and members of sensitive groups may experience more serious affects. that includes people with lung disease including those who have asthma and copd and asthma and children. these groups are particularly susceptible to elevated air pollution levels and should take extra precautions to avoid exposure. these individuals should avoid prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion and people should limit

prolonged health guides. if you have an respiratory illness, chronic or acute make sure you have an adequate supply of meds and contact your health care provider. people should be cautious when they choose to go outside and wear a mask and always be aware of whether you're having an challenges breathing. the air quality in our area changes daily and throughout the day as it is dependent on wind speed and direction. air quality may improve at times or worsen very quickly and we've seen that even today where we've varied between levels of red and orange. now we must manage both air quality in the context of the

covid-19 pandemic and as we said with regard to covid-19 for many months now the best thing you and your family can do, if you're able to, is to stay at home. even during days of poor quality conditions we must protect our community from covid-19. during poor air quality condition and covid-19 the intersection of these concerns, the healthiest thing for everyone to do now is avoid exposure to outdoor air and the virus by staying indoors as much as possible. if you must leave your home and go outside for essential activity, remember to bring your face coverings and socially distance from people outside your household to protect yourself and your community from covid-19.

we continue to live in unprecedented times and air quality is another challenge to address as a city. please, again, stay at home if you can. and through social media please check on your friends, family and neighbors and,0 those pregnt or have respiratory illnesses these are people at risk and should take precautions to avoid exposure. the reality is that as we enter whenever season and changing wind patterns we'll be living with both the intersections of covid-19, poor air quality and likely heat events for some time. we must stay vigilant and resilient as we take all actions to protect ourselves and our community from the elements. we continue to find ways to

protect each other and our community and we will continue to rise to the occasion as we continue together to work to slow the of covid-19. thank you. >> now the director of homelessness abigail stewart kahn. >> thank you for your partnership and leadership through these complex, multi faceted events. we have learned for instance has heart. we've always known this and we as a city need to continue to pull together to be nimble, compassionate and responsive.

civil servants and many are rising to the occasion today and for that we are grateful. as you heard covid is still the number one priority for all of us in public health. we need to ensure we're caring for those most vulnerable due to covid, heat, air quality and other in clement weather events. during our heat emergency our homeless outreach team who were heroes even before the pandemic have been activated for their lower level extreme heat response. at this level that activation included increased wellness checks, providing appropriate resources and guidance on how to stay safe during covid and the heat. we continue that support. our department is working

closely with the command center to monitor air quality and as director carroll shared we strongly encourage everyone, housed and unhoused to activate your alerts because it is changing by the moment. as you heard from the experts, we are partner at red level of air quality. based on this and pos -- policy decisions distribute non-medical grade n95 masks and water and other resources. this is in addition to look for those most vulnerable to covid and bring them indoors and continues to partner with hsoc and we'll didn't distribution of n95 masks so have access though

they're such a scarce resource. san francisco is living its values by dedicating these resources to unhoused neighbors where we all know every civil servant at mayor breed's leadership wishes everyone to be inside the shelter in place. i want to pause and particularly this many the members of the homeless team and hsh and providers for adding work on top of work to take care of those most vulnerable in our community. the city is exploring what to do and the next stages should air quality deteriorate further. the services agency is responsible for mask care and shelter and evaluating alternative sites where people may come inside if we reach higher levels of air quality challenges. as you can see, many departments, many civil servants, many leaders and many

citizens are coming to the aid of our unhoused neighbors. while you should stay inside if you are housed, if you are outside and encounter somebody who is sheltered, encourage them to mask and ask them how their day is, say good morning and good afternoon. the homeless outreach team we hope will be there soon to provide mask. we'll continue to provide updates through our boards, governance authorities and website and encourage all of you to stay connected through the various ways to get up to date information. thank you to mayor breed and the city for continuing to find another year in which to keep san franciscans safe and cared for. thank you. >> thank you, director stewart-kahn. we'll now begin our q&a portion. the first set of questions are

for dr. colfax. >> we are not currently planning to close any covid-19 testing sites at this time. we're assessing the situation and obviously testing and identifying those infected is and remains a top priority. we will continue to assess the air quality as things go forward with regard to changes in our testing sites but at this points our testing centers will remain open and we will provide updated information if that changes. >> a follow-up question is what is the threshold for making such a decision and how close is s.f.

air quality to that point now? >> again, we are assessing the situation, testing sites remain open and if there are any changes we'll certainly make sure people know that. >> thank you. the following question is for maryellen carroll. if the city opens respite sites

how will they mitigate the risk of covid at those sites? >> we will follow all the social distancing guidelines that already exist. we will see an additional health screen for anyone coming in many other jurisdictions having high levels of temperatures have been doing this and we have a plan and feel we can do it safely should we need to. >> thank you very much. it seems there are no further questions at this time and this will conclude today's press conference. thank you, everybody, for your

time and please stay safe. >> it is now 1:01 p.m. this is the regular meet offing of the commission on community investment and infrastructure for tuesday, august 18th, 2020. i would like to welcome the members of the public who are streaming or listening to us live, as well as to the staff participating in today's meeting. following the guidelines set forth, the members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone including members of the public. thank you for joining us today. madam secretary, please call the first item.

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consent and regular agenda. first, the consent agenda, 5a, approval of minutes and regular meeting of july 21st, 2020 and ab, authorizing an amendment extending the term of an existing legal service's contract, the amount is $1,005,000, to industry to provide specialized services to the implementation of land transfer agreement and adding the reconfiguration of ownership in phase one and candlestick phase two development project, hunter's point redevelopment project areas, action, resolution number 22-22. mr. chair. >> chair: madam secretary, do we have everyone in the public who wishes to speak or provide a comment on this item?

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has anyone called in? >> if you would like to speak, please press star three. i have no callers on the line. >> thank you. mr. chair, at this time, there are no members of the public wishing to comment on this item. >> chair: ok. hearing that there are no requests to speak on this item, i will close public comment. commissioners, may i get a motion for these consent items? >> so moved. >> vice chai >> seconded by commissioner

scott. madam secretary, please take role. (role call). >> mr. chair, the vote is four ayes. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> regular agenda 5c, authorizing pursuant to the trans play implementation and option agreement, the executive director to require blocks two, three and four, parcel block 3739, lots two, four, six, seven and eight between folsom and field street and exercising an option to acquire former state-owned parcels and two, executing an agreement with the

trans bay joint powers to acquire a pertinent prompt and d managing the property and four, adopting environmental findings pursuant to the environmental quality act and providing notice that these actions are within the scope of the transbay project and approved under the transbay downtown extension and final environmental impact statement and environmental impact report, a perform eir and adequately described in the eis for the environmental quality act, trans-bay redevelopment quality area and resolution 23-2020. madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary. the item before you is with regards to the trans-bay temporary terminal which consists of three parcels plus two, three and four.

as you know the temporary terminal is now vacant as a result of the center being operational and we're excited to have this opportunity to have the commission approve the option agreement to transfer the state-owned parcels within the blocks, as well as an agreement to acquire the parcels within the blocks, as well. we have been working with tjpa and the cal-transes over the last couple of years and we are happy to state that they have put some restrictions and this will be a first time for the agency to acquire sites in advance for site assembly for the development that is to come. with that, we have paige kelsa will be presenting.

on this item. thank you, paige. >> thank you, director. good afternoon. i'm a development specialist with the real estate and service's team at ocii. i'm here about the proposal in a transbay regional area. next slide.

this resolution requests approval for three items. the first is authorization to acquire the terminal site in transbay to facilitate the development of transbay block two, three and four. the seg is to authorize the executive director to enter t io a property management agreement until construction activities commence and third, i'm requesting that you adopt related findings under the california environmental quality act. next slide. the temporary terminal site is located in a transbay redevelopment project area shown here. as you know, the transbay project area was adopted in 2005 with the purpose of redeveloping ten acres of prompt owned by the state to generate funding for the transbay transit center and to meet the affordable housing requirements of bill ava12.

this is requiring that 35% of new housing built in the project area be affordable to low and moderate income households. ocii's enforceable obligations includincluding the transbay bld streetscape improvements. the temporary terminal site encompasses transbay redevelopment blocks two, three and four shown here and this makes an entire city block by howard, folsom and main streets and is approximately 151,000 square feet. next slide. they acquired this land to use as a temporary bus terminal during the construction of a new sales force transit center and

the transit center began construction in 2010 and completed in 2019 and thus to say it's now vacant and ready for ocii. once ocii owns the site, we will develop it to the redevelopment plan and as shown here, block four at the top of the map in orange will be developed into a mixed income residential use. tahama will be a public right away owned by the city and block three will be a public block owned by the city and block two will be developed into 100% affordable housing. ocii intends to acquire the site pointer to two agreements. the first is the 2008 auction agreement between tjpa, ociii and the city and county of san francisco. this sets for forth the processo

obtain a process known as cal-tran. this agreement governs the parcels on the site that were owned by private landowners, not the state, before tjpa acquired them. next slide. these are the private parcels located on the. bottom two-thirds of the site on tahama, and block two and also shown on this map are the proposed lots that will be created by a transfer map that ocii is currently sponsoring.

this will create five new conveyablconveyable accesser pat correspond to the trans development project. at the top of site, lot one is the transbay lot four and lot two is tahama and so forth. next slide. ocii is acquiring the terminal site from tjpa for zero dollars. per the 2008 option agreement, when ocii obtained the parcels to third parties, the sales proceeds go to tjpa to pay for costs associated with the transit center. accordingly, when they sell to the block four developer, those sales proceeds go to tjpa. blubecause block, two and threee affordable housing, a public park and public street, those blocks women not generate sales

proceeds. next slide. cal-transes obtained a power of termination over the transfer-state parcel to retake the parcel if certain conditions are not achieved. primarily they relate to the appropriate amount of sales proceeds generated from the state-owned parcels. as i just mentioned, because block, two, three will not generate sales proceeds, caltrans agreed to relinquish the power of termination for site restriction. and these restrictions will restrict the uses on block two and clementina to ancillary uses, including ground-floor, commercial space along folsom and restrict block threes into ancillary uses. ocii executed the site restrictions and cal-trans will relinish this through the same

eescrow. next slide. regarding this site itself, tjpa has two small buildings that are located on the site that are vacant. ocii and tjpa are currently in conversation as a possible interim uses at the site serving community desires to see the site activated on a short-term basis. earlier today, tjpa recommended to their board that they pursue a survey of the local business community for input on desired activation uses. that input, along with the results of the community surveyed recently conducted by the east cut will guide our next steps. next slides. upon acquisition of the site, ocii will be responsible for property management. therefore, we are requesting commission approval for the ocii executive director to enter a

personal service contracts for interim property management service. we anticipate needing limited management, janitorial services on this site. next slide. under the purchase and sale agreement, ocii must close on the acquisition within 180 of board approval of the psa. during that time, we will conduct due diligence on this site and review an environmental record and title report and conduct a phase one environmental assessment. we anticipate acquiring the site by late 2020 and are working to arrange for property title. the site will be managed until the development begins. as shown here, we anticipate that the development activities tooccur in block four in springf 2022 and fall of 2022 and spring

of 2023. of course, this is preliminary and subject to change. next slide. and that concludes my presentation. i am happy to answer my questions you may have. and also, there are sales manager and deputy director are available for question. >> thank you, paige, for very comprehensive presentation. madam secretary, is there anybody from the public who wishes to speak? >> at this time, members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call (408)418-9318 and enter ser (146)766-2374 followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again and please press star three to be placed in the queue if you wish to submit a public comment and an automated voice will let you know when it is your turn.

we'll give them a few momentseso call in. >> there are no callerings on the queue to speak. >> thank you. mr. chair, at this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. >> chair: ok. hearing there are no requests to speak on this item, i'll close public comment at this time. i would like to start with commission bracket, any questions or comments at this

time? let me go commissioner scott. any comments or questions. >> just to thank paige for such a comprehensive that you gave way your presentation. if there's any damage, who will be required to keep up with the maintenance?

>> i think what you're reffing g to and director, if you would like to respond, go ahead. >> you go ahead. >> ok. yes. the tjpa licens license agreemet allows exclusive use to use it as a safe-sleeping site to use it as emergency declarations for covid-19. and the city has not engaged that agreement and not used the site as a safe sleeping site and they made it known that they have not issu intended to. the board agreed to terminate the agreement. so the license agreement will be terminated and the site will not be used as a safe sleeping site and upon transfer to ocii, we

will take over property management and we're asking for authority to enter into an interim management property contract. >> thank you. >> vice chair rosallis, any comments? >> yes, i just have a follow-up on the property management contractor. my understanding this is more in the line of security services versus the actual management of space. >> yes, thank you for your question, commissioner. and yes, at this time, we are preparing for space-line management at the site and that means having eyes on the site and having someone making sure that the site is secure and clean and maintaining the as-is condition of the site and as i

noted, we will work with tjpa if they pursue community input for potential activation at the site, but for now, that's up in the air and we are preparing to secure the site. does that answer your question? >> yes, thank you. >> chair: commissioner bracket, back to you. any questions or commen comment? >> you are looking for property management for the firm, are we adhering to the ocii lve requirements for this rp that will later go out? >> thank you for your question, commissioner. yes. we will be following our purchasing policy. typically, if we were to request

authority intern to a contract with a budget that exceeds 50,000, we would need to come to a commission for approval and so rather than do that later, we are now asking for authority now, but we will be adhering to our purchasing policy. >> chair: i want to thank you all for the hard work. it feels like this has been a long time coming and we have to build sales force before we use this property and so, it's very exciting that we'll be able to use this and really provide some more housing in this great city and so, if i can ask any members of the commission to give us a motion for item number 5c, i would appreciate it. >> chair, i move that we

authorize the approval pursuant to the transbay implementation agreement and that the executive director is able to acquire transbay blocks two, three, four and the parcels. and then to manage the acquired property, as well as adopt the environmental quality act. >> chair: thank you. >> i second the motion. >> chair: so we have a moved motion by commissioner scott and a seconded by commissioner bracket. madam secretary, please take role. (role call). this is for item 5 c.

>> the vote is four ayes. >> chair: motion carried. >> the next item is 5d, workshop on the july 2019 through june 2020 report on ocii small business enterprise and local hiring goal's practises and discussion, madam director. >> thank you, madam secretary and we're finally able to present on this item. we had attempted to present back during shelter-in-place when it started and so today, you'll get a full presentation from july 2019 to june 30, 2020. and for that reason, i know staff has an extensive project and we know the commissioners are sited about thi excited abo. i'll turn it over to raymond lee to present on this item and i know we have representatives

from our sister agency within economic development to participate, as well. with that, i'll turn it over to raymond. >> thank you, director. and good afternoon. this workshop is the annual report on ocii small business and workforce program. as a presentation overview, i would like the contract compliance specialist provide you an spe performance report and i'll come back and talk about workforce performance. as mentioned earlier and please note, this is an annual report as opposed to our prior semiannual reports. next slide. >> thank you. good afternoon.

the office of community investment and infrastructure for the redevelopment agency of the city and county of san francisco has a long history of promoting equal opportunity and contract for professional design and construction services and in the workforce performing work on assisted contracts. this is separate from the city and county of san francisco, the city, ocii continues to implement the equal opportunity program of the prior redevelopment agency and these eop policies are comprehensive and merit city ordinances. next slide, please. adopted in november of 2004, the objective of the small business enterprise is to create opportunities for small businesses, especially in san francisco to perform and expand their business in ocii's projects. there is a goal of 50% and is designed to encourage participation by requiring

developers is contractors to perform bid-faith efforts to include spe's and ocii's in contracts or agreement exposes s includes construction joint ventures and associations such as the associate architect to foster capacity building. ocithere is contract size whichs a willingness to involve a large scope of work to develop participation. there's a 30-day minimum giving ample time to respond to request for qualifications and sbe lists, this is outreach including lve's on the cmd website and public solicitation, solicit bids and follow up with spe. meetings, this creates forum for questions as well as meet and greet between larger contractors. insurance and bonding and this is offered including eliminating

performance and payment bonds and focused meeting meeting and, monitoring, monitoring and tracking the process of how bids are awarded and being able to justify the rejection of bids where applicable. and in keeping with the overall objective, yet unique to the sbe program is the principle of first consideration and this iss where they a ward any contracts in the following order, project area, two local sbe's outside of ocii area but within san francisco and three, all other sbe's outside of san francisco.

next slide, please. please refer to the chart identifying the thresholds that small businesses to need to qualify as an isn't be. this is defined by ownership and controlled by an owner. one who is not affiliated with gross revenues average over three years with the certification program from the city and other state and federal programs. next slide, please. the focus of the summary will be projects that were reviewed and approved and awarded between the period of july 1st, 2019 through june 30, 2020. this was gathered from developers, contractors and

information from ocii's reporting tracker. twelve contracts valued at more than $107.8 million were awarded for design and construction including hunters point shipyard, 48 utilities, the mission bay park and golden state warriors. these support a variety of projects from market rate inclusionary. the overall percentage was 44% and 45 if we included minority and women who graduated from the sci centers. this exceeded the goal of 50% and construction was nearly 42% exceeding the overall average of 28%. next slide, please. on accumulated running total basis, examples from each until june 30, 2020, the overall credit on all ocii contracts is

30.1%, which is an increase of .4% of the prior reporting period and notably, warrants for professional services remain above the goal of 50% reaching nearly 52%, an increase of .2% from the prior period. the percentage figure for supply showed a favorable improvement over the 12 months, achieving 28%. next slide, please. when saying the past six years of activities as the line graph indicates, both professional services and construction contracts have increased marginally since the last semiannual report. for professional services and .5 for construction. note the construction trend line dropped in december of 2016 because sbe was challenged when more than one billion dollars in contracts were committed. two office developments which were mission bay uber and

transbay block five and transbay block eight and mission street. however, we see a recovery of .5%. at the request of the commission, ocii gatherses minority and women ownership data on firms participating in the assisted contracts. when analyzing the ethnic and gender identity over the last 12 months, 49% of contracts were awarded to minority contracts and supply contracts were awarded to women and minority-owned sbe amountin. next slide, please. staff continues to conduct outreach to the local small business community through various publications and media outlets including ocii's outlet as well as the city's contract

administration site. staff have participated in 16 prebid, pre-proposal meetings and they have continued on a virtual basis with restricted in-person walk-throughs consistent wit the city's health order during the pandemic. >> this requires contractors to the requirements even on projects entirely funded with private dollars. ocii monitors work force compliance through a web page monitoring and contractors and subcontractors will be required to submit payroll reports on a

weekly basis. in addition, ocii has an agreement with the office of economic and workforce development to the city-built worksforce compliance and referral services. city-build implements this by working with contractors and workers on compliance, compliance measures include mandatory kick-off meetings with developers and contractors and preconstruction meetings with each subcontractor. the worker request forms are clearly explained and subsequently monitored and payroll reports are blond monitd when needed. next slide, please. during this past 12 months, when july 1st, 2019 to june 30, contractors logged 2.5 million hours of which 391,000 were performed by san francisco residents. this represents an overall local

hiring rate of 15.7% and a two% improvement over the fiscal year 2019. this percentage represents 1,189 san francisco residents who performed on ocii projects last year. notably, san francisco residents performed approximately 33% more hours on ocii projects than nonresident workers. this is reflective of the positive impact at ocii's workforce program has on retaining san francisco residents. next slide, please. this is a chart you've seen before, but updated with fiscal year 2020 figures. this chart shows the number of construction hours worked on both ocii and city mandatory hire projects and the green line representatives threpresents lo. in fiscal year 2019 was unprecedented with a dramatic increase from fiscal year 2017-'19 and the increase in

2020. constructions of several megaprojects mentioned earlier such as the transbay highrise towers and chase center with a dramatic increase. the decrease in 2020 reflects the winding down of these projects and the impact of covid-19 during the last quarter of fiscal year 2020. and this should be noted all nonessential projects are essentially thos have stopped aa result of covid and did not resume until 2020. the change in local resident hours, however, has not been as dramatic and remains range bound. next slide, please. to further illustrate the effect, we looked at monthly figures from july of 2019 to june of 2020. similar to the slide, the green line represents the total hours

and dark line represents san francisco resident work hours. the loathis marks a stay-at-homr as a result of the pandemic and the drop in work hours which are dramatic from march to april as all nonessential work activity stopped. as construction resumed in may, hours recuperated in may and june and the impact of covid-19 on local hiring and work hours remain relatively constant during the sta stay-at--home ho. this will remain at a higher level because of the tendency oo work closer at home during this pandemic during this past year,

city built continued to expand by work wig the san francisco unified school district, city college and community-based organizations. two city built academies were completed during this fiscal year. one in october of 2019 and another in june of 2020, with 100 graduates and over 80% placement rates. on august 10th, 2020, city built started the cycle with 23 enrollmented and this is with classes held on a virtual and limited in-person basis. during this reporting period, city-built also held a special abatement program working clos closely with alice griffith

residents. here are pictures of the certification of abatement program that took place in october and a picture of one of its sponsors. now next slide, please. and a special thanks goes out to these partners, a special acknowledge thment to five point working to create a specialized abatement program for alice griffin residents, specifically the abatement. the contractor was especially helpful and committed with its own time and resources. nineteen residents were trained and employed in the alice griffith abatement project. next slide, please. to address the commission's request for custom senses, which we recognise is difficult, we researched and studied reports prepared by other agencies. this table shows the 15 highest

unemployment rates by zip code. while the numbers are for 2018 and do not provide a picture of the impact of covid-19 and nevertheless provides the rates of unemployment by zip code, not surprising, the areas of highs are in areas of the southeast sector of the city such as bayview hunter's point. please note these unemployment rates conducted by the u.s. senscensus are for individuals 6 years of age and above. so the fact that the park is listed first, i believe, is due to the student resident at the sanfrancisco state university. the take away is that bayview hunter's point has two of the highest unemployment rates in sasan francisco, as much as 80% higher and in discree discrete , mission and outer mission have high numbers and i'll put these numbers into context later in

the slides. next slide, please. looking at a trend line, this is a representation of unemployment rate trends by stipulate code for district ten, namely 94123, 104 and 107 in compared to sanfrancisco overall. at the peak of the great recession in 2012, unemployment in 9214 was higher. it continued from 2013 and '18 and we will map the trends going forward. for reference, the expected release date for 2019 data is not until december 10, 2020. next slide, please. turning to the current environment, the california employment development department does publish figure for the metropolitan areas in california. although the edd does not offer

figures at a granular or zip code level, the figures offer insight into the economy of the area. unemployment in san francisco, san m ma matteo was two% and nos 12.5% as of june. construction as an industry, however, as fared better than other industries such as transportation, hospitality and 40,800 construction jobs were recorded in 2020 before covid and dropped precipitiously in march and april and recovered by june with figure showing 41,800. on a comparative basis, the construction industry lost 2900 jobs from june of 2019 compared to june of 2020 and figures, of course, fluctuate because of the seasonal nature of construction. however, more than 81,000 jobs were lost in other settler such

as transportation and hospitality. as part of the custom census efforts in assessing community needs, we looked at employment in san francisco and this is noted as bayview. the figures in red showing the construction plays a more important role and five% of residents are employed at the construction industry as opposed to two% city-wide. there's 20% bvhpresidents in sas population and these are data

points which they are keenly aware of. in drawing context to the level of unemployment experience by residents in certain districts of san francisco, oewd has invested in places resourced in the neighborhood of need need. bayview and hunter's point are two areas with the highest area of unemployment rates. these are areas where oewd invested and access points as shown by the locaters. the yellow representing specialized access points such as services for veterans, re-entry and services. this looks beyond construction and these include construction administration and for ocii, in particular, we have a hand in other sectors by requiring our developers and tenants to offer

in-office opportunities. next slide, please. here is an example for the chase center. ocii and oewd with the operators to offer employment opportunities. the chase center opening was a success with 128 residents hired with the help of young community developers. as other commercial projects have completed under ocii's jurisdiction such as the soma hotel and state warrior's hotel, we're going to connect to fulfill their in-use obligations. next slide, please. here are oewd's other sector training programs and specialized services. city build is shaded in the lighter colour, only to deemphasize since we've spoken about it at length. next slide, please. oewd has a number of partners, 48 in total currently, of which

ocii has the indirect benefit by virtue of omwd. prior to the pandemic, omwd scheduled listening sessions to gather community input on employment needs and ocii participated in one of them. unfortunately, they were stopped as a result of the pandemic, but we understand oewd is planning to resume and certainly ocii will be continuing to participate.

this completes or presentation and we are happy to answer any questions. >> chair: thank you, mr. lee. thank you very much for such a wonderful presentation and madam secretary, to we have anyone from the public who wishes to speak on this item? >> at this time, members of the public who wish to provide

public comment on this item should call (408)418-9388 and answer access code (146)766-2374 followed by the pound sign and then pound sign again and please press star and then three to be placed in the queue. if there are any callers currently on the line, if you wish to submit your public comment, please press star three.

there are no requests to speak. >> chair: hearing that i will close public comments and starting with commissioner bracket, are there any comments >> miguel, can i go last, please? >> chair: yes. commissioner scott. >> thank you. thank you so much, raymond and evon for the information you shared, great report and so much appreciated. seeing the good news of moving above your percentage of how things have shown themselves to be in the last five years, that was just wonderful and as much as we press upon you to more, find more and pull in more, you're doing it and it's

happening and we still, you know, look for more to happen. but that's good and then i see it's a result we're not building higher towers, the tours housing is smaller and allowing the small business owners to work and that's good news. one question, which was a surprise and hurtful last year when we heard on the news that workers were finding from time to time the hatred postings on the work site. are they monitoring that to make sure it's healthy and safe environments. everyone wants a job but the stress and the pressures beyond the racial hatred, it's tough. and what is happening to keep an

eye on that, monitor and make sure the work sites are healthy and safe? >> sure. there's, oof course, our door is open in terms hearing about issues and the issue, i believe you're referencing occurred about a year or a year and a half ago and we were made certainly aware to the general contractor before the news broke. we certainly rely on our developers and general contractors because of their ears on the ground. we have maintained a constant ongoing communications with the developers and have a good working relationship with our developers and the general contractors. in terms of addressing that particular issue, the incident about a year ago, the general

contractor made commitments of training and brought in the president of the naacp to provide sensitive training. and so, again, in terms of of monitoring those particular instances, we certainly promote a healthy work environment and we have a good working relationship with partners to do the same. hopefully that answers your question. >> thank you, commissioner scott. vice chair rosales, please. >> yes, hello and thank you. i thought i was on mute. thank you to the staff for this report that's very comprehensive. it's going to take me a little bit, i think, to digest all of the points. some of my notes were answered in the power point, so i have a

few different questions. let's start with the contracting side. it's very gratifying to see, you know, from my experience being a commissioner all seven years and running, how all of our policies have incentivized not just our staff, of course, that didn't need a lot of incentives to reach out to the personal sector's community and contractor community and convey the strong message that the commission policy sends, not just this commission but the former redevelopment issue on inviting small business participation in our contracting activities. so this is great. i don't think i've seen a report that is this favorable on the professional service's side. so i commend everyone for their efforts. and antidotally, i do gret get

members of the small business commission coming up to me and giving me good reports on their experience, as well. i hear no complaints about pain so one natural question that comes up, my standard question typically is, have there been any complaints by professional service's contractors or construction subcontractors or even construction contractors, period, about payments or lack thereof? >> not recently, no. not within the professional service's area. we have heard some instances in the construction end of it, but that deals with contractors, subcontractor issues and perform performance issues, item that we understand have been dealt with. >> good, great. now and if they don't have to go

to the commission, that's fantastic because it's obviously resolved where it should be. we respect to minority and women businesses, i understood from the presentation that these are nw -- and minority-owned businesses and women-owned businesses that are also small business enterprises. am i correct? >> that is correct. but whe we're two firms that hae graduated from the sbe program that are minority and one female. >> that's good. graduation is good. and this brings me, in prior reports, unless i overlooked it, we received information on the subcontractors that are on the projects. (please stand by).

>> thank you, because recently with the potential passage of proposition 16, which is the state initiative that if it passes in november, it would repeal proposition 209. there's been a push by members of the small business minority and women business community for agencies to have the data points that are going to be necessary to, you know, even approximate there's no disparity study immediately a sense of the participation by women and minority businesses so just having that information ready and having us look at it as we go forward would be help for to our policy making. >> we talked about a capacity study that is fourth coming and the aspects will be included in the study it's sell.

>> before we go to commissioner bracket. i want to just let the members of the commissioner know and members of the public and staff that there was someone who wanted to speak but has some delay with this system and so i would like to open public comment and i'll close it again and we'll go back to continuing with the questions and comments we have from fellow commissioners. >> thank you, mr. chair. do we still have that caller on the line? >> yes, i'll come through. >> thank you. >> this is david springer and i want to comment in the public unrelated section but there is like a minute and a half delay

between the livestream and the phone. i'd like to reraise my hand if you don't mind. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. we'll have you on the queue for when we start that portion of the agenda. is there anybody else wishing to speak on this item from the public? >> hearing none, we'll close public comment and now turn to commissioner brackett for any questions or comments you may have on this. >> thank you for putting forward this proposal and the narrative what was happening and regards the project has been impacted by new projects starting and ending as well as where we are as far as you guys know it's covid. i just have questions regarding

the number of local hires who were on some of the larger projects they were able to move over to additional projects and if there was any feedback or if you guys did anything follow-up evaluations with the workforce persons who would came into the training program and or didn't make it to the final days of the chase center do you have a study for that? >> we don't have a study about that since things are rather fluid. let me ask if there's any comments related to this. >> yes, thank you, ray. am i coming through on the line here. thank you, joshua, director of workforce development oewd,

commissioners, director and to the oci team, thank you again for your support to do this work in partnership with you and the community. you support the ability to do local hiring compliance work and i know we've got our city director and as well chris and compliance manager and to gather this information presented and do the creative work that the ocii employment policy promotes, which is stuff like the chase center training, its projects like the five point initiated program around alice griffith training. commissioner brackett's point, one thing i can share as an illustration and the perks that the director nim to elaborate is before covid, and the work was advancing.

the idea that no one should be left behind with the work that was available was booming economy, booming construction markets, and in the case of the chase center training, where we set down and our team and george bridges, maria, we brainstorm ways to get increased local hire representation for electricians on the chase center where the percentages were lower than suspected and where there was a wave of local electricians able to finish up that work at hospital where the perk was going to pick up and need additional electricians at chase center. we missed by a matter of days the moment those worker stop working at cpnc which wasn't an ocii job with the contractors, the workers were one day out of

work and then work on another job and before he brings it over to chase center and we weren't construction work is available so there's more work happening to give our local residents onto the ocii jobs that's why you see the percentages going up here the past couple of months as work is dipped and then kind of come back up to but it's a moment in time and a snapshot and despite the best efforts to really time it, you get good luck and bad luck and moving folks from one jobs to the other because if the timing isn't perfectly lined up you get them on to your job and any other

points? >> thank you and dr. brackett thank you for having us and we apologize you couldn't be on video or see you in-person and we want to speak to all the commissioners and for example, the response of the pandemic. amount of construction projects are asking for more laborers as a way to make sure we have contact traceing and people have space and there are different ships so they have continued to be engage with half graduates and participants of chase center program and the five points program that you heard about and we've been engaging with them and providing service to refer to -- (inaudible).

>> great. thank you so much. >> that sounds great. i had a follow-up question for some of those workers that are, you know, maybe kind of like missed the next job because of timing and everything. is there any increase investments in training program within their unions or is there anything that is going out to them to do additional training or test that's will allow them to move up to the journey positions and is there anything happening like that as well? >> i'm going to defer that also to and bring more workers into

the industry and to an ocii project. that's exactly what i think pre covid, it seems like so long ago but it was only a matter of months but the alice griffith training was inspiration and using the ocii policy and a contractor, eco bay, who wanted to help get the local residents and wanting to deliver for the community of those 19 men and women who went through 17 graduated, 15 went to work in construction and others have gone since that time in a construction and other industries and we're now seeing some of those men and women go from general laborers where there's more work and for us it's really about working where the opportunities may be and i know we would love to see the ability to buildup the house north need of the shipyard and

if we can work together to build those opportunities out there at the shipyard we would do exactly these same kinds of projects where you have labor partner and our office working with ocii staff to curate these really targeted experience and with unemployment being so high, it's something that we are doing in another instance with respect to laid off muss coney workers at mussconey workers. we got an emergency training grant from the state to retrain those men and women for construction and they'll work at ocii projects and mandatory local hire projects, first source projects and general construction but your policy and the expertise that your staff really allows us to be really strategic and i think we would look to the direction from the commission and certainly the staff where those opportunities might be to pick a project where

we can come align up construction and schedule and do the training because there's so many more people unemployed looking for work. 70,000 today versus not much more than 10 or 11,000 only a few months ago. >> great work, guys. >> thank you. vice-chair, you wanted us to get back to you or are you done with your question and comments? >> >> i have a couple of follow-up questions on the workforce side. the statistics census data that is here slide 20 but also slide 17, what interests me here is -- and i'd like to hear from all the speakers who have information on this or knowledge or thoughts on this is, when we

look at, for instance, the outer mission and engel side and mission bernal heights, in terms of the numbers unemployed, you know, it comes in my mind the community base organization and that the city and ocii have under contract to assist in bringing folks into the fold and not just construction but just a variety of on-the-job training or job opportunities mentoring and i know (inaudible) of course. i'm interesting in hearing about what is the city is thinking and the outer mission of ingleside, mission, bernal heights. >> i know that for ocii in terms of our influence, we have the

professional trainee programs and also first source which really defer back to ocwd with the city. certainly, for college students, we do look at the targeted population in the social economic background of the individuals and in terms of looking at specific areas i'll defer that to oewd so see if they have a more direct response. >> sure, thank you, ray. commissioner rosales, what i might point to in looking at the slide assessing community needs is ray said, the 94132 representing the highest percentage of unemployment rate as of the data that was available at the end of the last year based on 2018, numbers we do think represents the san

francisco state student population and so in that sense you have a great connection there through the successful ocii training program and for the trainee hiring that's a connection and students and for the next five zip codes there's an oew funded and and that is a term in you will see in the rides referenced to access points and that's for the past four years, four to five years we've talked about neighborhood access points. access point is now more of a term referred through the homeless and supportive housing. navigation centers con gra git living and shelters so we've been moving towards the notion of job centers. access point and job centers, those next five zip codes have

94124 has young community developers and as well as other agencies and 94134. this has faces sf. chinatown for the neighborhood and 94102 and 12, even though you will note that the highest number of unemployed residents estimated to be in that zip code, you will recall the day that we were all together in front of you about a year ago on the eve of opening, what was at that time the seventh neighborhood jobs center the city, seventh neighborhood job center under safai from when he got into office with support of mayor breed, inner-city youth runs a successful job center there and fiscally sponsored by young community developers and within a short amount of time served 150 jobseekers, men and women in need and fully funding these and all of our different

investments in the proposed budget that the mayor presented the board of supervisors to fully fund and in some cases, add some additional resources to these job centers, specifically the omi job center. >> i'm looking just at numbers rather than percentages but one at the bottom of the limb. mission bernal and folks unemployed about 2018 it's different day and. >> absolutely. i apologize for just going by the percentages and not noting the second highest number of unemployment residents on this table is the relatively lower percentage amount of the higher numerical count of 1 9-1-1 0 so

we fund meta mission economic development agency is a neighborhood job center to serve mission and bernal heights residents. meta as well as yecd are also stand-out organization and taking on administration of the mayor to raise private dollars through the give to us fund. meta and ycd administer the right to recover fund which was commissioned by commissioner ronen request the support of mayor breed and our office and that is to provide two weeks of pay for individuals who test covid positive but don't have the financial resources to safely quarantine either because of lack of access to unemployment paid sick leave, this is often due to immigration status and other reasons so this provides two weeks of pay and other resources such as the family relief fund are administered through these neighborhood access points.

have we satisfied your questions and answers commissioner rosal rosales? so thank you staff for your answers. >> miguel, i had one last question. i'm sorry. i know there's been -- i know joshua, last year when you spoke with us you also mentioned there was an increased need and all the lake view area it was one of the additional zip codes you saw higher unemployment rates. did you do any shift to support that community in the last year and if so, how did that workout? i know you guys also mentioned

it being a good partner with you guys over in that area and is there a way to further support them and bring them -- i know they also work with ycd as well so i just wanted to hear a little bit about that. commissioner brackett there is one other 1,116 estimates residents in coal valley are served by the success centers western addition fill mor so there's a connection there as well. so, in our budget, mayor breed was clear she expected departments and in our department led by our director

jaoquin torres, the mayor was that our budget charges and oci has navigated and we have navigated every city department 10% budget reduction with the contingency to cut another 5% if necessary this year and certainly to make a 15% over all reduction last year and we were really clear and intentional around not making any budget reductions to those essential services that serve our most vulnerable communities and we also laid down a marker and said we're not going to reduce services that support black jobseekers and the black community here in san francisco. there's a multitude of reasons, even before the national dialogue around black lives matter, the murder of george floyd, there were a number of reasons why when you look at employment disparities, the wealth disparity, the income salary wage and every disparity really pro liv proliferate thisk san francisco and city wide,

under represented, community and we felt it was important to say with intentional tee that it's something core values of our department and in this instance, to answer your question, we did increase modest, only because we didn't have an abundance of funding this year. again we're grateful to ocii to provide baseline funding that helps support our operations. we made very limited reductions to our grant budgets. most of our reductions we shoulder on the staffing side, 40% of our budget cut came on salary infringed on the oewd side as well as raising of federal workforce dollars that replace the need for general fund. after that, only in some cases where there was some one-time funding last year we didn't have this year and most of our grants are flat funding for this year with again, the exception that

we put an additional $100,000 of funding into services and omi and bayview hunters point and the fill more working through the job centers in those neighborhoods. fill mor. >> we look forward to continued progress. since this is a workshop item, there's no need to take action. please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 6, public comment on non agenda items. let me pull up the screen here. >> a gentleman is waiting for that. >> if the public wish to provide public comment, please call 14084189388 and enter access

code 146-766-2374 followed by the pound sign and pound sign again. when you enter the call, please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. and any other members already on the call, please, dial star 3 if you wish to provide public comment. we know we have a caller on the line so if you can just go ahead and let him through. thank you. >> caller, are you there? is he still there? >> the caller is not on the queue. mr. springer, can you press sta- >> one moment. >> caller: hi, sorry about all

that. this is david springer, greetings commissioners. a couple things i wanted to say is one is an announcement in our neighborhood association is doing trash pick um and i'm proud and the other thing is that we have a concern the block 1 also called the polmelia development at donahue, are lacking any kind of action plan for activating the business spaces that they've planned to build in there and i'm really concerned with that and especially when asked directly, i've been to three meetings with them now two at hunters point cac and one with indian basin association. at no time have they given a satisfactory answer about how they plan to activate the public or the business spaces in their development and especially me

don't talk about giving preference to black owned business. i want to let you all know that when the block stuff comes up in for discussion in front of the commission. that's all i have. i also did want to say that there's like a one and a one half minute delay between the life team and the phone in so it's really hard to actually catch the right moment to phone in and i know that i did that earlier which i apologized for so i want to let you know your technology. thank you it's all i have. thank you. >> we have taken note of the delay of the phone systems so we will look into it. thank you, very much. is there anyone else wishing to speak on this item. >> there are no callers on the queue to speak.

>> ok. >> thank you. >> hearing there's no one else willing to speak on this item i will close public comment, madam secretary, call the next up. >> the next order of business is item 7 report of the chair and mr. chair. >> there are no reports of right now. >> next order of business is item 8 report of the executive director. item 8a report on compliance by the master developer on with the community benefits program for october of 2018 through december of 2019 the shippard and bayview hunters point area discussion. >> thank you, madam secretary. the developer providing the status report some 2018 quarter 4 through 2019 quarter 4 and community benefits program. both the developers and the

substantial compliance with the freelance and it will focus on phase 1 of the development project given the schedule and start of development activity as demonstrated in the report and it's close to closing the job training which occurred between 2005 and 2015 and the developer has entered into contracts and committed to extending funds nearly eliminating the previous funding gap. the they do not have any obligations based on the car and development activity. developer representatives and oci staff have about the report. i said i'm available if you have any questions that completes my remarks at least for this item. >> thank you, madam director. do we have any speaker cards for

this item? >> >> let me pull it up. >> at this time, members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should dial 1-408-418-9388 and enter 146-766-2384 followed by the pound sign and pound sign again. press star and 3 to be placed in the queue. we should probably give a little bit more time to allow anyone to call in. and if there are any callers still already on the phone, please press star 3 if you wish to provide public comment on this item. [please stand by]

>> the meeting comes to order, the august 19th, rescheduled budget and appropriations meeting. i'm sandra lee fewer and joined by the committee members, supervisors walton and mandelman and ronen and norman yee. our clerk is miss linda wong. i thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting this meeting. and also, supervisor walton will be joining us a little later. can we have a motion to excuse