looking at our racial being witty and incollision there goes. so we are committed to keep our division and that is that this police department wants to create an environment that is equitable and inclusive for all of our members. i leave you with this that mr. king said something within as he was speaking and he talked about acknowledging some of the issues so that we can move forward and i leave you with this. if we won't acknowledge our issues we can't move forward and we have to acknowledge the transgressions of our past in order to have a racially equitable and inclusive workforce in department for all that we serve. so thank you so much. before he leave, i have to acknowledge the team i work

with. each day, all of this racial equity and lou tenant williams has led the effort and concern ex working with our racial equity leaders and we are the future of our department and we are doing the groundwork and pamela ella as well as and so again, i just want to thank the leadership team for also empowering us to do this important work across the department and i thank this commission for your time and the opportunity to give you age an over vow and we look forward to examining back in january after you've been able to scrutinize e

it and answer questions you have around our racial equity action plan. thank you for this opportunity to be able to present. >> next item? >> public comment on loin item 4. remember the public that would like to make public comment on loin item 4 doyle (415)655-0001 and enter the access code on the screen. members of the public who are already online on webex, press star 3 now to raise your hand. we have two callers.

>> first of all i want to say i attended the court that donte king gave when i was at the rank of a sergeant. i was embarrassed and horrified by the majority of our officers, what they exhibited, anger, fuss race anandfrustration. i'm glad to see the department is trying to involved in the conversations in the beginning of the ground work and when you are talking about the academy, and how you have the new offices understand the validity of what is being felt by officers of color and women, that's where ofj can come in and.

>> i've never heard anything of a speech like he has done one being my son who is a federal prosecutor who smeared his name by putting our children and people of color and gangs or associated with gangs and you know, i'm just hoping that that why i'm asking the commission to write a letter and thank those that are going to participate in writing this letter to the feds about our children being in

gangs when they do have prove and when our children is innocent. this is going on for years under people of color and it's just not black, chinese, fill phone owe, poem of color and as daunte alluded that, why should we be lower, we consider it lower and i'm just a mother and i don't have a title over my head. as years have gone by, all the children that have been innocent and wore just asking for our officials to step up and protect them. so, i just again commend daunte king ask i wish there was a way that i can get in touch with him to help me with my journey on helping our community and you know the healing circle i run to

help our children from being racially profiled. thank you. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> this is gloria barrie. i was in the queue for agenda item 3. i can integrate agenda item 3 and 4 together. what i would like to do is give an example of what a solution is and 1 years veteran of military and also eight years veteran in law enforcement and when i was in the military in the 80s, sexual harassment was a hot item and the trainings and what can we do and what solutions we can do to stop it and so fourth and i remember after the training walking out with fellow military

servicemen and them calling us the b word out the door. they were mad said to sit through the training but what i do remember what worked is when people were demoted and or processed out of the military. so until commissioners and dpa and what not recommend officers get terminated, and continue to give out 40 days of suspension like what was done to the officer that killed jessica williams, we put a lot of people that look like us in position and when they met and confer they agree to punishment that doesn't send a clear message about racial equity and the office of racial equity definitely needs i'm looking

forward to maybe some legislation where they have more power to. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: hello. my name is ar ling and i'm with the officers for justice and can you hear me. >> i'm a member of the office of suggestion and i came in the department in 1975 and what i'm hearing is what i've been hearing my whole 46 years and i've been retired 20 years and if you really wanted to be serious about making changes you have to include the office of the justice and we have a lot of retired members that are not afraid to speak up and speak out

and we need to be part of this process and while we kept getting leapt off of this conversation, i'm tired of it. this is stuff been going on for years and this is nothing new. you want to change include us in your conversation and in the process and thank you. anymore callers. that's it, no more phone comments. >> ok. >> next item. >> next line item is going to be a line item five. presentation of its partner of police a count abilities racial equity plan discussion. >> i'm introducing now to that thompson from my staff and i think she's on and ready. >> yes. >> here she is. >> yes. >> >> can you hear me, it says i'm

not muted. >> we can hear you. >> thank you. >> hi, there. >> hello. >> ok. >> what do you have for us? >> all right. >> is that my introduction, paul. >> ok. >> thank you. >> now we'll prevent dpa racial equity plan. >> >> good evening, president taylor, commissioners. chief scott, mr. king. director henderson and director sutton and our san francisco community watching and listening and this is our racial equity plan. our racial equity plan mandates that dpa and every city agency implement better support for low income communities --

>> and the accountability of the approach everything. through out this you will see us referencing and we want everything to be equitable and transparent to the community that we are serving and we want

to take accountability. not just what we're doing internally but what we present to the community. how we approached it was having our vision. a vision for racial equity that aims to expand racial equity and inclusion for dpa and our mission, our mission is to ensure that we serve the communities of san francisco equally and fairly and equity and inclusion from within and our agency aims to reflect the communities we serve and these values we seek to project effect and hold close creating our action plan half to inclusion inclusion diversity and a sense of belonging and support. which is why this team is created and this is by far a team effort. this con have made possible without our public servicing and

our director of recruitment and i'm sorry, our director of -- our executive director paul henderson, i'm the director of recruitment and the attorney. our project manager velma and our investigator director of audits, steve flare tee and our chief of operations sharon woo, nicholl arm strong and ben richy our senior hr specialist and they created this group from all aspects of our agency we can be in com ployance striving to be bold and visionary and this was a process that could not have been done without each individual that you see and whose pictures is not present.

human rights commission and getting that pool of applicants that you might not apply to these certain government agencies and i won't have that opportunity or that land and it gives us their opportunities. i'm a product of one i interned here under paul henderson and he has been expanding that and bringing the dreamers into city hall in 2011 working and getting those willie brown fellows and working with ofa and there nodes to be more. working with the office of racial equity and letting different avenues of their careers they may chose to take but it all stems from government work and city work.

that what what we're doing by implementing this goals we set. this is equal in retention and promotion with our own hiring committee and our own peer mentorship and us with outside agencies maybe there isn't an upward avenue in our agency that you see for yourself to we set you up with a mentor or you can men tee someone. within the city and outside private agencies and as well as there's a path and if you are intern and whats and it's

equal and diverse in our leadership as well. we see that when we look at our agency and we have to adhere to our hiring and recruitment policies in place and racial equity training and we get continuous managing and we had a great training with dhr and it was four and a half hours on zoom but it was very thoughtful and didn't feel like four and a half hours but it tied no this whole sometimes it is

uncomfortable to talk to your boss and those conversations need to be had. you want to be equal in mobility and professional development and ensuring staff needs are met to perform and excel at their job and their staff accommodations, the quality of life, how we're dealing with the covid-19 and our recent shelter in place and how we're able to make a community within or organizations that we haven't, it's different now. we're not seeing each other passing by going to the break rom and picking up our mail. how can we bring everyone together and that's what this action plan is about. making sure that people feel included and feel equal and how

hard is it to interact and discipline and make sure you are treating that person fair and you know what they are about. if you have to get to know that person, you have to make you're it's equal and professional development training and using these resources we have and expanding and being creative and visionary with that as well. we want it to be equal on all parts and we want to foster and intentional culture that is committed to inclusion and belonging. we are updating our employee

handbooks and reporting to us the staff in our police station commission. communication and communication is key. everything is now virtually and how are we going to translate and make sure it's fair and equitable and that means we are developing internal communications processes and procedures that promote equity and we have a regular mailing list and information and this is macking sure we have ada cube kels and attending our virtual conferences as well.

and making sure we're frosting these relationships and we are doing this virtually and serving the community and we are being inclusive and equitable in not only internally but as well as we're serving our community and these run ner able populations.

>> we're not at work everyday. and we have had in-person events. we've had our black history month celebrations and we're having a virtual party on friday. it's all virtual and we'll have games but how can we even emphasize that more so everyone feels included. right now, we're relegated to maybe our teams or who you are working on and that's who you will see. you know you won't ge won't gete the office, walking down the hallway so we tried to get everybody to feel included so

that made us that's three too many. we want to do behavior tests. how are you going to interact with someone on your team if you don't know how your disposition is and so we want to have more behavior tests and do more surveys like this and we gave this survey and a specia racialy survey. they provided the feedback too and what they wanted to see more from us. we got a lot more positive response but they want to be able to come back and so they gave the feedback. i want to be able to come back. let's expand the pipeline. how can we, you know, what can we do to help so we're trying to expand that pipeline and the information that we provide them

as well. it means we're going to start expanding on our dpa share opt. it's a one-stop shop. so this is what it's going to look like. it has a home page that looks anesthetically pleasing and we'll have something for new hires that they can go to and put the job announcements internally specifics ternally and we're going to have events and a brown bag virtual lunch where we hear from different units and we'll have a stringing platform that's the latest and greatest. we'll break off into different session of the we'll have a difficult conversation brown bag lunches and we'll have different topics to share ideas so everyone can feel included and like bee we're all at the office again. it's possible and if it's very much doable in the near future. again, our news letter will

feature spotlight our interns and we'll have employee spotlights and something from our leadership and our department updates about what we're working on. sometimes we do know and we hear about it in passing or it comes in up conversation. we'll have updates in dpa news and different organizations that we can -- we can different to and charity and this is what the update is now but it will feature more of this. with that we also started our racial equity law enforcement team with the help and guidance of sam and director at the office of racial equity and we l of our racial equity leaders from the different departments

are all black women. i think that is poignant and telling and they are deputy sharon wheeler and lieutenant felicia jameson and precious malone and sha breen a from adult probation and dorthy ellis from juvenile probation and tiffany sutton and wilfred williams from sfp d and we wanted to create a safe space for black law enforcement officers to talk about and figure out how we're going to balance being a black officer and dealing in current times where there's the shooting of unarmed black people or the excessive force by police officers in this nation. so we need that safe space to say, no, we're not selling outs,

yes, we're still doing our jobs. we also want to voice and a seat at the table. we also want to have those uncomfortable conversations about what it is that we do. our officers, our law enforcement are on the frontlines. they are the first ones that probably the people of communities see when interacting with law enforcement. are these black officers who can relate to them? and it is up to us to create our vision, our goal, to create these safe spaces like our town hall meetings that we want to have to address how we're going to create. how we're going to approach a situation. or we talk to our political leaders or city leaders and get a seat at the table so we're not politicizing stuff that effects us in the criminal-justice system. we want to be heard on let's say, we talked about this. at, you know, the closing of

juvenile hall. there are black male councilors, what happens with their jobs or what happens with the black probation officers when this is all said and done. where is the working group to see how this transition is going to take place? or we want to talk about the exodus of the black community and the red lining, we want to talk dialogue and make our recommendation and be heard and have difficult conversations with our staff and the community and our political leaders and our city leaders as well so i think that we're meeting on a weekly basis where we are sharing our ideas and we're sharing our ideas about different trainings that each of the agencies can do and we're also sharing ideas on how we can

create this safe space town hall type of meeting. and what can be -- how we can feel free to say what we want to say and you know, as a black law enforcement officer because it's very hard to be in that position right now and in this climate and in couldn't tree and in this city. so all we want is a voice and a platform and this is giving to us and wore going to take action on a lot of these items and that the purpose is to create this safe space so these -- as mr. king stated, you know, we want to be able to have this voice and we want to be able to address it and we were asking him, what can we do? we're standing on all sides of law enforcement. you have dpa, apd, juvenile probation, sheriff and the san francisco police department. we'll expand again on another working group with this too and that director suggested where we have justice partners racial

equity team as well and that is our racial equity plan. you will get a detailed report after its completed. it's not due until december 31st and i will be happy to come back and discuss it in details and what we have done and what we plan to do as well. so i think for taking the time to listen to me tonight. >> thank you i appreciate it. we all appreciate it. next item, why see any questions from the commissioners. thank you. >> thank you. >> next is public comment online item 5. please dial (415)655-0001 and access code 146 129 2490. members on webex press star 3 to

raise your hand. looks like we have one public comment. >> caller: good evening. did you have a public comment? >> i didn't know my thing was still up. you can let it down. i'm sorry. >> thank you. we have no public comment. >> next line item. >> clerk: line item 6, discussion and possible action department bulletin 20-175 activation of body worn camera. this is a review 18-256 which expires on december 18th, 2020. referenced department general order 10.11 body-worn cameras, discussion and possible action. >> we're going to talk about this from the department.

>> good evening, vice president taylor, commissioners, executive director henderson and chief scott. i'm here to present on the department bulletin 20-175 activation of body worn cameras. sergeant youngblood indicated this is a reissuance of a previous department bulletin that was originally issued in 2018 and it is set to expire this month. the purpose of this department bulletin was to cover topics that weren't covered in the original general order and most importantly to really talk about when officers are to continue on their cameras. at what time. the issuance of this department bulletin bridged a gap that wasn't addressed in the original department general order.

this is a ra reissuance and thes no language changes to it and eventually, the idea is this bulletin will be incorporated into the rewrite of the department general order on body cams that will be happening next year. i'm happy to answer any questions that you have. >> i don't see any questions from commissioners. question by dejesus. >> i'm sorry. i know we added this and now we're removing it an you know is complicated because we have the meet and confer going on but one of the doj recommendations was that we shouldn't be having

department bulletins out when some of these things should be incorporated into the general order itself and so, i just wanted to mention that and talk about we shouldn't go down that path of just continuing department bull kins and we bul. this one is more complicated but, i just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention. >> ok. >> thank you. >> thank you. i assume you are finished with your presentation? >> that's correct, unless there's any questions regarding that bulletin. >> so, do i have a motion. >> move to adopt. >> second. >> second.

>> on the motion to adopt department bull kin 20-175. [roll call vote] >> wait, sorry. do we skip public comment before we called roll. i think we did. >> yep many of. >> we did. >> can we do that too. >> yes. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 6, department bulletin call and enter access code.

for those online now press star 3 to raise your hand. >> we have no public comment. >> ok. >> we ned to do the vote again or we all said yes count? let me make sure. >> can you just ask if anyone oppose and move forward. >> we do have to do a roll call. >> we don't have to do it. >> you don't have to do a roll call. does anyone oppose. >> does anyone oppose? >> i hear anything. ok, next line item. motion passes.

>> next line item is general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that did not appear on tonight's agenda and under police commission rules of order, public or personnel are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. comments are opportunities to speak are (inaudible) and enter the access code. please press star 3 if you wish to raise your hand. you may submit public comment in either of the following ways, e-mail the secretary of the police commission. or written comments may be century a u.s. postal service located at 1245 third street.

please press star 3 to raise your hand. so far we have one public comment. >> ok. >> good evening, mrs. brown, you have two minutes. >> hi. again, i'm about my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. still to this day, i still have no close your and still it's unsolved homicide (inaudible). i'm just asking that my investigators that are who are my investigators to still do some work on my son. i haven't heard anymore from my

investigator and i don't know if it has anything to do with covid and what's going on now and all of the other murders going on now. i also want to thank too for my last comment on writing a letter to the feds concerning to recant the story about my son being affiliated with a gang and i want to thank the person that stepped up to make any conversation about writing a letter and i hope all the other commissioners will join in with her about writing a letter to the fed concerning my son. like i said, the christmas is coming up and my son's favorite holiday was christmas and i has sisters that are still left that are still grieving and you know, i really wouldn't want to be -- for this to hit anyone home.

i wouldn't wish this on the perpetrators that did this to my son. i'm in prison everyday. i know that i've been talking to you guys for years and years and years and no one has ever, the police, gavin said my son was a innocent by stander and for this stuff to come up and even with mr. king, bringing up about the racial profiling, black lives matter, this needs to stop and all i'm asking is -- i wouldn't ask someone to do something to jeopardize their job. >> thank you. >> thank you for the member of the public. if you know anything about the murder is the number is it (415)575-4444. any other callers?

>> no, there's no more callers. >> next line item. >> 8. public matters closed session. including public comment on item 9. whether to hold item 10 in closed session. members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 8 and 9 press star 3 now or dial (415)655-0001 and enter the access code. there's no public comment. >> ok. next item. >> line item 9. vote on whether to hold item 10 in closed session. vet whether to attorney-client privilege with regards to item 10a san francisco administrative code section 57.10 action. >> is there a motion?

>> motion. >> is there a second. >> second. >> on the motion to go into closed session, how do you vote? >> yes. [roll call vote] >> commission cohen, how do you vote? >> i think we've lost her. you have five yess. >> ok. >> motion passes.

>> wore going into closed session.

>> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching coping with covid-19. today, i'm going to be talking about checking with your neighbors. >> start off by giving your neighbor a call to see how they are or if they need help. if they don't answer, don't get

anxious. try again later. check to see if their car is parked nearby. are they lights being turned on and off during normal hours? if you still can't contact them, contact your other neighbors and see if they've had contact with them recently. you can also leave a note in their mailbox, and when you do get in touch with them, ask if they'd like to share their emergency contact information. if you're getting groceries for a neighbor, get a mask and sanitizing wipe. put the groceries by the front door and then move back and call them from the sidewalk. if you need to ring the doorbell, don't use your hand. use the wipe or paper towel that you brought. when you call, stay on the sidewalk at least 6 feet away from them. as you're talking to them, ask about any other help they might

need. some might need further assistance with groceries or just need to chat. maybe they might need you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. and as always, as soon as you get home, wash your hands. here's a quick recap. >> well, that's it for this episode. i hope you found it useful. go to sfgov for m

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in

november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death

that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral

establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she

was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has

a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really

hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. whawhat do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the a with the enou- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten

married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone

fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco.

>> we are, we are at the balboa movie theater, but you're not going to be watching a movie today. maybe tonight, but not during the daytime outside. thank you all for being here. i'm san francisco mayor london breed, and i'm joined by a number of folks who i'll introduce later to speak. but i wanted to take this opportunity to just start with, really, how far we've come. it's been a very, very challenging seven months in san francisco. when this pandemic first hit, we had to make some really hard decisions. and with those hard decisions, we knew it was not only going to hit our economy as a whole, but it was going to have a tremendous impact on our small businesses, especially businesses in the community. we saw, within the first time

that we closed in the month of april, we saw unemployment go to over 60,000 people, and as of today, we have over 200,000 people who have filed for unemployment. we've seen businesses close, and some that we have gone to our entire lives, we've seen them close permanently. we've had to balance a $1.5 billion budget deficit in san francisco. it's been hard. our unemployment before the pandemic was less than 2%, and at its height, went to 12%, and today, it's 8%. so yes, from an economic standpoint, we have had some really challenges in our city, and the good news is that because we are a resilient city, there have been a lot of adjustments. we've adapted, we've

improvised, and when movie theaters called, what was it call? >> oh, popcorn thursday. >> the hon. london breed: i remember the first movie you played was "clueless," and i was all excited about that. it was look, we can't have it inside, but let's particultake the streets. let's come together as a community to enjoy something that all of us have missed, and that's going to the movies. and in addition with that jazz permit that we provide, it allows them to provide jazz music. adapting is what we do best. do we want to do it?

no. we want to maintain our businesses and serve the community, but in the course of this pandemic, i've got to tell you, i'm so proud to be a san franciscan. i'm so proud of what everyone has done to just say, you know what? we'll figure it out. we'll do the best we can. we'll make changes, like these parklets and some of the great ideas that came out of carmen chu and the economic recovery task force to say, let's make some adjustments. let's try and continue to support our businesses in a way that we didn't before. and even though it has been challenging, i don't know how you feel about these incredible pa parklets that are all over san francisco, but i feel like the city is alive again. and part of what we have to do in addition to some of the hard decisions we've had to make, we

have to make decisions to get our economy going again, and that means making the right kinds of investments. today, i want to announce that we are making an additional $7.4 million investment into the jobsnow program. and some of you might be wondering, what is jobsnow? in 2009, when we had the previous economic recession in this country under president barack obama, we had programs like cal fresh and job assistance. i was the executive director of the african american art and culture complex, and there were people that qualified for the jobsnow program, they started to work for me at the african american art and culture complex, and our organization

got money to pay their salary. now one time, they were late with the checks, trent. you remember that time, when i called you, wondering when is it coming? when is it coming? i've got to meet payroll. well, that program happened. over 26,000 people were served, and many of them still working today. and so carmen chu, what was head of -- who was head of this economic recovery task force, provided a lot of recommendations. and one of those recommendations was to get people back to work, we should look at investing more in the jobsnow program. to support small businesses, we should make it easier for them to get help from this jobsnow program, and that's exactly what we're doing here today, because what we want to make sure is when people reopen, that they are able to hire

people, but they're not generating the revenue that they want to generate. so this is another way that we can support our small business community. i remember, i went to a coffee shop in my neighborhood. and i've been going there many, many years, but this was the first time i've met the owner of the coffee shop. he told me that he couldn't afford to bring his employees back right away. so that's why programs like jobsnow and making programs like that available, it's all about helping people. we want to get our economic going, we want to get people back to work, we want to support our small businesses. we want to make sure that we come back out of this pandemic

more successful and stronger more than ever before, because this is san francisco. this is what we do, and this is one further step towards meeting that goal. i want to thank the san francisco chamber of commerce for their work and their support. i want to thank ucsf for being an incredible partner with the jobs now program, and i really want to express my appreciation to this community, to folks in the richmond, because i know that it's been hard, even before the pandemic, that this community sometimes feels neglected and forgotten. and as a native san franciscan, i want to make sure that so many outskirts of our city, that they receive the resources and help that they need to thrive. that is my goal, that is my hope, and that is my desire,

and that's why it was important for me to come to this community. we've got a lot of work to do, folks, and that is why we need to do as a city is make sure that we are not creating policies in a bubble. we want to make sure that we understand what the needs are of the folks that have the businesses out here, and that we are able to respond to these needs in a way that makes it easier for you to do business in san francisco but also makes you a success in san francisco. that is my goal. that is why i'm excited about this incredible program. i've worked with this program directly, as i said, before, and because of my experience in the jobs now program and getting my check late, i made it clear to trent that we have to do better with not this reimbursement model. we've got to get folks their

payroll. so at this time, i want to introduce trent rorrer who's going to talk a little bit about the program, how small businesses can connect to the program, and how quickly they're going to get reimbursed from the program. trent? >> thank you, mayor breed. as mayor breed said, i'm trent rhorer, executive director of the city's human services agency. the jobsnow was borne out of president barack obama's jobs program. we immediately in the city seized on the opportunity right

after 2009, when it passed, which, in its first year under the stimulus act, placed over 5,000 people in subsidized jobs. this went to unemployed san franciscans, san franciscans on benefits, and impacted hundreds of thousands of san franciscans, businesses big and small, and it was able to make a big impact on the recession. so this time, mayor breed didn't wait to pass a stimulus packages to assist residents and the unemployed, and it's a good thing she didn't because we'd still be waiting. in it, she included $7 million to the human services agency to expand jobsnow to serve an additional 3,700 people as well as businesses looking to reopen, to expand, or to simply

start a new business. this mayor's investment, as she said, is in line with the city investments programs. so what is jobsnow? it's the subsidized employment program that we at the human services agency operate that matches low-income unemployed or underplayed people with job opportunities in the public sector, the private sector, and also the nonprofit. what is subsidized employment? it is a job strategy that uses public dollars, in this case, over $7 million, to reimburse employers for the wages that they pay to workers that are hired through jobs now. the idea behind the program is very simple and straightforward. as businesses are thinking about opening for the first time or reopening or expanding, there's obviously a lot of

uncertainty, given the pandemic, and given the local connect rig economy right now. things like what will be the customer base when it reopens? how immediate and how robust will the supply chain be? all of these thinks are what employers are thinking about when they're thinking about rehiring. so it's all about us saying say, let's lessen your risk and allowing you to pay for a large risk in your business, which is wages. the other benefit of jobsnow which isn't talked about a lot, but other people who participate in the program will talk about it, is it takes care of businesses' hiring needs. the human services agency does the job announcements, the outreach, resume screening based on the skills of the

people that we're working with. rearrange all the incident -- we arrange all the interviews. it allows the employer to get all that work done by us rather than the employers who are thinking about other critical issues related to reopening and expansion and other things. time and time again, in 2009, we heard from employers who said this program is great. but even the best thing, above the wage replacement, is we are meeting their human resources needs. they wouldn't have to place a job announcement on craigslist, schedule interviews, and have one person show up. we do everything. so we are offering several tiers of wage reimbursement to meet the specific needs of businesses. i'm not going to go into the different tiers and the levels, but i want to talk more broadly about what our strategy is.

we're offering the deepest subsidies to businesses that are trying to reopen and rehire staff that they had to layoff or businesses opening for the first time. for these situations, we're reimbursing 100% of the wages for the first three months and 50% of the wages for the next three months. [applause] >> i'll take that. we're also not excluding existing businesses, of course, we'll reimburse businesses $1500 a month for the first six months depending on the wages that they're offering and their ability to offer full time or part-time work. initially, the program is designed to meet san francisco's residents needs who

are enrolled in benefit services. but this is going to allow us to open up this to any job seeker in san francisco. if they're unemployed, if they're underemployed -- and generally, someone who's unemployed is low-income. if they're unemployed or underemployed, they're eligible for jobsnow. so we'll be partnering with the office of workforce development, and doing a biggobig outreach campaign so that any san franciscan knows they can come to jobsnow, and we'll get them a job. right now, more than 270,000 san franciscans have filed for unemployment. at this time in 2009, about

44,000 san franciscans applied for unemployment. a year ago, the unemployment rate at this time was 1.8%. we're now well over 8%. in addition, the public assistance caseloads have sky rocketed. we're seeing thousands and tens of thousands of people applying for food stamps, and calfresh services to provide for their families. even as importantly, if not more importantly, the small business owner to my right, it's a benefit for small businesses and large businesses struggling in san francisco to stay open or who are trying to reopen. all the city's 311 line. they'll connect you or

sfhsa.org sla sfhsa.org/jobsnow. i want to thank our partners like the mayor, but also our other partners. office for workforce development, joaquin torres and joshua arce, and then, the cochairs of the city's economic recovery task force, rodney fong, the president of the chamber of commerce, as well as assessor carmen chu, for their vision and their leadership in crafting an economic recovery plan that's sure to make a difference for our citizens and our residents. so i'm really happy to introduce one of the cochairs, assessor carmen chu. [applause] >> thank you very much, trent. couldn't be more pleased to be here today, and i want to just

start off by sharing my deep appreciation for the mayor's leadership in all of this. i know that many of you are aware that it's through her leadership and her vision that brought together businesses small and large, community leaders, and nonprofits to put forth ideas to assist in recovery. i'm joined by awe teen torres from eowd as -- oewd as well as -- joaquin torres from oewd as well as my cochair, rodney san francisco, from the chamber of commerce. through the partnership of our

professionals at the department of public health, we've put forward a plan that has been thoughtful and measured, something that has put san francisco apart from the rest of this nation. we're one of the only counties in the state of california to have just recently hit the yellow tier, the least restrictive tier when it comes to the state tiering system. but not only that, we did it in a way that was responsible, in a way that didn't ping pong businesses back and forth to open and close, to open and close. these are really hard decisions, tough things to do, but i think that san francisco did it right. this doesn't mean that we don't have a lot to do, that we can let down our guards, but it shows that we can reopen and do it safely. but just because we say that we're opening businesses, that restaurants can open, that movie theaters can reopen, it

doesn't mean that businesses can come back. through our conversations with folks in the neighbor, we've heard about how even with reopening, people are really worried about bringing back their memployees. do employees feel safe coming back to work? these are questions that many of our businesses do face. that's why a program like jobsnow and its $7.4 million is so incredibly important. it's a way for small businesses to be able to make those choices to bring people back in a responsible way that help them get through this time. if you're a small business, and you're wondering whether you're going to see customers coming in through your doors, you're going to have the ability to hire someone and get those wages reimbursed for the first three months and 50% for the three months afterwards. that's a big deal. i certainly would do that if i

was a small business, and i think this jobsnow program creates the stage to get the help that all our businesses need to get in the right space. so again, i couldn't be more pleased as a member of the economic recovery task force, representing my cochairs and all the members of the community to see this investment come back and be made in san francisco. thank you, mayor breed, for your wonderful investment and for your wonderful leadership. [applaus [applause] >> and with that, i am really pleased to announce our next speaker, someone who i have come to know, and the owner of this wonderful establishment that we all know and love in the richmond district. adam is going to be coming up to say a few words on behalf of not only the richmond district but the balboa theater. >> hello. i'm adam bergeron of the balboa

theat theater. we thought we had used this stimulus money and the p.p.p. and the loan money, but this has just gone on for so long, that even though strategically using it, we just ran out of our p.p.p. money last thursday, so now we're in a position where the rubber is hitting the road. it's time to make some pretty big decisions, and it was right at that moment that i was turned on by my friend to the possibility of jobsnow, and it really does seem like this could be a lifeline to get us from now to the end of the pandemic to keep some of the valuable staff that we have on board, right, and be able to bridge that gap until we're in

a spot where we feel a little more kment about business, the ability to do business. you know, the theater business is a little unique in that i think we're all a little weary of being in a room with people for hours, and it's something we need to consider if we're allowed to reopen, what's going to be the financial viability of the business, and is it going to be safe? thanks, everybody, mayor breed, and thanks, everybody. [applause] >> the hon. london bree >> i want to join ucsf in thanking mayor breed for bringing us together, and putting san francisco back to work by expanding the jobsnow program. ucsf is the second largest employer in san francisco, and for us, ensuring that our

workforce reflects the communities that we're in is part of a long-standing commitment and critical to our priorities. the health and science field is a huge job generator in san francisco. at a time when other parts of our economy are struggling to survive and recover from covid-19, ucsf is committed to doing our part in creating a skilled workforce, not just for our employees, but for the communities we serve. i served on mayor breed kazz task force, and i, too, want to thank the leadership for rodney fong and carmen chu, and thank you for the work that the economic recovery task force has done in the last few months. briefly, i just want to talk a little bit about our excel

program. since 2010, ucsf has worked with the city to create jobs through our excellent community engagement learning or excel. it uses live virtual classroom training and on-the-job experience to prepare san franciscans for administrative jobs in health care. students participate ten weeks of training. next, they're placed in paid, four month clerical and administrative internships with ucsf's campus and our medical center. we provide ongoing internship support throughout the duration of the program as well as job placement assistance when our interns graduate. to be eligible, you must be a san francisco resident 18 years or older, with a high school diploma or g.e.d., proficient

in english, able to pass a basic office skills assessment, and able to pass a criminal background check, occupational health check, and background health screen. ucsf interns earn $14.25 an hour during their trernship. we have recently increased our cycles per year. since we've started excel, we've graduated 230 interns, and just to let you know a little bit of who our graduates are, half our african american. almost 25% are latinx, and 92% are female. ucsf is offering well paying jobs for women of color in san francisco. our next cycle will start training on monday, november 9. i want to acknowledge josh arce

and joaquin torres for the projects that we're doing in the construction field. we're working hard to increase our hires at impact in san francisco. thank you for your leadership, mayor breed, and thanks again for the work of the economic recovery task force. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: all right. thank you so much. as was said, ucsf has been an incredible partner, not just in the jobs program, but they have been incredible in helping to lead our response to covid, so we truly appreciate ucsf and the work that they continue to do. i want to take this opportunity to also acknowledge joaquin torres, who is right over here. he is the director of the office of economic and workforce development, and if any of you are small business owners, please call him directly for any -- any

questions, any assistance. if you want to know what the city is doing or you want to ask some questions, joaquin is absolutely incredible. now if you are looking for a job, josh arce will give you his cell phone number because these are the two tag team folks who are really about making sure that we get to people and provide opportunities in this city. it is so important that we get people back to work, and we do so safely. i want to also just take this opportunity to acknowledge that there have been so many people helping in our economic recovery and our response. you know, i was telling adam how now, i feel bad, when i was here watching wonder woman, i got kicked out of the theater with my friends because we were talking. i had to explain, black people, we're talking in the movie theater. we're telling people what to do

and whatnot not to do. but any way, i have so many incredible memories of this incredible neighborhood. i'm so lucky to be here with one of the local business owners who owns -- is it blue pottery? blue stone pottery. they don't just sell pottery, but they sell a lot of other items that are cute gift issues, and i want to introduce one of the owners, margel howard, who is here today [applause] >> thank you. thank you, mayor breed, for being here. we've got a lot of star power on balboa street today, which is really tlihrilling and amazg for us business owners. several years ago, i cofounded the balboa village merchants association, and our members, like adam bergeron who's done

amazing things with the theater and has adapted so well at the movie theater, he's got these amazing bags. at least one of our family members is wearing a balboa theater t-shirt, and there's a cafe right down the street, according to my daughter, they have the best b.l.t. on the strip. you might want to try that out. these have been trying times as business owners. the pandemic, and the shock to the economy, it's caused us to be more closely knit. there's so much that we've seen mayor breed do, with the help of oewd and assess or carmen chu. i know we're going to get

through this together, and i think how exactly is this going to happen? and then, i hear about this reinvestment in jobsnow, another way to make it easier for small business owners to emerge from this pandemic. galindo, another great place for lunch, stuck in permit purgatory for four years, is now in business. here in the richmond, tens of thousands of residents have filed for unemployment, are looking for jobs, where businesses are getting more and more creative in how they share spaces and how they attract business. we have so many good places to go for lunch, but -- i know,

it's all good. but i am just so grateful. i know our fellow merchants are so grateful to be gathered here at this anchor of our community, one of our community hubs, to really represent what is going to happen here in the future. so thank you again for being here. it means so much to all of us. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and i'll just wrap it up by saying it's halloween this weekend in san francisco, so look. i just want you to all remember that we are still in a pandemic, and i know you're wondering, well, mayor, what are you going to be for halloween? i'm going to dress up, but i'm going to wear my mask, and i'm going to abide by some of the recommendations of public health. i know that's boring, but at the end of the day, we are doing an incredible job, and we are in a good place. and because we know that many of those businesses depend on our recollection and how we

react to remain open, and out of love and respect for our community spaces, we are going to follow the social distancing and all the guidelines that you're tired of me repeating. the balboa, in fact, as a number of activities planned, so you can always buy your ticket in advance. there's going to be music and jazz, and we should look at closing the street. there'll be some great things for us to do here in this community and all over san francisco, but i want everyone to just remember, we are in a pandemic, we can still wear our masks with our costumes, even though it may not be the same. we can get creative because that's what we do in san francisco. but we should all definitely make sure we are safe. thank you all so much for joining me for the announcement of these incredible programs.

i'm going to one of those restaurants that marjan mentioned. thank you all so much for being here today, and have a wonderful day and a wonderful halloween weekend. [applause] >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪] [♪]

[♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone.

it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the

biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪]

>> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f.

punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s.

i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market

rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this.

where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you a plo apply online, it wl take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about

265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a

first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying

in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what

preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big

portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪]

lesb ri >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't have access to technology, and that's primarily children preschool to second grade.

>> when we started doing this distance learning, everything was geared for third grade and up, and we work with the little once, and it's like how were they still processing the information? how were they supposed to keep learning? >> i thought about reaching the student who didn't have internet, who didn't have computers, and i wanted them to be able to see me on the t.v. and at least get some connection with my kids that way. >> thank you, friends. see you next time. >> hi, friend. >> today's tuesday, april 28, 2020. it's me, teacher sharon, and i'm back again. >> i got an e-mail saying that i had an opportunity to be on a

show. i'm, like, what? >> i actually got an e-mail from the early education department, saying they were saying of doing a t.v. show, and i was selected to be one of the people on it, if i was interested. i was scared, nervous. i don't like public speaking and all the above. but it worked out. >> talk into a camera, waiting for a response, pretending that oh, yeah, i hear you, it's so very weird. i'm used to having a classroom with 17 students sitting in front of me, where they're all moving around and having to have them, like, oh, sit down, oh, can you hear them?

let's listen. >> hi guys. >> i kind of have stage flight when i'm on t.v. because i'm normally quiet? >> she's never quiet. >> no, i'm not quiet. >> my sister was, like, i saw you on t.v. my teacher was, i saw you on youtube. it was exciting, how the community started watching. >> it was a lot of fun. it also pushed me outside of my comfort zone, having to make my own visuals and lesson plans so quickly that ended up being a lot of fun. >> i want to end today with a thank you. thank you for spending time with us. it was a great pleasure, and see you all in the fall. >> i'm so happy to see you today. today is the last day of the school year, yea!

>> it really helped me in my teaching. i'm excited to go back teaching my kids, yeah. >> we received a lot of amazing feedback from kiddos, who have seen their own personal teacher on television. >> when we would watch as a family, my younger son, kai, especially during the filipino episodes, like, wow, like, i'm proud to be a filipino. >> being able to connect with someone they know on television has been really, really powerful for them. and as a mom, i can tell you that's so important. the social confidence development of our early learners.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families

together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to

hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people. local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ]

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