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sfgovtv is saying there's a network error so we may have some technical difficulties on the sfgov as well. sergeant, could you please call the first item. >> also we have chief william scott from the san francisco police department and paul helpedder son from police henderson from police accountability. we have general public comment. the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. under police commission rules of

order, the police or d.p.a. personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented to the public. that may provide a brief response, individual commissioners and police and d.p.a. personnel should refrain however from entering into debate or discussion with speakers doing public comment. at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda by calling (415)655-0001. and enter access code 146 806 8536. press pound and pound again or dial star 3 if you wish to make a comment.

you have one caller commissioner cohen. >> thank you. >> caller: good evening, caller. >> caller: hi. hello. i'm a volunteer with the black community and i'm calling because we have recently been aware that supervisor safai has been proposed a resolution at the board of supervisors that would roll back the pace of reform with the doj process here so i'm calling to ask one, whether the police commission would make it clear to the board of supervisors that the further delays to the doj reform are unacceptable and as called for in this very resolution and two, to wonder what roles of the sfpd has played in crafting this

resolution. i would hope that they did not connect with supervisor safai and call even for the delays in critical reform but we do want to be very sure. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> thank you, speaker. >> next caller. >> caller: yes, good evening, this is is star child i'm chair of the local chapter of liberaltarian party of san francisco. can everyone hear me? >> hello? >> yes. >> you can hear me. ok, thank you. i had a couple things i want to mention. i second the caller proceeding

with the department of justice row form and they've been delayed too long and i also wanted to make a suggestion. i don't know actually to what extent, well, i suspect the police commission could do this whether you would get that involved or not i don't know. i think the sfpd, when there's an incident any persons arrested or detained along with victims and witnesses should be september a police report when it comes backs. i was a victim several months ago and? n would help shine a greater light on police expressions censure that things are

happening in a proper manner and officers are putting the truth in their reports allowing witnesses to get copies of those reports to verify that and officers are saying in the record is announcing what they saw with the major important reform that would stem abuses and i had a quick question for the commissioners. i wanted to refer you to a group called the institute for justice at ij.org and they released a report on policing for profit also known as as asset forfeiture and this is a practice whereby police departments and law enforcement agencies will cease property or cash and someone not so valuable but they cease stuff from poor people and the laws are set up it's difficult -- >> thank you, caller. commissioner cohen, it looks like you have one more caller.

good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> my name is paulette brown and i'm calling concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. to this day, his case is not solved. i've been calling for the last 14 years and this is something i'm going to continue to do. i'm just trying to keep my son's memory alive so that you know, when i do call in the police commission, sf gov can also -- the people that are turning into sf gov can hear my story about my son. i am still working on getting the pictures out there. the homicide posters out there to bring awareness to all the unsolved homicides that are happening here in san francisco.

my son, being one. my son was shot 30 times with a semi automatic gun. no mother should have to go through this for the rest of her life. my kids are grown now and i'm just fighting. i want to bring my son's memory back into -- i don't have his case number with me that i can say but i was just hoping that the police commission keeps my son's memory alive and if anyone i know the other person was there that usually called out my son's name but i don't know if commissioner -- the new president will do it. if she decides to, i would

appreciate it. ms. cohen, if she would do it i would really appreciate it. she doesn't have to but it's ok. i just wanted to keep my son's memory alive. i'll be glad when i can show my pictures. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: good evening. this is barrie toronto. i'm a taxi driver and i work late-night hours.

you know, as you know, there's not a lot of business anywhere because the restaurants are closed to indoor dineing and no nightclubs and bars and music venues. so, we have to rely on the business where people are going to actually need a cab. i work oust the cab stand we have next to wall greens on castro. it's 24 hours. castro and 18th. i had a officer with two officers, price and dejarme. the problem is they treated me horribly. they parked in the red zone at the front of the stab stand and i asked them nicely to give a ticket to the car, illegally parked in the cab stand and i had to be double parked because i couldn't use the cab stand. they refused to give the person a ticket and they said well, we don't want to give tints tickety is having a hard time.

i said i'm not even making minimum wage and you want to not support me using my cab stand. they were extremely rude. in fact, they threatened to give me a double parking ticket if i didn't move my car. that's the opposite of two officers that help me when i had my tires slashed when i threatened to call the police on someone parking in the cab stand in the same location. not every officers are like this. those two were extremely rude. i tied to make a police accountability complaint and i've been waiting for a week to do it and no one has returned my call. a guy named elmore is supposed to call me back. i called today and this very nice woman who answered the phone, pat, wanted to help me. but they're not giving me a call back. so why do you even have an office if we can't even file complaints. but the office of police accountability. thank you, very much. >> thank you, caller.

>> caller, you have two minutes. >> thank you. my name is susan buckman and i'm also a member of the wealth and disparities in the black communities and i want to second what the first public commenter that was kit hodges and what she said and so that's condemning supervisor safai's resolution. i can't even think what to say about that. i mean, it really came oust left field and it shows a real cluelessness about what is needed in the city and it's just shocking welcome disparities has been working on this for so long and if you would come to us, we could have the mayor will take

the right path and reject this resolution. thank you. >> we want the resolution slowed down sfpd reform. we want the police commission to be aware of this since you've been working so much on sfpd reform so while it's full out flowery language and support of black lives, it extends it's

really, no mechanism for insuring sfpd meets reforms besides just their own self-reports so that is not holding them accountable. it's making things worse. despite a year of reinvigorating up rising calling for the end of structural anti black racism i'm appalled that supervisor safai is actually putting things in the wrong direction whether he realizes or not. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> i am folks on staff ready to speak to callers. i don't know how to link the two

but if you have the phone numbers for folks that have called in i'm happy to have my staff reach out to them directly. >> director henderson, they're anonymous. >> oh. ok. well, maybe then just -- perhaps director henderson can you they can contact the staff and it's (415)241-7711 is the direct line and my staff will follow-up with you directly. thank you. >> that concludes. >> thank you, very much,

director henderson. if you can call item 2. >> item 2, adoption of minutes action. for the meeting of january 6th, 2021. thank you. colleagues, i think this could be pretty much adopted. there's one administrative slight typo that i want to bring to our attention. i know 2021 is new but in the mint in the minutes, as of january 17th, there is a minor typo error in the public notice. it lists a january 6th, 2020 when it should be january 6th, 2021. it's very slight and inok lus but if we can make that correction, that would be great.

so, i make a motion to correct the date in the minutes and we can vote on that as amended. i'll make a motion to attend the minutes. can you guys hear me? >> yes. >> so moved. >> thank you. >> i'll make a motion to amend the minutes. thank you. looks like we can take this without objection. without objection to the minutes pass unanimously. thank you, colleagues. sergeant, please call item 3. >> item 3. reports to the commission discussion. weekly crime friends after overview of provided summary of

the planned events. this is a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calender for a future meeting. >> ok. >> thank you. sergeant, just as a reminder, please set your timer. each speaker has 10 minutes. at this time, chief. >> thank you, president cohen. good evening, commissioners, vice president elias, director henderson and the public. this week i'll start with crime trends as of january 18th, 2021. starting with part 1 crime over all up. property crime is up 9% from last week year to date, however, we are down 39%. again, it's early in the year

and these numbers will swing -- the percentages will swing greatly early in the year because the numbers are smaller. we continue to see an uptick in burglaries and we're up 46% in burglary and we went from 266 this time last year to 388 this year. in terms of motor vehicle theft, we're up 12% and arson we're up 82% arson is up nine from 11 last year to 20 this year. our auto burglaries are down 54% early in the year but our auto burglar he's are down 54% and these numbers will move greatly at the beginning of the year. in terms of violent crimes, we're down from last week.

someone is on mute. i'm getting feedback. if we can -- can you hear me ok? >> again, we are homicides were even with where we were this time last year two homicides for the year. compared to last month, we had three homicides. we're actually down from last month. poth of our cases this year vo been clear. one by arrest and one by an appearance for the public exceptional clearance is situation where we're unable to prosecute because of circumstances beyond our control and in this case, the individual that committed the homicide also took his own life. our gun violence is up significantly from last year. the percentage is over 800% and the numbers as they pan out is 19 victims of gun violence this

year compared to two last year. i'll give the breakdown of the individual district stations in a second. 17 of our shootings have been non fatal and as i said, two of them have been fatal. in terms of the gun violence by station, we have had four shooting incidents in the bayview, two in the mission, throw in the northern, one in the park, one in ingleside and 3 in the tenderloin and one that resulted in multiple people being shot. the biggest number in the bayview districts with four. as far as significant incidents, as i said, this involves a murder-suicide on the 1500 block of scott and northern district and our officers arrived and conducted a well-being check and

discovered that two individuals were deceased. the first was a 9-year-old child and second was a 49-year-old man. they were father and son. it was deemed this was a murder-suicide and the well-being request it was in the area of mission and persia and that incident resulted in a fatal shooting. three people were shot and one fatally. our suspect identified in this case area. two accounts of assault with a

semi automatic firearm and discharging a firearm in public. he was in custody from an attempted murder charge in sacramento. this is being prosecuted in sacramento county as there's a next us from the sacramento violent crimes and the san francisco homicide and these decisions were made with consultations with members of our district attorney office here in san francisco. there were seven shooting incidents this week causing 11 victims. one was injured from glass shattered from the shooting. of there was one in bayview and one on january 11th. there was one in ingleside on january 12th. there was one in

january 16th glen and bayview on january 16th. one in bayview on january 17th n tenderloin on january 17th. the tenderloin shooting resulted in five people being shot and we do have four individuals in custody for that shooting. that shooting was in front of a liquor store. we believe that shoot asking shs linked to a homicide. the first one occurred in the tenderloin district and it involved two groups who engage in a fight and gunfire was exchanged and five individuals were shot. there were two shooting incidents. the last thing on the report, is there was one incident with a serious traffic collision and that was at 20th and potrero at that location. our victim was a 82-year-old

pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle near the crosswalk. the driver remained at the scene and a pedestrian was transported with life-threatening injuries. that will conclude my report for this week. thank you. >> thank you. all right. colleagues. let me see. i'm going to the chat to see if there are any questions. commissioner brookter is that your hand? >> i have a question in regards to arson. i know we said that the number isn't large but the 82% just really caught my eye and i was just really wondering, you know, when we're capturing this, is it arson at homes, vehicles, public property? do we capture that type of information? >> we do. i will say, there's no common

theme to these arsons. it can be any of the ones -- any of the categories you mentioned. we've had city property set on fire. we've had people's homes or arson started intended for someone's home. it could be any of those. i think last year a lot of what drove our arson statistics was what happened with the civil unrest and there were many fires set for that, done that period, anyway. we're not really seeing any def net trends at this point of the year, commissioner. it's a hodge podge of different arson-related events. >> thank you, chief. any other colleagues interested in speaking? >> all right. hamasaki, is that you?

would you like to add anything to the chief's report? >> sorry, thank you. the one thing i did want to raise was the press release that i e-mailed. i was e-mailed from the department today, friday, regarding the shooting, the homicide that arose out of the side show, probably earlier this year our last year. that was the one that i raised at last meeting recording the case that was charged out of county for a crime that occurred here. a homicide that occurred here. are you familiar with what i'm talking about? >> yes, that's the one i just mentioned, commissioner. >> ok. >> and did you have a understanding or explanation as to why it was filed in sacramento when it's san

francisco case? >> my understanding is that two things, there was a connection with the attempted murder i just mentioned in sacramento and the second thing is that my standing there's a consultation with the san francisco district attorney on their decision to have the sacramento d.a. file everything there, it's my understanding. >> ok. so, this is something that was approved by our district attorney? >> my understanding is that the conversation with our district attorney. not the district attorney but whoever filed the case. >> whoever in the district attorney's office who would handle these types of matters. so, i think i'd like to -- and maybe you don't know tonight but i'd like to get a little bit more understanding as to why a san francisco case that was, you

know, i think we all heard about it. it was a shooting that someone that happened at a side show one of those car events that we've talked about. why it was brought to another county because i do believe that crimes that occur in san francisco should be prosecuted in san francisco as well. >> that was in consultation with our district attorney office. the juvenile in question was already in custody for an attempted murder in san francisco. as you know there's a whole process with extradition and all so it was done with consultation, which is not uncommon in these cases. i've seen cases here in san francisco where we have prosecuted based on crimes that occurred in other countries and vice versa and there is those cases have been conversations

with district attorney staff on with this instance as well. >> it was a case that was investigating according to the press release by the homicide division. >> by our homicide unit, yes, yes. our case. you are talking about our case, yes. >> right. thank you. and you know, let me just briefly follow-up because a caller asked about to my understanding, that is not something we really do here. is that the department's -- i don't know the specifics of the department policy on that. >> there is as set forfeiture that is not administered by us. we don't take property and keep their money. and certain investigations,

particularly when forfeiture on federal investigations there is an as set forfeiture distribution so, this city has for years been a part of that and it's still is but it's not anything that we administer. we don't have an as asset forfeiture policy because we do don't take money and dop that into city departments account. that is distributed by the federal -- whoever does it. the federal authorities distribute where it comes from at that forfeiture. >> let me interject because we're getting off topic here. if you would like to agenized this discussion, we can do so for the next meeting. >> i'm done, thank you, very much. >> ok. >> all right. is there any other colleagues that would like to ask

questions? >> chief, i just had one question. it was just for my understanding and clarification, with respect to commissioner hamasaki's question, when you say there was consultation with the district attorney's office, i guess the district attorney refused to prosecut this individual as an adult. i'm not understand what is it means when you say there was a consultation. >> no. i have no knowledge of that being the case, commissioner. when these cases are filed when someone is in custody and another county and in this case there was, there's decisions that have to be made. whether we're going the other counties is going to extradite because they're in custody in that county as you all know.

there's usually consultation about the best way to handle that case whether it should be handled in the other counties or san francisco counties. since i've been there, there's been case that's have been handled here that were crimes commit inside other counties and that's usually with the permission and consultation of that county district attorney and that process does exist. and in this case, my understanding is that consultation did happen and it was decided to pursue the filing of these changes in sacramento county. >> i'm a waiver the special provisions with respect to juvenile. let's agenized this so we can have this discussion. >> absolutely, consider it done.

>> consider it done. >> first, i would appreciate it if you could report to the commission the moment the usdoj comes back into the collaborative reform initiative, please. now that we have transition of administration of power. i am optimistic that engagement will happen again. also, if you could incorporate a section on your report out to us about domestic terrorism. anything you hear or any chatter or any act of violence, please bring it to the commission's attention. >> yes, commissioner. >> thank you, sir. >> and if i may, just for 30 seconds, you asked for that last week and i ran out of time. we don't have anything to report this week as far as domestic terrorism. there's a lot going on with the

inauguration and what was on the internet and social media across the country but nothing has transpired here or nothing major in any other reports that i've gotten from cities across the country. >> got it. >> that's good to know. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. seeing that there are no other colleagues that have questions, and the chief is finished his report, we can continue. i believe the next is department of police accountability. >> line item 3, dpa director's report. report on recent d.p.a. activities and announcements, d.p.a. report will be limit today a brief description of d.p.a. different tease and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to whether to calender any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. >> thank you. >> i have, for my staff, this week, for the new year we are at

23 new cases that have come in. this time last year we're at 35 cases. we've closed 31 cases so far this year and this time last year we closed 59 cases. compared to this time we have 401. we've sustained two cases so far this year which is the same number of two case that's had been sustained this time last year. we have 35 cases who is investigations have gone past nine months so far still below the 33 deadline and there have been no cases that have gone past that deadline. this time last year, we were at 25 cases. we have not mediated any cases this year nor had we mediated

cases this time last year. we have a number of cases that are with the commission and they're 14 cases with the commission. and we have 38 cases that are pending currently with the chief. we did outreach this week for mlk. dpa hosted a virtual panel discussion and it involved members of my staff and our outreach coordinator and the moderator and help panelists from my legal team, and also from my legal team and outreach team for community organizations. we have, on tonight's calender, two cases that are in closed session just as a flag for the rest of the commissioners. and that concludes my report.

>> president cohen: let me see if there are any questions. colleagues, any questions for director henderson? >> i don't see any. >> president cohen: all right. let's continue moving forward. next item. >> commission reports. commission reports will be submitted to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calender any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. commission president report, commission's report, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration as future commission meetings, action. >> president cohen: all right. commissioners, we'll start with you. a few of you have been very busy. do you want to report out? >> all right, mr. hamasaki i see your name first.

>> thank you. it's been a busy week. i don't know why she madam vice are grinning so broadly but myself, commissioner elias and commissioner brookter attended a preview presentation to center for policing equity which was very interesting how to refine the report. we're not aware of they have signed an m.o.u. to the department regarding future work and that is something that i think the commissioners, we were interested in learning more about and this has been an

ongoing challenge learning about agreements and the department has entered into m.o.u.s and i think there's -- i believe they are in our purview and so, i would like to understand that better. that's it. >> all right. commissioner brookter. >> thank you, president cohen. also i wanted to give you an update that commissioner hamasaki and i had our ninth meeting with the working group for djo7.01. so members of the public and the commission that were really working to push that dgo forward to bring it to the commission and back to the public and i also just had a statement. i think before we got into covid, i was backing as a liaison for the commission and for my colleagues, working

alongside d.p.a. so i wanted to get that in the record. we get our meetings back on the calender to continue to have that dialogue and be that liaison with d.p.a. >> great, i look forward to. >> president cohen: all right. commissioner elias. >> i was smiling because commissioner hamasaki jumped the line. i think commissioner brookter was first. >> president cohen: i'm sorry. >> i do that from time to time. >> exactly. >> commissioner dejesus was perhaps in front of me as well. [laughter] >> president cohen: hold on. i'm going to get to petra, ok. commissioner dejesus, please -- >> so, commissioner brookter and

i met with the chiefs and others regarding the -- we haven't had our d.g.o. regarding awards to officers. so, we have this d.g.o. that is going to come before us to approve. we have this committee that is set up to review it and we met and we're not done and we have to meet again. what started is a new process to meet with the chief and others to go through these and then when they come in front of the commission, they've been screened by a couple commissioners. the d.g.o. itself has to be amended accordingly. i wanted to report on that. >> president cohen: all right. that's good. it's good to know. commissioner elias, you are up. >> thank you president cohen. i think that if commissioner hamasaki covered my updates so thank you. [laughter] >> that's funny. hamasaki covers everything for

everybody. >> president cohen: ok so, i don't have much to report on. hopefully i'll have more next week in terms of policy suggestions. i would like to ask the chief if any review has been conducted on the sfpd twitter links and other social media platforms to determine whether or not there's been any similar linkages between sfpd and the activities like -- well, let me back up. i'd like to ask if there's a review on the connection on twitter between the san francisco police department tenderloin twitter account and congresswoman bowbert there was an interesting report about the connections following her -- you might recall congresswoman bowbert was the one tweeting the

whereabouts the speaker pelosi. if there is an investigation, let me know. if there's not, i would just like to know. the curiosity. i'm curious. >> yes. that is being reviewed and i don't have anything to report but it's being reviewed and looked into. >> so upon completion. >> the question you asked about the tenderloin and the congresswoman. >> that's right. so upon review of this connection, i'd like you to bring it to the commission. again, to satisfy my curiosity. i don't think that's out of line or in violation of anything. >> yes, commissioner, we can do that. we will do that. >> president cohen: all right. i appreciate that. it's a pretty disturbing link

and a curious one. are you still investigating officers that may have participated in the. >> they were not involved in any of the washington activities and we talked to our federal partners here connecting the criminal investigation but there's a federal criminal investigation going on. our federal partners here have advised me there's no indication of any sfpd personnel. we haven't gotten any word or rumors that any of our personnel were involved in any of our members were involved so, at this point, there's no indication at all that any of our members were involved in anything that happened in d.c. and in particular, the criminal activity there was no indication at all that any of our members

were involved in that activity. >> president cohen: i'm very pleased to hear that. did you ask directly or is this just kind of an informal -- [please stand by]

>> commissioner hamasaki: so that's a suggestion that i raised with the chief, and i would encourage that it be implemented. i was trying to think of a way that would be more -- less confrontational, and this seems like it would be more of an invitation to identify yourselves and, you know, as law enforcement officers, anybody who is in the presence of criminal activity would want to aid in an investigation, so i'm making that request tonight, and i think it should be acted on. thank you, madam president. >> commissioner cohen: no problem. thank you for making that in the record. all right.

let 'continue moving forward, sergeant reynolds. please call item number 5. >> clerk: we have public comment on-line item 3-c, so any caller who is interested in speaking, please call 415-655-0001. enter access code 146-806-8536. press pound, and then press pound again or dial star, three. okay. looks like we have a couple callers. >> commissioner cohen: okay. >> clerk: caller, good evening. you have two minutes. >> yes. i am somewhat concerned about, you know, i think the police department has a lot of things on its hand, and i wonder if --

why it's do being things like notifying the f.b.i. about peaceful demonstrations. that seems a little bit like an overreach when we have things like open air drug dealing and cars being broken into, and my neighbor had their house broken into in broad daylight, and so why you're worrying about peaceful demonstrations that might have remote link to, you know, right wing activism, that's kind of concerning. and so -- and why is the san francisco police department involved in the investigation into congressman boebert

because what? she's from colorado and pelosi is in d.c., so i don't know why san francisco has anything to do with it unless twitter is based in san francisco. so is the san francisco police department going to get involved in every single case of harassment that's involved in twitter because that seems like a lot of work for san francisco police department when people's houses are getting broken into in broad daylight, so yeah. i feel like the police department really needs to focus its priorities and not turn into some sort of surveillance tool, so yeah. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening again.

this is miss paulette brown. i was giving the case number to my son's case for his homicide for the $250,000 reward and for the capture of the perpetrators that murdered my son, and that case number is 060862038. if anybody knows anything of this case concerning my son, even though it's been many years, and it's a cold case, i would love them to call in. the perpetrators that murdered my son -- and i got this from my homicide inspector a little bit after my son was murdered when i walked into the room and had to view the books if i knew any of those perpetrators. and the names of those perpetrators are thomas

hannibal, thomas moffatt, jason thompson, anthony hunter, and marcus carter. one of them is deceased. hannibal is still walking around. he was the one bragging about murdering my son. paris moffatt is still walking around. these are the perpetrators on my son's posters. they shot him because they were walking up to see someone else, and he said something to them. we don't want to wait until it hits our home before we open our mouth because our silence is continuing to kill us, so we

want to do something about it. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, thank you. this is starchild again, chairman of the libertarian party of san francisco, but i thank commissioner hamasaki for following up on my comment. locally, the departments often can't get away with doing this themselves. basically, the feds do it for them, and then, the locals get a cut of the proceeds, so it's still prioritizing crimes and property fees for law enforcement.

this is according to ij.org. individual cash forfeitures are individually usually small, usually a few thousand dollars. more than that, the data show quite often makes little economic sense for property owners to fight. the cost of hiring an attorney to navigating complex civil forfeiture processes often outweighs the value of seized property, and there's been many, many documented cases of horrible abuse like loaning someone else their car and that person commits a crime, and then, the car is seized even when the crime is something, you know, very minor, so you would encourage commissioner hamasaki or one of the other commissioners to indeed follow up and agendize this item for the next meeting. i think there ought to be an audit. if the commission doesn't know

how much money is coming in from being seized, they ought to know, and yeah, something is drawing increasing attention to many states, but yeah, it's a lot of -- >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, it looks like that concludes public comment. >> commissioner cohen: was there anything else on this agenda? next line item. >> clerk: next line item number 4, presentation of the sfpd audit of electronic communication devices for bias, fourth quarter 2020. reminder, there is a ten-minute limit for presentations. >> president cohen, it's good to see you. >> commissioner cohen: likewise.

how are you? i'm sorry to interject here. i just wanted just to give you the rules of engagement. ten-minute presentation. >> i'm going to do it in under ten minutes. >> commissioner cohen: you're going to make my night.

>> -- concerning the use of communication devices in systems. there are three. number one, department general order 10.08, use of computers in peripheral equipment, number two, department bulletin should be department notice 19-051, which is titled sfpd members expectation of privacy, use of computers, peripheral equipment, and facilities, and finally here within the risk management office, specifically, the internal affairs division, we have a unit order 18-02 that speaks to actually the audit process. it is important to note the audits are limited to devices the department owns and not any member personal devices. the audits do capture electronic messages that are captured from department devices to personal devices. there are three items, and they are as follows. level two, the california law enforcement telecommunications

systems, most commonly referred to as clets within the department, e-mails, and text messaging of department-issue cellular phones. beginning with clets, a program was established that investigates all messages in the system using a word list, and we use the same word list across all three mediums. the system is passive and runs continuously. if a member uses one of the flagged words, a hit is automatically generated and is sent to level two personnel. each hit is printed, scanned, and saved to a file. the level two audit process has been fully operational since december 2016. we're starting our fifth year.

so the fourth quarter results. from october 1 through december 31, there were 49 hits involved in the program, and after investigation, none of the hits were determined to be bias oriented. second system, e-mail. all e-mails received both externally and internally in the system is scanned. if the e-mail contains a hit word, it's sent to investigative personnel. staff analyzes every hit, and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. so our fourth quarter results. again, from the period october 1 through december 31, there were 222 hits returned by the

program, and after review by i.a.d. members, one of the 22 hits was determined to be bias oriented. we have opened an investigation into this matter. our third and final system, messages via department-issued cellular phones. audits of messages sent and received externally and internally are conducted by i.a.d. every 30 days, a search is done of all text using the established word list. additional terms can be used, as well. staff analyzes every hit to determine the context in which the term was used. those hits determined to be potentially biased are investigated, and all false positive hits are saved by at&t. for the period october 1

through december 31, there were 33 hits returned from the program, and again, after review by i.a.d. members, none of the 33 hits were determined to be bias oriented. that concludes my presentation. >> president cohen: wow. that's a really good time stop -- job, commander. >> thank you. >> president cohen: let me see if my colleagues have any questions. i see no names in the chat. colleagues? okay. it doesn't look like we have any questions. >> clerk: we have one card for public comment. >> president cohen: yes, please. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, president cohen, commissioners, police chief scott, and director

henderson. i was surprised to find that it actually returned a hit. digging deeper, i found that it's been more than four hit -- found that in the more than four years of audits, there were only five hits. they sound more like a substantive error than a statistical finding. why does sfpd continue to invest in this test when it doesn't provide any meaningful way to probe for bias, and why is the commission allowing to waste the time for bias instead of investigating officers social media profiles for bias? the public loses confidence that bias will be rooted out just hidden behind the thin veil of confidentiality.

if we take the view seriously that bias has no place in sfpd, more needs to be done to find out how to root out bias. the commission should establish a working group off a plan of action to -- or a plan of action to replace this clearly limited audit. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening. thank you. this is starchild again with the libertarian party. i would like to echo everything the previous caller just said. i think he made some extremely cogent comments both about the lack of findings and the waste of time that this seems to be taking place under the current method of auditing of social

media. i was wondering if there's any kind of audit of how police are using things like stingray devices that mimic cell phone towers, basically spying on people's phone calls, whether it's the actual phone calls or just the geolocation, whether there may be those kinds of items being used in a biased manner, and i think that's maybe a question for the commissioners or chief. if the commissioners don't know the answer to that, i'd be interested to know if there's anything going on with regards to that. another thing would be electronic license plate readers that would be tied to a vehicle or specific location. when bias is uncovered, i think it's vital the public get to

know those details. officers shouldn't be able to hide behind the confidentiality or qualified immunity or whatever it gets called in a particular instance. we need to know who the misbehaving officers are, and that needs to be public. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. good evening, caller. you have two minutes -- oh, looks like they're gone. that concludes public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. thank you to the members of the public that have called in to this evening. is there any other business

before this committee? >> clerk: president cohen? >> president cohen: yes. i asked if there's any other business before this commission? i asked if there was anything else on the agenda. >> clerk: yes. line item 5, presentation of the sfpd fdrb findings and recommendations and o.i.s. investigative summaries, fourth quarter 2020, discussion. >> president cohen: great. thank you. >> good evening, president cohen. should i proceed? >> president cohen: yes, please. the floor is yours.

thank you. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, executive director henderson, and members of the community. greg gee, the chairman of the firearms commission and the firearms discharge review board. so in fourth quarter 2020, the firearms discharge review board reviewed the following officer involved shooting, o.i.s. 20-0001. on april 12, at approximately 5:45 in the morning, san

francisco police sergeant just finished his tour of duty and was on his way home. prior to going home, the sergeant stopped at the chevron station located at -- [inaudible] >> -- in south san francisco to fuel his vehicle. while fueling his vehicle, he heard a scream of help me, help me. he looked over and saw a vehicle parked in the first row of pumps. he did not see anything or anyone and continued to fuel his vehicle. a few seconds later, the sergeant heard a second loud scream and believed there may be a possible domestic situation or some type of assault that was in progress. the sergeant ran to the driver's side of the vehicle parked in the first row of pumps. he observed a person on the ground face up with their feet still inside the vehicle and 1 foot was barefoot, covered in blood. the sergeant observed a second

person, later identified as the suspect, was on top of the person on the ground. the sergeant, not knowing what was going on, yelled "stop, knock it off!" the suspect backed up and took a few steps back. the suspect struck the officer in the face. the officer drew his weapon and ordered the suspect to get down on the ground. the sergeant pulled out his star and identified himself as a police officer. the suspect said i don't give a [bleep] about your badge. the sergeant ordered the suspect to get on the ground, but he did not comply. the sergeant holstered his weapon since he did not see a weapon in the suspect's hands. he continued to give orders to the suspect to get down on the ground and that he was under

arrest. the suspect did not comply and the sergeant attempted to walk backwards in an attempt to deescalation the situation and create time and distance. the sergeant focused attention back on the suspect and observed a box cutter in his hand. the sergeant drew his firearm again, and as the suspect continued to walk towards him, the sergeant continued to give orders to drop the weapon and get down on the ground. the sergeant warned the suspect he would be shot if he did not follow orders. the suspect did not comply and continued to advance. the sergeant, fearing for his life, fired his firearm one time, striking the suspect in the abdomen. the suspect fell to the ground but continued to try to get up with a box cutter in hand. the sergeant made his way back towards the cash register window and asked if they could call the police. the suspect, after being shot, continued to try to get up.

sergeant continued commands to drop the knife and stay on the ground. after several minutes, the south san francisco police department arrived. the suspect, now on his feet, approached south san francisco police officers with the box cutter still in hand. they ordered him to drop the weapon, but he did not comply. the suspect was tased by south san francisco police department three times and still managed to get up. the suspect stole a south san francisco police car, and the south san francisco police department pursued the suspect. at the termination point of the pursuit, an officer involved shooting with the south san francisco police department occurred, and the suspect succumbed to the injuries. the sergeant remained at the scene and provided aid to the suspect. the suspect and the sergeant were referred for injuries.

after review, the san francisco police department determined that this incident was in policy. the status of o.i.s. investigations. currently, there are nine o.i.s. investigations pending, and they are active investigation -- and there are active investigations underway. currently, there are five death investigations that have active criminal or administrative investigations underway, and that is the conclusion of the report. >> president cohen: thank you very much for your presentation, deputy chief. colleagues, are there any questions? this is the first time i've

heard of such a report. what happens? you report the finding and then what are the next steps? >> there are no next steps. the recommendation is made to the chief of police. chief scott will then either concur with the findings or he will not concur or he could send it back for any further review. >> president cohen: i appreciate that. thank you. all right. seeing no other questions -- >> clerk: madam president, there's no public comment pending. line item 6, presentation of the sfpd's family code 6228 quarterly report, fourth quarter 2020 discussion. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, executive

director henderson, chief scott, and members of the public. my name is captain david falzon. as a result of a police commission working group, we present quarterly to outline our progress as far as our timeliness to response requests relating to family code section 6228. during the last quarter, october, november, december, we had 95 requests for 6228. all other requests exceeded 7,000. the -- i'm pleased to announce that of those 95 requests, all 100%, 95 of the requests were fulfilled within five days, which was our goal when we set out to do this working group,

so we're well within that commitment. i would also point out that i think this is particularly rewarding for the staff and quite heartfelt. the bulk of our requests now came from victims. 75 of those requests came from victims, so i think it speaks volumes to the relationship we're building with the public. on a side note, i did want to extend a thank you to vice president elias. during the month of december, she was kind enough to stop by our unit, and we brought everyone together. and i cannot stress enough how much we appreciated her visit. i think staff was quite surprised that she was so well informed with the work they were doing and the importance of it, and i just want to send a special thanks to her. i think often -- i think the staff doesn't really think that everyone's watching this and the importance of the work that they're doing, so vice

president elias, a special thank you to you. but in closing, i'd just like to reiterate that we did meet 100% compliance, and i think if we take a great reflection of where we were a year ago today, we've come leaps and bounds. i'd just like to thank those supporting us. we have a public-facing system that the public is now using. we're consistently seeing requests increase. this last quarter, we were up to 65 requests through the website, so i really think -- which is now the number one way to request a police report from us. so it's efficient, and not only is it efficient, it documents the entire process. so we know when the request comes in, we know when they sent it, we know when we

processed it. i think that symbolizes great accountability, so that is my report, and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> president cohen: i'm going to see if commissioner elias has any questions. >> vice president elias: thank you, president cohen. i don't have a question, but i wanted to extend a thank you for captain falzon for his leadership in this department. when i was able to visit this department, i was able to view all the great work that your department is doing and have a great conversation that led to the great work that your department is doing, and the turnaround time. it's really great to see the turnaround times, especially for victims who have already suffered and been the victims of trauma, and they come into contact with your staff. and mind you, this department is only working at 50% capacity physically because they have to

rotate in and out of the office because of covid. and even with that restriction, they're able to turn these requests around in days. so thank you for your leadership, captain falzon. thank you for the great work you're doing, and please extend that to the staff and i appreciate all the hard work they're doing. >> very much appreciated. no, you're always welcome as is any other commissioners. we're doing great work down here, and we'd love to share it with you commissioners. thank you very much. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. seeing that there are no other names on the roster, sergeant reynolds, please call the next item. >> commissioner hamasaki: sorry. president cohen, this is commissioner -- >> president cohen: oh, yes, commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, and i just wanted to join in commissioner elias' praise

of the unit. commissioner elias and i were present when the domestic violence officers presented before the commission about the difficulty that domestic violence survivors were having in getting the reports. it was amazingly productive. we had a little bit of issues at the end, but we got to this point, and i'll say there was a great, great buy-in from the members of the department. to go from that -- you know, it was a real -- people were very hurt and upset because, you know, survivors need these reports in order to get restraining orders, and so there was a lot of -- it was a very emotional process to get to this point and to have this report. i just wanted to say

congratulations, and this is a really great work that you're doing for the community. i'm really just proud to see this -- this got -- get to this stage, to thank you again. >> thank you, commissioner hamasaki. and i've got to say, you know you were originally part of our original group. i just have one other comment. i think what you helped, and commissioner elias, was make contact with the human being. you nailed it. the people have already been victimized, and the staff truly gets that. i don't know if they got that in the past, but now, they truly get that connection, and the relationship that they've been able to build with those victim survivors. this was a cultural shift. the software is great, but it's only as good as the people running it. this is a credit to my team here, the supervisors. again, commissioner elias

right -- coming prior to christmas was really the icing on the cake for us. they hear from me all the time that everyone is watching, but having one of you walk in unannounced was pretty awesome, and it was great for the staff. thank you. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. we're all excited when commissioner elias shows up anywhere. >> i agree. i feel the same way. >> commissioner hamasaki: thanks again, captain falzone. >> president cohen: thank you. i wish people were excited. >> i'm excited. you know i am. >> vice president elias: no, i had a great time. thank you. >> president cohen: great. we'll deploy commissioner elias to the p.o.a. i'm sure they'll be excited to see her there, too. >> good choice. >> president cohen: all right. i'm kidding, tony. please don't text me or call me tomorrow. sergeant, what's next on the agenda? >> clerk: we now have public

comment. the public is welcome to call in and press pound, three or dial star, three to make public comment. looks like we do not have any callers for public comment. so the next line item is line item 7, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below: closed session, including public comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. >> president cohen: any public comment? >> clerk: no, ma'am, there's no public comment. >> president cohen: okay. all right.

well, let's call the next item. >> clerk: line item 8, vote on whether to hold item 9 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10, action. >> commissioner hamasaki: so moved. >> president cohen: all right. thank you. a motion moved by commissioner hamasaki, seconded by -- >> vice president elias: second. >> president cohen: -- by commissioner elias. and can we take that same house, same call? taken without objection. and we'll go into closed session. >> clerk: going into closed session now.

>> good afternoon, and welcome to the city and county of san francisco's covid-19 update. for q. and a., state your name and outlet and two clearly stated questions in webex chat. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> mayor london breed: good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us here today. after almost a year of this pandemic, we can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. we're not there yet, but that day is coming, and it is coming soon. we've been preparing for this moment, we're eager to get there, and we're gonna be ready. no one wants to open the city more than i do. and today i'm proud to announce

that we have a plan to work with our private health care providers to create a network of vaccination sites in san francisco, including three large sites that will allow us to quickly vaccinate people once we have the supply to do so. this has taken a lot of work and i really want to recognize how this is an example of public and private sectors coming together to deliver for the common good. i know that there have been a lot of questions about the vaccine. i know that there's been a lot of information -- misinformation that has been out there in the public. i have a lot of the same questions, including how we get more vaccines. my focus has been on setting up the city to be ready when we do get vaccines. and making sure people know where to go when it's their turn. look, this pandemic -- it's not easy. but i want to be clear with the

people of san francisco -- we have a plan. we are moving these vaccines forward. we can do this together. testing was hard at the beginning too. i remember several months ago when dr. colfax was talking about how we didn't have enough cotton swabs to collect samples. but we worked through that. and we set up a system to make sure that thousands of people could get tested every day. and while we don't have direct control over how vaccines are allocated to our city, we can do everything that we can to make sure that it is as easy as possible for people trying to get them. today i want to walk you through where we are with vaccine distribution, our next steps, and what you can expect once we are actually receiving enough doses locally to get where we need to be. let's start with where we are now and how the city is managing that process. the federal government and the state are distributing the

vaccines. in california, the state is giving vaccines directly to health care providers, which includes providers like kaiser permanente, and others, as well as our own department of public health. as a health care provider, the department of public health is in charge of giving doses to workers in our city-run hospitals, like san francisco general and laguna honda hospital. the largest skilled nursing facility in this country. as well as their patients in the san francisco health network. so we have vaccines being distributed in san francisco from a number of different sources, which i know can be quite confusing. and we know in a pandemic confusion is a huge problem and clarity is essential. people are tired, they are scared, and they just want to know what they can do to get the

vaccine. that's why we are working with our private partners to create a network of sites to bring all of these different groups and efforts together to start from the beginning. the state has set the guidelines for prioritizing which populations are to receive the vaccines first. which means we must follow those guidelines. the city is currently in phase 1a, which initially included frontline health care workers and people in skilled nursing facilities. to give you a sense of how this phase compares in san francisco to a lot of other counties -- it's important to remember that we have a massive world-class hospital system that anchors the entire region. that is san francisco general, crunch sf hospital and mission bay parnassus and the brand-new campus on van ness, and st. luke's in the mission.

and st. francis and st. mary's and kaiser on garry boulevard. those are just the hospitals. we are so lucky to have this incredible health care system. but it also means that we have 80,000 to 90,000 frontline health care workers in the city. so that tier is bigger for us than it is for other counties in this state. this is important because while people 65 and older represent just 15% of the total infections, they are 85% of the total deaths. so d.p.h. is now serving people in the san francisco health network who are 65 and older. i know that our private providers are starting to do the same. of the vaccine doses that we have received directly to the city through the department of public health, all of them have either been administered or assigned. we are not sitting on any

vaccines. they are all moving out the door. since the state is giving vaccines directly to a number of different health care entities in addition to the department of public health, the majority of doses aren't controlled by the city and county of san francisco. but what we've been working on to do -- but what we've been working to do is to bring all of these health care providers together with the city to mobilize all of our efforts together. and here's what that looks like -- first, every resident in san francisco, every resident, can go to sf.gov/vaccinenotify. v-a-c-c-i-n-even n-o-t-i-f-y, starting on tuesday. and when it is your turn to be vaccinated you will be contacted with what you should do to make

that happen. again, that is sf.gov/vaccinenotify starting on tuesday. as a reminder, the vaccine is limited, and we are still in phase 1a. so you may not be contacted for a little while. in terms of distribution, we are ready to ramp up to distribute 10,000 doses per day in the city. as long as we receive the supply to do so. locations are easy to get access to all over san francisco. we have many city facilities. we have many empty parking lots. we have people reaching out to us and offering their locations for vaccine distribution. the locations are not the problem. it's the supply. and if that supply significantly increases, our facilities will be ready to exceed this goal and handle as much vaccine as we receive from the state and

federal government. to do that, we're moving forward with a plan to create a network of vaccination sites. some will be large sites, others will be smaller community-based sites. the key to this network is that we will work with our private providers to provide easy access and meet people where they are. these larger sites include ones we are setting up at city college. one in the bayview at the s.f. market. and one musconi city. each will have spaces for health care providers to set up and vaccinate their members, creating coordinated, centralized vaccine locations that people can go to regardless of their provider. the first of these sites will be ready to go next week as long as we receive the sufficient supply of vaccines from the state. and we're ready to ramp up even

more as soon as we have the vaccines. to increase availability to those people living in high impacted communities, we will bring pop-up vaccination sites and mobile vaccine teams. these neighborhoods will also be served by the department of public health community clinics, as well as other safety net clinics for uninsured or underinsured. we're also working with one medical -- safeway and walgreens when the doses become available. for example, walgreens was instrumental in helping us to not only vaccinate the staff at laguna honda hospital, but to vaccinate all of the patients at laguna honda hospital who agreed to the vaccination. but i want to be clear -- the vaccine doses we have received remain limited. we're ready for more doses, we need more doses, we're asking for more doses.

we can ramp up and open up these sites the minute that we have the vaccines. we're mobilizing the entire citn and it means our -- city government and it means our health care departments. we're all on the same team here. san francisco has led from the very beginning. it's why we have one of the highest rates of testing per capita, and one of the lowest deaths in the entire country. since the beginning of this pandemic, we have seen less deaths in san francisco over the entire time, and los angeles county, for example, their death rates in one day alone yesterday outmatched our death rate over this entire pandemic. we know that it's been hard. we know that we want to get our economy going. but i want to be clear -- we are ready to do what is necessary to make sure that we get these

vaccines to people as quickly as we have them. i want to really recognize all of the city staff who have been working tirelessly to put this effort together. it's not easy. it's one thing to say that we need to do something. it's another thing to put it all together. and the folks who have been working on the frontlines, the people in the department of public health, the city staff and agencies, they have been working closely together to make sure that when this is executed that it goes off without a hitch. to the residents of san francisco, we are doing our best to support you and to provide clarity. and i know that it's not easy. but we are here to do everything that we can. and we are. i also want to thank all of the providers who are working with us, kaiser permanente and sutter, and ucsf health. this is a huge effort and we appreciate their cooperation, because we cannot do this alone.

it takes all of us coming together to move this forward. today we have carey owen pleats, the president of kaiser permanente northern california to talk about the work that kaiser is doing, to both work with us and to get people vaccinated quickly. but, first, i want to introduce the department of public health director, dr. colfax, to say a few words. >> well, good afternoon, everybody, and thank you, mayor breed. and welcome carey owen pleats. mayor, your leadership and unwavering commitment have brought us to this moment. and, you know, so much of what i have shared with all of you this year has been hard news to hear. about how things are bad, and how they may get worse. well, i am delighted that today

is the day of good news. mostly good news. and i am so thankful for that. now is a time that seems unimaginable to me and so many of us just six or eight months ago. now is a time when we are rolling out covid vaccine and getting shots into arms. i want to thank our health care providers, including kaiser, dignity, ptmc sutter, chinese hospital, and ucsf. who have literally stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us as we care for those in our hospitals suffering the most from this virus. and now as we move forward together, we will stand, we do stand, shoulder-to-shoulder, as we vaccinate people and eradicate this terrible virus from our city. look, we have been on defense. now we go on offense.

you know, during this pandemic, i've often referenced how this city came together during the worst days of the aids pandemic. and our amazing response. we did that -- we did that together, and we did that even without a vaccine. we have vaccines for covid. they are good. they are safe vaccines. they are our ticket out. and we will get it done. that's what we do in san francisco. indeed, our creation of a network of vaccine sites would not be possible without our city workers, our community and business partners, and all san franciscans. there have been no easy decisions, nor easy answers during this time. but as a city, we have come together. we have made sacrifices. we have been resilient and

overcome so many challenges these past few months. our collective action has saved lives and protected our capacity of our health care system. as we roll out this unprecedented vaccine, let's recognize the thousands of city workers that have tirelessly worked throughout this pandemic. this includes our health care workers who have worked with tremendous devotion, but also the hundreds -- the hundreds of city employees that we have deployed in our covid-19 response. from the project manager now overseeing the testing site, to the librarian working on our contact tracing teams. our city workers have dedicated themselves to the care and the healing, the care and the healing of the people of this city. and, let me tell you, we have an incredibly impressive team. we have engineers and environmental specialists making sure that our schools are safe for in-person learning, and

transit operators, greeting and guiding people through testing sites. we have city employees who volunteer to be deployed to our isolation and quarantine hotels, to support people in their time of need as well deploy to our safe sleeping sites. our team includes city employees who are working with community leaders and business groups to ensure that we are keeping communities informed on the ever evolving pandemic. as well as those employees who crunch data to help to guide, and others who analyze the policies and the best practices to keep us safe. we have people across the city running testing programs, food programs, and financial relief programs. they raise and solve issues relating to equity, accessibility, and efficiency. they are transit operators,

homeless outreach workers, e.m.t.s, paramedics and public safety personnel, and environmental service and public work employees, that show up each day to work on the front lines to keep our city functioning. and for that i am grateful. our team embodies the very best of who we are as a city. and we will emerge from this pandemic as a strong city because of them. we are stronger together from our city workers, to our non-profit partners, to our community partners and business partners, and, of course, our health care provider partners. our successful rollout of vaccinations will require that we work together and continue to remain vigilant. because even with the arrival of vaccines, we must still take precautionary measures. we are still seeing an increase in cases and hospitalizations.

unfortunately, our case rate is higher than it has ever been. but vaccines are our way out. and we need more as soon as possible. i want to make that clear. and even with increased supply, the estimates are that most of the general public will not receive vaccine until later in the year. until then and even if you are vaccinated, we must all continue to take the precautions that we know so well. we will emerge from this pandemic a changed city, but i truly believe a better city, because we have experienced what we can do when we work together, when we consider our individual actions and the impact they have on the collective whole. when we work together to care and heal for ourselves, for each other, and for our city. now i want to introduce carey

owen pleats from kaiser permanente, who has partnered with us throughout this pandemic, and who is committed to this goal of vaccinating more than 10,000 people a day when the vaccine is readily available. thank you. >> great, thank you so much, dro to mayor breed. i apologize for the video, how it looks. i'm actually at one of our hospitals today, who is seeing one of the surges down in sainta clara, and supporting the team on the ground. it's great to be here today. and we have been dealing with this the devastating effects of the covid-19 pandemic and what it has brought to our families and our friends. we've all been negatively impacted in some way. and we've lost loved ones and we've suffered ourselves. we have also seen the rise of the human spirit through heroic efforts across our communities.

from health care workers on the frontlines, to the teachers who are helping our kids at home, to grocery store clerks, and just neighbors who are reaching out to care for each other. it underscores for me that there is so much hope and so much optimism in this discussion. especially this announcement today. the covid-19 vaccine represents a return to normalcy, a return to our communities, our businesses, and an opportunity and obligation to care for our most vulnerable friends, family and neighbors. we, along with mayor breed, dr. colfax and our many public and private sector colleagues are committed to getting covid-19 vaccines to our communities as soon as possible. based on the vaccine allocations we receive, we are really pleased at the level of interest in our community through

vaccination. we have said in anticipation of a vaccination that if we can get people lined up to get the vaccine, that would be a great problem to have. maybe not a long line, but in a line. because we want everybody to get vaccinated. it is a safe and effective vaccine, and we want to make sure that it eventually ends this pandemic, as dr. colfax outlined. at the same time, this is an evolving situation. combined with the current limited vaccine supplies, it presents like everything else in this pandemic, an unprecedented challenge. a vaccination effort of this size is new for all of us. and we want to acknowledge also the frustration that so many of you are feeling as you try to get vaccinated or understand when you can and when you should get vaccinated. new information is emerging often within a few hours, days, and we are pivoting quickly to

get vaccinations to everyone in this extraordinary and confusing time. just yesterday we received four times the normal call volume into just one of our call centers. we appreciate your patience. i'm trying to get some of my own. and we are working to get you vaccinated as quickly as possible as the vaccine supply allows. like other health care providers, kaiser permanente is an approved vaccine provider in every market that we operate. as an approved provider, we have received a limited supply of vaccines that we are administering. consistent with the guidelines we have prioritized individuals in phase 1a, and those are health care workers and clinical and non-clinical roles, who work in hospitals and urgent care settings who provide covid-19 patient care, and come into contact with covid-19 patients. for this focus on phase 1a,

personnel are most at risk -- health care personnel in kaiser, and in our communities continue to receive the vaccine based off of the c.d.c.'s priority phases and the state of california's guidance to date. we proudly applauded our physicians, nurses and patient facing staff who received the first vaccines. and now a majority of them in phase one have taken not just their first dose, but many have received their second dose. we are also vaccinating external health care personnel in phase 1a, who are kaiser permanente members or members within the community, regardless of their health plan membership. to date, kaiser permanente has given first dose vaccines to over 90,000 health care workers. with second doses, if you include the second doses, over 120,000 doses of the vaccine so far. and that is increasing every day and every hour. we've vaccinated more than 9,000

health care workers who are not kaiser permanente staff, and more than 1,600 individuals who are also not kaiser permanente members. because our role is to work as part of the community to ensure that everyone gets vaccinated. with the expansion of the vaccine eligibility to those over the age of 65, it's time for hundreds of thousands of more of our neighbors to be eligible to receive the vaccine. and that will be expanding rapidly. we have been preparing for this expansion of eligibility of priority groups designed within the state. the successful delivery of the vaccine to people over the age of 65, even as we vaccinate those within the original priority groups, again, depending on the access to adequate supplies of the vaccine, and appropriate sites for mass vaccination. but we are committed to ensure

that we act as quickly as possible to provide the vaccine to those who are eligible and soon to everyone who wishes to receive it. we have been partnering with counties to vaccinate phase one populations. we're broadly working to expand the vaccination locations in all of our markets. and here in san francisco, we're pleased to be working with mayor breed and other health care organizations that were outlined earlier to create mass vaccination sites as quickly as possible. and, again, as vaccine supplies are available. i would be remiss in this moment if i did not remind everyone that even after you get the vaccine, it might be a few weeks before you have full immunity. i also want to remind everyone that even with the vaccine that we must continue to protect our patients and our families and ourselves. we are hopeful that vaccine supplies will increase and allow us to more quickly vaccinate

more people. meanwhile, covid-19 remains in our communities. and it is essential that everyone continue to protect themselves and others by using masks, washing hands regularly, avoiding gatherings, and maintaining physical distancing. we can do this, we can do this together. i want to thank mayor breed, drr colleagues in health care for working through such a challenging effort. wrestling with many complex components of such a program, and committing to rising to the occasion. we are privileged to step up in this challenge and to serve our communities in this very, very important way. thank you so much. >> mayor london breed: thank you, carey. and, look, i know that this has been hard for everyone. we've come too far to start falling apart now.

we've come too far to start to see things explode and chaos created. there's so much misinformation out there. there's so much confusion about this -- the vaccine. and we are here to set the record straight. i know people are asking us to put up all of these sites everywhere. well, we're putting up sites, we just don't have complete control of the vaccine. but we are going to fight every single day to get as much as we can, because i want to get our city open. it was so hard to make a decision last year to close the entire city and county of san francisco. that has never happened in any of our lifetime. so just imagine the fact that we are almost a year into this and we are still closed, and we are seeing the numbers increase and people are frustrated. not just are we trying to protect people's physical health and make sure that we don't

continue to lose lives to this virus, but the challenges around mental health -- our kids who aren't in school. our businesses that will never come back because of this pandemic. i know more than anyone, with everybody's life riding on my shoulders -- the importance of getting this city open as quickly as possible. which is why this plan to move this is so important. but what we don't especially from other public and elected officials is misinformation about what is actually happening in san francisco. so we're asking you all to be careful about what you say, especially because when you talk about something that is not true, it puts fear into the hearts and minds of the public. our goal is to instill hope. we want you to know that we have a plan, that we stand ready and prepared to serve the public in

a way that gets this vaccine to people and quickly as we possibly can. we are doing everything to get our city open again. so that we can begin to come together again. this is more important than ever. so, again, san franciscans, i need your understanding and i need your patience. because we are going to get through this. we've come too far to go backwards. so let's think about that time when we're going to be able to come together to celebrate our child's second birthday party. or visit our grandmother or grandfather at laguna honda. or have a family gathering, where we won't wear a mask. those days are coming. those days are coming, and for now we need your patience and understanding, as we go through this next phase of vaccinations for the people of this city. that's how we're going to get through this.

so thank you all so much for joining us today. and i hope that today's press conference provided you with a lot more clarity than what you have had in the past. and with that we'll open it up to some questions. >> thank you, mayor breed and dr. colfax, and care carrie owen pleats. and we'll take a quick pause and let our reporters submit questions via webex. we'll be right back.

>> thank you for your patience. mayor breed. the first question is for you, mayor, and comes from kevin stark. the "washington post" is reporting that the federal reserve of vaccines is used up. state health officials across the u.s. had anticipated vaccine delivery next week, and that might not be arriving. can you speak to how this will impact the vaccine rollout in the bay area? >> mayor london breed: well, the fact is that as you know that we vaccines ourselves. we have no control of what we get and when we get it. but we do have control over if we're ready to distribute it, and we are ready. we're not sure what's going to

happen. we're not sure on every single day what we may or may not get. so the fact is that i'm not sure, we don't know if that is entirely accurate. but my hope is that those vaccines are getting made, they're getting delivered, and we're able to administer them to people. so, definitely, if that doesn't happen it will have an effect on the vaccine distribution, but our hope is that it doesn't. >> thank you, mayor breed. the next question comes from ron len of the "los angeles times." mayor breed, as an elected official, you often hear a lot from your constituents, and dr. colfax has credited people staying at home in san francisco for blunting the impact of the surge. was there a moment in the last few months that you can recall where you felt people suddenly changed their behavior to stay at home more? when was it?

and why do you think that it was successful? >> mayor london breed: i think that it's hard to say. i do spend a lot of time walking around the city. i do see people doing everything they can to wear their masks, to keep their distance, and, you know, interact with people outside as safely as they possibly can. i think that for the most part people have been just trying to do their very best. and, you know, are they messing up every now and then? yes. do we have 100% compliance? no. but for the most part you see people walking -- when i'm walking down the street and a runner is coming towards me, most of them -- not all of them -- but most of them will put on their mask as they walk past me. and they should do that every time they walk past anyone. so i just think that it's really turf to say, but the more that we do, the better off we'll be, and we still have some challenges with that. but this vaccine brings us hope,

and hopefully we'll get to a place where things won't be as problematic. >> thank you, mayor breed. the next set of questions are for dr. colfax. >> hello. >> excellent. dr. colfax, your first question comes from ron len, also of the "los angeles times." dr. colfax, while other areas of california have had heated public debated among elected officials over stay-at-home orders, san francisco's elected officials have largely been in agreement. has that made it easier to sell stay-at-home policies to san francisco residents? and, do san francisco's i.c.u.s still have decent available capacity? >> so, thank you. i think that it's really important that we celebrate and recognize that san franciscans

have responded to the science, data and facts, in terms of the prevention methods adopting the prevention activities, behaviors, that we know that prevent the spread of this virus. it's not a matter of -- with regard to the question -- it's not a matter of selling to the community. it's around the community being with us, being empowered, being supported, to -- to protect ourselves and one another from the covid-19 spread. so i think that it's really incumbent that we understand and recognize that it's the people in san francisco who are making this happen. they are slowing the spread of the virus. and the leadership, the policymakers, the leadership of mayor breed, is delivering the message and people are responding because they know that we need to protect everyone in the city.

with regard to the i.c.u. capacity, we are still -- we still have -- good capacity in san francisco. we are at 26% of our i.c.u. beds that are available. and once again we follow that very closely. we have more beds than most of the other regional counties and, certainly, more than many other regions of the state. so we're continuing to watch that -- watch that very carefully. our cases, again, are higher than they have been before, so that capacity could well go down in the next couple of weeks. >> thank you. the next question comes from trisha bedoni of the "san francisco chronicle." when will the sites open, and which ones will open first? and, how many doses has s.f. received so far? and how many has it

administered? >> so at this time, we expect these sites, which will be able to deliver 10,000 -- we're aiming for 10,000 vaccines a day when the vaccine becomes available -- we are working to open all three of these sites as quickly as possible. and as needed, according to the vaccine supplies. and with regard to the first site that opens, we expect that the city college site would be ready to open as quickly as the end of next week. depending, again, on vaccine supplies. so, again, you just saw today that the federal government made what i found a very confusing announcement about the vaccine supply -- what was held back and what wasn't held back. i can tell you that our vaccine supply, what we're allocated from the state, which, again, we have no control over -- jumps up

and down. so what we see fluctuates week by week. and sometimes day-by-day. and as an example, this -- we were recently told by state that next week we'd get 1,700 vaccines, whereas a couple weeks ago we got 11,000 vaccines. so it's very hard to plan for this. but our commitment is to getting vaccine into arms as quickly as possible. all vaccines that we have received has been allocated and dedicated to people. so we are not sitting on vaccines, we're getting it out the door as quickly as possible. we will be ready for as many vaccines as we can get. 10,000 vaccines a day is our goal with these mass vaccine sites and the vaccine ecosystem that we're setting up. we need the vaccine and we need it now. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next question comes from dan

kermin. dr. colfax, what is your advice to people who want to get a vaccine -- do they contact the county? do they contact their provider? do they wait for their provider to contact them? is there a sign-up list? >> so most people will get the vaccine from their provider. the city have the notification site they can sign up on to tell them when they are eligible for the vaccine. and then we will encourage people to also contact their provider. and for the most part the providers that we have partnered with are keeping their patients up to date on the availability of the vaccine. but i think that the other key point with this scale-up of these mass vaccine sites -- when we have vaccine available our vision is that people can get the vaccine as long as they're eligible as quickly as possible.

and people can go to those sites. the issue right now is that we simply don't have enough vaccine. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next series of questions will be for carrie owens pleats. miss pleats, your first question is from lily tan, nbc bay area. how does the news of no increased shipments of vaccines impact kaiser's rollout plan? >> well, i think as mayor breed responded, that it's been a communication opportunity. so i'm hoping that that information is inaccurate. and hopefully -- if it is accurate that we can work together as a country to change

that answer. as you can imagine as what dr. colfax highlighted, if we do not get vaccines because we are not sitting on vaccines either -- as soon as we receive the vaccine we are actively working to get them into arms of the individuals who are in the high-risk categories of phase 1a. and now that we have expanded to the greater than 65. so if we don't have vaccines to give, we don't have vaccines to give. and it will impact us. and i want to highlight again that i hope that it's inaccurate information and hopefully we can work together as a country and get those vaccines out -- and a steady supply of vaccines as dr, switching from 11,000 as he was saying to 1,700 is also what the providers within the community are also experiencing.

when we can get to a steady reliable state of vaccines coming in, we'll have a much more sophisticated and reliable delivery system to get out to our members and vaccines to the community. >> thank you, carrie -- miss pleats for your time today. and this concludes today's press conference. we want to thank mayor breed, dr. colfax, and yourself, miss pleats, for your time. fur future questions email dempress@sfgov-tv.org. thank you and have a nice day. (♪♪♪)

>> it was an outdoor stadium for track and field, motorcycle and auto and rugby and cricket located in golden gate park, home to professional football, lacross and soccer. adjacent to the indoor arena. built in the 1920s. the san francisco park commission accepted a $100,000 gift from the estate to build a memorial in honor of pioneers in the area. the city and county of san francisco contributed an additional $200,000 and the stadium was built in a year. in the 1930s it was home to several colleges such as usf, santa clara and st. mary's for competition and sporting.

in 1946 it became home to the san francisco 49ers where they played nearly 25 years. the stayed de yam sat 60,000 fans. many caught game the rooftops and houses. the niners played the last game against the dallas cowboys january 3, 1971 before moving to candlestick park. the stadium hosted other events before demolition in 1989. it suffered damages from the earthquake. it was reconstructed to seat 10,000 fans with an all weather track, soccer field and scoreboards. it hosts many northern california football championship games. local high schools sacred heart and mission high school used the field for home games. the rivalry football games are sometimes played here. today it is a huge free standing

element, similar to the original featuring tall pink columns at the entrance. the field is surrounded by the track and used by high school and college football and soccer. it is open for public use as well. >> feel like it really is a community. they are not the same thing, but it really does feel like there's that kind of a five. everybody is there to enjoy a literary reading. >> the best lit in san francisco. friendly, free, and you might get fed. ♪ [applause] >> this san francisco ryther

created the radar reading series in 2003. she was inspired when she first moved to this city in the early 1990's and discover the wild west atmosphere of open mi it's ic in the mission. >> although there were these open mics every night of the week, they were super macho. people writing poems about being jerks. beatty their chest onstage. >> she was energized by the scene and proved up with other girls who wanted their voices to be heard. touring the country and sharing gen-x 7 as a. her mainstream reputation grew with her novel. theses san francisco public

library took notice and asked her if she would begin carrying a monthly reading series based on her community. >> a lot of the raiders that i work with our like underground writers. they're just coming at publishing and at being a writer from this underground way. coming in to the library is awesome. very good for the library to show this writing community that they are welcome. at first, people were like, you want me to read at the library, really? things like that. >> as a documentary, there are interviews -- [inaudible] >> radar readings are focused on clear culture. strayed all others might write about gay authors. gay authors might write about

universal experiences. the host creates a welcoming environment for everybody. there is no cultural barrier to entry. >> the demographic of people who come will match the demographic of the reader. it is very simple. if we want more people of color, you book more people of color. you want more women, your book more women. kind of like that. it gets mixed up a little bit. in general, we kind of have a core group of people who come every month. their ages and very. we definitely have some folks who are straight. >> the loyal audience has allowed michelle to take more chances with the monthly lineup. established authors bring in an

older audience. younker authors bring in their friends from the community who might be bringing in an older author. >> raider has provided a stage for more than 400 writers. it ranges from fiction to academics stories to academic stories this service the underground of queer fell, history, or culture. >> and there are so many different literary circles in san francisco. i have been programming this reading series for nine years. and i still have a huge list on my computer of people i need to carry into this. >> the supportive audience has allowed michele to try new experiment this year, the radar book club. a deep explorationer of a single work. after the talk, she bounces on stage to jump-start the q&a. less charlie rose and more

carson daly. >> san francisco is consistently ranked as one of the most literate cities in the united states. multiple reading events are happening every night of the year, competing against a big names like city arts and lectures. radar was voted the winner of these san francisco contest. after two decades of working for free, michelle is able to make radar her full-time job. >> i am a right to myself, but i feel like my work in this world is eagerly to bring writers together and to produce literary events. if i was only doing my own work, i would not be happy. it is, like throwing a party or a dinner party. i can match that person with that person. it is really fun for me.

it is nerve wracking during the actual readings. i hope everyone is good. i hope the audience likes them. i hope everybody shows up. but everything works out. at the end of the reading, everyone is happy. ♪ >> we are joining the city and county of san francisco public covid-19 update. for q and a, state your name, outlet and up to two questions in web ex chat. questions will no longer be taken after the last speaker's remarks and when the q and a portion begins. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you, and good morning, everyone. today we are going to share some information on our vaccine rollout and where we are with covid-19 in san francisco. first, we continue to see the impact of the december holidays. our cases are still climbing, we

have 333 new cases per day, but they seem to be increasing at a slower rate. and our hospitalizations, our hospitalizations remain as high as they have been but also seem to be slowing. reproductive rate is still above 1, 1.06, but inching down and we know getting below 1 is key. and most importantly, more and more people are getting vaccinated every single day. especially our seniors who are the most vulnerable to getting sick and dying from covid. this should give us all some very real hope. it's going to be a long road, but the road will begin to lighten. i can see it if not tomorrow, but it is soon. right now we need to focus on doing the hard work each and every day to get through this. it means getting the correct information out so that people

know when it's their turn to get vaccinated. and it means we need to keep wearing our masks, keep our distance from each other, and follow the public health guidance. the city need to keep finding ways to support our residents and workers in the months ahead. even as people get vaccinated. that means helping working people get, who get covid and who need to take time off from work to isolate. in the absence of real programming from the federal government, the city has been at the forefront of providing financial relief through the right to recover program. so far, 4.5 million for the program. many from our latino community, which we all know has been

disproportionately impacted by covid. today, another $6 million going forward, total support to $10.5 million. we are doing this by tapping into unused funds paid into our healthcare security ordinance funds, which is usually used to provide health insurance for workers. early in this pandemic we used the funds in the healthcare security ordinance to provide $500 checks of need relief to people who qualify like restaurant workers and bar workers. now providing direct financial assistance for those who test positive during the pandemic. fulfilling the ideas of the healthcare security ordinance and thank our labor partners and the latino task force with helping us with this. i'm proud of the right to recover program. one of the shining examples of how the city has stepped up in

the absence of federal leadership and provided support. we are continuing to move forward with distributing the vaccine through the department of public health and our private providers but we also continue to face challenges with the lack of supply. to show you what's happening in san francisco let me walk you through some slides. let's start with the department of public health, which is charged with vaccinating workers at san francisco general, our e.m.t.s and other front line community health workers, as well as those who are 65 and older in the san francisco health network, which serves the most vulnerable and underserved people of the city. so far the department of public health has received 31,655 doses, and administered 15,545 doses. out of those doses administered, 12,920 have been first doses, and 2,625 are second doses.

that puts our utilization rate at 49.1%, which is above the national average. all of the department of public health remaining vaccine doses are scheduled for individuals to receive their first or their second doses this week. and unless we get more vaccines, the department of public health will run out of our existing supply by this thursday. we do not currently have this level of data from our private healthcare partners, but we are working with them to get it. overall in san francisco we do know that as of yesterday 28,501 san franciscans have received at least one dose, 6,347 having received their second dose. this is across all of our providers and largely healthcare workers who live in san francisco.

to give you the overall picture of where we are with tier 1a, it's important to note that our entire system in san francisco has received 102,000, about 102,000 doses. again, these are for both first and second doses to everyone, including department of public health, kaiser, sutter, dignity, ucsf and others. tier 1a in san francisco is comprised of more than 210,000 people, all of whom need to receive two doses, including approximately 80 to 90,000 healthcare workers, 11,000 inhome care workers, 110,000 people over the age of 65, as well as e.m.t.s, community healthcare workers, and others who qualify in tier 1a. this really shows that while we are making progress we simply

need more vaccines. as i said, we are going to be out of our vaccines this week if we don't get more. now i can't do this presentation every day, but people do want answers every day. so to better track vaccine distribution we launched a new vaccine dashboard which you can find on the city's covid dashboard, where you normally find our case rates and hospitalization ance other key data. this dashboard will tell you how many people have been vaccinated in san francisco first and second dose and how many doses are given to people daily. this is the first version of this dashboard when we have more data we will add that to the dashboard. we are working with other healthcare providers in the state to get this data and today the department of public health is issuing a health order to help us get this data from those

providers. this health order will provide basic distribution data so we can better fill out the dashboard and understand what's happening in san francisco. i really view this health order as part of our collaboration with our private providers to set up our vaccine sites and to get people vaccinated quickly. i know we are all anxious and want to know how we are doing but remember the vaccine is in limited supply. every single dose in our possession is accounted for and earmarked for an individual. also moving forward with setting up our vaccination network, including the build-out of the first site at city college. we still don't have the vaccine supply to meet the needs of these sites yet, we are getting ready for when we do. our goal is to be ready to quickly move to tier 1b once we have the supply. to make sure you are aware when

it's your turn, you will be able to go to sf.gov/vaccine notify. our city technology staff has been working all weekend to prepare this site for what they know will be a significant volume of interest and it will be up later today. when it's live, you can enter some basic information, including your name, occupation, your provider, so you can be notified when it's your turn. i understand that this has been tough for people. there's a lot of information out there. we are doing our best here locally, the good news is that starting tomorrow we are gonna have more support from the federal government. even before tomorrow's inauguration, the biden administration has already made clear what their plans are for expanding the fight against covid. these include things like activating fema and the national guard to support large vaccination sites. potentially using the defense

production act to expand the supply of syringes and other critical materials, provide direct support to individuals and small businesses who are suffering from this pandemic. frankly, these are the basic things we should have been doing all along. but i'm excited to see them finally being put into action. this is what leadership looks like, and the hope i feel for our city is, and our country is real. that hope is not based just in vaccine rollout but in how they are planning to immediately rejoin the paris climate change and reverse the discriminatory travel ban. and their talk about how they are going to overhaul our immigration laws and then there's just the basic message of our core values as a country. those valuing our core democratic principles, celebrating unity and restoring common decency. it's been a long, long four

years, but we are finally, finally moving forward. and on top of that, tomorrow will be an historic day for our country because tomorrow we will see for the first time a woman, a black woman, a southeast asian woman, taking the oath of office to serve as our vice president. i am so excited, not just because kamala harris got her start in the political world right here in the bay area, i'm excited because she has been a mentor, a friend, and a supporter of so many people throughout her entire career. she has been compassionate, she has cared about people and their individual struggles and challenges, and i know she's going to bring that same passion and love for changing the country to her new role as vice president and i can't wait.

now having said all that, i know i'm not the only one who is excited and ready to celebrate. but as always, i'm here to remind everyone. we are still in a pandemic. the celebration we all want to have, the one that we normally would have sadly cannot happen. we need people to stay home, watch the inauguration where they are and avoid gatherings. trust me, there's nothing more than i want to do than to go out and celebrate and hug everyone as we watch kamala harris sworn in as the vice president, and joe biden as the president. i'm getting excited just thinking about what this means. but we all need to keep doing our part. we need to get through these next weeks safely, keep slowing the spread. get vaccinated when it's your turn and wear your mask. so please, please for the sake of at least being able to reopen this city by the spring i am

begging you all, no large gatherings. in addition, i know there are a lot of concerns about what we saw in washington, d.c. a few weeks ago. the violence and the indiscretion of our capitol were shocking and disgusting and i know people are nervous about something like that happening right here in san francisco. well, let me be clear. we will be prepared for anything tomorrow. our focus is and always will be on keeping people safe. so before i bring on dr. colfax to provide the data where we are with our transmission rates, let me have police chief bill scott speak a little bit more about the city's plans for tomorrow. chief scott. >> thank you, mayor. as mayor breed said, tomorrow is going to be an exciting day with the inauguration of

president-elect joe biden as the president of the united states and our own bay area senator kamala harris, first female african american as the mayor said, the first female asian will be the vice president of the united states of america. the nation has been on high alert following the january 6th attacks on the u.s. capitol. however, update you on the city's preparedness for tomorrow's events. at this time we have no credible notifications of major protests of civil unrest likely taking place in the city and county of san francisco. however, we will be prepared for anything and everything. out of abundance of caution, san francisco police department is working closely and coordinating our efforts with our public safety partners at the local, state and federal level in order to preserve order and protect everyone's safety. at sfpd we have canceled

discretionary days off of our officers and additional police and all necessary resources deployed to respond to all routine calls of service, as well as spontaneous events in the event they occur. we are closely coordinated with the san francisco fire department which is fully staffed and well prepared to meet fire and emergency and medical needs that may occur city-wide, and we are also coordinating with the san francisco sheriff's department which has an increased presence to safeguard city hall and other city buildings as well as those who work there. our city emergency operations center, or eoc is fully activated to support city-wide coordination, awareness and resource management city-wide for inauguration day. as you've heard, me and many other law enforcement professionals say in the past if you see something, say something. please call us.

as always, we remind san franciscans, help protect our city. report what you see, and remember, if you see something, say something. if you witness criminal or suspicious activity, call us. we will come, we will chat. we want everybody to be safe and we want everybody to feel safe. 911 call is an emergency center, 24 hours a day, you can call at any time. and if it's not an emergency, call our nonemergency line at 415-553-0123. 415-553-0123. and as a couple reminders, i want to reiterate what mayor breed said about covid. although we know there are no public safety threats at this time, civil unrest, protests planned in our city, we cannot forget the serious gravity that the covid-19 pandemic has caused in our country.

covid won't be taking tomorrow off, so please listen to the mayor, stay at home, the events will be televised, and we are encouraging you not to gather in large gatherings in public. san francisco police department we agree with mayor breed and the doctor to celebrate at home, watch it on tv again, and celebrate those in your household, celebrate with those in your household. you can go online and you can celebrate virtually. please remember that outdoor gatherings of individuals from different households pose a significantly higher risk of virus transmission, and the virus is still a threat. so please take heed to those basic public health advice. that's why our public health order prohibits public and private gatherings that occur

outside of a single household. in conclusion, more than anything else, inauguration day is meant to celebrate a peaceful transition of power. so let's remember that the most patriotic thing we can do for our country is stay peaceful. let's also remember the most important thing we can do is keep each other safe, prevent the spread of covid, stay at home, wear your mask, wash your hands, and abide and listen to the public health orders. thank you all, and please be safe. and if you see something, say something. call us. thank you, mayor. >> dr. colfax. >> yes, good morning, everyone.

thank you, mayor, for your continued leadership and chief scott, thank you for everything you and your team are doing to keep our city safe. it's been nearly a year since we first began talking about this unfolding and unprecedented health crisis that we knew was coming our way. and let's be proud of what we have accomplished together. one of the first cities in the nation to shelter-in-place due to covid-19, we understood what we were asking of all of us. hardship and sacrifice. we asked san franciscans to trust us and to follow the data, science and facts, and because we all did this together, we protected our hospital system and together we saved lives. so far while this third surge has been the worst the bay area has experienced, we have avoided

the worst of the pandemic. indeed, today the numbers in the united states are hard to comprehend. and who would have thought a year ago that we would have nearly 400,000 people in this country dead of this virus. that is sad, sobering, and it is tragic. and we understand what this sacrifice has meant to the city. be assured every action we take is with the goal of reopening as safely and as soon as possible. and now with the vaccine starting to arrive, it is hopeful for all of us finally. but even as we discussed vaccine rollout, we must remain vigilant. unfortunately as the mayor has said, there is not enough vaccine yet that we can

administer it to keep us safe from these immediate surges, including the one we have been experiencing since november. believe me, i hope as much as to have each of you, that more vaccine comes as quickly as possible so we can get it into arms. first let me brief you on the numbers. as this slide shows, new covid-19 cases remain higher than during our post thanksgiving surge. we are now averaging 333 cases per day. this is very high. for example, and we see that our current case rate is at 38.3 per 100,000 people, down slightly from the peak of 42.5 on january 10th. this trend is promising, but it

is too early to know for sure, so we can simply not let our guard down. our current number per 100,000 is far higher than our summer surge when we peaked at just 15.4. but, we are still doing better than california as a whole where the average is 100.9 per 100,000 people infected. now as this slide illustrates, our data shows some relatively promising news on the hospitalization front as well. post holiday rise in hospitalization appears to be slowing. as of saturday, we had 244 covid-19 patients in san francisco hospitals, and we currently have 24% remaining i.c.u. capacity. in fact, our weekly change in

hospitalization rate is down just barely by 1%. that rate of change, that rate of change is important because it reflects the demand put on our hospitals for acute care and i.c.u. beds to care for covid-19 and other patients. so again, this is promising and hopeful news. as i think about the work that has gotten us to this point, i think of some of the challenges that we have overcome as a city this year. and now with a rollout of historic vaccine program, we see challenges across the country again in everything from production to distribution. our vaccine program, like so much else we have undertaken, will be a partnership among the city, healthcare providers, pharmacies, and the communities we serve. let me stress. these vaccines are remarkably

effective. they are our ticket out of this pandemic, and they are very safe. in partnership with our comprehensive healthcare systems, we are building a comprehensive vaccination network with a variety of options for all of those who live and work in san francisco. the system is focussed on equity, speed, and access. that will be available from whatever healthcare system you currently get services and whatever location is comfortable and convenient. a large drive-thru site, or a small community clinic, or a local pharmacy where doctor's office, or a vaccination site at a transit hub. we will continue to vaccinate the more than 210,000 people in san francisco in phase 1a and those 65 years and older.

san francisco has more than 110,000 people age 65 and over. individuals 65 and over make up 15% of our covid-19 infections, yet they make up 85%, 85% of the people in our city who have died from covid-19. and, we will be ready when more vaccine is available. and we will be ready when we move to the next group of priority populations based on state guidance, which prioritizes people by risk of exposure and risk of spreading the virus. indeed, we will be ready to vaccinate 10,000 people a day. but right now our challenge is the lack of vaccine. all vaccines, all the vaccines allocated to the san francisco department of public health have either been administered or are

earmarked for those who have been scheduled to receive a first dose and those who need a second dose. given the current state, the d.p.h. vaccine supply will be exhausted by thursday. the day after tomorrow. this week, along with healthcare providers across the city, we received a fraction of the doses we requested from the state. d.p.h. allocation from the state arriving this week is only 1,775 doses. moreover, d.p.h. paused on using 8,000 doses of moderna vaccine out of abundance of caution and guidance from the state due to possible increased side effects from this specific lot of moderna vaccine.

as of today, we have not received any replacement doses. this will have an impact on the city's ability to complete already scheduled vaccinations. the inconsistent, the inconsistent and unpredictable vaccine from the state and directly at the feet of the feds is not only impacting d.p.h., but our city healthcare providers as well. i know many of you have had frustrating experiences trying to get appointments. unfortunately, we must kin to have patience as supply ramps up and distribution rapidly improves. there will be challenges as a nation, as the nation begins the unprecedented rollout of mass vaccines. and as production ramps up by

manufacturers, we anticipate large deliveries over the coming weeks and months. and we, along with our healthcare partners, will be ready to get these large deliveries out the door and into arms. with our high volume sites, our community clinics, our pharmacy partnerships, and our community and local pop-up sites, when supply is available, operations to administer the vaccine will be ready. when the vaccine -- with the vaccine here, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it is just as important that we stay vigilant as a city. i cannot stress it enough. the most important thing you can do now to slow the spread of the virus is to take the precautions that it becomes second nature to so many of us. please wear that mask over both

your mouth and your nose whenever you go outside, wash your hands frequently, stay at home as much as possible, do not gather with members outside of your household, and certainly do not go out if you are sick. we are in this together, and together we will get through this. we will bring back our communities, our economy, and our city the same way we continue to fight covid-19 by working together. thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed, chief scott and dr. colfax for your remarks. before we start the question and answer portion, take a moment to allow reporters to submit any

>> thank you for your patience. when you are ready, mayor breed, we'll begin. your first question comes from joyce cutlet, bloomberg news. businesses earlier in the pandemic asked the city to tap into the health security funds. how much has the city collected from employers and how much has been spent for health reimbursements since last march? >> well, we'll get you that information, but as you know, these funds are very limited. what we have tried to do is get creative as to how we can spend them in a way that the supports the population it intended to support. it's been definitely very challenging but we have been able to issue $500 checks to individuals who qualify, who fit in the categories. and we want to provide

additional resource for those who would not necessarily feel comfortable getting tested or even taking time off work because they were not able to collect unemployment or healthcare or anything else for that nature. these are the kinds of funds that should be used for this purpose and so we have been able to do just that, but as you know, they are very -- the ability to use the money in the first place is very limited and these funds are restricted. and so we have had to get really creative to make sure they get in the hands of the people it's intended to serve. >> thank you, mayor breed. next question comes from lily pan, nbc bay area. you mentioned sf would run out of vaccine by thursday. how does this impact the opening of the mass vaccination site at city college? will it still open at the end of this week? >> well, to be clear, when i say run out by thursday, we are specifically talking about what the city has control of over through the department of public

health. and we are definitely planning to continue to move forward to open the city college site because we are working with other healthcare providers like dignity, like kaiser, like bpmc because we know they are still administering the vaccine. so it's should not have a significant impact but we are prepared so that when we receive the doses we don't want to wait around, we want to get them into the arms of individuals who we know need them as quickly as possible. >> thank you, mr. breed. now questions for dr. colfax. dr. colfax, your first question comes from various news outlets. are you concerned the new variant, l254r found in the bay area or other variants from the u.k., brazil and south africa,

will reverse the progress we are seeing in fighting the pandemic? and, is there a possibility that current treatments and vaccinations will be less effective against these new variants? >> so it's important to stress we see variants in these types of viruses. this is the natural evolution of the virus to some degree. while some of the variants are more concerning than others we need to get more information with regard to their characteristics, certainly, with the u.k., we know it's more infectious, additional variant recently described in the bay area. also appears there is a likelihood it's more infectious. i think the bottom line is we are still gathering more information. there's no reason to panic. we know the activities that we continue to engage in with

social distancing, the masking, and avoiding gatherings outside of your own household, those are effective prevention activities. we have no information at this point about these variants that they -- that those activities would not be able to prevent transmission of the virus, and certainly people, scientists are looking at the characteristics of the variants with regard to the vaccines but don't have additional information for most of these variants with regard to that, especially with pfizer determines would not be resistant to the vaccine. so, this is going to be part of this pandemic as we see variants emerge, we are just going to have to learn more about them but also ensure that we take the prevention activities that we know will spread the virus. >> similar to the first set of

questions, when will lab studies of the new coronavirus variant l452r be complete to help answer questions of increased transmissibility and the efficacy of currently authorized vaccines? >> sequencing is an ongoing process, and they do across the united states, including at ucsf, it's an ongoing process. the infrastructure is small compared to other countries, for the sequencing, but an ongoing process done on a routine process, a routine basis. it's never actually complete. constant assessment of viral genotypes that go on. these specific types are emerging as a more frequent

contributor to the viral population in the bay area, so why is that is the case is still under investigation. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next question comes from various news outlets. has the city had to withhold any vaccine doses from the questionable moderna vaccine lot and if so, how many? how much has that affected the city's vaccine rollout? >> so we have received from that specific lot, received 8,000 doses and those are now, we paused on those out of abundance of caution per the recommendation of the state. and as of today, we have not received any replacement doses so we'll have an impact on the city's ability to complete scheduled appointments this

week. yes. >> thank you. your next question again from various news outlets, is the city receiving a lower allocation of vaccine doses than expected? the mayor mentioned the city will run out of doses this week. can you explain? >> well, i think it's just really unfortunate lack of reliable supply. i will give you an example. last week we got 12,000 vaccines, we were expecting 12,000 this week and this week we are only getting 1775. so that's just an example of why it's so complicated right now, and this unreliable source makes it very hard to plan. and it is one of the key reasons that we are scheduled to run out of vaccine the day after tomorrow, thursday. within d.p.h. >> thank you, doctor. the next question comes from

matt green, kqed. based on your data, fewer than 30% of doses received by the city have been administered. how do you account for this lag on the local level? >> so much of the vaccine received is being delivered by other healthcare systems across the city and those healthcare systems i know are working to get the vaccine out as quickly as possible. but we don't have any direct control in terms of their ability to do that. here in the health department we have either administered the vaccine or all the vaccine has been allocated, so again, we are due to run out of vaccine this thursday. >> thank you. the next question comes from heather knight of the san francisco chronicle. when do you anticipate vaccine doses arriving in bigger numbers? when will all san franciscans

who want vaccinations be able to get them in your estimation? >> i wish i had an answer for you on that one. what we are doing, as you know, is filling up a multi-pronged approach, including the mass sites, including the continued expansion of the clinical sites, pharmacy partnerships and the pop-ups. so san francisco will be ready when that comes. i hope tomorrow's change in federal leadership that day is closer than it otherwise would be. but we are ready when that happens. >> thank you, doctor colfax. your final question comes from various news outlets. do you anticipate the stay-at-home order lifting for the bay area in the near future? what do you think the four-week projection for the city is? >> well, i think as i showed

you, we have some hopeful signs with regard to case rates starting to drop, hospitalizations starting to level off. and we are looking at those data very, very carefully. so, i'm hopeful that we will have -- if that trend continues, i expect that we would potentially move out of the stay-at-home order obviously sooner than if the cases continue to skyrocket. i don't have a specific date to share with you. but right now i would say for the trend is currently in a positive direction. but again, we will only get there if people continue to maintain the safety, the prevention precautions we know work to slow the spread of the disease. this is no time to let down our guard and the sooner we continue with the prevention activities the faster those numbers will go down and the sooner the stay-at-home order will be lifted.

>> thank you, dr. colfax. >> thank you. >> there are no additional questions, and this concludes today's press conference. thank you, mayor breed, chief scott and dr. colfax for your time. for future questions, please email dempress at sfgov.org. thank you, and have a nice day.

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(♪♪♪) >> this is the regular meeting of the building inspection commission. i would like to remind everyone to please mute yourself if you're not speaking. the first item on the agenda is roll call. president mccarthy... [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. and the next item is item 2. president's announcement. >> president