>> welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday july 19, 2021. i'm aaron peskin joined by vice chair supervisors raphael mandelman and supervisor connie chan. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: these are the covid-19 health and emergency. city and employees and the public, the board of supervisors committee room is closed. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda.

or streaming the numbers across the screen. comments and opportunities to speak are available by by calling 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. is 146 556 5732. when your item comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location to speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. you may submit public comment by e-mail or myself. that concludes my initial

comments. >> supervisor peskin: please call the first item. >> clerk: item 1 is a motion to approving nomination for appointment of jose lopez, board of appeals four-year term ending july 1, 2024. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. colleagues, this is a little known but remarkably important function in our government. a quasi judicial body as supervisor mandelman knows. all sorts of appeals from the zoning administrator, the health department and countless other agencies. the mayor and the board both share appointments on this body. the mayor appoints two, the board of supervisors present appoints two. all five appointments are subject to confirmation or rejection by board of supervisors.

the mayor has nominated jose lopez who i had the pleasure of meeting virtually last week. he is a lawyer with plenty of experience and his forms 700 are in the file. why don't i turn it over to mr. lopez for a statement. >> thank you supervisor peskin. thank you to the rest of the members of the committee for having me here today. as supervisor peskin said, i'm an attorney living in the bay

bayview neighborhood. in my mind, the board of appeals represents the best the committee has to offer. part of my interest is taking some of my background in education, having attended uc berkeley for undergrad and law school, having practice for 12 years in various law firms. i love to help the board kind of process and analyze the matters of law that come before it to stick to the code and providing fair hearings before everybody. i'm also the child of immigrants. being the kid who goes with their parents for meetings and being a translator for the

family. that's something that you also will be getting with me, deem commitment for that fairness and accessibility in government. thanks again for considering this nomination and look forward to questions. >> supervisor peskin: are there any questions or comments? i see none. we have from the board of appeals commissioner rick swig. would you like to make brief comments? >> yes, sir, supervisor peskin. my name is rick swig. i'm the vice president of the board of appeals. i'm very excited for mr. lopez.

we need a strong legal expert. mr. lopez will provide that for us for all the reasons that he just stated. right now being down a body for the last couple of months, we -- [indiscernible] i spent some time with mr. lopez. let him know what we do. we uphold the law and the statute that the city provides with regards with permits and licenses. i'm fully confident that he will

provide that important -- [indiscernible] >> supervisor peskin: are there any members of the public who like to comment? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001, the meeting i.d. is 146 556 5732. please dial star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. at this time, we do not any 51 e in line to speak. >> supervisor peskin: okay, mr. lopez, may you have a good journey. i suspect that you are about to be forwarded with a positive recommendation. i will make a motion to that effect to amend the subject

motion to remove the word rejects in line 12. on that motion, mr. clerk, roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to amend. [roll call vote] the motion passes without objection. >> supervisor peskin: i'll make a motion to send the item as amended with recommendation to the full board of supervisors for hearing on tuesday july 27th on that motion, roll call please. >> clerk: own this motion. [roll call vote] motion passes. the matter will be recommended as amended. >> supervisor peskin: congratula tions mr. lopez. thank you for your service. that's going to eat up all your

wednesday nights and weekends for the next four years until july 1, 2024. mr. clerk, please read the next item. >> clerk: next is item number two. motion approving rejects mayor's nomination for appointment of moses corrette for term ending >> supervisor peskin: mr. corret te good morning. i known mr. corrette since i think he started at the planning department. this is an excellent nomination by the mayor. the floor is yours. >> good morning chair peskin. my name is moses corrette. i'm a resident of district 8 and a more than 20-year resident of san francisco itself. as chair peskin mentioned, i have been a city planner for 21

years now. it's been a complete honor to be nominated by mayor breed. i thank you for this opportunity to volunteer and serve the city that i love. little bit about my professional background. i am a former executive committee member of local 21, which is my union. i served for five years as their treasurer and briefly as a interim vice president of our board. as treasurer i was charged with the financial success and oversight of our union and managing our finances which was a great job to do.

i'ms a a -- i'm also a delegate to the san francisco labor council and served on couple of committees there. i really would like to thank everyone for this opportunity to serve. i'm happy to answer any question us might have. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. corrette. are there any questions from committee members? seeing none, is there any -- michelle, turn your camera off until your item comes up. that will be great. are there any members of the public who would like to speak to this item? mr. clerk? >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment, call 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 556 5732, then

press pound. if you haven't already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. we have one person in line to sk at this time. >> caller: supervisors, i'm calling in support of appointment of ocii committee. i couldn't imagine a more qualified candidate for this position. moses' dedication to community and living and beating soul of san francisco, makes this a perfect appointment. i recommend this great person, planner, thinker and union

leader for appointment to the ocii commission. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. are there any other members of the public for item number 2? >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> supervisor peskin: okay, public comment is closed. thank you mr. corrette for your willingness to serve. i like to make a motion to remove rejecting line 3 and remove the word reject on page 2 of line 18. mr. clerk on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to amend. [roll call vote] the motion passes without

objections. >> supervisor peskin: supervisor mandelman, did you have your hand up? [indiscernible] it is not too late. >> supervisor mandelman: mr. cor rette is a strong appointment. you did as well mr. chair. i'm excited to see him serve on this body. thank you for offering to serve in this way. >> supervisor peskin: on supervisor mandelman's motion to send the motion as amended to the full board with recommendation. roll call please. >> clerk: on that motion. [roll call vote] motion passes.

>> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. corrette. enjoy, with that mr. clerk please call item number 3. >> clerk: an ordinance approving technology policies of audio recorders automatic license plate readers and police departments, public works, recreation and parks department and department of technology, security cameras by the airport, asian art museums, department o child support services, department of of technologies, department of emergency management fire department department of human resources, transportation agency, department of public health,

radiofrequency identification by library and amending the administrative code require departments to post each board-approved technology policy >> supervisor peskin: colleagues , this has been a long time in the making and a long time in coming. it is here. by way of background, back in 2018, as we all know, the board of supervisors put before the voters a charter amendment and the san francisco electorate overwhelming passed proposition b, which established policies designed to save lot of information of our resident and visitors and direct policymakers to implement privacy first policies by ordinance and other

means. a year later, i want to thank my staff and my office, we took the next step as the lead sponsor of the surveillance oversight ordinance. we were not the first. many other cities including santa clara county done so before us. it breathes new life into the national conversation about the use of racial recognition

technology. what we knew couple of years ago remains true. which is that when surveillance technology is misused, marginalized units and individuals bear the brunt of the resulting harm. whether it's political activist, low income people, communities of color. they become the targets. some of this is not even about how it's used but flaws in the technology itself. we know facial racial disproportionately identify women and people of different complexion.

that isn't to say there isn't viable use for surveillance technology. there are. we should be incredibly proud. i want to thank the city administrator's office for completing this first traunch of these policies, understanding that this is a fraction what

will come before us. this is a watershed moment for transparency, relative to our use of surveillance technology. it reaffirms san francisco's status as a national leader in the movement among cities to safeguard the public against predictable harm, surveillance technology. i think it will restore public trust. that should not foreclose discussion about how to improve upon this. this is really our first time out. both as to the matter of process and procedure and substantively, how these policies evolve. we're learning on the job. procedurally i think we've heard and we'll continue to hear that this is a staff --

[indiscernible] we're more cognizant going in. i think we'll get easier. certainly we heard that this program will benefit more from centralized staffing, help create these policies and monitor them. one of my biggest concerns is about the city's use of third party surveillance technology and you'll see that in some of these reports. what it means when -- we defer to policies of contractors whether it's shot spotters or others that are determined by those third parties. i'm interested in understanding whether there are opportunities for the city to be more active in setting those policies whether it's through contractual arrangement or laws to the extent to which this one conversation with office of

contract administration and the city administrator's office. with that, i would like to turn it over to him to present. thank him for his excellent work, to present on how we got here and i want to thank the approximately 38 department staff for their help as well. i know as i said, it's been a heavy lift. i want to leave the door open to policy improvements at the same time as i think we need to applaud ourselves for a job well done in its initial stage. i have a number of questions which i will hold until after his presentation.

>> thank you for the kind words. very much appreciate it. labor of love over the last two years. i'm proud of the work that the department and my staff has been able to do to bring this forward to you all. i have a short presentation just to frame the discussion. i will start there. i want to start with the landscape and talk about the process some of the work we do with 19b and some title recommendations.

we're a governance body. we have public meetings every month to talk about technology in the city and make a variety decisions about the future of technology in local government. our main responsibility is to write the technology plan. we have annual budget role to make recommendation to the mayor about future technology investment and manage those investments to make sure that money and those budgets succeed. we also have a substantial role in developing technology policy and always trying to come together into the technology plan. that's the background what coit is. just for the background of privacy and surveillance in san francisco. privacy is something that is embedded in the way that many of the departments work. there's a number of regulations at the federal level that do

embed the way departments are think being privacy. this is the background that we are working on, as coit gets involve think being privacy. we've had annual updates about cybersecurity policies to improve the way the city is thinking about that. we also did look at the specific surveillance technology. we did create a drone policy in 2017 that didn't form a lot of the work that we wanted for 19b. all policies are available on our website. i want to note that coit's role

-- we got trying to mature the way that the city departments use technology and the way we are thinking about surveillance privacy and cybersecurity. the way we're doing that, we do break down with the lifecycle of the data and start looking at where are we now and where we need to improve. looking at data guidelines and core privacy principles, making sure departments are collecting more data than necessary.

move -- bulk you have of our work has been coming in compliance with the ordinance. requirement for coit -- the first requirement to identify all the surveillance technologies in the city and create impact reports. once the board of supervisors approves the policy conduct an annual report. our role has been to post the surveillance inventory which is posted on our website now. we work with the department to develop policy. we have also created a new public body so we can conduct public hearing and look at the policy themselves. make technical changes and make recommendations to coit and the board of supervisors. coit will be posting the annual surveillance reports.

that is the background. this is where we stand. this is what's posted on our website right now. grouped into surveillance technology categories to give you a better idea of what we're looking at. when we did our inventory, we have identified now 168 surveillance technologies that city departments are using. we have started to go through this list and those of the policies that you are hearing today with a number of ones we thought were high priority but also can set the baseline for this conversation.

looking through the requirements in 19b, there are a number of different requirements through all the policy and annual surveillance report. we wanted to add couple of other ones we felt were very important to ask department including the policies but what does the policy look like? we developed a surveillance tool kit which has a robust -- [indiscernible], stream lines the compliance requirement. we're putting all the questions in one form to help the implementation burden. really with the lens of, we're helping to inform the board of supervisors about the benefits and making sure that they can make informed decision about the benefits outweighing the cost. the tool kit allows to you dive in deeper and start thinking about. >> supervisor peskin: this is

benefits and cost. i was read drug the ordinance a question that i had. the use of the word cost, i understand what we're trying to express, is a little awkward. cost can be financial. cost can be benefits versus detriments. cost can be potential risk or potential detriments. is there a better word than cost? a cost benefit analysis is usually a basic financial assessment. i think that in this context, it's being used in a much larger way. it's in every single finding throughout the ordinance.

i was wondering if we can change the word cost to risk. >> what you're talking about budget commission and thinking about the role of technology, it's a limited way to think about the role of technology. they're really thinking about the larger role, local government and how technology is supporting our overall mission. what we have done through the tool kit is look to federal guidance -- national institute of technology has developed a privacy framework, they had a good discussion about what do they actually mean. some of the things that we're talking about surveillance

technologies are, what is the impact to residents. these are the things we are pushing departments to think through. as they're thinking about privacy impacts, also looking at the administrative technical physical ways that they can think about the technologies and improving wait they are using them. in the larger context, they also have a business purpose they're trying to accomplish and making sure that the technology is streamlined to use it only for that business purpose. this is part of the role coit trying to play. again, what you noted before, this is a very large discussion. surveillance technology is a lens of the privacy discussion but this is pretty broad about

larger privacy consequences. i'll jump into that more when we get into recommendations. just to wrap up little bit more about what coit does for -- has been doing for 19b. we created a public body called the privacy surveillance advisory board. we tried to hold meetings the second and fourth friday every month to review these policies. we have a number of different experts around the city and a privacy lawyer join and talk about these policies. you can see from the cover letter we sent, we typically hear a policy between 2 and 4 times. we're going through the speed rate of cycle talking about clarification and changing policy language. it's been a very productive use of a public commission to start thinking about these technologies and the policies and how we can use them going

forward. this is the whole lifecycle that we have been managing. i want to note that we will be doing annual surveillance report going forward. that's a very important part to continuing to review these policies and making sure they are addressing risks but also be improved. just for calendar review, we had 20 meetings, these are just the final dates where we heard the policies that are in front of you. we can discuss that as supervisor peskin mentioned, we

did ask departments to attend so they can answer specific questions around any of the policies or technologies. before we get that, i want to use this time to make some recommendations to 19b itself. i think that we learned the last through the technology policy over the last two years. i want to bring this forward as we're going forward and thinking about how do we improve the way to protecting policy rights of the residents going forward. the first is around in-house expertise. in my opinion, i think that this discussion about privacy is much larger and it's part of the issues that we need to start addressing as a whole and a city. as i mentioned surveillance technology is a component of the privacy. we need to have that expertise to start moving it. some of the things i want to call out, we are strapped

without this identify expertise. it's really around procurement. that issue around third party is really central to our procurement discussion. we need to think about equity impacts. we need to be thinking about privacy which is really about empowering. empowering residents what their data is. the city really has a potential to read out the discussion. we need to have more training for city staff to start think being privacy and move from beyond the conversation of compliant. i want to bring forward that chief privacy officer.

it is something -- the reason that i'm being so forceful about bringing this forward, this is a role that was cut by the board of supervisors last year during the budget process. i learned that the city cannot create this role without the board of supervisors. i'm appealing do you directly. this is a very important role. second recommendation is more process around 19b itself. currently, 9/11 b requires each department to create a separate policy. as you can see through security camera policies, there's a lot of similarities through the same technology used across departments. this is something that has become very burdensome for us to take on. i don't have any official staff working on this.

we're talking about the same kind of risks over and over again. this is something we had been doing prior to 19b. we created city wide policy instead of baseline on how technology used around authorized use cases. if we continue to do that with 19b, surveillance technology policy, i would encourage to think about how to streamline the process and make this more city wide policy discussion rather than department policy. the last thing is around the definition of surveillance technology itself. there's 168 technology on there. but the definition of technology is pretty broad. it may capture things that we do

not really consider surveillance technology. that has been reported includes wifi routers or things obtained directly from departments. this is a discussion that we are open to continue to have and would encourage to start refining what are the things we're trying to mitigate. what are the risks we're trying to do. this is something that the surveillance inventory really does reveal as where we want to spend our time going forward. that's the background of what we've been doing the last year. i want to thank the supervisors for starting this conversation. i think that we are making lot of progress on this important discussion. i want to send big thank you to all the departments who help develop the policy.

i want to thank my staff who put it on their shoulders to really work with departments and do lot of hand folding. luke, emma, julia, you really moved the conversation. really helped us move this forward. i want to say thank you to all of them for taking the time and spending a lot of dedicated hours. with that, happy to answer any questions about coit's role and process and i can help with surveillance technology itself. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. again, thank you to you and your staff. your department and all of the departments and it's amazing that not only of your own debut put the advisory board together but that you met all through

covid to do it. again, i acknowledge the staff burden. i do really appreciate your three sets of recommendations and let me apologize that last year, which was a very tough and uncertain year that we were not able to accommodate. i think your direct ask is good. i'm committed as we evolve this function of government overtime to working to add that position. i agree that having in-house expertise is going to be very important. i appreciate your recommendation. i would love to hear from my colleagues.

just by proving to you, i read every word there is, an extra bracket on page 3 line 10, that needs to go away. other than that, i think this is a great start and with that, colleagues, do you have -- i got couple of questions for the departments. supervisors mandelman or chan, any questions or comments? supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. i have quite bit of questions. i'm going to settle for this one for now. i think i would love to dive deeper about the auto license plate reader specifically for the city department that are

outside of law enforcement. i think i kind of do understand it. i wanted to have a better understanding. before that going into the detail of the technology, is overall city policy. do we have a policy about who on our city -- like city workers -- i saw that part of your recommendation about city workers that are staff training right now. do we actually have security clearance, some level of folks be able to have access to this information and actually utilize this technology and how do we make sure these are the right people having access to data, using the technology. each city department, especially those that are not law enforcement.

now city workers most of the time have to get fingerprinted. how often are they fingerprinted and all that stuff? trying to get a understanding of the qualification screening process and requirement for city workers to be able to access the technology? >> if you have specific questions about a specific department, you'll have to ask them directly about their processes. overall, these processes are in place. the surveillance technology 9/11 b does call that out for each of these technology policies to say who exactly in terms of job classification has access to this data and some of the requirements. this is a practice for departments especially with federally regulated data to set those access controls of who can access the systems and the data. that said, this is something that we have been focusing on at coit, especially around

cybersecurity. we issued a policy two years ago now, around annual training and awareness. you have gotten e-mails too about the skill. those are trainings that can dedicated for your role or user with the type of data you're accessing. it's something we will continue to try to create a standard level of understanding and awareness. i would say that, we have the cybersecurity side worked on. we should be pursue some kind of annual training for the entire city. i think that, there's a lot of components thinking about how do we know this is sensitive data and how do we make sure that certain kinds of controls are in place and having certain kind of practices standard across the city.

this is something we are eager to continue to explore. >> supervisor chan: i wanted to follow-up on that. i'm trying to understand. do we specifically know the list of people within our city -- like the custodians -- [indiscernible] >> for the surveillance technology policy, yes. >> supervisor chan: okay. thank you. chair peskin, i like to continue to ask more questions. >> supervisor peskin: this has been three years in the making. go for it. that's exactly what these hearings are for. >> supervisor chan: okay p.p.p. i'm going to dive little deeper about how the technology is used

by especially the auto license plate reader. i am going to be ignorant about what that technology looks like and how it's being used and what that even means? do you fix some kind of scanners on to a vehicle? that goes to public works and rec and park? public works i know that here, on sight is basically about how you really to prevent or catch illegal dumping. can you walk me through how this is being used and how many of your vehicles have the technology and where? >> thank you, through the chair. this is a policy that we have introduced as a first step in trying to roll out a new program

to combat illegal dumping. this is something that we've been planning with supervisor walton to combat illegal dumping in hot spots. the way it would work is, we do 311 to identify illegal dumping. the vendor would site a temporary, like a small poll as it would be holding lights for an event. it's just a temporary pole with the license plate reader on it. that would capture license plates and staff would review the license plate data if there were instances of illegal dumping. it's only to be used in the case

of if there was illegal dumping. i'm joined by peter laud -- he's going to be the one implementing it. >> i wanted to add that license plate plate is a tool we're using in addition to cameras to capture the illegal activity. >> supervisor chan: you're placing cameras in the location you identified to be problematic for illegal dumping. you will utilize license plate readers added to it. what you're saying, this technology is fixated to the location? >> that is correct. on a temporary basis. >> supervisor chan: not to like europe maintenance truck?

>> no ma'am. for rec and park this technology is used for events. walk me through again how it's used? from what i understand, [indiscernible] >> in regards to alrps, we only have one. we don't plan to get more. it's at the palace of fine arts due to all the assaults and car thefts that we've had.

it's on rec and park respect and it sticks to a building. if a police department puts in the request, we submit footage of that. >> supervisor chan: in the case of rec and park as well, fixated to a location. i think that that's good to know. i want to confirm with sfpd. it's not fixated to a location? >> your question is yes. we have one that is fixed to a vehicle. we had 16 at one point years ago. they all faded away. we're waiting for approval to build that back up. we have one and that one was

very useful last night when it was down to 27 and captured a wanted subject for a violent sexual assault. it happened just last night. we have one on one car. >> supervisor chan: my last question, overall, here's my last question, every one can jump in and answer, especially those actually do have surveillance cameras in your jurisdiction. i think that goes back to what chair peskin has mentioned earlier about the facial recognition technology. we know that technology is constantly evolving. what is the potential of having surveillance cameras already that exist in our city. how easy is it for us to utilize

facial recognition technology along with the surveillance camera that already exist? that's more to sfpd also rec and park. they have cameras in public spaces fixated in public parks. >> supervisor chan, the alpr doesn't capture facial recognition. we're not involved in racial recognition. with regard to alpr, it captures the license plate and the vehicle and that is just one step. second step, we have to verify whatever we're looking into. it may capture images from time to time just based on the vehicle and the license plate, may be there's someone near the vehicle. as you know, there's no way to

query that data to find out who is wearing blackjacked at a certain location. >> supervisor chan: your surveillance camera can? >> you're talking about the alpr? >> supervisor chan: moving on from license plate readers. now i'm moving to the surveillance camera in general. all the surveillance cameras that the city has. the question is it general that he would have to be the one to answer it for the entire city. it's a technology question. once you have surveillance

camera, how compatible that can be continue to improve for facial recognition technology to be utilized once you have camera footage. >> we don't have any surveillance cameras in the san francisco police department. our footage is just what we get from someone that we asked provide it to us after the fact in majority of cases. but thank you. >> supervisor chan, facial recognition is a software addition to surveillance camera. without that program or organization to buy that program through coit, it won't happen. >> this is a core question about data management and data sharing for the city.

the policies that are there in front of you reflect how they can use the data that those cameras collect. as the police and rec just mentioned, facial technology is forbidden. this is a larger question about facial recognition use in general. once the data -- our policy has no longer the same kind of influence in terms of that. when we're talking about looking at privacy, becomes really much more of a daily management questions. how are we making sure whoever

gets the -- and want to -- i think this is a very core question to really improving privacy rights in san francisco. >> supervisor chan: thank you. this is my comment. that's exactly -- thank you so much for helping me bridging my last comment here. about the third party. i agree that we can do all that we can. knowing how easy facial -- facial recognition technology

has been be in -- when i think about third party i'm not thinking about entities, i'm thinking about third party state and federal agency. like chp and too many. -- it's outside the city line.

thank you and thank you chair peskin. this is quite something. it's ever evolving. i'm humble by learning all of these things and continue to learn more. so, thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. this will be an ongoing conversation over many months and years ahead. with that, any questions or

comments? before we open this up to public comment, couple of things. one is i have some advice from the city attorney as admin code section 19b, which is evolving. does actually use the words costs. that's probably the right amendment to make in our findings. that benefits outweigh its costs and risks. i will be making a motion to add and risks after costs in a number of places in the ordinance as well as that extra bracket. i wanted to know, i don't think we have to modify it at this

point, i did ask sfmta, security cameras wanted to know that in their policy, certain uses of their technology are tied to the occurrence of incident. it really doesn't define what incidents are. i want to note this because i think we should be better at and more careful in defining these terms. i want to say that as part of this evolving conversation. if there are no other comments, is there anything you want to add? i know we're going to be getting to more sfpd stuff in our future hearing. if you want to add anything, please go ahead. >> i wanted to thank you very much for your leadership and for this group and bringing us all together and moving forward on that. i want to give a shot out to mr.

we look forward to moving forward as we work to make our city safer and engage in public safety. at the end of the day, that's what this is all about. thank you very much. >> supervisor peskin: we agree. with that mr. clerk, open this up to public comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 556 5732. press pound and pound again. please dial star 13 to line -- star 3 to line up to speak. please wait until the system indicate you have been unmuted. we currently have 17 listeners and two people in line to speak.

>> caller: can you hear me now? good morning, david pilpel. item 3, first of all, thank you to all of the city staff, coit and various department folks, all of them worked diligently on this issue for many months through many meetings and many issues. i participated in several coit meetings regarding the surveillance technology reports and policies and felt that my comments were heard and taken. i appreciate that very much. i have no issue with the proposed policies at this time. i appreciate the discussion the committee just had. my only concern here is section 7 of the ordinance. i wonder if the chapter 19

appendix is the best approach? that's on the legislation page 21 starting on line 17, actually more specifically line 22. what would suggest you to consider is to lift the policies with their status whether they are pending at the department, whether they're at or coit or submitted by board of supervisors. i would have a chart or list with that and maintain that on the coit website in addition to the department posting requirement that's further up on -- in addition line 19-21 requirement that each department posted policy. i think it's complicated to add

another appendix to the admin code just to this chapter 19b and ask the city attorney to maintain that. otherwise, i support the legislation and again, thank you to everyone involved. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. pilpel. thank you for your participation in the advisory board meetings. next speaker please. >> caller: thank you chair peskin. i'm the executive director of secure justice. i had the privilege of working with chair peskin's office in crafting of this ordinance. i also chair city of oakland privacy commission. i have a front row view what he

highlighted in the presentation. i want to give all involved an a for effort. very aggressive, self-identified privacy activist. some of these documents, especially the impact reports, have a missing component. i have not personally identified any red flag. i'm comfortable with these policies going forward. these policies are living breathing and documents that will likely be amended overtime. we should all understand that this is the first time of lifecycle of this ordinance. there will be hiccups. i haven't seen anything alarming. i like to expand upon points that were raised. this model is more resource than we originally anticipated. i work with all seven of the california jurisdictions under this model.

, consult with others across the country. when you consider future budget allocations, please don't forget that denise green, you paid her $495,000 in taxpayer funds plus your own internal cost of defense, probably closest to $1 million. that case went up to ninth court on appeals. the guardrails -- it will result in net saving to the taxpayer. one other point, i strongly encourage you to not amend the definition of surveillance technology because it needs to remain future proof and broad to capture technologies we can not yet rage of imagine. rather continue what you done and add more items to the excluded technology because you feel the risk was too remote.

you're doing a great job first time through. we'll be holding in-person training session this year and be advising san francisco to participate. thank you for listening. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for your work. next speaker please? are there any additional members of the public on this item? >> caller: good morning. i'm also a member of the landlord tech surveillance group. i really appreciate all the work that's been put into the impact study and the careful consideration. i appreciate supervisor chan's comments and consideration of access. that's my concern.

that will be the next project that you're working on which is, which third party has access to this? this is really important for tenants who's landlords put cameras in the building. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: next speaker please. >> clerk: we have one additional speaker. you may begin your comment. the speaker is unmuted. if you can hear us, you may begin your comment.

>> caller: this stanley roberts. thank you guys for continuing to look at the illegal dumping issues in san francisco. you know i'm watching everything you guys are doing. that makes me very happy. thank you board of supervisors for doing the surveillance on the illegal dumping. that makes me very happy. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker please. >> clerk: that was our last caller . >> supervisor peskin: public comment is closed. why don't we start with the public comment that we got from mr. pilpel, which i think is two fold. this is with regard to posting of board approved surveillance technologies which on section 19b.10. i believe that one is that i think the question was that too much work would be easier to put

them all on departmental websites and on the coit website and the second question was would you be able to whether or not we include it in the ordinance or not just to have a status spreadsheet on your website that shows that we've done -- these are 168 technologies that exist. these have been approved by the board and these are going to the board, etcetera. your comments on that? >> i think that it's important that coit continues to host one stop shop where city wide technology is. we are happy to host that information. it's important to have that public dialogue and

transparency. happy to continue to do that. to update the status for each individual one, we can add that. no problem. >> supervisor peskin: it sounds like we have an agreement that the coit website will include a status list and then it sound like this notion having an appendix, which is similar to the appendixes just pulling a random example, article 10 of the planning code that have appendixes that are added overtime. i think this is well thought out. you can add that status list on the coit website. with that, colleagues, i would make the minor amendment to remove that straight bracket. i would make an amendment to add cost and risk.

that appears in many places. i think the first appearance is on page 3 line 22. that's appearance is i believe page 5 line 7, next one page 6 line 2. i may be missing some. next one is on page 8 line 2. the next one is on page 9 line 12. the next one is on page 10 line 9. the next one is on page 11 line 6. next one is on page 12 line 6. next one is on page 13 line 7. the next one is on page 14 line

6. the next one is on page 16 line 25. next one is on page 18 line 2. the next one is on page 19 line 4. the next one is on page 20 line 6. the next one is on page 21 line 7. i may have missed some. if i did, my amendment would authorize the city attorney to capture all of those between today and tomorrow when this will be heard as a committee report. on my motions to do the global amend of adding and risks and

removing the bracket. roll call please. >> clerk: on that motion. [roll call vote] the motion is adopted without objection. >> supervisor peskin: then on the motion to send the item as amended with recommendation as a committee report so we can get two readings in before the summer recess. roll call please. [roll call vote] >> clerk: this matter is recommended as amended as committee report without objection. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. thank you to city administrators office, thank you to all of the

departments. thanks to my staff. please read the next item. >> clerk: the item number 4, consider appointing two member terms ending march 1, 2023 and two members terms ending march 1st 2025 to the sheriff's department oversight board. we have four seats and eight applicants. >> supervisor peskin: we are joined by the author of this legislation that went before the voters in the form of proposition d, our board president supervisor shamann walton. thank you for joining. the floor is yours. >> supervisor preston: thank you to my colleagues for hearing this today so we can make these appointments. >> president walton: i want to thank everyone for applying and taking the time to be here. we worked to pass prop d last year which set up this oversight

body oh body and the inspector general office. in order to reveal community trust and give community members an opportunity to share and be heard around policy for the sheriff's department. this oversight board will establish sheriff's department board of seven members who shall complete a training and law enforcement, constitutional policing and sheriff's department policy and procedures. this body will appointment the inspector general and the sheriff's department to evaluate the work of the department, compile and recommend law enforcement and conduct community outreach to hear public input regarding sheriff's department operations and jail conditions. this body will review complaints against the sheriff's department and its employees and contractors and review investigations around abuses of any individual in the custody of the sheriff's department. this body shall develop and

recommend to the sheriff a sheriff's department use of force policy and comprehensive internal review process for all abusive force. this body will submit quarterly reports which will include the number and types of complaints filed and the outcomes of each complaint. i do want to thank the late public defender who i worked with on fighting independent investigations around this conduct. he and i began this work immediately after my election to the board of supervisors. during this time, the news had captured gladiator fights in the jail. we had several lawsuits against the city and many of my constituents and their families will report misconduct at the hands of the sheriff's department. the story that they share the time they took to be ensure that my office will continue to work on this issue is appreciated.

i want to thank these issues in custody who had the courage to call my office to continue to push for their justice, share their story along with the stories of others who felt they did not have a voice. i want to thank former public defender and current district attorney for the hours they have contributed to make sure this oversight will continue long after all of us. i want to say thank you to trayson brown for working hard to get this legislation finalized and on the ballot on time. to all the advocates that fought for this change, i'm looking forward to hearing from each applicant to get the best oversight board in place and continue to work of reform. chair peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you president walton. thank you for your work on this issue, seeing no comments from

committee members. why won't we open this up to presentations by the eight individual applicants for the four seats. we will start with ovava eterci afuhaamango. i apologize if i mispronounced your name. applicant for seat number one. >> hi, can you hear me? >> supervisor peskin: yes, we can. >> my name is ovava. i'm born and raised in the city. i have family all over the city. even though my line of work is in private marketing, this a urban impacts me and my community directly. as far as work experience i have a bachelor's degree in public

policy. i see this role as at next step helping my community. i'm applying for vacant seat number one. if there are any questions, i'm happy to answer. i can go into depth. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. any questions from committee members? let's move on to the next applicant, alexandra post for seats 1-4. hold on. president walton?

>> supervisor walton: i did have one question. i want to ask everyone this one same question. that question is, what do you think the most important reform is needed within the sheriff's department? >> should i answer? i think there are -- i'm new to the role and what the committee does and their responsibilities. kind of making sure that we're holding the sheriff's department accountable and to what they

purport to do. i thinkalling those -- i think that analyzing those policies. one of the roles is conduct community outreach and speaking to people formally incarcerated in the city and county. that's part of the reason i want to make sure there's community input regarding the police operations and the jail conditions. that's probably one of the important things about this seat. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. why don't we go to alexander post. if you want to also incorporate the answer that president walton is asking, please do so. good morning. >> good morning. i'm alexander post. i live in the bayview. i'm a senior deputy state public

defend or. in that position, i handle appeals from all over california. i think this type of work would serve me well as a member of the sheriff's department oversight board. civilian oversight of law enforcement is critical civil rights work. i attended many meetings of the san francisco police commission. i think it's important to be

bias for the safety of the public. i'm a local rep for case. i understand that complications that can come with public sector bargaining. i can implement best practices across the country. i want to -- i worked with san francisco no new jails coalition. spent few weekends standing outside interviewing people that would come to visit their loved ones incarcerated in county jail regarding their concerns around anticipated closure of that facility as well as the conditions people are experiencing inside. it was clear that these people were not being asked these questions by the city agency.

you mentioned the gladiator fight, i note that the covid response. obviously we were all struggling with that. there was sort of mandate from the city health agency to decrease population below a certain number. which happened very briefly and start to ramp back up. i found that very concerning. finally, regardless of whether you see fit to appoint me to the board, i want to close with a plug for two other applicants who worked well in respect jayson wechter and jessica

prishko. >> supervisor peskin: jayson wechter. we'll get to you next. >> good morning, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. i have a very long history in civilian oversight i also provided input to the draft in proposition d to ensure

that the adhered to best practices. i worked investigating the oakland police department's handling of the george floyd protest for the oakland community police review agency. i have familiarity with police boards and commissions in more than one jurisdiction. since 2003, i've been an active member of the civilian oversight of law enforcement, or naco. i served on board of supervisors from 2007 to 2014. chaired professional standards committee. i've done numerous trainings and webinars and recently conducted training for police commissions or boards in san diego, charlottesville, virginia, and burlington, vermont. in addition, i worked as an

investigator for the san francisco public defender's office. i have seen oversight agencies that found it due to inadequate resources, staffing, leadership or lack of cooperation. i very badly want to see oversight of the san francisco sheriff's department done properly. it's well-known in law enforcement, that first line

supervisors are key to enforcing regulations and culture of law enforcement. two other things i wanted to mention. i applied for seats 1 and 2, i will be equaled for seat 4. lastly, i want to mention, if i choose between serving on the board myself or having william palmer, i would choose them. mr. palmer is experienced in helping and advocating for formally incarcerated people will be invaluable for this

oversight body alex post would need a badly needed perspective to the board. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. wechter. good to see you. let's go to the next applicant, lonnie holmes. >> let me say. president walton, chair peskin, supervisor mandelman and supervisor chan. thank you all for being good stewards in san francisco. i'm lonnie holmes. i serve on the juvenile hall work group. i chair the facilities committee. additionally, as an investigator, i enforce various labor laws. everything ranging from child labor to human trafficking. from time to time serving subpoenas and need be search

warrants. prior to that, i served as director of community service for the juvenile probation department. with that, i'll entertain any questions. >> supervisor peskin: any questions for mr. holmes? good to see you lonnie.

i see no questions. let's move on to william palmer. >> before you proceed, can i ask other applicants turn off your cameras? thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. perfect. mr. palm e the floor is yours. >> thank you. my name is william palmer. it's an honor to be here in front of rules committee. i'm interested in sitting on the oversight board specifically vacant seat 2 because i am an advocate for the safety and security of our community and i'm passionate about this work. i have firsthand experience being in the jails. i have done advocacy within and without and outside of the system to improve the conditions in the jail. i had a short stint as -- i understand the stress it takes to do this type of work as a

sheriff. i'm currently employed at the elder freeman communication for legal services. i'm the host one community one mic. it's an outreach media tool to listen to the community and share strategies to advocate what's best for them. i'm also the executive director of life after next an organization to improve reentry. i spent 31 years in california's prison system and a few months in san francisco jail. during my time on the inside, i earned my associates arts degree in business. i volunteered to mentor younger prisoners in therapy sessions --

liaison between administration and population. this led me to become an advocate for my own freedom. 23 of those 31 years was called constitution accepting punishment. i can directly speak to the efforts that are happening to improve jail conditions. i have volunteered to encourage those inside to take the covid vaccine for their protection and the community. if i am appointed -- i have also sense -- me role on the oversight board will be in line of my values forgiveness, unity and love and healing. we want to promote law

enforcement best practices. corruption is a disease, it needs to be surgically removed. i understand what was going on at that time. i can speak to that as well on how we transfer oversight. if i am appointed, my role in becoming an advocate for my own freedom, led to become an advocate for all people. i want to be the voice that holds all parties accountable. one thing i can say is that, i believe that law enforcement's

primary duty is to protect and serve the community and law in itself is to provide safety and security and resources adequately for those who are in need. being that poverty drug use and mental illness are three of the main reasons people go to the prison. i say thank you and i appreciate your time. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. palmer. seeing no questions from committee members. let's move on to jessica pishko. >> good morning, thank you all for having me here.

just to address the residency waiver. i'm living in marin county. i previously lived in san francisco. we are currently looking to move back to the city. i want to thank you guys for the opportunity to discuss my interest in sheriff's department oversight. i am coming to this process as a subject matter expert on sheriff and sheriff accountability for over five years, i researched sheriffs around the country, their policies on jail and harass and how to hold sheriffs accountable. i had a fellowship at university of south carolina focused on sheriff training and accountability mechanisms. since then i worked with many organizations across the country as well as local groups to both educate the public on the role of sheriffs to talk about the need for sheriff oversight.

one of the things that i think is very important when looking at a board like this is to think about what members of the community know about the sheriff's department as well as what happens inside the jail. one of the activities is present information to groups so people can learn about their sheriff and many issues includes things like lgbtq concerns, harm reduction issues inside the jail and mental health. i done some scholarship on the role of sheriff it comes up a lot less. in this current moment it's very important. i had also assisted with senator scott weiner sb271 which was the spending bill that would widening the pool of sheriff candidates in san francisco.

jails are mass incarcerations front door. so many more people will experience jail than prison. this is backed by research, jails are dangerous and trauma. more people commit suicide within the first few days of arrest. also because of realignment and other california policies, jails in california hold more people with greater need for longer periods of time. lot of it is is surrounding

accountability and transparency along with a great deal of public education as to who is in jail and why. i think that to speak to jail is to speak of everybody who is cycling through the many problems that happen. to speak of houselessness, poverty and to speak of racism. just to sort of end with, jails are vital part of the community. i think that the pandemic has sort of exposed the fact that september cannot tackle the challenges rooted in racism and inequity without examining the jail and policing system. it's become obvious now that communities are connected and jails are and the people in them are part of the community and important part. with that, if anyone has questions, i'm happy to answer them. >> supervisor peskin: thank you.

any questions from committee members? president walton? >> supervisor walton: i have one question in terms of being able to attend in-person meetings. obviously the goal is to get back to in-person meetings as soon as possible. i want to make sure that there are no restrictions or concerns about you being able to attend meetings in person once we go back to an in-person format? >> there will be no problem with that. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. we can go on to the next -- [indiscernible] supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you for your application and

you're obviously enormously well qualified and know much about jail and prison and sheriffs broadly. i want to reiterate a question about where you do you see opportunities for reforms in san francisco now?

>> supervisor mandelman: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you ms. pishko. why don't we go on to the next applicant. mr. hanley chan. >> hello. good morning supervisor peskin, chan, mandelman and president walton. my name is hanley chan. i'm a native of san francisco, born and raised. received my associates degree in city college of san francisco. received my bachelor's of art in new college of california in san francisco. rest in peace to my mentor and legendary harry britt. love you man. i served in our country in the u.s. navy and the california national guard. i started my career as a san francisco patrol special police officer being a proactive community policer and gained the

respect of the people and the merchants within the area. i served in the san francisco sunshine ordinance task force for open government. the san francisco civil grand jury. i'm currently a private investigator. i've been elected as the first minority to serve as a district director of the san francisco bay area chapter representing the larger private investigator association in the great state of california. i'm appointed to the san francisco veterans commission and appointed by president obama as district appeals board member. i'm a member of naco. if appointed, i would propose

the following. see that the inspector general will do a proper investigations and deputy misconduct or any one in the sheriff's department that is abusing their authority. put recommendations like policies and procedures with the sheriff's department to align with the values of san francisco. strengthen relationship between the sheriff's office and the community it serve through outreach and the promotion of greater transparency of law enforcement operations. i will ensure the sheriff discipline and termination practices are treated fairly with board's recommendations. the number one thing for president walton's word is the main thing is about transparency. i served for six years at sunshine ordinance task force and open government is always the best policy of san

franciscans. born and raised in san francisco, we need openness. you all still have all my letters of recommendations, supporters that e-mailed you guys. anything else you want to ask me, ask on. i want to thank you for this opportunity to speak. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. chan. seeing no questions from colleagues. our last applicant, michael nguyen for seat 4. you're on mute. >> good morning honorable board members of -- honorable san francisco board of supervisors and members of the public.

i'm currently working at the sheriff's department. i'm a d.s.a. member. i attended george peabody elementary school in san francisco. i eventually attended the college where i earned a social and behavioral science degree. this year i will be earning a criminal justice degree out of contra costa county. i volunteered at multiple units. i volunteered at the california state military reserve in security forces. also volunteered at the san francisco police department. the youth and family services as a suicide prevention counselor, telephone counselor. my family fled vietnam war in 1975 and came to america with nothing.

we ended up in san francisco elliott street and went to the richmond district after my father had to support a family of five. he opened a restaurant. the restaurant was named golden deer. we opened -- we operated that for over 20 years. i'm an at-risk person myself. high school dropout due to my family circumstances. i overcame all of that. i eventually gave back to the program that gave to me. i understand firsthand that a majority of minorities and families are looking for a

handout. not a handout. my goal for the sheriff oversight committee is to bridge the gap between poor and impoverished families and law enforcement. i witnessed many hardships in the city. i want to help with the process and i yield back. >> supervisor peskin: thank you mr. nguyen. any questions for our final applicant? supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i want to thank mr. nguyen coming forward in submitting your application and i want to let you know, no matter what happens today whether you will be recommended to move forward, i applaud your

effort always for not giving up is really what i will love to see in you moving forward and continue to serve your community and committed to the path. not looking back. just looking forward. i appreciate that. >> supervisor peskin: colleagues , why don't we open this item up for public comment. >> clerk: members of the public who wish to provide public comment. call 415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 146 556 5732. press pound and pound again.

please dial star 3 to speak. we currently have approximately 9 people on the line to speak. >> caller: hi, board of supervisors. good morning and thank you for your time. i'm with the d.s.a. we like to strongly endorse michael nguyen for the sheriff's office's oversight committee. michael has been with our union for over five years. very supportive. he's been very experienced participating in our committee. as well as experienced within the sheriff's department. i believe michael would bring to

the table more labor insight, department insight and public safety insight. i think him being on the board would provide a well-balanced voice to the committee and give information to the committee on how to make the department more professional, to have that increased transparency and also to bring focus to deescalation to these high risk situations. also, just a side note on michael with our union, he's always been providing ideas and suggestions. lot of times with my conversations with him, he's brought up ideas and technology on how to reduce the amount of use of force. i think that's very key aspect of michael. i think he will be a great fit for the committee. i think he would give you

insight not only from a labor perspective but from department perspective and public safety perspective. the d.s.a. endorses michael nguyen. thank you. >> clerk: next caller please. >> caller: hi. this is josephine, recommending lonnie holmes and hanley chan. lonnie has attended many of our chinese events in our chinese community. he will be perfect for seat 3. hanley is the only chinese candidate representing the largest community in our city. he is part of the sunset safety squad and has a strong

background in law enforcement. his commitment to the community and the knowledge of the oversight board would ensure him to do a great job holding the sheriff accountable. thank you. >> clerk: next caller please. >> caller: good morning everybody. i'm a tv guy. i usually deal in highlight, scores, sound bites, live shots. i will go off script to talk about hanley chan. we're the same guy. we're always working. we sacrifice offer -- our private lives to get the job done. we never unplug. that's what the job dictates. hanley is 100% transparent. 100% committed, 100% genuine and we go back about 25 years. he doesn't hold meetings just for the sake of having another

meeting. he doesn't hide behind paragraph this and that handbook. doesn't end his day at 5:00 and he doesn't know you. he really cares what you write in the eye. we listens. that's what does it for me. been that way for as long as i've known him. i'm sure every applicant is qualified. you need hanley chan. appointing him will be a slam dunk. i'm out. >> clerk: thank you. next caller please. >> caller: chair peskin. on behalf of secure justice. i want to follow up support for jessica pishko. she's a nationally recognized expert. i relied on her research for

years as to sheriffs and jail. she's been a wonderful advisor to the sb271 campaign which will be returning next year. she was selected to provide expert witness testimony at the committee level. i hope you support her application. thank you. [please stand by]

>> the other thing is as a whole for people that are having problems with their justice system, he has a background in the legal system and he would be a really good

fit for helping with both legal systems and with the sheriff's department , mediating problem areas with the system. that's all. >> thank you. can we have thenext caller please ? >> caller: my name is wayne le , city of milbray. good morning chair peskin and supervisormandelman, supervisor chan and president walton . i have the pleasureof speaking in favor of mister hanley chan . he's knowledgeable about law

enforcement issues and has a passion for not only those who serve but also the people who are in his community. he is concerned about the safety of his community and he has innovative ideas and how to serve both shoes can be conflicting at times and i've talked about those issues and he's also reached across many other counties, that's why i'm speaking. he's been in alameda county, st. clair county so he's not the focus in san francisco. the take ideas from other is also helps other communities so the man who works for and is very passionate. i think thepassion is there that's why . this is one thing he really wanted to do and hereally wants to that document as well serve so thank you for your time and

have . >> clerk: and you can we have the next caller please ? >> caller: this is stanley robinson from the old people eating badly i don't often thought the one, i may have his name wrong but i can recommend hanley chan. he is a candidate for what you guys are trying to do and i want somebody who's going to be honestand forthright and get things done . i put support behind hanley chan. >> clerk: thank you, can we havethe next caller please ? >> caller: good afternoon supervisor walton. third-generation san franciscan and a veteran which i came to know hanley chan

calling to show my support for him you . >> clerk: can wehave the next caller please ? >> caller: this is ronnie bailey, former nfl player. and calling to give my support to hanley and isqualified for the appointment . asset and his hard work, dedication and longtime commitment without failure today . he had support for criminal intervention in psychedelics and i am ronnie bailey, i'm giving my investment to hanley chan. >> clerk: can wehave the next caller please ?

>> caller: my name is nicholas, a veterans affairs commissioner like to call in and support misterhanley chan . i found him amazing to push for veteran access to museums and currently i volunteer at the veterans justice court. the sheriff's department as an amazing pod dedicated to veterans in the jails and hanley would be invaluable in making sure thoseveterans have access to care , have access to benefits and have access to getting out of their current situation back on track tobeing citizens . and you very much to all the supervisors or your time and we see in the call?

>> caller: supervisors, we need a person hanley chan who can help us understand the various issues that we have here in san francisco. as you know,. we just can't be blaming people on both sides. we need better facilities and we need programs and focused meetings where the community participates in helping what i happening in the jails . there's norehabilitation going on right now . so we need someone like mister

chan who i've known for a long time who canhelp us . thankyou very much . >> clerk: thankyou. can we have the next caller please ? >> caller: can you hear me? >> clerk: yes we can, please proceed. >> caller: eugene lynch . humbly asking to endorse and approve hanley chan. i've known him probably 30 years when he was a patrol special in the polk gulch. he had skills to reach out to all diverse groups of people and i think he would be asecond set of eyes and ears on this commission, on this board .

he would give everyone a fair shake and a fairhearing . and i just want to thank all thesupervisors for listening. q . thank you. >> clerk: i believewe have one additional caller .>> caller: can you hear me now? >> clerk: yes we can, please proceed. >> caller: on item for the sheriff's departmentoversight board appointments , stanley roberts and vernon glenncalling in today ? what a rules committee meeting. anyway, i joined with others in supporting the appointment of hanley chan. i served with him on sunshine ordinance task force some years back . i found him to be interesting and slightly unpredictable

which i thought was useful. so i think having somebody like hanley serving on this board with his understanding of the politics and procedures would come in handy as this new board comes in. thanks very much . >> clerk: thank you. i believe that concludes public comment. >> chair peskin: public comment is close, thank you to all the members of the public for your comment and thankyou to the eight applicants . it is never easy when you have eight qualified applicants for four seats. i appreciate the fact that professor walton has joined us as he is the ultimate offer of

thelegislation that brought this oversight board into being . while certainly this is a decision for the committee to recommend to the full board, i for one would very much like to hear the thoughts and suggestions of the father of this legislation. so i don't want to put you on the spot professor walton but we seek your guidance. >> president walton: i wanted to again appreciate you and the entirecommittee . i wouldn't have it any other way but half your support for something like this. i want to thank the applicants for being willing to serve in thiscapacity . we do not take these appointments likely and we are faced with another hard choice as supervisor peskin pointed

out.we have eightapplicants and only 4 appointments today . there's a lot of experience and you have taken time to submit applications and go through this process so i'd say thank you. i would 100 percent encourage anyone who does not get selected to serve on this committee to continue to pursue other ways and opportunities to help affect change in san francisco because i think we would benefit from all of your work in some capacity. with that said chair peskin i'd like to make a recommendation that this committeeforward with the following names for the sheriff's department oversight board . [inaudible] 4c 1, jason wachter for seat 2, jason palmer 3 had michael win for seat 4.

>> chair peskin: thank you for doing the hard work for us. >> president walton: i believe my commitment is to a waiver. >> chair peskin: i was just going tosay that. that works for me but i would love to hear my colleagues , supervisors mandelman and chan. can you support the president's recommendation ? one thumbs up from mandelman. most definitely and as always thank you chair peskin and supervisor walton for making the recommendation, doing the hard work as well and i just wanted to sayto all applicants to , i think that just because there's not a recommendation for you to move forward that you should give up on the work that you've been working on and committed to for all so once to

follow for a lot of these coming to the committee that we always encourage everyone to do the work because we need all the helpthat we can get . especially on this issue which moving forward holding our sheriff's county accountable and improving the situation for those who are incarcerated so thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you supervisor chan. i could not have put it better myself . so on behalf of residents walton let me make a bat motion that he stated for those who for individuals with the residency waiver for michael win on c4. on that motion mister clark, >> to confirm we have a lot to see one. jason mosher to seek to, william pollard to see three

and mike you and to c4 with a waiver on that motion . supervisor mandelman. supervisor chan. the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: thank you to all applicants and as my colleagues said please stay involved if you need an example of individual who does not serve on everybody that participates in almost all of them, review speaker on two items mister bothell be that example. mister clark, would you please read the next item.>> thank you. item number five is the chair writing three members to the redistricting task force. we have three seats, eight

applicants . we have to withdrawn applicants of choices and nsftimmons have withdrawn their applications . >> thank you mister young. colleagues, this is arguably the most important processes that the city undertakes every decade and i want to thank all of the remaining six kids who've expressed desire to serve on the important redistricting taskforce . particularly given the time frames after the census was delayed by the previous presidential administration reading through the applications and emails from supporters, it is clear that as of last item we have a wealth of talent and diverse on community stakeholders tochoose from . and it will not be aneasy choice again .but i'm great to be able to chair the

committee tasked with this moment and helping initiate the process that the board folks will be fair and inclusive and unbiased and accessible and i'll just state for the record that i was a little troubled by revelations that i read yesterday in 48 bills some of the appointments from the elections commission may have a history of express partisanship so we will keep an eye on that. this will be a significant tim commitment in a pretty compressed timeframe . and so i want to make sure that every applicant is able to their ability to serve including the time. when president walton and i cosponsored the legislation establishing the redistricting task force we also took a look at the process a decade ago and

what could be improved on tomorrow we will be voting on funding for four supervisors included in the budget to make surewe have adequate resources for language access, materials translation and technical support for meetings as well as online . and i really want to thank our board for stepping up to shepherd this process through during the months ahead and ensuring that we learn from what happened a decade ago in 2011 and approve it for everybody she's indicated that the task force should be able to convene starting in the middle of next month and august and is diligently preparing a notice. the what will probably be some 30 meetings between now and the final report issuance inapril of next year . it's no small task and i wanted to start by expressing my

gratitude to whoever the lucky or unlucky winners are at the outset. i also want to thank all of the open democracy organizations advocated for more and more representatives as well as transparent process ranging from the league of women voters andthe ice democraticclub and many others . for the applicants today as i mentioned , this hearing from you about your ability as well as why you want to serve on the task force and if you were around a decade ago what the takeaways were from the last task force process. whether it was based on your direct participation or just based on your review of what happened in 2011 and the final report. with that supervisors jan, would you like to offer any opening comments for we go to the six applicants for three seats?

okay, well then why do we start in order they are listed and again, as we said in the last item and even more true insofar as half of the six will be recommended, i just want to start with an admonition that this truly is an inclusive process and for those of you who do not ultimately get a recommended spot on his body, the encouragement to stay actively involved during this process so with that wewill start with german lee . >> good afternoon chair, vice chair supervisor chan. my name is jeremy lee and i come before the rules committee with the hope of being appointed to the redistricting taskforce. i am a proudthird-generation sand . the city is and will always be

my whole . since 2016- heart of san francisco's robust political grassroots community area i've knocked on doors and all 11 districts and i have long conversations with presidents and yes, far too many doors slammed in my face area as the current vice president of the democratic club i've been involved in issues facing san francisco's api community members of the disparity committee and the entire board on issues of public safety, language access, affordable access and transportation for the past four years i've worked at chinatown c, 44-year-old institution in san francisco's china. work in asset-management tolling financial is headed income . i see the hard numbers every single day. nine person crammed into studio

apartment. seniors pay me or $300 rent an . i for what poverty looks like in san francisco. i will be a strong voice for our city's tenants, low income seniors, immigrants and working-class families. i know the importance of chosen family and how vital maintaining back and is real pleasure to serve i hope task force will sit down with each member of the board. i'd like to place to speak with many has many community as possible and most importantly i would like what trust the task force will not break up or dilute what is one of our most vulnerable communities read the

work of the task force will not be easy. city has experienced unimaginable population changes when the district relied on the end result of the task force that is not to make everyone happy but the work to be done if given the chance to serve i will ensure the task force will keep our neighborhoods full especially our marginalized committees . iwant to thank each member committee for their time and consideration . i would be honored to have your support and the opportunity to serve our great city on the redistricting taskforce . thank you and i'm available for any questions from the committee . >>. >> chair peskin: seeing no questions from the committee, members must go on to josi fernandez gill. the floor is yours. >> good afternoon chair peskin. my name is fernandez gill i'm a resident of this where i have lived in 2014 and i've had the

pleasure of living in this great city of san francisco2010 . on a candidate to the redistricting to force and am excited by the possibility of getting to this very important redistricting process and i'm also very confident mine of the city and its neighborhoods and its diversecommunities and geographies will help me these goals . i have had significant experience in civic and get and organizing with communities of and working-class san franciscans for the past decade and i would be happy to bring this knowledge and experience to the redistricting process. has a set is not a us citizen i would also because that citizenship acquirement for members of city body that makes me very happy. over the last decade or so i have worked with many organizations here in san

francisco both paid and as a volunteer.i was a community organizer with the bicycle coalition for 4 years and a coordinator with the san francisco rising alliance 2018 managed many civic engagement and election cycles every singledistrict during that time . today and for the past 3 and a half years i've been a political organizer with sau local 10 to 1 and have worked as a political education here in san francisco and the north they have worked to build political education and increase engagement with our membership group each political cycle. previously i worked for a decade in switzerland in the technology sector and have an education in engineering . work as the development or of

businessdevelopment is only because i'm aware of a lot about the need to be performed during this process . and and other issues i've been elected member of the san francisco bike coalition board of directors, the sierra club san francisco, x, executive committee and a member of the district board ofdirectors and have been for several years . with, thank you for your time. see one thank you for mister hernandez gill . presenter is mark powell. >> iq chair peskin, supervisor chan and mandelman president will. i have i strongly urge you recommend chamber hernandez gill and michelle pierce on to the full board for appointment tothe redistricting task force . as a member of the task force

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know if he will be able to attend. he sent an email earlier saying he might notbe able to attend . if he is not available, let's go on to michelle pierce. >> thank you guys very much. i'm a little bit nervous. i am saddened to hear that vanessa joy are not up for approval. i am honored to be in this pool. i think this is a very deep pool of people. and i'm usually before you guys to complain or lecture, etc.. i'm not usually here to entreat you guys to point me to something so i am very honored a little bit awkwardhere . that being said i do want to say that i was born on patrol

hill and moved to hunter! when i was five. spent my entire childhood bouncing between patrol hill and dogpatch in soma commission and visitation valley and lmi. every single time it comes to redistricting in my entire lifetime, the burden is always fallen on those neighborhoods which i grew up in and which we all identify getting divided up for a vote in every single time we go through this process there is a little bit oftrauma every time we are separated . i am interested in being on this for because i recognize that and have how sensitive this is truly how much of this is about the inequities of our planning department and the lack of understanding of what

that means if i am appointed my real goal is to listen to all of you guys who are part of the board and particularly all of the community members and really bringing access to their voices and to this process as well as again, endorsing widmark about really being intentional on our focus on data and how that gets divided and how we go forward with further divvying up the city but i really wanted to stress that. these issues are traumatic. we need people who have the trust of the community as well as the year of you guys and the various city departments and i don't feel that the appointments today by the

election committee are that so we really want to ensure in the place with the most i would say diverse and inclusive board i have ever lived right now that you guys make the right choice . i will be happy to get my seat to any and the remaining six school that, but please be intentional and howyou go forward with this . it iscritical to us on the bayside . if you see one thank you that will take usto our final applicant, miss holly marshall . >> hi. i on west and mark. >> chair peskin: you are. >> and polly marshall. i've been in san francisco since1978 , first in the mission district event in bernal heights. i'm 64 years old and i raise two children in san francisco.

i was a tenant commissioner on entrances force for 35 years, person appointed by dianne feinstein appointed by every mayor thereafter. i have a 30 year career in affordable housing and community development as an attorney representing cities, counties and nonprofits. there are two things i want to say . first, is that i moved to san francisco in 1998 before the more murders of harvey milk. i worked on the campaign to redistricting elections in 1980, 1987, 1994 and 1996 so i have a detailed working knowledge of what these elections have meant to san francisco. district elections were first in 1997 and as a direct result san francisco elected its first african-american supervisor,

its first asian-american supervisor and its first openly gay supervisor . in that first election. in 1980 in the aftermath of bundled murders those collections were repealed and it took three more elections in 87, 94 and 96 to bring them back. so i know what it meant for san francisco to have citywide elections where money is pretty much determinative and i know what it's meant to have district elections where neighborhoods and constituencies are empowered. in the essence of district elections obviously is the district which is what this task force is appointed to study and modify asnecessary . though my point is that having lived here for over four years i have excellent understanding of the demographics of our city and our district and as a red ford commissioner for the five years i've seen the day today

about . the rentincreases, attempted elections , the landlord and tenant interactions, the day by day affect the lives of ordinary san franciscans and consequentlydistricts . we i've been asked how i contribute to the diversity of the city and how i represent this diversity on the redistricting task force and my answer to that is that i am part of a tenants rent community fighting for rent control, just cause eviction, and all the other tenant protection measures that are thebackbone of this city's diversity . it allowed for and nurtured this cities celebrated diversity and without these measures there's far less diversity. itwould not be a place for working people, people of color, not a home to immigrants all over the world

not a mecca for young gay or lesbian people coming from altoona. not a safe havenfor all these diverse people . maybe not a haven for them all . so as an activist and a rent for commissioner i've been a major figurein these struggles . another way to think about this is to consider what the board of supervisors would look like todaywere it not for the tenants movement . this movement which cuts across all communities deserves a look by the redistricting task force and if there's no rights representation it would be a glaringomission . if appointed i pledge to represent this community and work hard to preserve hard-won power and diversity itpreserves in the city . i'll end by saying i am honored to be considered for thisother panel of truly wonderful people . thank you. >> chair peskin:thank you miss

marshall. i'm sorry for notcalling you back over the weekend . i did not see to any of the applicants . with that, why don't we open this up to public comment? are theremembers of the public would like to item number five ? >> members of the public wish to provide public comment to call 415 55 0001. meeting id is 146 556 5732. then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so please dialáthree lineup to speak. a system promptwill indicate you have raised your hand . please indicate you have been a muted and you may continue your comments. looks like we have 16 colors on the line. first speaker please. >> i was preparedto say good morning but good afternoon . i am the first of what i hope

will be a long list of colors supporting candidates who have a deep commitment to maintaining and strengthening the power of the working class community of color. in particular, i am echoing the support of san francisco rising in supporting the appointments of chairman hernandez and lee and michelle pierce to the task force. there is a long list of their accomplishments and commitments and heat we would be happy to have them as advocates for the collective power of the working class san franciscans among which i welcome to in a large part. >> you miss gomez, next speaker please.

>> can you hear me.>> yes we can. >> i supervisors. my name is jonathan mays, i moved tosan francisco in 1979 . i've been in the city for 30 years (that. and over the years i've been involved in san francisco politicsincluding all three of your campaigns .so i'm also calling today to ask you to support the three candidates that are being put forward by then franciscorising . redistricting is important. it's a way to make sure san francisco communities remain united and cohesive. and that communities of color are empowered and that all the communities of san francisco voters are heard area so the three candidates that i would like you to support our chairman hernandez gil, jeremy lee andmichelle pierce . jeremy is asian-american,

michelle is african-american and they all have deep roots in their communities many years of community activism and civic engagement . i know they will work hard to make sure the redistricting process is fair and transparent and empowering to all san franciscovoters so thank you . >> can we have the next collar please. >> name is mimi klausner and i lived in san francisco for 36 years area i'm calling to strongly urge you to appoint josi maria hernandez, jeremy lee and michelle pierce to the sanfrancisco redistricting task force . these applicants have many years of dedication and experience in diverse communities across san francisco and are the best candidates to facilitate community participation and

ensure that the needs of traditionally marginalized communities are represented and prioritized in the districting process. thank you for your time. >> and we have the next collar please.>> good afternoon supervisors, this is trey of north beach. i'm calling in support of polly marshall given the rest of her lived experience, or knowledge. the focus on tenants rights an as she stated very clearly , we are here most of us in this city as a diverse city because of a lot of the work that polly has done. i cannot star 3 it's an amazing group of candidates and i cannot say anything about the others area i wish you well.

i'm glad you have to make that choice but it's a great group of people and again, i think that polly marshall will balance the whole of nine in terms of her long lived experience and work here in this city. so thank youvery much . >> chair peskin: thank you. can wehave the next collar please ? >> caller: good afternoon, rules committee chair peskin and members mandelman and chan. this is anastasia you novelist, number of the tenants union which is part race andinequity in all planning coalition . i listened to all these applicants and i do urge you to support the appointment of polly marshall.

to serve on the redistricting taskforce . it's really important for tenants to be well represented in the redistricting process. since redistricting will determine what the supervisor districts will look like in the future.you've heard polly marshall testified to her long service in support of renters and the city. please, i urge you to appoint this excellent choice for a seat on theredistricting task force . iq. >> can we have the next collar please read. >> caller: hello. my name is one of florida's. [speaking spanish] [speaking

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[speaking spanish] >> chair peskin: there may be an associate of miss florez on the line with some comments and we will providetranslation. unless one of the members has something else in mind . >> chair peskin: that works and i think we are understood those were words of support for chairman hernandez gil, michelle pierceand jeremy lee butif there's somebody available to translate , please

proceed . >> can we have the next collar please?>> regina eastbrook, district 1 calling to urge that jeremy lee, james michelle pierce and polly marshall be appointed for the three available seats forall the reasons given and more . and thank you, i yield my time. >> clerk: thank you, next speaker please. >> caller: this is lauren joe arden with theleague of women voters of san francisco . the league is not supporting or opposing any of the candidates for the redistricting task force that you're considering we want to supervisor peskin! we should learn from previous districting processes, it's

helpful to point out the number of applicants for the task force sees this year you're considering is much lower than the number ofapplicants the elections commission received . i have over 30 area and also much lower than the number of applicants supported in 2011. in 2011 the board considered 2 applicants . thistime just ate . the league of women voters isn't recommending any specific action but would like to point out this to the supervisors, understanding the previous process and for you to use in yourconsideration . if you need any more information on the previous processes let me know. some folks in the room at work

onthe process last time so we will share that information . >> thank you. >> caller: i have been a bay area resident for nearly 2 decades and i am calling in to urge you to support chairman hernandez gil, chairman lee and michelle pierce to the redistricting task force. with daily attacks on our democracy it is more important ever for someone capable to lead the way in ensuring our redistricting task force is representative of the diverse san francisco community because it's not just about elections but redistricting is also a vital part of ensuring that all communities equal voice and equitable share of resources in our democracy. the way we draw the map now will have a profound effect on the ability of our most marginalized communities to access important resources and have a seat at the table for

the next 10 years so it's critical we appoint community leaders reflect real lived experiences of other san francisco residents and who can those needs and concerns of community members so please take this opportunity and ensure this process does not perpetuate the disparities in our communities but gives marginalized communities the tools and i ask for your appointment of german hernandez gil and michelle pierce. >> clerk: next speaker please. >> caller: my name is jill schenker, interim director of san francisco rising and i'll start first by echoing these comments. i represent immigrant latino women in sanfrancisco as the executive director . i request you please appoint chairman hernandez guild, lee and michelle pierce to the redistricting task force.

these are the people you need because they truly know our communities . wewant our voices tobe heard. and we want resources , equitably outfitted for our community .these are communities that we work with. thesethree candidates are knowledgeable .they have a track record of hard work in our communities. chairman fernandez gill as the connections in the latin text community and i have seen this commitment and hard work. jeremy has worked extensively in the chinese community and in particular has a deep understandingof tenants rights issues and michelle pierce as work hard for environmental economic and social justice. please appoint these three community champions to the task force .so that was my comment and i wanted to share that san francisco rising is an alliance of eight grassroots organizations that represent thousands of unity members in the latin, chinese, filipino and blackcommunities of san francisco .

chinese association, the lower three community services and as fd labor program and filipino kennedy center, just cause, and coleman advocates and filipino community centers so that's all of those organizations have signed on tothe letter of support . for jeremy lee, and michelle pierce. professionally given let the elections commission's appointments do not represent people who are deeply rooted in working-class communities of color in san francisco . we really hope you all will prioritize appointing people of color to this task force will are deeply rooted in long-term organization and really know the issues affecting working-classcommunities or

communities of color in san francisco . we respect and appreciate holidayslong time work with tenants and around tenants rights . and we feel like you all have a particular opportunity here to select a appointments of people of color who are deeply connected to communities of color in san francisco to help ensure cohesion and you know, access to political power and voice and equitable distribution of resources like supervisor that get elected to these communities. so thank you for your time on this and we look forwardto hearing your appointments today . >> thank you, next speaker please. >> we can hear you.>> there he is again. good afternoon on item 5 the

redistricting task force appointments, the ordinance convening the task force board of supervisors filed 2106 06 was only signed by the mayor on july 2 and is therefore effective 30 days later on august 1 so i believe that this action today may be premature. acknowledge that the board posted the vacancy notice on the board of supervisors website on june 28 of this year but i believe there's been very limited publicity otherwise. i'm not aware that the board of supervisors included a reference to this task force in their monthlynewsletters. there's no outreach advertising . this is kind of very inside baseball. the actions commission had 33 ultimate applicants and appointed their three. therefore a disappointed 30 applicants and only three of those disappointed applicants have applied here.

the elections commission was to notify unsuccessful applicants of the board of supervisors and the mayoral appointment opportunities in the process and send letters to both board and the mayor with their list of unsuccessful candidates. i'm unclear those communications have happened. there are likely between 800 and 900,000 san francisco residents today and only six applicants here and it sounds like only five are actively pursuing it right now. i urge you to continue this item in committee until next week and encourage more people to apply. you have a larger pool and i would note the diverse city cuts in a number of ways. age, ethnicity, gender, geography and a number of other factors. for examplethere are no applicants today from the west side at all . if you do not continue ...

>> any othermembers of the public for item number five . >> i'm jesse, we are a member organization with sf rising. certainly our obligations make sure that equity inclusion is how district lines are going to be drawn and make sure this is a critical opportunity to do the necessary work that course correct and accounts for a legacy of inclusion , disinvestment disenfranchisement across working-class immigrants communities of color in san francisco. indeed when these maps are gone we must take into account community needs, community resilience and ensure the voices of marginalized communities are very equitable . and for this i'd like to lend my strong support for chairman hernandez gil, jeremy lee and

the shelf years to the sf redistricting task force read these applicants have a proven track record of genuine collaboration, leadership development and service to diverse communities across san francisco . this experience will enable them and the redistricting process to be transparent and true represent the needs and experiences of diverse communities. these are the best candidates tofacilitate community participation and ensure the needs of traditionally marginalized communities are represented and prioritized in this process . >> next speaker. >> good afternoonsupervisors . thank you for holding this hearing. i'm with the league of women voters san francisco and we advocate for a more air equitable transit redistricting process. to chair peskin! earlier about transparencyin

the process , where can people go now for information on the redistricting taskforce ? on the san francisco government website or where will the information live when the task force convenes in midaugust ? we commend the efforts of the city and especially clerk victor young for answering are endless questions concerning the appointment processso we can help with outreach . we want to make sure the public can easily access this information. this is a once in a decade process and local engagement of redistricting for the last half houris of vital importance . that's my comment and thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you and allof that will be available on a number of places including

the board of supervisors website . mister young, you're also welcome to address that last speaker but we will see if there are any othermembers of the public or publiccomment . >> clerk: i believe that was the last caller in mind . >> chair peskin: public comment isclosed re-at mister young, anything you want to state i just made ? about where information will be obtainable by thepublic . i indicated in so far as the clerk of the board of supervisors has been a lot of resources, that information will be available on the website going forward. as to committee meetings, task force meetings. >> i believe we will create a website associated with the sf pos website. i'm not completely sure.

one of our clerks mister lebo will be the clerk for the committee and we will get that information online as soon as we can. >> chair peskin: thank you mister young. with that why don't i turn it over to committee? i saw supervisor chan's hands go up. were you waving at me? i see no names on the roster so i'm trying to read hand gestures. i'm happy to start with vice chair mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you vice chair peskin and supervisor chan. we say it a lotin this committee .we often get an abundance or overabundance of riches and i think this is one of thosesituations . in some ways we cannot do badly

with the folks who have put their names forward . i do real pretty thoughtfully aboutpolly marshall . i imagine it's partly related to my having known her for going on 20 years i think now. but i also think the arguments for her appointment to this body are prettystrong . i think the points made by the tenant advocacy committee about the importance of having tenan representation on the redistricting task force are valid . i think her long history of advocacy not to say anything about her age. she started as a rent for commissioner at ayoung age . >>. [please stand by ]

>> c. chan: thank you. i don't have the privilege of working so closely. i think it's critical to have some lands of those who know our city and needs and making sure there's representation especially in the difficult task like redistricting. i do, however, at the same time think that referencing the message that mark has submitted to him who offered his service carve out a space for those that he thinks could be taking the leadership role and maybe while just have the deep roots with the communities but in this case the communities of color and

space to give a voice to thez ie in a leadership role for communities in color. i ready today to make a motion to move forward with the three of those that is the candidates. just seeing that we can still work together, we can still see that the legacy of someone like mass harley marshall can be a part of the task forward. continuing to take a leadership role. perhaps i can rely on her expertise as the task force members. i'd ready to move that forward.

colleagues, i'm looking for your support and leadership on this as well. >> chair peskin: thank you. i look forward to that as well as well as the applicants we spoke to. i'm also very impressed by mr. powell. i think what was said and you mrs. chan reiterated. this is truly a process where

people can can stay involved and to the folks who spoke about timeframes, this is a, i would compress timeframes because the federal government dragged it's feet. we're on the verge of coming on summer recess, time is not our friend here. as i said at the outset and i really mean it and i'm interested in making the connections between those people who we ultimately select and those people who have applied and won't be selected. i think mark powell's expertise and marshall's tenant expertise is crucial. it's not an easy decision and i

have respect for all of these individuals that i ultimately follow with the public comment that we've heard and what supervisor chan just articulated relative to mr. lee, gill, and ms. pierce. i'm happy to get all five of you together, that would not be a brown act violation to work hand in hand. if there are no final comments, i believe mrs. chan made a motion. if there are additional comments, colleagues, feel free to make them. if not, i'll have the clerk call the roll on supervisor chan's motion. seeing no comments, mr. young, a

role call please. >> clerk: seat numbers were not indicated. on that motion -- (roll call). before i make the announcement, would you like to send this out as committee report. >> chair peskin: given our compressed timeframes is that acceptable to the maker of the motion. >> c. chan: yes, indeed.

>> clerk: on the motion for appointments as a committee report. (roll call). the motion passes, the recommendation will be added as a committee report. >> chair peskin: okay. last item please. >> clerk: establish the sun set district to require the mayor of housing and development to submit reports to the board of supervisors proposing strategies to the district and preserve the

cultural district and the environmental quality act. >> chair peskin: this is a new amendment and the floor is yours. >> thank you for this opportunity to establish the chinese sun set district. i will keep my remarks brief as i know you've had a long meeting and the land use committee is is coming up. the historic role of the chinese cultural district. the vitality of it this important community in the face of many challenges including housing affordability and

gentrification. if established through the legislation the sun set chinese cultural district will be the city's chinese cultural district. cultural districts are geographic districts are cities in our body that have a significant portion of residents or people who spend time in an area are members of a specific ethnic or historical cultural group and many have been -- this important new effort to create the sun set chinese

cultural district came out of a broader sun set community district that my office created a year ago. as we were getting input on priority community needs through the sun set forward process. many spoke about the importance of increasing support for the chinese community in the sun set to address the unique challenges and make sure this community is able to thrive in the future. it's aligned with the key priority in stabilizing vulnerable communities at risk of displacement. the chinese community has grown rapidly to become 40% of the population and an important part of that identity with a major presence in the business corridor. most chinese households are are

hard working multi generational families. the chinese community has lacked consistent opportunity it come together across roots and sectors to work together collaboratively and have a stronger voice in advocating for the needs of the community. as housing costs have sky rocketed over the decades fewer and fewer chinese families have been able to afford to buy a home or rent a decent apartment apartmentin the area. many long standing businesses have permanent closed. today there are few chinese owned businesses, with economic trends already indicating long

term displacement of historic chinese families, they face an uncertain future. this will be an important new strategy to support priority needs now and into the future. in over the past nine months, my office worked with over a dozen organizations, churches, and businesses to develop the plan for the chinese culture district. i want to thank all the community stake holders for their participation. i want to thank brian and julia for their support of the planning process and the historic commission for their positive recommendation of

approval of this ordinance. i would like to acknowledge the very important and really ground breaking research and documentation of the rich history in the sunshine district with support from my predecessor katie chang. this provides important historical background and wonderful exhibit will hopefully find a home. chair and colleagues, the senior planner in the sf finding department is here it to provide some remarks about the geographic boundaries and process for this initiative. thank you for your time again, i urge you to support this and send this to the full board as a committee report so we can adopt

this before our august recess. >> chair peskin: thank you. to the represent of the planning department. >> good afternoon. i'm planning department staff. the item before you today is a set of proposed amendments to the administrative code that would create the cultural district. it would cover the area from lincoln way to the north. nineteen avenue to the east and the great highway to the west. the historical preservation society heard this item and recommended approval of this item. we are available if you have any questions about the h pc hearing or the cultural district in

general. that concludes my brief presentation. thanks. >> chair peskin: thank you. should be open this up to public comment, why don't we do that. mr. clerk. any items who would like to provide public comment today. >> clerk: yes, any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. please dial star three to line up to speak. we currently have six people on line listening and three in line to speak. >> chair peskin: first speaker, please. >> good afternoon chair and members of the committee. i'm the president of asian ink.

we're pleased to be working in partnership with non profits for the elderly. we were pleased to participate in a town hall to support the chinese cultural district. it's important during this time especially during a time of a pandemic within a pandemic of asian hate. support the needs of asian americans. we have seen the chill of business activity as a result of the corona virus but also of hate that prevents people from conducting business. we feel the needs of the sun set

district. we hope to work in partnership with those organizations and in partnership with is they to advance the economic development needs, chinese american corridor businesses. many of those businesses have been seeking support throughout the pandemic from our organization and others. at a time of anti hate and violence needs to be addressed, we need to come up with very direct support and strategies. this is a cod fiction and allows us to work together for solutions for that community to emerge from the pandemic. i appreciate you all for your time and the opportunity to address you this afternoon. >> chair peskin: thank you. can we hear from the next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon supervisors. i'm ben wong, the secretary active director of the school. i grew of in san francisco and grew up in district one. the chinese beacons at the elementary school in district three serve as the director's school. i want to thank the san francisco planning department in assisting the community and establishing the shine ease district effort. as a long standing non-profit, bilingual child care for over forty years, we're a partner

with the planning department, community that we know is one that is diverse and vibrant many of whom reside in multi generational homes. many have parents and grandparents who are alumni. we serve over a thousand children and youth in our programs. many of whom have continue today give back to the community even through the pandemic. as a result of this work that we're familiar with the needs and challenges of those that live there. we know it's important address those needs and the best solution to come up with are a partnership across section of community members that live and work in the neighborhood. we think the cultural district

would be a benefit of different sectors of infrastructure. having culture district would be a good thing for the is sun set district. >> clerk: thank you. your time is up. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i'm winy with soft ball for the elderly. the first home we lived in was the sun set. the play house. we had to expand the center who formembers who wanted to join or activities. we're serving over five thousand

seniors in the district. there's a critical need for resources. the pandemic show us there's more need for food, groceries, income for rent and other necessities for survival. we hope this initiative helps us work together and develop a cohesive community building strategy that includes more generational programming, housing, educational, and employment opportunities. we need a center space in the district. we look forward to working closely with supervisor mar and other community partners to make sun set the most liveable neighborhood in the district and live, work, and play.

thank you for this townt share y to share with you today. >> chair peskin: any other public comment. >> clerk: that was the last comment. >> chair peskin: public comment is now closed. what is the will of the rules committee. supervisor chan. >> c. chan: i want to thank supervisor mar for your leadership, setting the chinese cultural district. we know that we as chinese immigrants who really segregated in china town that we actually have to fight and to really go beyond china town and we know that by identifying the cultural district like sun set that help

us to understand our history, we also know that the richmond is in the past and continued to know as second china town. we know there's deep history there. it's good to see there's a chinese cultural district to identify and recognize chinese immigrants and our history beyond china town right now. thank you for your leadership on this and i look forward to supporting this. >> chair peskin: do you want to make a motion supervisor chan. >> c. chan: sure. i will make the motion to approve this item an move forward to the full board as a committee report and with recommendation. >> chair peskin: clerk young, roll call please. >> clerk: to move as a committee report.

(roll call). the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and we are adjourned.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment.

i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in

your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things

were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge

stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

to speak to you this morning. before i -- before the mayor takes the make phone, i want to say a few words and introduce our mayor, london breene. it's been an incredible year.

2020, first part of 2021 has been a very challenging year for all of us. i can't be more proud of being a part of a city under the leadership with our mayor. we saw what true leadership means. in the midst of a global pandemic, san francisco was the first to take action to really get in front of what was facing us. we saw the result. we led across the board in terms of big cities, the amount of preventing death. the shelter in place order which our mayor's leadership started really a national movement on shelter in place. we got into june with the george floyd murder that followed that.

we had had our mayor step up and respond to the challenge to get the resources that we needed to really put the rioted and the civil unrest and looting and fires down really quickly. we saw where a lot of cities continued to have problems for months. we saw really a peaceful summer here last summer given all that was going on in our country. leadership is important. people are important. staffing is important. we're going to talk a little bit about all of that today. the other thing that i'd like to say that with our mayor and staffing and all the issues i just brought up. it didn't just start when she became mayor. she was the first supervisor that i met when i got here on the board of supervisors.

she has been supportive from the day a riefed. riefed. arrived. i appreciate it, the san francisco police department appreciate it. without further adieu, i would like to introduce our mayor, london breene. >> : thank you, chief. it's definitely great to be here with all of you in person today. it's been a very very challenging 15 months. to be here in person is so significant. we appreciate it a lot more as a result of what we had to do in terms of our actions during covid. here we are, san francisco with over 82 percent of our residents who have been vaccinated. we're doing great in comparison to other major cities. i'm grateful to the people of this city who stepped up and

made that difference. we're seeing a whole other spot light being placed on san francisco. on the one hand with covid what we've seen is a lot of praise and support, san francisco has gotten a lot of great attention as it relate it covid. but sadly as it relate it crime, we've gotten a lot of negative attention. when you think about where we were last year during the holiday july 4th, we saw unprecedented shootings. the death of a young six year old boy in the bay view hunter's point community. it was heart breaking. when i think about what happened last year with violent crime and where we were even this past forth of july weekend. we saw not one homicide over that weekend time period. just recently lory was here from

chicago. i'm sure you have been hearing about the unprecedented amount of gun violence in chicago. over a hundred shootings over the week anne. weekend.here in san francisco we nowhere near that. we've gotten to a better place. not perfect. but a better place than what's being highlighted now. we've seen a lot of the attacks on our elderly particularly our asian seniors. the videos are not just going viral in san francisco but all over the world. what's not going viral is every single instance our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crimes. there have been arrested sadly in the death of jays young.

the guy, we saw the video of him riding the bicycle into the walgreens. he has been arrested and is currently awaiting trial. the case of the man walking home from the post office who was stabbed and robbed. his perpetrator was arrested. the man in the franklin street market, i beloved member of the community, his perpetrator has been arrested. two people were stabbed, that perpetrator has been arrested. what is not getting the attention is the fact that when you come to san francisco and commit a crime, you will be arrested by this police department. our investigators and the work that they do to bring people to justice has been extraordinary. when we talk about the burglar

burglaries and car break ins perpetrated by ten groups of people. when those groups get arrested, we see those car break ins go down significantly. at the end of the day we have to make sure that accountability is a part of this. one of the big conversations that is happening around defunding the police is not taking into account all the incredible work san francisco has done to invest in program that's help to prevent crimes from happening in the first place. an unprecedented investment of $65 million in my budget to help with street violence prevention and victim services. all the incredible work, thank you for the work that you do to reach out to the families who sadly are victims of violent crimes. a lot of investment preventing

these crimes from happening. wellness teams out in the communities checking on those who are suffering from mental illness and addiction. a sobering center. a street crisis response team who are responding to the calls who don't know what to do when they see people screaming and unresponsive in the streets. mental health beds. an unprecedented investment. all of these things are a part of our network of trying to address public safety. it's not just about funding or defunding the police. not just about funding one program over another. it's a comprehensive strategy to make sure the right investments are being made to deal with the challenges that exist. going back to covid, we use the data and the science.

what we should do as a city. that's what we did in this year's budget. the chief today is going to talk a lot about the statistics because there's a lot of misinformation out there about what's happening in san francisco. we know that numbers don't matter when you're the victim of a crime, any crime in any capacity. at the end of the day we have to use this data to make a decision about our policies an our investments. in the coming months we're going to be making some significant changes. we are not prepared to reveal all of our plans to help address some of these issues around these retail thefts and holding companies accountable like amazon to not do their due diligence to vet these stolen goods. we have to make sure there are tools to hold people accountable but more importantly, we have to look at the data and allow that

to help guide us. finally as we move forward, we need police officers. we have a number of officers retiring, this work just doesn't happen. we have a number of officers retiring, we have others leaving the force for different reasons. we need to back fill those officers. i'm hopeful that the work we're doing to make those investments to bring those officers out on the streets to bring down crime as well are significant. work withing our partners, ambassadors has everything to do with prevention and also accountability. we have to reability when a crime is committed but the best case scenario is to make sure that crime never happens in the first place. here in san francisco, yes, like

any major city we have our challenges. at the end of the day we're going to work hard to step up and do everything we can to make the right investments, arrests, hold people accountable and do what we can to look at the data and make the appropriate changes to our system for the safety of our city. i want to thank all of you for being here today. i want to thank the men and women of the police department. if you take nothing from this event, this press conference today that you go down the laundry list of all of those crimes that have been committed here in san francisco over the past year. you look especially at the violent crimes in particular and look at the arrests that have been made and start to highlight those in a way that they've been highlighted in terms of when the videos went viral. when you see the incredible work

that goes into the investigation part of it an arrests and all the things this san francisco police department is doing to bring justice to those families that are victims, you would be proud of the work being done. i truly am. thank you for all being here today. thank you chief scott. he will go over the the statistics so you can see in comparison where we are with the crimes in san francisco. >> : thank you mayor. i know the mayor touched on public perceptions, i think it's important to start by acknowledging people's fear about crime particularly when these videos go viral. these things get in our head. people start to believe that is our city. that is not our city. today's news conference i'm going to show you some comparative numbers.

think of this as a mid year check in. computer statistics. it's a program police departments across the country use to perform statistics to understand where their cities are in terms of statistics. it allows us to reduce those crimes. let me be very clear about something, about two things. those numbers you're about to see represent human beings. they represent people, i don't want to be dehumanizing when i talk about numbers an statistics. we understand because we see it day in and day out, these are people. our brothers, sisters, nephews, aunts, friends that are being victimized. it's important to take a step back and remember that

statistics represent people. what we see on some of these videos are brazen crimes. there's no statistic on the outlook and how we perceive what's going on in our city. that's why police officers are so important. most of us feel more comfortable when thee see officers in their neighborhood. that's our justification for the reality of our officers being on the beat and being on the street to make people feel safer. these crimes aren't as frequent as many people think but it's still unsettling. most of these crimes are solved and we'll continue to do that. i want to start by really lifting up what's going on here

in our city. it starts with the members of the san francisco police department. i'm the chief of police, you see command staff members on the wall here. the mayor. the work is being done by the members, the patrol officers. day in day out solving crimes, working with the community and doing what we need to do to keep our city safe. still, even when we have everything to work right, it seems like it's not enough. you've heard this cliche before. we can't arrest our way out of problems. we need to make arrests and hold people accountable. the other side of that equation is officers on the street. this mayor, from day one, has

been very definitive about the need to have officers on the beat. she supported the budget and staffing. we need to have staffing to balance the other side of the equation. holding people accountable that will always be one half of the equation. the other side we struggle with is keeping enough officers on the street so you see them in your communities to prevent what is happening from happening. according to city beat, 75% of san franciscans want more sfpd officers in high crime areas. seventy six percent want expanded community policing through their neighborhoods and sixty four percent want more sfpd office everies in busy areas where we have these brazen crimes that we've seen on video.

china town included. that's why we're so appreciative of what's happening with the mayor's leadership and community members calling to staff this department adequately so we can do our jobs. that is not going to go away. we'll continue to advocate for what we need to keep this city safe. every number represents a human being, even someone has suffered a loss of injury sometimes the damage is irrevokable. homicides, we have people in this room that have lost members of their family both in uniform and out of uniform. people in this family who have had their houses and cars broken into. we all know how that feels when it happens to you. you don't care about statistics.

it happened to me and turned my life upside down. we understand that. that's why it is so important to work with our community. through the mayor's leadership and urging we established a community liaison unit to help people get through the turmoil of being victimizeled. to pre vied a better service. we want to prevent it in the first place but when it happens people need help to navigate the system and need help. that's what the system does. let's go to our statistics. this is our mid year statistics and how we're going to frame the conversation to show you year to date and mid year statistics we're going to take a look back so can you compare where we were 2018 and 2017 same time of year.

one of the things that make this time of year challenging and unique. last year we had people inside their homes, we didn't have the tourist that's we normally have. it's hard to get a gauge on where we are in crime when you only look at last year. we're going look at the last three years to get a perspective of where we are an where we've been. homicides last year. we are up somewhat from where we were this time last year. if you look at 2019, 2018, 2017 you see pretty consistent numbers. we're up four this year. if you go back to 2017 we're down pretty significantly from 2017, even 2016 and up slightly from 2015.

next slide, let me say a few things about that. some of our strategies that we've introduced this year include a partnership with an entity called california partnership for safe communities. one of the things among the many we want to do with homicides and this speaks to what the mayor said earlier is investigate the root causes. our investigators do a magnificent job of clearing homicide cases. the other side of that is what can we do for the individuals most at risk for being involved in a shooting or homicide either as a victim or as a perpetrator. what can we do for those individuals and families to provent it. our strategy moving forward is to get to that issue. that's what the mayor spoke to

with the partnerships. identify the people most at risk who are people of color. black and brown men. that's not necessarily policing. we're a conduit to get services to the families most at risk. our job is to prevent and solve crime and get other people involved to address those issues to make the situation better. let's go to gun violence. since 2016 this is where we're having some challenges. 2021 we're almost double where we were last year in terms of gun violence. this includes fatal and non fatal shootings. 2019, 2020 we were in the mid fifties. you can see that we're not terribly higher than we were in

2016, 17, and 18. we're almost double where we were in the last two years. part of the strategies i just mentioned will help address that. it building relationships with the community members that are necessary to get a handle on this issue. we have commander pete who are a big part of this along with our investigations bureau, this brings all this together. our strategies on gun violence are holistic. we have to get a handle on this. illegal legal ghost guns. the number of illegal ghost guns that we con fist kateed over the last four years have increased exponentially. these are guns that materialize in people's homes. they are dangerous, unregulated

and in our city. we're addressing that with our partners from atf and our federal partners. we have an increase in con -- next we'll go to sexual assaults. here is an area that i'm pleased to say is far below where it was the last few years. when you look at 2019 to 2020. this was a significant drop. 2021 we continue to go down in that area. still that's 88 victims that have been sexually assaulted, far too many.

we're working with the district attorney and advocacy groups. including treatment and services to the victims. that's a par of our plan, if you will, to get better in all of those areas. we do okay. we can always get better. we dropped sexual assaults from eleven cases to nineteen case nz june. that's a huge increase from a month to month perspective. it's something we want to keep an eye on because that's concerned. we want to make sure we keep control of that. next we'll go to robberies. again, videos drive perception. when you see people getting robbed. when you see elderly victims get

getting robbed and they go viral. here is the reality. our robberies from 2018 to year to date have gone down each year. we hope to continue that by year's end. if we continue the trend, we hope to keep this going. robberies are one of the categories where cops in the street matter. police officers in the street really matter when it comes to driving down robberies. people are less likely to rob people when they see officers nearby. that's a fact, it's proven. it's tried and true. i can't say it enough, we need officers on the street to keep this going in the right direction. some of our high traffic

corridors, our tourist areas. people enjoying themselves. we have to see police officers out there. the mayor did market vibrancy plan. we have seen robberies cut by 3. it matters when police officers are on their beat and able to stay on their beat. we want to continue that trend an make sure we keep that going in the right direction. aggravated assault is our next category. if you look at the five year period, again, this is some of the videos that we see happening that go viral. when you look at where we are now compared to where we were just three years ago, we're actually doing okay. i want to say this. we know that not all crime rz ce

reported. there's always a degree of under reporting of crime. we encourage people to report if they are victimized. that's how we know what going on and how we deploy. if you look at 2018, 2019, 2020. you see a significant drop. we are below where we were in 2019 our precovid year. can we do better? yes. we're not doing terribly and we want to keep that trend going as well. again, research. the university of california, they started the foot beat deployment to see how that effected aggravated assault.

it's proven, cops matter. when we put them in those areas, high corridor areas, assaults went down. we know that matters. that's been proven by research. next topic is burglaries. as we talk about property crime, the narrative in san francisco has been car break ins. it's been that way for a long time. here is an area we're struggling somewhat in terms of increases. we saw this trend start even before covid. last year we started to see burglaries go up. we started to see other types of crime go down. could there have been some type of displacement?

maybe. a lot of those were garage type burglaries. tools, bicycles. the good news is we started the year off really in a hole and over the last three and a half four months, we've seen burglaries decrease. at a about four percent increase year to date. it's still an increase. some of the things we've done is made some drastic change nzs in deproiment. deployment. a lot of these crimes happen overnight and we had to make that adjustment. continue to keep these people off balance to let these people know that you'll see officers overnight. burglaries are up.

we are going in the right direction compared to the way we started the year off. 2020, particularly last summer we had a spike because of the civil unrest. we had a lot of looting but we were able to get that under control. we have to compare it. next we'll go to larceny theft. retail theft is in that category. as you can see from 2017 and these are mid year numbers to now, it's been a steady decrease in this category. i will give you not every crime reported. we can only go by what we know. it's counter to the narrative.

not to say that these things that are happening, they are brazen and heinous. they need to stop and people held accountable. the statistics are in front of you. much work needs to be done in retail theft. a lot of the things the mayor said are coming into play. it's very challenging. what we can control is what we can control. that's our strategies an tactics. give the da the best cases we can give them. when these crimes do have them particularly when they are crews that were mentioned earlier, we identify who they are an bring them to account for these crimes. we do a pretty good job at that. we have to get better. this is something that people -- it's personal to me when

people think what they see on the video is what we represent. we all work and live here, it's a good city and safe city. that's not what you think when you see a guy ate local pharmacy and having at it with someone. they're in jail. we will catch you. make no mistakes about that. we're good at what we do. we'll keep going until we catch the people responsible for these crimes. we hope to keep that going in the right direction and listen the frequency of these viral videos that we keep seeing on news and social media. next category is car break ins. here is another thing that tends

to go viral. if you look at where we were in 2017, it was the worst year we had ever had. we ended that year with over 30,000 car break inns. ins. we shifted our focus. car break ins that continued in 2019 and 2020. we're starting to go back up. we'll get a handle on that.

put together a plan that we believe will make a difference. more officers on beat. particularly in the corridors that people visit our cities. that's where our problems are concentrated and that's where we will be. we have to be there. we have to be consistent about our deployment. we'll be consistent in our arrests and we also have to continue to drive some of these things down. we are up seven hundred crimes from where we were last year. we need the officers to do the work. we're going to make due with what we have until we start to get academy classes through. we'll make it happen. this is is the image of our city that we're talking about. you can come to san francisco.

it's a safe city. sfpd, the mayor, elected officials. we got your back. next category, auto theft. auto thefts are up. that's a two year trend. we started to see that also in 2020 before covid. that trend continued not as significantly. less of an increase this year but it's still up. that is also an issue that we need to get a handle on. if you look at where we were back in 2015, we're down pretty significantly but it's after a good year in 2018 and it went up a little bit, we're starting to go back up. it's pretty significant from 2019 to 202 #. 2021. these are hard crimes to solve.

we're going to do everything we can to keep this under wraps and under control as well. the auto thefts are middle of the night type of crimes as well. that's where nighttime deployment can can impact some. it's a difficult case. most of all the thefts we recover a lot of cars that get recovered in other jurisdictions. when your car gets stolen, you don't care what is stealing it, you just want your car back. that is our mid year statistic. you can see when you look at these over time, it paints a

much different picture than watching a video that goes viral. i don't want to be dismissive of the videos because they are brazen and heinous and awful. we need to prevent those things from happening and arrest the people doing it. we want to keep perspective on the reality of what's really happening in terms of crime activity in our city. i hope this provided some perspective for you. that concludes our presentation. we'll be available for some questions. thank you.

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restaurant that is very community focused they do it all month long for nonprofits not just one day all four mondays. >> we have a wall of thank you letters in the office it seems like you know we were able to gas up the 10 passenger minivan we were innovate expected to do. >> when those people working at the nonprofits their predictive and thank what straw is giving that in and of itself it making an impact with the nonprofit through the consumers that are coming here is just as important it is important for the grill cheese kitchen the more restrictive i learn about what is going on in the community more restrictive people are doing this stuff with 4 thousand restaurant in san francisco

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>> it did take a village. i was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. the difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didn't have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. and they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. that is what i want to prevent. [♪♪♪] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. >> opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. it really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in san francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or work-based

learning opportunities. >> money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. >> there's always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they don't get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. this is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. >> it is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. this is the pipe on we need to work with. we need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [♪♪♪] >> the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers.

young people can work in cohorts or in groups and that's really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. and in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i don't think we are ready to host an intern year-round are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. and then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have long-term employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. >> something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. it is really cool. >> i starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. i am grateful for this

opportunity. thank you. >> something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. >> during this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. it is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my college tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. >> for myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. if anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. whenever. [applause] it is good. i got you. it was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and different things that i can explore. opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all.

>> we were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. we are still getting the final numbers of that. >> over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in investment banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. >> there are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in san francisco. and imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, affordable housing, low income communities. it is all up to you to make that happen. >> we have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. we are starting to figure out

how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. we want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. >> let's be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. >> for potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. this is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. this is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that san francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. >> just do it. sign up for it. [♪♪♪]

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