>> president cohen: welcome to the regularly scheduled san francisco police commission. sergeant reynolds, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, president cohen. [roll call] >> clerk: president cohen, you have a quorum. also with us today, we have a.c. mosier, and chief william scott will be joining us shortly from the san francisco

police department and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> president cohen: excellent. thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, if you are able to join me, rise and place your right hand over your heart and say the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president cohen: all right. good evening, everyone. we have a fairly light agenda, so let's go ahead and get started. we called the roll. sergeant reynolds, could you please call the first item. >> clerk: first item is general public comment. at this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for three minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police

commission. during public comment, neither police or d.p.a. personnel, nor commissioners are required to respond. opportunities for public comment are available by calling 415-655-0001 and enter access code 2481-569-2462, then press pound and pound again. please press star, three to enter public comment. this will alert the clerk that you wish to enter the queue. please speak slowly and clearly and turn down any devices in the background. alternatively, you may make public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail the secretary of the police commission at

sfpdcommission@sfgov.org or 125 third street, san francisco, california, 94158, and it looks like we have quite a few callers. >> president cohen: thank you. >> clerk: good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> sorry. just clicked away from my script. my name is susan buchanan, and [inaudible] last week during public comment, i asked you to consider the work that berkeley is doing around eliminating racial profile in traffic stops. i have heard people be dismissive of these efforts, saying they haven't operationalized it yet or they're doing it wrong. to be fair, berkeley has only

had its fair and impartial policing recommendations for eight months, but how long have sfpd had the d.o.j. recommendations and reports? surely, six years would have been long enough to operationalize those recommendations here in san francisco. one can almost say that you and sfpd are doing something wrong. and speaking of hypocrisy, it was rich to hear the president of the police union to call for the firing of commissioner hamasaki, when no sfpd officer or sheriff's deputy has not been accountable for any

discriminatory social media post? thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> in may 2018, a candidate for the police commission wrote the rules committee to apply for a seat on the police commission. one of the goals written in his application letter stated make the sfpd a model in transparency, accountability, integrity, and fairness. that police commissioner was john hamasaki. the same who flouts the incompatible activity by the police commission. the same who is bound by the general orders and yet violates them constantly. where is the transparency and

fairness from john hamasaki with his animus and bias with his twitter account? for a person seeking higher office as controller for the state of california, president cohen seems intent with allowing the status quo and turns a blind eye to allowing this conduct to continue. who will call for the dismissal of john hamasaki? there are a lot of checks and balances in place. time for someone to do their job. >> clerk: thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hi. my name is [inaudible]. i'm also with the core team of wealth and disparities in the black community. i just want to iterate susan's

comment about the need to eliminate racializing traffic stops, stop using racial bias as part of services, and we are long overdue for actually implementing that measure, and that's all. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, we have -- oh, there's one more caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening, police commissioners. i wanted to call in support of my police commissioner, john hamasaki. i think that his engagement in social media specifically has engendered trust in the policing establishment in san francisco and also the legal establishment in san francisco, so i wanted to thank him pretty

much for his time and attention to social outreach in his communities, and i think he's doing an excellent job showing that there is humanity still in our criminally unjust mass incarceration system. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you, caller. president cohen, it looks as if we have another -- we have one last general public commenter who has asked to have their public comment readout loud as a reasonable accommodation under the americans with disabilities act. i will now read their comment. last week, john hamasaki tried and failed to defend posting a video that appears to show someone kicking milk crates out from under an officer and commenting, quote, i fully

support any cops who want to try this, end of quote. while he says no one assaulted the officer, which is true, hamasaki did not know that when he posted the video, as evidenced by his response to the person who posted, quote, so that guy is going to end up with assault charges for kicking the crate out from under him? that was a shitty thing to do, end of quote. hamasaki responds, quote, yeah, that's not part of the challenge, end of quote. it's clear at the time that he posted the video, hamasaki thought the person intentionally kicked the crate. if hamasaki now claims he knew it was a joke, then why didn't he post the version of the video that showed it was a joke

? hamasaki is disgraceful. maria h., and that is the end of public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: thank you very much. i appreciate the public comment. please call the next item. >> clerk: line item 2, chief's report. weekly crime trends. provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major and significant incidents. provide a summary of planned activities and events. this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. chief scott? >> president cohen: thank you. just real quick, chief, we are prepared to go with paul henderson if you need a few more minutes to collect

yourself. >> thank you, president cohen. i'm actually ready. >> president cohen: okay. perfect. all right. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commission, director henderson, and the public. i will start with crime trends this week. starting with homicide, we are up 9%, three over last year. we had 36 last year year-to-date. robberies are down 8%. in terms of robberies, that's about 130 fewer robberies than this time last year. rates are down about 30 from this time last year, and assaults are up, which is concerning because that number is increasing. we are at 1574 assaults compared to 1421 this time last year. human trafficking is up by one. that's 20 this year compared to

19 last year. in terms of our part one property crimes, they remain steady with a 1% increase. we're up about 51 burglaries from this time last year -- 52 burglaries, i'm sorry, from this time last year. motor vehicle thefts were up 8%, and larceny and theft were starting to pick up a little bit. we're up from 18,243 last year to 18,508 this year, so that's just short of 300 crimes. property crime, we're up about 1%. that's about 400 crimes more than we had this time last year. specifically in property crime, i want to highlight auto burglaries, because they are up

18% from last year. when we look back at 2018 and 19, we're now down 26% from 2018 and 2019, 36%. i would like to point out that the extra deployment in some of our tourism corridors continue to decrease the auto break ins in that corridor as we try to hold the other parts of the city from going up. we did make some pretty significant arrests in car burglaries, including one in

progress. gun violent homicides are 29, compared to 20 last year. we had two homicides this past week to report, and as i said, year-to-date, there's 36 total homicides. if there is any good news on this homicide picture, it's that our overall clearance rate on homicides are 97%. investigators have been working really hard to clear some of our cases, both this year's cases and previous year's cases, so i want to say a big thank you to our homicide team because they are working hard to solve these cases. in terms of our gun seizures, we are continually increasing our gun seizures from what we were last year.

we've had 115 ghost gun recoveries this year. we only had 116 for the entire year 2020, so that is something we'll continue to focus on working with our a.t.f. partners and some of our other partners in the region because we know that a number of these gun-related crimes are connected outside of the city, and that continues to be an issue we will work to try to make better. i want to talk a little bit about the homicides. the first homicide that was reported was on the 700 block of kirkwood in the bayview district. the victim, a 37-year-old male left his house to run an errand. his girlfriend heard a knock on her door and when she answered, she found the victim suffering from his injuries. he was transported to the

hospital and succumbed to his injuries. we have not identified anybody in this particular case as of yet, but the investigation is on going, and i will keep the commission and the public posted. if you have any information, please call us. you can remain anonymous at 415-575-4444. the second one, i actually reported on this last week, but i will -- i'll highlight it again because we do need the public's help on this one. there's been shots notification, and officered located a deceased 19-year-old male. he had been shot. it was on san bruno. the victim's friends noticed what had happened and that he had been shot and called 911. we do not have any suspects in

this case, so if you know what happened or have any information, call 415-575-4444. you can remain anonymous. we made a second arrest on a homicide that occurred on august 17 in the tenderloin district. the victim was a 48-year-old male who was privately transported to the hospital with life threatening injuries who later succumbed to his injuries. we later found out that the suspect had been assaulted in the 800 block of larkin, when one of the suspects shot -- that the victim had been assaulted in the 800 block of larkin by several suspect. a second suspect was booked on

september 3 for imprisonment, murder, and conspiracy. so there were others involved in this that we're still looking into. two of the suspects have been involved. a shooting on garrett and ingleside. officers responded and found 1444 caliber casings and car and residential windows damaged by gun shots, so that is another case where we need the public's help. if you know anything, call 575-4444. that still remained unsolved. another shooting, a victim

advised he was riding a bicycle south on van ness at 12 street when he heard three gunshots. he fell off his bike and realized that he had been shot. he saw a vehicle speed off eastbound on mission street and flagged a passer by down who took him to the hospital. in this case, i believe the gun shot may have been self-inflicted, so that investigation is still on going to determine the cause of that shooting. we had another shooting in the 400 block of jones street in the tenderloin. our victim, hispanic male 48 years old, advised he was banging on a door of an apartment to droo try and get his cell phone when a shot came through the door. he was transported to the hospital and is expected to survive. we know where the shots came from, so we just have to figure

out who fire the shot and hope to bring that to a resolution with identifying who the shooter was. the last case was an 18-year-old victim was out with friends when the subject opened fire and shot the victim in the face and head area. the witness observed the victim and his friends and attempted -- attempted to get in the bar -- the victim and his friends were attempting to get in the bar but some unsuccessful. the witness returned to the bar and observed that our victim and his friends were being chased by an unidentified subject who eventually fired at the group and suspect the victim. we did identify the suspect and served search warrants, and charges have been filed by the district attorney, so that case has been resolved. as far as the strategy, a little more detail, i mentioned

what we were doing in the tourism corridors. that will continue to be a strategy. 14 additional officers have been placed in the central district, and that is in addition to the central district officers that regularly patrol those areas. i am happy to announce that our ambassador program has reached its second phase, and you will remember you approved the ambassador program several months ago. we just hired another group of former sfpd members, and they have gone through their training and orientation, and i just saw some of them in chinatown, and they are very well received by the community. for the public who are not familiar with this, this is a program that we implemented

actually during 2020, where we hire, through the prop f program, retired and former officers, and they patrol neighborhoods on foot, and it will be expanded to chinatown and other parts of the city. got to talk with one ambassador, and he's glad to be back and doing that type of community engagement. additional strategies is, as a part of our tourism deployment plan, we have additional officers in golden gate park on bikes, and also, that allows for our district officers to focus more on the residential burglaries that have plagued that area, so that's on going, as well.

we have brought them down a little bit, but a lot more work needs to be done. the southern district is focusing on car break ins along [inaudible] street and harrison street and have support from our motorcycle unit to make sure we deter as much of these types of incidents as we can. and then, in the park district, we had deployed two additional officers. this is in addition to our regular foot beat officers, and they're working the haight street commercial corridor. we've had some issues with just quality of life issues. the [inaudible] team is working that area, also working with the department of public works to make sure that the streets stay as clean as they're able to keep them. also on a sad note and a way more serious note, we had a homicide there this morning

along that block, and it's unsolved as to right now. it was a stabbing homicide. i'll report further details on it at next week's report, but our investigators are trying to figure out who committed that homicide, and if the public knows anything, definitely, we need your help on that, as well. that is the chief's report. nothing to report on any domestic terrorism incidents, although, i will say on that note, saturday marks the 20 anniversary of 9-11. we're going to have, led by the fire department, a memorial service on saturday morning and also meeting with our federal partners on briefings on what's going on throughout the nation with that issue. sometimes on these anniversaries people that are prone to act out on these acts,

so that is my report this week, and i'm happy to answer questions. >> president cohen: thank you. first, i have a couple of questions for you, but first, thank you for recognizing the 20 anniversary of 9-11. i also appreciate you incorporating terrorist attacks in your report. also wanted to really get a better grasp of your understanding. so you report out the data, the violence, the shootings, the homicides. you read the statistics. i wonder if you could add a little context or color to those numbers. what are you seeing? what are your investigators

telling you? what are some of the driving forces for these shootings that are happening or homicides that are happening? >> yeah, thank you for giving me an opportunity to dig into this. so the data that we presented on the police commission on the victims still remain to be true. i have vast criminal histories on them, unfortunately. that is what we've seen, and that continues to be the case. one of the homicides that we reported on we believe to be driven by narcotics activity. some of people involved were known to be frequent narcotics traffickers, but the homicide itself we don't believe to be narcotics related. it's one of those conditions where we believe a separate

dispute led to this person losing his life. a lot of our homicides and shooting continue to be group dynamic involved. not necessarily gang related because it's not necessarily gangs. these people are tight because they are involved in this social network. they get into a beef, and it leads to a shooting. that is the biggest issue in our city, with the shootings and the homicide. the one that i reported this morning on haight street, we don't have suspects in custody. we know, unfortunately, that the victim was living on the street, but we have some evidence that we're looking into that indicate that's it might have been -- that indicates that it might have been some type of dispute. several of our recent homicides have been disputes that may have started from some other,

you know, incident in the past that led to gun violence. so some of what's happening the last three or four years are still happening. >> president cohen: so what happens to these cases when people are not willing to testify? >> fortunately, there's a lot of private individuals and private businesses that have videos, and we're getting very good cooperation from members

in our community, so that evidence has been very, very valuable. very valuable. the other thing i'd like to point out, and this goes back to the strategies that we presented to the police commission, trying to get in front of these shootings as much as we can. the identification of the people that are the most at risk is paying dividends for us. i can cite two examples from this week where officers were alerted to a victim that was either going to be involved in a shooting or a victim of a shooting. that led to officers contacting an individual who we believe was at risk of being a victim. long story short, we were able to intervene, and actually,

that individual, because he believed he would be targeted, he was walking around with a gun. we had to arrest him because he had a gun, but that's one of the things where we get in front of these violence confrontations. another san franciscan that we just released from prison, we were able to do some outreach on him because we felt he was subject to be at risk on either side of that equation, and unfortunately, our officers arrested him. he had several guns on him, and he was arrested for being in possession of handguns earlier

this week. it definitely gives us a better direction on where to focus our efforts on. >> president cohen: thank you. colleagues, are there any other questions for the chief today? thank you. don't see any indication in the chat and don't see any other hands, so turn it over to director henderson. >> good evening. >> clerk: president cohen? >> president cohen: yes? >> clerk: we need to take public comment before we go to -- >> president cohen: yes, thank you. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please press star, three to be recognized. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, hi.

this is miss brown. i was just calling regarding my son, arbery, who was murdered august 6, 2009, and his murder remains unsolved. last meeting, i gave information regarding a person -- >> clerk: miss brown, can we -- >> president cohen: yeah, we're going to have to stop you from putting personal information on the record. >> okay. well, i gave information, and i haven't heard anything if anybody called or anything, and i'm sorry. so to this day, my son's

homicide isn't solved, and i as a mother is still going through that trauma. i thank the police for being there for the vigil this year and every day. i just wanted to say that his case is still unsolved, and for putting those pictures in the police stations, that maybe someone will come forth, but just hoping that someone will get in touch with the person that i named and go from there, and maybe i'll call my investigator, and again, i didn't know i wasn't supposed to do that. i was just trying to get justice for my child. i've been fighting for 16 years to get justice for my son's case. i don't know what else to do. all i know how to do, and i'm pretty sure i'm the only one probably doing it, so i just need help, and whoever gives me

information, i should say something, and i don't know what to say or who to say it to. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, miss brown, for your comment. for members of the public who may have information regarding the murder of aubrey, please call the anonymous tip line: 415-575-4444. once again, the number is 415-575-4444. and president cohen, that concludes public comment. >> president cohen: thank you very much. we'll hear next from director henderson. >> clerk: thank you. >> thank you. so i will start with the

summary of cases. we are currently at 575 cases that are open currently, and this year, we closed so far 590 cases. we have currently open cases, 312 cases, and we have 23 cases whose investigations have extended beyond the nine-month period. again, as a point of reference, that's still within the time frame of our 3304 deadlines. of those numbers for the current cases, 18 of those cases are tolled cases, and we have 25 cases that have been mediated so far. amongst the cases that are

pending, there are 14 of the cases that are open with the police commissioners, and amongst the cases that are awaiting chief's decision are 12. for the weekly trends, we received 18 new cases in the past week, 30% of those allegations were -- involved officers that behaved or spoke in a manner unbecoming of an officer. 15% required officers failing to take action. 4% were an officer displaying threatening, intimidating, or harassing behavior. another 4% where an officer provided incomplete accident or incident report. 4% the officer exhibited

spurious behavior, and 4% for the officer's discourteous behavior statements were related to ethnicity or race, as well. it's a total of 27 allegations. for the monthly statistical report, that information has been filed. i'll just present the summary there in the documents that have been previously provided and have been posted. d.p.a. received 58 complaints total in june, which was a decrease of 6% year-to-date. and in 2021, the total number of complaints received were 397. in 2020, the total number of complaints received were 421. i'm giving you the summaries of the information.

in june, of the 58 cases involved, 11 is were officered who failed to take action, 4% were officers displayed unbecoming behavior, 4% involved an officer who failed to properly investigate, and 3% involved an officer who demonstrated biased policing or discrimination. these are allegations, as a reminder, and that was a total of 112 allegations. for july, d.p.a. received 65 complaints in june, which is an increase of 3% from the same period last year but a decrease of 9% for year-to-date comparison. so in 2020, the total complaints received from july

were 506, and in july, the total number of complaints were 462. in july, of the 46 cases received in july, 12% involved an officer who based or spoke in a manner unbecoming of an officer. 12% involved an officer who failed to take required action. 6% involved an officer failing to properly investigate. 5% involved an officer who prepared an incomplete or inaccurate officer report. 4% involved an officer who knowingly engaged in false information or discrimination, and 3% were case referrals. typically, case referrals are cases that are referred to other agencies. that's a total of 147 allegations. in terms of audits, today, wednesday, september 8, the department of police accountability and the controller's office had their entrance conference with the

sfpd, the police department, for their audit on how the police department has currently handled officer's conduct. that is one of the items that d.p.a. is tasked to perform. there have been a number of virtual presentations in the monthly community meetings happening at the station, the police station, including mission station, tenderloin station, and the bayview station on various dates. also, on the second, d.p.a. participated with the megablack organization with the director from h.r.c., sheryl davis, focusing on the greenkeeper initiative fellowship as well as the mayor's budget office. tonight, d.p.a. has no cases that are in the closed session. also on the call with me are senior investigator chris

shenau in case there are cases that come up, and also on the call, staff diana rodenstein who would love an opportunity to chat with all of you. our website, in case folks want to get in contact with the organization, is sfgov.org/dpa. you can also contact the office at 415-241-7711, and that concludes my presentation. again, i'd like to -- there's more details in the documents that have been filed with the commission and are on our website, but i wanted to present a summary of them, and some of this information was catch up from the period where we weren't meeting in august, so all of these reports would be in. and just so we're clear, we continued maintaining our reporting obligations for

weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually throughout the break. that's just some of the information in case the public hadn't seen it or wasn't aware. it can be found on the new website we just launched in case folks want to see more of the details. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> president cohen: great. thank you. so i'm going to ask you the same question that i asked chief. you have presented a numeric summary of what your caseload is looking like and the percentage of change. let me ask you, what is driving the increases, the changes, the decreases? tell me -- put a story behind these numbers. >> yeah. i think a lot of the stories -- that's why, in my numbers, i give you the actual allegations so you can see from month to month and now week to week that you can see a lot of the cases that are coming in. i believe they're influenced by

what's happening in the city, and i believe a lot of those numbers are influenced greatly by what policing is taking place on the streets during the pandemic. if you take a look at what was happening on the streets prepandemic -- and we've seen just from the reports that i'm given, week to week, how things have changed from the shelter in place, shelter at home rulings shifted, when people returned to work, when the delta variant came around, and the people went back home, you can see the shift in the complaints that we're getting. i just want to point out, the information that i'm giving is preanalysis before it shakes out into sustained cases, but it's an absolute allegation that the public is making both

to my office literally individually and anonymously, so we can measure all of it collectively. that's why i'm giving the numbers that i'm giving. i think it's hard to compare those numbers and those allegations against -- they stand for themselves, but they don't -- it's hard to compare them because we don't have another agency to compare them with, like internal affairs, if we were seeing the complaints they were giving side by side, it might give you a better touch point of comparison beyond just what d.p.a. is getting. >> president cohen: okay. all right. i guess that's -- >> i mean, it's hard to compare it -- >> president cohen: i guess i'm not asking for a comparison. well, you know, due to covid, people had less interactions with law enforcement, therefore, we saw a decrease in the cases. or maybe we saw a trend in the

summertime with interaction with police officers. that's a lot more along the lines that i was thinking, not a comparison between, like, other life agencies because we know that this is a premier agency that is leading the pack with oversight, so that doesn't really satisfy my question. the chief will say look, you've got the number of shootings because people are in life are becoming victims, so i just wanted to know what you're seeing, what your lawyers are seeing or your staff, what they're saying; what has transpired in your numbers. if i was a member of the public, i'd want to know, what does it mean on the ground in real-time? >> and this, honestly, i think

this presentation and the information that i've been given, these are the allegations and the interpretation of the raw numbers. this is what the public is saying case-by-case allegation by allegation so you hear all of it. you don't know what the trends are behind the story, but you know what's happening week by week based on the allegations that they're making. and you're seeing not just a one-month presentation but you can see more clearly the differences in officers, for example, failing to take required action. that's the allegation, and you can see on an evening like

tonight where we're playing catch up from having been on a break, the difference from those specific allegations from what was happening in june to what was happening in june to what happened in august. and actually, that's -- it might be a good comparison. i didn't look at them, and i'm doing it live when we're talking, but as that information was filed with the commission and in our papers, you can actually look side by side to hear or to see what the specific allegations are. and certainly, i think some of the answers to your question, which are more the overview of the trend, gets done in the annual report, and we can see the breakdown of where those allegations are coming from. like, it's shifting. this was during the summer in the bayview, but now, all of these allegations are taking place in the mission or

chinatown. here, they're not broken out, but they will be in the annual report. >> president cohen: got it. >> i hesitate to make conclusions -- >> president cohen: but it'll be prepared. perfect. i appreciate that. let's go ahead and take public comment, sergeant reynolds. >> clerk: for members of the public who would like to comment on d.p.a. director's report, please dial star, three. there is no public comment, president cohen. >> president cohen: thank you. no problem. okay. well, let's continue moving forward. >> clerk: line item 4, commission reports, discussion. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission

meeting. commission president's report, commissioners' reports, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> president cohen: thank you very much. i will turn to my fellow commissioners. commissioner elias, we'll start with you. we'll start with leadership first. >> vice president elias: thank you. nothing to report this week. >> president cohen: okay. commissioner yee, what's been going on on the streets? i know you've gone to a couple of meetings. tell us what you're seeing. >> i just came back from the chinatown night out. i just came back, so i had a little longer haul, and the chief was there, as well. many of the community that -- i'm happy to say that they're out, enjoying themselves, and i want to thank our community leaders over there at chinese

chamber, and chinatown night was [inaudible] by our late rose pak and our deputy chief lozar, so it's great to see our community enjoying themselves and out in force, so thank all the elected officials who showed up, as well. the mayor, president wong, supervisor aaron peskin and matt haney, and all the officers who are now making it safe throughout chinatown, and hopefully, we can continue this and grow it throughout the city where we can focus focus all of our resources, as well, so i'm happy to report that all is well. >> president cohen: awesome,

awesome. commissioner byrne, how is the tenderloin doing? byrne. >> i should have something to report in a couple of months, other than the chief and i talked about it this afternoon. i believe there will be an evolution as to what's going on in there, but i should be able to report back in about two months. the other thing i'd like to report, i had the opportunity to go to the 50 anniversary -- i almost want to say the assassination and murder of sergeant young what i know as balboa station, but it's now known as ingleside station. and assistant chief mosier was there, and chief scott and captain jones, and also there, which was very touching was

there is a civilian police worker who was also shot. sergeant young was killed, and she showed up, and i thought it was important that she do that, given the murder of a police officer recently in chicago. i thought it was very good of the san francisco police department to remember one of their own, particularly someone who died tragically in the station in the manner in which he did in 1971. >> president cohen: thank you, commissioner. i appreciate that, and for my report, i just wanted to let people know that i'm still working to bring other elected leaders and policy makers to this commission to share what they're working on that impacts

the work that we're doing on this commissioner. last week, we had senator nancy skinner, so i've just been working on trying to get people to join us on our commission. also had a good touch-base conversation with miss felicia jones, head of the wealth and disparities, and that's all i have to report out. sergeant reynolds, could you please take public comment, and let's call the next item. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please dial star, three at this time. president cohen, there is no public comment. >> president cohen: great. i appreciate that. let's call the next item. >> clerk: line item 5, presentation of the deputy's

collection and analysis of sexual assault kid evidence and reporting of results to sexual assault victims report, per commission resolution 16-28, adopted april 20, 2016, discussion. >> hello. >> president cohen: hello. >> good evening, president cohen, members of the commission, executive director henderson, chief scott, and members of the community. i am acting deputy chief raj baswani, and i will be covering resolution 16-28, which is analysis collecting and saeshl -- and sexual assault kit evidence and reports.

i'll be covering january 1 to june 30, 2020. during this period, i'm not going to go line by line into everything, but during this period, we collected approximately 110 kits that were done internally, and out of those, those were all submitted within five days within the requirement of the time it was collected by the trauma recovery and rape treatment center to the time it went to the crime lab. out of those four were submitted after that five-day period, and those were all outside jurisdiction submissions, which is normal for them to have a delay, so a total of 114 kits were tested. and all of those 114 were within the 120-day requirement.

as far as them being collected, tested, and results given, they were within the 120 days. our turnaround time is 14 days for the sexual assault kits, which is probably one of the lowest in the state. and none of the kits were sent for any kind of outsourcing. we processed all the kits locally. out of those 114, 43 were uploaded, and i'll skip down to item 10 for notification. we notified 91. that's the other part of the resolution. the second part of the resolution is a reporting requirement to the victim, and so we reported 91, and 15

victims did not want to be notified. and eight out agent note if i -- out of agency notifications were made so they could be handled in their policing jurisdiction. and then, i'll go onto page 2, on item 7. so we are currently working on 37 of the cases, and the rest of the 19 -- i'm not going line by line to every item because i did want to leave a little bit of time as to how this fits into our investigative work, so i picked out a really good case that was brought to our attention during this reporting

period. and this was an august 2011 galileo high school student who was approached by a stranger. i won't go into the details because it's a very graphic and horrible crime, but she was the victim of a sexual assault at galileo high school by a stranger. at that time, we developed a d.n.a. profile. it was uploaded, and there's no hit. so what we do in those kinds of cases, we do a john doe warrant, so we did a john doe warrant for that d.n.a. profile. well, april of this year, april 2021, a subject was arrested with a firearm, and a d.n.a. profile was collected. that subject matched the subject that committed the crime back in 2011 at galileo high school, and he was

arrested for the crime. officers for the central district went out, located him, and arrested him. so that's just one example of how these cases fit in and how d.n.a. fits in in a sexual assault situation. and i have nothing else. if you have any questions for lieutenant o'connor or myself, we're here. >> president cohen: any questions? commissioner byrne has a question. please, sir, go ahead. >> when i was looking at the page, indicated that there were

61 inactive cases. so obviously, i don't want to hear about all 61, but what exactly does that 61 mean? >> that 61 means that the d.n.a. subject was uploaded but has not been identified, so kind of like what this example shows us is that 2011 case was inactivated. the profile was uploaded, and now that case is closed, so something to that effect. there are examples of when cases are inactivated. one is the subject is unknown and no d.n.a. was uploaded because there's no corroborating evidence. the other would be the victim becomes uncooperative or does not want further evidence collected, and this is usually relayed to the rape treatment

center who then connects that wish to the investigators, and then, the investigators contact the victim and either provide services or give resources to the victim on if they want to come back and reactivate the case. and on the -- on the other one, is -- is that there is no corroborating evidence or that we cannot prove that the suspect committed the crime. >> and the district attorney of san francisco only charged three people in that period of time and discharged four? >> yes, during this reporting period. >> i guess i'm surprised. number one, it strikes me as a very small number, both of them, but that would be the purview of the district attorney, not the police department.

>> president cohen: thank you. commissioner yee? >> commissioner yee: ah, yes. i have a question on the 61 inactive cases, and they're inactive cases where, i guess, the victim failed to respond back. was there any that spoke a second language, where they felt maybe uncomfortable in something on this who might be cultural or indifferences? i'm just wondering if there were any -- if you could break it down by ethnicity? >> i do not have the breakdown for you, but just personally, i can tell you from working in investigations for eight years, and i'll have lieutenant

o'connor kind of elaborate on this, but all the investigators do have access to language services, and all officers do have access to language services. we have investigators from all walks of life that speak multiple languages, so i will defer this question to lieutenant o'connor, if you want to expand on that. >> yes. so i think it would be important, yeah, 61 cases that have been inactive, and i can state that none of these survivors had any issue with relaying what happened to the investigators. there were occasions whether the officers had to use language services, whether it was phone line language services or an officer that was bilingual. if you'd like, commissioner, i

can breakdown those numbers regarding the ethnicity and the first spoken language of the survivors if you'd like, and i have access to that information, but none of the 61 were closed or inactivated because of issues with language. >> commissioner yee: the reason why i'm just asking is because when you've got sexual assaults, number one, it's very challenging for the victims to speak out on it, too, and for the investigators, it might be even doubly difficult for them, especially if they're limited english speaking proficiency. even if you don't have translators, sometimes they feel the shame that comes along with that, that that happened

to them. i'm just trying to see if we can find out if it's -- inactive cases, for myself and jim byrnes, that's quite a bit. so if you can take it offline, that's fine. >> president cohen: all right. anything else? all right. seeing none, let's move forward. >> i think diana rosenstein had a comment. >> president cohen: okay. all you have to do is raise your hand or put her name on the chat or turn on her screen and wave. >> there you go, diana. >> i was just going to simply point out that our office works diligently to ensure that

officers are properly trained with respect to handling incidents such as the ones that you've been asking about, commissioner yee, with respect to victims that are of limited english proficiency, and we take any complaints that we make with respect to that. >> i'll piggyback on that and invite the new commissioners to come down to the d.p.a., as well. >> president cohen: so i think this concludes that portion of our agenda. >> clerk: public comment,

commissioner? >> president cohen: public comment, yes. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please press star, three at this time. commissioner, you have no public comment. >> president cohen: okay. next item. >> clerk: next item is line item 6, discussion and possible action to approve revised draft department general or the 5.16, warrants, for meeting and conferring with the san francisco police officers association and the s.f. municipal executives association police as required by law. discussion and possible action. >> good evening, president cohen, vice president elias, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, and members of the community. i'm jim ahern, and i'm joined

by sfpd sergeant cara lacey. we worked on 5.16, search warrants and are here to answer any questions. it was a true collaborative effort between the sfpd and the d.p.a. even with the collaboration of three attorneys, the input was difficult, and i'd like to have you think back to 1997, when this general order was last updated. think about all the advancements in technology and changes in search and seizure law that occurred over the last 24 years. kids weren't walking around on cell phones, social networking sites didn't exist. we still had pagers and pay phones. no one had video cameras on

their houses. people had to develop film if they wanted photos from their family vacation, and the internet was still on dial up. so as we worked to bring this general order out of the stone age, our main focused areas were no knock search warrants, the reporters shield law, california privacy act, the internal and external review process, and internal policies related to this general order. i and cara lacey are prepared to answer any questions that you have on this general order, and thank you. >> president cohen: thank you. i don't see any -- oh, here we go. hold on. commissioner elias, commissioner byrnes, commissioner yee.

>> vice president elias: thank you, president cohen. thank you to all that worked on this d.g.o. there were a few additions or suggestions that i wanted to make to the d.g.o. i reviewed them with the chief, so i don't know if, chief, you want to go over them because i think we're pretty much in agreement with some of the additions or how the best way to approach this would be. >> yeah. commissioner, if you don't mind, i can go over them, and if i miss anything, if you can help me out? >> vice president elias: yeah, sure, great. >> okay. president cohen, is that okay? >> president cohen: absolutely. >> okay. thank you. so as commissioner elias or vice president elias said, we talked this afternoon, and i'll just go over, i think there are a total of four modifications on the language. the first one being on page 4,

and it's under section c, that [inaudible] of a witness-victim or informant including bias. the recommendation is to include language in that bullet point or financial compensation provided by law enforcement or district attorney's office in connection with the search warrant. so in other words, the thought process behind this is there's an informant receiving compensation, a person receiving compensation for information, that that information should be disclosed to the magistrate who this warrant is being presented to.

>> okay. the second modification is on page 5, under section g, and that is [inaudible] shall be documented in the chronological of investigation [inaudible] is the name of the lieutenant who authorized exigency [inaudible] or an incident report. i'm sorry. and on the -- at the end of that, change the or to and, an

incident report, if applicable. the next one is on page 6, under 5.16.05. it's in section b. at the end of that paragraph, two modifications. change the member should to member shall still make a reasonable effort to announce their identity in person. and then, also add officers shall document such necessity to the chronological investigation if applicable. so this addition is just to

document the reason for the deviation from not noticing the chronological in the incident report, which is [inaudible] consistent with the other changes. and that is the issue -- president elias, did i miss it? was that correct? >> vice president elias: just so my fellow commissioners and the public know, the changes

that i had suggested and the chief agreed, and he had some changes, as well, is an effort to really be consistent with what our prior practice has been and what we're going to continue to do, which is kwoempl conforms with our basis, which is consistent with 503 and 501, so that's the reasoning behind these recommendations. >> president cohen: thank you. all right, colleagues. commissioner byrne, i think i saw your hand next. >> yeah. i wasn't aware that

commissioner elias had gone through it; so i'll pass on that. >> president cohen: okay. thank you. commissioner yee? >> commissioner yee: yeah, i'll pass, too. but i had one question, i guess, regarding the search warrant and regarding the amount of time for retraining, how much time will be allotted, if they have any idea, i guess, once we go through this legal brief? just want to make sure that all of our officers are up to date

on it, and there's some substantial changes on it, and it's very overdue. >> thank you, commissioner. i can answer that question. what we've asked for on d.g.o.s being significant, is the amount of time has been changed to 90 days. there's a lot of training coming down, so time to prepare this in the midst of everything else that's coming down, so 90 days after the process of meet-and-confer is what we're asking for from the commission, if we could have the 90-day period to set up the training schedule and have that in order so we bring this in the right way, which our members are

clamoring for training. >> vice president elias: so sorry, chief. one of the other things that i just realized, page 4, where it says or financial compensation, can we add or benefit. sometimes confidential informants aren't given financial benefit, but it's housing or other things that are being provided. i think if we say compensation or benefit, that's it.

we can say or any compensation, just take out financial. >> yeah, any compensation, whether financial or otherwise. >> vice president elias: okay. that's good. >> financial compensation or incentive. >> vice president elias: that's better. i think we have to figure this out so we can vote on it. >> the concern that i have is victims of crime often receive compensation and benefits from the victims compensation board that's done through the district attorney's office and our members would have no knowledge of this, and this puts a burden on them or a responsibility on them to disclose information as it relates to victims and benefits they might receive from the victims compensation board if they're not clear that we're

talking fully about informants. >> vice president elias: well, that's discloseable any ways. >> we wouldn't know about that if we're writing a search warrant. >> vice president elias: well, wouldn't they receive that after the fact, and wouldn't an officer want to know if they're receiving some incentive when he's taking the information that he needs in order to author a search warrant? wouldn't he want to know what kind of person he's interviewing, if they're a victim or informant and if there's any bias or anything that could effect -- [please stand by]

that don't go to credibility o testimony . these are victim assistance programs. so perhaps maybe language that calls out those type of victim assistance programs are

expected. i thinkthat's what the spirit of this was . not for that butfor the other day .information often times leads to search warrants and dispositions on cases. >> let me ask camera, the concerns of yourexpressing , thethought process . does it merely reflect your concern or have you flirted with other attorneys or folks that are also looking at this presentation ? not legislation butddo . >> i heard these additions for the first time also. they don't know if captain ahearn was familiar with homicide where we could see these situations unfold wants to weigh inon it also . i think we all agree that

certainly any benefit or payment of an informant is receiving for providing any information is absolutely exculpatory information that needs to be included in a warrants . i am in complete agreement that information should be included as some of these examples . i just worry about sort of these other, when were talking about victims compensation us not knowing about the information necessarily having an obligation toinclude information we might not know . >> one of the things i thought was important that we have this discussion in public about the ddo, we are a policy keeping body so it's clearly important. i know that commissioner elias spoke to the chief already and i asked her, asked the chief to

have that conversation in full disclosure for the public assumption and i know this is the first time you'rehearing all this . what i'm going to propose is perhaps we people are not comfortable voting on it right now and perhaps with this language we arediscussing , we can sit on it a little bit, anotherweek . fine tune and commissioner elias, i look to you as well for yourleadership on this . we can schedule it for a vote next week. that would allow commissioner hamasaki an opportunity toshare some of his thoughts on the legislation or if people are ready to , we can also put it to a vote but i wanted to you know, have full disclosure and get the conversation going for the record, knows where our options are. how are people feeling? are you guys ready to vote today?

>> it i could because i want to give miss lacey an opportunity to go over this language because we really do want to be right. friday when theschedule came out it's the first time i had looked at it . i know it was a little late to talk to the g soi don't want to jam anybody up . i hate putting things over but i think that again, we want to get the language right and my intention is that i think we're all on the same page with respect to the informants and if there's any benefit they are receiving obviously it be documented in the report. my votewould be to put it to a vote next week if you're okay with that and your staff . >> i think that what stacy brought up i think there needs to be broader language.

everybody agreeswith the intent on this . i don't think the intent was to disclose victims who get what they're entitled to. pacifically for what we talked about commissioner so i would like to move this forward. it seems to me 2 years in the making and i know there's a sense of urgency but 2 years in the making is very thoughtful. i'd really like to movethis forward because we got a lot on our plate and other policies waiting for the commission to approve . >> i'm fine either way >> . >> presidentcohen: how are you guys feeling ? >> what language are we going to useabout these benefits ? because if we're voting that's something we need to know. >> presidentcohen: we are sniffing it out now . they're probablyworking on it right now .

>> i realized miss lacey that what will ease your concern is if you look at paragraph eight it talks about a good faith mistake and the penalty that the affidavit is sign so your concern as to what was known by the office of the time of writing areaddressed in paragraph a . i don't think that language is going to cause any concern . i think it should ease your concern so i think it would be okay to have this language is for any compensationprovided by any law enforcement agency. that would be my suggested language . >> i would respectfully disagree. i think that exception fromthe attorneys should be clearly pointed out . it clearly doesn't go to, it really doesn't go to the bias

of thesearch warrant . any victim can getit . that should beenumerated . that specific, and then i agree with you mister president that the first part should get the other stuff in it. [inaudible] the victims restitution fund obviously should beexcluded . i don't see any point in ... in other wordsi agree with miss lacey . >> president cohen: okay. i want to interject also for the consideration and that is allowing the assistant chief to sign off on the ddo as opposed to ... instead of a commander

and anevent she . it would be good to change the approvalto assistant chief of operations as opposed to a commander and adeputy chief . i don't think that's controversial . >> on page 6, first paragraph . >>president cohen: that's right. does that seem unreasonable ? >> that's good because no knock warrants are something ... >> president cohen: it deserve a certain level of attention . chief, how do youfeel ? >> that's a good move. >> president cohen: okay. >> so on the other, if we can go back to page 4.

how do you all feel about language such as information that the informant is receiving any benefits that includes consideration oncases or money or any benefits or information ? hello? what happened tocindy ? >> i think we lost her. >> your back. >> say it again? okay. we've also got a weak signal. chief, could you repeat?

okay. >> so that sentence would be the suggestion is information that an informant is receiving any benefit including consideration incases, money or any benefits for information . >> what i think that my suggestion is that it just says information that an informant received any benefit or information including consideration on a case or financial benefit. because i think we want to encompass that sometimes informants might receive consideration and sometimes they might receive money so we want to be clear that we're talking about both of those situations. >> i thinkcynthia is frozen there but that's a good point .

>> as commissioner elias said, let's go ahead and look atdiana rothstein . i think she's got something to contribute . >> i wanted to point out that section is actually a list of examplesof exculpatoryevidence . it is not definitive . it is not close, it's just examples. i don't think there should be any concerns because it just gives you examples of situations where officers should be mindful of the type of information they put into a search warrant affidavit that a judge is going to need and use in order to assess credibility. the list is notadoptive . there's 1 million situations that occur in everyday life that may end up in a search warrant, that should end up in a search warrant and nobody's at fault. so i think that youguys are ,

it's an important conversation to have be mindful of the fact that that list is just examples of situations that should be considered and it's not exhaustive. >> president cohen: okay. any feedback or comments? >> i agree. >> president cohen:okay, i agreed to .the mission or lis . >> i agree. >> sorry, i had to log back in, inoticed that . >> president cohen: if we lose you we lose for a period any further thoughts? i want to move this along. >> can you review the language

and diane has made a point this is not an exhaustive listof examples . but i know that's a point that wediscussed or discussed as important . you and other commissioners so carol, could you suggest language at that point and i'm comfortablewith if the commission is i'm definitely comfortable with it . >> thank you chief.my suggested language is a new bullet point that says information that an informant received any benefits for information including consideration on a case or a financial benefit because those are the 2 main areas where people receive assistance. >> what abouthousing ? >> i guess i didn'thear the last part, could you be the last part ?

>> we could say information and informant received a benefit forinformation including but not limited to consideration on a case for financial benefit . i would through training ensure that our members are well aware housing is a financial benefit. >> for some leniency towards their set sentence. >> that would be consideration on a case. >> that works. >> presidentcohen: looks like we're getting there. we're getting some agreement . ahern, lacey, are you getting allthese notes ? do we need to give you 10 minutes to get everything finalized we can take a break here ?>> it's up to you presidents: >> president cohen: i am here to serve. >> you have information correct

from my previous email regardingthese changes . i think president cohen is asking if we can make the changes and submit it so they can see the finished product. >> president cohen: that's exactly right. >> i thought there was a mystical theory out there making all these changes but it's not, it's just us. i mean, you. >> i might need to work with the commission office because i'm not sure that i have an electronic version of the document that weare submitting . >> president cohen: no problem. we're going to take a 10 minute recess. allowing you to connect with the commission office and we will check back in and see how the progress is going. everyone, 10 minutes so we'll see you at 7:30. goodbye.♪

♪ >> as it relates to the ♪ ♪ informant and exculpatory information and now says it information and informant receives any benefit, consideration or compensation . >> thank you . >> president: if i could ask miss lacey to just readoff the changes . carol, do youhappen to . >> do you still have them? it might be easier for you, just because my version has the full redline version so it's hard for me to see exactly where. >> okay.

>> do you want me to do it or doyou have ? >> you can do it. i don't think you sent to me and i want to read some of the documents commissioner elias if you could do it. >> i thinksergeant youngblood is sending it to you . >> i have, i'm looking at the redline version that was just emailed . it shows the change in section 5.160.3, subsection b. oh .2, reads information and informant received any benefit, consideration or compensation. that's change one. change 2 is section g. subsection 1. it's the last sentence. now reads the name of the lieutenant who authorized direct submission and reason for the exigency shall be documented in a chronological

investigation and an incident report if applicable. the next section and i apologize, i don't have page numbers because there's no electronic form . 5.1604, subsectiona . the second to the last paragraph of that section, the last sentence of the second paragraph to the last section will now be additionally an assistant chief approval is required prior to the service of theauthorized no knock warrant . the next change i have is section 5.1 6.05, subsection b. shall read the last session shall be members shall make reasonable efforts to announce their identity inperson . members shall document such a

necessity in the chronological investigation if an incident report is applicable. the next change is in section e 2. the first sentence shall read members shall provide a copy of a search warrant excluding the affidavit 2 that lists the three. in that same section the last sentence of that section shall be changed to reflect the following. if a search warrant is not provided the reasons for withholding shall be documented inthe chronological investigation and incident report if applicable . and i think that was it. that's all thechanges that i see. does that work ?>> yes ma'am. >> i'm glad we were able to

read the changes intothe record prior to the vote . i don'twant to delay this anymore . do we all concurwith the changes ? >> president cohen: okay. let's takepublic comment on this item and we will take a vote . thank you the attorneys who worked hard quickly to make this happen. >> clerk: if you'd like to make public comment at this time, please dial star 6 and madam president, note for the record i do not see commissioner hamasaki online but we still do stillhave his phone . >> president cohen: thank you. >> clerk: we have a caller for public comment. you have 2 minutes. >> caller: thank you police commissioners . i'm calling to ask that policy for search warrants not be

decided in such a rush where literally no one final version that can be taken to a vote and be negotiated with sfpoa. they've chosen to not behave honorably in regards to warrants and they have some specific desires to close on population so as we're looking to be a fair-minded city and it's concerning, one of our primary rights, i think there is time to take a moment and consider outside commentary and that at least get a version together that everyone understands and can see and is hopefully in my mind public and available for a more robust public comment than this short commentary. i think that the search warrant

policy is very important to our city and i would hope to see such collars and commenters as the aclu or the local protection and rights groups on this call and part of this conversation and that's clearly not the case . so while i see every one of these commissioners, then they don't know what the changes in policy are, i'm certain the aclu doesn't understand what changes you'remaking to our city . i'm asking you to reach a more robust public comment and slow walk what is in my opinion probably adestructive event to limit our rights . >> clerk: thank youcaller . that evening caller. you have 2minutes . >> caller: chief scott, executive director henderson,

thank you to brian cox and i'd like to call out despite the rhetoric about militarization as fpd seeks to engage in military like tactics. this authorizes sfpd to execute no knockwarrants . these warrants are dangerous and disproportionatelytarget black and brown people . as the most recent victim was murdered by cops lightly firing into her apartment. many jurisdictions have banned and republicans as you propose legislation to do the same . no knock relics of the war on drugs i appreciate the vga authorizes them for the preservation of evidence but sfpd must seek other means to collect evidence that by scaring innocent people and creating dangerous conditions . it's clear they will dothis on their own .the commission should exercise its power.

i'm calling on the commissioner to vote no on this dgo and provide additional time to consider this sothe public has a greater opportunity to review the changes proposed here tonight . >> clerk: thank you caller. good evening caller, you have 2 minutes. >> caller: thank you. good evening everyone, my name is danielle harris i'm managing attorney for the integrity of san francisco publicdefender's office and i appreciate all the hard work i know must have gone into drafting this new proposed order . but i have various concerns. i am concerned as someone who has litigated many, many search warrants over my 22 years as a public defender, i have serious concerns about the legal actress accuracy of parts of this order.

i understand and sympathize this consideration has been underway for 2 years but we have had it for less than three full business days and are asking for additional time to evaluate it. it is dense and an additional week or two is not a lot to ask. i also have concerns as did th previous caller about the procedure being followed here tonight . i'm not certain can be considered fair notice to the public where changes are made during this very meeting on which the vote is taken. i would urge the procedure that president cohen andvice president lis suggested , that this be delayed for at least one week so that all concerned parties can have a chanceto substantivelyweigh in . thank you . >> clerk: thank youcaller .

president cohen,that includes public comment . >> president cohen: all right. okay, so i'm prepared to vote today. this has been atwo-year process . i am not feeling the request to delay for one more week but if other commissioners want to delay, i will support that and we can let the members of the public comb through the dgo. i'm open to it however i think the process has been thorough . it'sbeen 2 years . there's been a lot of odds on this and i will also see you, commissioner elias.

i think you've been the one working on this for the longest amount of time. i've only been working on this last year . also for the record the dgo has been posted since august 5. so the general public has had more than a month to review. and the changes that we made today in my opinion arevery slight . not substantive in changing the nature of it but those are my thoughts and opinions. i wanted to seewhat the overall commission thinks .i think for the record we just posted the new changes to the changes our lives in addition to commissionerelias reading them into the record . any thoughts? if not i will call the vote.

>> i agree with you in almost all you say but it's been plenty of times but we have to give the appearance as well as substantial. i can understand audience members calling and it appears rushed. i don't like to dispute the chief but i think that for the appearance be done correctly. it's not just the substance. it's also in the hearing tonight, some people cansubmit questions . >> president cohen: any other comments? no? commissioner, can you take a motion to continue this item in one weeks time and mark. >> clerk: so they. >> president cohen: is there a

second ? second and by commissionerelias . p please be prepared to vote o it next week next item . >> clerk: president cohen, we need to vote on the motion. >> president cohen: you're right. sorry, i was thinking ... okay. emotion has been made and seconded. >> clerk: on motion to continue the matter on search warrants, commissioner byrne. [roll call vote] president cohen, you have 4 yeses.

>> president cohen: thank you to the chief as well and also to thecommissioners thatworked on this . we will pick this item back up quickly next week sergeant , what's next on the agenda ? >> clerk: line item 7, adjournment. >> president cohen: can we take public comment onadjournment ? >> clerk: know we do not. >>president cohen: iknow, it's a joke .we are adjourned . thank you verymuch. see you next wit.

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getting in. so anyway, it was interesting to see the extra burdens that our system poses for people who may be in a wheelchair or using a walker or a cane and i think that needs to be foremost in our minds as we think about how to make our system work for everybody. thank you to the transit rider's union for getting us here after two years. thank you. it's been a rough couple of years, but i do want to just express my heart felt gratitude to the staff of m.t.a., the staff of the transportation authority, the operators, all the workers who have gone so far above and beyond over this last year and a half for operators getting on those buses and those trains at a time when it was not entirely clear what kinds of risks that might pose to your health when people were dying and like

chicago dying in and getting sick in terrible numbers. it was a very scary time and yet people showed up to work, kept our transportation system moving and we were able to radically in a matter of days transform a system that we had, you know, come to rely on into an emergency system that got our essential workers back and forth to prioritize equity and i'm proud of that. i think our m.t.a. has been recognized nationally for the changes it made in those early days and putting equity first and i think that's something that they can be proud of. as we approach what we hope will be the end of the pandemic, it is clear that we are not out of the woods. many of us, all of us i think are very concerned about the notion that we might be aiming at 85% of the service that we

had prior to the pandemic. i think all of us agree that the service we had prior to the pandemic was actually not adequate to the needs of san franciscans, much less the needs of the additional san franciscans that will be coming to address our affordability crisis. so 85% is not enough and, for me, and i think for all of my colleagues, a very high priority for the next year is going to be figuring out how to get the revenue that the m.t.a. needs to make sure that we are not aiming at worse service than we had before, but are aiming at better service than we had before. and that has been imperative for all the reasons we all know. it is the right thing to do for equity. everyone should be able to get around this city without a car, but it is also an environmental imperative as smoke is filling our airs -- is filling our air

and as we face a global climate crisis, we have to get people out of their cars. so, this is a -- an exciting thing to be back. i love this. i love this event. i love that we're doing a month this year rather than just a week, and, with that, i want to introduce someone as a friend who i worked with and thank you so much, cat carter. >> thank you, supervisor and chair mandelman. what a beautiful day for a muni ride. we keep having these beautiful days for our ride arounds in transit month. thank you all so much for being here. thank you all who did the ride along and leaving a good example. i want to quickly introduce our colleague, who worked tirelessly to pull this all together and coordinate everything.

he's been doing amazing work and he'll be up here a little later. we talk a lot ant our transit first policy and i think we all continue to fall short of that ideal. it's really past time to take our transit first policy seriously. we need to make transit the first choice for people to get around meaning more and better service that's fast, reliable, clean, easy to use and safe. we need to put riders first. we have no more time to waste as supervisor mandelman was just saying, the climate emergency is here. mount shasta has no snow for the first time. fires are causing massive damage across our country. before the pandemic, muni served over 700,000 daily trips while contributing less than 1% of the city's green house gases. back in the '80s, muni served over 900,000 daily trips. we need to figure out how to

get that many people back on muni and more. we know some people face dyer services in the coming days and months, but we need to start building the future. we need -- we know street priority is necessary to do that and we know sfmta has done a pretty good job of that. we've seen them move very quickly to bring faster, more reliable service by putting transit 1 on the streets. but too many riders are still left behind. we have too much service that hasn't come back yet and we need sfmta to work quickly to improve its network. but to really put riders first, we need to grow sfts. we need to invest in it. this is going to take all of us working together. we need to build a vision of a network of fast, frequent, reliable service that connects every neighborhood that provides real accessibility. we need service that's easy and safe for all.

this is the idea behind our 30 by 30 vision to have those fast, frequent routes that travel end to end and that connect all neighborhoods. we need all our city leaders to champion the major funding muni will need. we invite you to keep setting an example. keep logging your rides at ridecontest.org all month long and tweeting your experience. and, our city leaders need all of us as riders and as voters to keep speaking up and showing up to build the future of muni that we need. thank you again for showing up and speaking up today and every day for the future of transit in san francisco. and now, zack will introduce our next speaker. >> thank you so much, cat. we're going to hear from some of our courageous supervisors who road transit today starting

with supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: good morning, transit riders. it's so great to be here with all of and my colleagues. i'm showing our collective love for transit this morning and happy transit month. i rode in this morning on the n-juda and the ride seemed a little bit smoother with fewer delays and quicker than before. so that was great to see and i believe director tumlin and m.t.a. actually have some data to back that up. so, that's been really great. as you all know, we're in a critical moment for public transit in san francisco. we can't afford to debate measures. we can't afford to be divided and we can't afford to drop the ball on delivering the service or go back and forth on the

world class transit system that's needed and deserved. we need to put our money where our mouth is. that means we need new revenue. we need to make sure every san francisco voter knows what's at stake. we can't go backwards for our climate, for vision 0, for a more livable city and planet and we have to go forward. we need more service not less. more revenue not less. more lines not less. and let's give three car trains on the njuda. let's bring bar to the west side. and, sure, let's tax the rich to fund the bus. and, we need to have the vision to ultimately create fair, free public transit in san francisco because we know every dollar invested and spent on transit pays dividends for our economic recovery, for economic mobility, for our public health and the quality of air we

breathe and for combatting climate change and cutting our city's single largest source of green house gas. mobility is a human right and public good in reliable, fast, fully funded and ultimately free transit is a north star we all should be working for. let's get the basics right, let's dream big and let's deliver. thank you again, transit riders. thanks to m.t.a. and t.t.a. and just all of the passionate transit advocates in our city and my colleagues and i were with you and we're going to keep pushing forward to create the transit system san franciscans need and deserve. >> thank you, supervisor mar. now i'm thrilled to introduce san francisco's very own mayor. mayor london breed. >> thank you. well, good morning everybody. i am so excited to be here with all of you to really kick off transit month in san francisco

and, first, i want to take this opportunity to thank all of the transit drivers, all of our operators, the sfmta staff and many of the folks who during this pandemic were essential workers because we knew that during the pandemic, so many people would rely on public transportation and there was a lot of concern about whether or not it would be safe and i've really got to send a shout out to jeff tumlin and the work he did to make sure we were cleaning the buses on a more regular basis and, yes, they have been cleaned on a more regular basis that we were supporting our drivers and the transit riders union, i want to thank you for raising money for masks and ppe for many of our drivers especially because we saw really high rates of covid with a number of our drivers and you stepped in, you supported them and that's what this city is all about. we know how important public

transportation is. we don't want to go back to the days when i used to catch the bus in high school and junior high. we would always just look this way, look that way, is it coming? we've got to start walking? are we going to be late to school? well, we are new and improved. we have a lot of work to do and part of what the sfmta is trying to do as we speak is to make the system more reliable. make it more efficient. we know what we need, we know it's been very challenging to deliver to san franciscans the service that this city deserves because we're saying take public transit, but we also have to make sure that it's reliable, that it's safe, that it's clean and it's exactly what it needs to be in order to serve what is a world class city especially as we recover. i want to thank each and every one of you today and i'll see

some of you on muni. i've been on muni in this pandemic in disguise because i didn't want folks to bother me when i'm trying to get from point a to point b. every time. i end up missing my stop. so hopefully i'll see you out there on muni this month. thank you all so much for being here. >> hello, good morning everyone. i'll just be the bearer of all good news. like every year, i rode the 49 to city hall. it was fantastic the ride. it was quick and efficient. we got here within 15 minutes or so. it was incredible. and, that's how lucky we are to have a world class transit

system. we're just simply not going to be able to maintain and make it better. that is definitely a priority for me and for all of my colleagues on the board of supervisors and i am sorry that i have to leave early, but i have a very good reason that fits into transit month. i am a representative on m.t.c., the metropolitan commission. so congratulations. please get back on muni. it is safe. it is reliable. it is clean. can't wait to see you on the bus. take care. >> thank you, supervisor ronen. so, we have a couple more supervisors coming up. i'm thrilled to introduce supervisor chan from district

1. >> supervisor chan: good morning, transit riders. it's good to be here today. i came to san francisco's chinatown when i was 13 years old. i went to galleio high school and the 30 stop was my jam. that was great. i went to u.c. davis, but still used public transit. greyhound and m-track and then when i came back to work to the city, it was getting a little harder. but my first gig in city hall as an aide, i was still living in chinatown and i had the best ride to work. it was on cable car and it was awesome. i love public transit, but at the same time, you know, as my work got more demanding, life was a little bit more demanding, you know, riding around, bus hopping was not easy and for any of you who've done bus hopping in san francisco, you know it takes some time.

if you miss that transfer, you know what, you can just get a lot of anxiety going on in you waiting for that next bus. so i know that means we need to do better with our public transit. you know, today as a supervisor representing district 1, prepandemic in the richmond, we have one of the highest ridership with 38. 60,000 riders, one direction every day. let's bring back to that level and that's what we need to do and because we know that public transit is public good and we ought to fund it like it is. you know what, i want to also give a shout out to carina chan here from china town trip. she reminded me if any of you have known that her interview with ktvu recently, she reminded me that transit equity

is social, economic, and racial equity. let's remember that. happy transit month. >> supervisor stefani: good morning everybody. i am catherine stefani supervisor for district 2. i want to thank everyone for all their work on transportation and to the transit riders. thank you for continuing to call attention to this extremely important issue. i see my neighbor steven chun who now works for the sfmta and it's so great. i have a family of four. i have two kids. we took it right to the giants game. it was safe. it was reliable. it was frequent. we want it to be reliable. we want it to be frequent and we are very lucky we had that

experience the other day. this morning, i rode the 49 in. and, again, it was an easy thing to do. but, i do want to mention something about families and transit because you cannot ignore the fact that it is very difficult for families who have kids to get around the city especially when you have two different school, two different droppoff times, sports, there's so much that families face when it comes to making sure transit can work into their lives. so let's not forget the families in san francisco. i know my former boss used to say transit first does not mean transit last. i want to thank everybody for your continued focus on transit. we are a first class city. we need a first class transit. so thank you for continuing to be here and thank you for your focus on that. happy transit month. >> hello transit riders.

i am dean preston, district five supervisor. i want to thank transit riders for putting this event on. thank everyone else for m.t.a. and all of the workers making our transit system roll even during a pandemic. this month marks my 28th anniversary as an everyday muni rider and i've just got to say, i just love public transportation, love riding the bus, and, like they say in the movie, you've got to love it to hate it. here we are. but, you know, i took my daughter today to school on muni as i always do, and i thought about the fact that it takes me an hour round trip door to door to do that. and, it would take me 20 minutes if i were to drive.

and, in too many ways, we are a car first city masquerading as a transit first city. we have to do everything possible with urgency to flip that script. and, so when i think about transit month and thank you for extending transit week to transit month so we have a whole month to celebrate transit, but, you know, i think about all the neighborhoods that i represent that continue to not have their muni lines a year and a half later. i think about district 5 families. i think about neighbors who live up on a hill who are seniors. i think of folks who have seen their muni lines suspended indefinitely with promises for the first year that their line would definitely come back and now a process in place through which their line may be permanently and forever gone. i think about how advocates and

community leaders in the tenderloin and in the filmore had to fight so hard with everything else going on in the pandemic, had to fight so hard to get the 31 balboa back and thank you for fighting that fight on behalf of everyone in san francisco. when i think about transit month, i think about the operators that continue to drive throughout the pandemic as essential workers themselves and transporting essential workers. i think of the transit operators not just here, but in new york city who continue to operate buses and subways in the middle of catastrophic flooding. i think about all the operators from muni, sam trans, and other agencies that went to help in san jose after the tragic p.t.a. shooting. when i think about transit month, i think about the riders, all of you who choose to or who must use muni and how

we as a city have not done enough for you all during this pandemic or ever in san francisco. a transit system should be based on the principles that more service leads to more rides and more riders and less service leads to fewer riders and fewer rides. that is why cutting service and cutting lines for financial savings is a death spiral for transit. we must win back transit ridership as we recover from this pandemic. and unfortunately and it saddens me to say it, right now, riders are being given nothing to fight for. and, are instead too often being asked to just accept

osterity. we must have a more robust vision that inspires people to ride muni and to support the bold funding measures that we need to take to the ballot. we need a vision that includes fair relief on a path to free muni. investment in our workers and more reliable service and not strategies that pit riders from one part of town against riders from another part of town. we need a vision of a world class public transit system for our city for generations to come. and, as supervisor mar put it so well, let's tax the wealthy to make this happen. thank you so much. next up is supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: all right. thank you, dean. i'm going to ask the easiest question that i know the answer to. who rode transit here this morning? all right. how many of you ride transit most days? all right. well, apparently, they're going to be tracking. i already looked.

there's somebody who already in september has ridden transit over 60 times, so whoever that person is, if they're here, i think their name is anthony, very impressive. you probably know this person. we are going to commit not only this month to ride transit, but to support transit and i want to thank the transit riders union. i want to thank all of my colleagues. jeff tumlin, the mayor, the m.t.a. staff. we always rode over here this morning with a guy named jason from the m.t.a. who works so hard every day 90 this system, to improve it and it has been especially challenging over the lars year and a half and i want to recognize all of them. many of the folks here are involved in supporting this system and improving it and i want to thank all of you, the m.t.a. board as well. one of the things that has been so important this past year as there have been advocates and i

see a lot of the folks standing up here who have fought for our public transportation system every single day over the last year and a half and it was under tremendous strain. other folks have said this, you know, people were scared to go on because they were worried that they might be sick, that it wasn't clean, that it was too crowded. as people stopped riding the bus and the train, lines were cut. all of that was a huge attack on what we know as one of the most essential parts of our city and people stood up and fought is to make sure it was maintained. and i especially want to recognize the folks who fought for the 31. this was a line and give it up for the return of the 31. people in the tenderloin. people who live in s.r.o.s.

families, seniors. we rode the 31 today from district 5. i went over to district 5 with dean preston and a number of folks and we rode it in and it is such a critical east west connecter for the district that i represent and i want to thank you all for fighting so hard for it. the last thing i want to say is i'm the budget chair and my colleagues told me i've been authorized to put this up and to say we are committed to funding muni, funding sfmta. happy transit month. >> supervisor melgar: thank you for being here. i'm the supervisor for district 7. we actually share a longer border with district 5 in san mateo county than with district

5 in san mateo county. i will talk about the great things we're doing. we're doing really well in terms of transit. i love muni. muni is now free for all youth thank you to my colleagues and to mayor breed for making that happen and, you know, we're committed to training and supporting a new generation of transit riders so that we can have the highest possible ridership and get people out of their cars and into public transit. that's how we solve the climate crisis is to make sure we reduce those carbon offsets and take the bus. that's what we need to do. i am an immigrant to san francisco. i came when its 12 years it cost a nickel back then and muni gave me freedom. it was a freedom that as a kid from el salvador like very few in my generation had in my country, but here, muni alloweded us to just have the

entire the world class city that is san francisco at our feet. if you haven't seen the newest marvel movie, go see it because muni is a prominent character. it's so much part of our identity. i want to thank all of you for your advocacy. t.w.u. and local transit workers who have put their lives and their families and health on the line for the rest of us. we need to keep supporting them and advancing this wonderful public good that is transit. in my district, we have city college, san francisco state, and u.c.s.f. as part of the zoo all of the organizations that rely on public transit to be healthy and expand. we want to make sure that san francisco comes back from this pandemic and public transit is the way. let's fund it. let's fund it adequately. let's pave the way for our future and our childrens' future by having a muni system that's fair, that's affordable

and that is open to all. thank you so much. sorry. i was supposed to introduce my great friend supervisor ahsha safai. >> supervisor safai: good morning everyone. supervisor safai here. in the past, i have to say and truthfully, i've been a big critic of the sfmta and a lot of that has been justified, but today i want to focus on the positive. i think within the last year, even in the midst of this pandemic, there's been a lot of improvement. there's still a lot of room to grow. there's still a lot of improvements to be made. despite all of the challenges and a virus that's spreading rapidly via air internally, our operators showed up to work. many of those operators live in my district in the excelsior,

omy and outer mission and they don't complain. i mean, they do complain, julie, i know you know that, but justifiably, they show up. and, if they have complaints, they make it known, but they still show up and do their job every single day. so i had an awesome driver today on the 14r. her name was "dee." we got from geneva and mission all the way to the inner mission and 14th. my daughter rode with me, got her to school in less than 20 minutes. it was a wonderful ride. the red lanes worked. no one was blocking us. the driver drove professionally and, you know, what, the bus was packed, but it felt safe. every single person was wearing a mask. i forgot my wallet at home. she still waited for me. i had to come back but we made

it on time and i think there has been a lot of good work done and a lot of that improvement has been the result of the advocacy of the transit riders and those that know the system intimately ride it day in and day out. so i'm very happy to say that the part of town that i represent, the essential workers have been getting up every single day to get to work, they're riding those buses. every single one of the buses was packed today. the 14r, the 14, 43, every single one of them. and thanks so supervisor melgar and her advocacy, we have the m-line coming back. that's also serving our district now. that's a really big deal. you know, the 52 excelsior's back. we are making improvements and, yes, my daughter rode for free. thank you, supervisor melgar for your advocacy and mayor breed and the rest of the board and supervisor preston for really making access for those

children and youth a high priority. so we're going to continue to celebrate it this month. we're going to continue to promote muni in any way and ridership as we can and we will invest in the right way. it also means pedestrian safety and traffic calming. so, anyway, proud to be part of this day today, proud to support this effort and i'll stand with all of you in continuing to make muni a priority. thank you. >> good morning. my name is jeffery tumlin and i'm here to say that public transit is fundamental. 47% of san francisco's green house gas emissions comes from the transport sector and public transit is the primary way we're going to make a difference with climate change. public transit is opportunity and our way to correct for past inequity. public transit is essential for

efforts to improve health and safety of our population and public transit is essential for san francisco's economic recovery after this brutal 18 months. i'm particularly grateful to all of our front line and operations crews particularly our operators who showed up to work every single day through a pandemic to make sure that essential workers could continue to get to work. i'm grateful for the incredible creativity and risk taking that all of our transit planning staff did in reinventing the muni system practically every month for nearly 18 months and i'm really proud of the achievements that they've been able to do with all of that work that they did. we're getting phenomenal speed and reliability improments on all of our core systems. yesterday, we released preliminary data that was showing 20% in speed on the

freeway. benefits that i did not think were possible and involved a tremendous amount of risk taking and creativity among our crews. i'm grateful to our traffic engineering team who has invested in designing 20 miles the in order to hold on to all the speed and reliability improvements we've gotten during covid. and i'm grateful to the operatoring crews who on our frequent lines shifted to headway management which has meant that our buses are more reliable than they've been in all of the decades than we have data to support that. i'm so grateful to our riders union who've put up with all of the changes that we've made. the stumbles that we've made, the corrections that we've made in order to try to deliver the best possible transit system despite the challenges we are facing. i'm also here to ask for your help. i think has been made clear to

all of you, muni is facing the worst financial crisis in history. we're so thankful to the government for getting us through last year and this year. what's clear from all of the data from the counselor and the controller's office is we're expecting at least another four years of huge covid related financial losses. particularly to two of our three biggest sources of revenue, parking fees and transit fares. we're going to need a lot of help to find ways to fill those gaps. we, all of us on muni staff believe that we were delivering far inadequate service back before covid. we need dramatic expansion and improment in the frequency, the number of lines, the speed, the reliability. we need a world class transit system for san francisco and we're going to need help from all of you. i'm also so grateful to all the

board of supervisors and have offered their help to find ways to fill this gap to fund mu nshgd eeushgd and to finally deliver the transit system that san francisco deserve its and need. and, with that, i'd like to introduce our sfmt academic board chair. >> thank you so much for that, jeff. i'm so grateful for our staff, the leadership of jeff tumlin in helping to reconfigure transit. our operators were essential workers and it was a really tough time for many of them as they struggled with things in their family. they showed up;, they persevered and they served this city. what was also so illuminating at that time was our riders were essential workers. in those areas where we had a lot of essential workers. i really want to thank the transit riders, you guys have

made such a large difrnts. because so many of our riders are essential workers and can't come up and show up at a hearing and testify and support the need for transit, the voice that you provide is super powerful and i'm so grateful bringing this up, celebrating for a month. we need to tell all san franciscans, public transportation is essential ask we need them to support our ultimate ballot measure which will come in the future for our funding needs. i want to thank the leadership of our board of supervisor, also our transportation authority for all committing here to support our funding in the future. it is really critical. the biggest challenge public transit has is it's not as sexy as so many other areas and it's very costly. especially to maintain the reliability and the service. we want to bring back as much service and all the lines that we can but it's crucial because covid really battered our revenue sources and we really

increasingly depend on the general funds. we don't have the advantage of generating most of our revenue but that means it's more critical that we need your support. we need all of our elected leadership, everyone in the public. the transit riders and everyone to champion us for a future that we can provide the visionary network that everyone wants and deserves and, without it, our city will struggle. i invite all of these people who've been off of transit to come back. we need you to come back to survive and thrive. i need you all to evangelize it taking muni is safe. tell them about our faster service. i live on the 14r, 49 line. i take those buses almost every single day and i have to say i've been so impressed whether it's 1:00 in the morning or

5:00 in the morning. thank you for your advocacy and let's fight together for public transit. >> thank you, director boarden. director tumlin, director chang. all the supervisors and mayor who made it out here today to celebrate transit month. and all of you who are standing in the sun for the past hour showing your commitment to a better transit future. thank you, everyone. public transit is at the core of san francisco's economic recovery. muni kept us going during the pandemic thanks to the work of the transit operators, our safety ambassadors and all our front line workers who risked their health to keep our city going. roger moranko is unable to be here today. thank you muni operators and members who kept us going

during this pandemic and keep us going today. now, more than ever, we know that muni is more than just a line on the map and more than just a yellow sign post at an intersection. it's a sense of belonging and freedom of movement it's access to education, to jobs, to all the opportunities san francisco has to offer. from the bay view to the richmond. just because i owned a fast pass. but supervisor melgar, it was $0.35 when i was a kid. it's a little bit more today we're gathered here today to celebrate transit but we also know how much further we need to go. many lines remain suspended

with their futures uncertain and sfmta doesn't have the funds it needs to invest in 21st century transit needs. i have hope to reinvest and fund a world class transit system here in san francisco. hope that when we raise our collective voices together, anything is possible. we're the people who make this city hum. the people who never stop riding during the pandemic. who know what's at stake should we fail to invest. but we're also the ones to make this change happen. in fact, we're the only ones who can. so, thank you all for gathering here today. thank you for your energy, for your spirit and for celebrating transit not this month, but every month to come for a world class transit system here in

san francisco. thank you. so that is the end of our rally and press conference. if you have not yet go to ride contest.org to sign up and track your rides this month. we're giving out prizes for winners. we have a ton of events coming up at transitmonth.org and we hope you'll join us throughout the month and going forward in the future. so if everybody can come up here for one last picture, that'd be great. thank you.

>> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own

transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change

san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway. would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new

geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines. and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach.

in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars. arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable

railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro were officially inaugurated. in that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts.

in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years. in the course of last 100 years, muni's diverse workforce forged by men and women of innovation have reflected the many cultures that flock to the city. muni's ground-breaking

antidiscrimination has guaranteed equal opportunity for all. the city's policy mandates the course for the future, as they work diligently to increase options and increase multialternatives, and deduce -- reduce the carbon footprint. it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not valencia has been a constantly evolving roadway. the first bike lanes were striped in 1999, and today is the major north and south bike route from the mission neighborhood extending from market to mission street. >> it is difficult to navigate lindsay on a daily basis, and

more specifically, during the morning and evening commute hours. >> from 2012 to 2016, there were 260 collisions on valencia and 46 of those were between vehicles and bikes. the mayor shows great leadership and she knew of the long history of collisions and the real necessity for safety improvements on the streets, so she actually directed m.t.a. to put a pilot of protected bike lanes from market to 15th on valencia street within four months time. [♪♪♪] >> valencia is one of the most used north south bike routes in san francisco. it has over 2100 cyclists on an average weekday. we promote bicycles for everyday transportation of the coalition. valencia is our mission -- fits

our mission perfectly. our members fall 20 years ago to get the first bike lane stripes. whether you are going there for restaurants, nightlife, you know , people are commuting up and down every single day. >> i have been biking down the valencia street corridor for about a decade. during that time, i have seen the emergence of ridesharing companies. >> we have people on bikes, we have people on bike share, scooters, we have people delivering food and we have uber taking folks to concerts at night. one of the main goals of the project was to improve the overall safety of the corridor, will also looking for opportunities to upgrade the bikeway. >> the most common collision that happens on valencia is actually due to double parking in the bike lane, specifically during, which is where a driver opens the door unexpectedly. >> we kept all the passengers -- the passenger levels out, which

is the white crib that we see, we double the amount of commercial curbs that you see out here. >> most people aren't actually perking on valencia, they just need to get dropped off or pick something up. >> half of the commercial loading zones are actually after 6:00 p.m., so could be used for five-minute loading later into the evening to provide more opportunities or passenger and commercial loading. >> the five minute loading zone may help in this situation, but they are not along the corridor where we need them to be. >> one of the most unique aspects of the valencia pilot is on the block between 14th street. >> we worked with a pretty big mix of people on valencia. >> on this lot, there are a few schools. all these different groups had concerns about the safety of students crossing the protected bikeway whether they are being dropped off or picked up in the morning or afternoon. to address those concerns, we installed concrete loading

islands with railings -- railings that channel -- channeled a designated crossing plane. >> we had a lot of conversations around how do you load and unload kids in the mornings and the afternoons? >> i do like the visibility of some of the design, the safety aspects of the boarding pilot for the school. >> we have painted continental crosswalks, as well as a yield piece which indicates a cyclist to give the right-of-way so they can cross the roadway. this is probably one of the most unique features. >> during the planning phase, the m.t.a. came out with three alternatives for the long term project. one is parking protected, which we see with the pilot, they also imagined a valencia street where we have two bike lanes next to one another against one side of the street. a two-way bikeway. the third option is a center running two-way bikeway, c.

would have the two bike lanes running down the center with protection on either side. >> earlier, there weren't any enter lane designs in san francisco, but i think it will be a great opportunity for san francisco to take the lead on that do so the innovative and different, something that doesn't exist already. >> with all three concepts for valencia's long-term improvement , there's a number of trade-offs ranging from parking, or what needs to be done at the intersection for signal infrastructure. when he think about extending this pilot or this still -- this design, there's a lot of different design challenges, as well as challenges when it comes to doing outreach and making sure that you are reaching out to everyone in the community. >> the pilot is great. it is a no-brainer. it is also a teaser for us. once a pilot ends, we have thrown back into the chaos of valencia street. >> what we're trying to do is incremental improvement along the corridor door. the pilot project is one of our first major improvements.

we will do an initial valuation in the spring just to get a glimpse of what is happening out here on the roadway, and to make any adjustments to the pilot as needed. this fall, we will do a more robust evaluation. by spring of 2020, we will have recommendations about long-term improvements. >> i appreciate the pilot and how quickly it went in and was built, especially with the community workshops associated with it, i really appreciated that opportunity to give input. >> we want to see valencia become a really welcoming and comfortable neighborhood street for everyone, all ages and abilities. there's a lot of benefits to protected bike lanes on valencia , it is not just for cyclists. we will see way more people biking, more people walking, we are just going to create a really friendly neighborhood street. [♪♪♪]

this board meeting is pursuant to the brown act and recent executive order issued by the government to facilitate in public meetings. ordinarily, the brown act sets strict rules for teleconferencing. the governor's order has suspended those rules. on june 11th, the governor issued an executive order determining if it is appropriate to continue suspending the normal applicable teleconferencing rules through september 30th, 2021. as noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sfgov tv and they may offer public comment by calling the public comment phone