>> it's 5:43 p.m. and attending the regularly scheduled san francisco police commission and thank you for joining us today. we have a light agenda today so let's go ahead and get started. i want to recognize commissioner vice commissioner elias and commissioner hamasaki and we have chief william scott and

director paul henderson. looks like we have a full house. excited to be here. i want to thank sf gov tv. okay. with that said, let's go ahead and get started. call roll. >> commissioner hamasaki. >> here. >> commissioner yee. >> here. >> clerk: commissioner byrne. >> here. >> vice president elias. >> here. >> have you a quorum. also here tonight we have chief william scott and director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> thank you very much. please call the first item. >> line item 1, general public comment. at this time the public is

welcome to address the commission up two minutes for items that do not appear on the agenda but within the jurisdiction of the police commission. under the rules of order either police or personnel nor commissioners are required to spond to questions by the public but may provide a response. opportunities to speak are available by calling 1-415-655-0001 and entering access code 2484-141-1745 press pound and pound again. press star 3 if you wish to make a comment. you may make public comment by e-mailing the police secretary or written comments via u.s. postal service. if you'd like to make public comment at this time please press star 3.

>> all right. let's start with the pledge of allegiance. join me in putting your hand over your hart. pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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>> commissioner: police call next item. >> item 2. >> motion to accept. >> is there a second to the motion? >> second. >> the motion has been made by commissioner elias seconded by commissioner hamasaki. before we take up the matter let's take public comment. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 2 regarding adoption of the minutes press star 3 now. >> there's no public comment. on the motion to accept the minutes how do you vote. mr. hak -- hamasaki is yes.

commissioner byrne is yes. vice president elias is yes. and president cohen is yes. have you five yeses. >> thank you. next item, please. >> line item 3 discussion. provide significant incident and planned activities and events including a brief overview of any unplanned activities or events occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. discussion the chief described will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. >> thank you, good evening, president cohen and vice president elias and directors and the public. i'm going to go a little bit out of order with my report this week. i'm going start off with the vaccination mandate information.

i know that's something we have a lot of inquiies about. as of right now, the latest is we have 118 sworn employee who's are not vaccinated. we are 61 vaccinated and there's 17 other employee who's updated their information but there were errors but had to correct information to determine the status. we have another 10 whose vaccination records have not been entered yet and all employees on some type of approved leave. in terms of the vaccination rate roughly 90% vaccination rate of our 2,100 sworn members and the 69 have taken at least one dose as they complete the vaccination

we'll be about 92.5% of the sworn members vaccinated. in term of our professional staff or non-sworn, we have 31 employees or members not vaccinated and 11 who are partially vaccinate and 16 who have to correct the information uploaded and we believe those employees have been vaccinated but need to correct their information and those for those information records have not been entered are mainly employees on some type of approved leave. the process moving forward as of midnight the numbers have been fluctuating with some uploading status and some getting the first dose. the deadline is midnight tonight

at that time any employee not fully vaccinated will not be able to work the field. administrative process will start and they'll be placed on administrative leave. an opportunity for due process hearing and eventually if everything continues with the due process hearings result as they are now, if we find the employee is not complying with the health order and department directives they'll be sent to the police commission for a non-disciplinary hearing for release from employment. that's where we stand right now. the numbers are changing. the employees have until midnight to update the vaccination status and tomorrow we'll have a full picture of where we stand with what i shared with you. that's the process and where we

stand and we'll see what happens from here. switching to statistics and crime statistics. homicide we're still at an incline and 39 last year and we have a 13% increase. the majority those homicides are arms related. and i'll get to that in terms of race and sexual assault we're at a decrease compared to 173 last year and robberies were down 5%, 1,782 compared to 1,827 last year and assaults we're up. human trafficking we're up 30% which is 26 year to date compared to 20 at this time last year. total violent crimes 3%

increase, 3, 382 compared to 3,274 last year. and i'll start with the bad news our larceny and thefts are continuing to increase. we have an increase last week. we have 21,872 larceny thefts including car break-ins and store theft and grand theft and that's compared to 20,254 last year. in terms of burglaries and motor vehicle thefts we are in the negative. burglary better news than a short time ago. we show a percentage point decrease 5,682 burglaries year to date compared to 5,714 last year and motor vehicle deaths

decreased to 4, 481 year to date and 5,020 last year which is inconsistent with the national trend. our arson up 9%, 269 year to date compared to 246 the years. in terms of our auto burglaries themselves we're up 26% compared to last year from when we look at 2019 comparison year to date we're down 26% when we look at 2018, year to date comparison we're down 29%. and in terms of our gun violence we have aggregated assault, a 23% increase from this point last year. we look at other assaults.

personal bodily weapons, etcetera we're up 19% for those types of assaults 525 compared to 442 and assault with knives or cutting instruments we're down 14% year to date, 213 compared to 249. other dangerous weapons we're up 8%. 834 compared to 773. our arm related gun violence shows a significant increase which the good news is the pace has slowed over the year. the course of this year but we're still significantly above where we were this time last year. we have 172 victims of gun violence compared to 114 year to date this time last year. in terms of our homicides as i mentioned the majority of our 43 homicides are gun related and fire related.

in terms of our shooting victims, there are 119 non-fatal shoot compared to 91 which say 53% point increase. the stations the most impacted by our uptake in shooting gun related violence are tenderloin, mission and bay view. tenderloin is the largest increase, 34 year to date compared to 18 incidents followed by mission 28 year to date incidents compared to 13 this time last year and bay view, 46 compared to 40. central is even and richmond is actually below where they were this time last year. they have zero this year and had one last year and southern is up from 3 to 8 this year.

homicide by district. bay view district has 12 which is the highest of the 10 district stations. tenderloin has 9, mission has 8, northern has 6 and park has 3 and southern has 5, year to date. with the exception of the tenderloin they're were that were last year but tenderloin is down by one this from this time last year. we are at 115 year to date and again at the pace we're going we'll probably eclipse the number of 164. we had significant impactful arrests this week involving some. there was a homicide suspect who

committed a homicide outside of san francisco but related in a gun related incident in san francisco and was arrest our community violence reduction team in the east bay. as many as six firearms were recovered with a subsequent search warrant including an assault rifle and we do believe that individual was involved in some of our gun violence and good investigation and search warrant in terms of getting the weapons off the street. in talk about hate crimes where we are year to date. we've had 99 hate crimes year to date. anti-asian crimes lead with 56 of the 99. of those it's important to note that 30 were committed by one individual. that individual was arrested and those charges were filed by the district attorney's office which

by last check that person's still in custody. six were anti-latino, seven were antiish -- anti-jewish and one was anti-muslim and 11 of the 99 were anti-gay. we still are our community liaison units to assist those people and their families who have been involved in hate crimes. they have assisted with year to date over 150 including the 99 hate crimes but other significant crimes as well so that's been a great resource to assist the families in need after they suffered either a hate crime or other type of serious crime. in terms of significant incident there's one homicide to report for this week. the data and the incident happened on october 8.

the death was declared on october 9 our medical examiner office and they responded to a call in the area of 25th street and south van ness avenue for a report of an aggravated assault by means of a fire and the paramedics treated a victim and he said he was asleep in his sleeping bag on the street when he awoke to the sleeping bag being set on fire. the victim sustain burns and was transported to a local hospital for treatment. saturday october 9 the victim succumbed to his injury varlt as a result of the incident and the homicide investigators are investigating and we are asking for the public's assistance on

this particular incident. this is a heinous crime. if anyone has information call 415-575-4444. you can remain anonymous but we need it the public's help. there were also two shooting incidents. one october 6 at 11:00 a.m. in the bay view at watchman and missouri. our officers responded to the hospital regarding a stabbing weapon a male 51 years old. it was later determined from the medical personnel this was a shooting not a stabbing. the victim did not provide any helpful information to officers but the officers were able to locate a crime scene and found video footage depicting that incident and that is being reviewed. a few moments later a subject

believed to be involved was seen -- when the video was reviewed, the subject that was believed to be involved was seen returning to the scene of the incident and collapsed at the rear of a vehicle. that appeared to be the same victim who we visited at the hospital and that person was transported by private party to the hospital so we are looking for witnesses. there were people that were in the area that we believe have information so again if anyone has any information call 415-575-4444. the next one was october 10 at 2:42 p.m. on 1200 block of treat in the mission district. victim a male 36 years old as garfield park when she was approached by an unknown person who pointed a gun at him and fired the gun once. the victim walked to 25th and

treat and asked a bystander to call an ambulance and went unconscious but before going unconscious was able to provide the first name of the believed to be suspect and we have some information to follow up on but if the public has information call 575-444, 415 area code. we had a shooting that occurred today outside of our reporting period but i'll report on it and hopefully we'll have more to report next week at the next week commission's meeting. this morning at or last night at 8:37 p.m. a shooting occurred in the central district when our officers arrived on the scene they located two victims with gunshot wounds and learned a third victim had been self-transported to the

hospital. all three victims had non-life-threatening injuries and there was a video that was recovered that depicted the incident and showed basically what led up to the shooting. our investigators have arrested two individuals from this incident and have been booked for the shooting. this investigation still has more work to be done. three more incidents to report. we had a series of bank robberies in the last couple weeks. we made an arrest on those bank robberies. there was one on october 4 at 10:20 at 1801 van ness a citibank. our subject entered and presented a note and threatened to shoot the teller and the

video resulted in a possible lank to another bank robbery that occurred october 1. no arrests was made that day but our investigators were able to actually follow-up on leads and made an arrest of this individual. he was arrested living on the streets in a tent and was arrested at his tent and the search warrant was also conducted which resulted in recovery of evidence is good work. and two subjecs broke into a parked vehicle. the victim gave chase to the subjects and one subject pulled out a pistol and pointed it at the victim and escaped after the victim backed off after he saw a firearm was in possession of our

suspect. the victim lost over $50,000 of camera equipment and that investigation is ongoing. we don't have arrests and can use the public's help on that one and there was one other assault at the 2500 block of mason in the central district on october 7 at 11:00 a.m. our victim 52-year-old hotel security guard had ejected the suspect out of a lobby for smoking drugs and causing a scene at this location. the subject then hit the victim two or three times and the victim fell to the ground and the subject repeatedly kicked him in the face. video was locate responding officers and investigators and that investigation is ongoing. we hope to make an arrest on that particular case as well there were no stunt driving events over the weekend which is

great given this was a holiday weekend and we usually have these types of events over the holiday weekends. there was a follow up from a previous stunt driving or side show incident where officers get a follow up investigation in the city of pittsburgh and see the vehicle from a side show or stunt driving event that took place september 18. that car was impounded and seized and has been placed on a 30-day hold adds per the ordinance passed by the board of supervisors. again, i just wanted to remind people involved in these incidents we continue to investigate even when we break these incidents up and follow up on evidence and if we can prove a vehicle was involved in these incidents in a reckless manner that is against the law we'll follow-up and seize it under the law if the law allows for that

and just because you might get away with it that night does not mean you may have gotten away from it and a want to congratulate and thank our investigators and officers that are part of our stunt driving response team because they are doing hard work to try to make this situation better in our city. our strategies will continue in the tenderloin which include high visibility presence and fixed post from marking to levenworth and our activity has been occurring and increased deployment because we were having shooting incidents and narcotics dealings throughout the night. and we are continuing our narcotics in the tenderloin area. there was a significant arrest by an individual who we

investigated and this person has been involved in some of the gun violence in the area. he has been very active in the area with violent crime and other things against the law. that person was arrested and that was a nice job to slow down violence in the last couple months in the tenderloin. in the bay view we're focussing on deterring robberies and have ongoing abatement for those issues and enforcement an addition to our foot patrol including our captain who spends time walking almost every day on foot. hats off to him for doing that and having his foot beat officers and in the mission we

increased our visibility during the playoff series between giants and dodgers. we have fixed post officers during the flea market driven by community complaints about some activities there and we have recently upped our castro and market deployment in the upper market area and castro and also additional officers on valencia street thursday to sunday night. we have a unit in that area. again, the giants will be playing this saturday. we expect that to be a capacity crowd. game five and we have officers inside and outside the event and chase has events on the 20th and

the warriors are taking on the portland trailblazers on the 15th, two days from now and on the 21st they play the los angeles clippers at chase center. no domestic terrorism or news to report and that is it for my report. thank you for the extra time, president cohen and if you have any questions, i'd be happy to answer them. >> i do have a question. thank you for addressing the home side of the homeless man that occurred last friday morning. often times we tend to focus on the problem facing the homeless population but this could be a good opportunity maybe you could share with us your strategy or what you're doing to help promote homeless safety. >> this homicide's particularly alarming. there's a couple things. because of our deployment shortages we have not been able

to do as much as work with the team as we would like and our role with that has not been enforcement at all. it's been supporting and standing by while service providers try to address the needs of our unhoused members of our city. we've had to shift some of that work to our district stations there are officers trained in that area and it does take training. we have better outcomes when officers are trained on number one, what we need in terms of collaboration with other city departments and the other thing is we're there to help. that's what the plan is. we've had to shift some of that work load to our district station and have officers trained to address the issue and will continue to do that. hopefully it's not a trend with this homicide. it's happened in a couple

southern california cities years ago where they had a number of these type of assaults on unhoused individuals. we want to not have that happen in our city. >> all right. also in your report human trafficking is up 30% compared to last year. i'm unclear how you quantify human trafficking. how do you wouldn't the cases. and if it's involving the sex industry or labor trafficking that's when we include it in our statistics. there's an element of street

activity that goes unreported. that it's not included in our statistics unless there's some type of reportable incident that arises from that. that could be sexual or labor trafficking. we don't get a lot of labor trafficking but do occasionally. >> that's all i have. thank you. do any of you have questions? john hamasaki. >> thank you, president cohen. good evening, chief. >> we had this problem last week and we have it again. we can't hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> we can barely hear you. >> i'll get my external mic next

time. can you hear me, chief? >> i can hear you. >> regarding the unhoused individual, were there no witnesses to that? was nobody around or -- what are we working with? >> we have located some evidence video evidence and trying to identify people from that. that's helpful. we have not identified any witnesses yet but there are leads that we are following up on so hopefully we can make headway with that case. >> i recall eight of concerns and i think there's a policy discussion by the police commission but one of the challenges with break up the encampments is that people stick together for safety and when people are alone they're more vulnerable to acts like this. i don't know what the answer is

but these are things the people deciding these things should consider. i'm happy to hear the earlier reports on the vaccination status. >> the total i'll break it down again and professional staff and not sworn, 118 sworn and 31 professional staff. they've gotten at least one of the doses. >> some people are taking this appropriately seriously. i think people who have not been vaccinated, are they being offered mental health or medical

counselling because it just seems irrational at this point to -- are they being counselled about this? i hate to see people just lose their jobs. >> that's a great question and thanks for asking. our behavioral science and services unit has been very busy. this was before this came up. it's been a stressful year with covid and everything going on in our city and world. they've been very busy. those services have been offered. and we have our members where they can access mental health services through the app and get to are in contact with a trained

physician if they prefer that way. >> are they given the opportunity to talk to somebody to help explain vaccinations? >> yes, sir, absolutely. we have a department physician doctor. she's been great and has been accessible. she's reached out and gone to meetings with our members and department town hall and she was available for questions and doctors from the department of public health have also been available. those physicians have been available to help answer questions and will remain available. >> sounds like the department is doing all it can to keep people informed and aware. great. thank you, chief.

>> thank you. >> vice president elias. >> welcome back. >> hi, vice president elias. thank you. >> quick question. you mention the deployment shortages and the fact we may be losing 118 officers and i'm surprised we're still doing buy busts. are these special enforcements going to continue to happen given the fact we have deployment shortages and program have awards like the cmcr training now on hold because officers had to be deployed to other areas to cover the shortages because the buy bus operations take seven to eight officers at a time. i'm wondering how that works

when we have deployment shortages in the department. >> thank you, again, good question on that. one of the plans we have in place we start the first phase of redeployment two saturdays ago and 31 officers were reassigned back to patrol assignment. once we have a final count after midnight tonight tomorrow we'll know what the numbers look like and have plans to reassign officers and some of our specialized units. narcotics is on that list and the other thing with that is we do still have significant challenges as we talked about in the tenderloin with narcotic sales and there's multiple ways to address that. issue and we'll have to make

some disappointment adjustments if we do end up losing that many officers and some specialized units maybe will temporarily shut down until we get our deployment back up. we have a list of specialized units that are on that category and have some not in the category such as marine units and protection of infrastructure and all that. no one else can do the work we do. it would be effective to see how the programs are and how they

yield. if they've been happening the past decade and we're still not solving the problem in the tenderloin we need to reassess what we're doing and figuring out if we should funnel resources to different strategies or programs. we can talk further about it. we're open to anything. we want to be effective than what we do. we want to make sure our resources are being used in the best way. definitely we have to address the issue in multiple ways and have to look at what the costs are versus the benefits. we're open to that. >> i appreciate it.

>> there are two lieu ten and thes on the list. -- lieutenants on the list. >> no captains or a bof? >> no. >> thank you. >> we'll continue with the presentation the director of the department of police accountability. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 3 the police report press star 3 now. good evening, caller have you two minutes. hello. you have two minutes.

>> i'm john jones and i'd like to give a shout out. there's evidence to the medically untrained person indicated the vaccine is an extremely risky proposition. though i'm not medically trained i'm not in the position to make recommendations for anybody else. i won't take the vaccine. thank you very much. >> good evening, i'm calling regarding my son murdered and still this case is an unsolved

homicide and there's 44 more homicides and i just left a funeral yesterday add dugan and a few others gunshot victims and dealing with the mothers there. i'm just wondering what else do we do about trying to to solve these unsolved homicide. can we put the digital information at the other precincts and find a way to get them other places like this cleared channel and dmv, motor vehicles so the perpetrators can see the victims. the perpetrators of my son are still running the streets living as if nothing happens and we talk about homicides and how many a year but the families, what about the me and the

families suffering in silence? i hear nothing being said about them or anything. i guess because i call in that's the only way i can get anything said is to call in. but half those other mothers can't do it and they're suffering. what do we do. what happens to the families that are suffering? i'm still suffering? i'm still going through it. i wait every week for this police commission to come on to bring up my son's name so at least that's the only way i'm remembering him right now. i'm remembering him but that's the only way i can get something said that feels like i'm doing something. i'm hoping there's another way we can find a way to get the justice system to find out how to solve these. >> thank you, caller. members of the public who have

any information about the thirder call the tipline at 415-575-4444. president colen, that's the end of public comment. >> thank you. let's hear the director. >> line item 4, - report on recent dpa activities, and announcements (dpa's report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. >> we're currently at 642 case have been opened and so far this year we closed 704 cases. we have currently 377 cases that are pending and open and sustained 44 cases. this time last year we sustained 39 cases. we have 29 cases who's

investigations have gone beyond a nine-month review and we have 31 cases that have been mediated so far this year. of the 29 cases that we have with ongoing investigations, 18 of those case cold cases and there are pending criminal and/or civil litigation with those cases. of the retaining cases that are pending decisions, there are 14 with the police commission and 14 as well awaiting chief decisions. and waiting on vaccination with the department and after

meetings and back and forth with staff around several of the unions in the organization are in compliance with the city practices meaning where everyone is at 100% currently. of those records today. this past week dpa took 12 cases, 14% of the cases were allegations of an officer behaving or speak in a manner unbecoming of an officer and another 14% were failing for an officer to take required action. 9% for raising issues that were outside of dpa jurisdictions and were referred to other agencies. 9% were for officers allegedly misrepresenting the truth. 9% was from an officer using

excessive force. 5% for an officer arrested and individual for an allegation of an individual arresting an individual without cause and the remaining 5% was for an officer that failed to comply allegedly with department order 507 with the rights of an onlooker for an incident. [please stand by] . .

and sf pd that was involved with the eviction with notice being given to them about drug use in specific neighborhoods. it involved a total of 22 allegations and an opportunity just to give you mash ups like that . for the week, the other thing that i had to report, and i think we got a little bit of foreshadowing last week when my esteemed colleague diana rosenstein said that i wanted to talk a little bit about auditing and i'm not going to do a whole report here but i want to give a full report and

foreshadowing for the audit. i've included it in our weekly updates so we have regular conversation and people know what's going on and what to expect with the audience . that i think that's helpful especially since our audit was award-winning for the past audit. i never going to not mention that . but i wanted to tell you about the audit that's forthcoming and this is just two things i wanted to report. the audit, just so we're clear is for dg oh 8.10 which was the guideline for firstamendment activity . there are two changes i want to talk about. none of the changes would impact the information that dpa is required and will be reporting to the police commission, however we are removing some of the questions that test the police department

complying with the guidelines and i want to exchange explain that some people are aware. first of all we plan on reviewing incident reports to determine if some of the investigations required media authorizations however upon reviewing the actual report , the information in thereport can't answer the questions they are too broad and general . so instead of providing an audit finding which you can't do based on the information that's collected we will be providing a benchmark study that shows out other jurisdictions have actually upon san francisco's policy to provide more clarity to officers about when first amendment activities are relevant to the criminal investigation . and then essentially the rules that we have to provide clear guidance as to when the first amendment rules would apply. that makes it difficult if not impossible to either compare it

to other jurisdictions ordrill down if something took place or not . we can make a finding based on what's been given to us but it wouldn't make a difference and it could be compared to anything because someone else could come to a completely different conclusion because it's so broad in terms of that definition in the dgo itself. secondly, you understand i want to make sure you understand issues in terms of the compliance with dgo 8.10 because the video and photographic recording requirements were last revised in 2008. i'm just trying to explainto you what we're talking about and those guidelines , they actually predate the departments on option of body worn cameras so that's what makes it difficult to apply the guidelines to an actual audit in the way to managethe expectations of what we normally would get out of an

audit . what we will do is you still have all of the information in the audit. we will present the risks that we calculated about the police department's current video technology and you'll also get potential impact onfirst amendment activities . you're still going to get a major outcome from the audit but it's going to outline what some of the challenges are. as well as recommendations. but the other thing i wanted to make clear why we're talking about it now is i did want to waive the issue and not have to feel like the audit is going to change substantially in a way that's going todelay its production . so weare keeping the same timeline . you'll still have to audit before theend of this year . and i think we are currently in its internal quality control,

internal quality control review process and we expect to have the added conference with the police department when this final review is complete and nothing is going to change in terms of those deadlines i wanted to explain it a little bit so people understoodwhat was happening before we even get it . i think i have one other reports which is outreach work this week. and we have been working this week with the lgbtq organization, aging group and senior centers. we had presentations at all these organizations talking to broader populations, the commission of the va and sharing information about

contacting our organization to file and or make complaints as requested by those agencies. again if anyone has any questions on this call is both my chief of staff diana rosenstein and senior investigator christian crystal and the website if people want to contact us for the website is sfgov.org /eta and you can talk to contact us on the phone at 7711. that concludes my report. >> thank youdirector henderson. i had a quick question. thank you for giving us an update on the audit . i knowthis was a long time coming and the first presentation from the audit department was good but there was still a lot of work to be done . >> award-winning. >> yes, award-winning.

one question, is your audit team able to do cost-benefit analysis of the programs within the department or is that something that... >> i think i know the answer to that . i think that's a fiscal audit and those are typically done withthe controller's office . most of my people have come from the controller's office but i don't know if that is in their scale or in their scope. i know that my people came fro the office that did that . i don't know if the personnel that i have it it's within their jurisdiction or ability to do financial analysis like that, does that make sense that's the long answer . >> at least we threw it out there so it's something we can circle back on to see what the cost-benefitanalysis are assome of these ideas . maybe you could help out in that area . >> the message that i'm getting is saying that it's possible that itdepends on the scale .

>> to know. >> if you have specific details maybe we can discuss it off-line and i'm happy tosee all we can flesh some of that out . it will probably depend on how deeply you want to go and what analysis. >> we will definitely circle back, thank you somuch. my fellow commissioners do you have any questions for director henderson ? okay. all right john but only if you yell because we can't hear you. >> can you hear me okay? i'm going to ordera microphone tonight . so tonight i wanted to ask for clarification from director henderson. you mentioned that there was complaints of mass violations. our officers still required while vaccinated to comply

outdoors? ithought it was indoors or is it outdoors to ? >> i can take that one if director henderson doesn't min . it's mandated by the health order right now and when we're following health order guidance that we have to wear a mask both indoors and outdoors right now. that probably will be changing and i don't think it's changed as of today but it probably will be changing becausethis has been kind of an evolving process . >> i would maybe suggest a reminder because i thought that it had lifted. i see probably halfof the officers outdoors not wearing masks . ithought it was limited at this point . but just maybe to remind people instead of it ending up in front of dpa.

>> that's a department problem that complicates it is it changes when and if someone is carried in a vehicle or if you're in one of the offices or if it's a station going into an enclosed area either for an interview or to take a witness statement or youare in an enclosed environment . inside of a building. it doesn't even haveto be a station . >> okay. just from what i'veseen, i don't know . if it is the rule, then i'm not seeing it widely followed. but again, it's probably something that we have to remind people. >> this may answer your question that because the

complaint was made the rules will be applied to the allegation that was made, that specific incident was conforming to whatever the current rules were and are so that process was going to take place anyway just because the allegation was made. >> understood, thank you . >> president: sergeant youngblood, public comment? >> members of the public who would like to make apublic comment regarding item 4, plus star 3 now . vice president elias, we have no public comment. >> vicepresident: next item please. >> commission report discussion. commission reports will be limited to a brief discussion of activities and announcements .

commission presidents report, commissioners report and commission announcement and schedule items are identified for consideration at afuture meeting . >>. >> vice president: i'm going to startasking my fellow commissioners if they have anything to report . commissioner yee, we will start with you . >> i don'thave to much to report but i want to thank the chief and all the sfpd on this wonderful weekend we had . we had a lot of things going as the italian day parade.the first in a year. it was great weather out there and also the giants are looking forward to a game five that's coming tomorrow. the warriors and also the fleet week which was a busy time for us in the city which i'm happy to report there's no major incidents that we should be alarmed about. thank you chief and sfpd.

>> vice president: thankyou commissioner yee. commissioner hamasaki . >> i don't really have anything to report other than a few people have reached out about our discussion last week which i think we should continue to have about how the significant policy is going to bedetermined in the future . i don't know the best way to do that but i did have a couple people reach out about that . and commissioner yee noted that was wonderful. >> vice president: i think we should have a follow-up on the

agenda regarding that report and some of the information or misinformation provided to us in the public so we will obviously have to again dies that. commissioner byrne. director henderson.>> i was talking to my daughter. >>vice president:that's okay. if you can you yourself . thank you so much . commissioner byrne. >> i spoke to president: this afternoon and i've asked president: you put on the agenda for mid-november the state of policing in the tenderloin including but not limited to the continuing of open-market drugdealing . i had spoken to the chief and had one meeting with the chief that i had indicated we would meet at his schedule in early

november. and just station up the agenda item on policing in general. >> vice president: i think that's going to be a great discussion and perhaps you can join us in coming up with alternatives or solutions to the narcotics problem in the tenderloin and the cost-benefit analysis of the older tactics that are used to try and combat the narcotics use in that area so that will be i think the great transition into that area so thank you so much. i have nothing toreport this week . hopefully i'll have more to report next week and then president colin, i didn't know if you had something to report as well. >> i do. before we get to my part commissioner elias, how are thingsgoing with ddo report ?

>> we didreceive it back from cal doj . we have their comments. at this point that apartment and dpa will be meeting to discuss the recommendations from cal doj. and then after that meeting or maybe during that meeting the chief and i will have a discussion about 301 so that we can get finalized. i'm hoping we can get it for november. >> she just looked up. i'mgoing to be ambitious . wewill see . >> i have faith in us. >> i think we can get by november. i really do. >> the chief and i will have it foryou in november . >> that's good to hear, i know you had something tosay. you are too modest . i wanted to report out i have attended an invitation for assemblyman reggie jones who is assemblyman down in southern california. he is chair of the public safety committee and he's asked

to come and make a presentation aboutthe work that he's doing legislatively . he was one of the authors and persons helping to get sp to pass and this is a piece of legislation i reported on last week and the governor had signed into law and i thought it would be good to know what the public safety commission is doing that we are able to keep a watch as to what's happening across the state let alone what's happening here in our beloved city of san francisco that is more to come. sergeant youngblood i'll make a connection with you to schedule us . to make that happen and that's all i have to report on that front . thank you. >> vice president: we appreciate having legislators, and think of us as a commissio . we have the recommendations we're doing but it's important

to continue that work and keep it live and relevant itch may help with your leadership and having theselegislators come speak with us . >> i appreciate that. that means a lot because i think it is important for us not to make decisions in a vacuum maybe being knowledgeable. another thing i've been thinking about is inviting some of the bay area poa to come and talk with us. i was thinking about reaching out to our own president of san francisco poa for the commission for their thoughts on whatever they are working on to keep therelationship and information healthy . i was interested in how poa may be open in areas of the county. john worked up a little bit. i don't know if others would be interested. >> i'd love to hear from mister montessori a. he always has interesting thoughts.

>> vice president: when we were live and in person the vice president used to be at all of ourmeetings and sometimes used two of your as well, not to speak but to introduce himself >> because we're online and we are zooming . i believe we just need to be a little bit more thoughtful and holistic about ourapproach when we are making decisions . i know we talked to mister montoya and to take those online conversations and bring them online so they are able t witness and here with a little bit more transparency .that is an idea that i toyed with. it didn't seem tobe pretty well-received so i will continue to move in that direction . you guys have any other requests for people to come join to talk about public safety? i'm open to suggestions chief

and to youdirector henderson as well . if you have suggestions onwho we should be inviting . okay, ca nine we can just think about it and two kids haj and jay wagner if you can tweet some suggestions onsuggested speakers, let me know. okay folks, let's keep moving forward . >> public comment, for members of the public which would make to make public comment release press star 3 now. good eveningcaller, you have 2 minutes . >> caller: my name is john jones. i'd like to suggest the commission undertake a discussion of the open air markets of items thatappear to

be shoplifted . a tour of the 24th mission work plaza will reveal several individuals selling copious items ofmaterial which appeared to be shoplifted . we all know walgreens is regularly shutting down drug stores in san francisco and i assume other merchants are similarly afflicted . this would be something the commission to address. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you color and that is the end of public comment . >> vice president: one more thing, i wanted to talk about an order that was in the mission. it was an article that ran october 7 and it was regarding the lack of transparency,

closed doors and inaccurate announcements from the san franciscopolice department and it was an interesting conversation . i'm sure your colleagues are familiar with these press reports regarding the discussion from last week at the commission meeting. specifically it was regarding the operations of various working groups on the policy. and just to let me quote you a little bit of what the article said in case you are unfamiliar with what i'm talking about. it appears to be some confusion about the extent to which the public and critical stakeholdersincluding the department of police accountability are given access to discussions about revisions of policing policy . ". i want to say that i believe in transparency. it's one of my core values and something that i think i really

emphasizednot only by leadership on this commission but also on the board of supervisors . for the budget process i found it would bemore transparent and fair particularly to the smaller nonprofit organizations . and that transparency, that openness and full disclosure i think is critical to building and maintaining public support for anypolicy decision we make . for any policy decision that is made period. it's important to involve key stakeholders in the development of policymaking and that includes dpa and poa and the sfpd and our public commenters. the lawyers that listen to these commission meetings and since 2016 we've been involved in a top to bottom examination of policing policies through

our collaborative reform initiative. and there are points where i've been disheartened and there's been points where i've been heartened and encouraged about the consistent reports of progress. and last was in the september 15 commission meeting.we were informed that 272 collaborativ reform initiative recommendations are in substantial compliance . and or that theyare in progress . and the other tribes was external validation so substantial compliance with 87 percent , in progress was 17 percent and i think 16 percent, six percent were in external

validation. and so there's been some really good robust conversations that have been happening and confidence has been building as you seek to review these policies. the involvement of the stakeholders and the public particularly is important for a lawenforcement agency , never mind the public trust and to build credibility. i want to say going forward i think we need to be mindful of it and take extra measures to make sure that the public confidence and the policy changes are represented in the commission. with that that means we're putting together or putting forward information that is true . that has been spellcheck. it has correct grammar and is actually sound we say we are leading we need to make sure we are leading . and i just really want to stress that we are doing what we say. so perhaps we should consider including a public agenda item entitled proposed policy which

would include draft documents along with a description of the outreach. that would also address the review process that was included in the preparationof the policy document . this could be included in the meeting packet as well as new members, knowing there is at least some body of work that can be transferred so that incredibly knowledgeable people when they leave or retire they're not taking all that knowledge and wisdom withthem that there is a document, kind of a living breathing document that we can refer back to . this is just an idea. it's not an idea that i had an opportunity to discuss with my individual commissioners but i am putting it out there for th commission to think about , possibly review and even adopt if they deem it possible. i think that this agenda is

item could help ensure that stakeholders in the public are kept in the loop and keeping them in the loop also with the commissioners in the loop. there was some distorted this even in the meeting went commissioners including myself but things were moving along but when you made a phone call to staff it turns out the meetings work meeting so i want to clean up our act to make sure that we're not embarrassing ourselves and that we are producing work we can continue to beproud of . i lookforward to your suggestions and again , this is just a suggestion. i won't take it personally but i'm just trying to think of ways to be proactive and to be thoughtful about how we handle and conduct our business. that's all i'm going tosay on

that . i don't know ifthere's any additional thoughts or reactions . of course, director henderson . >> thank you so much. i think the stuff you just articulated is super important and speaks to a number of disconnects and miscommunications that have happened in the past. i've made a number of suggestions . my strong suggestion would be maybe two agenda eyes some of those suggestions or have other commissioners or the chief have suggestions about these processes to bring those forward . then we can just adopted them because i thinkthis speaks to exactly what you said . the information is silo where i'm comfortable but nobody knows where the commission is comfortable that she is

comfortable and nobody knows. itdoesn't serve the public's expectation about what the process is or how we're getting things done for giving notice to what's going to be done in the future . it makes it difficult to rely on the system when there are dark holes where information falls into or decisions that are made evenwhen they are made correctly but we don't know how to track them or gauge either wherethey're coming from , their edits forthe decision-making process . that's hard to do. anyway, that's a long way of saying that i've made suggestions . i'd love to offer that those suggestions could be presented as an agenda item to be voted on by the council were commissioned with the other suggestions that either the department or commissioners may have. >> vice president: good idea. i heard you refer to these suggestions in your talking points and remarks but to tell you the truth i have not seen them so i would love to just read them prior to hearing

about them on the commission so we can give it additional thought and be able to make those sweeps around the edges where we need to or present them as a possible agenda item and we can look at them, add them or add their own. >> i'd like to recognize chief scott. >> a lot of what you say i agree with and we have to do a better job. we have done good work. i think we have made some mistakes in terms of some of what we've done in terms of this work . so i do want to raise our hands.we definitely should be a part ofthis and want to be part of this . it's a bigger conversation. we have a very aggressive schedulewith our policy revisions . not just dgo's but manuals and everything else that's on the

plate. the more thought we put into this the better off we are so i acknowledge that we've made some mistakes and i think we can getbetter, we have gotten better but we have a long way to go . as a leader of this organization and police department i take responsibility but we are committed to being open and working with anybody who wants to be part of this process and thank you for your leadership on this issue. >> vice president: thankyou for being open to this, we will continue to walk down the staff commissioner elias . >> i also ask commission staff to post the policyschedules on our 30 day correspondence agreement . there's a list of all the gg owes that and in which water they'll be addressed and worked on. i noticed the department publishes that when they present at the cri to us . to have that list constantly

available is important so they know which digi owes are coming up, where they fall into the sequence in terms of the lineup so that they know they're more informed and i think that will be helpful because i am not even sure if it's on the department's website. for if it is, is maybe not as easily accessible but we should put it on our 30 day correspondence every month just as the public is aware that gives them more information and the ability to call in and speak on any upcoming dto or if they have others. >> all righteveryone, thank you very much . we will continue talking about this, more to come. sergeantyoungblood, could you please call the next item . actually, i think we should call the comments already ifi'm not mistaken . let's keep going. >> line item 6, discussion of possible action to authorize

the chief of police to extend the grant in the amount of 24,000 $975 from the department of homeland security adult emergency management agency. we must file new automatic identification on three responses to ensure continued and operability with the us election systems discussion and possible action . >> chief i didn't even know we had, we engaged really with the coast guard, can you tell us more about whatwe're doing , how these systems help, are there any privacy concerns? >> we have director leon but i'll talk about the operations of our marine unit.i mentioned earlier when i was i think commissioner elias was asking about questions about how we're going to deal with openers and i mentioned some units might have tobe temporarily shut down and other units that we cannot afford to

downs . the marineunit is one of them because san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water . they the bay area, there's collaboration with not only the coast guard but other departments thathave an interest inthe san francisco bay . there's a lot of medication that has to take part in that . we've had incidents, one that comes tomind that that was a very hot high-profile incident several years ago . 2018 is when the tunnel underneath thefreeway, the park tunnel was compromised because the barge landed on it . and that was the type of incident thatrequired major collaboration and communication with us and the us coast guard . we workedtogether on this in persons who are lost in the bay or at sea . there's also infrastructure protection. wehave the bridges , we have other things on the waterfront that our mutual interest so it's really a great collaborative partnership with

the us coast guard.partners . they helped us on everything from search and rescue to some of our infrastructure concerns equipment like this also helps us do that job and is one of those jobs people don't think about until there's an issue . but our members work the marine unit in their day in and day out around our city. patrolling, protecting and making sure that those waters are safe as we can make them in and within our jurisdiction. wedon't have total jurisdiction but we do have some . >> you mentioned about privacy concerns. this equipment doesn't raise any privacy concern issues. there are things that we do in the bay such as radiological detection as freighters are coming in and things like that. those are the type of assignments thatare marine

units are tasked with . they have some equipment to help with some searches and detection of waters and things like that but that type of equipment is not used to invade on anybody's civil liberties. its infrastructure type of protectionand communications equipment so we can communicate with our partners . >> thank you. any yes, commissioner byrne. >> chief, how do i put it? what service does the marine unit of the sfpd supply thatthe us coast guard doesn't ? in other words what i'm confused is is the coast guard supposed to do all this or is there an area that sfpd does that be coast guard doesn't get involved? the. >> are marine unit patrols

those areas. >> and the coast guard does no . >> they do not. >> why is that? >> if i could bring some context to what we are requesting. >> hang on one second. let me answer the commissioners question first. there are jurisdictions as far as what's considered sfpd jurisdiction. in other cities that have jurisdiction in the day. we go out to a certain point and then it becomes coast guard. we also ... >> but the code is sfpd or coast guard? >> that is sfpd. >> in case youask so the coast guard doesn't go wandering in for home runs . >> there were some significant

incidents, the mass casualty advantage . the coast guard would assist us in depending onwhat type of incident. they may have jurisdiction over it . thecruise terminals and things like that , our submarine units patrol those areas.as well as the fire departmentwho also has the marine unit to do what they do . i'm sorry, director leeann. >> for some clarification but we are requesting to commission to move on for the grant, the grant purchased three automati identifications . the purpose of this is to provide or communicate this issue for some fees to other marine vessels so that there's no maritime collisions that take place. we've found marine units we are

responsible for state and local laws outside of the jurisdiction of the us coast guard. but with this grant, primarily it's to purchase equipment that has reached the end of its useful life for everything and with this grant could help support our green units to continue our waterways and check out maritime infrastructure. if there's any questions that they have i'll be more than happy to try and. >> thank you forthe context and clarification . if you have any questions for the chief or mister young. all right. let'sgo ahead and take public comment andtake a vote . you .

>> sergeant youngblood. >> for members of the public that would like to make a comment regarding a line item 6 press dark green now. and president, it appears there is nopublic comment . >> is there a motion to direct? >> all ocean. >> motion made by commissioner byrne,seconded by commissioner elias . >> on the motion to accept the grant, commissioner how doyou vote ? >> yes. >> commissioner is yes, commissioner yee. [roll call vote] you have 5 yeses. >> vice president: that's unanimous. sergeant youngblood please call item 7. >> line item 7 public comment on all matters related to

number nine below including public comment on item 8whether to holditem 9 in closed session . please press star 3 now . and president it appears there is nopublic comment . >> thank you very much. line item 8, line item 9 in closed session, san francisco administrative code section 57.1 euro action . >> can we take public comment on that? we don't. is there a motionfor a session ? commissioner elias, is there a second? commissioner byrne. these called role. >> on the motion commissioner how do you vote for mark.

>>. [roll call vote].♪ ♪ >> all right. >> on the motion not to disclose commissioner hamasaki how do you vote? commissioner hamasaki says yes. [roll call vote] you have 5

yeses. >> this meeting isadjourned . >> good night everybody.

my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal

interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property

with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk.

i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you

don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in

law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i

may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband

who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't

hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job. if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco.

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services we provide. >> the main things i work on are rates. it is really trying to figure out how much money we need to fund our operations and maintenance and thinking how to collect the money in a way that is fair to customers and sincentives for water conservation or installing stormwater management on their property. >> i nominated erin for the many accomplishments she has provided especially for the financial sustain ability. the reality required a lot of work retooling policies, financial planning as well as many rating and charges. er ron served in the projects including update to water and sewer rates, update to 10 year

financial plan as well as setting the budget for fiscal 2019 higher 2020. >> i am pleased with working here. i feel like we have tons of work to do. it is important work. it has a direct impact on people's lives. >> she has a unique ability to get to the root cause of the issue and help develop consensus around a solution. not only is it troubleshooting what the questions are, but also coming up with what are the alternatives. >> i think a lot of the satisfaction from the job is looking back over the past few years and seeing cereal concrete change we have been -- real concrete change and that gives me pride. >> the team very much appreciates her hair color and the world of finance and accounting tends to foster

conformity and boring guys like myself. i very much admire the fact that she walks her own walk and creates her own path, and i think we all can learn a little bit from her. >> i and a principal revenue and rates analyst in the financial plannininininininininininiit.

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[sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35, construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it,

and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current

tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire

boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much

acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

>> this is the port commission for tuesday, october 12, 2021. the meeting was called to order at 2:01 p.m. item one is roll call. ms. president? >> here. >> vice president willy adams is not present today. commissioner john burton will join late. commissioner gil gilman? and -- >> present. >> thank you. >> and commissioner wuho. >> here. >> thank you, madam president, you do have a quorum. the san francisco port commission acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral land of the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of the