place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared. >> good morning and welcome to the rules committee for today,

november 1, 2021 i'm chair peskin joined by supervisor mandelman and ms. chan. our clerk has announcement? >> the board recognizes that the public access to city services is essential and invite public participations and public comment will be invited on channels or streamed or the public numbers the stream. opportunities to speak during public commentary are available by calling 1-415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2482 090 9351 then press pound and pound

again. when connected you'll hear the meeting discussion but will be in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practice is to speak clearly or slowly and turn down your video or audio and you can e-mail to the rules committee clerk if submitted by e-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. written comment may be sent to city hall. >> thank you, mr. young. could you please read the first item. >> naming the city hall press room

for barbara a. taylor] . >> thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, i won't speak about this very long because we unanimously the full board of supervisors passed a resolution urging that the city hall press room be named after the late barbara taylor the dean of the city hall press corps from the days of mayor mosconi to almost the present. she died exactly one year and one week ago today. i want to once again offer our condolences through her widower and her family and i want to thank supervisors for their

sponsorship insofar we voted to the full board for the naming of the press room. are there comments from members? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> yes, members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item call 1-415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2482 090 9351 and press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so press star 3 to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and wait until it indicates you have been unmuted to begin your comments. i believe we have one member of the public in line it speak at this time. >> first speaker, please.

>> can you hear me now? >> yes, we do. >> david papel just speaking in support. thanks again. >> seeing no other members of the public comment. public comment is closed and motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation. roll call, please. on that matter. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> next item, please.

>> 2. 211031 [administrative code - request for sheriff's services] sponsor: safai ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the sheriff to contract with private entities to provide supplemental law enforcement services. >> this is brought to you us by supervisor safai. the floor is yours. >> all right. good to see you. is supervisor safai going to join us? tell you what, sheriff, do you want to say something?

>> yes, good morning, yes. i appreciate the opportunity to talk about this. i was under the understanding supervisor safy would be here and i don't want to speak for him but i do want to say as the sheriff's office and being a part of this legislation is fully support all of us here and we also have information to share with you in regards to our preparation to carry through on this legislation and just wanted the opportunity to share that information with you, time permitting. >> you're welcomed to do that. i'm going to make a suggestion they know supervisor safai has offered some -- ah, better late than never. >> thank you, sir.

>> yeah, i'd like to say opening remark and i'm going to call the sheriff up and call up chief bill scott as well. thank you for getting this on the calendar in a timely manner. i really appreciate it. i wanted to give background and context to how we got where we are today. last year when i was running for re-election, got a lot of calls from members of my community, small business owners, merchants themselves as well as particularly seniors and they said they were seeing brazen theft in our local drug stores particularly walgreens on a scale they've never seen before. so i went down to talk to the merchants myself and check in

with them and see how things were going and seeing if what we were seeing on social media and hearing from the individuals calling was as it was described and unfortunately as i was there witnessed 10 people -- 10 walk up to the walgreens with empty bags and stood there in disbelief as one stood outside kind of monitoring and within less than two minutes they were out laughing and high-fiving and walking out with their bags full. i knew this was something that i had never seen in over two decades i've lived here in san francisco and it seemed blasent lawlessness was happening on a scale that needed to be addressed. last spring, in public services committee we had we heard from

many retailers from safeway, walgreens, the gam, cvs where one of the executives said san francisco was one of the epicenters of organized retail crime and 85% of their laws was a result of that organized retail theft. also learned that many of the people that were being used to do this crime often have many of the same issues we talk about frequently in the city, they're battling addiction, they're battling through rehab. we did a hearing on that as well. and talked about how many people that were recidivists had an underlying drug addiction that motivated us to put forward in the budget last year which we funded our therapeutic community that was abstinence based we're excited and launched and looking forward to seeing success happen

there. and these products stolen end up on secondary markets, amazon marketplace, ebay, and plea markets in the east bay and in -- flea markets and in the east bay on market and mission street. we wanted to look for a solution. we put together an organized retail crime working group where we asked chief bill scott and the sheriff and the chamber of commerce and council of district merchants and many organized labor, united food and commercial workers that represent life front line workers to join and come up with ideas. from that working group we were able to get consensus building off the success and our programs

where officers are hired on the retailer's dime to supply extra security and what we heard the demand out strips the supply of available officers for this program the pending program. we appreciate the work that chief scott has done. again, i think it's over the work we've done in the last year and commitment and focus they re-dedicated resources to the program and put a lieutenant in charge and added additional ways of monitoring the program to make sure it's being assigned not just based on where officers want to go but where the highest demand and need is based on criminal activity and the supply of those officers still falls short. that's how we were able to put forward this program together which is an expansion of having

law enforcement present and available through the 10a program is what we're calling it and allowing deputy sheriffs to be hired as well. in addition to the reducing crime we believe it will provide the presence needed to redirect people into the right rehabilitation program. i do not believe and i'm still a firm believer that we're not going incarcerate our way out of this problem. we're not going back to the time of the early '90s and '80s where we're going send people to prison but having arrest and directed into the right rehabilitation programs ste goal and the naacp was part of this working group and signed off on this legislation as well.

so that is it in essence. i can get into some details. i will say right off the bat that we took off the table and sheriff can talk about this any of the sheriffs assigned will not be allowed to carry tasers. only standard-issued equipment and we're conscious from the fiscal perspective not allowing any of the officers, sheriffs to call in stick or use their comp time and then access this program. you won't able to lack of a better word, double dip, those that's what we'll do call that out. i have amendments i think we circulated to your offices and can go after that after the sheriff is able to present and we'll call you have chief scott and let him say a few words and

then we can get into questions and public comment. if sheriff is here i'd like him to give a short presentation on san francisco deputy cans help deter commercial retail theft in the city and he and i are available for questions and we will go to chief scott after sheriff miamoto. thank you for your hard work and working with us on this and thank you to our city attorney who spent tike working with us to get the legislation right? all the individuals that gave input and feedback from the council district merchants to the union square and commercial district and benefits association, fishermen's wharf, all the members of the commercial retail crime working group that participated in vetting this and helping put this forward. thank you to my co-sponsors

already. thank you for your co-sponsorship and thank you to supervisor mar for your early co-sponsorship. thank you, sheriff, miamoto. >> again, good morning, everyone. thank you for the opportunity here. supervisor safai mentioned we've been working together, hand in hand with the police department and the community to make sure the implementation of this is going to be successful and responsive to the needs of everybody in regards to this challenge and problem we have. i do have a presentation i gave to victor. it will be we should be able to share that and if not, if you have the presentation, victor. i'll keep this short and be happy to answer any questions

that arise from the information we share right now. the legislation labelled 10a is something we feel strongly at the sheriff's office that will be a good fit to supply security to the businesses being challenged. as also mentioned the legislation is very consistent with the language of 10b and the current program we have for the police department as we have done with other things we worked together with the police department to make sure we adopt best practices. one thing unique to us and feel say strong fit especially for deputy sheriffs is currently with a lot of our contracted service we have in the community we have deputies to fixed post assignments slightly different in terms of answering calls for we have deputies used to being

at fixed post assignment being there with whoever we're contracted with. that's one thing we have done for years that fits with the 10a program. we're familiar with meeting law enforcement staffing needs as shown in the next slide. this is who we are and what we do and i'm sure you're fully aware of what the programs are about and what we have is four divisions, our field operation and custody operations division and main divisions that have operations involved with our staff and that's where the bulk of our staff are. we have a criminal investigations unit which will be well suited to work with the investigations team related to

any arrests and charges that are brought for our 10a work and our contractual commitments for law enforcement services listed here. we currently work with other departments and cities and county and a lot of are fixed post and some have to do with our field operations division but we are very well positioned to deal with this kind of challenge. special events at city hall and third-party contracted services and we work with other agencies obviously for mutual aid request. we have deputies that work for the 49er games. we've been doing it a number of years and feel the 10a would be the next step in the progression of something we already provide.

and for those not familiar with the training our deputy sheriffs have, i want to highlight training in terms of being a peace officer is consistent with post standard basic training. we're also mandated to have additional training because we deal with incarcerated justice involved persons. we have additional training depp deputy mandated to take and our advanced training every year we train them at a minimum of 24 annual hours for basic continued professional training like skills or range time or defensive tactic. we training our people up for 48 hours a year instead of the required 40 hours and in addition to the training program we have additional training for

our staff. a lot of it has to do with direct supervision and dealing with people and dealing with people in crisis. most importantly though right now we have and we have postcertified de-escalation techniques and a force we currently have and i've mandated all staff go through this. we've had over 200 staff members go through this already and on pass to make sure our staff has the required training. it's consistent with what you see in the police department and the chief is about to come on and talk to you more about the partnerships. the training is consistent with the post-training for cit that everybody gets as a peace officer. and lastly, i guess we can go to the last slide, victor, our planning profits is outlined here. our department is working on the 10a policies and procedures that

will be consistent with what the police department already has in place for the general orders. we're reviewing the manual procedures for consistency. we're consulting with the police department active and current staff and retiree have worked the program. we have scheduled meetings and already met with please department command staff to adopt the best practices and already met with and talked to i believe d.e.m. on a communications plan. one thing that's great is we're on the same radio operation system so there's not going to be any need for creating any sort of other path on communications. as i mentioned earlier also our staff are familiar with managing the schedules contracted services. we have the ability to do that through our field operation division and on the last point here, as with us mentioned by supervisor safai anybody working

the overtime will have their basic equipment, nothing specialized or anything like that to assuage concerns about tasers or anything we have. that's everything in a nutshell. hopefully i did that not too fast. i have a tendency to move fast. >> i appreciate that. just want to over emphasize for the committee, one of the l of the things we've been doing since the conversation began, we asked sheriff miamoto and chief scott to talk about coordination. one thing chief scott will talk to you about when they have reorganized the internal of the 10b program looking at assignments on the highest need based on crime data not just the demand the officers and where nay might like to go. -- where they might like to go.

we asked sheriff miamoto and chief scott to coordinate assignments and it will take time to ramp up on the sheriff. we'll do targeted assignments and there'll be constant communication and coordination between the two departments. one of the things we're continuing as we have very targeted meetings with our organized retail crime working group, we'll continue those on a monthly basis specifically to deal with the conversation about retail theft. i know supervisor mandelman is digging in deep with the issue at the safeway at market street and have seen reduced hours at target and as stated with safeway it's the only locale on

where they're having massive reduced hours. there's been a lot of debate with the walgreens closed whether it's based on internal profit margin numbers and return for investors and we would be naive to say it's not a piece of the equation but we also be naive to say retail theft is plaguing our cities where these places are having to choose to reduce hours and in this scenario there's a demand for on-site enforcement. i want to emphasize this is not about incarceration but putting people in the right rehabilitation type programs and i know safeway's looking at creative ways with the union for

look at how people can be retrained and put in training programs to redirect them into opportunities so theft will not be attractive to them and utilized by the network. thank you, sheriff and for your commitment to making our city safer and protecting retailers and protecting the jobs because at the ends of the day, there's a lot of front line workers that worked through the pandemic whose jobs are on the line because this is happening on such a large scale. >> thank you, supervisor safai. chief, good morning. >> good morning, chair peskin and good morning to all the board. thank you for being patient. i was greeth a brand new academy class. i appreciate your support on that as well.

i'm going to be brief with my remarks and i know with this legislation 10a i just want to put in context how i see this. we've had significant challenges as you all know with retail theft and others that require companies to hire our sfpd officers and we've not been able to fulfill all the requests. this legislation will help alleviate that. i talked with sheriff miamoto and i won't speak for the sheriff but i know we're both committed our agencies working together and communicating with whoever wants to hire off-duty personnel to make sure we are

all acting in the best interest of our city and that's what it's all about what is in the best interest of our city. there's a demand we've not been able to fulfill and we want to make sure when people reach out to our city for assistance particularly in police and security and keeping our city safe we're able to meet that obligation and demand. to me, i think i'm always in the best interest of the city and i'm available for any questions you have. >> sorry, i'm on my iphone, my computer keeps knock me off. i know you've been dedicated since we start the conversation organized retail theft, you've

been doing this for years but wholly recommitted to this issue getting the 10b program and looking at the ambassador program and retired officers and having them present in the areas where crime is happening on the highest scale and working in partnership with working with the city attorney and myself to as we look at the statistics in turning the theft around for this our city. don't have additional questions, chair, for chief scott and sheriff miamoto. i know chief may have to leave in a little bit but if anyone has question for chief scott you may want to start with him first and a can talk about some of the amendments we're going to it make today to clarify the legislation.

>> thank you. i do not have question for chief scott but appreciate the fact that both of these law enforcement agencies are working in the interest of san francisco and san franciscans because i realize that underneath this there are thorny concerns in the house of working people and with the deputy social services and police officers and the fact that you, supervisor safai and chief scott and sheriff miamoto were able to bridge that and the issues are noted and appreciated and i think constructive and great when we can work together and not let unfortunate issues get in the way and that did not happen here. well done, all three of you, and

with that supervisors, mandelman or chan, any comments or questions. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, chair peskin and supervisor safai. i think it's important and good legislation in response to a very real need. i think we've been hearing now from multiple retailers around the city it's not just walgreens or cvs or target or safeway it's all of them seeing something very troubling. when it hits a store like the castro safeway as it done in unprecedented fashion over the last six months that's a challenge for lots of folks of course for the workers who work in the stores and need to be save and have jobs and also a problem often for lower-income communities and folks that may be getting their food, their

prescriptions and may need to go to safeway at 2:00 in the morning because of an unusual work schedule. you can step inside one of these stores as supervisor safai did and see extraordinary and bad things happening i think this is a smart solution. i know from some of the walgreens where they put in a 10d officer it makes a difference when they have them but we know there's not enough officers to go around and this helps to meet the neat. going forward there's going to be issues to worked out and they're going in eyes wide open

and will continue collaboration between the two departments and the community but thanks to the sheriffs for being willing to step up and keeping us safe and there'll be an important addition in dealing with this problem city wide and we have more to do. the is one piece of it. this an important piece but i think it's going to take the retailers stepping up and the police and sheriff and the d.a. and everyone and we have to get a handle on the problem because it is awful and something we have to fix. thank you, supervisor safai. >> thank you, supervisor. >> would you like know go through the amendments? >> yes, please. >> it has been circulated to all

members of the committee have been deemed by the city attorney as substantive so they'll require at least one-week continuance and we'll give this november 8. >> thank you, on page 2 in the definition of requester we'll strike event organizer and replace it with requester through the so where event organizer we'll strike that to indicate who is asking for requesting for the service. the amendment under definition 10a.1 we're going strike on lines 8 through 10a .1 after the word requester lines 3 through 5

we strike the entire definition of event organizer and it's just requester now becomes means of private individual or private entity seeking additional personnel, equipment or materials of the department at special events or occurrences that happen on an occasion basis for law enforcement throughout the city. that becomes the entire definition who have is asking for that and that then becomes consistent everywhere throughout the legislation. not only are we striking the definition but add special events and occurrences that happen on an occasional service after requester a few times throughout but particularly on line 17 through 18 on page 2. finally, also under security

plan, and that is under the security plan definition, we write security plan means a plan draft the requester that adequately addresses the safety of persons, property ed with the event or occurrence that is the subject of the request for department services. this definition of security plans does not limit to impose more stringent requirement for security plan as circumstances may warrant. the next amendment is under section 10a.2. same thing. we talked about that already. that's the definition of special events and occurrences and talk about special requester through out and the last amendment are restrictions on the department member eligibility to provide supplemental law enforcement

services intended to clarify people will not be allowed to be on sick leave or comp time and access this program. we go into a full definition of that and it talks about what members would be ineligible to perform the services if they're accessing any of the following and talking about regularly scheduled work, anyone that's used over 20 hours of sick leave within the prior three months, it goes over all the different things we've listed in terms of what are exclusions under sick leave. that's it, mr. chair. all of that is intended to clear define the requester and also who is ineligible for performing these services. that is it.

is our city attorney here? >> yes. >> is my summary of who is disqualified and sick leave, do i need to read all that or did i summarize that okay into the record? do i need to read it all? >> no, it's a helpful summary and note the changes. >> great, thank you. through the chair, thank you. >> are there any comments or questions on the amendment from the committee members? seeing none, why don't we open it up for public comment. >> yes, members of the public who which to provide public comment call 1-415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 2482 090 9351 and press pound and pound again and press star 3 to line

up to speak. the system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and begin your public comment. we currently have seven listeners and three in line to speak. >> first speaker, please. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> my name is michael greener i'm a lieutenant with the sheriff's office and live in san francisco. i'd like to thank you for the opportunity to address you. everything that has been said is true as unprecedented. i live in the dog patch and shop at the safeway on potrero. up until there's no shopping carts and gotten really bad. i don't know there's much more i

can say than the sheriff has already said is that you give the police department this opportunity people have an immediate affect on the crime going down. we have a unique relationship with the incarcerated population in the city and county of san francisco. there isn't a better agency to provide resources. most sheriff deputies are going to know those who come not store who commit crimes because we're there. we're going to be able to have a presence and i think it's significantly reduced crime and made it better for a lot of people to be shopping. and it gives the police department more resources as well as the sheriff's office.

i'd like to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, board of supervisors. i'm juan garito i'm a resident and happen to be a deputy sheriff for 20 years and i want to call in and show support for the 10a program and my concern is with the walgreens and cvs store and a lot of elderly utilize them for medications and for small items. so yes, i think this program would be very effective and policing for the elderly as well as the residents. thank you very much.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, board of supervisors. i'm president of the d.s.a. i want to thank supervisor safai for all his hard work on this and bringing it to the table and co-sponsors and supervisor mandelman and supervisor mar and i want to thank the rule committee for look into this and chair peskin and to thank the hard work of sheriff miamoto putting a lot of work into this and doing an excellent job and thank you chief scott for your support and would like to highlight a couple things. chair peskin and chief scott brought up that everyone working together to increase public safety in san francisco is the goal and i think it's a beautiful thing everyone has come together to do this and san franciscans are the priority and

they deserve more public safety as well as any visitor to san francisco. thank you all, you're all doing the right thing and i think this is fantastic. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, this is milton huhn. we're fully in support of this legislation. >> good to hear from you, milton. next speaker. >> hello, board. my name is christian cavasares and i'm required and served in the san francisco sheriff's office for 20 years and it's a great instance where the association is completely behind this. the city has an untapped source in the sheriff's office and

provide safety to those shopping in these stores and to any visitors who may come to the city and shop at these location. it's a win-win for everyone involved and for all residents of the city and speak agencies a 51-year resident of the city. thank you for your time. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public to spoke to this item? >> i believe we have one more caller at this time. >> next speaker, please. >> can you hear me now? >> this is david filpao, i'm not a deputy social service. i have brief questions or comments. i'm wondering how this relates to the new sheriff's department oversight board as to alleged misconduct not that there would be any and if there were any in a store or location where services are being provided. i'm wondering if requesters

could shop between the police and sheriff's department if there's a cost difference between the 10a and 10b program and if that makes sense for them to be able to shop in that way. i'm wondering if there is or should be a deadline to request services prior to an event or prior to starting to provide services. the version i was reading was specific to an event. i understand that's being amended. i'm wondering if the security and staffing plan referred to in the legislation would be subject to public disclosure or maybe an applicable exemption to disclosure or basis for withholding. i was going to ask if this is only for events and for not ongoing service or works but sounds like the next person is going to address that so i was unclear how this would address

retail theft and have no objection to the legislation or intent just interested in the details of making this work. thank you for listening. >> thank you. >> thank you. any last speaker or speakers on the item? >> i am checking. one moment. that was our last public commenter. >> public comment is closed and supervisor safai if lewd like to respond to the last speaker, if not, you can incorporate those into your comments next week but would like to start by making a motion to accept the amendment on the motion and a roll call please. >> on the motion to accept the amendments, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman.

>> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> mr. clerk, i'd like to be added as a co-sponsor and then i would like to make a motion to continue. supervisor safai. >> briefly, i appreciate the last caller and all the callers that called in. thank you for calling in in support. one of the things that we did talk about in the course of drafting the legislation and working on it was the fact that there will be an oversight committee put in place ahalf -- half aboard the board and mayor and gives an extra level of assurance this will be monitored in a proper way with the office of inspector general. that will add the additional layer of oversight and wanted to

make clear this not just for special events and clarify that. but the oversight was important and the coordination was important so that is something that we thought about and i'll have additional comments next week but thank you, for your co-sponsorship and support and thank you for the whole committee and as i said, thank you, jenna clark and deputy city attorney and all my staff and jeffery more -- morris and i'd be remiss if i doesn't recognize the san francisco travel and hotel council and the council of district merchants for their hard work. so i'll have additional comments next week but thank you everyone for your support and thanks for the comments today. >> thank you. why don't we continue this item one week to november 8 on that

motion to continue the item as amended a roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> chair peskin. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. thank you supervisor see you next week. clerk call the third and final item. >> item 3 a hearing hearing to consider appointing six members, terms ending june 6, 2023, to the immigrant rights commission. (clerk of the board) there were some applications withdrawn. >> in so far one of my staff sarah sousa is an applicant to

re-appointment i'll do what happened last time this was before the committee ask to recuse myself and turn the gavel to vice chair mandelman. >> on the motion to recuse supervisor peskin, supervisor chan. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> thank you. >> supervisors peskin is recused from item 210479.

>> we have applicant to hear from and thank you for serving and those interested in serving. i'm going to work my way through the folks as they appear in the agenda and if you have questions put yourself in the chat. mr. paz? >> uh-oh. mr. clerk. >> looks like he logged off we

can come back. >> i believe he had to leave at 11:00 so he may have left but if he's hearing us and want to come back he can come back. >> hello. my apologies. my computer kicked me off. >> you two minutes. >> thank you, honorable supervisors and members of the rules committee, i'm mario paz i'm the director of the good samaritan research center we're a 127 anchor institution founded as a settlement house for newcomers and that continues steadfast. i'd like to show my support for sarah sousa and our great chair. they have shown exceptional leadership and it's been a

privilege to serve by their side. i want to thank you for your consideration of my re-appointment and including the residency waivers. it's been an honor to serve on this commission. i've worked hard to assure all immigrant in our communities continue to be able to pursue their dreams and feel welcomed and continue to feel safe in san francisco and that we continue to fight and advocate so they can be successful in our shared society and continue to thrive and prosper. there's been many challenges over the year and covid especially and the multiple hearings from daca to supporting immigrant communities during the pandemic crisis and work with other partners we were able to again show that san francisco's a leader not just in the state but in the country around immigrant rights and advocacy. thank you again for your consideration, supervisors.

>> thank you. with that supervisor chan has any questions for you we'll let gou to your 11:00. thanks for coming by. >> thank you so much. i'm available for questions. >> i think we're good. i think you're done. >> thank you. bye-bye. >> now i understand do we have rene ramesh. >> do i not see him logged in at this time. >> if he does get on let me know and we'll take him. how about david lat.

>> good morning. your hand is up. you're ready to talk. we need to get you unmute. can you unmute yourself? >> hi, supervisor mandelman and supervisor chan and peskin. thank you all for the opportunity to be in front of the board to discuss my qualification and my interests of joining the immigrant rights commission. i know supervisors here before me and it's been an honor to be considered even being here today as an immigrant who came from burma when i was 12, i never knew i'd be here in front of the board to be seeking an appointment. it's quit a big moment for me.

i want to thank you the supervisor for the opportunity. a little bit about myself, i am current director of government relation for s.f. state. i'm proud to represent and serve as spokesperson for the university that is recognized as the third most diverse in the country. i'm proud to work with a lot of daca students on campus and having a robust dream center with daca students. in my senior life i worked very closely with immigrants and i was in that role for most the

trump administration and it was difficult. being from san francisco we have some of the most robust and strong sanctuary policies that makes us a target for the trump fury but it's been incredible to work with the commissioners who are on this call. commissioner connelly and director pawn who has been so in terms of working with our office and being able to navigate through the challenging times during the i.c.e. raids and i'm interested in working with the commission now because in my role in work with immigrant and to acknowledge the commission's current work on stopping a.p.i. hate. i've met with a professor from

s.f. state one of the co-founders of the stop a.p.i. hate center and i think the commission is incredible and the fact that we even have an immigrant rights commission is exceptional. i think i have a lot of to add and i want to leave some time for questions. if supervisors have any questions for me, i'd be answer them. >> thank you mr. latt for your willingness to serve and reaching out and talking to me on friday and i appreciate the conversation we were able to have and i don't have further questions. supervisor chan, any comments, questions? no. looks like we're good. mr. latt you can go back to doing the work for san francisco state and have a good morning. >> you too, supervisor.

>> great. okay. working my way down my list, i think next up we would be taking jane pak but i think she has withdrawn her name from consideration. next we have in come celine kennelly. >> it's lovely to be with you and see you this morning. thank you for having us. so it's been my honor and privilege to serve on the commission since 2012. i was elected to the position of vice chair by the executive committee in october of that year and have had the distinct horn of serving as chair since january 2015. in the past nine years, i believe the commission has held comprehensive community hearings

gathering testimony from the diverse immigrant population on a variety of issues including quality of life, housing, education access as well as roundtable with local staff to understand the issues that presented to the office. from language rights to the sanctuary ordinance, shining a light on the economic opportunities and take lead role on equity the immigrant rights commission has worked with community partners and city departments to ensure inclusive, fair policies and conditions that make san francisco a safe and welcoming place for all people to thrive. it has been my honor to lead a diverse, engaged hard working commission who are committed to our immigrant communities to language access and to racial equity. they bring a combination of professional and personal experience with commitment to making immigrant lives better and i too would like to put my

name in support of the re-appointment of vice chair and commissioners sousa. and in terms of my own role on the commission, as my day job i'm the executive director an organization supporting the irish community in san francisco and the bay area and i've had the distinct honor in my role. i'm an immigrant and director responible for the day to day operations of my organization and community organizer. i look forward to the opportunity of the work the commission is doing and recently had an hearing on haitian and afghan refugees and look forward to bringing recommendations this the berd -- board on that

hearing and held a hearing on anti-aapi hate and well we look forward to continuing that topic for further discussion in the new year as we come back and revisit and take stock on how we have fared as a city and community on that issue. language access, of course, is another issue that's been of huge importance to the commission. we are the overseers for language access compliance through the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. it's a topic that appears on our agenda almost monthly and this year we held two hearings on language access. we have done work on reviewing the ordinance to make recommendations on how it might be strengthened and have taken community feedback to make sure that we are hearing from community and know what is happening. i'm delighted to say that our

committee with immigrant affairs are currently analyzing response to our survey from over 2,000 residents of the city and county. so we are out to the community as much as we can it understand what their concerns and needs are. i look forward to at your pleasure serving on the commission for another two years and i thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you, chair kennelly and threw for your work on the commission. i know language access is of importance to all of us and championed by supervisor chan and i'm sure she is appreciative of your work and with they think we can let you go. have a good day. >> thanks a lot. >> you're welcome, thank you.

>> and next up we have commissioner nima hahimi. >> thank you for considering my re-appointment. i've that'd privilege of serving on the commission since 2017. we spent several years hearing about the atrocities against our immigrant communities. i'm a first generation immigrant. my parents moved here when they were in their 20s to go to school and because of the iranian revolution and war with iraq they pivot and started their lives here and were able to find opportunity in the united states of america but also had to struggle as immigrants to learn a new system. my goal on the commission has always been to be an advocate for immigrant communities and

recognize intersectionality of our cause and causes and it would be an honor and privilege to continue serving. i serve on the executive committee with chair paz and chair kennelly and look for re-appointment of chair bragon and vice chair paz and thank you for your time and i'd be happy it answer any question. >> i do not have questions but thank you for the service and thank you for being willing to sign up for another term. >> thank you, both. >> thank you. commissioner rahimi. >> i forgot to mention commissioner sousa. >> and i see director pon and i

think lucia obregon was not able to attend and i believe mr. tanaka has withdrawn and brings us to chair pon. >> i'd like to support the appointment of our five current commissioners and one new applicant including commissioner kennelly and commissioner rahimi and commissioner obregon and souza and for seat 4 which was vacated earlier this year we

support your consideration of david latt. we can use his extensive knowledge and how it impacts local immigrant communities and would be an excellent addition to the i.r.c. thank you to the leadership of vice chair pon and all the s. the commission has been extremely active and productive over the past several years when we need them during an anti-immigrant administration and especially now in economic recovery. so you know, they held over 10 special hearings and issued over nine resolutions and policy advice letters. they've been very busy and productive. the last two were on forwarding the legislation for paid time off for domestic workers in san francisco. they were behind it many years ago and of course the removing

the sunset on non-immigrant voting on school board election. thank you very much for your consideration. >> thank you, director pon. it's my honor to get to chair this item. it is incredibly important to san franciscans and as a grand child of immigrants i think i'm proud of the city and the leadership it's been able to provide on immigrant affairs including allowing non-citizen immigrant to participate in our local democracy. at any rate, supervisor chan do you have any comments or remarks or thoughts to share? go ahead. >> thank you, vice chair mandelman i appreciate your leadership and i appreciate all the candidates coming forward.

it feels like we just really -- i think we literally recently appointed the body and i think that it's critical for them to continue the work they did. i'm happy to propose a motion in that we can possibly propose a motion and open to public comment and with that i also appreciate the comments and i agreed that today i would like to make a motion to appoint david latt to seat 4 and mario paz with the residency waiver and ms. kennelly and souza to seat 10 and jane pak to seat 11

and happy to hear public comment before we do the roll call for the motion. >> thank you. we'll include in that motion the residency waivers required for david latt and mario paz and open this to public comment. >> yes, members of the public should call 1-415-655-0001 and meeting i.d. is 2482 090 9351 then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. when we get to public comment at this time we have one listener

but nobody in line for public comment. >> public comment for item 3 is called. call a vote on the motion. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> chan aye. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> mandelman aye. peskin excused. the motion passes with member peskin being excused without objection. >> do we have more business today? >> that completes our agenda for today. >> then we are adjourned. bye, everybody.

>> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there. >> since 2009, citywide, sf

shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs

more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every

single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as

well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to

all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most

especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's

other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

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

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

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

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

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

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