>> this is the last noting of the month of november. if you would all stand for the 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. >> thank you. also present with us tonight. actually, call the roll, please. commissioner hamasaki. >> here. >> commissioner yee. >> here. >> commissioner burns.

>> here. >> vice president you have a quorum. we have the staff from the san francisco police department and paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> welcome everyone. tonight we start off with general public comment. >> the pick lick is welcome to address up to two minutes on items not in the agenda but within the subject to the agenda. comments or opportunities to speak are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001. access code 24968656443. pound and pound again. star 3 if you wish to comment. you may submit public comment in

the following ways. e-mail the secretary of the commission. sfgovtv or written comments may be sent to the public safety building. at the time if you would like to comment press star 3. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> i am francisco de costa. i would like to remind you, commissioners, that we should stop bringing people from the family to your meetings to tell us about things that they cannot achieve. in san francisco we now know that thousands of people are dying because of the opioids.

we know that many of the tourists that come to our city have their cars broken into. it seems that you commissioners are not taking it serious. i think you need orientation what it means to have quality of life issues. the taxpayers are paying the various departments, including police department, to maintain law and order and to obtain a quality of life in san francisco which is going to the hogs. you commissioners, are busy inviting these people from the family to talk about stuff that cannot be implemented. in fact, it is a paradox that

when we look at cops and the 272 recommendations, none of them have been fully implemented. people are fed up. fed up that quality of life issues are not held up. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> hello i am david aaron son resident of district one and wealth and disparities in the black community. felicia jones is our founder. there is an urgency to address black san franciscans. i will call it anti-blackness. when it comes to the use of force, arrest and racial profiling or traffic stops of black san franciscans by the sfpd. i am tired of talking.

where is the urgency? if the tables were turned on these statistics and they represented white folks there would be urgency. i agree with michelle obama when she stated that happens to us. when will you take responsibilities and address the unjust statistics for the love all san franciscans. it is truly your responsibilitity you took the oath to uphold the law. as i said, i am tired. not tired enough to quit. however, tired of beating a dead horse and our concerns foul falling on dead ears. we sought help from the attorney general. unquote. a black fridays can is six times as likely as white to be subject to traffic stop. nine times subject to use of

force. 11 times as likely to be arrested. june 9, 2021 commission meeting the disparities in the black community made recommendations for eradicating these disparities. we will be meeting with the attorney general and discuss these. does the commission have plans to enact? have next steps occurred since june? thank you. >> thank you caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening. i am the. [indiscernable] i am calling to introduce ourselves to the commission as proud member of the coalition. it is a base of community advocates committed to ending racially bias by police in san francisco. recommendations are in a letter submitted to vice president

elias on november 10. ban pretext steps and searches. traffic stops are the most common way people come into contact with police. these encountersent in violent and deadly consequences. san francisco mirrors the state and nation in over policing communities of color. sfpd officers use these violations as pretext to search people inflicting financial and physical harm on black san franciscans. since 2018 they have stopped black six times the rate of white individuals and searched 10 times the rate of white individuals. they accounted for 27% of all stops and 37% of all searches from july 2020 through june 2021. research shows it has little

impact on the crime, significant downside a waste of time and resources. stops are banned in other jurisdictions such as berkeley, los angeles, philadelphia and virginia. if you are serious about transforming the relationship with police we have to take on americans most common interaction with law enforcement pretext stops. we would like to work with you. together we can stop in san francisco and address the disparity in traffic enforcement that can lead to people of color losing that are lives. thank you. >> good evening, you have two minutes. >> hello, this is jennifer wagner, league of women voters. we sent an e-mail requesting to speak with commissioner yee and burn. we have not heard back. we have receive no response.

i am calling to ask you to please check your e-mail. i have given you my contact information. we would like to speak with you. we are one of the members of the coalition to end bias stops and strong supporters of their efforts. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> may we make it clear speaking for myself and another believe commissioner yee we have indicated we would like to meet with the league of women voters. in late november or early november. do you have anything to say? >> no, our coordinator sergeant stacy will do the arrangement there, commissioner burns. >> okay.

thank you. >> i am the executive director of walk san francisco. we are working to make the streets safe. we are a member of the new coalition to end bias stops. this is the lead nonprofit organization in supporting vision zero ending traffic related fatalities and injuries by 2024. there were 30 traffic deaths in to 20 despite lower traffic due to the pandemic. this should put us on high alert. it was higher than our numbers in 2019. we receive the five year severe injury report last week and year after year over 500 people are severely injured in crashes. last week we mourned the 12 pedestrian killed. 30 year-old school teach you are outside of the school because a

driver ran a red light. in san francisco speeding is number one cause of traffic related deaths and injuries. 2019, 40% of traffic related deaths were from drivers not yielding in the crosswalk. who is hit and killed by the dangerous behaviors? old der adults and people of color. the coalition to end bias stops is a diverse group of coalition that come together to end low level traffic stops in san francisco. walk san francisco joined this coalition because we believe san francisco police should be focused on safety. i urge you to end pretext stops in san francisco. thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening. you have two minutes, caller. >> i volunteer with disparities in the black community. this is a quote from our

founder. there is an urgency to address black fridays scans. it is anti-blackness with the use of force and racial profiling of black san franciscans. [indiscernable] where is the urgency? tables were turned there would be a urgency. i agree with michelle obama when she stated. it happens to us. when will you take responsibility to address the harsh bias for the love of all in san francisco. not just the black which is your responsibility. you took an oath to seek for good for all in france. i am tired. not tire to quit tired concerns on deaf ears to look for anti-blackness in the chamber is urgency. therefore we sought help from the attorney general. a black person in san francisco

is six times as likely as a white person to be subject to a traffic stop. 62% are for minor matters such as turn small. we recommend the cessation of routine traffic stops by sfpd. [indiscernable] we have not seen any sense of urgency. [indiscernable] we are meeting with the assistant attorney general to discuss this. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening caller. you have two minutes. >> hello, commissioners. i am janice lee representing the bicycle coalition. as a member of the coalition i want to voice my support today

for ending low level traffic stops. we are in solidarity with glide, league of women voters and northern california and committee on civil rights calling for end of california vehicle code violations. why is the san francisco guy south carolina coalition -- why is the san francisco coalition involved? we historically supported vision zero commitment to ending all traffic fatalities by 2024. you heard from walk sf. it is an epidemic in san francisco. people are hit and killed at twice the rate that people are shot and killed due to guns. 2020 there were 30 traffic fatalities and 15 gun related homicides. there is a resolution offered many years ago.

you get quarterly reports like today. you know there are five very specific driver behaviors that lead to the most serious and fatal car crashes on the streets. sfpd focus on five direct officers to focus five specific violations that are dangerous. first. speeding. second failing to yield to ped defense. [indiscernable] you can see that none of these five behaviors are included as the pretext traffic stop we want to end. data shows they are not making streets safer for those who bike, walk or drive. it shows pretext stops are a waste of resources. >> thank you, caller. >> you have two minutes. >> i am.

[indiscernable] the senior government relations coordinator and board member for secure justice and support life foundation. i am speaking as a member of the coalition to end bias stops to ask the commission to be in favor of ending pretext stops. as you have heard today it is not at all helpful. it is more dangerous for the community and also it affects folks black and brown. you heard multiple statistics 11 out of everyone thousand blacks may be searched as compared to one out of every 1,000 san francisco whites. you have those who are black nine times for likely to use of force come paverred to white. we have seen time and time again

excessive use of force by law enforcement of those who are black or people of color as opposed to those who are white. by ending pretext stops, we hope to end up less senning these numbers that are out of control. i urge the police commission to take this up, consider it, and to support ending the pretext stops. thank you so much. >> thank you, caller. good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening. this is miss brown calling for my son and representing the circle for the support group of mothers and fathers who lost children to homicide. i come to the police commission and everyone stands up. when i was in school we would say i pledge allegiance to the

flag of the united states of checker and to the republic for which it stands justice for all. i say that because i have been saying that since i was a little girl in school. i have a son here who was murdered with no justice. as i said before. my son was a little boy with blonde hair and blue eyes i wouldn't go through this. every wednesday i get on here my heart pounds what i am going to say. i am going to say the same thing every time i come on here. this is my child and i miss him so. we talk about justice. justice delayed is justice denied. my son has been denied justice. i am still seeking it. thanksgiving is coming up. christmas is coming up. new year's is coming up.

another year with no justice. that is why i don't pledge allegiance to the flag. i don't have any justice for my child. i need this to happen. i am in district 5 where me son was gunned down saving someone else's life. i walk out of my house where i have to see where he laid with people walking around shooting in front of schools. what do we do? how do we solve these crimes. solve unsolved homicides for mothers like myself? i need this to happen. >> thank you, ms. brown. if you have any information call the tip line apartment (415)575-4444. >> good evening caller. you have two minutes.

>> i am a member of the coalition to end bias stops. the civil rights of the san francisco bay area. here to support the letter sent to commissioners to end pretext stops. at our legal clinic we have seen dozens stopped by police for tinted windows or expired registration and were harmed and abused by police. that led to long lasting physical and psychological injuries and incarceration. they are tools of the police to incarcerate those of color and black communities and it must end. jaywalking which we attempted to end the criminalizing on the statewide level led to murders of two black californiaians the 2020 and 2018. police officers are five times more likely to stop a black

person and black person. they are dangerous and deadly. we support ending the traffic stops to make all in san francisco safer. we hope to implement our recommendations in the letter sent to the commission. thanks so much. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening, commissioners. chief scott. i am a member of the coalition to end bias stops. i like the callers before me urge the commission to push to end the stops by engaging in a real dialogue. we are at a critical juncture. we need to disrupt the pipeline to prison for black and brown men. traffic stops are a good place

to start. they can lead to violence. i look forward to working with the commission on this and the commission taking action. thank you. >> thank you, caller. vice president, that is the end of public comment. >> thank you, sergeant. please call the next matter. concept calendar. safe streets for all quarterly report, third quarter. sfpd monthly report. d.p.a. report. if you would like to discuss any item please advice vice president tonight you would like to place them on the future agenda. there will be no discussion or presentation on these items. >> would anyone like to agendize any matters consent calendar?

i will take a motion. >> move to accept or adopt. >> second? >> i will second. >> thank you. sergeant. >> on the motion to accept. commissioner -- public comment. >> if you would like to comment on concept item 2, press star 3 now. we have no public comment. i will continue with the vote. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> commissioner burns. >> yes. >> vice president elias. >> yes. >> four questions. >> thank you. next item. >> 3. chief's report. discussion. weekly crime trends. provide overview of offenses occurring in san francisco.

make or significant incidents. a brief overview of events in san francisco having an impact on public lake safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities will be limited to determining whether to calder for a future commission meeting. >> thank you. good evening, vice president elias, executive director and members of the public. i will start this week's chief's report with the crime trends for the week. we have violent crime starting off. we are 47 homicides year-to-date. 9% increase from 43 this time last year. 16% reduction in sexual assaults or rape. 169. robberies 5% reduction. 1964 compared to 2066.

>> assaults up 9%. 2067 compared to 1902 year-to-date. human trafficking up 36%. 30 for the year compared to 22 year-to-date. i want to take this opportunity to encourage members of the public to report crimes when they happen. we know that not all crime is reported. our committee engages in the meetings with the members of the communities often times the statistics don't tell the story. we need to have crime reported. we understand where to put our resources. also, it gives us an idea of the challenges in the city. fuller picture. please report if you are a victim of crime. property crimes we are down 2%.

burglary are trending in if right direction. fewer crimes than in the first half of the year percentage wise. 6289 compared to 6437 year-to-date. north vehicle thefts even. 516 3com paired to 5186 this time last year. arson up 8%. 291 compared to 270. larceny overall up 13%. 25506 compared to 22489. total prompt crimes 37249 compared to 34382. that is 8% increase. overall crime 8% increase. property crimes i just reported apshared with you. auto burglaries a challenge in the city. we are putting in some of the

strategies we have seen some success with. up 32% year-to-date compared to last year. we look at 2019 down 23%. compared to 2018 down 25%. we have seen at least this week a trend in the central area. we saw downward trend. central area is one of our areas where we had a significant entries. central district fisherman's wharf is a high tourist area. a lot of what is happening with auto break-ins. we will tip with our extra patrols in the central area. fisherman's wharf, motor beach, embarcadero and southern part as well. firearm related crimes we are 51% -- sorry 15% change in the

wrong direction. up 15% from last year. 288 aggravated assaults compared to 250. 2019 and 2018, there are 66% increase from 2019, 51% in 2018. terms of other aggravated assaults including bodily aggravated assaults, hand, feet up 20% 598 compared to 599. >> 23% decrease in 2019. 25% decrease in 2018. aggravated assaults involving knives or cutting instruments down 11%. 251 compared to 283 last year. 3% decrease from 2019, 14%

decrease from 2018. we are up 7%. 930 compared to 870. 10% decrease from 2019 and 13% decrease in 2018. the trends on gun violence. 157 gun related incidents nonfatal this year compared to 115 this time last year. 37% increase. total homicide related firearm related homicides is 36 compared to 27 this year. 33% increase. total overall gun violence be fatal plus nonfatal 19 3com paired to 143, 36% increase. individual stations shootings tenderloin largest 39 compared to 22.

followed by mission 28 compared to 16. northern 11 compared to 6. bayview 50 compared to 46. central down in shooting. two compared to three last year. park station up two. three compared to one last year. richmond had one last year no shooting i think department this year. inc. el side down 3. 17 this year compared to 20 last year. 4 compared to two last year. homicides by district. tenderloin has nine. bayview 12. northern seven. inc.ker side 8. southern five. largest decrease 8 last year. bayview 12 compared to 11.

tenderloin nine compared to 10 last year. central zero compared to four. southern five compared to two last year. increase in southern. our gun seizures. we still remain steady at 1% increase in guns taken off the streets. 888 compared to 877 this time last year. 169 compared to 127. we have seen a pretty steady increase in ghost guns from year to year 2018 to 2021. major incidents to report. i talked about this last week. there was end a whole lot to report on this one. homicide incident on

october 23rd. our victim was pronounced this past week. they occurred at buchanan in the northern district on october 23 at 9:11 p.m. the officers responded to the vehicle collision. driver was found in the driver's seat comped with blood. he had been shot and was transported to the hospital. he was pronounced from that particular shooting. we don't have a lot of leads. we need public help. if you know anything about this incident call us. we had another homicide during this reporting period to report. it occurred yesterday. this one was at third at lasalle. 19 year-old male who would have been celebrating a birthday today. suggestion stained a gunshot wound during a car to car

shooting between the victim vehicle and another vehicle. the victim died at the hospital. we have some significant leads we are following on this particular case. i will report back as that investigation develops. we hope to resolve with an arrest with evidence to give the district tore for prosecution in the case. two other shootings to report for this week. one was in bayview at bonneville. this was on november 13 at 10:45 p.m. 22 year-old male shot in the foot. we were unable to locate where the shooting actually occurred. that is pending further investigation. at 12:15 a.m. on november 14th

in the engle side district. the 29 year old male was walking in the air when the suspect approached and shot unknown amount of times at the victim. the individual suspect run away omission towards cesar chavez. no calls were received. the victim was self-transported to the hospital. is expected to survive injuries. that is also under investigation. we need help on that one as well including if you know of or heard of a shooting 3200 block of mission call (415)575-4444 if you can shed light on this. other incidents to report.

vandalism islamic center. this event occurred when a person witnessed a subject walking with a beer bottle in his hand, appeared to be a beer bottle. as the person approached the subject broke the window of the center. no people inside at the time. no one was near the window. no one was injured. deputy chief and acting deputy chief and the investigations borough has reached out to the community. there were no injuries. it is vandalizing a religious facility is a great concern to us and the community. we don't have evidence to prove this was based on prejudice or hate. we are looking into that possibility as well. also, a 71-year-old woman was in

the area of filmore and mcallister on november 14th. this is broad daylight when a subject stole her purse by force. during the struggle the woman was pushed to the ground and hit her head. she was transported to the hospital. she is expected to survive. again, this is the worst of the worst. somebody that would rob a member of our elderly community and hut putthem on the ground and take their purse. if you have information our investigators are looking for video to get evidence to bring this person to act for this crime. last incident robbery with a gun on november 14th at 10:25 a.m. 700 block of steiner.

blood daylight. victim was 30 years old approached three suspects as they broke into his vehicle. one of the subject pointed gun at the victim and took the victim's backpack and left the scene. there was $6,000 in property taken from the victim. no arrests at this time. we hope to locate the evidence to bring these folks to justice as well. we have seen more of these incidents resulting in violent encounters. this is something to get a handle be on. getting to our strategies on that. central district is focused on these types of auto thefts, break ins, particularly as i mentioned earlier in the fisherman's wharf, union square and chinatown. there will continue through december. we are ramping up a park smart

education campaign. we are going to the holidays. a lot of people will be shopping. we want peep to have good experiences -- people to have good experiences when shopping in the city. you will see more flyers on parking meters, community engagement and promoting people to not leave property in the vehicle. our ambassadors are being assigned to the fisherman's wharf, chinatown, market streets, embarcadero, ferry building, along the muni lines in those locations as well. commission approved the department ambassadors last year. we have 23 ambassadors working. we started with eight. we are up to 23. retired sfpd members who go out to become the eyes and ears and

work with on duty officers to report what they see and call us when we are needed to prevents things from happening. northern is focusing on the auto break-ins and burglaries in the northern commercial corridors. additional deploy man in japan town, palace of fine arts. there is a rise on robberies and increased complaints of traffic concerns in the northern district. we are employing a unit to abate robberies. we will have ongoing traffic enforcement needs measured against the northern district including japan town areas. park district is focusing on car break is with both on duty and increasing deployment with tourism that we talked about.

we had extra patrols. including the golden gate park area where we have seen up and down with car break ins. folks in the commercial corridor to mitigate cars being broken into. we will keep those going. as traffic related incidents this past week. we had a fatal incident that occurred on november 10 at 7:55 a.m. at franklin and union in the northern district. our our officers responds and located the victim on the ground. life saving was unsuccessful.

he worked at a local school. very sad when anybody loses their life. definitely huge impact to that school and the community at-large. >> community events. kaiser locations in the city. this is going on through tomorrow. we are monitoring that. the warriors are in town versus the 76ers on the 24th. the trailblazers on the 26th. we will be at that event. gabriel performing at chase center 27th of this month at 8:00 p.m. golden gate park has hey number of event -- has a number of events including concert series

tonight. orchestra on the 20th. sunday performance on the 21st. turkey trot on the 25th. the last thing to report we are monitoring the trials going on in georgia and wisconsin. the ritten house trial in wisconsin and the trial of the defendants on the aubrey case in georgia. one case has gone to the jury and the other case is in the process. we are monitoring that. don't have any information that they will impact our city. we will keep monitoring to see how those events play out. that is my report. thank you. >> thank you, chief. a few questions. did you say that the decrease in autoburgs in the high tourists areas by the wharf were due to extra patrols?

>> we think that is part of it. what we have seen, commissioner, and some is displaced. we arevis sable and patrol we see the auto burglaries go down. we are trying to arrest people there. we have made arrests on these individuals. when we see additional patrols typically it goes down and up in other areas. we keep an eye on displacement. we do think it is effective during some of that activity where we are patrolling. >> you mentioned increase in ghost guns. is the department working with the district attorney and his litigation against the ghost gun manufacturers? >> we have not had any movement on that. i think the legislation just happened. i don't know if it has passed

yet. ghost guns and we have a gun related incident. if it is privately manufactured ghost gun or fire alarm, there are loopholes in the law for ghost guns that i hope will be shored up. i think some of them have. going after the manufacturers. we have to take the guns back to the manufacturers. we have not had a lot of that yet. hopefully we will have success. we had one or two cases that turned out to be federal cases. we are willing to work with the district attorney and do everything to impact the manufacturers to tie the guns back to the manufacturer. this is really what is happening in our state. this is an issue that goes beyond california. we do a better job than some jurisdictions outside of california in reporting the

recovery of ghost guns. we have to go after the manufacturer. we appreciate the district attorney's efforts along with the federal partners to address this issue. >> that is great. thank you, chief. fellow commissioners, questions? >> thank you, vice president. good evening chief. >> good evening. the callers on the ending racially bias low level traffic stops had reached out to president and vice president. have they reached out to you or your office as well? >> no. definitely i would love for us to work with whoever is in those

groups. we are in the process of our traffic stop policies that will come to the commission when we get a policy done. >> i have been working with them. i believe they are going to reach out to you at some points. it would be great if they could get a meeting to express a little bit more in detail what they were talking about this evening. it is something happening at the national level with a number of other major jurisdictions. i think it is important that we look into it and find a way to address this in a way that does maintain the safety for bicycles and pedestrians and everybody else in the city. look out for a letter or e-mail from them.

the other thing i want to follow up on what commissioner will elias raised. is there -- we talked about a unit or units in the auto burglary section. i forget what it is call exactly. basically they go to areas by tourist hotspots or areas where there is indications that may be from past incidents that there is a high probability of them occurring. maybe that is something -- how is that going? you know, what i have been seeing people commenting about

it. i was wondering how that is going from the department side? >> it's definitely we have had some good outcomes since we started to do that. it's not enough. we have seen a sharp rise in these over last year anyway. we have had good outcomes. i will use the term that we say it is. [indiscernable] to understand where these crimes are happening. we see spikes, crews coming in. 10, 15 cars in a short amount of time on a couple blocks. we would like to prevent that. the bottom line when they see officers they will go somewhere else. then we see -- a good example.

fine arts we have a lot of break-ins. legion of honor. we put officers there. it went down dramatically. we saw it at lombar street. it is trying to catch them in progress. it is humbling work. we do see when we put officers there we can at least impact an area. the issue is we can't put officers on every possible where these could occur. >> is there anything -- i know your staff by going to where people are selling the items. what about with the back in way to investigate this or all a

matter of getting lucky, being in the right place at the right time and getting a tip? is there another way to address this? >> that is a great question. thanks for asking. we are involved in several investigations of that nature. we have had some success on investigations in the past where we have gotten search warrants to prove to the courts and conducted them offensing operations, and we recovered laptops and those items taken from car burglaries in quite a few of them. there is that side of the work happening as well. we have a team of investigators doing that. district attorney's office is working with us doing some of their own of that type of work. dia and we are working together to make sure we are coordinated

to attack this issue. >> it is ongoing and things, the tough issues. i don't think it is fair to beat up on the department when it is so hard to investigate if it happens. all you have is a pile of broken glass and in the right place at the right time. reporting on the square miles. i thought i would check in. thank you, chief. >> thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you, madam vice president. chief, i am trying to get a holed of the data for car break-ins to get it from

sergeant stacy. i would like to look into on the car rental cars that are coming without of state license plates, that is not with the department of consumers affairs. maybe the rental cars be held accountable for out of state vehicles to consumers to be harder to id the perpetrators that break into cars a tend to target out of state vehicles. knowing they are out of state. two, they are probably visiting with luggage and items inside the vehicles. a lot of times that can be an

additional car break in step. our visitors and resident in the city are subject to it. maybe we can cut that down. i was going to see if we can get that data out on the car break-ins from out of state license plates. i will probably circle back with stacy on that. number two, thank you, chief, for the opportunity to meet with commissioner jim burns and myself on the tenderloin issues. i know you have been working hard on it. commissioner jim burns is pushing it. there is changes that i see. i drive through there not every day but when i do go by downtown, i usually make it a point to swing around there.

i don't know that there are dramatic changes. there are changes on hyde and turk and golden gate. that is right in there. a step in the right direction. more importantly, close to my heart is the pedestrian fatality on union and franklin street. that is my kids route. [please stand by]

>> we kick off the traffic safety and pedestrian safety event and we have the director superintendent school officials. last year we didn't do it because the schools are closed. this year, we didn't do it and i don't know why. it's really important not only

the patrols and our officers and the schools and the crossing guards are at risk to their health. we do still patrol around schools, do traffic operations around schools. and those traffic messages are important. paying attention to signs and that kind of thing. i meet with the superintendent on a pretty regular basis. it's not too late and it's never too late and so i'll keep you posted the next time i meet

with the superintendent. we'll revisit that because it's never too late to put that type of messaging out there. >> thank you very much, chief. >> vice president elias: thank you, commissioner yee. commissioner byrne, did you have anything to add? >> commissioner byrne: no. >> vice president elias: can we take public comment. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. if you'd like to make public comment, please press star three now. vice president elias, we have no public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you. director henderson. actually. sergeant, can you call the next line and we can hear from director henderson. >> clerk: line item four, dpa

director's report. discussion. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future meetings. >> director: good evening. i have a brief report this evening. we have currently 684 cases that have been opened so far this year. at this time last year, we had 702. we've closed 776 cases this year. this time last year, we closed 782. we have currently pending 267 open cases. we have sustained 41 cases so far this year. that's a small uptake from last year when we sustained 38 cases. and we have 21 cases through investigations are taking longer than nine months so far

which is down from 33 which is where we were this time last year. of those 21 cases that have taken longer than nine months, 18 of the cases are cold cases. we mediated 36 cases so far this year which is uptick from last year at this time. since the last time we met, we have received six new cases with a total of seven different allegations. 29 of the allegations are for officers behaving or speaking in a manner unbecoming of an officer. 14% of the allegations are split evenly amongst officers preparing an incomplete or inaccurate citation and 14% for alleging that officers were

discourteous relating to ethnicity or race. the issues relating to ethnicity or race. the commissioners asked me to highlight this and articulate that in the weekly breakdown of the cases that came in. in the cases, it involved various issues. one would call for a traffic citation and another one when an officer was encountered and asked to provide information to a complainant. one of the cases came from northern station. one of the cases came from the airport and one case came from mission. three of the cases have not -- we have not determined from the investigation which precinct took place yet. in terms of the audit, i have

nothing new beyond the breakdown that i gave last week, but as i indicated, the letter and the outline of the audit was sent to the department and that did take place this week and foreshadowed that last week. in terms of outreach, on the 15th, dpa hosted a long justice reform international presentation that involved interns as well and several california universities and law schools were invited to come. we're really committed to trying to keep our internship program up and running specifically while folks and students are transitioning back into school. for today's agenda, we have no cases that are on the closed session involving dpa and the senior investigated tonight on

the call in case an issue comes up is chris chisnell. the contact information if people want to contact dpa directly. the phone number is 241-7741. and i will note, we have nothing else on today's agenda, but there is information that is contained on the calendar involving more of our records and more of our reports. and susan gray is here from my office in case there are questions related to any of that information. i believe that that concludes my report, but i may have a followup later. >> vice president elias: thank you, director henderson. a couple of questions for you. of you said that 14% of the complaints you received were failure to take required action. what does that mean exactly? is that failure to investigate?

failure of an officer to take a police report? >> director: it could be any or both of those things. i try not to get too very specific especially because when i speak at this weekly thing, these are just the allegations, so i try to take not a 5,000' level but just a general category without being too specific. also because and i hesitate to drill down too deeply because this is at the stage where they're still allegations and so, i do a little more investigation and you'll get more of the details in the monthly, quarterly, and annual report from all of these things. this is just to give you a direction and what kind of complaints based on what the public is saying. >> vice president elias: is there a certain particular area that these are coming? are you seeing any trends or patterns in terms of they're coming out of certain district station or is that too -- >> director: not really. at this macro level where i'm

doing it weekly like this, it's kind of just all over. so you'll get some of that analysis in the monthly reports. you'll get more of it in the quarterly reports and then you get a really thorough analysis in the annual reports where it's all broken down and highlighted and you can look precinct to precinct to see where the majority are going. but it's hard for me to gage it week to week other than wow something happened this week. typically, when i notice something like that, it's people involved in the same incident. three people were in the car and they all called and it looks like there's a certain spike in the precinct, but it's more reflective of that. i'd rather give information week to week. >> vice president elias: fair enough. i appreciate that. the other thing i'm going to ask you to do is the next meeting or the meeting after before the end of the year, if you can update us on dpa's plan of action with respect to the

new law and the expansion of 1421? i'm working with the department on updating the policies and procedures, but i think it's important just to give the public an idea of what dpa plans to do in terms of when the new law takes effect in january. >> director: i'd love to and i actually have stuff i can talk about. the other thing that i was just going to say in terms of these allegations, one of the ways that you can look at them and correlate them is maybe to look at what internal affairs cases are and so if there's a context. if it feels kind of like an asilo. because if you're able to examine the correlation, you're able to see trends just from the cases and some of the cases translating into the case that is are going into internal affairs because we still don't really have a good tracking mechanism to know what these numbers are as they're building. >> vice president elias:

right. thank you, director henderson. i'm going to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. i see commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: first of all, i want to thank director henderson for inviting me over to his office at dpa and it was great to go down there and meet the staff and see how the operations happen. my question probably will be going forward and knowing that there will be a sheriff oversight that you'll be working on. i'm just wondering what impact it will have on us here and the police department. so i know he's got everything. he's always got it. he's always sort of one step ahead of me. three steps ahead of me and one step ahead of cindy.

>> director: i think it's premature to talk about it. we should schedule it sooner than later.

every commissioner is invited to come down at any time and just so we're clear, we just had a brief presentation about some of the pillars with folks in the dpa and folks from the audit department, and the chief of investigation giving an overview of how the day-to day cases work and the kind of work that we do in correlation to where we do the way it works thank you so much for raising that issue and maybe we can schedule the -- i'll let you guys when there's something to

be said about sheriffs. thank you very much. and thanks for coming down. my staff was happy to see you down there and be able to share with you what was going on. >> vice president elias: yeah. i haven't been able to see the new digs. >> director: yeah. it's really fancy and government at it the finest. >> vice president elias: okay. commissioner byrne, commissioner hamasaki, anything? public comment. >> clerk: if you'd like to make public comment, please press star three now. and, vice president elias, we have no public comment. >> vice president elias: great. next item, please. >> clerk: line item five, commission reports will be limited to a brief discussion

of announcements. to determine whether to calendar any of the future issues raised in a future meeting action. >> vice president elias: thank you. nothing major for me to report this week. we will be getting a new commissioner. he was confirmed by the board yesterday. max carter-oberstone. he will be joining us at our next meeting and we look forward to welcoming him to our family. we'll start with commissioner yee. i know you've been really busy. anything else to report. >> commissioner yee: thank you, vice president elias. i have nothing else to report.

>> vice president elias: thank you. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: no ma'am. >> vice president elias: okay. all right. you're up commissioner byrne. >> commissioner byrne: just to reiterate what commissioner yee said, we had a meeting last friday with staff that was very informative. other people that commented online, commented on changes as commissioner yee did. there's still lots of work to be done there, but it's nice to see things getting better. i look forward to swearing in the commissioner this friday at city hall and i hope i'm able to attend and see some of my fellow commissioners. >> vice president elias: thank you. one thing i did want to mention, i received a letter

from glide regarding pretext stops. if you could resend the letter. >> i believe that commissioner hamasaki was working on these. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. i think the letter was supposed to be on behalf of the coalition, but i'm not certain. i haven't seen it, but i can check in with them and connect with you and figure out the best way to move this forward. okay. can we take public comment, sergeant. >> clerk: for members of the public regarding line item five, commission reports, please press star three now. vice president elias, we have

no public comment. >> vice president elias: great. thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: line item six. presentation of the early intervention system 2nd quarter 2021 report. discussion. >> vice president elias: all right. who do we have up? >> we have commissioner paul yett. >> vice president elias: commander, congratulations. >> thank you very much. i'll get started. good evening commissioners and vice president elias, police commissioners. good evening, director henderson and chief scott. i'm with the risk management office and i'm here today to present to you our early intervention system, the summary for the second quarter

of 2021. thank you, sergeant youngblood. we have a presentation on our screen. let's start with the early intervention system. i'm going to refer to that as 'eis' going forward. but the san francisco police department preevengs system of individual sfpd members. the intent of the system is to provide nondisciplinary measures to provide the highest level of satisfaction to the public. this is a very comprehensive report. i will be focusing on the highlights. next slide, please. i'd like to give full credit for this report to the team at our legal divisions. this is one of the many

projects they've worked on and we have two preventional staff. thank you for putting this presentation together. okay. what is the early intervention system. we'll get into the details further in this presentation. it provides officers with resources and tools. what the early intervention is not, it's not about warning supervisors or officers. rather it's a way to help officers before they experience adverse events. let's talk about an e.i.s. alert. we'll get into those in a

predefining time period. and that's reviewed alerts are reviewed. the validated alerts are. every other month for review. all right. let's talk about the intervention. let me go ahead and describe what those are. so use of force, department of public accountability complaints, officer-involved shootings, officer-involved discharges. e.e.o. complaints, internal division affairs complaints and vehicle pursuits. so if an e.i.s. is triggered, if an alert is triggered by these indicators, then we will dig deeper and look at

associated factors and those associated factors are citizen compliments. there are 14 of them. citizen citations by officers, the training spops. discretionary time off. so looking at their line of work. criminal cases dismissed. department of works and negative attributes. reports by the officer. charges of assault on an officer and charges of resisting an officer. so quite a comprehensive list. let's go ahead and talk about what those thresholds are. it just takes one officer involved shooting or one officer involved discharge. three or more use of force incidents in a three-month

period. three or more dpa complaints in a 6-month period. four or more dpa complaints in a 12-month period and any six or more indicators in a 12-month period. so there are several thresholds that can be met to trigger an e.i.s. alert. let's talk a little bit about trends. so we have a lot of data to cover. we're in quarter two and the indicators are that there's a 25% decrease in total number of indicator points from year to year. so we went from 485 in quarter two in 2020.

there's a decrease of 60% from quarter two. there is a decrease of 30% of total number of uses of force indicators covering the same time periods and then there is a decrease of 31% of dpa cases of comparison to 2020. so if we want this to trend, we want it to trend down and the numbers support that. the total is broken down by what is triggering the alerts. officer involved discharge will trigger the alert.

27 alerts were triggered by use of force. eight by a combination of factors. 0 with four or more dpa complaints. 0 is a good number. so by far the largest portion. the team really outdid themselves. there's a lot of data to go over. by far, it's specifically one alert and that's 34 members. five members triggered two alerts. we also break down the alerts

by our you know what's triggering these alerts. mission station has ten alerts and i'll go to the screen. northern richmond has one alert in quarter two of 2020. not only the patrol force, but specialized units. two of those units had triggered alerts and one each is investigative detail and our tactical detail which is part of our special operations. so what happens to these alerts

that are triggered. i was recently the captain of the northern station and i've read as a station captain many of these alerts and reviewed them and i really think they're a great tool for patrol.

as i said, a lot of data to present to you. so this is a breakdown by station and by the actual indicators. as i said this is classified by indicator points in this chart, central station in 2021. we'll just go to the other bart station which has twelve indicator points. the bar chart on top is just the bar chart with the same data. the bar graph on the lower portion of this chart i'm sorry is the count, so it's comparing year to year. and if you draw a trend line through that graph, you would see it's also trending down

which is a good trend down. calls for service data by station for the last twelve months. so we are looking at the percentage of stations, the percentage of alerts, the indicator points and the percentage of all calls for service for the stations in san francisco. as you see, mission station, tenderloin station, the central station, northern station, many calls for service and we're just looking at if the correlations if any with alerts. so we also look at that too. not only calls for service, but part one. violent crimes for the last four months. also, broken down by station alerts and indicator points and in this particular chart, 680

are part one violent crimes. 68 alerts and a total 341. all right. let's talk about interventions. so an outcome that could come from an alert as an intervention or two there are no open interventions. no new interventions. one intervention was completed and closed and 0 interventions that remain open. and what that means is if, you know, if we reviewed this report, we might as a supervisor put the officer on what we call an intervention. what that means is we'll provide them with resources and training, education, mentorship, whatever it takes in our power to take any sign of corrective steps. not only is there an e.i.s.

report, but outside of e.i.s., we have engagements with officers. this is not the only tool that we use. we use many tools for performance improvements. that will include formal counseling. in the same quarter, there's 55 informal counseling sessions and three officers were put on performance improvement plans by their supervisors. that concludes my presentation to you. this was compiled by sergeant naval who is also on this call and we are both available for questions. >> vice president elias: thank you, commander. i'm going to ask a few questions and then turn it over to my fellow commissioners. on page six, you indicate the decreases in the e.i.s. reporting data and i'm wondering what you're attributing the decreases to. is it the pandemic or something else? >> yeah. i think it's many factors. we're in a time where we've

just went through a pandemic. so, you know, that's always going to be a factor in pretty much everything we do. i also think there's a lot of good leadership going on at the stations. where we are looking out for officers outside of e.i.s. and we are doing more training and more counseling and we don't need an e.i.s. to tell us to do that. so i'm going to just credit our department and the people in our department for the work they did and then additionally, you know all the officers know about the e.i.s. system too and, you know, they take note of that and they know what indicators are. they're very mindful of these types of, you know, whether it's a complaint or any of the indicators and they're mindful of their actions that they take every day. >> vice president elias: well, that's good to hear. the other question i had is on pages 24, 33 of the bigger report.

it indicates that the airport bureau is up by 71.4% and that the tax force went from 0 to 6. what is that attributed to? >> i really can't speak to the airport. i'd really have to look into a deeper dive of that data in order to give you a good answer. i can tell you from being on patrol that the gang task force because of a lot of violence i know the chief has talked about in these meetings that they have been very active and proactive in a patrol function in high-risk situations where they want to take high-risk suspects into custody. so that is my anecdotal answer to you. i did not research that and i don't have the exact data to speak to it. >> vice president elias: okay. my final question is aren't we

moving to a more databased or data driven type of system rather than what we currently have and when can we expect that? >> absolutely. so i was informed as i took my post for my new assignment and this was the lieutenant who came into my office and said i need to tell you about benchmarks and benchmarks is a system that we want to move to. i have scheduled a meeting next week with our i.t. division and we are going to talk about the nuts and bolts of how -- what's it going to take to go from a.i.m. to benchmark. and i envision future working groups to discuss how this is going to happen and do it in a very strategic way. so it is moving forward. i don't have a time frame for you, but i will tell you that it is very high on my priority list and i know a lot of folks

already have been doing it on the back end and i want to carry that through. >> vice president elias: i'm really happy. go ahead, chief. >> i was just going to say if i could add to it. of the process, some of the things that have to be done. now that we are doing business with benchmark which is great because we've been waiting on this a long time to get a vendor in. the transfer of data, those types of things, we still have to work out some of that. we're in the process of doing that. there's also -- we want to make sure where it's also about a system that really works for, you know, for us, for the commission, for the public. and we had some visions as to what that is if there is some details that have to be worked out. so the good thing is that we're on our way and as commander's transition, you'll be part of these meetings and we'll definitely, if you want to have a commissioner be apart of these discussions, that would

be great as well. but what the commission i know we've had many discussions on what the commission would like to see what some of the answers you want to get. so it would be great to have that apart of how we architect this system that we're trying to develop. >> vice president elias: yeah. i think -- yeah. definitely. i'm excited about benchmark. i've heard great things and i think that the new system is going to give us a more accurate picture of what's going on and allow the department to track things that really do need to be tracked. the other thing is i'm hoping that obviously, i know commissioner dejesus was happy about fixing the flaws. i know she'll be happy to hear that benchmark is being brought in. ful i do think commissioners should be involved as well as dpa in this process. we will circle back with you to get someone assigned and get that ball rolling. but great job, commander.

congratulations on the promotion. fellow commissioners? commissioner byrne. >> commissioner byrne: who came up with the indicators? >> thanks for the question, commissioner. so i know that the e.i.s. system is not a new system. so it's been in play. i don't know the exact amount of years, but i want to say roughly something like ten years. go ahead. >> commissioner byrne: go on. i'm sorry. >> yeah. so these are -- those indicators were chosen at that time and i wasn't part of the group that chose them, but i can speak to my experience in this department and i can say those are very valid indicators. but to commissioner elias's

point, that was ten years ago and we're going to have a discussion about other indicators and things we might be missing and things we might change to improve on the system. >> commissioner byrne: is there any way when officers subsequently, you know, are getting to i'll just say pop warner, that these indicators were present prior to them getting into the hot water? in other words, a correlation this officer is in trouble, we're going to terminate him? is there a correlation between that and these indicators as a predictor of future problems. >> sure. i think we would need to do an analysis to really give you the direct answer to your question.

then i can speak and say that the indicators that were chosen are chosen for a reason and that's because they are expected. if you have multiple uses of force, that is something that we need to intervene. that's a reason to intervene and to have a discussion on what's going on and take a deep dive into each case. they're very well and i would need to get back to you to see what the data says. >> commissioner byrne: and, finally, as you brought up. most of the people that are indicators are related to use of force if i understood the statistics. >> i'm sorry, commissioner. i couldn't quite hear the question. >> commissioner byrne: okay. it won't be the first time. when i looked at the data, it

appeared to me most of the people that ended up in this e.i.s. system related to use of force as opposed to some of the other indicators. if i understand the statistics. >> use of force was the top indicator. >> commissioner byrne: okay. and i understand because there's a use of force and there's a concern of there being an over use of force hence the deep dives. thank you, commander. >> thank you, commissioner. >> vice president elias: commissioner byrne i would encourage you to speak to our every so talented sergeant youngblood and i'm sure he can give you the historical knowledge that you're speaking on this program. >> commissioner byrne: you know, just a cross b and does b cross c?

and that appears to be the tenate of the thing is and some of it makes sense to me, but it'd be nice if there's a way of tracking the officers that are disciplined as to where those early indicators there because that would be a way of saying the useful benchmark and future trouble. that's all. that was my only thing. i'm new and i'm trying to understand. >> vice president elias: oh, no. believe me. it's very confusing. it took me awhile to get it. any other commissioners? commissioner yee? commissioner hamasaki? no. okay. sergeant youngblood, can we have public comment, please. thank you, commander. >> clerk: for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item six, please press star three now.

good evening, caller, you have two minutes. >> caller: good evening, commissioners. in hopes of hearing the call tonight, i wanted to reiterate the iron wall prohibition which explains if i have done several times previously that the pursuit of specific substances or substances in general tends to cause more potent substances and we as a society are causing our own problems. where we can see this emphasized is with teenagers. so our teenagers consume hard liquor versus european teenagers consume beer and

wine. if we want to make a change in our city and i think we do about substances, i hope that we might consider one that has been proven by science to create safer substances in our city. so by eliminating prohibition. as and that doing so on a regular basis causes more and that is to a more dangerous and more violent situation. thank you very much,

commissioners. that is the end of public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you, next item, please. >> clerk: line item seven, vote on whether to hold item ten in closed session. if you'd like to make public comment, please press star three now. and vice president elias, we have no public comment. >> vice president elias: great. thank you. can i get a motion? i'm sorry, is it the next item, sergeant. >> clerk: yes, ma'am. line item eight. vote on whether to hold closed session 67.10. action. >> commissioner: i'll motion. >> vice president elias: thank

you. a second? >> commissioner: second. >> vice president elias: thank you, commissioner yee. >> clerk: on the motion, [roll call] >> do we need comment? >> comment was before. >> oh, sorry. >> clerk: [roll call] you have four yeses. >> vice president elias: great thank you. >> clerk: all right. i will take us into closed . >> clerk: item nine held in closed session. action. >> vice president elias: sorry. can i get a motion. >> commissioner: so moved not to disclose any of the items in closed session. >> vice president elias:

second. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose, [roll call] you have four yeses. >> vice president elias: great. next item. >> clerk: line item 11. adjournment. action item. >> vice president elias: great. all right. i think that's it. i hope you all have a wonderful thanksgiving. >> have a good thanksgiving everybody.

>> i view san francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. i just love the city. i love everything about it. when i'm away from it, i miss it like a person. i grew up in san francisco kind of all over the city. we had pretty much the run of the city 'cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would -- in the summer, we'd all all the way down to aquatic park, and we'd walk down to the library, to the kids' center. in those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. i went to high school in spring valley. it was over the hill from chinatown. it was kind of fun to experience being in a minority,

which most white people don't get to experience that often. everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. when i was a teenager, we didn't have a lot of money. we could go to sam wong's and get super -- soup for $1. my parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. they wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious mental illness issues, and i don't think my father were really aware of that, and those didn't really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized.

when i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. i remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. it was wonderful. toward the end. my mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. we would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. we always came back to san francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. my mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship.

so she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant -- florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. i think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. i used to write short stories, and i thought someday i'm going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. when i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. i found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything i'd really been taught but felt very safe to me. i think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a

very organized, but stable environment. and even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. my girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvio's bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. for a moment, i thought i was me. and i turned to my friend and i said, i think i'm supposed to do this. i saw myself driving in this car. as a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there weren't any until the mid70's, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. when i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. one of my bosses as ben johnson's had been a cop, and he -- i said, i have this weird

idea that i should do this. he said, i think you'd be good. the department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. so the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. finally took an inspector's test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. i just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didn't know if we'd ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. he transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found

out i had breast cancer. my intuition that the job was killing me. i ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. the writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didn't know. they didn't know my story, they didn't know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. it just poured out of me. i gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. i am so lucky to live here. i am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. i am so grateful they did. that it neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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initiatives to support trans and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> we've created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and the mayor's office. we've also worked to really address where there's gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income, access to small businesses and employment and education. so we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. >> among the priorities, the office of transgender initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the

country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of work to make sure we're addressing and naming those anti-trans policies and doing what we can to combat them. >> trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether that's local government, state government. we've always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get opportunities to participate because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. >> the pandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength

in the lgbtq and trans community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and

coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. >> being apart of the grou

allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before, i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a

great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize. so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i

want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve. so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪]

>> chair haney: this meeting will come to order. this is the november 17, 2021 budget and finance committee meeting. i'm matt haney, chair of the budget and finance committee. i'm joined by supervisors safai and dean preston who is here in place of supervisor mar, who is not -- who will be with us at noon. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, the minutes will reflect that committee members participated in this remote

meeting through video conference. the board recognizes that the public access to city services is essential. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, either channel 26, 78, or 99 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. comments or opportunities to speak during public comment period are available via phone call by calling 1-415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 2495 103 7123 # # when you connected you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. press star 3 to be added to the speaker line. speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television, radio

or streaming device. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways, e-mail myself, brent jalipa, city clerk. if you submit by e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. written comments may be sent via u.s. postal service to city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california. 94102. mr. chair, for items 2 and 9 we did employ the office of community engagement and immigrant affairs to provide spanish interpretation for those items. if you can kind make your

announcements? >> thank you. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] thank you.

>> thank you. and finally, mr. chair, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the supervisor's agenda of november 30th unless otherwise stated. and that concludes my comments. >> chair haney: all right. thank you. we have a very full budget and finance committee agenda today, so i appreciate everyone being brief with their presentations and for some of the items we'll have one minute in public comment which i'll announce. please call item 1. >> ahead of item 1, mr. chair, if we can have a motion to excuse supervisor mar until his arrival. >> chair haney: yes, i want to make a motion to excuse supervisor mar. >> on the motion to excuse supervisor mar? >> commissioner safai: aye. >> commissioner preston: aye. >> chair haney: aye. >> we have three ayes.

>> chair haney: great. call item 1. >> thank you. item number 1 is a resolution approving amendment number 3 to the agreement between the san francisco aids foundation and the department of public health to provide h.i.v. prevention services through city-wide syringe access and possessal services for a total amount not to exceed $42.1 million with no change to the contract term of july 1, 2016 through june 30, 2026 to commence upon board approval. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001. meeting i.d., 2495 103 7123 # #. if you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand.

please wait until the system indicates you've been unmuted and you may begin your comments. mr. chair? >> chair haney: all right. welcome back, everyone. this was an item we had last week and we wanted an update on some of the specific metrics and outcomes and so i'll turn it over to you all. >> good morning, supervisors. this is tracy packer from the department of public health. the director of the community health equity and promotion branch and we were continued to this week. we're requesting approval of a resolution to amend the agreement between the san francisco aids foundation and the health department for h.i.v. prevention and hepatitis-c prevention services syringe access and disposal services. so the contract we're asking to amend is for access and disposal services. today i have nicole trainer with us. nicole is the contract manager and she'll give you more

information and overview. we also have eileen lock rann and hannah shore who are experts on disposal services so they can answer any questions you might have. nicole, i'll turn it over to you. >> sure, good morning, supervisors. tracy mentioned the resolution before you today. again to provide h.i.v. and heptathlon -- this is to address the h.i.v. and hep-c health disparities through this drug. syringe access services and disposal services throughout the city, specifically focusing on increased h.i.v. and hep-c testing, health education, harm reduction support, which is inclusive of sterile injection,

naloxone, test strip distribution and low-barrier substance use treatment. during last week, it was requested we provide you with an update of the $1.6 million surplus fund awarded to d.p.h. the 1.6 million was added to two separate contracts outside of the syringe access and disposal contract that is before you today. of the $1.6 million, $1 million was awarded to the coalition and education project. funding for this project began on july 1, 2021. the s.r.o. overdose prevention program seek to implement a program in s.r.o.s. this new funding expands and continues the initial work in key s.r.o.s to work with site management, staff and residents

to prevent overdose deaths. services provided under this contract include outreach, site recruitment, individual training and group overdose training. the program starts activity completed since the start of the program, so since the start, funding -- the funding notice was implemented. the program has hired a bilingual program manager to expand efforts in s.r.o. and permanent supportive housing sites. staff has translated all training and resources and signage materials. the program has worked with housing clinics to update policies that once prohibited staff from administering naloxone while at work. this allows for staff to be trained and have naloxone supply on site. they have also installed 100

naloxone stations at the tenderloin housing clinic. so that's the update for the first contract. the remaining $600,000 was awarded to the san francisco aids foundation mobile contingency management program implementation. the goal of the intervention is to reduce the negative health impacts and overdose risk among people who use drugs with a focus on mitigation and creation of substance use goal and stabilization. for this contract, funding began on july 1, 2021. services provided under this contract include 101 no threshold counseling, contingency management and safe use, using alone coaching, individual goal-setting, client referrals, narcan training and linkage to outpatient drug treatment services at the foundation. the program started activities that have completed since the contract start date as the

program has implemented their outreach efforts. this is inclusive of outreach conducted daily, monday through friday, daily, day time, and evening hours on the streets of tenderloin, soma and mission neighborhoods. there are a team of two harm reduction staff with lived experiences and bilingual spanish-speaking capabilities which have been hired to provide this much needed street-based services in high-impact locations. as of the end of october, 2021, the team has interacted with 527 people. they have distributed 628 doses of nasal naloxone and have had a community report of reveral of 164 overdoses. the team is extremely knowledgeable in fentanyl use and provides coaching sessions. this session also includes training on how to correctly use

test strips and make other life-saving choices. so i would also like to mention that the program i described above are welcome -- really welcome the opportunity to provide further programmatic updates as each of these progress. thank you for letting me present before you today. >> supervisors, thank you. if i may, nicole, thank you so much for an excellent description. as a reminder, what nicole described is surplus funding that are separate contracts that are not before you today. today what is on the agenda is to approve the resolution to amend the contract between the san francisco aids foundation and the health department for syringe access and disposal services. so just to be clear with that. and nicole did an excellent job of preparing information about

the other contracts that you had questions about, but those are not on the agenda for today, so thank you. >> hi, just to note, the chair is having connectivity issues and we did lose him. >> he did text me the same thing. >> okay. so vice chair safai, not sure if you'll want us to either open public comment or recess? >> commissioner safai: why don't we go ahead with public comment, mr. clerk. >> clerk: very well. so, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item, please press star 3. for those already on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you've been unmuted. mr. adkins, let us know if there are any callers.

>> commissioner safai: he's back. >> chair haney: sorry. my mouse died. >> commissioner safai: we're doing public comment. >> one more time, mr. adkins? mr. adkins, one more time confirm if we have any speakers? >> mr. clerk, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. mr. chair? >> chair haney: thank you. apologize about that. i only honestly caught half of the presentation because the computer stopped, so i don't have any further questions, but i'm going to have to get further answers and things offline. colleagues, any questions or comments? >> nope. i asked mine all last week.

>> chair haney: all right. with that, i make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. can we have a roll call vote, please? >> clerk: mr. chair, i want to double check if the b.l.a. had an updated report on this item? >> nick menard from the budget legislative analyst. we don't have a report for this item. thank you. >> clerk: and mr. chair, further, the b.l.a. did recommend -- i just wanted to confirm if the committee is accepting the b.l.a.'s recommendation that requesting -- or the committee requesting that the department of public health provide a written report to the committee with updated performance data through fiscal years 2020 to 2021. if the committee is making that request, i can note that on the minutes.

>> chair haney: yes. >> clerk: thank you very much. so i'm sorry, mr. chair, did you make the motion already to forward to the full board? >> chair haney: yeah. >> clerk: okay. on the motion to forward this item to the full board as recommended, vice chair safai? >> commissioner safai: aye. >> commissioner preston: aye. >> chair haney: aye. >> we have three ayes. >> chair haney: great, thank you. thanks, everyone. >> thank you very much. >> chair haney: please call item 2. >> clerk: yes, item 2. ordinance appropriating $64.1 million from the fiscal cliff reserve to the mayor's office of housing and community development for rent relief under the rent resolution and relief fund and approximately $64.1 million for the acquisition, creation and operation of affordable social housing under the housing

stability fund in fiscal year 2021-2022. the members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001, meeting i.d., 2495 103 7123 # #. if you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. wait until the system says you've been unmuted. as stated earlier, we're working with the office of community engagement and immigrant affairs. >> interpreter: thank you very much. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]

thank you. mr. chair? >> chair haney: thank you. we have with us our guest member of the committee, supervisor preston to present on this item. >> thanks so much, chair haney. and before us today is appropriate funds for the emergency housing acquisition plan. chair haney, i want to thank you for being an early and original co-sponsor of this and prop i which is the source of all of this. the purpose of the allocation is to make a significant investment in our city's ability to take at-risk properties, to step in and purchase those buildings for

permanently affordable housing and prevent pandemic displacement. i want to thank all of our cosponsors on this. i mentioned chair haney, president walton, peskin, mar, ronen and chan as well. hopefully, that is a growing list. this effort as i mentioned is predicated on prop i passed last november with support of 58% of san francisco voters. the voters overwhelmingly approved prop i with the understanding the money would be split evenly between the rent relief and social housing in the first two years and later exclusively used for social housing and this board unanimously approved a resolution reflecting that understanding in august of 2020. the controller has projected that prop i, their original projections would generate approximately $128 million in new revenue this year. that's what this appropriation is based on. four months into the fiscal year

we know that the actual amount raised is far exceeding that. it's already $82 million just in the first four months on phase 2, far exceeds the projected amount. in creating the housing stability fund, the board created a companion oversight board to provide guidance and recommendations on the use of prop i funds. despite delays, the board has met three times and at its meeting on october 28, passed a unanimous resolution on how to direct the funds received in this fiscal year. the oversight board's resolution, the board of supervisors, urges them to approve emergency allocation for the acquisition and preservation of existing multi-family buildings to prevent displacement. the recommendation is based on a report published by the oversight board that shows we're

at a precarious crossroads in our recovery. it shows a snapshot on the private market. city-wide, there are 109 buildings totalling 1065 units of housing currently for sale. -- in the interest of time, i won't go through the district specific numbers, but it is clear that san francisco's real estate market is on the rebound with growing participation and interest among real estate speculators. this is familiar to those who were here during our last economic dip. this is a similar phenomenon that followed the great recession in 2008. in the aftermath of that constitutional investment firms, corporate landlords went on a

spending spree taking advantage of their position and consolidate properties in san francisco. it went from being a big player and landlord to really being a local behemoth. we know the private equity model, their profit margins are a function of displacement. it's not just a coincidence, it's how the profit margins are constructed. the more they can move, the more they can bring them up to market rate. it's how they make their money. the crisis in san francisco is the direct result of this market dynamic. it happened across the country and resulted in where we are today where investors are responsible for buying nearly 1 in 6 homes sold in america. we failed to stop the recession-fueled displacement a decade ago, but this time we have a chance to change course. prop i has positioned the city

to pilot new and expanding and existing affordable housing programs and that's what this ordinance before you, colleagues, seeks to do. it seeks to deliver on the proposition of prop i and unanimous resolution passed here by this board, use the transfer tax revenue for social housing, in this moment, in accordance with the oversight board and amount immediate injection of $64 million to acquire properties, scaling up our acquisition program to an unprecedented level in our city's history just when we need it most. i think we not only have the opportunity but obligation to take action. we heard this morning, and thank you, chair haney, for joining the press conference. we heard from families who have lived in their homes for decades and are terrified about the displacement as their buildings are put on the market. and they're pleading with us to intervene.

this call to action has been heard and amplified by individuals and organizations across the city. i will not go through the list that i was planning to go through, again, because i know that the agenda here is busy, but i will say there are 35 different organizations already supporting this representing really a broad coalition of community housing and community groups. i want to note that the support this effort has received from organized labor, from the san francisco labor council, to many of our local unions and it comes on the heels of their housing workers report produced by chiu and jobs of justice with the leadership of supervisor mar, the board, highlighting how the system has not worked for working families in san francisco. so one of the strategies described in that report was to invest significantly in housing

acquisition. it's exactly what we endeavor to make good on today and this $64 million investment will make sure we can preserve the home for san franciscans and do so at scale. so, you know, i want to reiterate, this is not a new idea, but it would be a new chapter to have this program finally resourced in a way that it can scale up. and i want to reiterate my commitment to continuing our partnership with mayor's office of housing and community development, so if approved these funds get out the door as quickly and possible and with maximum impact across the district. then, chair haney, i can describe for you later or now, but we, you know, i previously circulated amendments that we intend to make that i'm told are non-substantive. currently the ordinance seeks so allocate $128 million to two separate programs.

$64 million to the resolution and relief fund. and $64 million to the housing stability fund. our intention is to duplicate, create separate file for the allocation to the rent relief on the one hand and the allocation of the housing stability fund on the other hand. we're not seeking to change the amounts for each of those, nor the source of funds and as i mentioned, these are non-substantive. -- deemed by the attorney. i want to reiterate no time to waste on getting these funds out there. i appreciate you, chair haney, for scheduling this, especially given how packed the agenda is. and with that, chair haney, we do a planned presentation from caroline from mission economic development association, one of the groups with extensive acquisition experience. and i know o.c.d. is available for questions and there was a b.l.a. report on this item.

thank you, chair haney. >> chair haney: great, thank you, supervisor preston for your leadership. as you and i have discussed, there is a critical urgent need for these funds to be available to prevent displacement. we've had a number of situations, some of which are ongoing in my district where if we were to see these buildings go in the private market and be sold off, families would absolutely be displaced. it's not something we can ever get back. very often these buildings are in communities that have already faced tremendous displacement, like the south of market. sometimes they're in cultural districts and i also really want to emphasize a need when we make a commitment like the cultural district to say that this is the cultural and historic home of a community, we actually have to

take concrete steps to make sure that they can stay. and so when families or residents from that community are being displaced in front of our eyes, this is an absolutely critical tool for us to be able to step in and prevent it. and so, yes, we need to build more housing and affordable housing. we talked about that, and we need to do a lot more, but we also need to protect people who are here now. i know this is unusual to do a supplemental like this, but we've also been clear and i've communicated this as well as the chair, we've been clear about how he has -- the prop i funds. so that is also an unusual situation, but i think having these funds available. i cannot wait. it will allow to us keep people in their homes.

and i think that's a goal that is worth the cost without a doubt. so, i know we have a presentation. i see supervisor safai. b.l.a., do you want to make your comments now, supervisor safai? >> just to a say a few words. thank you, caroline for being here today. she has been such an amazing partner. we honored her and meta, particularly her for her amazing work. not a lot of women of color in the field. and she called her on a friday, she called me back on a monday. and i think by the next week we had an offer in on the largest acquisition in city's history in my district. so i am an extreme supporter of the small-site program. i think that building has 23 units, five commercial spaces. we did another one last year, in

fact, the only small-site acquisition in the entire city with meta's help again. if you drive by it, you'll think you're in miami, it's an interesting color choice, but it's pretty cool. and it's already gotten attention of the neighbors. so i'm a big, big supporter of keeping people in the communities in which they've resided for a long time. this is a real tremendous tool. but this tool definitely needs a reboot. and the fact that we only did one acquisition last year says a lot about where we are. it's not necessarily just about the money that is in the program, but the program itself. and so i think that we're going to hear today some real positive things. we're going to hear some need for enhancing the program through the mayor's office of housing along with the housing accelerator program and i think

that moving this forward and i appreciate supervisor preston you bringing this conversation to the table, because we definitely need to have this conversation about how we're going to re-imagine this program and make this program more effective and allow it to work. based on the cost per unit outside of district 11, 10 and 9, it gets cost prohibitive. it's harder to do and utilize the small-sites program in other parts of the city because the buildings themselves are a lot more expensive and it exceeds what the cost per unit the program has designed for. also, the 80% average ami is a great way to stabilize working people's housing, middle class housing, whatever you want to call it. and that is another really important aspect of this program. so just wanted to say those words of support. also really wanted to uplift

caroline and the amazing work she was done and thank you, supervisor preston, for bringing this conversation forward today. really appreciate the need to have in-depth analysis of this. thank you, mr. chair. >> chair haney: thank you. and thank you for those thoughtful comments. i know we're going to dig into how to make sure the funding is there and also that this really gets done and we make the acquisitions and improve the operations and the capacity and support the organizations doing the work to make it happen with us. so with that, i'll turn it over to someone who is as knowledgeable of this program as anyone. and someone i've also worked with for a long time. so i'll pass it over to you, ms. chang. >> thank you, supervisors, for your amazing work and also for being so kind. i am the director of community

real estate at mission economic development agency. i'll just quickly bring up my slides and make sure you all can see my slides. perfect. thank you, all, for introducing me. i'm sharing today how the small-site program has grown from a small pilot in 2014 that tenants, rights, activists and nonprofit developers came together to fund to where it is today. our story is how the program has been able to keep our families in place. supervisors have shared some of these stories and how we're ready to move quickly to grow the program. and why this is such a critical strategy in equitable recovery from the pandemic.

based on the legislation passed by activists, meta with the neighborhood center, san francisco land trust partnered with the city of san francisco to devise the small-site program. the program is a targeted approach to keep our most vulnerable neighbors in their long-time homes. it was launched in 2014 as a pilot with only $3 million. meta at the time was a 45-year-old services agency and we stepped up the community calls and launched our real estate program with a small site preservation as a core tool. meda has purchased 33 buildings. this has kept hundreds of households in place and has kept affordable spaces for non-profits, arts and cultural

institutions, family-run businesses. meda was purchasing 6-8 properties per year, including the ones that supervisor safai mentioned. meda is based in district 9, yet over the years, supervisors from other districts have come to meda and asked us to buy these 4 to 25-unit apartment buildings in their neighborhood to harness the power of the small-site program. these are buildings where they knew the tenants were vulnerable to displacement. to date, the city small site program has over 40 in the portfolio, 350 residential units and 27 commercial spaces. and we can grow this to be more. so how does a nonprofit buying a building off the speculative market transform the future of san francisco from one facing displacement to one where san

franciscans can stay. where our workers, our labor, our seniors, our children, our teachers, artists, nurses our in-home child care providers can stay in san francisco. this story speaks for itself. could you play the video? [ ♪♪♪ ] [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] meda is also buying buildings across the mission district that are from 4 to 25 units.

that's where we're seeing a lot of eviction happening throughout the mission. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]

beatrice and time and time again, it's been critical to keeping the families we know, as many of the supervisors know, these are our families in san francisco. this includes chloe, who after nine years in her richmond home found herself in a scenario that many tenants fear and are faced with. her landlord put her building up for sale and her status was up in the air. but for meda coming and buying her building, she, too, would have called san francisco a former home rather than a current home. so we're ready.

meda has refined the program and our own capacity to develop and own in the last six years. and we've been working as a community real estate team to continue purchasing small-sites program, but that takes funding. and while media is proud -- meda is proud to lead in the small-site efforts, at the same time we've developed the capacity as a cohort of non-profits based in neighborhoods so they can also purchase small-site property. we cannot lose the momentum that we've built. we can do more. as the only program preserving homes for san francisco's -- san franciscans today, anti-displacement has to be the priority. we know as the supervisors have

shared that with the end of pandemic, or with the pause from what was happening with the real estate market slowdown, we've seen that now we've ended the eviction moratorium and now is the time more than ever to refund the small-site program as part of the equitable recovery efforts. the pandemic has shown us that affordable and stable housing is more important than ever during this crisis. without our homes, where would we have gone when we had to shelter in place. this crisis is ongoing for many in san francisco. to date, mohcd has only funded one building for the small-site program in district 11 as supervisor safai has said. these workers have been negatively impacted by the pandemic and they need and deserve equitable recovery. thank you. >> thank you so much for that.

and for your work. it's much appreciated and thank you for reminding us the human impact of this when we do it right. and the impact that it can have. can we go to the b.l.a. report? and then public comment. >> thank you, nick menard from the b.l.a. b.l.a. this ordinance would appropriate $123.8 million of the $293.23 million in the fiscal cliff reserve. the appropriation would provide half that amount, $64.1 million to mohcd, the mayor's office of housing and community development. half that amount to the rent resolution and relief fund. and half that amount, $54.1 million to the housing stability fund both in this year. i want to say something about the reserve that this is drawing

from the fiscal cliff reserve. it provides -- intended to provide funding for potential short falls in the general fund after the exhaustion of federal and state stimulus funding starting in the next fiscal year. we don't know whether the shortfalls will occur or how large the shortfalls will be, but this ordinance is consistent with prior policy actions taken by the board of supervisors, but because the appropriation couldn't require future budget adjustments we consider approval to be a policy matter fort board of supervisors. i'm happy to answer any questions. >> chair haney: thank you. i have some questions, but, supervisor preston, would you prefer we go to public comment now, and then we can jump into our questions about the program

itself? >> commissioner preston: that sounds great. >> chair haney: all right. why don't we open this up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item, press star 3 to line up now. for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you've been unmuted and that is your cue to begin your comments. we're working to provide interpretive services for the item. >> interpreter: [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]

thank you. >> mr. chair, if you could kindly confirm how much we're allotting for each speaker? >> chair haney: sorry. one minute each. >> clerk: thank you. mr. adkins, do we have any callers in the queue? >> good morning, my name is sandra. i'm a leader with face faith and action bay area. we're bound by a commitment to

winning and ensuring the rights of all the people in our community and the desire to connect us with our civic actions and practices. you have the opportunity today to allocate funds that was intended by the people of san francisco while we approved prop i. faith and action has given strong support to rent subsidies as a means to allow people to remain in their homes. now we see an additional possibility to provide housing stability throughout the city using a model that will provide needed affordable housing. we are called to use all the creative means possible to ensure that our housed neighbors do not become unhoused neighbors. we support the ordinance being heard today. thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> good morning. this is anna. the san francisco tenant union urges the budget committee to support supervisor preston's proposed ordinance allocating $64 million for emergency housing acquisition. as san francisco rents and market trends rebound at an increasing number of rental properties are put on the private market, the city has a rare opportunity to stabilize working-class communities and quickly add at-risk units to our affordable housing stock. this city can prevent displacement of many hundreds of long-term san franciscans from their homes and guarantee long-term stability by using prop i money to fund an emergency housing acquisition program. and remove housing from the speculative market and permanently preserve units at affordable rents. please act to fund the emergency

housing acquisition program. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much for your comments. mr. adkins, next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is adam. i'm a member of sfmb. i support the resolution. i'm a physician who has to see the terrible health effects for the housing shortage every day that i work in the hospital. last year in covid i was working in the i.c.u. and we had three family members, grandmother, son, his wife all on a breathing machine at the same time. why? because they're crammed in a unit and the nephew worked in the tesla factory and there was an outbreak and he ended up with family members dying because of it. we need more housing. the understand from the board is that the goal is to have true social housing. that means government-owned, not necessarily owned by non-profits, the idea of having some people paying market rate

across subsidized and then generating a revenue stream to make more housing because we're in a housing shortage. and that should be the end goal. not just expansion of the small-site program as it currently exists which is what i think is currently being proposed. but if this is going to be a pilot for something bigger where we can leverage the government to cheaply acquire land and build as much as we can in a way that market rate housing sometimes fails, when there is, you know, economic crises and investment dries up, we lose all our funding for affordable housing, so we should be investing. so our construction industry can always be thriving. so, thank you for listening and i really hope that this ends moving towards a true social program. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> hello, supervisors. my name is rachel. arts and culture administrator. i'm speaking in support of funding emergency housing acquisition program to help stop evictions of our families and elders. there are filipino residents that are imminent risk of displacement and we must do everything we can to keep people in their homes and communities. there are many buildings that are bought and flipped for profit where residents are kicked out by greedy speculators. at 4042 sycamore street in the mission we've been asking the city to purchase the building to stop the displacement of two multi-generational filipino families who lived in the units over 35 years. a predatory landlord bought the building to empty it and make a quick buck. this would provide funding the emergency housing acquisition

program to purchase rental profits. we must support an equitable recovery process by ensuring that our neighbors and families are protected and stable. please support this. >> thank you. thank you so much for your comments. i do apologize if i cut anybody off, but we're timing each speaker, one minute each. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon -- or good morning. this is north beach tenants committee. i'm calling in to ask you to please support this and pass this as a full recommendation on to the board. we need this money now. i have myself been evicted and i know what that is. i know what it is to be afraid the moment you hear your building is going on the market. and then when you get the notice.

here in north beach as well as on the border of district 2, we have three buildings that are in huge, huge risk of losing -- we're losing that affordable housing. we're losing members, long-time members of our communities. please release the funding now so that we can keep people in their homes and keep affordable housing in preservation forever. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is tina. and my grand aunt is 82 years old and has been living in sycamore street in the mission for the last 40 years. she's a matriarch in our family. she and our family living there are currently facing an illicit act of eviction due to a predatory landlord wanting to kick them out and make a quick

profit. i'm here to support the program. she has raised three generations of children in her family and her daughter and granddaughters who attend everett middle school and great grandchild all live with her. over the last two years, the aunt and the family have tragically lost family members due to disease. and her eldest daughter suffered a stroke. they are a low-income family struggling to make ends meet and always pay their rent on time. aunty evelyn has built a family bond with people on their street. they keep the street clean. they cook for each other and take care of each other. everything they need is nearby. >> time is up. thank you so much for your comments. again, i apologize for cutting anybody off, but we're timing each speaker for one minute. next speaker, please.

>> hi, my name is chris. i'm associate director of housing. fund the $64 million emergency acquisition program. we have capacity to acquire buildings. we're actively seeking opportunities throughout the city and we're finding a lot of solid opportunities that will prevent displacement of at-risk lower income households. we simply lack the needed funding. this budget approval will help us and other qualified nonprofit organizations to acquire more properties and preserve them as affordable. without this funding, we don't envision many of these preservation opportunities being funded in the coming year. i want to thank you for your time and consideration on this budget approval thank you for allowing me to speak this morning.

>> next speaker, please. >> hello, this is gabe. i'm calling in support, you know, of this resolution. i think it will help the issue with housing. i voted for prop i. i campaigned for prop i. i believe the fund should be used to support housing. if you remember, this ordinance would make good the promise of prop i funds for the purpose it was intended for. yeah, we need to act right now. especially as people continue to suffer from the covid crisis and

we can start this emergency acquisition program off the bat. thanks so much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, this is zachary with young community develop. ycd urges you to fund the housing acquisition program. covid has heavily impacted housing in our city. due to this robust private market, institutional speculators are looking to acquire these units. it's imperative that we add funds to the housing acquisition fund program and add at-risk units to the stock in the city. the largest barrier is a lack of public funding. this allocation can allow us to keep hundreds of units from hitting the speculative market. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> clerk: hello, speaker, you are connected. please begin your comments. [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: i will proceed to interpret. good morning, i live on mission street. 4830 mission street apartment 204 and i'm here, i have been living here since i got this house. now i'm not afraid to be evicted. please approve the funds so they can continue buying buildings. thank you very much. i hope you have a great day. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: hi.

i'm a resident of district 8. i fully support using this money for affordable housing. i hope we can move forward quickly as possible. it's crucial that we protect tenants. it's crucial that we build and maintain housing for everybody. not just for the rich in san francisco. i urge this committee and the board to support this legislation without delay. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker. >> caller: good morning chair haney.

i'm speaking in support of the ordinance that will provide $64 million fund for the emergency funding acquisition program. district 6 think it's the most development than any other neighborhood. many of our families have been live living in unstable housing conditions for years. wealthy disparity in our neighborhood has made our residents at risk of losing their homes more than any other district. i do believe that cost per unit should be taken into consideration. it should be equitable. without taking into consideration the development and the rising cost in our neighborhood, having an equitable cost per unit would not be fair. will move out our most vulnerable community members. >> clerk: your time has elapsed.

thank you for your comment. i do apologize for cutting anybody out. we're timing our speakers to one minute on this item. next speaker please. >> caller: hello. we are to fund $64 million in emergency housing acquisition program to provide doorable -- affordable housing in san francisco. we have a member who has three jobs. it is vital to keep our city healthy.

>> clerk: thank you so much for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: good morning. we are one of the early supporters of prop i in 2020. on behalf of my organization, we are strongly in support of this resolution. so that more families in san francisco working class and all tenants who are being threatened stay in their home. they won't be out on the street. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much. next speaker please. >> caller: hello, supervisors. housing acquisition is an

extremely important strategy and fight against gentrification and displacement. in the south market, there's two to four unit buildings with residents at risk of eviction. passing this ordinance we can take these buildings off the market and stabilize our communities. housing acquisition is a key strategy. we ask supervisors to support this ordinance including supervisors who have not co-sponsored yet. thank you so much. >> clerk: next speaker please.

>> caller: good morning. [ indiscernible ] gentrification displaces generations.

please pass this ordinance. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker. >> caller: my name is stephen. i'm currently in negotiation to buy every safe sleeping site in the city to construct 12,000 units of housing that i plan to leave empty until amazon builds new headquarters in the bay view. i'm hurting. if this legislation passes, i'm worried some of my fellow landlords will fall to this effort. threat to landlords anywhere is a threat to landlords everywhere. i urge you to vote no on this

appropriation. thank you. >> caller: good morning supervisors. it is peter cohen with the council of community housing organizations. you're hearing from many speakers. i will reinforce that the council on community organization organizations is in support of this funding for preservation at homes at risk of speculation of sales. this is happening across the city of san francisco. displacement is not just an isolated experience. we've heard from supervisors in every corner of the city as well as folks on the ground of their

risk of instability in their housing. this anti-displacement affordable housing program is a citywide value. we also heard earlier at the press conference for this well pointed out, this is a worker issue. displacement and lack of affordable and stable housing for so many of the city's essential workforce is a critical stress and this is a program that will help stabilize housing and provide more housing opportunities for our city's workers. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. i do apologize for cutting anybody off. we are timing each spheric at -- speaker at one minute. next speaker. >> caller: good morning budget and finance committee. i'm calling in support of this

appropriations for $64 million for social housing and to urge you to make social housing funding a regular, annual expenditure. the supervisors supported the resolution last year. not a single dollar was dedicated to social housing in the june budget negotiations. it is especially critical to act now because while covid initially depressed some rents, those are now rebounding making s.f. unaffordable. we have to buy housing off the market before prices go up further. that is why we urge you to move this ordinance to the full board of supervisors for recommendation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> caller: hi, i'm speaking on

behalf of a san francisco bay area coalition that represents nearly 700 public workers to voice our overwhelming support for the emergency housing acquisition program. in addition to what all of other speakers said, i want to highlight some of the health impacts of housing that we e-mailed. the health impacts are widespread and well documented. this is why we hope san francisco leads the way where the epicenter of the housing crises, we want to be epicenter of the leadership on the issue. impacts of housing on health -- [ indiscernible ] research shows that access to housing is inequitably distributed due to race. at the individual level, it can increase panel burden -- financial burdens and increase depression and stress, increase likelihood of moving to

substandard housing. >> clerk: we do appreciate your comments. >> caller: good afternoon. i'm the senior research analyst. it's great there's so many voices speaking in support of this item. our members were hit very hard. in many cases are still reeling from the devastation. they are joined by the tens of thousands of people still struggling to hold ton their housing. these funds will save hundreds

of services. on behalf of the working people of the city and thousands of members, we are strongly urge you to move this forward. >> clerk: we do currently have 44 listeners with 30 laned up to speak. we do appreciate your participation and your patience. next speaker, please. >> caller: good morning interviews. my name is jason, i believe that housing is a right to be human right. it needs to be owned, operated and built by the people and not for wall street speculators.

>> clerk: next speaker please. >> caller: good morning. i'm calling in support of supervisor preston's proposal. this investment in line with san francisco's climate emergency plan by investing in house and anti-displacement. as it stands now, without public investment, we risk missing our city's goals for adapting to the climate crises. i ask the board to echo support for prop i and support this investment in our future. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker.

>> caller: good afternoon. i'm with the san francisco housing development corporation. we have seen firsthand the importance of this preservation work, specifically. we completed couple of projects for the small sites program in partnership with metta. we finished a month ahead of schedule and under budget. the work can happen if we have the dollars there to do it. we also have the copa legislation in place. we need the dollars to go along with it. we urge you to vote yes on this move it to the full board. we need this money for the support reservation work to help low and moderate income people remain in their homes. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your

comments. next speaker. >> caller: good morning, supervisors. i'm with the san francisco labor council. i want to bottom line this. i just feel like this is essential to helping every day working san franciscans. it's really simple. you're on the side of speculators or you're on the side of working people and staying in their homes. i think it's heartless -- to do this during this climate and urge you to vote yes and pass this legislation. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: good morning. i work as a lawyer and real estate broker for nonprofit buyers under the small site program and copa.

my prior career i spent 20 years litigating on behalf of san francisco tenants. it really is important to fund the small size program. this is a vital part of our city defense against evictions. right now, i think lot of us are aware, there are approximately 20 households in severe risk of evictions. these buildings appear to be good candidates for small sites. it's about people. in the buildings are families, service workers, lots of elderly and disabled long-term residents. they will be evicted unless we get one or more nonprofit funds to purchase the buildings. small size doesn't just protect the existing tenants. sets aside the units in affordable housing permanently for generations to come. this funds you allocate will be

-- [ indiscernible ] >> clerk: i do apologize, we are timing each speaker at one minute. next speaker. >> caller: i'm here to urge passage of this item for the city to acquire small family rental buildings. these are funds collected from prop i and it was passed by the board last year. nothing could be more appropriate for these funds that are board and voter-mandated.

we have a never again window of opportunity, make sure money matches our high ideals for equity, affordable housing and for tenant stability. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: thanks. i support prop i. i will be surprised if it doesn't pass out of this committee unanimously. this is a drop in the bucket while it's good and it will help some people, we get our arms around what's happening in our city over decades.

you have to figure out a way to stop the amount of mullin that people can make off using land and housing as an investment. it can be done locally. i know this isn't the budget committee. maybe not the appropriate form. i urge you to think about actual solutions because if this is a mandate when we're hemorrhaging. >> clerk: next speaker please. >> caller: i'm with senior and disability action. i strongly support this ordinance. both for the $64 million for the rental subsidies. it takes a small increase in senior's rent, a senior who's on very low income, social security for her or him to be evicted. it's so important to have rent subsidies. the other $64 million for

housing acquisition, it's a no brainer. when we have over 100 buildings in the city that are up for sale, we have to take advantage of this as soon as possible. we should have done it sooner than that. we need to purchase as much as we can and as a prior person said, this is just a drop in the bucket. we need more and more money to do this now. building new housing is wonderful, affordable housing is good but it's so expensive to build housing now. even affordable housing. it makes much more sense tie inquire as many buildings as we can and help the people who are in those buildings to remain in affordable housing. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: i'm a concerned community member living in the

mission. i'm speaking in support of funding emergency housing acquisition program to help stop evictions of our families and elders. there are filipino residents that are at risk of eviction and displacement and both the soma especially on natoma street in the mission. we ask that the city support efforts to stop the displacement of our families with children, seniors and people with disabilities. i hope that the city approves $64 million that will go towards funding the emergency housing acquisition program to purchase existing rental properties. please support this ordinance. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: good morning. i live in district 6 in support

of this measure to finally begin the work of demonstrating that mixed income social housing can be part of san francisco's future. i hope that this can be used for social housing that's publicly owned operating even built. i think this is what lot of us expected that we can do something really new and innovative here. i hope we can do this and demonstrate how the model can work and scale up mixed income social housing by using city resources for new construction. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> caller: good morning supervisors. i fully support supervisor preston's resolution. the link between real estate speculation and eviction is

real. you want to save money and lives, then fund the purchase of existing affordable housing by purchasing build, like the unit on g street which just came on the market. in addition to my paid job as a gardener, i volunteer to help stabilize elders. we need help.

>> clerk: thank you lisa aubrey. thank you for your comments. we are timing each speaker one minute. next speaker please. turn down your tv. >> caller: one second please. [speaking spanish]

>> clerk: if you could interpret the last speaker please? >> interpreter: of course. hello supervisors, good afternoon, for prop c, we need for fund to be assigned it was intended back when it was

approved by the voters to avoid displacement of more families. we believe that these funds must be used to support supervisor preston's project. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. i do believe there was another speaker on that line? >> caller: yes. i have three more speakers. [speaking spanish] >> interpreter: apologies i was about to ask the speaker to slow

down little bit so i can catch the full message. is that all right? [speaking spanish] >> interpreter: i live this district 10. i have experienced being displaced and this is the reason why i am asking that you support supervisor preston's project to help all the families that have

put their trust in you and for all the people that are waiting for this project to be approved. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: i have another speaker.

>> interpreter: hello, i live in district 9. as an elderly person, i see that accessible housing is not a reality near san francisco. supervisor preston's project is more of an obligation with our community. you must respect the vote of the people who voted in favor of this proposition and i ask that you do what is morally correct and approve the project. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: good morning supervisors.

i'm co-director council organization. it's long time coming when voters pass proposition i to see this money going to its proper uses. one thing i like to add what others said, we shouldn't be here every year with something that should be a dedicated funding stream, $128 million total that's here probably growing to $200 million, that's about $1 billion every five years which will be going straight to saving people's homes, keeping them, providing stability. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: we've been fight, if

the creation and preservation for affordable housing for 40 years. we're strongly in favor of this item. thank you. >> clerk: thank you so much for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: good afternoon. i'm calling to urge your support to fund the $64 million emergency housing acquisition program. right now, over 100 apartment buildings are on the market. every district in san francisco. that's more than 1000 units for sale housing working families, seniors and other vulnerable households.

we have to make sure we're in this fully funded. that's why i'm urging you to support supervisor preston's proposal to allocate $64 million to the housing acquisition fund. this will give on the promise of prop i to use the transfer tax revenue towards solutions for guaranteed long-term housing and affordability. >> clerk: next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i want to call in support of this ordinance for affordable housing.

i'm a lived experience when i was a kid living in motel. long-term, i would like to see housing production. to bring back and keep our minority communities not being displaced. that's a different topic for sure. i'm calling in support of this ordinance for rent relief for housing. have a great day. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please.

>> caller: hello, supervisors. i am a proud member of local 21. i'm a disaster service worker for the city and an employee of the city's human rights commission. i'm calling with strong support for this measure. i thank supervisor preston for his leadership on this preservation measure of housing. it's so essential. this is something that has been called for many years in reports through the city. i have sent a letter. i echo the call many of the commenters today. i want to also point out that our city has been identified as the most intensely gentrified in america between 2013 and 2017.

we have had exodus of cities black and african-american population for decades. we need to invest in our workers. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: hello, i am a leader in axion. i live in district 5.

during this pandemic, i was sadly displaced. i have two children who are minors and currently i am living in a hotel. as a mother, i see in this plan by supervisor preston a lot of hope for families who are also afraid of being evicted or displaced. this is also affecting our children's mental health. i ask that you do the right thing for all our families. thank you very much. >> clerk: i believe there's one more speaker on that line? >> caller: yes, i have three more speakers. thank you. [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: i will proceed to interpret what the caller just said. hello. i am a leader in faith and axion. i go to the church in district 5. we need for this acquisition plan that supervisor preston is proposing to be approved. it is not fair for people to be evicted. these are houses that our

children were born and grew up in. we ask that the plan be approved so that the families can stay in their homes. >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: hello. i go to san carlos church and i live in district 9. we need for these funds to be used in the way that they were initially approved by the voters to avoid families being displaced. we need affordable housing to be supported. we also need for the funds to be used in the way that supervisor preston had proposed and we ask that you do what is morally right to avoid these families from being evicted. thank you very much. >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: i will proceed to interpret. good afternoon supervisors.

i'm from district 11. i'm here to support supervisor dean preston. the worst virus we can have is indifference towards our community. during this pandemic, i suffered from being displaced. i do not want other people to go through this as well. please support supervisor dean preston and try to give our community affordable housing so they can live with dignity. i hope this touches your heart and you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. i believe that was the last speaker on that line? >> caller: one more speaker please.

[speaking spanish] we have two more speakers if it's possible. >> interpreter: i will proceed and interpret.

good afternoon, i am a leader in president off the board of axion. i'm calling in support of this proposition hoping that it passes so that it can become a reality for low income families to be able to stay in their homes and not be evicted. lot of families have been displaced during the pandemic due to their high cost of rent. supervisor preston, we leave it in your hands. we hope that god blesses you and that the funds can be allocated for for the project. may god bless you. thank you very much. >> caller: [speaking spanish]

>> interpreter: good afternoon, i live in district 9, i go to san antonio church. i am a senior citizen and i live with the threat of being evicted from my home. i have been trying to get housing through the lottery for years. this plan will help senior

certain -- citizens and families stay in their homes. please respect our vote. we hope that you do the right thing. thank you very much. >> caller: [speaking spanish] >> interpreter: good afternoon. i am 78 years old. i need for you to give us

housing, affordable housing that is also on a lower first floor. i am a leader in axion, i hope that god touches your heart and you can provide us with affordable housing. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you so much. just update, we still have 31 listeners and 16 lined up to speak. we do appreciate your patience and your participation. next speaker please. >> caller: hi.

i'm calling to support the measure. we know that without this project allocation there will be no more preservation projects. this means san francisco should brace itself for the huge waves of displacement as unemployment benefits run out. we at the land trust we purchased a property in district 2. we heard from the tenants at the press conference. we cannot act on this property. there isn't enough subsidy to make it financially work. because of subsidy limits set by the government to make the projects feasible under the rules mandated by the mohcd loan

agreement. we will be able to protect smaller buildings. >> clerk: next speaker please. >> caller: good afternoon supervisors. i'm speaking in support of funding the emergency housing acquisition program to help stop evictions of our families. the development of community has been targeted from displacement. which started decades ago.

we must do everything we can to keep people in their homes in our communities. the community has been fighting to prevent this. we have been asking that you purchase building to stop the displacement. filipino family who lived there for over 35 years. >> clerk: your time as expired. thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: hello, supervisors. chair haney, supervisor preston and safai. i'm connie ford.

as our leader stated, the san francisco labor council urges all supervisors to support this very valuable housing initiative. we as at the labor council have released housing our workers report. only seven percent of us can stay and afford market rate housing. meanwhile, 40% of us have been forced out because we can't afford to live it. we put it under the framework for ways to move forward, protect the communities, preserve the existing housing and produce new housing.

we have realized over just the last couple of days -- >> clerk: your time has expired. thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> caller: hello, supervisors. i'm speaking in support of funding the emergency housing acquisition program to help stop eviction of our families. there are filipino residents are at risk of displacement. we must do everything we can to keep people in their homes. so much especially on the natoma street, there's many buildings that are being bought and flipped for profit. residents being kicked out by greedy speculators. these residents have been here for generations. at sycamore street, we have been asking the city to purchase this building to stop the

displacement of displacement of filipino families. covid has devastated working class and bipoc communities. we must support equitable recovery by ensuring families are protected and stable. please support this ordinance. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: i'm calling on behalf of community tenant association and chinatown and urging support for this measure. the critical needs for this funding has been well described by previous speakers. outside this hearing we heard questions raised by the capacity to utilize the funding in time. those questions about capacity are not well founded. as you heard today, other nonprofit housing developers are

ready to go to take off housing off the market and protect tenants from displacement. the need is clear and the capacity is standing by. in order to build capacity, the city needs to invest in that capacity. please preview in -- please approve this proposal today. next speaker please. >> caller: hello. i'm calling from district 8 in san francisco. i'm calling to support the appropriations for $64 million for social housing and rent relief. i want to say that i'm so tired. we've been advocating for this for years. many people who already spoken of advocating for this for decades. getting housing off the speculative market. housing is a human right. we passed prop k and prop i over

a year ago and we still have come back and implore supervisors to continue passing these appropriations because we don't have a steady income stream. we need to create a program that sustains buying and taking housing off the market over the long-term and to put it in the public trust as well. not only should we do it for nonprofit housing as this appropriations does, we should do it for public housing. which has been in short supply for decades. i support this appropriation. i hope it passes. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: hello, supervisors. i joined the many voices calling you today to immediately approve

supervisor preston's proposal to release $64 million from the overwhelmingly supported prop i money to fund an emergency housing acquisition program. i council tenants. i listen to traumatized tenants with almost unimaginable stories. for example, immediately after the eviction moratorium was lifted, tenant parking space rental went from $100 to $500 a month. we need to move quickly in this time of emergency. thank you. [please stand by]

we can save the homes of more than 300 families. our city is facing an eviction crisis in the wake of the pandemic and providing housing through the acquisition program can start to address this crisis. public housing must be at the forefront then. >> thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello.

my name is rick gerley. i'm a retired teacher. i taught economics for 30 years and i'm a member of the [inaudible]. i voted for proposition i. i support the call for $64 million in immediate funding. i lived in san francisco for 45 years. when i first moved here, san francisco used to be favorly compared to european cities. that is no longer true. european cities have plentiful, social housing with virtually no homelessness. san francisco does not. please rectify that situation and begin appropriating sufficient funds to provide housing to people who live in san francisco and particularly working class people in san francisco that will do the work that makes this city run. thank you. >> thank