>> vice president cohen, i'd like to take roll.

[roll call] >> also here tonight, we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and executive director henderson from the department of police accountability. >> thank you, welcome to the march 9th, 2022 meeting we're back in-person and it's good to be here. call the first item, please. >> line item 1. general public comment. at this time, the flick is now welcome to address the commission for two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the police commission. under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or dpa personnel

are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. comments are opportunities to speak during public comment and period are available in-person as well as by calling (415)655-0001 and entering 2497 323 7673. please press star 3 if you wish to make a comment. you may submit in the following ways. e-mail the. or sent by u.s. postal service. we have a number of calls commissioner elias, that i will

open up. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: hello, my name is david erinson and i'm a resident of district 1 and the team of wealth and disparities in the black community funded by felicia jones and it's recommended to the commission the elimination of routine traffic stops by the sfpd and dating back to the 2016doj cops report traffic stops charging black and brown communities do little to promote public safety has been identified as a serious problem and racially biased policing and not only were black san franciscans stopped at a higher rate than while people, they were less likely to be ticket and found with contraband and during the june 9th, 2021 police commission meeting the d.p.a. worked with community groups to present recommendations to the police commission. with regards to traffic stops including wealth and disparities in the black community and

wealth and disparities in the black community is repeatedly called out the fact that according to sfpd a black san francisco is six times as likely this is far higher than the state wide disparity and -- philadelphia and berkeley have moved to eliminate routine traffic stops to prove justice in policing and we have not seen a sense of surgery tee from this commission to eradicate the unjust process. we demand the police commission prioritizes pretext actual task stops as one of their core commitments of the people of san francisco and i would just like to thank president cohen and commissioner hamasaki for their time on the police commission. we did not agree, i appreciate your service and thank you. >> thank you, caller. good evening, caller. you have two minutes.

>> caller: good evening, my name is (inaudible) with wealth and disparities in the black community and i don't want to repeat what david just said but i want to -- commissioner carter raised a dgo and the commission will discuss whether that or it's a beth forward as well as being as effective as possible and so, i would like to see whether this commissioner will be agenizing the different options for going forward on this issue and in addition to the possibility of the dgo. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> this is season and from the

black community and and even though most of them have returned to in-person. i do ask, sergeant youngblood in the future you mute your mic because it is break ups of people making public comment. that's all i have to say. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> we have one person who would like to speak. go ahead and speak. speak into the mic. >> there we are. hello commissioners. i just couldn't let this go by without you having one person speak public comment in-person. i didn't have comments today but i'll take this opportunity to introduce myself. i'm curtis bradford and i work in tenderloin and a member of

the community police advisory board. i'm going to be running and back before and meeting and i wouldn't let this go without one person comment now that you are back. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> tonight the elections were supposed to be on in speaking with the rest of the commissioners we've agreed until we have a full commission elections should not be held until every seat has been filled. with that can you please call the next item. is your mic working? i couldn't hear. >> it might be the microphone. >> it's on. your mic is not on.

>> maybe take the other one? >> this is your mic. >> this is my mic. >> you wanted two? >> i wanted to hog the mics? >> well, all right, ok, next item. >> item 2. discussion and possible action to adopt findings for the police commission to continue to meet tell conferencing technology per assembly bill 361, discussion and possible action. >> president lopez: we have these. >> this is just a vote for the virtual so i just need a motion. >> so moved. >> item number 2. >> this is for 361? for the commission to meet virtually. when commissioners meet virtually, we have to still pass

this. [off mic] >> we have a motion by hamasaki. >> i'll second the motion. >> thank you. >> on the motion -- [roll call vote] >> you have six yess. line item 3. chief's report. discussion, weekly crime trends. provide an overview of offenses occurring in san francisco. major significant incidents provide a summary of planned activities comments. this will include and any

unplanned having an impact on public safety up and planned events and will be limited to. >> oh, you are right. >> excuse me, chief. for members of the public that would to make public comment regarding line item 2, please star 3 or step up to the podium. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> caller: david erinson resident of district 1 here. i support the continuation of a virtual option for the police commission meetings. just wanted to voice my opinion. thank you. that is the end of ally as. >> i'm being told we have to

redo the vote. >> president elias: it's public comment before action. >> all right. still a motion by commissioner hamasaki and a second by commissioner. how do you vote? [roll call vote] >> you have six yess. >> hold the line, please. >> line item 3, chief's report discussion. >> thank you, sergeant youngblood and good evening vice president elias and commission executive director henderson. i want to abbreviate this a

little bit and i'm going to go through the shooting trends and hopefully we'll a brief eight this a bit and for the public, all of our crime statistics are on the website so if you go through san francisco police you can pull our crime statistics from our website as well. we are 9% lower than we were last year and

a concrete retaining wall at the soccer field. the driver and front seat passengers were arrival upon arrival of emergency personnel. the fire department extracted the driver both were transported to the hospital but the driver unfortunately succumbed to hisinjuries. that one is still under investigation but it was a single cartridge and . as far as strategy, auto burglary has been the focus.

officers both uniformed and plainclothes officers are working the hotspots where these incidents are current. there's also enforcement on the border of the tenderloin district around stunned and mission and ate then mission. the northern district is working on mitigation enforcement of anuptick in burglaries and auto break-ins . patrols are deployed in the outermost square to the finer areas where these incidents have been occurring most frequently and the commercial corridors which continue to be impacted. community members have shared concerns about theft and vandalism and quality of life issues throughout the northern district and those are being addressed by captain jackson in northern mission. mission is focused on the uptick in gunviolence in the mission district . it's impacted the district over the last few weeks and officers

are working with our reduction team andare officers along with community partners to mitigate these shootings . the disability patrol will be along the 24th street corridor until further notice and that commissioners concludes my reportfor the week. thank you . >> any questions? >> thank you chief, thank you vice president. i have one question about the violence interrupt or program that you mentioned. the last time you reported on that there was engagement . i think you mentioned there were about 10 young people or adults engaged in the process. what does engagement look like and what makes folks eligible for this because i am concerned about the uptick in violence. there was a incident in mission high school that

although it didn't lead to injury, it's still concerning. and i'd like to know whether those young people or we don't know their young people or young adults are eligible for these types of services. >> thank youcommissioner. there's some very good news to report on that . there was an assignment of new personnel to that unit and they have gotten off to a good start with the engagement. we have really stepped up our engagement in the past month and the lieutenant who was assigned, lieutenant cortez has done a fantastic job. the criteria, with our data an research and knowledge of what's going on in the community , people who have been involved in gun violence either as a suspect, a perpetrator or the victim, that's the first thing we look at and sometimes we hear on the

streetsthat people may be active but they haven't been shotor they haven't shot anybody . they also qualify if we can validate that information . the process is in working with the cert lieutenant and tiffany sutton who is a part of this is to engage individuals with our scid workers with a life coach and invite them and their support people, family members hopefullyto a community safety meeting . those community safety meetings have increased since lieutenant cortez deployment to that unit and we hope that continues. that communitysafety meeting , the hope is if the person wants to engage with services and support from as the type it those problem things will be offered. this is part of a grant as i said before that we obtained a couple of years ago now. we're coming towards the end of

that grant and applying for more significant grants to continue this work and carry that work forward. the grant, the $6 million grant would provide more funding to bring in more like coaches. to bring in more support for the individuals most at risk and part of the metrics is to track how manyengagements we have, how many safety meetings we have . all that ispart of the grant and what needs to be tracked . so we will continue to report to the police commissionand report on whether or not we received the grant that we applied for so it's coming along . there are still somechallenges . the life coaches , where in the process of trying to hire more life coaches because the first two other jobs and now we're looking for another life coach but in the meantime we do have services with counselors and through sbit and our operation

genesis program which has been around for a while and we are still engaging with the people that are most at risk . >> thank you. this is a different commissioner, the work is based in the disparities that we are working to address. this work is with california partnerships. they were the ones that presented in front of the police commission and they work for a lot of cities including stocktonand if we are granted and get this grant we plan to continue the work . [inaudible] they don't hire th counselor. they are our consultants so the counselors are hired by the city . through the grant.

the grant will fundsome of them. the department will notdirectly hire the counselors . that's going to be on the intervention side of the work . >> i know i'm going to sound too muffled. chief, any update on the investigation involving the deathof the juvenile teenage young lady that died of an overdose in the mission ? >> thanks for askingthat. as of now it's still classified as a suspicious death . what's being investigated is whether there were any criminal activity led to the young ladies death and whether any crimesoccurred just prior to her death . there is evidence including video evidence that was recovered . it has not revealed or confirmed the criminal activity occurred at this point but

there's still a lot of investigation to be done on this one. there are witnesses that were there at least at some point in this incidentthat we're trying to locate . there's a lot ofrumor and talk on the street about what happened some of it has been found to be not valid but we have a lot of work to do on that one . but the cause of death has not beendetermined and we're waiting on that report as well as trying to okay the witnesses . soif anybody has any information for that case or anyother case i mentioned , please call sfpd . >> iq. >> thank you. at this time thepublic is welcometo make public comments on the line item 3, the chief report . please press star 3 .

vice presidents, itappears there is no public comment . line item 4, epa directors report. report on recent activities and announcecommission discussion will be limited to determining whether any of the issues raised for future commission meetings . [inaudible] >> shall i start? >> yes. >> good evening.at this time we have 107 cases have been opened so far this year.

we closed118 cases . we have currently 270cases that are currently pending .we've sustained seven cases so far this year, this time last year wesustained nine cases. we've mediated one case so far, this time last year we sustained two cases . we have 34 cases whose investigations have gone beyond or taking longer thannine months so far.this time last year we had 36 cases that have gone beyond nine months . of those 34 cases 27 of those cases are told cold. 12cases are pending with the commission and six cases pending with the chief . in terms of the trends just from week to week and again, i'll outline the topthree. 22 percent of them have been from , for an officer eating or speakingin a manner unbecoming an officer . 11 percent of the allegations were from officer alleging and offers are preparing an

incomplete, inaccurate or not preparing an incident report and seven percent were for an officer allegedly failing to take requiredaction . the full list is on the websit . those are thetop three allegations from the week . the number of cases with a breakdown from the precincts and again, i'll just outline the top two were the top one this week is from the tenderloin, four cases from the tenderloin for failing to take a police report and one allegation for issuing a citation in retaliation for police action . second-highest number in the mission, mission station for failing to write an incident report and one allegation for detaining a person without

cause. again, the full list for the full allegations for each precinct is on the website. i'll move on now to our audits. i don't have an update for audits this week. we are continuing to scale our investigation depending on it. in terms of outreach last week i announced the distribution of the pocket card for the know your rights review. we will hold it up so full can see. this is an actual card. i just wanted to show it this week. but we've made two changes to our website since lastweek to accelerate the distribution of this as well as other outreach materials to the community . so the know your rights youth pocket card is what we're calling this. it is now available for

download on the dpa website though people can go to the websitedirectly and download the document i just showed you to carry around on their own . and members of the public and community partnerscan also now request dpa brochures in the pocket cards directly from that website . again, that website is sfgov.org/dpa and the links i mentioned are at the top of the website. question and information can be requested at the same website. also just in conclusion of that i sent copies, a small stack t each of the commissioners so they haven't aswell. you should receive them this week if you have not already . the senior investigator today , here in the hearing room with us is senior investigator stev walt who is available in case there are issues to be addressed . and just so we're clear there are no items in closed session

tonight from the dpa. i'll conclude with that and i know we havea number of other issues that are on the agenda . and my agency will be presenting and investigating windows, thank you director henderson. is that better? what i've asked the chief to do and i'm going to ask epa to provide any number that you'll be reading to us prior to our meetings . we think that the chiefs report and dpa's report, any specifics can be provided to post those on our portal for the public and that wayit leaves more time for you and the chief to tell uswhat current events are and some of the highlights that have happened . >> i'm happy to do that but just so we're clear termsof not my numbers ,it means you will

be cut off by friday so you won't have up to that friday to report that . >> because it's a report i believe we can get it tuesday after . just to make sure we're clear. sodocuments available at the time of the posting are required to be posted and available to thepublic . anything not generated you could have that available as soon as it's distributed to the majority of the body . >> you indicated there was 11 percent,seven percent of the action, was that based on the numbers provided in one page sheet ? >> that's why isaid if people want the full details and want to see the complete list , there on thewebsite so you can see them . >> we appreciate that. also just to let people know we're going to get awayfrom reading . if you're going to read from the material, we have material. we can read it as well. we don't need you to read it to

us. we can present and moveforward . >> just to clarify these numbers arepresumed to be the numbers you're talking about that you want me to submit . >> the ones you talk about, tender one for . >> is there some sort of correlation from the department for these or is there an internal affairsreport on the cases or something for other presets or is ? >> the epa but that may be a goodsuggestion . >> i think we're headed in that direction with the changes the commission wanted in our discipline report but that's a quarterly report sowe can work on how maybe to coordinate those reports . >> al matchwhenever the department wants to do . more easily, actually. >> we can figure it out and achieve can put in his trend and see what dpa is doing.

any other commissioner, commissioner yanez. >> i want to chime in on this. i would love to see a little bit more information from your department so that there is a way to compare and contrast these trends and it will help us i believe really hone in on solutions when we're lookingat two different data sets . it helps us make uniformed decisions . i'm going to encourage not monthly but quarterly we will be talking about this in the future. >> i think quarterly is too much. i think the direction dpa is going in terms of weekly numbers asreal-time data other than reading us is the direction we need to go and i think the chief has been moving in that direction to with his data . i don't think that many cases from ia so it will have left.

>> i don't have the numbers to guess as to what that could be or might look like. >> any other commissioners? can we get public comments? one other thing, director henderson can you provide the project for thecommission office so we can post it on our 30 daycorrespondence . i know your department worked hard up on that front pocket . >> i'm most excited it was evidence-based feedback on what the community thatthey wanted to make the accommodation . you'll also get individual copies as well but i'mhappy to make that available . >> sergeant youngblood. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item 4. come to the podium or pressáthree . >> vice president, we have no

public comment. >> next item please. >> commission report discussions, commission reports will be limited to a discussion ofactivities and commission discussion will be limited to determining whether any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting . commission presidents report , commissioner's report and commission announcements are identified for consideration at a future meeting. >> do we have any reports commissioner yanez . >> it seems like i'm just taking over this meeting. i really appreciate creating a document from your department around the matrixstaffing methodology . i have been learning out on that because it has been one of the most informative pieces of information thati've received . it really gives me a better sense i want to do this too. it gives me a good sense of how

decision-making is taking place and i want to agenda eyes of full discussion on that report because i think moving forward would have been really beneficial to have had that report along with the budget kind of powerpoint. which just would make it a more robust conversation. so i think we could move to agenda eyes thatitem , there are a lot of things in that but i think we can to move forward in a more efficient fashion given the staffing shortages that we have. >> commissioner byrne, commissioner yee. commissioner carter-oberstone. >> i'll give a brief report. in part because one of the commenters in general public comment asked about the status

of attracting low-level staff enforcement. so the caller is correct. last meeting i agenda eyes and april 6 meeting discussionand possible action . i'll have dto address traffic stops and other forms of racially biased traffic stops. the plan for that meeting is to have a draft dpo for the public to begin to comment on. i've been inclose contact with the department about this. chief and i met . on february 14 when we were going to discuss this and i've also been in contact thereafter with staff and my understanding and application is that the department will be providing me with some draft language that would like we would like tosee

in the dpo and i very much look forward to that . i'm hopeful and expecting the department will really meaningfully engaged in this process because i think the final outcome and final dpa will be just a better policy document with departments inputs and work. >> great. thank you. >> i do have one more. >> one more request. i found out through some meeting that i had that there is supposed to be a staffer assigned to the commission. and i really would love for us to pursue and prioritize that because as commissioner hamasaki had mentioned before

there's a lot of work to be done and it would be ideal to have that person in a qualified top-notch big brain to help us work through some of these challenges. so i would love to prioritize that once again to makethat decision . >> just so you're aware commissioner position is currently budgeted but it's my understanding that because our budget is tied to the police department and they have maxed out, i think they're overtime quote or some quota that has been a hiring freeze until the controller releases them from it, we are unable to fulfill that position. identifications with hr director houston regarding this position because you are right it's important and crucial to the commission and we do rely on that position . >> we will continue to try to work on that issue. it's the commission's position

as well as the professional staff are also on balance so we're working with the budget office. we will see how we can kind of make it work and speeded up because otherwise will be making for waiting for the next fiscal year which can take about a year. we will continue to work on it. >> sergeant youngblood. >> this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item 5. please do the podium work pressáthree. and vice presidentelias it looks like there's no public

comment . >> like six, discussion regarding orders regarding plaintiff's motion for sanctions inyears versus the county of san francisco number 20 cv zero 1357 . that's an easy s discussion. >> is presenting on this. >> i will open it up and also the city attorney has some discussion onthis as well . >>, we just got from them? >> thank you. so i think the commission has a memo, a memorandum from the city attorney's office, city attorney raymond rowland and deputy city attorney alicia .

alicia cabrera and i will read the whole thing but i'll just get to the chase of the situation. the sanctions that were given to the city and county of san francisco on the case stemmed from the department not providing information both to the city attorney andultimately to the court . there were some issues in short of whether this information would be privileged due to confidential nature of compromising an ongoing criminalinvestigation . the bottom line is those of you that have seen the judges section, that was not the case. it is not privileged information and as a result, the department was sanctioned. part of last week's discussions stemmed from not only the section itself also when i kne , what time i do and how much i

knew that's explained in this memo as i said last week. the timing on it as far as my notification was about two and half hours before the full commissionmeeting . i didn'thave a lot of information . i did have more information now and i'm happy to answer questions but i would like to allow the city attorney to also speak. we've been working with the city attorney to make sure that this issue and what caused this issue are taking care of. so we don't have this issue again and the result is the department notice policy that we didn't have before. it really spells out how this process works and it's a part of the package you all had that i do believe we turned to alicia cabrera before we take comments. >> good evening commissioners.

you should have a hard copy and an electronicversion . the issue by the city attorney's office, and you a brief recap of exactly what happened. we take full responsibility for not providing the information to chief scott when we had. we had received the order on wednesday morning. while we were figuring out the city attorney's office. we did not provide chief scott with the information and we apologize for that we will get better to make sure we can indicate better. chief scott had not seen the memo or the order. really what we want to do is move forward and how do we do better? and that what we've done is created a unitorder . that you have attached to the memo and in the unit where it spells out exactly how they're supposed to provide documents

to the attorney process in conjunction with the city agents. there will be steps that we ca take in order to try our best . we need to have documents and that's really what unit order does is provide clarity for the attorney's office and for sfpd which documents areprovided to the city attorney's office . i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. >> i do want to give my commissioners an opportunity to discuss the matter. we did just received this so we're trying to read it and discussit at the same time so if commissioners have any questions now is the time to

ask but i will also agenda is this at alater date if youhave any other public questions . >> thank you vice president , acting president elias . and so i know other commissioners have been much more, a little bit more determined on this is really hard when we get things and i've been out of the office since the middle of the day so ihaven't had a chance to read this . but the question at the last meeting for the meeting before that were not just about how the chief was or some of the questions about how the chief was advised regarding the sanctions but i think the more important question and i assume this is what the unit order is attempting to address is how to happen tobegin with . and what assurance do we have that this hasn't happened and

we see a lot of this conduct, police abuse cases come through inclosed session not every week but every few weeks or so . so is there an audit is going to take place, the previous cases to ensure that discovery obligations were fulfilled? and let me ask that first question to be a question for ms. cabrera. >> we fully comply.>> can you . >> we fully comply with discovery requests.there is that other declarations where we filed the reports. when we said that we have a document that is responsive but we will not provide. in each of certain circumstances so ... >> let me back up.

it's clear from the court order that what happenedwasn't at the city attorney's level . it was that the departments at least legal didn't provide the city attorney so my concern is you have order that's going to address that moving forward? what type of oversight is ther going to be ? i think as those of us who are lawyers know, if you're not getting discovery , and the civil case, if this had come out we would never knowabout certain things that happened and so forth . i guess i think we want to be assured that there's going to be some sort of cause i don't know how much oversight we had over police, i don't know if that's within our jurisdiction but whether or not the city

attorney can have some sort of oversight there or how do we make sure this doesn't happen again basically? >> for all our open cases absolutely are trial can ensure that we have all been. >> but you'resaying we ensure, i understand from the city attorney but what about the department and how do we address that . >> yes, the way this will work effective now is one of the problems with this is when is discussion about a document that was believed to be privileged , it did not elevated to command staff levels. there was acommander in charge of risk management . i'll just say thatthe departments were part of this and this unit order does a number ofthings . number one if there is , number

one we've got to turn over documents but if we believe there are legal privilege situations where the document should not be turned over, that would be in writing to the city attorney's officeand the city attorney's office and will get to weigh in on whether that's a valid concern . they will still have the documents because the way this works as a state attorney's office is the entity that would go into court if it is a privilege we make that privilege known to the jocks. the issue here is there was believed to be a privilege and didn't get elevated in the documents wereturnover. we all met these . but wewere going to fix that is make sure that the documentsget turned over . there's a concern that concern is documented in writing to the city attorney's office .is elevated automatically to the commanding officer of risk management . and so my understanding and i can't speak for the city attorney's but it gets elevated if there's any kindof dispute.

we will turn over the documents . >> the second part of that is the question i asked when this first came up which is i understand it's now going to be somebody in the command staff in charge but command staff, i don't know if there's lawyers there. is there somebody from the you know, basically a lawyer that's going to be working command staff to help make sure this happens so that i don't know that we can necessarily these are complex legal analysis but is there going to be a lawyer that'sgoing to be responsible for the departments side ? >> of course the city attorney is our has been handling the case. so in terms of where the memo was written, it's written to the city attorney's officebut we do have in-house attorneys and we just recently got approval . to have a managing, we had a

managing attorney before. we've had a number of attorneys in the departments. the way we were structured and we were more members which needed to befixed, that has been corrected . somebody that you all know well ms. ashley wasserman is now going to be the managing attorney but that's a new change. where there's attorney oversight, licensed attorney oversight of our attorneys in the department. so there's that internal components with the attorney involvement but also ultimately it's the city attorney that is in charge of representing our interest in these civil cases. so ultimately theywill be the ones to decide whether or not there's a front . >> cannot comment on that because again, that is an excellent choice. she's great. right on the heels of

international women's day an international women's month, celebrating another black woman in a management position but maybe one of the solutions for this would be to transition or make transparent both those records when there may from additional findings like the hand when their settlement like this through the city attorney process. in a transparent both dba and commission.that way it's not like it would beknown . it's not like it won't be, what have the possibility to stay active. we can address that methodology of those transactions well. and both of those lanes. either when their assignments and when there by a court which raises the issue so it's not internal and we're all just playing catch-up including department that would be my suggested remedy that we should

have a conversation. >>may i add , hopefully is it in the unit were we also have an a mechanism where we will identify which documents will have to idea of what is within the files and then we will have additional steps. we just wouldn't consult and have a discussion around that and make sure any documents that are being withheld are withheld within the universe. andvery small, the universe documentsshould be withheld . we believe that gives some clarity . >> i think having to the city attorney obviously overseeing this litigation and the department both feeling everything that falls within thescope of discovery , as long as you all are getting it we

think that addresses. it puts you in a position where i think again the court was clear that it was not a dereliction of the city attorney's office so the other question that i have is and i don't know what the applications are and i know it would be different for criminal where you do have an ongoing obligation with citysettlements . is there any need to audit say the last five year commissioner cases or do you not have any such obligation and you can just assume or i don't know what the right, i just spent falling here but the right-hand is to ensure everybody who has received adjustment for what it was most of the time when we settle cases that held in

discovery so we already have releases for that. there's really not the category of cases and we arecompliant with our discovery cases moving forward . >> basically, somebody lit litigation ifsomething is disclosed that isn't turnover? >> the likelihood is slim. if they do we will address it and take a look at it and i'm happy to report that . >> i'll think about it. >> i want to make sure i understand. you understood what you just said. you said the commander didn't notice it happened. and then so i guess my question is who made the call that this wasn't turned over because i assume it wasn't leaked by a person. >> the officer in charge is was run by lieutenant. >> can use only what unit that

is again? >> that is the legal unit. >> it wasn't elevated to the commander. there was discussion about it being anongoing criminal investigation . it could compromise the ongoing criminal investigation. that position was taken in the court and it did not agree and so this is where we are but it was not an elevator to the commander. that is correct. >> i'm sorry to interrupt but did not understand the procedure, a request is made for discovery the officer in charge andcontacted criminal affairs and said hey, we need these documents . did internal affairs say no, i'm not turning over these documents or do they turn over the documents to the legal department and then the person at the legal made the decision not to turn them over to the city attorney .>> in this case the legal division that

made the determination that the documents should not be done >> the internal affairs provided the documents . >> the decision was made and i don't know that they provided the documents because the decision was made externally thatthese documents should not be turnover . >> so the legal department made that decision andit's unclear whether they notified internal affairs . >> that i'm not , normally there is a discussion but because none of the things that werebeing presented in this particular case , there was an open ongoing ,there were multiple investigations . but it was acriminal investigation that was an issue . it never got to thecity attorney's office . it never got to the city attorney's office. it was a declaration with the thought process of why these needed to be, the documents

that were requested were released to be a privilege and that was not found to be valid by the courts. so it never got elevated which by the unitorder now requires it to get elevated and also on the other side , it didn't get elevated. that's the bottom line. so i believe had elevated we would be in a different attitude but it didn't. >> the person that's illegal is making not a legal background. >> that person ultimately was in charge of this unit at the time, not attorney but lieutenant. the lieutenant is in charge. legal doesa lot more than just salt public records requests and all that . redaction of body camera, reductionof records that are found to be not disposable . legal does a lot of those types

of things so that's a lieutenantthat runs the unit . we saw the need for managing attorney to weigh in on these positions and make sure that legal oversight separate from the city attorney's office when decisions are made internally. >> think it would be helpful because i've read the order quickly but i think it would be helpful to understand the procedures like when these requests do come in and how they notified internal affairs and how internal affairs works with legal onthese issues . because the unit order, it doesn't address the procedure with respect to how these divisions in your department arecoordinating or working together . >> the requests comes legal. one of the things we do so we can make sure that whatever request comes through for records, they come through their base stamp, there

process. so we don't want random units in the department to be fulfilling those requests. there are attorneys that work with legal. they do more than that but there are attorneys that work with legal . everything goes through. >> how that interact with internal affairs and meeting those requests andthe documents provided to legal ?>> legal would be the coordinator of going to whatever unit. if it's training records,they keep training records . if it's personnel records .it goes to human resources, ia a records ist records is really what's at issue here. our investigative services division, they would go to that and coordinateso that is their job . they would go to the unit to hand in the records. >> but you said it was now the

new process is that the city attorney's office will make a request and then the department legal unit will work with the city attorney's office. is that going to be miss cabrera or the litigation that. >> the litigation piece. >> i would add in the unit order it's an issue that i will get involved as well as the case trial in my office as well. so we can put a number of steps in place to ensure this doesn't occur again and my understanding isthis is a rare case . >> given the nature of the case and the complexity and importance, i'm wondering that if maybe not only is elevated to the commander but the chief directly because in thesecases or situations like this , you don't want it to happen again because it's probably pretty

embarrassing but 2, you want to make sure you're aware what's happening when there's a privilege or somereason why the department did not turn over records .>> so the commander of risk management or who the commander would be in this case is chief of staff. chief mosher. so what we werediscussing , it would probably never get to that level again because at the end of the day everything will be documented in terms of the concerns and that goes to city attorney. we're going to turn over documents regardless. if there's redaction of those documents at issue, if the city attorney's office says you have a valid concern that's what legal does as well. but the documents will be turned over. i hope that makes sense to you. the documents would be turned

over ifthere is a legal battle to be fought on privileged information . if there's no such situations and city attorney's office will be working with the department or they would redact. >> i just want to add within the unit order there is also the commanding and also that person is required to contact the city attorney and offer the assistant chief of staff so that's written in there. in terms of the redaction, it's very small and limited. what we would do is have a discussion whether or not we should have the documents and a separate question as to whether we wouldlitigate it as to whether to turn those documents over . >> i wanted to clarify again because the order said and again i read it briefly but my understanding is if the department claims privilege it

will put it in writing and notify you but the chief is saying on the documents over to visit a situation where he's turning the documents over and the department won't have the ability to raise privilege or say they're not turning in silver and allow the city attorney to make that decision or is it going to be the department can makethat decision but they have to document and city attorney deals . >> they can make the decision whether or not we could present the position and whether we think it's accurate or correct the we will have to ask access to the documents and with the index if there's questions about whether or not the documents fall within the privilege, whatever the concern may be then that's whatthe conference is for for us to sit down, talk about the documents and make a decision from there . >> even if they doclaim privilege you will have access . >> we need to be able to believe we can get behind that privilege . >> i don't know if thatwas clear in the unit order but i'll read that again

i'm happy to rework it to . >> commissioner byrne. >> miss cabrera, is the city paying $2500 sanction or is it a payment? the sanctions by judge corley and the federal court for $250 . is the city paying that? >> know, we are paying it. >> my second question. how did the plaintiffsattorneys discover the oversight ? >> it was any related litigationmatter . we had already reached a settlement and as you're aware the city's process for approval of settlement takes some time to go through the board of supervisors ultimately for it to be, so this is very unusual for there to be a sanctions post settlement. >> i've never seen it before. >> correct.

>> but how do they discover it? >> there was a related case in which theinformation was discovered during deposition . >> a criminal case? so there's a second civil case involving mister spiers. >> not him, it's his ex-girlfriend. >> and his ex-girlfriend is in litigation againstthe city of san francisco . >> correct. >> vice president elias, ifi could go back to the question . at the bottom of the last paragraph of the unit order, which hopefully answers your question about how this process works where it says oic will gather,all information responsive to the request . the legal division shall provide if the city attorney complete and full access to the information request including

furnishing pockets of all documents ormaterials contained in the files . any portion of the information requested may be prohibited for privilege such that resulting information would be unlawful. the oic shall document them to the commanding officer. and the city attorney including the incident and description of any documents and their reasons for believing so. if the oic feels that there is a court or whatever informatio , the index goes to the managing city attorney's office and that is where the consultation happens. ultimately if the city attorney saysthis is not legally valid , the information would be turned over and documented and the

city attorneycan make whatever arguments they feel they need to make .>> i'm happy if there is individual language you'd like to see we can take that to the officeor the city attorney's office .>> just one follow-up. the documents that led to the sanctions in the spiers case, those same documents wereturned over in the related case ? >> correct, but not the original. >> i understand. i guess i'm tryingto get to the gist of it . it was figured out that eventuallythose documents should have been turned over . >> correct. >> so what was the mechanism that cure that problem because there was no mechanism because obviouslysomebody figured out the mistake and turn it over . >> i can get some more detail on that but my understanding is

we needed the documents to comply. >> but at least there wasn't a pattern and practice because if there was a pattern and practice there would have been a consistency that wouldn't have shownup in the othercases . >> this is very unusual, i'll say that again . we're going to make sure there's clarity in providing the order. just to correct, the amount that we have for settlement is 2300. >> i'm sorry, i said 25. >> just making sure we are clear. >> i think the article indicated deposition it was the department that testified that there would be documents to existing and that's how they discovered these documents existed because they never expected those documents in the original caseand were told those documents didn't exist . >> i don't think that's accurate.

i believe the documents should not be turned over . that was invalidated i believe. >> just to clarify we knew the existence of the documents did not have an physically but we knew of their existence so we submitted a declaration and we argued it was an open investigation and those reason cannot ever have been argued . >> this goes back to commissioner hamasaki's question which is how do we know this hasn't happened in other cases. if we feel we don't have to turn it over and there's no legal person reviewing the legal validity of that assertion, how is that ... >> for anything that's already beenlitigated and settled we have releases for all future

claims . there is no issue with anything we've already settled. in terms of particular documents that wecurrently have for open cases , we ensure that we meet our discovery request and make sure we have all these documents and turn them over as we're supposed to. >> i have a questionon this . [laughter] >> go ahead commissioner carter-oberstone. >> i'm sorry about that. >> big-screen. >> it did sound like god. >> the voice of god. >> that's a first. before i ask this question i think it's important that all the commissioners understand this to understand what you're talking about because what

happened here is incredibly serious and it's hard to understand why if you're not a lawyerso i just want to give a one minute summary of what happened . when one person sues another person early on in litigation you get to call discovery and that means each side gets to ask the other side fordocuments and other evidence in their possession . and it's really broad. you get toask basically anything, it just has to be relevant to the litigation . there are only a few very narrow exceptions like attorney-clientprivilege or documentation privilege . but the key thing to note here is that there is never a time where you get to ask for a category of documents you just get to withhold them and not tell theother side you have them . the latest doing is you say the

stuff that you asked for, yes i have i don't think i need to give it to you because that's attorney-client privilege and there's asking the court to rule and if the court agrees if you you don't have to turn it over and you do have to turn it over. just to put a fine point on this even those that implicate issues of national security like when the cia, even the cia has to acknowledge that they have response documents and they still have to submit for why national security would be turned over. the reason what happened here is so critical is because department did just that. it just keptthis information to itself and never told anyone about .and our entire system of justice depends on complying with their discoveryobligations

. because otherwise you have people winning cases don't deserve to win and people losing cases who deserve to win them and often the stuff you need to prove your case is in the other guys possession. if you're suingyour employer for one of discrimination , those emails to managers of the company talking about how we need to fire the plaintiff because based on gender or religion or race, those are going to be in the company's possession the company should say there is really badfor us, we're not going to turn it over , you see very quickly how our entire system ofjustice completely unravels . in most cases the judge can impose the harshest sanction of federal judge can impose and call these in bad faith. she called them reckless and

she said they were taking more improper purposes. so i just want to lay the groundwork there so everyone understands why this is serious and why were talking about it. so chief, you've mentioned that the lieutenant runs the applicable division. i want to be clear, where there any attorneys in the department who reviewed thediscovery requests and signed off on withholding this information . >> the way this happened commissioners, number to my knowledge the attorney inside of legal did not. declaration was written was written and reviewed by the city attorney'soffice . the declaration claiming the privilege this information if released would compromise the investigation so there's two things that i wantto clear up . just to be clear, part of the problem of that situation part department takes full

responsibility for it was a very broad hey, this is a confidential investigation. if we release it will compromise acriminal investigation . there was not an exposure to what was in investigation it's why we've nowincorporated an index . that we own . the lieutenant said wehad this investigation . there wasn't full knowledge of everything that was in the investigation and that declaration was taken to the city attorney and presented to the courts. so one of the fixes here is whatever we happen investigation regardless of whether it's an internal affairs investigation or any other type ofinvestigation , or there's civil litigation one thing that will happen is an index of everything in that investigation for the attorneys

both internal and city attorneys have full visibility of what in the investigation. >> i appreciate that and i appreciate the department is going to make changes to make sure it doesn't happen again but i'm actually more concerned withright now understanding whether this has happened in the past . there were two reasons for why this information was unlocked for withheld and the first is an internal department policy where the department just evened over certain information listed in the course of a confidential investigation that asserted certain detail. so that was reason number one and that covered most of the stuff so most ofthe evidence that wasn't turned over . if that policy, how long have that policy been in place because if that policies been

in place i'd imagine there were dozens of cases that could have been implicated by and the only reason we know about this is because of this totally random and unlikely occurrence where we're seeing attorneys representing two different plaintiffs in an unrelated cas . things that should have been handed over in case a are coming up in case the. that's the whole point. there's no way we would know. how long has this policy been in place or just a blanket policy where thedepartment turns over this investigation . >> there is no written policy on the issue and what was stated in the declarationwas not policy . it's that this had been past practiceone of the things again , i want to be very clear.

on this. >> i don't want to cut you off but i'm not going off the declaration. just like any other member of the public read the judges order that says there's a policy. >> there is no policy, commissioner. what i'm telling you is there is no policy and what the lieutenant wrote in the declaration thatmade it to the board was that this was a practice . there is no policy.>> how long is this unwritten practice in existence that is my question? >> i don't know because this actual set of circumstances usually doesn't occur. what made this difference, number one. cases usuallydon't settle this quickly . and in most situations by the time it gets through the

settlement, the cases are done. >> but teeth, this doesn't depend on whether a case 669-900-9128. >> i totally understand that. >> if the answer is you're not sure that's fine. do you know as her sitting here right now how long this informal or unwritten practice has been in place? >> i don't know. >> that's fine. next question is there was another set of the discovery that was handed over and as i'm in the order was perhaps unspoken. it involves the text messaging. text messages for lieutenant carter where the lieutenant o'connor was asked for the text messages.

he responded right away, the next day and gave the department text messages that he was asking for so he did his job and the department just settled for that and as far asi read the order has nothing to do with policy . so and it didn't seem to be any real reason given by the text message handed over since they were part of this investigation. so my concern again is if the department's just not handing over text messages at in its possession for no reason, this has to be coming up off a lotof the time . >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> for this particular moment with the text messages it's our

understanding the case has settled once the text messages were . so it could just be that the timing of it was unfortunate. so we didn't provide them because usually once we have settled and the case is settled we don't go any further with discovery . >> two things on that, text messages were provided on tria . and the order says the settlement was reached in principle andaugust for five specific dates so here we would note the text messages were provided for settlement . so by the way the fact that a settlement in principle happened to be in the works is for not complying with discovery. but even if it were it doesn't seem to comply here. again it seems like we'renot turning over stuffed in our possession . and if that was passed again, is there any reason for us to think this is happening all the time? >> we haven't had thisissue commissioner .

to your question, commissioner, psyches question, it hasn't come upin these cases . >> is almost never going to come up because no one'sgoing to know . no one else has information to get it over so no one will be the wiser if the department keeps it to themselves. that's no reason to believe this is happening all the time. so again, i just want to be clear on this. the department received lieutenant o'connor's text messages on july 16. the settlement is reached in august. between july, even with this explanation that we don't comply with discovery after a settlement principle is reached which by the way separately is extremely troubling. even accepting that explanation it wouldn't apply here because the text messages were received at a minimum two weeks before

any settlement so i'll just, this would be the lasttime i asked . we are just not handing over officer text messages . with no justification, wife of the public think this isn't happening all the time as a matter of course. >> you asked me a question and idon't have the answer to . we work with our city attorneys andthat's we work with . i can't tell you whether or not there was a situation where something was not turned over about what i can tell you is if it is raised toan issue , and we work with the city attorney'soffice on those issues , you're asking me a question that's impossible for me to answer. what i can tell you is that what happened in this case this unit order will address.>> i appreciate that she and your answer is saying you don't know

if it's ever happened.>> the question is whether this has never happenedbefore whether a text message was not turned over onrequest . as far as my knowledge , numbe . >> we would never know because as we said we would just never know but the same person who handled these text messages i imagine is involvedin dozens and dozens of other cases and there's no reason to think they would act any differently in those cases . looking back on it i think most likely thing here is that this is happening all the time. >> let me answer it this way the cause you've made a declarative statement. the department was willfully denying that it happened, that it had the information. if the city attorney's office

said you have a text message to be turned over and department says we need this privilege or it's going to compromisean investigation ,those things we should be able to track . if your question is whether he had a text message and denied that we had which is what you just said a minute ago, i don't think that's happening . it didn't happen inthis case . >> in this case did have that you have a text message turned over. >> what i thought i heard you say is we had a text message and denied that we hadis what i thought i heard you say . i apologize. >> you were asked for document , those text messages within thedocuments requested . so the leader is telling the

other side of the don't exist because the other side is thinking they will get everything. >> i just want to be clear on something, what ms. cabrera said. we let it be known when asked about the text messages is senator o'connor turned it over. there were discussions with the city attorney's office on whetherthere was a need to turn that over . i'm not trying to absolve us of our responsibility. that's what this communal order is and i'm not saying we willfully deniedwe had a text message . the other thing is we did let it be known that text message existed. we're talking abouttwo separate cases, the second case in which the text message was brought to life . a lot of it came from mister

spiers or the first case. >> i'm well aware of this case, i appreciate that. given that we just can't say whether this, the department's failure on the summary has been happening recently, do you think that there is a need for an investigation into the civil cases to ensure that the department is complying with discovery applications. >> i don't believe that is what's happening. but if there is a need for an investigation or that is the belief and we welcome it. >> i'm asking you if you think there's a need. >> i don't believe there's a need because i believewe work with our city attorneys on discovery issues . understand what the issues are. i don't think there's need. that's the answer to your question.

>> thank you, thoseare all my questions . >> can an audit be done with it because i understand what you're saying.i think that it's two issues. you do work with city attorneys especially when you're litigating the matter i think the problem iswithin the department and city attorney doesn't know and i'm reading the order now , that's as a matter of practice those records are internal affairs investigations . so even though the unit order is outlined in the budget, i guess how we address the practice of it? >> looking forward, here'swhat we all agree should happen . the department can't just broadly and categorically say we don't turn over our own criminal investigations. it has to be in those investigations the information has to be turned over .

that claim is made then that has to be documented. moving forward that's the process.do your question commissioner about whether or not this type of thing happens to commissioner partners questionthis is normally not an issue . >> i think what he raises is the factthat is not something we know until you know . we can say it's not an issue because this is the first time it happened or you're aware of it and that's what it makes it look like it's an isolated incident but the truth is we don'tknow because that could have been happening in every case, you just didn't find out . >> i don't agree with that because in this case it was disclosed to the city attorney therewas an investigation . so there was the knowledge that the investigationexisted . that got brought into court

which is why it was invalidated by the judge. it's like that's not a legitimate reasonfor not turning over identification . the department did not deny that the investigation existed so i wouldn't agree with that assessment because even under that scenario the department says we have this investigation and we don't take the turnover because it may compromise an investigation which is what happenswith a criminal investigation . we're not denying it had the investigation,that's why the lieutenant made that call providedthe declaration . that declarationdid not stand up . they were in denial the investigation existed . what should have happened we all agree was there should have been aninventory of what's in that investigation but it should have been an inventory .

what is it that you're claiming theprivilege on and that information needs to be discussed upfront .and done on a broad sense that it was done here. that is a totally different scenario than an apartment saying we're not telling you and we're notgiving it to you . that's not whathappens . >> i think the investigation, when i read the order i'm sure you can understand our concern as well as the public testing to the fact that this is a practice and a lieutenant responded the next day and decided not to forward text messages to the attorney because they prioritized it under litigation after the party reached a settlement happened weeks after the request was made for those tex messages and i'm citing page 42 . back to my question, is there an audit and can bedone ?

i understand what the attorney is saying now. the people that have signed a release have because they signed the release but i'm sure you agree it would be very unfair for someone who entered into a settlement agreement thinking they knew their universal documents and evidence and made a decision based on that to now find out that no, i didn't know the unit evidence. you would agree that's unfair. >> i do agree it's unfair to answer your question about the audit , the legal track reques , i can't speak for how the city attorney's office tracks what they produce but i know when we get requests, that can eitherbe audited . >> it's a big thing and most people don't understand the complexity of what an audit entails. but back to the point of

understand what everyone is saying.maybe there's a review that we could do is submit a review of past rulings from the courts on these types of discovery issues to determine if there are things that are uncovered from that because those records already exist independent of what an audit might show or might not show and it would be much faster to do it that way because we do an audit it's going to take six months before we get an answer tothese questions and those rulings, there's already a record of what the rulings are . and maybe it's part of the first step and it's why were saying separate from the board that solution is going to be internal and to your point and to the point i think the commissioners made earlier we just have to guess for hope it's working but we wouldn't know .

if there have been transgressions in the past those would target how the solution gets implemented in a broadway . >> i think what the chief agrees on on it should be done. and then report back if there are any. >> commissioner elias and chief scott, there are issues with attorney-client privilege . before agreeing to any kind of audit i would like to have a deeper conversation within the attorney's office because there are privileges that i don't think we'regoing to be able to wave . >> the city attorney's office might be the body that would be more appropriate to review since they already are privy to that material through attorney-client privilege. >> that's fine but i think we have the chiefsassurance that he believes we should look . >> what commissioner carter, i

said i do not. i welcome an audit. if the city attorney's office for whoever wants to do one we welcome it. >> he said investigation, i said audit . >> what i'm saying here is there legal requested our track and not well documented so those can be audited is what i said. we will participate in any audit. >> we can finish this discussion off-line, figure out what the privileges are and have epa in the department tell us about the resolution. the other thing, one final thing and will move on is at the unit were to the policy of practice that when these kind of court orders to come out at the commission is notified, and then receive some notification on this, i know that we reviewed settlements and things like that but if we can also have the orders and other information from the court that would be helpful aswell . >> i would like to have clarity on whatorders , is thatwhat

we're talking about ? >>. >>. >> do we need to make a motion to have the city attorney provide information or have th department provide information or is that something we can request ? >> for our purposes from the cityattorney's office we don't need to have a motion . i understand that we did provide the order through the secretary but i'm happy to say we don't need an order. >> i think we should so the record is clear in any civil sanction against the police department that the commission

be provided with a copy of that and obviously my apologies. obviously the department would place accountability be provided with a copy of the judge's order involving sanctions so i motion. >> is for discussion only but we can put it back on the agenda and have a resolution ready. >> let's do that. >> a comment. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comments on line item 6. the podium for press star 3. good evening color, you have 2 minutes. >> this is chief hodges. i'm just calling to see if this

audit would be moving forward. to see what is happening to the officers involved in evidence withholding and if there are other actions being taken to be sure that they are being held accountable and also indirectly constrained . this is a new policy document that has shared. that's all. >> thank you for your call. >> good evening color, you have 2 minutes. >> caller: this is susan buckman. i want to appreciate commissioner max carter-oberstone. he's been a great asset to the commission in explaining these things to the layperson. i appreciate the timehe's taking to explain these things

. and i asked him to keep up the good work. thank you. >> thank you call her. presidentelias , that is the end of publiccomment . >> president: next item. >> line item 7, update from the regarding firstamendment client audit of san francisco police department record pursuant to general order .10 , discussion. >> who do we have? [inaudible] which one, mine? is this mike on west and mark

okay. lieutenant o'connor. what's your first name? >> david. >> it's not thelieutenant o'connor we just talked about, right ? well, welcome. glad to haveyou. go ahead . >> good evening vice president uis, commissioners, chief scott and director hendersonand members of the public . my name is lieutenant david o'connor, i'm lieutenant with the specialinvestigations division. i'll be presenting on item number seven is an update on the regarding first amendment compliance , both records

pursuant to department of general order 8.10.this audit occurred regarding the year 2020 and was completed towards the end of 2021. assistant chief mozer oversaw this audit and she's present today. >> the first slide talks a little bit about general order 10 and the mandate that the office, department of police accountability conducts an audit into all materials related to general order 10 amendmentactivities . i will read the entire excerpt from the general order. just to say that it is something that occurs on a yearly basis .

the department cooperates with that audit. this year it was connected by dba and auditor steve flaherty. i was the lead of coursein assisting with the audit . the report was released december 7 2021 and was presented to the police commission february 2 of 2022. out just go over some of the findings that dba came up with and give you an update on where we are at regarding compliance withthose recommendations . dba finding recommendation number one was to work with the police commission to clarify and provide examples ofwhen the gop 10 applies to criminal investigations . the police department's response was concurrence on this .

we agree with that recommendation. the department will work with thepolice commissioner and other appropriate stakeholders for the revision of 10 , clarity on the application of this ddo and relation to criminal investigations will be considered . the ddo has not been revised since2008 and it will be scheduled for an update sometime in 2022 . this recommendation will be directly addressed with revision of department general order 810 which is scheduled for this year. dba recommendation number two was to ensure members receive e.g. 08 10 training before working, before beginning work at the specialinvestigations division . the police department response was concurrence . we agree with this. the sip commanding officer, that's me will make sure sworn

officers assigned to the special investigations division receive the gtech training prior to commencing work so effectively this recommendatio has been limited . there was an audit it was discovered that 2 members were trained a short time after their assignment test iv and that's what this finding was about. it's something that's been passed back to the square. any new member is immediately trained regarding department general order 10 and thatis the practice going forward . so dba recommendation number three was to assign responsibility for the destruction of records on the board by general order 10. the department concurs with this recommendation and the department has assigned responsibility for the

destruction of records and media governed by the geo. this has been implemented and i have been designated with the responsibility to carry out this recommendation. or whoever happens to be sid in the future. >> are already committed. >> dba recommendationnumber four . review the department general order 810and destroyed any records of media as required by the records destruction schedule . the department's response is conference. the sip commanding officer would review the file cabinet and destroy records andmedia as requiredby the records destruction . the timeline for completion is the first quarter of 2022 . this is in progress and we are

in the process currently going through the items within that file cabinet . they are being itemized and locked at this point. dysfunction willoccur shortly thereafter . dba recommendationnumber five is create a writtenchain of custody to document the destruction of dg oa 10 records in media . covid's response was conference . sip commanding officer myself will create a document for construction of records and media. expected completion is in line with recommendationnumber four that is by first quarter of 2022 . once again, this is underway and i will be responsible for providing a written document which enumerateswhat has occurred with those records .

dba recommendation number six ensuresthe police commission receives the department general order 10 investigationmonthly . the covid response is conference . the department effect and myself will work with the police commission to create a process that is more efficient and effective delivery of the monthly logs although not required by the general order to send along for review and months where there are no requests for a 10 investigations, covid will provide notice whether there is a request or not. this is already been implemented. we're committed to getting that long through the commission monthly and to make sure even if it is negative reporting will be presented monthly. dba recommendation number seve .

to update the agency assist forms to include fields for department general order information requestevaluation requirements. the police department's response is conference . the department and myself will update the agency assist form so that it now captures the old dg oa tends information request evaluation requirements. the expected implementation is by the first quarter of 2022 with considerations to add dd to the current ddo to the updated form. this is underway. this we have already begun to work on a draft of this and i expect completion by the date noted here, march 31 of this year. dba recommendation number eigh

. require members to reference the source of information collected from amendment event planning. response for this was partial conference. when appropriate in determining this information will not jeopardize ongoing investigations , or diebold federally protected information confidential informants that apartment will cite the source of the information collected. members will state that the information was collected through open domain means or otherwise . additionally, related to this, the department is also in the process i believe updating apartments general order 2.0 9.2, social mediapolicy . and developing policy for investigating social media

accounts that will provide further clarity on accessing and referencing opendomain sources . the final slide is a timeline of the a-10 process. it was originally assigned in february 2020. it was designated the subject matter expert. and determination was made that a working group would be necessary at that time. in november 2020, written directives provided additional working group support to the smp, smp notified the working group will need to resume following the dba audit filing . due to the fact that dba audit was underway, it was sort of

determined it would be better to wait until those findings were made before really diving in two a new policy development for example. >> in december of 2021, the audit report was published. and in january 2022, the recommendations were made and are being worked on as indicated. at this .6 of the eight recommendationshave been either completed or substantially completed . the other two being the first recommendation andi believe that eight . that includes the presentation that i've prepared but i'm happy to answer any questions .

>> before presenting that. i have two questions and iwill turn it over to director henderson . actually one is a question and the other is the comment. the commissioner that's assigned to this will be commissioner yanez so make sure you contact them and incorporate them in those conversationsas well as dba and do we have an estimated time on 2.09? or was it on that paper you gave us ? i didn't see. >> maybe it's not on there. it is not, this is a bulletin schedule. let me see if i can getthat information . >> i'm going to turn it over to director henderson.

>> let me say first of all thank you so much for that presentation. i don't want it lost on anyone the significance of having these responses presented from the departmentin a public forum like this based on audits that we've done . and responses to those things are really important primarily because as part of concluding a valid audit the agency have to do a follow-up on the action plans and that gets done every six months. so we will continue to follow up with the department every six months on the status of these recommendations. again, recommendations themselves can betracked online and we are currently set to initiate the 2021 audit . the police department's compliance with 8.10 by the end of march so that's worked well and includes verifying the responses that we heard from today in response to the 20/20 report recommendations i'd like to point out because if you

look through the response you'll seethere's a lot of concurrence . i think the department says they stated all that to of those recommendations. our report willdrill down to address the action steps , not just in case anyone was assigned to it or say they will do it but it hasn't been done. what you can expect in march is the specific review of the action steps taken from the department before the next response and the department headlining what has been done and that will be the measurement so it's not just boxes that have been checked thank you so much teeth . you for your presentation and we look forward tocontinuing . >> i think that commissioner yanez will be on this as well so hecan work with you and lieutenant o'connor . >> i'll come so he can see how that gets reviewed on a case-by-case basis now that you have that presentation from the

department. that's perfect. thank you so much do we have a date yet? >> sorry. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item 7. ifyou'd like to make public comment approached the podium or press start 3 . >> president elias, there is no public comment. >> you are offthe hook, lieutenant o'connor . have a goodevening . next item . >> lineitem 8 . presentation of the covid dba report on general order policy proposals. third and fourth quarter 2021. for police commission resolution 20 06 regarding the department and dba to

submit a report regardingthe status of policy proposals and recommendations under consideration by the departmen or dba . >> welcome. i want to remind everyone that we do have a 10 minute limit . so when the buzzer goes off and the mic will go off as well. >> i'll keep my short so you allcan have most of the time. good evening commissioners . >> president elias,members of the commission, director henderson and chief scott, members of the public, i'm executive director of strategic management bureau .the written records unit sits in the strategic management bureau and the professional standards principal policing unit and

coordinates the work of dg oh development and revisions. so i'm going to jump to the overview slide and this just is a reminder of all the steps involved in the revision and or the development of a gpo. and within each one of those steps this is just an eight step process, no issue but each one of those steps i think you all know this is pretty involved so even aworking group process . the initial review of the first sparks meeting after a draft is developed and the concurrence meetings, the final dba look and then of course your process as well so all of those steps are pretty intricate. next slide. so then this is just the kind of status update as of the end of quarter 3 and four of 2021. these represent sort of the bigger buckets and just a

reminder, working groups were suspended during the quarter three, quarter 4 timeframe so sort of note work there to report tonight just because we need to reengineer public and private as you all know. so then covid as the dba spark number one, so sparks meetings are justour opportunity to discuss recommendations the dba has on a policy . and then move it to concurrence. during q3 and q4 we had one meeting and discussed one dpo but dba was in receipt or have received or re-received meeting we had shared with them another draft of the version 10 dg owes.

and then we moved to covid concurrence with 12 dg owes reviewed and one dg 04. further revision and then finally we had the sparks 2 meeting and other follow-ups so not just to meetings. often we go back and forth with dba and have littlediscussions and goback to get more research or what have you . and then it looks like we have fourmeetings there . so next slide please . in quarter 3 and 4 we should 65 bulletinsand notices . six bulletins and 60 dpi notices. no general orders in those two quarters.

next slide, thank you. finally and i think you now will talk a little bit more about these and maybe these recommendations and many others that dba has made. it's essentially the dg owes we were working on in q3 and q4, the recommendations whether it be in sparks 1 or two andthe number that we reached consensus on . and then that's it and i'm happy to answer any questions unless i should hand it over t general . >> why don't wehave miss kate would answer the questions . thankyou . there were twoadditional things you wanted to add because they were included in the documents

. did you address those western mark sorry miss kaywood. >> the powerpoint presentation has a reference to addenda. you all received that tonight and is available for the public year and it's finalized. >> and those are the 2 documents. >> there should be three. it's really just a lot of detail and background and reference material for you all in the interest of transparency thatshows all the bulletins that are expiring, have expired . notices that we publish and notices . so what we've issued and what has expired or is aboutto expire . >> thank you, miss kaywood. >> good evening acting president elias and executive director henderson. before we start i'd like to

confirm i have a separate10 minutes because i filed a report . so i am janelle kaywood, director of policy andpolice accountability. i've been in this role since september and i'm going to report on a third-quarter policy work . during the third and fourth quarter dba researched and provided to sfpd policy recommendations on five existing dgo's and all our recommendations are pending except for the recommendations that pertain to dgo 3.1, most of which were fully implemente . the cornerstone of our policy work for the third and fourth quarter had to do with our extensive negotiations with the commission and with covid regarding dgo 3.01 which is covid's written directives policy. we advocated for greater community input, increased

civilian oversight in the development process. i missed my opportunity to talk about this when the dgo was adopted because we havepressing matters to discuss so i'm going to take the opportunity to go through some of the key provisions which we are excited about . to start the new dgo expedites the general order development timeline . as the police commission will have greater oversight responsibilities to ensure general orders are developed o revised in a timelymanner we are thrilled dba is authorized to talk to the subject matter experts at sfpd instead of going through intermediaries . we're thrilled about that piece of this project . our favorite section has to do with 30day notice and comment period . early in the dgo development process, sfpd will post their draft policy and 430 business days dpa and trend that sfpd

will takerecommendations for everyone. while we love our robust attorneys we lovehearing from the public defenders and the bar association . they provide great input . we also want to hear from community-based organizations from members of the public in disenfranchisedcommunities and are critical of the police department .we want to hear from the people who want more policing in their neighborhoods . please speak up and talk to us about what you need your police department to do and what you need from dpa and we want to hear from the rank-and-file. i have a patrol officer stopped me and tell me the policy was too complicated and he told me post has promulgated a new standard and we should implement it and we want more

of that . another key part of dgo's report and one we're excited about this dpa presence at sfp concurrence. that's a staff meeting during systemic finaldecisions . a particular policy goes to the police commission and dpa's role is to advocate for our own recommendations. previously we've done our recommendations in writing and it goes through many intermediaries before it gets to conference. now we get to advocate for our own recommendations to the decision-makers and we're thrilled about that opportunity and we thank the commission and chief scott for engaging with us on that point. during the meeting dba and covid will decide which humanity recommendations made during the public comment period should be included in the general order and will publish ajoint report post on

the website to provide an overview of the recommendations that were included and not included . we're also thrilled about the working group process thatwill be overhauled.this is been a source of much consternation for the public . basically the commission or police department can convene a working group when they want to revisethe general order that's important to the public like domestic violence was a perfect example of that . now dpa will be invited to participate in all covid working groups which we're thrilled about and will will be given the opportunity to provide input to chief scott o selecting working group participants and helping develop protocols subject to final approval by the police commission . we're also happy to announce covid will be required to updateall working group participants on the status of the general order in writing on a quarterly basis . during third and fourth quarter

we've also done a lot of work around reducing disparities in traffic and pedestrian stops. i want to acknowledge my brilliant colleague jermaine johnson has been working on thissince last year. some of our work is with regard to general order 9.1 ,the departments traffic policy . we recommended it be revised to prioritize stops related to public safety over equipment failures and quality car inferences. we analyzed covid's capacity to collect additional stop data. beyond that which is requiredby state law have met with advocates working to end the text stops and consulted with experts on intelligence led policing which has been shown to decrease the overall number of stops as well as racial

disparities in stocks . we had robust assumptions on race disparitiesand how to best reduce them without compromising public safety. we talked about bob barker's book suspect citizen. the apartment i believe is fully engaging on this topic . we provided covid with an outline for draft policy curtailing stops and we're excited about commissioner carter-oberstone'sleadership . we are fully committed to engaging with him and the department. our final recommendation regarding traffic stops and racial disparities , i will be making those in the next few weeks and dpa has been working on general order 516 on search warrants. we've been working with julie tron and others on criminal justice task force at the bar association with san francisco and working with chief scott in the das office. just drilling down and trying to understand the type of search warrants the da office will review prior to issuance the scope of district attorney review and we've had a lot of

robust discussions around covid policy involving new technologies for geo-fence warrants. that would be ongoingand we have a meeting on march 17 . the work has been exciting and but that's all i have. thank you. >> i think we should take anotheropportunity to thank you for your hard work on 3.01 . you were instrumental to getting impacted working with a new road change from the department to get this thing passed and i want to thank you again also miss rosenstein was on the call that we had for hours on end as well as the chief and chairman house who really did a lot of work on this to the best part of the ddl and the part i was most excited about was the 30 day notice for the public to give comments but also the members. they can do it anonymously because as you said times the rank-and-file input is lost in translation and it never makes

its way to us because it doesn't matter how good our policy is if nobody's going to put it to work and implement it then it doesn't mean anything so unhappy about that and i really encourage members of covid to partake in that new process because it's going to be anonymous so theydon't have to diebold with ar and hopefully it will be more honest and open to provide feedback on these policies . the other question thati had was do we have an eta on the working groups change for is going to be the new structures in place ? >> thank you because i guess the secretary cananswer that question . we hopefully can get these working groups in place. we're going into the 10th quarter of the year. we are looking to hire a few people, professional staff to

take thisto a different level but despite that we've got to get that going because we are falling behind . also vice president to answer yourquestion on 2.9 it was a part of the 2021 schedule . we did posit to restructure our working group process and we plan to get back this coming quarter on the workgroup and we are going to hopefully have fun found the right person to carry this forward and we will get that startedregardless . and thank you for the acknowledgment and thank you foryour work . >> i know that you were the ones bringing this home.>> director henderson. >> i want to thank the chief and thank my department and staff again for helping put all of this stuff together. i hope is not lost on our audience and the public as well this new policy process is around breaking and i believe

will define best practices for our law enforcement agency. i'm not aware of any other agency that's refined their process to this level of efficiency and i don't want to miss on how groundbreaking this these steps are and how important the work is going to follow from this new process that is now in place so i just want to point out and thank our staff for making the presentation as promised. starting this year i want more of my staff that aredoing work to be making presentations . and janel kaywood of course has to step up to make these presentations thank you for making these and just to manage expectations for the commissio , you'll be seeing more from my staffand more from the different divisions . i know you all hear me talk every week but i wanted to encourage you and the people that are doing the work more regularly so that they, so that people understand it and you

can ask more broadly, more broad questions to thefolks that are putting it together . >> any other commissioners. sergeant youngblood. >>thank you, that was a brilliant presentation . >> thank you commissioner. >> i want to commend the work that yourdepartment has been doing and thanked the chief for collaborating on these efforts . and i wonder whether you have some kind of order to make people aware where their sunglasses that they need to wear? is there a standard policy? >> in a shameful way i'll admit that these are janel's glasses. >> we are glasses twins. >> there hers, i lose mine all the time. this is awful. this is embarrassing. >> your readers.

i wanted to support her by wearing their glasses. >> we have these glasses in solidarity. thank you everyone. can we get public comment? >> at this time the public is welcome to make comment online item 8. if you like to make public comment approached the podium for press three . >> president elias, there is no public comment. line item 9, public comments on all my matters pertaining to line item below including public comment on item 10,like item 11 in closed session . if you'd like to make public comment press star three or the podium. >> there is no public comment.

>> line item 10, vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session including vote on whether a certainattorney privilege with regard to 11 b. administrative code section 67.10 action . >> having a motion. >>almost an vice president . >> second. on the motion, commissioner yanez. >>. [roll call vote]

>> mayor breed: i am san francisco mayor london breed. welcome to the state of the city address. [applause] >> mayor breed: i am happy to have all of you here today. it is really great to be outdoors in person. the mask mandates, vaccine mandates are all gone. if you take pictures answer post. make sure you put disclaimer we removed it in san francisco so i don't get beat up by folk on the internet. thank you and welcome. i want to start by thanking all workers who helped us navigate the latest surge. nurses, police officers, paramedics, educators, all incredible people who kept this

city going. [applause] over the past two years and months, so many of them have been working over time to take care of the city. thank you, thank you, thank you. you know, sometimes the devastating impacts of the last two years of covid can be hard. this is in 1989 when freeways fell or 1906 when buildings and neighborhoods burned to the ground. they are deep. we see it in the struggles to simply get through the day. struggles with mental health. especially in kids, we see it in their eyes. empty downtown offices and for lease signs in union square. half filled hotels. we see it in those struggling with addiction on our streets.

we cannot sugar coat it. we have work to do. our recovery will not be easy. it will not be quick. it is coming. it is coming. san francisco is coming back! (applause). as we look ahead to the decisions about where to take this city, we need to listen to our residents. last month voters of the city sent a very clear message. they sept a mess -- they sent a message we must do better by our children. they sent a message while big ideas are important. those must be built on a solid foundation. they must be built on the basics like a well-run school system that puts kids first.

government that delivers on the essential services. basics like accountability and competence. during our covid response, we delivered on the basics. government, community and residents all came together to protect our collective health to save lives. we protected our hospitals, nursing homes. we quickly and efficiently popped up testing and vaccination sites. we delivered food to seniors. i want be to acknowledge jeff lawson who privately helped to deliver food to the seniors, thank you so much, jeff, for your work. [applause]. we did the basic and we did them well. we showed we could deliver on bigger ideas.

we transformed the streets to outdoor dining. we helped guaranteed income with those impacted by the pandemic. we experimented to allow people to gather outdoors. some met neighbors for the first time ever. now those covid experiments are transforming our city. we made share spaces permanent for restaurants. we have six guaranteed income programs with more to come. in golden gate park, jfk is on the way to being a permanent car-free space. [applause]. that proofs we can work hard on the basics while pushing the big ideas. that is how we kept people

healthy and safe this past two years. however, right now we are dealing with another kind of challenge. right now too many people across the city don't feel safe. asian seniors are fearful of leaving home. tenderloin families are living with random gun ideas. homeowners are fortifying garages after another break in. sweeping up broken glass and paints up graffiti on a regular basis. these are complicated problems with twisted roots reaching well below the surface level solutions. again, we have the tools to deliver both the basics and the big ideas. first, we need law enforcement

to keep people safe, to make arrests to hold people accountable and to support victims. right now police staffs is at crisis level. over 1630 police officers at 250 fewer officers fewer than three years and 540 below what we need according to independent analysis based on a growing population as you can see right here. we do not have police staffing to meet needs of major city as we welcome back workers and visitors. fixing this starts with building the police academy classes. to those who say we don't need the police. i say listen to the residents. they are speaking louder than ever. no, not for return to the past like when i was growing up. there was a deep mistrust

between the community and police. even then we needed police to protect victims of violence and help us live our lives, not undermine us in our own community. today we are in a different place. while we had more work to do, our police department has embraced reforms over the last five years. leading to fewer use of force incidents and police shootings and rapidly diversifying the department so it reflects the community it serves. [applause]. >> we have also made progress on big ideas. providing solid alternatives to policing through street crisis response team that didn't exist two years ago. it is now out on the streets

24/7 responding to calls to help those struggling with mental illness. we have community ambassadors program consisting every tired police officers in our downtown and tourist areas. we have multi-racial community guardian teams patrolling neighborhoods. we have the private sector helping. i want to thank chris larson for the work he has done to provide a lot of support around cameras and a number of neighborhood corridors to help small businesses. thank you so much, chris, for your work in the private sector to help make our city safe. we continue to make historic investments in our dream keeper initiative and opportunities for all. these are programs that recognize the root causes of crime. the root causes of crime are

driven by poverty. decades of disinvestment, by systematic racism. these are programs that will heal our communities with housing, mental health, education. job training and economic empowerment. that is how we get back to serving the community. let's be the national model for reform, for alternatives, and for safety. we can do it all and we don't have to choose. [applause]. you know, there is a lot of noise about what is happening in our city. you see it in the headlines, in the right wing media. they love to talk about san francisco. you see it on social media. one video takes off as if it is telling the whole truth about who we are. i know it is challenging with all of the noise to understand

what is happening. it is easy to fixate on the problems. i am focused on the problems. today i want to talk about what is possible. hope. hope for a better future for our city. that is what i see right here on this water front. people all over the world. they know the story of the famous waterfront from the golden gate bridge to fisherman's wharf, embarcadero to the ferry buildings that welcomes commuters from across the bay and visitors from all over the world. under the bay bridge to the ballpark where bonds and buster posey became legends. today it stretches south to mission bay where they play in a

beautiful new home built by the manneds of the holwork force -- by the hands of the local work force. [applause]. what is happening right here as we emerge from this pandemic is a sign of hope for san francisco. now, i want to take a moment to take us back. i talk a lot about my grandmother, what she did for me, how her spirit and body what this city is capable of doing for people. today i want to talk about my grandfather, willie brown. not that willie brown. he is not the grandfather. my grandfather was a world war ii veteran. when word got out to the south that jobs were available, he with so many others moved our families west. not because they believed that racism wouldn't follow. but because of what this city

represents. a better opportunity. ny grandfather found a union job as longshoremen working alongside a generation of workers building ships and repairing machinery. they were good paying jobs that led to development of freedomnantly black working neighborhoods in bayview and filmore and lake view. the truth is this city and neighborhood where we are today always represented an opportunity for those seeking a better future. our waterfront has been a beacon to newcomers and immigrants for nearly two centuries. that is the spirit where we stand today, a place where hope grows and hard work. look around us. today's waterfront is a beacon

for jobs, housing, economic opportunity. in this area in the coming years, 7,000 homes will be built as part of three water front projects alone. here at mission rock, pier 70 and at the power station. [applause]. these will be diverse neighborhoods with new housing and all income level including 2000 affordable homes. those are coming after 6,000 homes have been built in mission bay in just the last 20 years. new neighborhoods, new parks, open spaces all along the waterfront throughout the dogpatch. new offices and storefronts. this doesn't happen in a city that is dying. it happens in a city that is growing and thriving. as we grow we are building

affordable homes for people who live right here in the southeast, thanks to the neighborhood preference policy. [applause]. we are creating jobs for the people who live next door in sunnydale and the bayview. thanks to city build and local hire. i see my girls right there. in september we announced we are doubling the size of city build, training twice as many people to get the good paying union jobs that are available. these are not just statistics. these are people. let me give you an example. right here in mission rock, thanks to women and families first initiative and partnership with the giants. thank you for being here today. we train the first all women construction class.

(applause). and provide support for child care. okay? i attended the graduation at mission rock academy and seeing those women made me so proud. hearing those stories. that is why i do this job. today we have three women here from that class. they all started in different places. anna was a nanny and caregiver. militia was doing temp work. they all wanted something more. we got all g for the city built graduate, too. anna wanted to learn how people work together to create big

things. alisha wants to make her daughter proud. twin peaks looking out wondering how to be part of that big beautiful city. all three of them are building what is behind me with good union jobs and bright futures. [applause]. someday alisha's daughter will stand here and look at these buildings and say my mom and her friends built that. we are not just building homes and offices. we are building lives that is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. the waterfront has so many stories. it has stories about

environmental justice. the power plant, once stood a mile south from here. a gas power plant polluting the air that the residents of the southeast were breathing asthma, heart are disease. we don't the history. two generations of community activists and former leaders like the city attorney and supervisor maxwell and mayor willie brown. that is power plant that was shut down. now a new story. a whole new neighborhood is being built there with new parks, streets, homes. a stretch of water front open to the public for the first time in over 150 years. [applause]. where smoke once was all over

the neighborhood, children will play. that is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. you know, some love the chatter about businesses abandoning our city, leaving california. we have our challenges ahead. again, look around. historic investments in our city right here. just down at 16th street is the exchange. commercial office building purchased last year for over $1 billion. large companies are renewing and expanding leases in downtown and south of market. right now this month so many companies are returning to the office. because they are invested in this city. this is not a story about commerce fleeing the city. this is a story about confidence

in what lies ahead. will it be different than it was? of course. this water front today is different than it once was, too. in fact, it is better. look behind me at what is being built right here. mission rock. one of those buildings will be affordable housing. another is dedicated to life sciences. the third is a future headquarters of visa on what used to be a parking lot. that is the nature of city. [applause]. we adore and we adapt. no, san francisco today is not san francisco 100 years ago or even 50 years ago. we maintain our values and we grow stronger by learning from the past not simply repeating it. our culture of innovation lives

on the waterfront with u.c.s.f. and the world class research to help us navigate this pandemic. the reason be the first omicron case in the countries was identified in san francisco. it wasn't because we were first to get it. it is because the researchers at u.c.s.f. were the first to find it that is what is happening. tech companies making groundbreaking discoveries every day in san francisco. waterfront is a place for families. look at the san francisco bay trail, india basin. at mission rock there will soon be a playground for kids to play. [applause]. finally, the central subway will be better connected to the

waterfront and the bayview with downtown and chinatown. the beautiful new station. strengthening the connections between long divided communities. that is what i see. housing, jobs, environmental justice, technology, investments, innovation and parks and open space is what is happening in san francisco. [applause]. that is the work we need to do all over this city. right now across the state cities are wrestling with the need for more housing. they are looking for ways to block new housing in-laws. in san francisco we should be leaders in housing. we should be the city california looks to. let's be like san francisco. two years ago i set a goal of

building at least 5,000 new homes per year. 2020, 450000, 2021, we built 4600. the only housing built right now are large projects like mission rock and the pier 70. they need all houses sizes. not just south ease and soma but big neighborhoods across the entire city. to do that we have got to breakdown the obstructionism that blocks housing at every single turn. [applause]. now you know i tried. i am not giving up. i tried inside city hall. we made incremental progress. on the big ideas like my housing charter amendment we have been

blocked. we are going to the voters. change will happen to come from outside city hall. i am confident that it will. this november. because over and over i have heard from residents. they want be to cut bureaucracy and build more housing. we want future generations like alisha's daughter to live here when she is an adult. san francisco has shown that we can lead. we do it every day with work on climate change. when united states set as goal of net zero emissions by 2050. california set the goal 2045. what do we do? we set the goal 2040. we don't play that. that is how we lead. with our climate action plan, we know how to get there. that is who we are. the climate policy isn't just

about environmental programs. climate policy is also about housing policy and transportation. getting people out of their cars, creating dense walkable neighborhoods like we are believe right here -- we are building on this waterfront. that is climate action. completing bus rapid transit on van ness this month, finally. [applause]. it is going to open. as well as dozens of quick build projects to move buses faster. to create protected bike lanes across the city over the last three years. that is climate action. san francisco can also be the economic leader our state needs us to be. we have to work at it. for too long we have taken our

economic success for granted. we assumed the offices would be built. conventions would come to town and taxes with strome in. i have been talking to business leaders across the city. they love this city. they want to invest. they want to support. they want san francisco to grow and to succeed. when i put out the call to businesses about committing to bring workers back into the offices. so many answers. they are investing and they are returning. what i have heard most from business leaders just as i have heard from residents and small business owners is that we need to continue to improve the conditions on our streets. our work in the tenderloin has attracted a lot of attention. supervisor haney was talking about the tl until we declared a

state of emergency. it has fired a lot of debate. the main take away is that we cannot continue to accept things as they were. the families and the small businesses of the tenderloin deserve better. those on the streets deserve better. the people of the city deserve better. since 2018 we have added more safe shelter space in san francisco than we had at any time in the previous 20 years. two years ago we set an ambitious goal of adding 1500 new units of permanent supportive housing. not only are we going to meet that goal. we are going to exceed it by 70%. that means 2500 new units of permanent supportive housing. that by far is the largest

influx of new housing from homelessness this city has ever seen. now we must focus on doing the work to fill those homes faster we made progress to move to permanent housing with 1,000 people from the hotels not back on the streets but safely housed. to address the challenges of mental health and addiction, we are adding hundreds of treatment beds. working with community partners we will launch an overdose prevention program and the first drug sobering center in the city's history. [applause]. but it can't just be about spending the resources. we have to balance it with accountability. i am done arguing if it is okay for people to remain on the

streets when we have a place for them to go because it is not. it just isn't. to be honest, there are some folks who cannot or will not do what is safe for themselves or for others. we have to be honest about the need to deal with those struggling with mental illness. we need to make serious changes to our state law ifs. i am working with other mays across california and members of the legislature to reform mental health laws to better serve our city and entire state. this is not just happening in san francisco. finally going back to where we started today. we have to do better for families in the city. we have to give back to putting our kids first.

soon i will announce the new members of the board of education. as part of this decision which is really one of the hardest decisions i have ever had to make. i have been meeting with families to hear what they want for their children, what they need from our schools. i got to tell you. it was heart breaking to hear their stories and what they have been through. kids who once were vibrant and eager learners withdrawn. learning loss and mental illness, challenges that they are all experiencing. our public school kids getting less behind -- left behind as private schools begin to rebound. i know no single appointment to an elected body is going to fix all of that. it is going to take years of work. that is why we recently announced our children and

family recovery plan. the long-term strategy to improve access to the services we do have and expand the programs that are working to make a difference for families. it is really important that we support and protect our children because when we better serve our young people, when we invest in them, take care of them, treat all kids like they are our kids, we create a better future for all of us and for them, too. (applause). for two years, we have had to think about our lives and our city in a totally different way. getting back won't be easy. this shift won't be immediate. we are moving forward.

we lifted the indoor mask mandate. today we announced we are ending vaccine mandates for businesses. you guys all seem very enthusiasm about that. i look forward to going to a club to have a good time without my mask. [applause]. it is time. it is time to open up our eyes. it is time to open up our city. it is time to enjoy our lives after everything we have experienced to see not just the challenges we faced but the opportunities before us. to feel pride in what our city has done and can do. the first in the country to shut down. we saw one of the lowest death rates in the country and highest vaccination rates. we did that. san francisco did that.

[applause]. now it is up to each of us to harness that pride, to be motivated to make important change and decisions in city hall to take action in our communities. to tell our stories. just the other day we got an e-mail from a visitor named brittany who had a lay over at sfo and wanted to explore san francisco. her friends told her san francisco is not a safe place for you. brittany said, girl, i am going to party in san francisco. she found out that her friends were wrong. she met two of our welcome ambassadors terrence and joel. she found out what the best cable car routes were to see lombard street. she was recommended to places to eat that were great san francisco restaurants and given directions to the golden gate

bridge. they helped give her an experience that inspired her and left a lasting memory. they helped create her own story, a true story of san francisco. that is who we can be. a city that tells our own story. we are a city that reaches into our own communities to connect people to incredible opportunities. we are a city that proudly draws dreamers and seekers from everywhere. people come for love, opportunity, escape the past, build a better future. they come to make a difference in their lives and in the world. they come even briefly for a moment of magic. they come because when voting rights are under attack across the country, we deliver ballot to every single voter that is

registered. with paid postage. they come because we would never ever accept the law like don't say gay. unbelievable. in this city we not only say gay. we sing it loud and proud all year long. [applause]. they come because when abortion rights are under attack. san francisco says we not only protect women's rights but with a woman mayor, speaker, vice president we put them in charge. [applause]. so next time when someone asks what is happening in san francisco, you tell them that. you tell them that this city will rise to meet our challenges

day after day, relentless in our effort and unyielding in our values. that is who we are. we are san francisco! we are loud. we are proud. we are hopeful. we are resilient, san francisco. let's tell them that. thank you. [applause]. you're watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is

monique gray. >> hi. i'm chris mannis and you're watching san francisco rising. the our guest today is marquise gray. he runs out of the office of the mayor in the city and county of san francisco. and he's with us today to talk about the recent progress of the sunnidale hope sf housing project. welcome to the show. >> good morning. thank you for having me today. >> let's start by talking about the existing residents of sunnydale and their history. >> so sunnydale was built in the 1940s for a workers. it's the largest public housing community west of the mississippi. it's about 50 acres. pretty huge. about 760 single story units one to four bedrooms.

>> i understand it's an ambitious rethinking of the residences. can you briefly describe the scope of the program and hope sf's involvement? >> yeah. the work of hope sf is this idea of more than housing. that acknowledging that our public housing community, the levels of violence and poverty that are in these communities are not by accident. you know, it's our opportunity to address a system issue, you know, that people need more than housing. they need health services. resources. economic investment opportunities, jobs and things of that nature. and so hope sf strives to work with our city systems to better serve our public housing communities. >> so recently, mayor breed and speaker pelosi toured the site to both put focus on a national housing initiative and also to highlight the completion of the first new building. how many units does it contain

and when will people start moving in? >> yeah. it was an amazing event. honored to have the secretary here with us as well in our community. it's 167 units. it's about 75% going back to the original families that currently live on site. so the replacement. so i did forget to mention i want to say real quick, the beauty of hope sf is housing development, new development without displacements or anti-displacement initiatives. so, for example, the building is 167 units. 75% of those units going to families that have lived there in the community for generationings and the other 25% are tax credit units adding to the affordable housing stock here in san francisco and those units are up and running now. they're leasing them as we speak. people are picking their units each week until they're filled up. >> so was this particular building put on a new plot of

land or did people have to move out so it could be constructed? >> that's a good question. our first building was vacant which you may have saw across the street from this building and then this plot of land is the way we kind of do it, we do it in phases. once one goes in, we're able to move families into the new unit and where they previously were occupying, able to demolish old buildings to build the new. so this area had some older units that were demolished. >> it's impressive that construction has been able to continue during the covid-19 pandemic. can you talk about some of the challenges that needed to be overcome and how the community has managed during the crisis? >> that's a great question. you know, in san francisco, if i understand it correctly, i could be wrong, i believe housing was an essential service. the mayor made a strong commitment early on in the pandemic that we would continue

to build housing as housing has been a critical issue in our city. so the housing part hasn't impacted us too much. 67 units have been going on its current time line. the bigger challenge for us was showing the families in our communities, low income families had the resources we need to survive the pandemic. many of our families didn't have the luxury of working from home, working in the zone and things of that nature. making sure they had access to covid testing and things of that nature. so i want to give a big shout out to our resident leaders, our service providers across all four sites. for those that don't know, hope sf is four sites. sunnydale is one of the four sites. and so across those four sites, the most critical thing was making sure folks in these

neighborhoods which have historically have been disconnected from resources have the things that they need to remain healthy, to, you know, survive the pandemic as we all had to survive the pandemic and we did pretty well. we were able to bring back scenes and covid testing on site. food distribution was happening all throughout the week. wellness services and things of that nature were all happening on site thanks to our resident leaders and our service providers across the sites. >> so, finally, when could we expect the next set of residents to be ready? despite -- i guess we just said covid doesn't have an impact on the schedule. when will the next residences be ready? >> yeah. things are rolling. we have block a3 and block b3 to the building we were referring to earlier. and things are on pace. things are going really well. so we're looking at starting

construction spring of 2022 and that will be 170 units and the goal is to have that lease up around 2024. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. gray. thank you for giving us the time today. >> thank you, chris, and i really appreciate your time as well. >> and that's it with this episode. you've been watching san francisco rising for sfgov tv i'm chris manners. thanks so much for watching. dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and disparity in underserved communities like where we are

today. my name is leo sosa. i'm the founder and executive director for devmission. we're sitting inside a computer lab where residents come and get support when they give help about how to set up an e-mail account. how to order prescriptions online. create a résumé. we are also now paying attention to provide tech support. we have collaborated with the san francisco mayor's office and the department of technology to implement a broad band network for the residents here so they can have free internet access. we have partnered with community technology networks to provide computer classes to the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the

adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see. >> really what the excitement behind that is that you're making something. >> logs, legos, sumo box, art, drawing, computers, mine craft,

and really it's just awaking opportunity. >> keeping their attention is like one of the biggest challenges that we do have because, you know, they're kids. they always want to be doing something, be helping with something. so we just let them be themselves. we have our set of rules in place that we have that we want them to follow and live up to. and we also have our set of expectations that we want them to achieve. this is like my first year officially working with kids. and definitely i've had moments where they're not getting something. they don't really understand it and you're trying to just talk to them in a way that they can make it work teaching them in different ways how they can get the light bulb to go off and i've seen it first-hand and it makes me so happy when it does go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i

love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off. and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this

and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each

department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this program. it hasn't been easy, but we have been able to see now some of the success stories of some of those kids that have been able to take the opportunity

and continue to grow within their education and eventually become a very successful citizen. >> so the computer lab, they're doing the backpacks. i don't know if you're going to be able to do the class. you still want to try? . yeah. go for it. >> we have a young man by the name of ivan mello. he came here two and a half years ago to be part of our digital arts music lab. graduating with natural, fruity loops, rhymes. all of our music lyrics are clean. he came as an intern, and now he's running the program. that just tells you, we are only creating opportunities and there's a young man by the name of eduardo ramirez. he tells the barber, what's that flyer?

and he says it's a program that teaches you computers and art. and i still remember the day he walked in there with a baseball cap, full of tattoos. nice clean hair cut. i want to learn how to use computers. graduated from the program and he wanted to work in i.t.. well, eduardo is a dreamer. right. so trying to find him a job in the tech industry was very challenging, but that didn't stop him. through the effort of the office of economic work force and the grant i reached out to a few folks i know. post mates decided to bring him on board regardless of his legal status. he ended his internship at post mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry.

what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this >> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards

something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five

years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but

also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both

we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations

with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep

going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my

kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the

changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out >> the hon. london breed: all right, everybody.

how's everyone doing today? i'm london breed. i'm mayor of san francisco, and i'm really glad to be here today to honor an extraordinary san franciscan and an extraordinary human being, jack jaque. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: now here's the thing about jack. we know, president of the board of supervisors shamann walton has honored him. we know that people with trying to give him accolades and awards and support, and he doesn't want to be bothered, because many of us know him in san francisco. i remember when i first met jack, when i -- look, i didn't get in that much trouble, to

the point where i went to juvenile, but my brother did. i started to get involved in omega boys club because of jack, and i thought honestly, who is this white man coming to the projects just with no fear and getting major respect from everybody in the community, and knocking on the doors and talking to everyone, the parents, the moms, and the community? and it was jack, and i thought not only is he brave, but isn't that amazing to have someone who understands the system working to deal with the challenges of the system? and think about it, at the time when he started doing this work, you know, i've got to say, a lot of, like, my

grandmother and that generation, there was somewhat of a level of fear, working with white folks. i just thought wow, this could really change lives. this is at a time when juvenile hall was packed, y.a. was

packed, and it was packed mostly with our people, and even though our numbers with smaller than they've ever been, they were packed, and disproportionately, we should not have been impacted in the ways that we were. we had people like jack show up in our communities, in our homes, in our lives, and what he has done -- i'm sure many of you have been beneficiaries of his love and kindness and support, but what he has done has really turned lives around.

just imagine how many more peoples' lives would have been lost if it weren't for jack? and that's why we're here today. i know shamann and his participation in omega boys club, and uncle corey and a few others, and i think about how critical this program was, and

how critical the work was that he was doing. i never knew what his job was. i just know that if you say jack, everybody knew what you were talking about. i remember when i was at the african american art and culture complex, and we were working with these boys, and we had a number of challenges. it's sad when we were talking about the next generation of boys getting in trouble. i used to tell them, if you're getting in trouble and you're in juvenile hall, i'm not going up there, but i did go up there. and, of course, jack was already there, and he'd

established this relationship with them. the love, the kindness, the care, the support, and consistency, and yeah, the tough love of telling them about themselves is something that is just really valued in the lives of young people that you've touched, so i want to honor you here today, and i know that when we see each other, i think about what happens, and people like jack, in the conversations, made me feel like i mattered because i couldn't believe he was, like, yeah, you can come to juvenile and talk to kids there and be a part of the solution. and i thought, wow, i'm

somebody just because he gave me a chance to be a part of something. we could talk about all the things that you continue to do to really be a consistent

blessing and support because a lot of people have come and gone in this advocacy world. a lot of people have been there for five minutes, maybe five years or so, but you have been constant, and so here today, we are here to honor that commitment, even though i know it took a lot for you to accept this, but you couldn't turn one of your kids down. you could turn the mayor down, but i know you couldn't turn one of your kids down. i know it's important that you understand how much you are loved, how much you are

respected, how much you are appreciated, even though we know that's not why you do the work. you have been a blessing to so many people's lives, and i wanted you to know how much you are appreciated and respected, and now there has never been anyone like you, and we know that there never will be, and we are just grateful to just know you and be a part of your life. so today, not because it's your birthday, but just because, just because i'm mayor, and i can do that, today, come on up, jack. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, jack jaque day in our city. [cheers and applause]

>> the hon. london breed: okay. and one more thing. i know you don't like to dress up, but that's okay. sometimes when you go to glide, i can tell you might have changed a shirt or two. i know, i know that, but maybe, but one day, you're going to get a shirt where you're going to be able to wear these cuff links with the city seal with my signature on them. [cheers and applause] [indiscernible]. >> the hon. london breed: we'll see, but ladies and gentlemen, let's give jack some love. [cheers and applause]

>> i'm really honored. sometimes these things are hard for people, but i'm really honored to be sitting here in this incredible building. the village is sitting here, and just to be in the company, and i just want to thank shamann, and, of course, today, the mayor. and, you know, london is so

real. i don't always agree with everything, but you are always so real. you always represent the people, the neighborhood you come from, and the emotions, the anger, the fear of the people. you really do. i see, from the youngsters at the county jail, one young man knew you, and he'd been involved in some of the programs. i was talking to him, and he was in the county for a year or two, and then, he went home. but he would talk about you -- always talking about you and had your phone number and called you at home, so he said, and i believe that he did. and i said, you know, can you do that now? she's a supervisor, now a mayor, and he said yeah. she said call any time.

and she actually gave me the number, but i never called. but i really -- i don't want to exclude shamann's love, either, but it's nice to have people running the city who come from roots of the city. you know, i'm making a political statement, but the fact is you're real, and that's what the kids want, the youngsters want. you're real, and you do it with such ease, you really do. and i know you struggle inside like everybody else, but you're magnificent. you really are. you're magnificent, london breed. magnificent. so just a couple of minutes. i'm not one to go on and on, but i've just got to take a minute to introduce the village because you deserve to be

honored, also. we all know corey. corey was kind of the original -- i don't know if he was original, original, but the whole thing about corey is he wouldn't speak, he wouldn't talk. corey, it was like he was silent, like, he was a mime or something. it was -- he never said anything. i said corey, say something. just make sure people know you're alive. we've got other people, but he

wouldn't say anything. now, we can't shut him up. now, corey, say something. it's 20 minutes into the meeting. what's going on here? we've got to go, but i love corey. corey has been a faithful -- well, you know, the deal is, corey's doing the work, and he continues to do the work. i think he just turned 50, but now, he's doing it more than ever. he's all over the place. he got himself a car, and he even pays for the gas now.

>> i think back to marcell working with corey and the community, and i wasn't sure he was going to buy into what we were doing with omega, but now,

he's been with us 35 years. 35 years, sitting right there. [indiscernible] is sitting there, as well. the first woman to have graduated from the program. [applause] >> she's in the delaware state hall of fame, sports hall of fame, and, you know, she is really being into the community, and she's amazing. she might be on a stamp one day. she's doing so much with so many people. few other people. john henry, john henry is

sitting here, and all of our experiences in juvenile hall. john henry is amazing. he's one of the best speakers, motivators. he's also starting his kind of new career for him, voluntary work going out on the streeting, john henry. always gives a great message at juvenile hall. i -- going out on the street, john henry. always gives a great message at juvenile hall. sonny, i see you standing

there, you and lauren. it seems like you're always around when somebody is being honored, and, you know, i love you and appreciate you guys. i want to make sure before i step down, anybody -- yeah, andre. so andre [indiscernible] yeah, andre is right over there. andre is amazing, because when we started going into juvenile hall, which was about 1988, we met andre in 1989. he was in serious trouble. he was a gangbanger, and his name rang bells on the street. part of the beasley, but he was someone definitely on his way to prison. he chose somewhere early on that he'd rather go to penn

state rather than the state pen, and today, the amazing thing, he has had three of his children go through the omega academic program, and two of his daughters have graduated from grambling with the help of dr. marshall, and andre's beautiful wife with him, and i said wife, you know? and i think we ought to give it up for the wife, because nobody has a wife anymore.

i'm honored, and i thank you. i don't know about the cuff links, though. i was saying, when you were -- i will wear different shirts when london's running for the united states senate, you know? and -- but i also want to say, too, before i sit down, i know that there's -- in fact, a friend of mine is now a social worker who's working on getting napoleon home, napoleon being your brother, so that's something really important. he, sonny boy, was part of what

we started with in omega. we'd have him on the phone when he was locked up, and we'd have him speak to people. a great kid who just got caught up, a great kid who just got caught up, and paul, too, paul, too, paul, too. paul, unbelievable, but one last thing. it wasn't escape. it used to be escapes from juvenile hall, i mean, really big escapes, and now, i don't think anyone's escaped from the place they want to shutdown. but the old hall had the biggest escape, 14 people from the lockdown unit, and paul was in that unit, paul breed. and i ran upstairs, and i was

in building, code blue, code red, and they all went off at the same time, and something serious happened, and i was just hoping and praying that paul, who i was working with, paul was still there, he didn't leave. when i got upstairs, 14 young men left, 14 young man ran, and when i got upstairs in unit five in the old juvenile hall, and i got there, and paul was just pacing up and down the floor, and he didn't leave. and i always tell that story because that just shows the understanding in all the breeds, so deep. i don't know any related to london, but -- so yeah. [indiscernible]

. >> i love you all. the village can be there when we leave. papa duck is the village. papa duck is -- is the village. all kind of love to papa duck. we can tell stories for the next five hours about papa duck. eula works at the jail in san bruno, and eula helps all of us. has always been there, by our side, helping us. anybody else want to say something before i sit down?

anyone else want to say something? i've got 30 seconds. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, clearly, jack has worked with all the breeds, but he also has worked with all of the folks in all of the communities. we've got sunnydale, potrero, the hill, and at this time, i want to ask the president of the board of supervisors come up and say a few words about jack, shamann walton. [applause] >> president walton: first of all, i want to thank everybody, mayor breed, for coming out to honor jack.

the work that jack has done over these past few decades is the best. you see him going in and out of juvenile hall, talking to them, spending time with them when most folks would turn their back on them, going into all communities in san francisco, being with the families, talking to young folks, and he did that for decades, and still continues to do that to this day. so i just want to thank the mayor for her acknowledgement, i want to thank jack, of course, for all the work that you've done for the communities, for my family personally, and for everyone here, you are my family. you are a true meaning of what it means to are a person to the village, of the village, and as london said, it was strange to see a person not like us doing this work. and whenever he goes, people

will watch out for jack. i just want you to know we love you, we appreciate you. congratulations on this honor, and we celebrate you. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. and i just want to thank supervisor ahsha safai for joining us, as well. he represents the lakeview community. and at this time, i know that so many people here want to express their love for jack, and i wanted to give you all an opportunity to do so. we're going to start with you, uncle corey. come on up and say a few words, and if anyone else after corey wants to have the floor to show jack some love, please feel free to do so. >> thank you, mayor breed. i love saying that.

london is really from the neighborhood, for real. like, for real. thank you, president walton. that's a blessing, man. people don't know how bad shamann was. i'm surprised people didn't hit him in the face with a pie. we've all been around jack our whole life. one time, jack didn't answer the phone. shamann called him. if he didn't answer the call in the first hour, you start to wonder, where jack at? we're just so happy to have jack in our life.

thank you, tyra. tyra was putting this together. when the mayor called, that was like the feds calling. i ain't never been to jail, and i don't want to go, so i answered quick. i'm blessed to work with papa duck, and everybody. it's a blessing. jack just showed a picture when muhammad ali came up here. you don't mess with jack. when he knows he's going to get an award, he's, like, i don't

want to come. we told them there would only be about three people. it's, like, church. we're going to give people two minutes, but i'm just grateful, and this is the first lady of omega. it's a blessing, the first lady of omega to go there. i want to thank my first sister, lauren. that is my jewish sister. we worked together many years. she's from new york, so she'll cuss you out. sit your -- down. they're like we like you. sunny, thank you so much. baseball games, they go to players, so i'm just grateful.

i really love you all, and little l, so we just blessed to be around -- jack, you are incredible. >> thank you, london breed, thank you, shamann, thank you to the community for showing up. jack called me at 8:30 this morning, saying, what in the hell have you all got me going to? i said, let me explain something. about three years ago, jack was in the hospital, and we didn't know if he was going to be here or not, and no one besides maybe four people knew that he was actually in the hospital until it was the 28 day, and i

said dude, i cannot continue to hold this and not let so many people know because he's a believer, he's a believer in christ. okay. he was like, you can tell them i'm in the hospital, but not tell them what hospital. so i called the sister jill. i called the sister jill, and i'm, like, dude, your brother is tripping, right? she said, make sure that he is reminded that people want to give him his flowers while he's living because most of us don't appreciate the people that have shown us the way until we are dead, and so i just want to remind thim that we want to give you your flowers while you on top of the soil.

it's absolutely required that we live in peace now. we don't want to wait to rest in peace, and i know that my spirit wouldn't rest until i make sure that you know that i love you, i honor you, i cherish you, and i always represent you, and the people that's in this space will say ditto. so you need to know that you are loved. this is not about awards, this is about london wanting to honor you a long time ago. she said, on march 17, you come out of your house two weeks later, on march 17, and we be all right. and now, in two weeks, it'll be two years later on march 16. but jack, i just want to say

that this is our way of giving you flowers. we want you to know that you are loved by a group of people that we call you family, and you call family, and we love you, and have a blessed day, everyone. >> what's up, everybody? just want to take a quick second to honor jack. thank you, london breed, shamann, tyra, the team, all the omega family that's here today to honor this great man. jack meant the world to me. one thing about what the mayor said, consistency with jack. sometimes my own family members didn't believe in me, and after making many, many mistakes

coming back, back to jail, and every time i did, he said, this time, you're going to get it right. now, it's been about 25 years since i got it right. to corey, you know, when we talk about the village and family, this was my case worker when i was locked up. there was times that i was supposed to be home that i was out in the community, so corey, thank you so much for believing in me. i just want to say thank you, and like shamann said, we don't

want to wait until you're not here to honor you. thank you, mayor, for highlighting jack as one of the hidden gems of our community, so thank you, and we salute you, king. >> you know, i'm up here not just for show. i'm busting at the seams. jack jaque is the only positive male role model that i had growing up. i'm going to let that sit in for a moment. i'm not going to be too long, but like john henry, in and out of juvenile hall, jack never gave up on me. even to this day. didn't always make the best decisions, but he never gave up on me. that's why i go so hard like i

do today. been working so hard behind the scenes. the only reason why a lot of us is doing this is because of jack, you know me? is you can tell a tree by the fruit that it bears. shamann still doing this work, corey, john henry, my brother, you feel me? i come through united playas, all of that, and i'm going to say this before i get off, man, because i was supposed to go to the california youth authority because i had went to glenwood, community, and they knew jack so much, they allowed jack to send me to glenn wood community

for boys. i got my g.e.d., my diploma, and i still went to prison after that, but he never gave up to me. jack came to see me in prison all the way out in pennsylvania. nobody else came to see me, not even my mama, and i'll never forget that. i'm going back out on the streets, following on the shoulders of all of these amazing individuals up here right now, doing the work. i love you, jack. we love you, jack. keep doing it. [applause] >> if he's the blackjack, i'm the filipino jack. i'm going to tell you a real

story. this out of power that this man has. you remember the bay area rap awards? jack got chose an an honoree for the whole award show, and i remember when jack was on the stage, a fight broke out. i'm talking about every turf was getting down. they said, when this war goes to jack, i swear to god, they said, hold on, everybody stop. every thug stopped, i swear to god, they stopped, they gave jack the award, and after he got off the stage, they started fighting again, so i got a solution for that stuff that happens downtown so they won't break into louis vuitton or nowhere else. put jack out there.

jack, we go back to potrero hill when i was a juvenile delinquent. jackman probably wrote -- he's probably been doing this a long time. he probably wrote letters for people in alcatraz, but i love you, jack. you inspired me. like many others here, you the real one. we going to give you your flowers while you're still here. you all are meeting a legend right here. >> i literally only have two things to say. i always say if you call yourself doing work in san francisco and you don't know who jack is, you ain't doing no work. the second thing is, i've been

doing this work for a long, long time, and jack called me and left me a voice mail at my office at san bruno jail, and he talked about what good work i was doing and how proud he was of the work that i was doing, and i was, like, i must be doing some real good work if jack is calling me and leaving a message. jack was one of the few people working during the pandemic. occasionally, he's calling me, leaving a message, saying he's thinking about me. jack, you are a legend, and you are the greatest of all time, and i love you so much. >> yeah, for all of you that don't know, i work at general hospital, and i work with -- and i work -- i don't like

talking through a mic, i like you guys just hearing my voice. i work with all the individuals getting injured through the city. jack is the one that told me about that job. jack has been my mentor since the 70s, and i remember on haight and ashbury, i bumped my head and got in trouble, and i had to go cook for the homeless, and jack came up there, advocating for the homeless, and he educated me. right now, you guys, i can tell you right now, the city wraparound model is on a national level, and that's because of that man right there. i love you, jack. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: well, again, thank you to everyone for being here to celebrate jack and everything that he's

meant to us for so many years. i know some people may not be comfortable with speaking publicly, so just make sure that you have that private conversation with jack, and you show him some love for everything he's done because we are very fortunate. when i think about how far we've come in this city, and, really, the challenges that our community in particular has experienced over the years, i can't help but be appreciative to people like jack for what they've done to make a difference in people's live, and i want to make sure that jack knows how much we love and appreciate him because were it not for him, some of us wouldn't be here today. so thank you, jack, for coming. we honor you, and at this time, i want us to do a group photo on the stairs here just to

commemorate this moment and to celebrate jack. and just so you know, jack, just put this in your windshield, and you'll get parking for free today. you won't get a parking ticket because it's your day, and then, if you get a parking ticket, give it to shamann. thank you all so much for coming. [♪♪♪]

you're watching san francisco rising. today's special guest is monique gray. >> hi. i'm chris mannis and you're watching san francisco rising. the our guest today is marquise gray. he runs out of the office of the mayor in the city and county of san francisco. and he's with us today to talk about the recent progress of the sunnidale hope sf housing project. welcome to the show. >> good morning. thank you for having me today. >> let's start by talking about the existing residents of

sunnydale and their history. >> so sunnydale was built in the 1940s for a workers. it's the largest public housing community west of the mississippi. it's about 50 acres. pretty huge. about 760 single story units one to four bedrooms. >> i understand it's an ambitious rethinking of the residences. can you briefly describe the scope of the program and hope sf's involvement? >> yeah. the work of hope sf is this idea of more than housing. that acknowledging that our public housing community, the levels of violence and poverty that are in these communities are not by accident. you know, it's our opportunity to address a system issue, you know, that people need more than housing. they need health services.

resources. economic investment opportunities, jobs and things of that nature. and so hope sf strives to work with our city systems to better serve our public housing communities. >> so recently, mayor breed and speaker pelosi toured the site to both put focus on a national housing initiative and also to highlight the completion of the first new building. how many units does it contain and when will people start moving in? >> yeah. it was an amazing event. honored to have the secretary here with us as well in our community. it's 167 units. it's about 75% going back to the original families that currently live on site. so the replacement. so i did forget to mention i want to say real quick, the beauty of hope sf is housing development, new development without displacements or anti-displacement initiatives. so, for example, the building is 167 units.

75% of those units going to families that have lived there in the community for generationings and the other 25% are tax credit units adding to the affordable housing stock here in san francisco and those units are up and running now. they're leasing them as we speak. people are picking their units each week until they're filled up. >> so was this particular building put on a new plot of land or did people have to move out so it could be constructed? >> that's a good question. our first building was vacant which you may have saw across the street from this building and then this plot of land is the way we kind of do it, we do it in phases. once one goes in, we're able to move families into the new unit and where they previously were occupying, able to demolish old buildings to build the new. so this area had some older units that were demolished. >> it's impressive that construction has been able to

continue during the covid-19 pandemic. can you talk about some of the challenges that needed to be overcome and how the community has managed during the crisis? >> that's a great question. you know, in san francisco, if i understand it correctly, i could be wrong, i believe housing was an essential service. the mayor made a strong commitment early on in the pandemic that we would continue to build housing as housing has been a critical issue in our city. so the housing part hasn't impacted us too much. 67 units have been going on its current time line. the bigger challenge for us was showing the families in our communities, low income families had the resources we need to survive the pandemic. many of our families didn't have the luxury of working from home, working in the zone and things of that nature. making sure they had access to

covid testing and things of that nature. so i want to give a big shout out to our resident leaders, our service providers across all four sites. for those that don't know, hope sf is four sites. sunnydale is one of the four sites. and so across those four sites, the most critical thing was making sure folks in these neighborhoods which have historically have been disconnected from resources have the things that they need to remain healthy, to, you know, survive the pandemic as we all had to survive the pandemic and we did pretty well. we were able to bring back scenes and covid testing on site. food distribution was happening all throughout the week. wellness services and things of that nature were all happening on site thanks to our resident leaders and our service providers across the sites. >> so, finally, when could we expect the next set of

residents to be ready? despite -- i guess we just said covid doesn't have an impact on the schedule. when will the next residences be ready? >> yeah. things are rolling. we have block a3 and block b3 to the building we were referring to earlier. and things are on pace. things are going really well. so we're looking at starting construction spring of 2022 and that will be 170 units and the goal is to have that lease up around 2024. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. gray. thank you for giving us the time today. >> thank you, chris, and i really appreciate your time as well. >> and that's it with this episode. you've been watching san francisco rising for sfgov tv i'm chris manners. thanks so much for watching.

>> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that

depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. >> we heard about the school

districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up.

>> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be

>> president walton: good afternoon and welcome to the march 8, 2022 meeting of the san board of supervisors. welcome back to the meeting. we have not had a public meeting since march 17, 2020. two years ago. it's grate to see everyone back. this is a sign of positive movement forward. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you mr. president. [ roll call ]