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>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, undergod, indivisible with liberty and justice for all . acting presidentelias, medicaid role ? >> president:please . [rollcall] ... commissioner

hamasaki will be joining us shortly.we have sarah hawkins standing in for director of department of police accountability andwe have chief william scott from the san francisco police department . >> i'm also here too. actually it'snot morning, it's evening. good evening, is equal six . welcome to article 6commission meeting . thank you sergeant reynolds. can you please call the first item? >> line item 1, general public

comment. the public is welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda with our agenda subject matter jurisdiction of the commission . speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or departments or dba personnel. under police commission rules of order during public comment neither police or dba personnel or commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dbapersonnel should refrain however from entering into any debate or discussion with speakers during public comment . you would like to make public comment, please step of the podiumor if you are online , please dial á3. or dial 1-415-655-0001. and start 3 if you wish to mak

a comment . >> speaker: marry bo. i'm sure allof you are familiar with paulette she's actually on her way here , it's her son's birthdaytoday . i am also a mother of the child that wasmurdered in san francisco . i've been incommunication with chief scott . this was my son. his name was alan jacob bo. he was murdered november 17 so it will be 15 yearsthis year . i'm here, it's difficult for me, i'm sorry but i'm here because i'm really upset as far as accountability with the sfpd. i worked for the city almost 30

years and retired, i was a bus driver for 30 years and after i got injured and got arthritis in my knee they move me to whereyou pay parking tickets and get permits . and i say that because the last time i called an inspector in the homicide division just to get an update on the case. it's a cold case as you know, over 10 years. i was told my son's case was going to be put in a queue, that it wasn't being investigated because there were no funds and i would be notified when the q number was called which to me having retired from a place right down the street where you pay parking tickets, it's kind of triggered me that word q because we put numbers in a queue and call them when people come tothe window to serve them so i thought that was an insensitive, poor choice of

words . last year i had to move out of san francisco. thank god my younger son also moved recently because he lived just like his older brother. an unsolved case, they have no leads and to me that's unacceptable. i tried to contact private investigator and i can't afford it. and want a lot of money to jus talk to me . and what i want and i don't think this is too much to ask, if i don't call homicide, they don't call me . i'm sorry. >> your time is done, your 2 minutes. >> i didn't realize there was a time limit. >> is there anyway somebody from the departments can help or at least give her an update or she has somebody to talk to, live person to speak with . >> i've talked to her and we just had a conversation with

the lieutenant and captain yesterday so the case is being pulled so we can assess what we can do and i would advise her, we communicated about a week or so ago that as soon as i have that information i will let her know where we are in the case. >> please comeback and let us go . >> i had to move out of the country so i'm in mexico right now. >> we are able to take calls, public comment via telephone so before you leave sergeant youngblood can give you that information to call the number to call and our meetingsare the first three wednesdays of every month . >> i appreciate it,thank you chief . >> could we agenda eyes that matter in three months and asked the chief for an update? >> yes. although they're going to tell me to say that when it comes t agenda eyes items >> thank you . >> thank you. >> next public comment.

>> we have several callers online , wait amoment . good evening caller, you have 2 minutes. >> speaker: my name is david buckland, a mainstay in the black community and the following is a quote from our founder . there is an urgency to address the injustices against black san franciscans. i'm going to call it what it is.anti-blackness and use of force arrest and racial profiling in traffic stops by sfpd. i grew tired of talking to the police commission and board of supervisors where is the urgency ? if the tables are turned and these statistics were presented to whitefolks it would be an emergency . when will you take responsibility and address the unjust statistics. you should uphold the law for all san franciscans. as i said i'm tired of our concerns falling on deafears .

it's hard enough to find resources for this anti-blackness to be an emergency. at the last meeting i presented a thirdreport . if there's undeserved praise was hard to listen to. sfpd's ongoing racism has not changed asked the departments on disparity graph shows and in the most recently reported quarter a black businesses skin was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white entrance is in, 10 and a half times more likely to be subject to arrest and 16 times aslikely to experience use of force . these disparities are worse than when a doj cop darted six years ago. this report does not focus on outcomes are on more equitable policing.it is only concerned with checking off boxes.yet

they declared there has been substantial andmeaningful progress . this is so shameful considering black lives have been completely derailed due to ongoing racism in sfpd. >> thank you, caller. >> speaker: i am also involved in the black community and the following is a quote, there's an urgency to address injustices of blacksan franciscans i'm going to call it what it is . anti-blackness . as i don't grow tired of talking to sfpd. where is the urgency? if these tableswere turned i know there would be urgency . when will they address the harsh statistics. it's a clear responsibility, you took an oath forall san franciscans . i'm tired enough to quit and we're tired of beating a dead horse. tired of ourconcerns falling on deaf ears .

[inaudible] we sought help from attorneys. on march 15 heller heinz presented the commission with a report to the sfpd.the on nuanced optimism in the report does not make sense given sfpd's ongoing racism at the quarterly report shows new antilock policing and the most recently reported quarter a black san franciscan was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, 10 times as likely to be subject to arrest and 16 times as likely to experience reports.these statistics are worse than the reporting started six years ago. phil ponce cannot consider the process closed. substantial and meaningful progress given the horrible ongoing past and present data. their own quarterly reporting and racism has only gotten worse. >> iq caller.

>> good evening caller. you have two minutes. >> my name is david aronson, a resident of district 1 and the following is a quote from your father feliciajones. there's an urgency to address the injustices ofblack san franciscans . i'm going to call itwhat it is, anti-blackness and use of racial profiling , trafficstops . i've grown tired of talking to the police commission . to the board of supervisors where's the urgency ? if the tableswere turned and the statistics represented one full-time know there would be an emergency . when will you address the harsh and unjust physics which are truly your responsibility as you took an oath to uphold the law. as i said, i amtired not tired enough to quit . tired of being a dead horse and tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears. tired enough to look to new sources tofight this anti-blackness and therefore we

sought help from attorney general anza . last month as we said lori heinz released a report documenting the reform initiatives.ongoing racism was not addressed and in most recently reported quarter black sanfranciscans were six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop . 10 and a half times as likely to be arrested and 15 times as likely to experience useof force. these disparities are worse than they were six years ago . the heller heinz report misrepresents she got actions when he bumped thechain of command and went straight to doj to complain about the mo you . g scott didn't notify the commission let alone the public and instead went directly to tell doj and the press when he unilaterally omitted the mo you get heller heinz report described as transparency and position she got actions as having engaged thecommunity on a range of issues .

we must continue to demand equitable policing and reject the false narratives touch as the times report rejected . thank you. >> thank you caller. >> good evening caller, you have to minutes. >> my name is jean bridges and i volunteer with wealth and disparity black communities . the following is a quote from ourfounder . there's an urgency to address theinjustices of black san franciscans . i'm going to callit what it is, anti-blackness . in terms of use of force and racial profiling by sfp. i've grown tired oftalking to the police commission , to sfpd and the board of supervisors. where is the urgency? if the tables were turned i know there would be an urgency. when will you take responsibility and address the harsh bias and unjust statistics which is your responsibility as you took an oath to uphold the law for all

sanfranciscans . i am tired, not tired enough to quit but tired of beating a dead horse. i'm tired of our concerns falling on deaf ears, tired enough to look to resources to find urgency and therefore we sought help from attorney general bondy's team. on march 16 heller heinz presented you a third doj report. the optimism in the report belies sfpd's ongoing racism. the partners report showed continual anti-black policing and most recently reported quarter black san franciscan was six times as likely to be subject to a traffic stop as a white san franciscan, 10 and a half times more likely to be arrested and 15 times as likely to experience use of force. these disparities are worse than whenreporting started six years ago. stuart heinz is obviously not an objective growth, maybe that

explains the lack of focus on black policing .hillary heinz has a stake in the success of sfpd's reform, admitting there's been failure couldher prospects of managing reform and other locales but worst disparity now than when the process started is the opposite of success . thank you. >> thank you caller. >> goodevening, you have two minutes . >> speaker: blob loblaw. >> thank you caller. and vice president elias, that is the end of public comment line item 2, adoption of minutes. for the meanings of february 2, ninth, 16 of 2022 for the meetings of march second, ninth, 16 of 2022.

action. >> second a motion for adoption. the motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner carter-oberstone. >> and the vote. commissioner yanez, how do you vote? >> yes. >> i'm sorry, public comment. if you'd like to make public comments please dialá3. and there is no public comment. >> commissioner, how do you vote? >> yes. [roll call vote] >> you have 5 yeses.

>> next item. >> line item 3, consent calendar. receive and file action. request for approval to accept gifts of $50 gift card to be donated to the cooperative straining orderclaim . >>: the motion, can i get a second? >> second. >> we will take public comments regarding line item 3. if you would like to make public comments please dialá3. there is no public comment. >> can you take the vote please? >>line item 3,commissioner , how do you vote ? [roll call vote] you have 5

yeses. >> next item please. >> line item 4: chiefs report discussion. client crime trend provided overview of offenses in san francisco. major and significant incident , provided some planned activities and events. thiswill include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in san francisco having impact on public safety commission discussion on unplanned events and activities in chief describes will be limited to determining whether the calendar or future meeting discussion . chief scott . >> good evening commission. chief of staff hawkins and the public. i'm going to be brief on my chief report this week just to get highlights of the significant incidents and get through this well within 10 minutes. crime trends are a significant

issue. shootings were down double doubledigit percentages year-to-date, that continues to be a good trend . we had a tough week in terms of this past week we had three homicides and three more people lost their lives. the third was in the bayview district and the second which was a poor person to homicide victim shooting was the 600 block of brunswick and ingleside district on sunday, april 3. and this was after alice jones chalmers , can't save the world , playground which even is as concerning is the fact that two others were shocked. i'm going to go into as much as i can right now about the details ofthose two . in the debut homicide are victim was tending on the corner and from the video

evidence that we've recovered it appears he was standing there whenvehicle passed by . a short time later a subjects came around the corner, pointed a gun out and shot are victim which ended up being a fatal. there are no arrests at this time but we are following up on the evidence including vehicle descriptions and there are other sources of information we have from the community that hopefully will lead to a successful resolution of solving this caseso lots of work to be done on that one . sunday we had a shooting with four people at the alice farmers claim. the video footage that we recovered shows a vehicle passed by the location again involving a vehicle. and circle back and return. a subject got out of the car and started shooting and at the end of it there were four people shop, two of them ended up passing away fromtheir gunshot wounds . officers located four victims,

two were transported and two did not survive. a lot of talk in the neighborhoods and communities about what may have caused this and all of that has to be vetted and sorted out so at this point we don't have any arrests in either one of these cases but we have a lot to follow up on including vehicle descriptions. i'm going to talk a bit about our strategies with gun violence because those strategies will remain in place. a lot of what we're seeing is quite a few of our shootings. we have mainly young men who we have engaged with and tried to get services to and that will continue to be our focus along with tryingto solve these cases, making sure we are deployed in the right areas at the right time . unfortunately or the third blue homicide the officer actually drove by that location about less than a minute before the shooting happens, heard the

shots,came back and saw the victim they had just seen on the corner had been shot . sounfortunately we weren't able to prevent that by deployment . but we still need to slow these areas where we having spikes of gun violence and we will continue to dothat . in terms of the strategy and the work with intervention and others, we have seen good outcomes with the reduction of shootings in the last half of last year and the first part of this year so we do believe that this is the right way to go. in terms of that intervention and we know this is a question that commissioner yanez asked. we've increased fourfold the number of interventions year-to-date . we have over 22 interventions year-to-date i think we had something like 11 and people actively engaging theservices all of last year and that's due to changes in deployment . we added a lieutenant and

reassign personnel to assist with those public safety meetings so we definitely will continue that strategy as we believe this is one way to get the violence separate from the enforcement and solving of these cases. so i will keep the commission posted on that. in addition to thosetwo shootings we have for other shootings the 24th admission , others!we had a shooting armstrong and in the woods and bayview and then on the 500 block of ransom avenue in there was an accidentaldischarge which we don't believe was criminal in nature.on the shooting at 24th admission , the victim hospital, our medical personnel advised this shooting was six days old based on the feeling that had already occurred so we don't particularly know where this shootinghappened we believe 24th admission based on statements but there's no evidence to corroborate that . the other two shootings, the criminal shootings , those two

investigations are ongoing as well. and finally, this saturday a significant committee event, the chavez parade and festival whichwe will participatein . we're really excited about that . it's starts, the festival starts at 10 and we will have a recruiting group there. we're working with our community partnerswith recruitment in the community and also for stars and 11 which we will participate . so hopefully some of our commissioners can make it as well as we evaluate and hope to see the public there as well. that concludes my report for this week and any questions you have i'll be happy to answer is the cpe program going to be helping with the uptake and homicides and shootings that have occurred less than mark you said there were 22 interventions versus 11 last year but maybe you can explain how cpe is company partnerships

is still involved in consulting with us on these shootingsand our strategy . one of the things in our meeting last week as they discussed was really a good piece of trend news that the interventions as i said have gone up significantly in that balance of intervention and enforcement is tracking with gun violence so they are still part of our work. they are working with us when we're trying to secure another grant to keep this work going. it's a $6 million grant application through the state of california and the violence intervention program. we hope we are successful because that's going to allow us to make the higher as the city to some of the life coaches and intervention workers we need. the analysts that we need for

the department to analyze and also some of ourprofessional staff positions that grant will help fund that so we're excited we have an opportunity to get that grant . california partnership has been a big part ofthat so i'll keep the condition andpublic posted on that . thank you .>> question for the chief, commissioner yee . >> thank you madam president. chief, i want to askbecause there's been a lot of shooting of those guns . how many did we have taken in today i guess this year? >> 64 have been constant confiscated this year and 67 was the year to date number this time to last year. at the end of last year we gave a report to the commission and the breakdown of how many of those were evidentiary as opposed to non-evidentiary and

the majority of them were evidentiary ghost guns . whether your taking a gun or taking on search warrants or any ofthat situation where they'reconnected to a gun, it's still an issue for our city and we will continue to try to get them off the street . >> thank you keith . >> commissionerburns . >> thank you vice president chief san francisco chronicle has run a series of articles about the tenderloin recently . the residents of the area are talking about how it is much better in the daytime but that as night falls, the universal complaint appeared to be that the open market drug dealing comes back and obviously as you stated in many of your reports to this commission, the number of violence incidents is still in current occurring largely in a very small area i was wondering just does the department plan on taking any action of it involving this

evening time in the tenderloin. >> that's a very fair assessment and criticism because it does, we've seen it with our own eyes. we have to make more adjustments one of the things that we want to do is the dates, time, early evening hours life. that's when the lincoln center is over open which is a value add that lincoln center closes at 6:00 and they're seeing hundreds of people every day and the people getting rested and enteredincome if they don't have any way to go and up back on the streets and sidewalks . that'spart of the challenge . we're working with our city and family partners on the issue. the other piece is some ofour other communities services like urban alchemy usually go home around 11:00 .they actually start about 911 carefully off

the streets. so one of the challenges for us is sustaining consistent deployment. there's about six two-person cars that are deployed in the tenderloin on average at night. on the overnight hours and we have supplemented that with overtime. wewill continue to do that as much as we can . we are in the process of trying to find moresustainable strategies, shifting our deployment . loans to supplement some of the overtime that we cannot sustain or ever so it's still a challenge commissioner. we need to make further adjustments so we're working on a and we will keep the commission apprised of what that's going tolook like . >> the article seems to indicate there areno patrols in the evening time . is that accurate ? >> it varies. sometimes there is not,

sometimes it's just those sets ofcars. after 10:00 for sure . it varies depending on what the needs are.we do have un plaza and other areas of the tenderloin where we put officers because of some of the issues that we've seen happen there. but it's not consistent like we would like it tobe and it's strictly a deployment issue . >> thank you keith.>> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> thank you vice president elias. thank you for the update. i'm noticing there's just a trend and increase in gun violence across the country. and we know that as the summer , as the heat basically, the weather starts to heat up the summer approaches and usually there's an increase . is there a particular strategy that the department is looking into to maybe be proactive about adding strategies for

putting interventions in place to kind ofwork thatescalation or potential escalation . >> the summer time you're exactly right . we see a trend in increased activities withviolent crime so the strategies that i mentioned on top of that, a lot of the programming that we traditionally done in the summer , youth programming in particular, getting opportunities for all for the mayor's office is aimed at some of the kids that are more susceptible to thatviolence, some of the young people, not all kids but young people . we have work to dowith that crowd , the upper 20 crowd because we don't have programming for that crowd. that's where the intervention piece is really important. that's where the arrest of services are important. to reach that crowd and try to do what we can whetherit be jobs or job training . some type of programming to place some of the activity drivingviolence. that's an ongoing strategy .

it will help when we have a consistent strategy with our life coaches . a couple of them have moved on to better paying opportunities which we all can understand but we're hopeful this grant if we get it this summer will help stabilize that but it's going to take a while to put those place pieces in place if we ge this grant . the other thing is if the deployment adjustment is to make sure the traditional spaces where a crime has occurred and where deployed as robust as we can be deployed. third street and the bayview we've had challenges, third and revere, places like that. the tenderloin is mainly narcotics driven is what we're finding or some other type of activity other than group violence that's driving the crime. that also is our narcotics work with getting some of the drug

dealers off the street that's driving that crime and then the other piece of this is single-sided, it's erratic but it's going to goback to the program and wraparound services . >> chris, can we go to public commentsplease ? >> if you'd like to make publi comments, please dialáthree . mrs. brown. you have two minutes. >> i'll start with the overhead.

>> miss brown, today is my son's birthday. april sixth is his birthday. and i'm here again to plead that he get justice for my son. i can the board of supervisors and i spoke with the president walton about the second phase of getting the digital posters, the display posters all the precincts right now, all 10 precincts and i think thank everyone for helping spearhead that. so i also left an email with william scott and everyone else about the second phase, about getting them at the station so that people can see their

victims so what mothers arelike myself can heal. and feel like they're doing something. like i said it's my son's birthday today . i didn't want to go to the gravesite, he still doesn't have a headstone so i do have to dig up the part where he's laying at and idon't know where it's at right now and i haven't been able to go up there . but i'm so still celebrating his birthday todayhe will be 37 years old . he died at 16. how long am i going to suffer? howlong am i going to get justice ? you have all theperpetrators names who murdered my son . what do we doabout it ? hannibal thomas, terrence moffat, jason thomas, matthew hunter. they're outlivingtheir lives . like nothing ever happened i'm

here stuck with this, my son and this is what theyleft me with . thank you. >> thank you miss brown. let me read the hotline number please sergeant. >> for those of you who may have ananonymous tip call the anonymous tip line , 415575 4444.>> iq. >> vice president elias, there is nomore public comment . >> i want to wish your son a happy, heavenly birthday. next item. >> line item 5, dpa directors report discussion. report on recent dpa activities and announcements.

dpa report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting, presentation of the january and february 2022 monthly statistical report and we have acting director sarah hawkins from dpa. >> i will start with the weekly statistics. since the last commission meeting dpa hasreceived 37 new cases . in 15 percent of those the allegation was the officer failed to take required action. in 14 percent it was that the officer he hated or spoke inappropriately an 11 percent was that the officer to properly investigate . the next top allegation was that the officerconducted an improper search or seizure . i'm going to talk now about our january and february monthly

statistics to highlight some of those. of the 54cases received in january , 37 percent involve officers eating or behaving inappropriately . that is a trend we've been seeing that we have discussed with our disciplinary review board. and 30 percent of the january cases theallegation was an officer failed to take required action . 15 percent involve officers engaged in unwarranted action. six percent involve officers misrepresenting the truth and six percent actually involved matters outside ofdpa jurisdiction. the total number of allegations we received in januarywere 116. in february , we received the nine cases . 51 percent involve officers speaking or behaving inappropriately at 22 percent failed to take, involve allegations that officers failed to take a required

action. that trend showed up at our monthly statistics as well as over the past three weeks. we're addressing that with the department at the disciplinary review board level . interms of our audit division we sent out a notice on april 5 that we will be beginning our dg 08 and audit for calendar year 2021 . operations lives, we had a kickoff for our civic bridge program which i'm very excited about. it's a project to enable complainants to access their complaints online and access thestatus of where their complaints are in our system . in terms of outreach , on march 24 we hosted a virtual community informational light with p flag, an organization that promotes the health and well-being of lgbt plus persons to highlight dpa's work in those communities and form a partnership with that organization . we have two cases on enclosed session tonight which will be handled by managing attorney diana rosenstein and also present at tonight's meeting is candace carpenter, one ofour

senior investigators was present for any issues that might come up pertainingto dpa . >> commissioners, any questions ? no, you're faster than paul. all right. public comment. >> if you'd like to make public comment dialáthree. >> line item 6, commission report discussion. commission reports limited to a brief this version of announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether that any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. commission presidents report, commissioners report,

commissionannouncements and handling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings . >> i know that commissioner byrne requested to generalize in three months the update on i'm sorry, what was her name? miss bo's case, we should again dies the protocols for victims and families of homicide and what the department does because we've had this concern raised several times about family members who try to ... whose cases are aged and they don't have contact with people in the department so perhaps the department can do a presentation on what services and contacts and resources the provide these victims and family members of homicide victims . so that that way we can have that and put that information on a commission website so that we don't have to make these victims suffer even further.

the other thing i'm going to ask to again dies is i think we should have an update on the cbe and how it's working in terms of the shootings and homicide. they came and gave the outline of what it is that they provide and the services but i think it would be good to see how it plays out with actualcases and the actual shootings and homicides thathave been going on . >> california partnership . >> yeah, thank you. fellow commissioners, let's start with commissioner yee. >> i have nothing to report right now. >> thank you. commissioner burns. >> thank you vice president. i'm attempting to organize with captain canning and evening in the tenderloin to see if i can validate the residents concerns

about the change. i'll report back to the commission after. after i've had that opportunit . thank you. >> president: commissioner carter-oberstone. >> i want to acknowledge briefly that for the last few weeks now i've been meeting with chief scott and senior members of his staff as well as janel caywood from dpa to discuss our dg oh, what our policy will be to address the issue of racial disparities in our stop and search data. i think things have been going really well and i'm encouraged by the engagement that i've seen both from dpa and the department i think we're really listening to each other. we've made a lot of progress

and you can see kind of week by week the policy improving so i just want to give the public an update on that and i think tentatively we said we would again dies it for the first meeting in may. so we're working towards meetingthat day to roll something out publicly but just wanted to get an update in terms of what's happening outside of the commission . >>thanks for the update, commissioner yanez.>> thank you vice president . i want to thank deanna olivo who is the director of policy and public affairs with the police department who reached out and invited me to participate in the upcoming sojourn trip which is part of the race and reconciliation work that's happening. i'm excited about going out there with a cohort of department personnel and the chief himself to really experience this work and see how it will impact and

hopefully inform thedirection the department istaking when it comes to addressing some of the challenges we have with disparities . and in addition to that , i did want to kind of on the kind of on the tail or just on this trend of the increase in police or reports of police not necessarily responding to requests for follow-up and given that there has been a letter written by supervisor ronan's office that the chief had a detailed response to, i did want to move forward with agenda i think that conversation about how we look at policing, about how we can introduce new strategies for police to address those disparities and to also improve our outcomes. i think our constituents deserve for us to have a conversation about what we need

to do to look at policing differently and to respond to our communitybecause these requests for these complaints continue to trend upwards . and i think we need to be really proactive in finding solutionsso i'd like to again dies that for the 20th if possible . and that is my report, thanks . >> commissioner hamasaki. >> nothing. >> president: public comment. >> if you'd like to make publi comments, please dialá3 . vice president, there is no public comment. >> line item 7, presentation of the internal affairs division quarterly reports. third and fourth quarter 2021. this presentation will show the number of internal affairs division casesopened and close for the third and fourth

quarter 2021 . discussion . >> that eveningcommission vice president elias, police commissioners, chief scott . director hawkins, i'll call you acting director hawkins and members of the public. i'm commander paul. of the manager's office and i'm here to present a summary of open and closed cases or investigations for the internal affairs division for the third and fourth quarter of 2021 so essentially the second half of 2021 . i know previously commander woods was commander of the deputy chief robert silva introduced a divisional version of this report andit was the actual first one . for the second quarter of 2021 he described the format and contents in timber 2021.

so don't be alarmed, i will no be going over this report line by line because it's close to 50 pages . rather i will discuss the analysis trends and action taken by the department. as a result the recommendations from commission president elias i will be presenting to you summaries afforded by graphics in a supplemental powerpoint. i'm going to move directly to slide three. okay, slide three of this presentation. provides charts and a graph and bar graphs depicting aggregate numbers of openclose investigations conducted by the internal first division of dph . by months incompares 2020 february 20, 2021 data .

there are two items on this bargraph that stand out. they are cases opened in 2021 and i'd like to explain that. so that is when the department took action regarding the vaccination mandate. that, there's just like there and i know that there were 118 war numbers and i don't have the number for you tonight of the civilian staff for a professional staff but that is clearly why there's a spike. the other what appears to be an anomaly are closed cases for the year 2020 and i talked to the staff in my office and the best explanation i can give you is that this was just the result of a lot of work that month and their ability to review those cases for the command staff and get those settled . all right. so this report is going to look very different from the report

that was prevented back in september. i'm going to go to the first five graph is on page 5 are going to start with cases opened in thethird quarter of 2021 . so of 109 cases that were opened, by ied given third-quarter 20 2115 cases were close in the same quarter. so 94 of those cases remain open at the close of the quarter. the universe of 109 cases we closed 15 within that quarter, the remaining are will be determined but some of themmay have been determined but for future date . the next slide, internal affairs division cases receiving quarter march 20, 2021 bysource type. so of the 109 cases , ied or the internal affairs division initiated 56 of those cases so hello more thanhalf . dpa referred ied after they

concluded their investigations 31 of those cases so 29 percent of those cases and dpa also referred ied cases against professional staff or off-duty misconduct and that amounted to 22 cases. all right, on slide seven are moving on some bar graphs. this will depict the number of allegations by type or category for the internal affairs division cases opened in quarter march 20, 2021. the highest number by far is prospective duty cases which are 65 so 65 of the 109. the second most common case was conduct unbecoming of an officer and then conduct, the next largest number was conduc unbecoming of a professional

staff which amounted to 16 . followed by that we have another's life. it's number classification so essentially sworn department members and professional staff. so those the psa clerical directors.the rest of the department. member classification type for all internal affairs division cases opened duringthe third quarter of 2021, 74 workers personnel, 34 were for professional staff, one was unknown and let me explain the unknown . that is a complaint where we had to identify the department member and it wasn't known if it was a sworn member or a professional. okay, any questions so far? okay. we're going to move to the closed cases for the same quarter, third quarter of 2020 . we're going to start with a bargraph.

there were findings in 111 cases so cases closed by the internal affairs division in the third quarter of 2021. the categories of those outcomes are improper conduct with the category at 64 findings of improper conduct. insufficient evidence for 25 of those cases, seven cases with proper conduct, five were dismissed, five were in policy, two were policy failures, one was an exceptional clearance . on page 11, thanks for your assistance. actions in the 111 cases closed bythe internal affairs division , this is another bargraph so no further action in 40 of those cases and what we mean by no further actions, that did not miss result in discipline and that means for conduct, the case was dismissed. exceptionalclearance , policy

failures, unfounded, etc. so 40 of those that was the determination. 25 resulted in admonishments, seen in a written reprimand and now we are in the disciplining category. suspension, there were 2 suspensions, nine filed with the police commission, seven members retired, for members resigned and one was terminated for an unrelated matter and 2 were science counseling.of note on this in cases where members receive multiple levels of discipline thisbargraph shows the highest level of discipline so there could be multiple levels of discipline in the industries . i'll give you an example. someone that is given a suspension can be given also retraining. so in fact that's usually the

case . now we'll talk about the cases closed in q3 bysource type . the internal affairs division closed 53 cases among sworn members. dpa referred 36 of those cases that we close and then 22 were referred by dpa also for professional or non- professional slide 13, number classification typeand internal affairs division cases closed during quarter march 20, 2021 . of the cases closed in the third quarter idiotwas sworn members, 22 were professional staff . and there was that one item. now we're going to move to the fourth quarter 2021 and look at the exact same type of graphs but obviously different numbers put forth . and i'm going to speed through theseso please feel free to

stop me at any time . there were 262 cases opened by the internal affairs division in the fourth quarter and during that same period we close five of those cases during the same period. of the 262 opened five were closed , the remaining 257 needed to be investigated further by our division. and the number is much more than third-quarter and i explained earlier that was the vaccination numbers for the non-vaccination numbers . okay, onto chart number 16 or page 16. so this is the cases received and what was the source of those cases? the 236 i'm sorry, 236 of the total caseswere initiated by the internal affairs division . . 23 were referred by dpa and

three were regarding sworn members andthree were referred to dpa regarding non-sworn members .for professional staff . the number of allegations or allegation type category once again neglect of duty was by far the largest number, there were 230 second highest was conduct unbecoming and okay. would you like me to continue? >> just finish her sentence. >> seven were for conduct unbecoming of professionals . >> did you have one more slide? >> i actually have about six more. >> i'm going to allow the commissioners to add their question but i first would like to thank you for your presentation . i think the initial list of all these pieces, i know deputy chief sullivan, the chief myself and other members worked

really hard to revise the reporting of ia cases to be more transparent and give the public more information which also coincides with dpa efforts as well so i want to commend you on that and i think we should obviously continue with these excel spreadsheet of the summer and all the cases as well as a summary of the data you provided in the 50 pages so thank you for your hardwork and presenting this to us . my question that i had was what i see in slide five and i think we have an answer but i still don't understand it. this is 109 cases were open, 16 were close on quarter march 20, 2021 but then when you go to slide 11 it says 111 cases wer closed in quarter march 20, 2021. how do we go from 15 cases close to 111 ? >> that's a great question. slide five refers to only that quarter. so we did open 109 . during that same quarter we

closed 15 of the 109. but while we were working on those 109 we were still working with the entire universe of open cases. and during that same time we were able to close many many more cases that had nothing to do with those initiated in that quarter. that's why in slide 11 the number rose to 100 and 11 so in essence we did 111, closed 111 cases. you can subtract 15 from there. and then that's the rest of those cases were not related to the third quarter of 2022. >> so they weren't open during that time. >> correct, that's probably a much easier way to say. >> my second and final question iswhen i look at the 50 page , the line by line, the third quarter 2021, 15 out of the 57 cases it appears that there is insufficient evidence so i'm

wondering why there's so many insufficient evidence findings. because i know that you, i guess i'm just wondering why there's so many. is it that they are false claims? i'm assuming when ia does their investigations they do a thorough vetting process which is similar to what epa doesn't dpa doesn't have any of those insufficient evidence findings. >> i can't answer specifically to the third quarter because i didn't do the research on that particular question but i can to you ingeneral what i've seen since i've been in this division . that is we will make great efforts to find reporting and in many of those cases, reaching out by email we will find multiple times sending an officer to speak with that reporting for either unwilling to us or refuse to us or we

just can't locate them. in those cases westill refer video and witnesses but we don't have enough evidence to move forward . that's something i've seen in my short time. >> usually though art they reporting fellow officers because dpa handles citizen complaints against officers but ia handles reports byfellow officers. >> correct. of those , it's going to be a case-by-case basis. sometimes we look at that evidence very carefully and reveal it and it's hard to come to any conclusion. sometimes it's just really lack of evidence. so it's somebody's word against somebody else's word and very few other pieces of evidence that can help us with this cas . >> if i could interject vice president elias . not all of the ia cases are often referred to as internal initiated complaints.

granted off-duty we had eyewitnesses, a good example is psa's at theairport . a lot of our complaints that arise from trafficdisputes , a ticket is written. it's we can't substantiate away. the department initiated or office initiated, we have another universitycomplaint . >> that would be a good category to break up to let them know how many of the i.a. cases are officer preferred and how many are of the type that you just explained. i think it would be helpful to explain why there'sso many insufficient evidence . >> sure. >> thank you, commissioner yanez. >> one follow-up question. i like to figure out how we can do an analysis of cases that maybe are not substantiated by

internal affairs that eventually end up at dpa and and up actually being substantiated and brought to our attention sometimes at dpa and what the difference in those numbers maybe on a day-to-day basis as i've asked but not the question before, you compare apples to oranges, i'd like to have a set of apples to apples, oranges to squeeze with charges and that will give us information about what point in the process is there a disconnect between what dph is seeing and what we are seeing and what is actually coming up with you all and how we can improvethat process . >> just add one thing and it's something for us to work on but we do work with dpa regularly so it's not by quarter. it's more weekly. there's something called a disciplinary review board. this is very data-driven and number driven where we have a meeting with the top command staff of both of our departments and the one off

cases that we discussed in detail and we talk about how to fix them. is it a training issue? do we needto modify policy or is this one reason that was being made so our presentation is data-driven and there's a lot of conversation on the side but we can get the data and your suggestion also . >> i wanted to make sure i understood commissioner yanez's question. are you referring to cases that we investigate that are dpa cases or ... okay. >> cases that are not dpa cases that eventually make their way to dpa after an investigation hasbeen closed in your department . >> so i'll just take a second and maybe i can get to the root

of the question and be responsive. there are some situations where there are parallel investigations like an officer involved shooting or excessive force where were going to investigate that and dpa make it a complaint. charter gives dpa the authority but that universe where there's parallel investigations that are small because there's much better communication so if we get the case that is a public and planning as vice president elias referred to the will send thatcomplaintimmediately to dpa.if they get complaints , that's not within their charter authority , for instance they have a nonce one person or a outside of the shootingthat's not in the city they're going to refer to us . there are very few situations where there's either a parallel investigation or where eva picks up an investigationthat we can't prove one way or another.very few . >> director henderson, acting to render director hawkins.

>> i was going to echo what the chief! was. therehave been instances where there have been parallel investigations we didn't find out about but that's been a long time . and now we generally do always either if there's a real investigation we have communication about that case or we know which agency should be handling the investigation so it's rare that the case would get through a decision point at the department level and then come to us. >> again, thank you for your presentation. i appreciate you taking our feedback and this is a work in progress. this is the second time we've reported under the new transparent prototype so i appreciate it and i appreciate again the work your department does to provide us this situation . >> if you'd like to makepublic comment please dial á3 . there is no public comment.

>> at this time i'm going to ask to take line item 8 out of order and move up item 9 and that we go into closed session because of schedulingconflicts . >> line item 9, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 11 before, closed session including public comment on item 10. vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session. >> going to get a motion. >> a motion. >> second. >> commissioner yanez, how do youvote ? >> if you'd like to make public comment dialá3. there is no public comment. commissioner yanez how do you vote on line item 10?

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>> this project includes obvious components like the bright red new transit only lanes that are built of two feet the thick of red concrete that read all the way through. it includes rebuilding all the above ground infrastructure, everything from overhead power lines to traffic lights and includes 375 new trees and 4000 drought resistant new shrubs so the biggest part of the project is actually the other groundwork. we rebelled a street from building space to business building space but we dug up and under snarled 150 years worth of crazy utilities including 10,000 feet of communication fiber-optic lines, 18,000 feet of sewer pipes including 19th-century rick sewers, 25,000 feet of

water pipes and 12,000 feet of duck mink to power ourbuses and traffic signals . rebuilding all these utilities and strengthening them for earthquake resistance mean that we will not have to do that again for another hundred 50 yearsand i am so glad of that part of the project . [applause] this project was the result ... okay. we could not have done this project without a very very large team so i'm going to go through very quickly and thank some of ourpartners and i will miss some . thankful to federal transit administration for funding the project caltrans to the san

francisco county transportation authority who was our funding partner to maryland and breeden board of supervisors who have prioritized this project again and again for over a decade to the planning department to help us reimagine the space to public works department and public utilities commission who helped us with the underground stuff, the arts commission that helped us choose the art and deal with many of the design aspects of the project to the arts commission which i just thanked to the city attorney's office to the historic preservation commission here in the civic center area to the mayor's office of economic and workforcedevelopment, the mayor's office to disability to the community advisory committee and the vanness business advisory committee . thank you to all of those folks but we also oh a very strong debt of gratitude to the folks who live and work along this corridor.

digging up this entire street to replace 150 years worth of utilities is altered in some major disruption and impacts as a result of the construction. and i really want to extend my gratitude and sincere apologies to all of the business owners andresidents along this corridor . thank you for yourpatience . you put up with years of noisy and disruptive work at all hours of dayand night . we have learned a lot of lessons from this project and we're already applying those lessons to other projects like our work on geary and tara fall which are on time and on budget in part because of the things that we learned about this project. so i also want to think in addition to the residents and business owners for their patients i need to thank the people who actually did the real work of making this project happen so here are the sf mta i want to call out peter camacho, lance jackson, matt

lee, pastor wilson, kate mccarthy, john graebner for their work along with hundreds and hundreds of other people but particularly those people who have spent the last decade making this happen. from the san francisco county transportation authority i want to thank kelly chang and bob maces from the ribbon cutting and then i particularly want to thank walsh construction and all of their technical subcontractors for being out here every day delivering this work including doing extraordinary things like the ballet dance of rebuilding the mission in south vanness. so thank you to all of those people for really making this happen. so it's very very exciting to finally be here. this is a very very big year for the sf mta. we completed the first phase of the geary rapid projectearlier

this year .we completed the first phase of rebuilding the caravel earlier this year and indeed we're going to open the central subway later this year in the fall and i'm so happy to be here today finally opening the van ness bus and transit project so with nofurther ado , may i introduce the mayor of sanfrancisco, london breed . [applause] >> wow. what a big deal in sanfrancisco today . thank you jeff, let's give another round of applause to the great san francisco symphony for that beautiful rendition of i left my heart in san francisco. our hearts are in san francisco todayand today because of that we are rolling out the red carpet . no, this is not an april fools'

day joke. this isfinally done because it has been a long time coming . the people of san francisco, the voters of san francisco approved this back in 2003. and the work began to look at how we were going to reimagine what vanness boulevard would be in order to order to provide efficient transit and safety and all the things we need. when i think back to the history of van ness boulevard, when i used to walk up and down theseand fix the 49 and 47 two galileo high school not too long ago as a youngster , it was auto row. this city after the golden gate bridge and geary boulevard and other places,the city was built mostly to accommodatevehicles .

and over the years , we've seen a significant shift. people using various modes of transportation but also because we are a city who prides herself on making sure we are good stewards of the environment, we noticed something. 47 percent of greenhouse gas admissions happen in the city because of vehicles. and we need to make changes. we need to make our public transportation system more efficient. we need to make sure we improve our infrastructure so that different modes of transportation can move around san francisco in a safe and efficient manner and at the same time, have apositive impact on the environment . yes, this project took a very long time. starting when i was on the board of supervisors in 2016 but you know howthat is , even

scott weiner was on the board of supervisors . bureaucratic years take forever in the city. but guess what? i feel like we're opening it right on time. after dealing with two years of a global pandemic that kept us away from one another, that kept us from seeing one another spaces so please don't be offended if i don'trecognize you anymore . it's been two years. and as we begin to reemerge, i can't help but think about how strong and amazingthe city is . we've endured so many challenges in our city's history.but what's so great about san francisco is when we are able to complete projects like this, we celebrate but we also understand the value of what this will mean for people to get around this city for the commuters that come all over the bay area .

golden gate regional and the folks who catch muni and the kids who pretend to get to school on timegalileo . this will be a meaningful change. reducing the travel time by 30 percent, making public transportation more attractive to people. that's our goal and all these variants improvement projects. so as we start to reopen, we have to make sure that we can get people around efficiently and safely and i am so happy that this is finally getting done because now i can catch the 49 to the house of primary and and get there in a timely manner. now we can make sure we support all these great businesses. many that we know we lost not just because of the pandemic but because of this project.

yes, the city came togetherto provide millions of dollars for grants for small businesses but it clearly was notenough . so now the real workbegins . using this system , enjoying the public art, commuting back and forth to where ever we need to go and supporting the businesses along van ness, but i want to say that to the kids at galileo do not get off before you get to school because we needed to make it to school on time. we don'twant this transit system to be a reason you are not doing what you're supposed to be doing . i am so happy to be here today and i've gotto say thisregional state , federal, local county transportation authority , so many people . the workers, the people who live along this area and work along this area and have businesses along this area we ou a debt of gratitude for what you've endured during this time

and i think this is going to be really a shining example of san francisco and our resilience after dealing with a very challenging couple of years. we're coming back stronger and better than ever and we are going to continue to host the cleanest and greenest fleet and move san francisco in a direction where we meet our climate goals and we make sure we provide transportation that makes this apriority in san francisco , using public transportation as a priority in san francisco to get around because it is more efficient than anyother mode. thank you all so much for being here. we appreciate everyone that participated in this project . >> thank you mayorlondon breed . fun fact. in 2001 i was quoted by san francisco columnist john king in a newspaper story in the

chronicle talking about rapid transit and the mayor at the time upon reading this article tried to fire me on the radio. thank you mayor london breed for your strong support of publictransit . meanwhile, it is my honor to introduce our next speaker whose recent legislation would have shaved over a year off of our venice project schedule. i'm sograteful for thestrong public transit support of our state senator scott weiner . scott . >> thank you jeff. i am so excitedright now. i can't even describe it . i'm excited because it's happening but as a 25 year muni writer, i've seen the good the bad and occasionally the good. i love trains but to my heart i am a bus driver. and buses you know, get really

neglected a lot of times . it's a large majority of transit is here in san francisco. fast majority around the country is buses and we need to find ways to make buses faster, more efficient and more attractive for people so we can actually get people options rather than driving and people shouldn't have to live by a subway line to be able to use transit. they should be able to use transit anywhere and buses are the way that we do that and bus rapid transit is the way that we do that. so this is justincredibly exciting. and when you look at the future of san francisco and frankly the bay area , i know it's going to be shocking to hear me say this. we need a lot morehousing. we need to put a lot more housing in san francisco so that people can afford to live here . but paired with that enormous

amount of additional housing, we have to have more and more and better and better and more efficientpublic transportation to support it . [applause] because if it's just a bunch more cars, the geometry doesn't work. there's not enough street space, there's not enough parking. we need the buses and we need to put it all together to make this the most sustainable and amazing city in the world. it alreadyis but let's go above and beyond that . this has been a real team effort when you look at the work that van ness and other amazing transit projects in the city. i have the honor of sharing our county transportation authority and we worked really hard with the mayor, then supervisor breed to move this forward but we also worked at the state level and i want to thank and acknowledge our entire current

and former statelegislative delegation, city attorney david hsu who we miss in the legislature . let's hear it for mister chu who when he was on the board of supervisors, his district was right along van ness and he helped guide this along and working with assembly member phil king, chair of the budget committee worked hard to get more transit resources into san francisco and a fight because some of our colleagues are in areas that don't have transit but we're getting more and more momentum to have the state be a better partner to counties and cities to make sure that we're adding more transit. this is amazing congratulations everyone. we learned a lot from this project. it will not take this long in the future . where working as jeff mentioned on legislation to dramatically streamline the approval of bus rapid transit and light rail and bike and pedestrian project, sustainable

transportation isthe future. let's get it done faster and congratulations everyone . >> thank you senator weiner. one of the many places the venice festival can take you to is the san francisco opera. i'm pleased to introduce lisa sunshine and andrew came from the san francisco opera . [applause] >>. [piano playing] [singing]

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>> brock. over 40 percent of california's greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportsector and all that the vast majority is personal driving . and in addition here in california we are no longer demolishing low income neighborhoods in order to widen highways and yet the state is growing. where growing jobs,having people , california is still a land of opportunity . and so i am utterly delighted to watch new leadership at the state department of transportation who is working to reimagine the state highway system in order to move more people rather than moving more cars and to help the state achieve its greenhouse gas emissions goals . so i am very honored to introduce the california secretary of transportation . [applause]

>> thanks for the setup director to have me come and as asked for that performance. how in the world do you top that? so when you schedule an event on april 1, and it has a history this project has, immediately what comes to mind is is this actually real? is this going to happen? and without a doubt everybody can see a day with the fortitude and leadership of director tumlin, many folks in the city, it is real. it is happening right here so kudos to everybody who's worked hard to make this day happen. so again i'm secretary of transportation for the state.

i'mhere on behalf of governor newsom . the governor wouldlove to have been here . he's a big fan of transportation but other things pulled him away this particular morning.when i think about a project like this, this prt project , three e. comes to mind. number one, we know be rt projects and this particular project, mayor breed mentioned it before. we knowwhat is going to meet as far as reduction in travel time throughout downtown san francisco and the region . we know what's going toresult on that so efficiency is a big part of what we're going to gain. number two the environmental benefits , environmental benefits will be huge. the fact that again more than 40 percent actually statewide nearly 50 percent of greenhouse gas emissions , from

transportation transportation is the largest, the biggest culprits of our environmental challenges in this state and projects like this will improve that. it will address it . and finally third b. equitable. the equitable outcomes.we know how much senator weiner mentioned it. how much of a challenge it is to afford to live in the state but in particular within the bay area. the factthat we're coming up with solutions like this that will make it more costly , less costly i should say. more equitable for people to be able to move about is exactly the direction we need to go. kudos and congratulations to a lot of people who had the vision for many years but for the fortitude of the city leadership to actually be able to deliver this project today. specifically again i want to thank sda for their contribution and support. our caltrans team, our caltrans

team if you could wave right over here. let's see caltrans. in particular dena, our district director. iq for your leadership. city and county staff, kudos and mayor breed again congratulations on an amazing day like today as you launch this incredible project . thank you very much. [applause] >> completing a project of this magnitude also requires strong andenduring policymaker support . i am very pleased to introduce next the chair of the san francisco county transportation commission and member of the board of supervisors rafael mandelman. >> jeff, you and your team you

got it done,congratulations . [applause] but you know who really got it done, the holds will build this project, that the building and construction trades workers showing economi resilience and good union jobs go hand-in-hand . so the project took too long. we all know that. there are certainly lessons to be learned. mistakes not to be repeated. but this project will surely make a difference in the lives of san franciscans every day as transit riders whiz past cars stuck in traffic, students, seniors, tourists and anyone wise enough to choose transit first. this project will make a difference for our i'm like all

of the speakers so excited about that. with caltrans developing new guidelines for sustainable transportation projects on main street state routes. the transportation authority is proud to have helped lay the groundwork for this day by leading the planning and environmental review faces of the project to support every phase of the project from planning to construction. these funds were from the transportation authority, proposition k which included $100 million be rt and other muni reliability projects when it passed in 2003. as we look ahead to a renewal of this source in november i want to thank sanfrancisco voters for their continued

support of transitfirst investments this one . and yes , give it up for the voters . in the case of the van ness improvement project, sales tax and city funds leveraged on the $20 million in and federal funds . so we want to thank our friends at the fda including region nine administrator and his team led by ed carranza and at caltrans led by dean with project lead the doll for their partnership overthe years . finally i want to recognize transportation authority staff. instrumental to the project developmentphase with our leader . and racial hyatt who managed the early planning and

environmental work through the approval stage. and our deputy for policy and programming and the court whose funding team supported ta grantmaking for each stage of the projects. and i want to thank michael schwartzwho is the project manager for the eir under rachel and i believe flew in from north carolina to be here with us today . that is love. i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge mycolleagues on the transportationauthority board who made it out here , catherine stephanie, commissioner mira , commissioner ashok safai and matt haney. thank youeveryone. san francisco is coming back on transit . >> as we mentioned this project took way too long and it required giving up the entire

street from curb to curb in order to un-snarl and replace a mess of utilities around the street. we are so grateful to the residents and business owners for their patients and i am thereforevery pleased to introduce our final speaker , one of the our favoritebusiness owners inthe corridor. joseph metz who is the owner and manager of the house of prime rib . mister vince, join us . >> i'd like to say thank you to mister tumlin for inviting me. i'd like to give you my pointof view. yes, it was difficult . however there are two people i have to thank that's katie mccarthy from the city.

she informs me what's going on. we had a meeting before we started and during the construction she always informed me if i call, the answer was right away. this way we could plan when i was blindsided. another one i appreciate the work with is david costello. he was the foreman from the wellsprogram and the construction really worked with us . we never had really and equipment in front of us so we always had great visibility on the van ness street and a lot of thingshave been said already i don't want to repeat but there's one thing i want to point out .it's an oldsaying. you forget the price but you do not forget the results . the trees on the sidewalk, the redstriping in the middle, it

looksbeautiful . iq for what you have accomplished . thank you. [applause] >> thank you all and i also want to thank a few additional people for their strong support throughout this project. city attorney david chu. joaquin torres. dennis herrera, treasurer ralph remington from the arts commission. >>. [please stand by]

all right. everybody one more time.

[♪♪] all right. hello everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm extremely excited to swear in jose fuentez almonza. well, i've got to say it always brings me so much pride and joy when i'm able to swear in san

francisco natives. and i definitely don't hold it against you that you went to balboa high school. the second best high school in san francisco behind galileo. you know what, that's right. did you come to that ceremony? couldn't make it, but i've got to say after all those years, i was really proud of the balboa high school football team who became the state champions. we had a great celebration for them here in san francisco and i'm always so proud of our young people and as a kid who grew up in san francisco during those years back in the day, we remember many of the challenges that existed in san francisco, but we also know that san francisco was a place of opportunity. and balboa high school was that place of opportunity for jose who was able to be an apprentice. who was able to move up in the ranks and be apart of an incredible union local 6, the

electricians who do a lot of wonderful work for san francisco and who have been really great in providing opportunities through city build. we know that it's apart of the larger building trade family. it's great to see rudy gonzalez here and larry mazola and speaking of junior, let me just say a few words about senior. and this seat we know has traditionally been a labor seat one in which the person who is apart of labor is usually somebody where prestigious and the mazolas, they don't necessarily do a change in leadership very lightly when it comes to this seat. so the fact that they dug deep and they found someone that they could basically pass the torch to must mean you are a pretty significant person in the labor world and we are so very excited and proud to have

you join. i want to take this opportunity. we have so many labor partners and labor leaders here. aybar made it, thank you for joining us. the airport director as well as commissioner jay natoli and malcolm young. thank you both for joining us here. make sure you treat jose real good and also thank you to myrna melgar from the board of supervisors and our labor leaders. again, let me just say, mr. mazola senior who has been really an icon in the labor movement for decades. he did a tremendous job as a member of this airport and he paid attention not just to the important work that needed to be done in the labor movement with all the major projects and construction undergoing during

this time at the airport. he made sure that small businesses and people who were part of the fabric of san francisco had opportunities. always asking the right questions, always paying attention to everything and all the details and i know based on your history, based on your work, and based on your love of san francisco that you're going to do an extraordinary job. so we're looking forward to seeing you serve. clearly, you have a tremendous amount of support. everyone is asking to be on this commission by the way, but it's not just about who i want to appoint, it's about what is in the best interest of the city and more importantly, you know, this is just really this tremendous amount of support from labor demonstrates that you are clearly the right person, but i also do take a lot of pride in the fact that you're not only a native san franciscan, but the first latina to be appointed to this

body which has been long overdue. so it's time. come on up, jose. let me get you sworn in. [ applause ] all right. please, raise your right hand and repeat after me. are we too covid close? is this okay? raise your right hand and repeat after me, i, state your name, to support and defend the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. against all enemies foreign and domestic that i bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that i take this obligation

freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which i'm about to enter and during such time as i serve as commissioner for the airport commission of the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. [ applause ] here's your official city pin. who gave you this? wasn't even sworn in yet. >> i was told this is unofficial. >> and look how big that is. it's like the whole world can see. this is to be more discrete like i'm a commissioner, but i've got class.

so here's your pin from me. there's your airport commission. wear either one with pride. all right, commissioner. let's hear a few words. [ applause ] >> clearly, as you can see, this is not what i normally do. thank you for the confidence in me and employment. i appreciate that. i look forward to being part of a great team and being able to help any which way i can to continue making this airport the world class airport that it is in the commission capacity. i'm excited and there was so much more in my head before i got up here and thank you for this. thank you. i look forward to it. and most importantly of course, my wife janet, my son antonio, all my friends, colleagues, and everybody out here. thank you very much. [ applause ]

>> let's get you signed in. all right. it's official. [ applause ]

you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is jeff tumlin. >> hi, i'm chris manors and you're watching san francisco rising. the show on starting, rebuilding, and reimagining our city. our guest is jeff tumlin and he's with us to talk about our transportation recovery plan and some exciting projects across the city. mr. tumlin welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> i know the pandemic was particularly challenging for the m.t.a. having to balance between keeping central transportation routes open, but

things have improved. how are we doing with our transportation recovery plan? >> so we just got good news this week. we're getting an extra $115 million from the american rescue plan and this is basically the exact amount of money we finally needed in order to close the gap between now and november of 2024 when we'll have to find some additional revenue sources in order to sustain the agency. in the meantime, i finally have the confidence to be able to rapidly hire, to restore services and to make sure muni is there for san francisco's larger economic recovery because downtown san francisco doesn't work without muni. >> quite right. i guess the other impact of the pandemic was that some projects like the valencia bike improvements had to be put on hold. are we starting to gear up on

those again? >> yes, so it's an interesting case study. of right before covid hit, we were about ready to invest in quick build bike lanes. arguably the most important bike order in san francisco. that got stopped with lockdown and then as you'll recall, during covid, we invented all kinds of other new programs like shared spaces in order to support our small businesses as well as sunday street light events for neighborhood commercial streets where streets were closed off to cars and turned over to commercial activity. those successes now that they've been made permanent actually interrupt the draft design we had put together. so we've gone back to the drawing board and we are looking forward to having some additional community conversations about other design ideas for valencia. we're committed to completing a quick build project on this calendar year. >> that's such good news.

valencia is a really great street for biking. so there are two huge and exciting projects that are about to be or have just been completed. let's talk about the bus rapid transit project on van ness avenue. how extensive have the improvements been? >> what's called the van ness transit rapid project is in fact more about complete reconstruction of the street and most importantly, the 100-year-old utilities underneath the street. so all of the water, sewer, telecommunications, gas lines under the street were basically rebuilt from market street all the way to lumbard. the part on the surface which provides dedicated bus lanes for golden gate transit and muni, that was relatively straight forward and we're so excited we're going to start revenue service for muni on april 1st. >> that's fantastic.

i understand there were some sidewalk improvements too. >> there were sidewalk improvements. we planted 374 trees. there is new storm water treatment including infiltration in the sidewalk, there's a bunch of art. there's all kinds of things. we put in new street lights for the entire corridor. >> finally, the other big news is about the central subway. can you briefly describe the project and give us an update. >> yes, so the central t-line project, another stop at union square that connects directly into powell station and a final stop in the heart of chinatown at stockton and washington. that project has also run into challenges.

it's 120' under muni, under bart, 120' down and out under chinatown in some unexpectedly challenging soils. but that project is nearly complete. it's at about 98% completion right now which means we're testing trains, we're testing the elevators and escalators and the final electronics and we're still on track to open that in october presuming all of the testing continues to go well. so fingers crossed on in a one. we're really looking forward to allowing people to have a subway ride from the heart of chinatown all the way to the convention center to the caltrans station and all the way down to bayview and visitation valley. >> it's great to see all these projects coming to completion. we're all grateful for your team's hard work and i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. tumlin. thank you for the time you've

given us today. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this episode. for sfgov tv i'm chris manors. thanks for watching.

. >> -- any evidence samples that are in there are only in there for 60 days because their turnaround time is much shorter than they were in 2014, so that's kind of the take home, is that no reference samples in there, and reference samples only monitor for 60 days. and so -- and also, we are not -- any matches we see in that quality assurance database, we're not reporting on, so any matches that we see at the lab will be only codis. so if we see a match, we see if it's contamination and then move on. so -- and then, the other take-home is there is legislation pending at the state and local level, and whatever happens, we'll, of course, follow it. >> vice president elias: commissioners -- thank you for the excellent presentation. do any of my commissioners have

any public comment? can we go to public comment, please? >> clerk: yes. if you would like to make public comment, please dial star, three. vice president elias, there's no public comment. >> clerk: thank you. . >> vice president elias: thank you. next item, please. have a good night. >> clerk: line item 12, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 11 held in closed session, san

francisco administrative code section 67.12-a, action. >> vice president elias: i'll make a motion. can i get a second. >> can i clarify what the motion was? >> vice president elias: not to disclose. >> thank you. >> clerk: if you would like to make public comment, please dial star, three. vice president elias, there is no public comment. >> vice president elias: thank you. i'm going to make a motion not to disclose. can someone second, please? . >> second. >> vice president elias: roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose -- [roll call]

>> clerk: vice president elias, you have a unanimous vote. >> vice president elias: next item. >> clerk: line item 13, adjournment. action. >> vice president elias: good night. >> clerk: yes, good night. adjournment.

>> ♪♪ ♪♪ we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally >> everybody is cop us right now. >> the people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. >> i didn't think we would have a location at the airport. >> we've set the bar higher with the customer commerce. >> telling me about the operator and how you go about

finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. >> so first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sit-down we go to the neighborhoods in san francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. >> we have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. >> they are planning on extending. >> we that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your

minds and it's all good. >> how long for a vendor to move through the process. >> i would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. >> i don't know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. and, you know, even taking out the track simple things there's a learning curve >> with once we're here they are helpful. >> it's an award-winning program. >> we're prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address beverage program and . >> like the oscars (laughter). >> the professional world. >> tell me about the future

food. >> all the sb national leases are xooirz and we're hoping to bring newer concepts out in san francisco and what your passengers want. >> well, i look forward to the future (laughter) a >> (clapping.) >> in san francisco the medical examiner performs the function of investigating medical and legal that occurs with the city and county of san francisco from a variety of circumstances in san francisco there is approximately 5 thousand deaths annually i'm christopher

director for the chief mr. chairman the chief my best testimony a at the hall of justice on 870 drooint street that is dramatically updated and not sufficient for the medical chairman facility i've charles program manager public works should a earthquake of a major are proportion occurs we'll not continue to perform the services or otherwise inhabit the building before the earthquake. >> we're in a facility that was designs for a department that functions and in the mid 60s and friends scientific has significantly changed we've had significant problems with storage capacity for evidence items of property and also personal protective if you're doing a job on a daily

basis current little storage for prirjs are frirnlsz we're in an aging facility the total project cost forever ever commercial is $65 million the funding was brought by a vote of go bond approved by the voters and the locations is in the neighborhood the awarded contract in 2013 and the i'm the executive director we broke ground in november 2015 and that started with the demolition of existing facility we moved into the foundation and january so pile foundation and then with second construction of the new facility. >> one of the ways that we keep our project on time on budget and we're having quality to have regular meeting and the

variety of meetings with construction process meeting as well as cost of control meeting and i'm a project manager for public works the office of chief commercial we want walk the project site when we sign up and also with a contractor insinuates for a change over we need to verify what or what was instead of. >> the building is 42 feet tall so it is two stories and 46 thousand square feet roughly we're that's a great question to be on time and budget have the roof complete a the exterior moving with the site work. >> and as you can see we've got a lot of the interior finishes installed. >> in an effort of an differentiate the facility that designed to work for 72 hours. >> not taking into account there was a lot of structural

updates made into this building not seen in other construction throughout san francisco or other barriers we have friday morning examiners from 8 to one public comment monday to friday because of air circulation we literally have to shut the doors and so the autopsy is done without staffing being able to come and go or exit the space and literally lock down the autopsy in the new facility we have bio build one door opens and closed behind you you can gown up and go through a second seizures of doors that has its own independent air supply and now in the exterior opt space having that middle space have greater flexibility of staff as

they move in and out of the area. >> in the current facility investigative unit has small tiny, tiny place in the area of the new facility is almost doubled in all divisions from the current facility and the new facility. >> the planning we have here gives them the opportunity to have the pool needs to complete theirs jobs in a much more streamlined fashion. >> we're looking forward to have secured parking to minimize the egress of you know visiting and the members of the public but really to minimize the investigators remaining remains from our advancing and so the facility. >> we have a new visitors area we're building that is a little bit more friendly to families. >> one thing you may notice in

the room no windows there is no natural light not good for most autopsy but in the new facility at new hall we made that an objective they want to insure we were able to look up in the middle of exam and see the sky and see natural lights. >> that's one of the things the architect did to draw in as much light as possible. >> we have staff here onsite we insure the design of the new design enables the investigators and other investigators skiefksz to consider to house on site this meant we needed to design and plan for locker room facilities and shower rooms the ability to sleep. >> third of the construction

going into the building has been by contributions of small businesses. >> part of the project is also inclusive to the sidewalk have all new sidewalks and new curve cuts and landscaping around the building we'll have a syrup in front of the building and rain guardian. >> the medical examiner's office has been a several if in their contributions of the understanding the exception and needs. >> it's a building that the chief medical examiner has been looking forward to quite a few of the. >> it is extremely valuable contribution to the, neighborhood address san francisco as a whole. >> the building will allow is to have greater very much and serve the city and county of san francisco and the neighboring

. >> chairman: good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, april 4th, 2022. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by supervisor mandelman and my committee member supervisor connie chan. to our left, our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements this morning? >> clerk: yes. the board of supervisors as committees a