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thank you the redistricting task force is called become it order from recess. mr. clerk do you have announcements? we had just wrapped up item 2 which was the approval of the final draft map. task force did approve it is final map and if you would like we can move forward it item 3. >> thank you. let's call item 3, members if there are no objections? the discussion of task fers
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final report. members shall discuss the 20 between census redistricting final report this is a discussion and possible forcaction itemaction item.the redistricting final report this is a discussion and possible action item.discuss the 20 betw redistricting final report this is a discussion and possible action item. >> i see mr. chaset lee in the roster >> for the members. i circumstantial litted a -- a skeleton out line of the final report. could i receive the preventer
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card i will chair the document. why if you could send the card to me in web ex. i got it. i got it. sfgovtv could you switch to had i'm displaying. >> thank you. clerk carol this . structure of the out line is based on the 2012 report, which is which is one format that we are before us the 2 where are 02 task force did in the gent rit i final report. we can't use that. to go over previously.
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there will be an introduction and describing and a description of the provisions and the charter that -- empower and empaneled the task force to talk about the -- composition. how we are all selected. the staff and the one and only clerk john carol. the dca. q2, pacific edge and the other members of the office of the clerk. d. elections and sheriff's office. the criteria that both me and the member had discussed time again throughout the district meetings.
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>> and the mapping meetings. a descriptions of the task force process it is more of like a go over of like the brief description of the history of the task force, when we did. we wentllow 46 meetings. rinking from 30 minutes to 20 hours. we met 230th hour. okay. 231st hour. meetings and like -- recognition and acknowledgment that the covid pandemic impacted our operations.
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out reach each of us took refers tasks. social media. out reach. budget data, et cetera. there will be a section for district considerations is a description of what areas of the map we considered. we discussed. the next -- section is deviation to 1%. have -- reminded us that we have to explain this why we will have to be at the mix of 1% to 5%. this the following section is prebl the one that may generate the most discussion. lessons learned. many with many pregnancy how to improve the task force. and then appendix, the final
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map. the final maps. districts statistics. budget statements. there will be various reports from the office of the clerk. civic edge. niches from q2 and i think see through it i have been told this ocmi submitted a report. and a host of other agencies. i want to make absolutely clear, i want to make clear hathis entire process will be done with both the office of the city attorney and the office of the clerk who will have been of great assistance and i want to -- be i want this final report to be forward facing. >> because we have all said like -- this final report like what will be the take away 10 years from now.
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the main people will read this 10 yers from now the people of the next task force how they want to structure their process. there task force. i think we should -- this report should be geared for them, too much how -- what our experience how our experience should inform how they can do their job. 10 years from now in a different city. and you know -- that is that should be part of our legacy. passing on the lessons we have learned. we learned them the hard way. why so -- just want to spark the conversation with that. thank you. >> thank you. thank you for the out line and i think it is going to be helpful in terms behalf is getting the
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process done and makingure it is a way for members, issues and concerns to be heard. and i certainly -- i hope people are in agreement with me. in agreement with me that i would not want this to in any way censor or curtail or control whatever members have to say. added to the report without edilling. unless you want to as far as it the rest of us doing it it is wrong the way it is and hope. i think that for me the only value in the final report exercising ourselves is for the future.thefuture.
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there are way in dh this process can be improved that is in the to cast anything on anyone who went before us. i just -- see things i think might work better if than i were done different low. we are there. of one thing i ask everybody to keep in mind is how do we make sure that this report is -- read or at least taken in consideration. 10 years from now. i lived a good life. so. but i think for other people, you know. i want to make sure had people don't have to even make the same
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mistakes we made. they can do it better. each -- and every 10 years. it gets better and better and -- getting to the results that it oughta get to. so -- having said that. who is guest 2 this time? mr. hernandez-gil y. do we node to meet again. is it something we all work collaborative ly, is that something that is permissible? i think perhaps -- it might be prudent to schedule a meeting in a couple of weeks time and finalize it then. but -- i would love for the public to get an opportunity to provide comment on the final report we are public comment this afternoon but -- other that have been the out line, which
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i'm not sure if the members have seen beyond wham is on the screen. it would be good to get this feedback. >> who was that mr. cooper? i will let member lee address the comments first if you like to. >> as far as i think the florez may have a clear answer to that question. my understanding is that circulating a draft with the brown act violation. so -- could you clarify. why just before being i want to make sure that members understand that your comments on the out line and versions so forth make sure they go through mr. carol to get to the rest us and i'm sure you all are aware.
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just to be certain. and then he will circulate them. so we are not circulating back and forth which we have not done we can get redaction now i don't want to make a mistake. go ahead. what was the question again? i believe -- if you could -- clarifier confirm for member gil's question that circumstantial litting a draft amongst us 9 members men i brown act. >> we have to -- do -- regarding circulating a draft amongst members that would be a violation of brown act. and regarding having further meetings that is not something the city attorney's office opines or has control over it is up to the clerk's sxofs this
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body to determine. we have made a time line for the draft report. this is the type of thing where there would not be extra meetings. this would be you delegating the work for the both the draft final report and a final report. the draft report would be conducted upon member le's time frame. but grit if there could be a time frame the draft final report we post on our website that the public would be able to comment on.
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the clerk's office would get the comments and provide the comments indexed for member lee and he would provide the final report to the city. witness he begin that to us we would provide that to the board of supervisors and mayor and department of elections and director and the election's commission for those bodies or the mayor or the board to consider as they move forward with the next phase of this process. >> thank you. >> mr. cooper. >> thank you. yea. i upon general low before i gift comments i already gave to member lee on the recommendations for the future. thank you so much for putting it in the out line. for me i agree with the time line and the process the clerk
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laid out. i think we can use today and use the next few days to get comments together and get them to the member lee and then based on that out line and framework i'm fine with what decision he makes regarding what make its in and what does not. in addition to when conversation we have today around the process. i did -- i sent in i few notes and forwarded them to judge to send to everyone else about the first it was it make sure we talked about the affects of the pandemic. most low not [inaudible] for to just clarify that for when the 2030 task force looks back and sees they did this way for them to know that hopeful ly they will not have the same
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constraints we did. who knows. i had given brief recommendations i know there will be arc loment of conversation around what do we recommend for the future dp want to tell the 2030 task force about the process and when to ask for. my recommendations i have 6 i laid out one was bigger out reach through you know not beyond what the consultants above that. >> a charter amendment to make it so we don't wait for the census to come out and get the next version get start in the 2030 and knowing well that the members will be out of alignment.
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and asked for more direct support in the early stages of the process. i think we -- on our first meeting did in the have the second meeting schedule or i calendar or a schedule. it would have been beneficial for us to know this is i body that meets 3 times a mont on these days. so people know going in. so we don't spend months or 2 figure thanksgiving out. and more direct support from city agencies. we need assistance beyond the running of the meetings. we need and the running of that aspect of public process. you will see people in marketing complain b. people doing marketing thing its has been
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frustrating as a planner to know there are pep this do this for i living that are paid by the taxpayers and i think having assistance from plan pregnant mta and other agencies to help facilitate not just public comment but building a within the confines of the brown act a robust process able to build in all of that t. requires work and work to think through and talk about. the time we time frip we had. it would not issue possible. you have time to pull in and do shaferets and the other things for people to be clearly understand the trade off and understand when we want for them about the community. >> one other upon point was -- or more open process around the selection and spoeping of the
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consultants.ing of the consultants.sing of the consultants.cing of the oing of the consultants.ping of the consultants.it was helpful to have the consultants start but i would like to have known more how they are selectd and about what their scope was and why it was what it was. i think a work arounded could delegate that work to the commission and having them go through and in this public process go through that press of selecting consultants and redistricting so that -- we know -- where that is coming from. if there is time the task force should do that work if not delegation should suffice. and i think my last point is conversation early on about how the mapping decisions will be
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made. i think -- we have these are very hard decisions about weighing massive amounts of input and we are weigh and living with our own experience. understanding how we work through the differences and discuss those. of and coming to i shared language around that would robbery helpful. so -- those are my suggestions and i'm interested to hear other thoughts on hawe want the next decade's task force but city staff and everyone around to know how to make this process better. i think as an arc dennedum. i know there are folks out there who are thinking of makingeen big are changes and i would -- i think the task force making changes to the supervisor
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sdrishths and how supervisors are elected. i kept the thoughts to working went framework we are in currently. if anyone has i have ideas about other stuff. anyone watching making changes let me know. >> thank you chasel lee for the out line and member cooper for the comments. i associate myself with everything that you said. i think it is important it go this route. and additional thing that is worth considering, i think what is missing from the previous report and probably should be added this report is talking very specific low around the adjustment of lines. that is something that is called
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out and the charter and those adjustment of lines based on public input. i think going in detail and explaining the justifications will be important. both for the next task force plus anybody who -- come next election wonders why they may not be in their normal district that is the challenges of having dependant on the line of out reach. a lot of people will discover that they near a different district and would be great if we can give them clarification around the communities of interest that may or may not involved in that process around them. the other question. suggestion that i have -- is -- specific low around the question of the -- deviation and access of 1%. the previous report talk order
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about deviations are a necessary to keep neighborhood in tact and the districts and surrounding areas. i'm not sure what they mean by the, surrounding areas. would be good to clirifiy what that is. right? so there is consistency with the charter language. oh . it would be great to be able to since we heard around the language access. specifics ordinary each meeting how long language access was available instead. generalities. tell be important when we start talking around when the maps
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were released. and my last question is more around this time i'm open to the idea of no more meetings but the issue of having online access only -- the only foradmit for people to give comment. right? and this becomes more challenging. i think and -- given the attention had received take way of ensuring well opportunity for members.ed opinion who motive not have internet access or who might simple low prefer to do it in person. to give them an town to do that. and i get related that is if we go the route on line only input what point does the task force
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lose access to the e mail from the city and what point do we have to take. public input from our own e mails >> through the chair. hernandez-gil in the documentation i provide indicates we utilize the libraries again. as we have throughout the process we would take individuals when came across the counter and wanted give their comments. it is not just an online presentation. i was not here for the whole conversation you might have had here. if individuals submit in language we get that translated. happy to do that.
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mr. chasel lee. >> i want to thank madam clerk. angela for her pooir tireless support for the process. if give her a bit of applause. >> thank you. i -- member gil, is here. sends everything you said via e mail i think that would there the -- what you said are -- points well taken. and -- of course, i want to have i written record. what was said. and -- um -- one more thing.
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please sends it to clerk carol for our information. i -- i am definitely i upon mean i had having this our last meeting. but i think participation is important. and i want to thank clerk for getting me this schedule. i had not gone over it in this form yet. so, according to the schedule. this week we'll be discussing -- ideas for lessons learned. by may fifth. consultants submit the findings and i chapter for inclusion in
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the draft final report. they'll send it to me or -- clerk carol? sends them to me. >> sends typeset to clerk carol >> no rest for the weary. >> never endses. >> its gotta ends. [laughter]. for may fifth this is a reasonable deadline for a department to send statements. i would try to turn out a draft for my own dead line of may 11th. on the person note i'm leaving town on the 11th. >> i want to get this out before the 11th. and that is my birthday. why a birthday gift for our
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chair. >> thank you. he would love it. >> and then -- the -- publicville a time to review. for a week or so. it is inevitable i will be wing on this on vacation. and -- out of town and i will but as for the final report i will try to get it done end of may. i like to put this in the minutes if i can. and after we have all of this stuff set up i like to request the particular force have a motion that memorializes these
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proposed plans we take over and vote on and record this in the minutes as well. why as soon as he is ready. mr. chasel lee. put this in motion. i guess if i may ask clerk for a question is what was the dead line that you stated? mr. carol i will give this copy i have been take notes for your minutes. we were suggesting that for the week of may ninth it would be may 11th. for that week and perhaps the week after. accident be the public comment review time frame. we wanted to get it boy the 13th. but that is in the possible whatever time you can. so you with provide the final
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report by may 16th. to be useful -- for the board or the mayor. and so whatever you could do and mr. carol? >> i will get this to you. iot draft foible by the 16th. jot final report by may 16th. i'm understanding the clerk suggestion is -- have the draft ready to be sdrkted by the 11th. posted by 13th and have it finalized by the 16th of may. which is i more condensed time line than you were talking about. >> we were thinking the ninth through the 13th he indicated he
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can dot 11th. . i will -- i'm -- i want to run an idea and push it become a week. from the 16th to the 23rd that will give more time space that out a bito we, yea. so -- to have the final report submitted to the clerk of the board. the office of the clerk by may i think it is a monday. may 23rd. i think that -- is workable. i know there is a mention there the desire for members to submit
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their own to that. and -- i guess i'm curious this applies to the general draft review process. but -- if all 9 of us. another message would that if we sends them independent to you to the clerk. >> yes. >> to the clerk. i don't know if this would still and then -- they will go throughout clerk and public but if they are all going to chasel lee to be added to the final report is that -- is that -- legal or illegal and the further question is. witness we have a draft out if we don't have a meeting does this mean that the members of the 5 members or 4 members -- 3 members can comments on said draft? would those -- create a meeting
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question? i guess this is dca. >> thanks. why yes. thank you for your question, member cooper. >> there are 2 options. i report is not legal low required from you. so you can boondz the idea and not submit a report. because then you don't run in brown act violations in the future. i can enjoy a vacation. or the second on task force can take is -- delegate a single member to create this draft. and basically put it together along side the clerk's help. the clerk would raft documents and would be sending them to member lee. and so yes. if you delegate other people to help mr. lee do this it creates
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a subcommittee that is subject to the brown act and meeting laws and so my understanding is no one wants to meet again. and so i think that the only option is to follow the clerk's path. which is to dez iing the -- task force lead to dez iing nit one member and have this member work with the clerk to gather the together. any communication about the report creates a meeting not allowed under the brown act. if you like to have more of i substantive conversation about the report now and like create half of the report now.
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that is also an option. get your points out this is the left time you as a body will be able to communities about this >> that makes sense. if members wanted give any sort of feedbackeen if it is a minority opinion thing that would make it in the final report it is a product of the body of -- have to happen in a meeting? is that?product of the body of to happen in a meeting is that?report it is a product body of -- have to happen in a meeting is that? jury room goal now the fifth for torn submit anything they want to, wantto, yes. goal now the f submit anything they wantto, yes. is there a date for any members? i -- as far as are departments we are not aware of the
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department of elections or q2. they have not updated they will submit anything for the report. why the only 2 departments left are clerk of the board and pacific edge. >> if we submit things by the fifth and a one way fashion that's fine? >> okay. >> yes, you are submitting it for inclusion in the final report and not y final report. why okay. once the draft final report is out we can't respond to it? >> i would argue that sthald violate the brown act. but i can check okay00 with my office to give you a final confirmation. you know just so you are all aware, while this process plays
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out you have not disbanded as a group because you are electing to continue your duties by creating this final report. you will also be members of the task force until this final report is credit exclude finished. >> uh-huh. >> okay. that sounds good. to close the loop on another thing. may fifth is the dead line to submit any statements? >> that works for people i don't know whether it works for others the fiveth would be great. >> i think that is fine for me. if members statements i will not write that. may be except for edits. but -- you knowledge. >> good.
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thank you. >> >> and to clarify the task force must be lect to do the task will be mr. lee. he can coordinate with one or two members but not with a quorum of the members. >> can we coordinate with --the member in question regarding their own statement? what do you need. if so if say a member sends their statement and like the public comment want to alter their statement would that be per missable? am i making sense at this point. >> may be. so -- let's say i want to submit
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my own statement. i wanted to become public and gather personal low feedback on my comment can i modify the comment special sends it become to lee for inclusion in the final report? is this what you are saying? >> excuse me i don't see why you could write a statement. circulate it amongst to get feedback and after you get that feedback sends your statement to mr. lee. >> i plan on doing that. i'm talking here about it broader public process where -- i'm sure there are many things i will have missed. why for me i would -- you know think if people want -- when people see my statement if there are things they are concerned about than i write hatheir occurrence are and forward this
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to the department to become a part of the record would not have to be a part of my statement. my statement will be my statement of and any other comments on my statement will be the comments i want incorporated them in mine because i want my statement to be a reflection of my experience and my work on this task force. at this point the members are welcome to submit statements and member lee will include them in a chapter or index. you are welcome to make your statements and have them modified once you submit them at sfgov.org they are in the final form and be attached. going forward during this period this there is i draft to the
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final report. we are expecting to receive comments from the public. public are the this point telling member lee what their final thoughtsor that draft documentful member lee will incorp rit had in the document somehow. >> we do not have any student to respond to what is in this. you would before it is posted, no. and unless you say it today. you can't look at this yet. members are welcome to provide a rebuttal and statement and member lee will include that whether it is own chapter or member comments or an index section.
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for you all. >> thank you. >> thank you. of that was you then? very good. voice chirp. thank you. i want to say i think we chose well. when we suggested this you handle the final report and appreciate you stepping up for this. mr. lee. i feel comfortable once i make my statement to you spill trust with you putting together the final report. i do have been keeping a rung tally of things that -- i think the next task force could take on. and i think that -- your recommendation member coop are about starting early most definitely. we don't need the census for the task fers to start we need it to hit the ground running.
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and i think that the program terse around the process and the task force. i think that the way the fact force selected needs to be taken a look at. and -- i have not thought about too heavily about all of the recommendations on that. that has to be done. i think the responsibility of the people that in the relationship with the people who recommend the task force needs to be addressed. not in any negative way in the fact we know the relationship is. and what -- the hand's off rep should be. i think we need alternates. i was petrified through the time that someone was going to get sick. there were times i wished i had an alternate so i did in the have to come in and phase the music here. there needs to be alternates who can take over if someone gets
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sick or there is a practical. all of that stuff -- it is in the mine. i think we need that. i would really recommend that there be a paid chief of staff. someone who can do the administrative coordination for the task force. i did spends full time on that role exit enjoyed it. i was the right person for temperature you know i have done this before. exit loved wing with the clerk's office and all that. but i think someone needs to be that is paid if delegated to and designated to the task force. they need more. budget needs to be locked at. i think that one of the things
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that the task force should do is put it in the work the requirements for the statement of work for the consultants. i think that the statement of w for the consultants after the fact that we are handed is not promote. and there were things that i valid added >> there were things i would have added. and there are other recommendations that i would make. in terms of the relationships and the work i'm sure the clerk's office would have recommendations they took this on and took on more then and there they bargained for. i'm sure there is additional and we could get for the clerk's office we should recommend. in this. and will i do think that there should be a med why relation's person that can gift task force members suggestions and guidance. i'm afraid in this climate
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things are not so easy. the message how the maps would w never got across people would not hear. and i think a media consultant would be helpful. why those other highlights yoochl thank you. i see a gechlt one. hi. >> thank you. i irrelevant appreciate all of the thoughtfulness gone in how to improve this exercise. moving for the next generation of task force members. and -- member cooper i liked a lot of your ideas. we did in the need the census report to come out before this task force started discussing.
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we were mainly talking about administrative things that could have happened. regardless of what the results were. and i agree with you so much about media relations. i feel like we never had a chance of earning the public's trust. nobody anyhow when we did for six months. we sat here together laughing about the first media -- upon articles that came out that were -- really quick bait articles. we spoke to reporters about exact hoe what the process was and when a one % map was that was not reportod at all. instead it was really around for click bait. and i suppose we 10 years ago they would not have anticipated social mead why a factor in
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government or -- anything that should be boring. that is when we are doing here. and i anticipate 10 years from now media will look different again. it changes the landscape around communications and getting attention changes every 6 months to a year. there will be different methods to reach out to people. and i would like this to be incorporated in the final report for the next task force to consider. i know we can add of course more budget to it and may be the types of consultants will look different then. men they are pr consultants. we don't know. i agree i feel vice chair reiner i knew how much work you put in
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the administrative aspects and thank you very much for taking on this role. i know it was -- a big handle. to coordinate with the clerk's office which has been amazing to us. and the [inaudible] this is a volunteer capacity and we all have lives outside of one point we have lives outside of this. [laughter]. may be. >> i don't remember. should be member to handle this work. but i -- i think given how indense the situation has been or at all. i do appreciate having a chapter around our -- pregnancy. to be included. i think we have so many emotions
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around this exercise. thank you very much member le for take it you were the right person. thank you. thank you for the kind words. i agree with a lot of recommendations made. these are a chance for mow to incorporate them. i wrote down point and i agree with the point of the chief of staff. our vice chair dido much work which should have been done and paid for by the staechl having their staff and -- for -- a task
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that we have all insisted person for 10 years we are on a shoe string budget. the city has not put its money where the mouth is. that is an issue for other people to address. we need to state that. i want to thank hernandez-gil for bringing up language access. for the love of god we should not have task force members degree translation. we expect that to be a city service. so -- that is something i strong low agree with, thank you for mentioning that.
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i know we spoke a bit about deadlines -- i want to -- for member statement we could have it by the ninth the final draft is compiled by the 11th. having in by the 12th does in the make sense if members could include by ninth that would be great. i think we can leave that like in and just have the motion. -- should be a formal motion with a deadlines inside it. why okay. can i fwif i recap of what it is we got >> before that i had a couple of comments. >> i want to certainly -- put it in my report but and you all hit around it there has to be?
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type of thread min tain you believed with wa we do and the next task force. i don't know perhaps -- and i really respect all of you because most everybody here went and locked for the last final report and found temperature may be that should be handed to members the day this report and may be the once before am this one should be mondayed to the new member. so there is a formal understanding of recognition of when went on and what might could go on during your work if you are not careful. that thing must be maintained and also and may be i will take a stab at recommending -- trying to come up with something in depth about the responsibilities are what we are doing here.
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upon one thick that snot explained enough because people come in in their minds was and i heard it here with words like normal district -- there is no normal district. every district was drawn by someoneful none of them came out of the sky. they were all create exclude now recreated it may not be to your satisfaction but the people who are recreating them may be out of line with your thought process but not break the law. we do people a disservice by -- not being clear and honest about what how districts are created.
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when someone change its is normal to accused them of gerrymandering know this somebody when they drought your district somebody accused them because that's the process that is. i wish there was a better one this is when we do in this city and country. so it is is important and no one owns the process. no one owns it and everyone is entitled. they have a right to express had than i continuing oughta look like and finally -- because you all mention today, i will certainly have much to say know
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the out reach process. i'm not going to say it here. it is because we know. we know -- out reach and i have been in the other places where we have out reach and it is always taken i think light ly. how you get it is the person part of the press exit don't appreciate the cavalier prop toward out reach they was thought was taken boy everyone but us. it is city and the election department. first of all. if you do it put monmethis to do it right or don't put money in
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it. but a shoe string budget. getting the word to the public and now i'm not and i'm one had says the pandemic played a big part in hurting us. no one -- because i like peopleful no one if anyone looks forward to in person meetings. i was excited to the idea of getting the neighborhoods i don't sit in the gym's or schools and i went to i couple and remember going to the one in the marina 10 years ago. i feel cheatd that was the
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reason i was good with saying, okay and if we are honest we got started when the pandemic was high and when we looked like we would go to neighborhoods we had a resurge and pulled back on that because we did not cancel them they were cancelled for us by the city. that is a fact. that we were prevented from getting out and that -- that -- coupled with the out reach issues really hurt us. i think there are people that would have felt better and
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strong and safer testifying in their own community. then city hall or online knowing the difficulties people have with the digital process and world including myself. on those things i -- look forward to seeing what you have to say and i know -- i -- don't have to knowing you all this long. no need to hold back. your last shot you mine as well get it out. and let us know how you really feel that is awfully important to the value of this process going forward. -- um00 eye see guest 2? mr. hernandez-gil? >> yes. >> thank you.
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it made my think of an important thing. that is -- do recognition to the xunt who helped support the -- out reach process. and i think -- many numbers saw the challenges we were face and stepped up. and -- similarly i think we also node to recognize for the sake of the next task force the fact that sorry i -- something is wrong. this is a very arduous process. i believe is creates a level of self selection. and i think that somebody in
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late 20's or 30s may not have an opportunity to have a job that is flexible enough to attends a task force like this. we should recommend this be the of least a stipponed position or we ends up with the same situation self selecting for a certain type of passion and probably disenfranchising people who have deep connections with the community that may not have the same level of privilege. i guess. mr. chasel lee. we have to empanel a jury selection. make people stay in a room. as for dead lines i think we
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should get that rolling the final dead line the 23rd. departments consultants and make statements by fifth. members by the ninth. and the draft final by the 11th. and then --the last piece would be the public comment review time frame from the 11th until -- i'm sorry. 23rd. the 23rd is the date where that the final reportful of course and before this or -- take in the final comments. the 11th to the 18th would be a monday to monday. this sounds good. why the 23rd is -- a -- 23rd is
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a -- sorry. >> i'm looking at. may 23rd is a monday. 18th is a wednesday. i look the at an april calendar. 11-16th is wednesday-monday. yea. the 16th. >> grant the people a weekend. why i will recap in kohn order. may fifth dead line for statements offered by departments the clerk's office and civic edge as contracted. and a may ninth dead line for member statements for inclusion on unedited in the document. may 11th member lee's dead line for his draft get posted line and from wednesday may 11-monday may 16th this document is available for public comment review and posted line. receiving submission in response
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either received in person in the clerk's office or through e mail at sfgov.org or through the post at our office during that 11th-16th period and the documents get aggregated together. sent it member lee and member lee provides a final report on may 23rd. why i make a motion to adopt this. >> member coop are seconds the motion. >> it has been moved and seconded by everyone. and that -- mr. clerk you can read the motion before we voted if you would. why we had hear from the public first in response. >> we have to and before we take a vote after public comment closed i will go through all of
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the applicable dates that are in that. >> thank you. why all right. madam clerk. why i ask for the task force's grace one last time. buffer take public comment this will be the last public comment for the report. and general business other than the minutes. 2 thing its is important it note there is authorizing legislation for this task force an ordinance 94-between has mention of 3 things. the clerk will be your secretary. the d. elections will min tain your consultants. and that's the language access will be 48 hours. i want to say second low that the work conducted to date has been by an army of individual sxsz like to say this before this public comment because -- this is the -- the city wide
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expectation for all of the requirements that you needed to run your business the expectation city wide was out weighed the requirements that were out there for this work. but there was an army of individuals who assisted you. who went above and beyond the >> reporter: of the legislation and made every attempt to meet the expectations of the public. despite fact life was happeningly around them. covid was happening to family and our colleagues. obviously many nights like you staff did not get rest. i could go on and on about the other work we conducted for the city. i am have to say i'm proud of the work that this staff and our partner departments achieved and with your indulgence i need to take the opportunity to rerowel it quickly. i will begin with access. that is the office of civic
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engage am andim grant affairs the team they deserve an honorable mention for interpretation beginning with pond and her transitions. the department of technology beginning with director linda and her technicians the, team and b team for you. jack chen. david kim of daniel wilson and admin services and building management. carmen chu and her team the repromail for printed at a moment's notice. large scale map and signs and windso signs. mike, crystal, rene. hallway interpreters and trans layors the director. kristina torres.
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gonzalez-baxter. jazmin hernandez. chang and santos, teddy wong. tif lee and countless department sheriffs when came through. it wassure hope and conferred with the chair that no hands nobody would be grabbed and thrown out. despite there issue disturbness we give prospects to the sheriffs but also the xunts who calmed each other down that is why we did not have major complaints filed. west coast consulting who took over for us once civic edge consulting timed out. and for the clerk staff. alyssa, wilson, jokea. eileen. bill y, nav.
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john c. kevin lamb and joe atkins with his love low disposition at 2 a.m. in the morning and our clerk john carol. -- [applause] i can't have. round of applause. all of you remote and judge you were the face are the face of the redistricting task force. your narration of the state of each moment will be legendary. your elgans of each step. verb avenue tamed the process. butt task force members were dealing with. you assisted the chair as cohost and gained the trust of the public. and we cannot thank you enough for stick with this work. thank you, john. i want to express our
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appreciation to our deputy upon city attorney time who all of us all of you i should say were here in the night and early morning hours. andrew and beer and who is with us today. to cut my comment short all of the city employees we want to thank them for their loyalty to the city's work the the work that was before you and the obligation hay took free low to produce and create the space where the public could tell the redistricting task force where to draw the line and protect the public's right to participation. in these now 46 meetings. that concludes my remarks i get in trouble if i did in the allow the public it know i made those comment and then follow up. thank you. kindly. >> thank you. why thank you. >> we will go to public comment
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of the task force financial report item now first from the folks who are here in recommend 408. before we open the mic i want to provide access instructions for folks who may wish to participate remote. if you want to be part of the discussion you can join us dialing 415-655-0001. the i d is 2496 upon 3780113. press pound twice and star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. if you are through web ex raise your hand and tell edge to the kwou from whom you will hear. it has been a while since we did our comment period this morning i would like to request agnus lee, arturo and raymond to jump on the mic in sequence and provide access for speakers of
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cantonese, spanish and filipino. for the final report item. [instructions for public comment in cantonese] [instructions for
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[instructions for public comment in filipino]
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>> thank you. >> thank you for being here we are ready for the first speaker for tw minutes on the task force final report. why i'm salina. i'm nervous. thank you for you can proving the map i want to acknowledge you listen and read thousands of comments wing on this important discussionville tailor [inaudible] life for the city you have done the best you could and made hard decisions. i live in district 4. your decision to include [inaudible] merced american in d 4 was based on the census data and reason as i agree and many
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of my neighbors agree. many were presented and discussed. it is change to expand district 4 was based on many public comments. i thank you for do nitting your time for san front. i'm glad this map has been approve exclude we can go home knowing we participate immediate this important process. i will miss all the of you here but glad the work is done. thank you task force members and thank you san francisco for everyone who participated. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. [public comment in cantonese]
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>> member of the task force i'm yoyo. this will be the error left time i will [inaudible] public testimony. any i irrelevant hope that the statement can be [inaudible] in the follow reports. this is that one of the
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redistricting task force members owe an apology regarding antiasian -- and this kinds of feeling i don't know how to express it. but it hurt. and -- i hope that -- particular force can -- take care of our communities and also want to urge redistricting task force to continue fair and equal redistricting process. so that tell benefit for the chinese and asian communities. and we hope that we can live with all the communities peaceful y and hope that we consider to help us to build our cultural district and business
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district. and also so it will help everyone to live on this land happy low. and as you may know well is, legality of outstanding asian or chinese leaders who -- are reserved for our city to ends and can help us to be a better future for our city. and -- left ly i like to say thank you for listening to your feedback and input and thank you for your effort. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please
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>> i echo what yshg oyo said. and i also want to reiterate the same statement the statement which i could rescue noise you [inaudible] in the follow draft final report or final report.
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that is -- one of the redistricting task force members should apologize for 18ishian remark tell help our community to heel. i hope the city and supervisors and mayor consider build a cultural and business district for our neighborhood in order to fulfilled our [inaudible]. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. next speaker, please.
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hello members i'm sylvia. i have not heard apology from one of the redistricting task force members. due to his or her 18 asian remarks that will in the benefit us to developed our community in harmony way example we heard that the city issue mayor and
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supervisors can take care of the lives vulnerable communities and our communities throughout, thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> [public comment in mandarin].
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hemo~ members ana. we still have not heard one of the redistricting task force members arc approximately jiez regarding his or her disrespect for washings. and we would it if no apologize yet it will be heard for our community to heeled. and they compliments each other and hope the city can consider to build the cult roll district to take care of the our communities [inaudible].
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thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please.
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>> my name is jen pen. police consider to write out the statement in the draft final report or final report. we are the chinese community are in the received heard from one of the task force members apology yet regarding his or her antiasian remark because of this 18 asian remark it is heard for our community to heel after this
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process. and -- also we recognize to -- see had assistness it help us to establish economic no -- this is district and the cult roll district to fulfill our communities [inaudible] and we could also like to see you to continue to use a different alternative method to help us to build cult roll district or business district. and we would like to thank you for your effort and heard work on this entire redistricting process. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please.
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hole members my name is [inaudible] i'm the resident of visittation. i have not -- heard -- apologies from one of the task force members. that is so disrespectful for the
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community. >> i'm not satisfied with this matter. i hope you with written down this statement in the final map in the final report or the draft final report. that is that we need the apology from one of the redistricting particular force members otherwise our community cannot be heeled. we urge the mayor and the spierz s supervisors to fulfill our
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community admissible it will bring more convenience for our neighborhood and also help fulfilled our communities like the shopping or the housing. i have a recommendifications or comments regarding our communities we found a lot of admissible are p nothing our neighborhoods and cost too many issues and brings invoens like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area. like the
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public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.n like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.c like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.o like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.n like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.v like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.e like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.n like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.i like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.e like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.n like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.c like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area.e like the public healing sxshs has a lot of garbage or rubbish in this area. the people there are a lot of window broken or a lot of expensive metal are being stolen and we hope that the government can do more and do better in order to be -- re[inaudible] for the people. and lastly, i like to thank you for all your dedicating work and all where you are hard work. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please.
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>> hel on members this is sam again. until now i still are not heard the apology from one of the task force members. and regarding his or her anti-asian remarks, this stick in my minds and hope we can get his or her apology but he or she
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cannot make it. i hope you can [inaudible] this asian hate in your final report or draft final report because this asian hate remarks hurts our community and it will not good for us to get heeled. and we hope that the city can coneverconsider to allocate more resources in order to help visitationville and he portola communities. and lastly thank you for your dedication and hard work. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please combro i'm lawrence lee a san francisco
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native and residents of district 8. i read hundreds of e mails and seen hours of you guys lived through of vos and meetings in person. and hopeful low i can express the vow of so men people appreciation for all this volunteer work. it is tremendous. you urn went so much i can't imagine mag. and that you listened to the public while yesterday the a supervisor meeting supervisors were talking to each other and playing on their facebook game system a testament to your character and dedication to theion. thank you. i want to mention 2 things about the final report you hear from the other speakers there are so many ruscars. that so many groups are feeling and i feel very much for yoyo
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and the other speakers. i'm sure you have personal friends that are hurt by different things. please, if you can mention that racial -- any type of strong words or disagreement has no place should be discouraged as we have the tough discussion this is would be super. this thing was mentioned as something we would encounter by chair townsend in septemberism remember i saw that video. and i think this you guys can pull it up again. it is rough and not a direction we want for the stele. other thing is i reasoning moiz this row for the monopoly was five to 4. so i appreciate that there are people that were not happy with the map. if you can all thank you for
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sharing your comments. store cut you off. next speaker, please. members of the task force joes phone here. thank you for your pedestrian 8 mont's work regard will you supported our request you are highly appreciated. please write in the report that through this press asian community better than everlearned about theed african-american strug and he will understand you are hanging on and trying to surriff we will do everything we can to support that and make sure we continue the support african-american mayors, supervisors and protect the african-american community you have my commitment. write down these are not the reasons to lash oust and say
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hateful things, they are humans and deserve the dignity. write in the report we have not heard the arc pol joe for the 18 asian comment and wroit in the report the community in portola should be given the opportunity to form the cultural and business communities or cultural districts and recognize them a coi together so they can get a form of support. you talk about the marginalized community there is not anything more marginalize when they are not recognized. some are being evictd and coming here to ask for help. carers broken into and convert metals are stolen.
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crimes is rampant there is no one to spoke for them. what is more marginalized is when than i don't rescue noise they don't exist. looking out to room 408 and seeing none. turn or attention to the folks to provide comments remote low to the task force. could we hear from the next speaker, please. members of the task force i'm francisco decosta. approximate i'm really [inaudible] how you are conducting yourself. trying to create pointses for us. in the future how to address the
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perfumery you let create in thee perfumery you let create to allow. [inaudible]. so we are going to wait the next 10 years. [inaudible] some suffer. but please, stay away from being on any task force. please. talking about portola. i have been here for 40 years i never saw [inaudible] the exits were closed. aural the issues with the university mound and some of you are are talking you don't understand the process. the democratic process is something that has to be
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learned. the constitution. the civil right's act of 1965. the city charter. you don't know the brown act. and you are on the task force. you are not [inaudible]. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi. this is lauren [inaudible] with the [inaudible] san francisco. did not hear in your designation is translation of the final report. weave recommend the draft report and final report be translate exclude they are made equal low available to the public for comment and mention that public comment will take in language on the final report it is fir that the draft report and final report rabble in languages as well. [inaudible] add more time to the
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report time line to accommodate the needs. [inaudible]. will send a letter with recommendations for the final report for your consideration. we hope you include them in your final report for the benefit of future body and thes people of san francisco. the letter will be available on our website. log of women voters worked on the redistricting press in september 2020 a year before this body started meeting. went to every election's committee meeting about it. and after spending 230 hours with the task force the league of women voters would like to thank task force members. everyone [inaudible] especially the man the myth the legend
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clerk carol and the organizes and people of san front dedicated their time and passion to seeing this process through to then. >> thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. several quick points post the out line on the website and tell us where it will be posted i'm not sure why well is no believe draft of a final report on the task force website may be it has nots been written yet. if this is the last meeting i suggest the following time line. have members and the public --
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submit proposals boy 10 a.m. and member of the dissenting side and not chair townsend. edit by the following minute and post boy monday the ninth not the 11th. and at 5 p.m. we all can and should in my opinion review the final report and submit comments within i week or by monday may 16th at 5 p.m. -- the up to 4 members of the task force in my rowel could compile and edit the text and the comments and submissions by following wednesday only 2 days there after and pub labor exclude pest i final report on the website by wednesday may
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18th at 5 p.m. i would -- encourage that so this wraps up as soon as possible and give people time to provide input and comment the final report should be sent to the mayor, director of lects the clerk of the board of supervisors could include the final report in the c pages at the board for tuesday may 24th. why thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. in is eleanor cox i look forward to reading the draft final report. first credit an on line form for unanimous comments to ensure many feel comfortable submitting written thought and revisiting your schedule to ensure you incorporate time to have the final report translated and share that with the public as
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soon as possible. and i hope this a statement of decent will be developed boy member who is did in the vote to ash prove the final map to include in the report not as an individual statement but a pledge component of the official report. second low, i'm saddened by members comments today. lack of accountability. in this report we will hear how you were abandoned by the city and subjected how you were set up and how impossible this was. you were selected based on your leadership in your communities. you yield power on this board this is shaping the healing of communities across the city for the next decade and you will make decisions and be clear violence takes many form one is institutional and upheld by law
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and well violence inupon herent to the map i hope you reconcile your role on the task force with the harm done to communities across it is city before you finalize the report. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> the census counsels humanslaughter as if we are own ones who count. do in count more then and there others with advocacy with this report and map is the city conditioning down the path a third worth. is this report i report and map for all the fine young cannibals and instead end times there will be no secrets. thank you.
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thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. can you hear me. why i would like to put this important points on the final report. yea. it has been just [inaudible] tech public comment so all community at the beginning until one month ago and everything is verified. people are talking everything is fine until a month ago supervisors [inaudible] i want to [inaudible] try to [inaudible] she district has been [inaudible] has 3,000 more [inaudible] 3,000 more so you
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know that the left time he has been [inaudible] on the supervisor election. so -- it is highly like ly he will lose to african-american supervisor district 5 may have another african-american supervisor. the [inaudible] and -- comments on the form of the task force final report. >> i would like to put this in the report this caused the past one month [inaudible]. do something and -- we think the communities they kind of bring up something kinds of they --
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the process. they cause all the issues before they step in everything was fine. yea. i like to put this important point on the final report and they this -- thank you for sharing your comments. sorry to cut you off we have to move on. next speaker, please. this is adam from d6. wanted to just mention the final report details you can put in in terms of recommendations for a process i know everyone talked about that since this is where everything worked down was the lack of a process. both in terms of how you make your decisions and how comments were made and things flowed in. i think comparing this process to the board of supervisor's meeting with jfk drive comments were on comment past meetings
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flowed a bit. i think thap lack of process also contributes somewhat to parties feeling like they had to keep continuing to show up and a task force member said they thought the loudest voices would be hurt so everyone tried shouting. aside from that, you know -- another comment was spot on. we have a city we paid for this task force takes up a lot of work. the fact that none of you got a -- people that can't poored to do this can't ford to be on the task force which skews things. foible ly a shout out to john
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carol. you other most patient person i have ever seen you must have nerves of steel. who your boss is nodes to give you a vacation or raise after thissor deal you handled it with grace that all of us should arc spire to. thank you. >> thank you for your comments and nice words. next speaker, please. >> i'm jeremy chan a japantown community member. for the final report i urge a suggestion to have clear criteria for making the decisions. this was discussed late in the process and disappointed no criteria was ultimate low adopted. thank you fs for your efforts and thank you the city staff, john carol i hope you get a nice
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vacation. >> thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments, next speaker, please. is there a caller on the line? just a reminder for folks waiting to give public comment you are witting for a signal that tells you your line is unmute exclude receive it in one of 2 ways if you called you will hear through your phone you have been unmuted. if you have called or reaching our middle easting from within the web ex software you will hear 2 click beeps is there a caller ready to give comments? >> hello. >> please, begin. >> hello. this is anatasia can you hear me?
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>> we can. okay. i recommend what david said about having the document posted so we can read it and make our comments this would be really helpful. and would be a wonderful process. you have not followed i process and the animosity that was that was -- well was between the task force members. i commends the 4 who voted against the final map because it just was not representative of our city. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> yes.
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this is brenda. i hope you put in the final report what your recommendations are or how to deal with this hurt and harm that has been done because we know the community needs to heal and it mineed help. i hope to see you out in these communities talking to people so this than i have a better understanding of the decisions you made and why you made them. i think this is the part that is -- making people feel the most uncomfortable and upset now. and so this is not about race. this is in the about asian versus black versus hispanic. this is in the about that. but i do think that -- the way the process went it caused these divides and you node to take
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ownership for it and you need to be helping to -- heal the city of san francisco who are feeling these things and they are legitimate feelings they have may have not been intentional but it it is still there. and so i hope that something is addressed xu make a strong recommendation that there is someone who will deal with the issues and talk to the communities especially the ones that feel harmed to help them work through this. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> yes, can you hear me. why we can. why this is peter warfield. and of course you have all done a lot of work on this. but in any case talk about the
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product and where we stand. the publicness of the process was a problem. almost all of the out reach and information that were provided were almost on line. this left those on the wrong side of the so called, digital divide, out of the picture. this is, lot of people and the vulnerable populations are most like low to be negatively affected. and i'm concerned sunshine open third degree and i'm concerned the final draft is not going to be had at a public meeting with time for people to review it so you can hear from the public. when they would like and not like about what you got in that draft and when they want. the purpose of a public meeting is everybody can hear that is going on you are supposed to make all your decisions in public. i understand it, there is a department comment portion where i don't know what departments
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are. why do they get special and member statements and the draft. what about the public. it will comment after the draft has been formulated and not in public and not in a meeting. you will dot minutes through delegation that is correct is wrong. many of what the members have ponent about is terrific and i think the documents should report what happened for the purposes of today as well as next year or in 10 years. what was the publicity budget and how was it spent when who was in charge. many maps had no street names the website was clunking. any report you issue should be the day so people can come and pick it up. thanks for your efforts. thank you for sharing your comments. sorry it cut you off we reached the 2 minute limit.
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next speaker, please. is there a caller on the line >> hello? >> please, begin. why i'm karen pierce, can you hear me. >> yes. >> okay. i wanted members of the task
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force i hope the report does in the use the words, impossible task at any point. your task was not impossible it has been done in the past. you have done temperature if you think your task was to make everybody happy then that was impossible. but this is in the what you were tasked with. this is in the a map that -- i can get behind. but this is a democracy and unfortunately, the way our democracy works especially these days trying to find a way to reach equity and equality is not possible. i -- really hope that the final report is something this we can all that is readable and we can all really -- understand what has happened along the way and if there will be apology in it, please, i would like one for all of the 18 black comments i had to live with for my whole life. thank you again. thank you for sharing your comments. could we get the next speaker, please. good afternoon members the
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association i have one concrete comment with respect to the final report and that special care needs to be taken to ensure that all tax commune benefit districts regardless of the department they are by city or what their ultimate benefit is reflected and be considered i dentically. i node as of today the northwest potrero hill and dog patch does in the show up on the map. it is the oversight i think continues to be seen. it is a model that may roll out to different parts of the city. task force members i have disagreed with some things i want to thank you for your service and commends you for making through what has been an arduous process and take a million to talk to staff about the tremendous job you have done
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the clerk's office and mr. judge carol, you give us faith in our city government. it is a faith we need and need to be reminded you have and a reminder there are so many folk like you in the city government doing their best to make our city a better place. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello can you hear me? >> yes, pleas, begin. why it is virginia marshall. i was away [inaudible] however i'm sure i'm not going to like the final map based on what you are done the past few weeks. i want to say, thank you. [inaudible] will always be kind i want to say thank you for your public service.
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mr. john carol you earn an a + you are always professional and kinds. i want to thank eileen. and i'm sorry that many of our communities are not going to be happy the next 10 years. you will have it live with that. you will have it live with that. there was young people who became distraught over this process. i hope the recommendation on the recommendations the next committee 10 years from now. what you do from the plan that the meetings don't go past 8 p.m. at night. no meeting should be at midnight when folks running down to city hall on the line at 4 am. have your meetings within 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.
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10 a.m. or 8 p.m. it is absurd and anyway. we waste our time we'll not recommend what you do we dot opposite. i hope all the black churches are become where they belong. i hope we are whole i know we are not. thank you but you have to live with the harm you caused you will have to live with it and you are not posed to be opting for your area. you are to represent all the people for the city and county of san francisco. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, yes. this is [inaudible] i want to make the comment that the next -- with the reports will
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save as far as the dates that we are just agreed to it. and gets better and the report is red for review so that because i think that -- people or forget thing and the ones that are not when they are -- hope to have work throughout e mills amming people to -- [inaudible] dates and of course -- if the clerk can also let us know when than i will be heard part of the board of supervisors. i think the public likes the ability to comment on in -- and i want to commends everybody. [inaudible] you are like a
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second fell you have been in our lives for so long you are a second family for people that have participated. thank you for your time and -- all the work you have done. people will have reservations but -- something had to be done and it has been a foible low taken place. thanks thanks. next speaker, please. hi, good afternoon this is sharon thornton of district 10. thank you, everyone on the task force for doing this job. i know it was hard. with that being said, i feel that everybody in this task force who has in the taken race race they need to take
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temperature black people in this town we face discrimination every day. i rescue noise there is asian hate but i want to say in this room that was used against black people i did in the hear the asian hate. what i saw can people recording us and -- thank you for sharing your comments. folks are in participating. the members and members in the audience making videos and add sunrising them and putting them out and harming people and we were called the, n, word. this is was by the asian community. i want to say we need healing and i feel bad what happened here. we should nobody of color black, asian, white whatever we are should not be against each other. because you waited so long to
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designing a map that put, lot of people in fear. you had 7 month this is map should have been drawn earlier to have input and mote with the commune. and i want to say to the task force members that mentioned antisemitism and ap i hate. i want to say to that -- some of you guys cause a lot of social-economic harm to the black community. ref redistricting is about population not land grabbing. thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please sorry it cut you off we reached the 2 minute limit. mr. chair i see there are no more callers we reached the end of public comment for the task force final report.
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why thank you, mr. clerk. and public comment for the task force final report is closed. members. i see guest one mr. cooper is this you? >> yes, thank you. first i want to elevate angela's comments from earlier. about thanking all of the staff behind the scenes. we got to meet at the beginning of the process once we bot to city hall and some we have not met in person and just it works for the city in the other side of it. thank you, john carol. every word said about you was trough. i and don't remember if this is in the out line. i think and trust member lee to talk about this -- you know -- delicately but not too
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delicately. the issue of the racial language that we heard all throughout the process. that for me is something to mention and the hardest things we had to deal with racist language in multiple there was, legality of upon antiblack and 18 asian language in the meetings. both for president node to be addressed in i way in the final report. i hope we get to this and the last point based on the y comments is the translation turn around time line. this will the draft document
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will be a long document. i don't know how long if we have sense of how long the translations take but i think this would be helpful and if possible to sit within a reasonable time line to fet a sense of that. >> thank you. members, if no one else in the queue. i believe we had a motion -- that had been made before public comment and mr. chasel lee? is that was that you? i was asking you to speak in the mic. why oh. >> [laughter]. >> i believe we had a motion before we went to public comment. >> we near then. mr. chasel lee, it was your motion. >> there was a clarification. why you want to offer that i have notes. why yes. i think -- i have been advised and agree with the advice that to have the members statements due at the same time as they draft final upon report. i said that they being be submitted -- and -- are if --
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[inaudible]. that would be may 11th. okay. i can make the adjustment it was a different date. it was main ninth. members can are 2 more days. and just to make things explicit i don't know if it entered anyone's concern whether end of the business day, does this matter at all? i love to have until midnight. >> 9 p.m. pacific time. >> thank you for making it. i will be on the east coast. >> what is the time limit? 9 p.m. pacific. why 11:59 pacific. >> unless -- if you don't get mine i'm not doing it. why receipt by that e mail
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address. you would be that would be the submission dead line and they would be received all of these materials received boy the sfgov.org e mail address and sent from there the next day to the task force. >> i believe that works. why works for me. thank you. >> thanks. and then we should have clarification on the final upon report posting date and time. i have on my notes may 23rd the end of the workday. >> i'm sorry. the very final do you mean posted line and announce said. that is work of the office of the clerk of the board to bring it on comploin foeft that will be posted the end of that
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workday. why 5 p.m. y. yes. >> yes. pacific time >> thank you. why thank you for being patient while i get the last little details. there is a po posed schedule for this drafting operation. it has its first dead line as may fifth and my fifth is the deadline for office of the clerk and civic edge consult its prepare and finalize their documents for the contribution to the feign report. well is a may 11th dead line for member chasel lee to appropriate and00 distribute to the e mail address his first draft. draft of the final report. that same date 11.
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. 59 p.m. on may 11 is date for the members of task force to provide their member statements to be attributed to them. from this time until the end of the day on the 16th is a public review public comment to rehave you time for the documents they will be posted on line and announced. we will be incorporating them to various and different places they can be rerowelled and the public can provide the comment in writing e mail address or our office in city hall. and it is final report will be posted by end of the w day 5 p.m. on pacific time on may 23rd. >> got it. >> now -- >> and the final date for the public to submit their comments for this is may 16k. of >> thank you.
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why now members. >> do we mead to vote on that or >> we have vote. >> or consensus. why take a vote. >> at the clerk's recommendation. we will take a vote. the motion was offered by chasel lee and seconded by member cooper on that motion member jeremy lee >> aye. >> member pierce. >> aye. >> vice chair reiner. >> aye. >> member castillon y. aye. why member cooper >> aye. >> member hernandez-gil. >> aye. >> member ho. >> aye >> member chasel lee. >> aye >> chair townsend. >> aye. mr. chair there are 9 aye's. >> thank you. >> on adopting. >> matters adopted. mr. clerk. mr. chair. i believe. >> mr. chair.
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why mr. lee >> question for clarification. i believe q2 has to submit the final maps to fix stuff for inclusion in the final report is this correct? >> i believe the motion adopted did include that? >> yes, i do believe had -- you know what i will check but i'm sure that whatever process was followed left time will be followed this time in the final maps. >> okay. >> >> if it helpful and past practice dictates futures results we receive the maps sooner than may fifth. >> thank you. i like to add i had conversations with q2 and they have been full y prepared to do that all along. i was surprised not to see that in there. i want to make sure we have that
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because than i have an obligation to document what they did and then the land meets and boundses after that is this correct? they will include manage in the charter and could be included in a later time in the report. your boundaries as you adopted are boundaries so the other thing is q2 is on vacation all of them. that's why they -- are not here today. obviously. but i'm sure that -- as mr. carol said, on past practice dictates what will happen in the future we will have the final map soon.
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po mr. chair we can move on to the last agenda item >> yes, i would. at this time >> item 4 is prove of the minutes from the meetings of april 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 13th, 2022 and authorization to most final minutes for meeting dates of april 21, 25 and today april 28. this is a discussion and action item. >> members? >> chasel lee. >> thank you, i move that to approve the minutes for the meetings april 4, 6, 7, 8s, 9, 11 and 13 and authorize the clerk to post the meetings of april 21, 25 and 28. >> member pierce. second. >> and it moved and seconds.
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members have comments i believe at this time we mead to go to public comment. >> thank you. this will be the left time the ref districting task force is taking public comment. we will hear from folks in the room with us first to see if anyone has comments on the form of the minutes a handled pages worth of do you means. >> 99 pages. . let's turn our attention to folk who is wish to prorighted comments remote. i will repeat the access instructions. if you want to provide comment on this agenda item on the form of the minuteses you can by dialing fur 15-6 clear clear . you will hear the discussions and your line will be muted dial
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star 3 toern the speaker line you will hear, you have raised your handle. you will know it is your time to peek you will hear, you have been unmuted. or if you are connected from within the web ex soft weir and wish to speak on the form of the minutes or the authorization to post final millions for this meeting and the meeting on monday the 25th and left thursday the 21st. raise where you are hand and arc wait a signal to speak will be too quick electronic beeps. there are 4 people who want to comment on the form of the minutes. can we have the first caller, please? someone on the line? yes. can you hear me. >> yes, begin. why hi. it is wert warfield. having trouble finding the spots
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i med notes about. i will go boy my notes. i think that your minutes should be adjusted according to reality. and you should be free about making changes where necessary. many of the minuteses this you have on here have identical descriptions for multiple speakers about what they said. a few have good detail about what people said including myself regarding specifics about the maps. on march 25th item 2 -- warfield shares various other concerns with the task force. i was clear. the march 25th meeting are not in this agenda packet. >> april fourth and 6? those are included. >> those have member reports and that's when the members talked
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about when they were speaking to. my recollection on one of those i specifically asked for contact information if the memberers talking it is find for them to do this. i wanted to be able to talk with somebody, too. or the members and not only asked that and asked for them to provide each one this provide contact information and gave a place to sends it. [inaudible] and also mailing address. never heard from anybody with respect to that and never saw a place i could find member contact informing. eventual low i did request from the clerk. and -- got official contact information that i had not seen posted and it was late. >> thank you for sharing your
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comments. next speaker, please. approximate >> [inaudible] i'm on a computer i hope you hear me. >> we hear you y. great. >> hopeful low it is the last time. i will provide suggestions if i see edits with the minutes i see spelling issues with names if i have i chance i will go through that. i support approving the minutes in the form than i exist now and authorizing the clerk and deteriorate and final millions. foible low i post on the website the task force approved the map the minutes and the final report schedule with the dates you explained. i guess i will not hear the beep, and we can adjourn the meeting for the left time. thank you for listening. thank you for sharing your comments. thank you.
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why next speaker, please. >> virginia marshall i wanted commend you mr. clerk fur your accuracy, for your dedication to give all the minutes trans lay exclude posted for us. in the westerlied i come from you earn an a +. thank you, get rest >> thank you for sharing your comments. next speaker, please. >> can you hear me? >> yes, >> i look at the meeting and see you are missing one of where you person points is this current board of supervisor and [inaudible] district 5 afraid african-american to replace the council seat and [inaudible] the issue which you kinds of -- ask
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the -- asking people outside of city hall for his personal gain. you did in the mention [inaudible] >> pause you to make surety minutes record things that happened during the public meetings. and -- not ever address it was not present at our middle eastings i will give you a machine and 21 become to proroadway me with more feed become on the form of the minutes presented to the task force. i know within00 pages of. meeting minuteses and search by key word. i think you need to put in the meeting minutes the current
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supervisor district 5. afraid of african-americans supervisor. to be in the same seat there are 3,000 more african-american in d 5. why thank you for sharing your comments. to note -- in the 234 hours i don't think the sitting members of the board of supervisors attended meetings former members have participated in discussions. thank you very much for helping me remember thatkerate low. do we have anyone else who has comment on the form of the minutes? is there i speaker on the line?
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i think we have one more person. the last public comment participate is unattended line. >> mr. decosta you are the last person please, begin. why first of all -- i want to thank you, john for i good job done. and -- i want to reminds the task force committee that some of us -- we will have an advocates. we will have a very, very difficult time bringing about the healing. >> minutes. >> you have to review the minutes.
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because many of the people that we interact with will refer to the minutes. what was said and not said. and we are looking forward to the final map -- where the demarcation and the names of the streets of should be finalized in a manner reagain and again. it is minutes will say a lot. for the last 10 years. will using them as a reference. i know some of us commented and each time we commented we wanted to stretch a certain point. i hope that you review the minutes in the way we get a
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chance to bring your attention what we said. i take notes and i record what i say. >> census should lead it is in addition. thank you for sharing your comments. sorry to cut you off we reached the 2 minute limit. we have no further callers. >> public comment on item number 4 is closed. at this time. the approval of the millions i believe there is a motion on the floor. to approve the minutes. that's right i will jump forward. it was offered by lee and seconded by pierce to post the final minute fist april 21, 25
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and 28th on that motion. member jeremy yooe >> aye >> pierce yoochl aye >> vice chair reiner >> aye >> member cooper >> aye >> member hernandez-gill. >> aye >> member ho. >> aye. >> member chasel lee. why aye. >> chair townsend. >> aye. >> there are 9 aye's. >> thank you. ladies and gentlemen we are at adjournment i have to add my voice. first of all. let me thank all of you i consider it a privilege to have served with each and every one of you and agreements and disagreements it has been a pleasure and i actually consider it an honor.
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if people want to know, i know people are angry and hurt and but if people want to know what public servants look like look at the people who sat here since september. and i tashg a different view even though i'm not wealth y i'm not looking for a stipend. i want the city to provide the staff and support this we node get this j.w. done. saying that, in our experience, i don't see i can't imagine how we could have been provided a better staff. i could not think of a better way we could have been served with the assistance we got from the folks. that's in every area. i'm not one who ever talks bad but bureaucrats or makes fun of the concept of bureaucracy. i know it is in the easy and i
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know what than i deal with as a member of the public we are in the always as kinds or as right as we think we are. and people who put up with us in humor and do their job need to be commendsd and this case, i believe the people who worked with us in evidence permanent low by john carol. clerk cal i haveo and others i don't want to [reading names]sil leave some out and i don't want to leave anybody out of this. but evidence most apparently buy them served us in good humor. these are city workers here in 1 and 2 in the morning. i want to say for the public we never called a 2 a.m. meeting or one a.m. meeting and snuck in and voted so you would not know. we voted because we were kept
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here until that time and we gladly did at this time public had something to say and had a responsible to listen of and took that long. but it was not our idea. we never had any idea we would be here until those hours. we stayd and the staff stayed with us and served us this entire time. i'm just overwhelmed by the w they did from the clerk's and elections department and the city attorney y office the sheriff's office. once again the janitorial service. those people who go home in a more decent hour had to wait for us to finish their job of getting this place ready for the next day. than i stayed here and i just -- i don't have words as much as i talk to tell you how i appreciate it.
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[applause]. >> and all of you online >> as crazy as people who sit in the chairs act. don't give up on us. because it is one thing i'm convinced of we mean well. we may not always do well but mean well. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] >> what is the next thing. the next one she did it we are adjourned. thank you. [applause].
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change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center. >> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move
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to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for
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the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated
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business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in. if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer.
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>> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits.
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we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.
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i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the
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first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances.
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>> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of first responders to make this department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training.
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this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that it's a heart attack, right? don't forget that. >> as a new hire we require you to be flexible. you will be required to work all
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>> chair mar: thank you. welcome to the april 28, 2022 public safety and neighborhood services meeting. i want to thank the clerk for staffing this meeting and for sfgovtv. madam clerk, do you have any