>> this meeting televised by sfgovtv on channel 26. please stand to recite the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> my name is dan leung the assistance for the sheriff oversight board. on behalf of the sheriff department and oversight board we like to thank the staff at sfgovtv to provide technical assistance to broadcast the meeting. i will now call the agenda. lineitepm 1, roll call. welcome and introduction. informational. roll call. board member afuhaamango. >> push the button. bottom left. turn the pike mic on. >> hell o. okay. hi. here. >> thank you. board member afuhaamango is here. board member brookter. >> present.

>> board member brookter is present. board member carrion is out of the country and will not be in attendance today. she is watching live though. board member nguyen. >> present. >> board member nguyen is present. board member palmer is also out of the country and will be joining remotely and just watching. board member soo. >> board member soo is present. board member wechter. >> present. >> board member wechter is prenlt. we have a quorum. also with us a kepy city attorney jana clark, sheriff office paul miyamoto. executive director paul henderson and chief (inaudible) we welcome guests. the floor is open to provide a 2

minute introduction starting with board member afuhaamango. >> hi, everyone. my name is ovava. i am a community member. i was born and raised in san francisco. just i think that's the short end of it. thank you. >> seat number 2, board member jason wechter. >> good evening. i'm jason wechter. this is a osuspicious day for me to be here. it was exactly 39 years ago today on august 22, 1983 that i and the other first staff members of the office of citizen complaints reported for work and that began what has been a very long and deep career and commitment to civilian oversight. i learned a lot over the way-along the way. i'm here because of that continuing commitment. i worked in a

professional capacity for various agencies, served on the board of directors for the national association for civilian oversight of law enforcement and been very active in their activities. i think this is a natural extension for me to be here. i hope a major thing i can contribute is helping avoid the mistakes made in 1983 when a unsupportive commission set up a agency that did not function effectively and not choose the right director, they did not insure adequate resources and staffing so those are very hard lessen tuesday to learn and hope i can bring what i learned along the way to this board and help it succeed. thank you. >> good evening. my name is (inaudible) been with the san francisco sheriff office for 6 years. i sit on the union seat for the sheriff oversight board, and i'm looking forward to bridging the gap between the

public and our office to get a better understanding of what we do. thank you. >> thank you very much. i am julia diane soo and proud to continue service with the city. i previously served on the san francisco of commission on the status for women 12 years. my dayiary s is enforcement attorney for the california department of insurance, where i protect the public, conduct disciplinary actions through administrative hearings against individuals as well as companies. my prior life was a mathematician so i'm very oriented towards numbers, dash boards, accountability and i'm pleased to try to strike a balance with building a professional staff enhancing the professional staff of the sheriff's department as well as listening to the

community. my family has been in san francisco since the late 1880's and i'm very committed to public service so very pleased to be here. >> thank you. seat number 7, board member dion-jay brookter. >> thank you. diane jay brookter. dj. i'm the executive director of (inaudible) focused on work force development, education services as well as the designing and building of affordable housing, so i have been in san francisco over 12 years and had the opportunity to serve some of the most underserved communities in san francisco. most notably on the general obligation bond oversight committee where i served a couple years under the controller and most recent leon the san francisco police commissioner who served as liaison. a natural

fit. i want to say thank you to the sheriff department coalescing and pulling us together. chief has done a phenomenal job communicating with all of us and dan. looking forward what we can do together. i want to bring a community voice as we serve a lot of individuals just involved and continue to do soio want to continue to figure how to bridge the gap between what sogoing on in the jails and in the communities so we can all continue to live here together side by side. >> thank you. continuing on to line itm 1a, introduction and remarks by sheriff paul mimeeto of miyamoto of the san francisco sheriff office. >> hopefully this is on. okay. good evening everyone. on behalf of myself and the women and men of the san francisco sheriff office, i want to congratulate and welcome all

sof you have to the responsibility of being members of the first sheriff oversight board. you have a important jobs and obligations are intertwined with the sheriff office. you bring professional knowledge and life experiences and you are going to be able to shine a good light on all the work we do. and the good work our deputies do every day. i want to insure you that we are here as you mentioned earlier, board member brookter, that we are here to operate in full transparency and work together with you to make this all happen and become a successful endeavor. during my 2019 campaign to get this job as sheriff, i wanted to create a community advisory board. why? because collaboration is the key. we need to communicate with the community and advocate not just for incarcerated or injusted involved persons but everybody and everything the sheriff office does. we want

to make sure what we do is transparent and understood by the rest of the community and you are going to be a part of that as we move forward. in may of 2019, our office entered into agreement with department of police accountability to investigate several existing high profile allegations of misconduct. in august of 2020, the relationship between the dpa and sheriff office was modified to strengthen the provision of that oversight; including the ability for justice involved persons and public to file complaints directly to dpa opposed to just the sheriff office assigning cases and this is the growth of what we see as a continuing commitment to make sure we are transparent and make sure we work with you. we are fully invested and commit td to this and i wanted to say personally, i want to recognize all you for your civic commitment whether your first time or whether you have been here 39 years, i appreciate that having

been in the sheriff office for 27 years now the commitment to everything we are going to do and your voluntary commitment in terms of giving your time and energy to this is going to help improve us and i want to commend you for your service to all of us, the community and our office. please, embrace this responsibility to make recommendations to both myself and the board of supervisors about our operations, about complaints against employees or contractors and how we deal with in custody or out of custody operations relate today the sheriff office, please embrace this responsibility. our deputies are often overlook in comparison to the amount of support given to other public safety agencies and we hope you not only hold our deputies accountable and also hold the community accountable in regards to supporting the sheriff office and doing this job. it is real easy

to focus on negative thinks when we talk about the sheriff office because we are a intgle part for the sheriff cyst so responsible for the jails and courts. sometimes people dont want to think about those places unless they have those involved or directly related to the justice system itself. you will be a part of the voice the department has been in the justice system. one thing that we do ck that sometimes isn't recognized is the fact that we work with people that are justice involved every day. gives unique perspective and ability to provide for opportunities for change. this has been reflected in the past in what our department has been about with what is not a traditional justice jail setting. we have been able to achieve and accomplish a lot, which served to be a national model for success in areas such

as programs and services that help to reduce recidivism. things we have in terms of 5 keysant grated treatment, therapeutic art, things we talked about during your training and orientation process, you will be able to emerse in first hand and we have been challenged recently with the restrictiveness and challenges of operating under the covid emergency protect ive order. i'm hopeling you will be a part of moving us on from that and reestablishing a lot of what we have done and what we hope to accomplish moving forward. we are very proud of being a part of the transformation people experience when justice involved. i hope you all realize just what you have seen so far this is very important work. as i mentioned during our time together during the training orientation, i'm optimistic our work together will peel back the curtains and show the community who we are and what we do. our

work will reflect the core values of service, professionalism and pride and i look forward working with all of you in the years to come. thank you. >> thank you sheriff paul miyamoto. line item 1b, introduction and remarks by director paul henderson of department of police accountability. spearheading the deputy investigations. >> go? thank you so much. thank you. good evening. thank you for being here. i didn't realize paul was making a speech and feel there is pressure, but that's okay. i

want to thank you guys paul henderson for having me here and to speak a little bit about the work. i'm up here with my chief of staff sarah hawkins but i want to talk a little bit about the work because we actually started the conversations with sheriff hennessey in 2018 and that transitioned to the mou and the loa you guys have already as public record outlining what the work has been. i think that history is important, because it reflects a non--a substantial period of time that the work was being done to provide some of the inquiry and investigation regarding the oversight that is not lost on me in terms of the significance to the benefit for the city.

over 130 cases, more then 60 of them involved serious kind of cases that have been well above the national average in the work and so, our role here is to provide seem less transition in terms of the work and the leadership for the work. i just want to take the opportunity to thank my staff for doing what has been pretty complicated work. the work was similar to the police oversight, the investigations and the discipline, but different and so, i asked a lot of my staff from the very beginning and they provided a lot of work, a lot of expertise, a lot of developed expertise doing the work and i didn't want to not acknowledge how hard the folks at dpa have been working to make sure we have a professional product delivered both to the

commission and to the citizens here and to the sheriff department. and thank all of you, the commissioner here for volunteering your time. this is day 1 of what will be a long and very busy journey i expect. i think everyone has copies of the mou and the letter of understanding that governs our work and that defines what has been done and what gets done for the work so far and that's should be a solid foundation for everyone so i want to thank everyone for allowing us to do the work that we have done so far. did i miss anything? you have anything? >> (inaudible) >> and i will yield the remaining balance of my time-do i get a timer? i didn't realize. i yield the remainder of our time to my chief of staff, sara hawkins. >> thank you commissioners. i

look forward helping with the transition as well. the main 2 things alluded by sheriff miyamoto and director henderson are the jurisdiction outlined in the agreement. it started with 8 cases referred to us by sheriff hennessey, those 8 cases were about 35 cases once we broke them apart. that involved into seeing the need to broaden the scope to take complaints directly from members of the community and individuals who are incarcerated and to better define the scope of the types of cases we did so i think that was a important step that has driven the work. also in attendsance is germane jones dpa staff attorney. he (inaudible) who dedicated a lot of resources to this work really have done the training, done a lot of work to understand the best practices

for sheriff ovsite and bring that to what we are doing. we also had a very productive relationship with sheriff legal margaret bum gartner and sheriff department unlike the hiccups we experienced with getting things from sfpd for various reasons, not trying to comment on that but we had a very agreeable and productive relationship in terms of document protocol, how we handle cases, access to materials so sure the sheriff department will continue with this commission and how the work moves forward and we are happy to help and committed to doing the work until there is transition in place and being a part of adviceing, helping, do whatever we can to make sure work is getting done and getting done well. thank you. >> i want to thank the other partners involved in bringing this project and the work to and with dpa, which were involved the mayor's office,

obviously the sheriff's office, the city attorney's office, the community and (inaudible) walton and board of supervisors. i think that was integral and not lost on me those individuals and those agencies collectively trusted the work, the independence and outcome from the work at dpa to come to us in the first place. it isn't lost on me and i want to acknowledge and thank them for trusting all of us to deliver the products we have done so far and we look forward to the seemless transition so, thank you all. >> thank you director henderson and chief hawkins. line item 1c, introduction and remarks by deputy city attorney jana clark. deputy city attorney will give a presentation on her role to the board as deputy city attorney, the scope of the body authority and the realm of the individual board members. >> hi, everyone. i

think i met most of you at the training and those that i didn't meet, again my name is jana clark, i work for the city attorney's office and thought i would give background into what i do in general and then i was going to hit three topics. one base any the role of boards and commissions generally and speak to the role of this body in particular specifically, and then discuss just high points of the public meeting laws. and then i will probably have comments on a couple other agenda items as they come up, for example recruitment of the inspector general and-basically, i am advice attorney and my role is to provide advice to the departments i'm assigned, and

just by way of background, i advice the juvenile probation department including the juvenile probation commission. advice the department of police accountability and advice the sheriff department. i do a few other thing s but those are the highlights of what i do, and what that means is, i'm available to all those departments to answer any questions that come up related to your work and that includes you all of course. you all have my contact information and you can all feel free to contact me by e-mail or phone any time you have a question that comes up as we progress and we all learn because this is a brand new body so i'm learning along with you the ins and outs of this body. guided by the charter. basically i thought it would be a good idea to go through generally what boards and commissions, what their authority is in general and some of the restrictions on boards and commissions and

individual members. i will probably keep calling you commissioners but think you are technically all members and don't think there is a real distinction in the law but forgive me if i call you a commissioner and you are not. starting with the charter, section 4.102 speaks generally to the powers and duties and restrictions of boards and commissions. in general, your duties are and this is true of every board or commission, unless the charter section that applies to you specifically says differently, these are the rules and restrictions that apply to your board. basically the first duty is to formulate and-i provided these materials but should probably said for anyone else who didn't get the materials ahead of time i will follow what we call the good government guide. it is a document that my office creates and it has-it is our bible

basically for advising boards and commissions and it basically talks about what your roles are, what the restrictions are. there is a section on public meetings, and the rules that apply to those and a whole section on public records so basically i'm starting like from page 13 of the good government guide that everyone can find on the city attorney website and that page was included in the material, so page 13-25 of the good government guide. basically under charter section 4.102, your duties are to formulate evaluate and approve goals objectives plans and programs and set policies consistent with the overall objective s of the city established by the mayor and board through the adoption of regulation. number 2, developing keep current anium statement of purpose outlining jurisdiction, authority, purposes and goals subject to review and approval by the mayor and board. the third category is

after public hearing, approve department budget. that for this board is going to be the office-the budget for the office of inspector general. you dont have a inspector general yet, you don't have a department so have a department technically so there isn't a budget to approve. the budget approval process usually happens in the spring and i'll be available at that time to guide the board through the process. recommend to the mayor for further submission of the board rates fees and similar charges. that is probably not going to come up for you. rec and park might set fees for different events they have and those would go-that would be something the rec and park commission would do but don't think you guys with ilhave these. number 5, unless the charter provides differently, and it does, basically this talks about a process by which the mayor submit nominees to a body to

choose a department head for you. you are not going-it isn't dpoeing going to go that way. charter section 4.137 that applies specifically to this body, this body appoints a department head without going through that process of mayoral appointments so that is one that doesn't exactly apply to you. number 6, remove department head. again, that would be up to it this body. number 7, conduct investigations and any aspect of governmental operations within your jurisdiction, which is sheriff department oversight through the power of inquiry and make recommendations to the mayor and board. number 8, exercise whatever powers and duties the board might give you. number 9, appoint executive secretary to manage the affairs and operation of the board of commission. you have a acting secretary who i think so far as i seen done a fabulous job. a little later down the line because you have a lot on your plate we can talk about the appointment process for a secretary and

we'll pull in dhr to make sure dot all is and cross t. restrictions on commissions. the main thing to focus on here is that you act through the department head, so what the charter says is each board or commission relative to the affairs of its own department shall deal with administrative matters through the department head or his or her designee and any dictation suggestion or interference prohibited on the member of the board constitute official misconduct. provided however that you can still exercise your power of inquiry. meaning you can have hearings and bring people from different departments in front of you to answer questions, but otherwise, the board needs to act through the department head, which will be for this body the inspector general when that person is hired. the same will be true of when you interact with the sheriff department. we talked about

this at the training i think. any questions you have for the sheriff department need to go through the sheriff himself or the sheriff designee and my understanding is the sheriff designated chief gu and think you all had interactions with him already. you cant reach out to someone else in the department with questions, even though that might seem more straight forward and easy, that is a hard and fast rule. the same restrictions apply to individual commissioners. first of all, your power is as a body and so no individual commissioner has the power to exercise any of the powers and duties of the board, so-in order for this body to act you need 4 members, that is quorum. the same rule about interference applies. the body can't interfere and each individual commissioner can't interfere with the administrative affairs of the

department, meaning again, you have to go thru the sheriff or sharing designee or inspector general or who ever he or she might designate. you can ask questions at any point but i'll guess i'll go through and ask questions at the end and you can e-mail questions if quou are more comfortable doing that. the role of commission officers. i think you have on the agenda today the election of officers. basically the officers have the power that you guys decide they have individual officers the president and vice president as long as it isn't inconsistent with the charter or public meeting laws. you all get to say whether the presidents sets the agenda. whether the secretary sets the agenda. trying to think what else-how officers are elected, what day you meet. things like that. isent you sample

bylaws. the bylaws usually set out how you are going to elect your officers. one thing to note because this is on the agenda like i said, you can decide to put off electing officers at a later point till you all get to know each other and are more familiar with your roles and one option you might have before you get into formal election of officers is to elect a president pro tem, which i had to google to appreciate means for the timebeing, so if you want to put off electing a president and vice president you could decide when this item is called to instead president pro tem to run the meeting until you decide to elect officers or you can elect them tonight but i want ed to give that option. moving through my notes here. so, the role of the department head, page 16, those materials i provided. basically

the department head for the sheriff is the sheriff department is the sheriff. for the office of inspector general it is inspector general. they will hire-for the sheriff he hires who is in the department and for the inspector general it is up to that person to hire the investigators or whatever staff they think are necessary. so, i won't go into a lot of detail about the role of department heads because you have a elected sheriff now, but happy to answer questions about that, but because you don't have a inspector general i wasn't going to into a lot of detail what they power might be. the commission secretary, moving to page 17. you have a big agenda so trying to move quickly, but tell me to slow down if you want me to. so, the commission secretary, is appointed by the board and their job is you have seen it in action so don't have to explain it. working with who ever the chair is

typically is how it works to create the agenda. the way it work frd this meeting was different because you didn't have a chair at that point but usually-often what bodies do is some point in the meeting they have future agenda items and people throw out what they think is a good idea for the agenda for the following meeting or next meeting or two meetings away and what i have seen is the president working with the secretary makes arrangements. for example, if the body were to say, we want to hear from the district attorney. just making it up. then the-usually the secretary would reach out to the district attorney, fiend out their availability and based on that decide what agenda it would make sense for that item to be set. it could be fluid and it works best if it is usually one officer and the secretary working together because you have-usually it requires flexibility. the role of the city attorney,

that is me. so, the most important thing to remember is the city is the client. the city attorney represents the city and county of san francisco, and all of you are officers of the city and county of san francisco because you are sitting on this board now, and so our office provides advice to every city officer. some things that happen in practice are sometimes different departments have different views on things. but everybody gets the same legal advice. that is the most important take-away and the role of the city attorney, there is three pages and i will not go through all of it. the most important thing is, the city is the client, you can ask us any questions, and then this is all within the privilege if you come to me with questions, but what we don't do

is-even though you are all the city-say you like to ask a question about the sheriff department, a legal question but you don't rather not-the sheriff know you are asking me, sorry to be--sometimes that happens believe it or not. then you can trust that i am not going to--mr. brookter if you say have a question about the sheriff and the scope of his authority. i will give the legal advice. if the sheriff came and asked the same question i will give him the legal advice and not tell either party their asked. it works better if everybody feels they can come to us and ask advice and questions without worrying someone else will find out they are asking. there is a lot more detail and written in a lot more fancy form but basically that is the bottom line. every once in a while it is necessary that we bring

everybody in and everybody is aware that different departments asked for the same advice and might prepare a memo directed to the board and sheriff office and everybody would be brought into it but that is a rare ocurance. the advice you get from our office, this is a public meeting and going through the basics, none of the advice i'm giving you now is privileged because i'm giving it in a public setting but if you come to me sep aretly and ask a question and i give you legal advice it is privileged and this is a important fact. especially if i give the body advice. every once in a while there may be a issue and maybe a few brought it up so might send e-mail to the whole board with legal advice. it is privileged the body can wave the privilege but when the advice is given to the body but no individual member can wave the privilege. if you think i think the

world should know this advice, if i gave the advice to the body the body has to wave the privilege in order to share that advice outside the group included in theed advice. racing through, because i know you have a lot on your plate. i sent out in the spring it feels a million years ago, a letter with basically some trainings required like sunshine. there is a harassment training. certain ethics filings so that was laid out in the letter. if you have questions about that, feel free to contact me, but there were deadlines in the letters and dont think we have to go over them now because i think everyone is up to speed on that. normally there wouldn't have been a time lag and so i might be more reminding you but i think your former acting secretary, now

the secretary made sure you are all up to speed on your form 700 filings and required trainings. again, feel free to ask me questions. rules and regulations, this is a item on the agenda. the bylaws to discuss anyway, adopting bylaws so we can talk more about that when that item is called. but like i said before, those things usually-rules and regulations usually cover things like the terms of office for officers, the duties of the officers, establishing regular meeting time and place and procedure for setting the agenda, what we already talked about. quorum, page 24 for those following along in the material. it takes 4 members of this body to act. even if the-right now there are 5 of you here, you still need 4 members to act. if there is not a majority present-it isn't the majority of seats filled it is the chapter. seven

in the charter and need 4 to act. that is a hard and fast rule. election of officers. just generally the way that it works, if you don't have a procedure set up in the bylaws which you don't have bylaws yet so don't have a procedure, generally the way that works is the presiding officer and in this case i think the way we'll do it is a secretary will act in that role for this purpose. request nominations from the body. you don't have to have a second. and when no one else wants to offer nominations then the commission votes on the nomination in the order received and the first candidate to receive majority of the votes is elected to the office, so that's generally how-based on robert rule ofered order and you dont have a bylaw we look to robert rule of order. when you adopt

bylaws you can have a different process. it is a good idea to run that by me first. this body-this body 4.137, sure you are familiar with it. i will go through what your powers and duties are but you can read them and just make a few comments. basically, under the charter 4.137b, there is a whole first section that talks about appointments. the first duty is to appoint and if necessary remove the inspector general and sheriff office of inspector general. that is one thing you need to be thinking about getting done right away. number two, evaluate the work of the office of inspector general and they review that inspector general's performance. you don't have one yet so that is not going to kick in yet. number

three, compile evaluate and recommend law enforcement custodial and patrol best practice. number four, connect community outreach and receive community input regarding the sheriff office operation and jail conditions by holding public meetings and solicited input from persons incarcerated. five, prepare and submit quarterly report to sheriff and board regarding this board's evaluations and outreach and the inspector general reports submitted to this board. march 1 each year prepare a annual report to the board that includes a summary of your evaluation and outreach and summary of the inspector general report submitted. performing duties you can hold hearings, issue subpoenas to witnesses to appear and protection of evidence administer oath and take testimony. let me make sure--those are basically your

duties. just to give you the lay of the land before you came into existence, basically the investigations insdants or complaints or whatever regarding the sheriff department were handled in-house until-i think they already spoke about this, the sheriff's department enlisted the department of police accountability to investigate the complaints and things like that coming in. the department of police accountability through a memorandum of understanding with the sheriff's department is conducting those investigations for the sheriff. so, once the inspector general is up and running, they will then take on that role. what the department of police accountability does right now is on behalf of the sheriff, because like i said, those things are previously done in-house. once you have a inspector general the

department of police accountability presumably can step down. there is nothing to prevent the sheriff to continue to work with department of police accountability should he decide, but under the charter the office of inspector general will take on the investigative role, so that's kind of the set up. the second role that the department of police accountability played, which is very helpful is that because under the charter there was no department assigned to provide administrative support for this body. the department of police accountability stepped in and has been playing that role, so that's their role. those are the two ways in which this body interacts with the department of police accountability. let's see--public meeting laws. this is a thrill. basically the good government guide starting page 132 has a long discussion of public meeting laws but some things i want to highlight because i have thrown a lot of information at you, a

meeting. so, you can only-you are supposed to meet in public. all your meetings are supposed to be public, but the tricky thing is what is considered a meeting is any time there is a quorum in the same place at the same time is a meeting. i know that seems a broad definition but that's the rule. so, if four of you are-if you all run into each other at a restaurant and start talking about anything to do with the body's work or sheriff department or anything under your jurisdiction and basically even if it is not technically under your jurisdiction i would be careful because you would have a meeting. every meeting has to be noticed, means there has to be a agenda posted 72 hours before, so any meeting outside of a noticed public

meeting. in other words, any gathering of the 4 of you without the conditions being met is a unlawful meeting. that is just a real broad way to think of meetings. if you-that is why we had to do the training, sequentially which i know was a ton of work for the sheriff department but that is why because if all were there together there would have been 4 at the same place and time discussing or basically discussing the business of the body, so that's why we have to do that. and this gets trickier. there is the conspt of the (inaudible) i know some sat on a board or commission before so familiar with it. the other way you can meet and doing air quotes here, the other way you can meet is by way of (inaudible) meeting. if you are not all together in the same place and time but you are-four of you are

discussing the business of the body sequentially or serially is the way i think of it. for example, if two of you are e-mailing back and forth and then you say-you forward the e-mail to one of you and that person brings in another person and they respond back you are having a meeting, even though that seems crazy. when the effect of your communication mean that discussing even if is is e-mail or phone call, the business of the body you are having a meeting. the best way to avoid that, because i think it can accidently happen, if you want to communicate communicate through the secretary and then the secretary can blast out what you need-what you want to get to the rest of the body and then that will avoid someone inadvertently replying back all and generating e-mail discussion. happy to answer questions about that because that is a tricky concept if you haven't come across it

before. as i said before, agendas, this is all like in a lot of detail in the good government guide. everything you talk about at a public meeting has to be agendized, meaning on the agenda. say today you want to talk about jail visits, you can't because it isn't on the agenda. even though it is the business of the body. and all the agendas have to be posted 72 hours ahead of time. if it isn't on the agenda 72 hours before the meeting you should not discuss it at the meeting. one exception is if you have on the agenda future agenda items and at that people will say put jail visits on the next agenda. that wouldn't be violating the public meeting laws. public comment.

for each item you have to invite public comment and so we are still on item 1 so when i'm done yakking we'll invite public comment and also at every meeting you have to have a opportunity for general public comment where people can comment on anything that is relates to the business of the body but not on the agenda. during the public comment, especially someone brings up something not on the agenda, especially if you are not that item you shouldn't have discussion that is triggered by the public comment, even though that might seem unnatural, someone raising a issue and not respond may seem-anyway, may seem uncomfortable but that is the rule. i put a lot at you. if you have questions you ask now and if i don't know the

answer i will get back with the answer and like i said, i will have a few more chances to drone on when we call the other agenda items, but you have any questions on any of the stuff i covered so far? >> board member wechter. >> yes. thank you. you mentioned that the inspector general will hire their staff and a couple weeks ago paul henderson told me everyone had been hired. he described as a chief position. a combination of his chief of staff and chief of investigation so i wanted to get clarification on that. >> so, the inspector general is the one who will hire all the position in the office of inspector general and then who appoints the secretary will be up to this body, and

whether that person is a contract person whether they work for a different department is a more complicated question i don't know the answer off the top of my head and want to bring in hr. >> how can we determine whether someone has been hired because director henderson told me someone has been hired and the mayor's office had their name but hadn't been publicized yet? >> you mean the secretary-? >> no, the chief position. that is how he described it. >> i can talk to director henderson off-line but the inspector general is the under charter responsible for all the appointments to that office. >> okay, thank you. >> any other question? like i said, feel free to e-mail me and i'll shoot a response back to you. if i know off the top of my head i'll reach

research it and let you know. okay. thank you. >> thank you mrs. clark. for members of the public who are present and would like to make public comment on line item 1, you may line up at the podium. for those not present, public comment is available via phone calling 1 (415) 655-0001/ meeting id: 2494 609 6511# # to join the meeting as a participant. you will hear a beep when you entered the meeting, press star 3 and this will advise the moderator you wish to speak and add you to the queue. when you hear the moderator say good evening caller, you have two minutes, this is your opportunity to make public comment. you have two minutes to provide your comments. once your two minutes ended you will

be moved out of the queue and back into listening as a participant in the meeting unless you decide to connect. >> my name is joanna hernandez a parent of someone incarcerated in san francisco county jail so this committee oversight is pornts important to me. born and raised in san francisco public safety is number one as well. in regards to the position we are talking about, is there any community input on that as well? i guess that is a question or does it just have to be a comment? just putting it out there. >> i just tell you any action of the body happens and will happen at a public meeting so to that extent there

is the opportunity for the public input. >> perfect. thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm (inaudible) i just wanted to thank you all for the commitment and the time that you have committed to do this. it is definitely something we waited a long time to see in san francisco and i just wanted to publicly thank you all for making that commitment to the people in custody and everybody who may want to use this body, get information et cetera and i want to also thank director henderson and chief-sheriff miyamoto for their commitment to all of these reforms so i look forward working with you all. i'm with the office of president walton so if there is anything we can do to help out in every way, please

let us know and i say during budget advocacy, everything is public for us as well so want to be sure you guys all have the supports you need and we are definitely looking at you all as we go into the office of inspector general hiring that process is going to be hard and something for you all to figure out, so good luck on that and we hope you bring us a candidate that is about reform, a candidate about language access and all the stuff that is coming up again and again so thank you all. >> thank you. there is no other public comment in person. we'll take phone calls now. thank you caller, you have 2 minutes. >> (inaudible) >> my name is william

palmer and i'm a member of the board. unfortunately my travel dates did not align with me being in person, so i wasn't able to attend in person but (inaudible) just wanted to let the public know that i'm honored to serve and i will do my due diligence and attend all other meetings. i want to bring to attention because i'm in tune with the jail population as well as those members in the community that the conditions in san bruno are lock down. they are not able to contact a attorney and help and go to the library and we just want to bring this to the attention of the sheriff department to make sure they get the type of programming that is holistic and

humane for everyone. thank you very much and i look forward to our next meeting in person. >> thank you mr. palmer. thank you caller, you have two minutes. >> alright. checking if i'm the caller. >> yes. >> great. good evening everyone. my name is (inaudible) also on the board and unable out of the country at this time. i'm not there in person but i want to thank everyone that has been working on this for several years. it took a lot of people, took a lot of partnership and a lot of thought, resources and now we are here. i'm honored to be on this board. i was previously a prosecutor in san francisco and one of the things i did was

serve as a attorney, prosecutor in the independent investigation bureau that investigated sheriff misconduct and other issues, potential criminal acts. i'm excited to bring a perspective of criminal justice refirm and someone in the trenches assisting people not only in my role as a prosecutor but as a community advocate for queers, people of color, women, et cetera. very excited to be here and thank you all for your time and commitment to making san francisco the place that we want to continue living in and love and cherish so thank you so much. >> thank you mrs. carrion. thank you caller, you have 2 minutes. good evening

caller, you have 2 minutes. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> good evening. my name is (inaudible) the local policy director with the san francisco public defender's office. i just wanted to thank you all for being here today and thank the commissioners. this is a really long time coming and we are just really in need of this oversight and just wanted to stress the importance of having a strong sheriff oversight, particularly when it comes to the conditions in the jail and treatment of our clients, many of whom are vulnerable people with mental illness, transgender and jnder non conforming people, people with young people, seniors

, a lot of vulnerable people inside the jail so making sure the people are being treated with respect and dignity is not abused is so important for our city, for the office and for your work, so thank you so much and look forward to monitoring these meetings and seeing what you all are able to do and bring to light. thank you. >> thank you. there is no other public comment. moving on to line item 2. resolution making findings to allow teleconferencing meetings under california government code section 5493e discussion and possible action. discussion and possible action to adopt resolution setting forth findings under assembly bill 361 that allow the sheriff department oversight board and any subcommittees to hold meetings remotely as specified. deputy city attorney jana clark.

>> (inaudible) >> hi. so, i have my office prepared a draft resolution and the purpose of this as the secretary indicated is if there is a member of the board who for covid related reasons cannot attended the meeting ing rks they are permitted to attend remotely provided the board-this board makes the two findings on the serkd page of the draft resolution provide you find there continues to be a state of emergency due to the covid nan pandemic and you consider the circumstances of the state of emergency and because of the covid-19 pandemic connecting meetings of the body and the committee without allowing members of the body to attend remotely would present risk to health and safety of the members due to covid-19 and directly impact the ability of the members to meet safely in person.

it next section says the-if you adopt this resolution that for the next 30 days anyone-if you had a meeting and some member of the body couldn't attend because of covid in person they could attend remotely. that permit that. otherwise you have to appear in person and that basically you also-the other part of the resolution says the secretary will put this on the agenda within 30 days so you continue to have this option if it becomes the case you can't come because you have covid or exposed to covid or caring for somebody with covid and if that happens the process is you let the secretary know that you won't be attending for covid related reasons and you don't have to get into anymore detail than that. this is the draft resolution that our office prepared that we propose that

you adopt. >> thank you mrs. clark. >> i guess you would invite if anyone would like to make a motion and second and there would be a vote. >> is there a motion to adopt? >> you have to have public comment before you vote. >> sorry, thank you. for members of the public who would like to make public comment on line item 2, please line up at the podium or calling in press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. >> i think there has to be a motion on the floor before we take public comment. you just have to take public comment before you act. it doesn't have to be on a motion on the floor. >> i thought if we didn't have something on the floor to act we wouldn't have

public comment. >> if you prefer to proceed that way you can. it isn't required, but i understand what you are saying and maybe it does make it-make sense if that is how you prefer to proceed. just have to have public comment before you vote. >> right. >> it appears there is no public comment. is there a motion to adopt the resolution? board member wechter makes the motion. is there a second? >> i move we adopt the resolution as written. >> thank you. is there a second? >> second. >> thank you mr.-board member brookter seconds. the resolution passes. >> public comment. >> public comment again? >> why don't you just because of the board members suggestion. i think that is a good one. >> members of the public who like to make public

comment on 3, line up the podium or press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. there appears to be no public comment. >> i have a question. this is member carrion. >> yes, mrs. carrion. >> i want to clarify as a absent member due to unexpected family matters, does this mean as a board member i would not be permitted to vote because i'm calling in? >> that's correct. the only condition under which a member can appear remotely is if it is for covid related

reasons. >> understood. >> alright. i will take a vote on the resolution, on the motion. [roll call] >> this is for the covid policy? i vote in favor of adopting the resolution. [roll call continued] >> we have 5 yeses so

motion passes. moving to item 3, nomination is election of osers. discussion and possible action. the floor is now open for discussion. >> how do you feel about it? there are e-mails that have come out so we can have open discussion about election. i do like what jana shared with us in terms of able to have a pro tem as we really get our feet wet and get a opportunity to spend time together and spend time with sheriff office and dpa but also happy if folks want to run from the floor to have nominations in order to continue. thoughts? >> i agree with your

thoughts. >> i think i would-i'm supportive as well since we have two members absent, i think it is prude nt to hold the election over and have a pro tem. >> i think as we do that, then i will actually okay. i'm nominate myself as the pro tem for the group as we think about everybody coming together and having the rest of our colleagues come forward unless someone else wants to take on that responsibility. >> you are welcome. >> things we sign up for. >> so, when you are done discussing and someone wants to make a motion just reminder because you are now taking an action, you should invite public comment. i

know you haven't-no one-well i guess- >> i can make a formal motion. i move-it would be a conjunkative-i move that we-i'll do it at once. i move we hold over the election for officers until the next meeting where our two absent members are present and that board member-i like the term commissioner, so commissioner dj brookter be the pro tem president. >> do you have a second? >> i could be the second. >> now you should invite public comment. >> for members of the public who would like to make public comment on line item 3, please line up at the podium or if you are calling in, press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. there

appears to be no public comment. i'll take a vote for-- >> (inaudible) >> both on the motion to continue the elections. [roll call]

>> we have 5 ayes. the motion to continue is passed. passes. and on the motion to nominate board member brookter to pro tem president. [roll call] >> 5 ayes, the motion

passes. >> i want to say thank you to my colleagues. we literally just did that from the floor and this is (inaudible) i think it is pro tem but i do think just as many folks here bring the knowledge and wisdom to get us through our meetings over the next couple months or this month, so i appreciate the confidence and the vote and again we know it is pro tem position and i will do my duty and make sure i meet with all my fellow commissioners and making the decisions to do things we need to do as a body. with that, secretary do you want to go to item number 4? >> congratulation pro tem brookter. item 4 is rules of order information and discussion. before you are the samples of the rules of order. the floor is now open

for discussion. >> are we-now-we have a pro tem but is this a conversation-do we want to put the bylaws over for the next meeting? >> it is just for discussion right now. it is not agendized as action item so you couldn't adopt rules or bylaws today so more just discussion and i provided samples. some are more involved, some are less involved and i thought it would be a good idea for people to get a sense how a meeting works before deciding whether you want more involved or less involved rules of order. >> absolutely. so, we got a opportunity to receive documents from counsel in terms of how we conduct and the orders in which we conduct business here from

counsel. is there any discussion or conversations or thoughts that colleagues have on what we received? >> (inaudible) police commission rules of order i looked at rules of order for several other city commissioners, not the fire department but the ethics, entertainment, one or two others and also looked at the rules of order for other oversight entities around the country and sent a draft around to people i know in the oversight field who had served on boards to get their input, so i made some i think miner changes because mrs. clark indicated which conflict with city law. primarily designed to make it more collaborative rather then putting too much authority in one person's hands. i feel as a few board it would be good to as

much as possible share our varied backgrounds and expertise and have a opportunity to bring item 4th for discussion on the agenda rather then perhaps one person having significant authority over that. i know a former police commissioner told me that there was a point where the chair president of the police commission routinely kept the items off the agenda which prevented them being heard so like to avoid something like that because i'm a strong believer in inclusiveness and everyone's voices heard. we have a lot of different opinions and will hear from different communities and think we want to bring all that into our discussion. i know mrs. leungsent it out. i don't think it is in the packet because one version had the city attorney comments and changes. i printed it out without those, but i think those should be considered. >> thank you

commissioner wechter. absolutely. that makes total sense. as a new body and as we formulate and look how we conduct business i think being collaborative and really working across each of our talents and each of our strengths is going to be making a really strong commission and insuring we are doing what it is we are supposed to do. any other colleagues have comments? >> as a practical matter it generally is good to have a key person to actually vet through things and as i understand based on past bylaws it would be a collaborative approach between the inspector general as well as the president or vice president, so i think all commissioners are welcome to submit things and i think if we see any pattern where someone is left out i think that is something to be brought up in the public. i don't see a problem of actually excluding items, but just as a

practical matter and for the commission secretary to be able to efficiently work it really should be channeled through the inspector general as well as the president. >> thank you for that commissioner soo. any other commissioners, any other comments? discussion? i think with that, since- >> sorry, i want to add. i do think it is important to kind of like make sure we have more inclusive voices and leverage the different strengths of the members and also understand julie's point about practicality. i worry about what jason was saying making sure agenda items are not pushed so if there is a way we

can make a compromise and maybe-president can have the final say but like i it would be nice if we can make sure that we include the agenda items the rest of the board feels is important. >> i say the way my past commission and commissioner brookter you also sat on prior commissions, often timeatize is the commissioners who raise a particular item towards the end of the meeting for future items to be agendized so that is something that is open to the public, so i think that's where we get the community input and oversight and so i think it would be pretty transparent if somebody's agenda item is left off and if it is consistent. >> absolutely. also taking the fact we meet monthly

gives that opportunity. sometimes for more robust agenda to make sure everybody's items are on the agenda as we continue to move forward. okay. is there any other discussion there on the bylaw section? >> i can snd the specific addition but they have appointments to commissions done in consultation between the president and vice president and that if the president removes someone from a committee over that member's objections the president shall state the reason for removing the member and again that goes towards transparency which we talked a lot about transparency in the sheriff department and law enforcement. i think we have to impose the level of transparency on our operation so we are very open to the public and accountable. >> absolutely. absolutely. anymore discussion

there? seeing none, open up for public comment. >> members of the public who like to make public comment on item 4, please line up at the podium or press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. it appears there is no public comment. >> okay, go to item number 5. >> line item 5. recruitment of inspector general. discussion. deputy city attorney jana clark. >> i just thought it is good idea to share my experience and i think couple mentioned you had been on boards or commissions so that is for discussion but just what i have seen in the past and and thought it worked well is that the someone fwraum

from the department of human resources comes in and makes a presentation. the last experience i had the hiring of juvenile probation chief. department of human resources came to the body and explained what they could do for the body in terms of recruitment and screening and things like that, and so what they did was worked with the body to come up with a job announcement at a public meeting. that can all happen at a public meeting and then basically members weighed in on what they wanted the job announcement to look like and then dhr went back and drafted the job announcement based on what the members suggested and i want to say dhr brought samples of prior searches for comparable positions to give a idea, suggestions for how to proceed, and then based on the members comments or commissioners comments, drafted

a job announcement and then brought it back to the body to adopt and then they also shared how they could help to based on minimum qualifications identified in the job announcement how they make the initial screen for people who did or didn't meet the minimum qualifications and the next step of the process is again working with-this is how it worked before, working with dhr. they made arrangements for interviews of those who had made the minimum qualification before the body and there may have been one step in the middle where they met the minimum qualifications and widdled it down. once you are actually looking at applicants, those sessions are generally held in closed session. it could be open session too, but the reason for doing

that is because someone might be in a job. we all applied for jobs when we had a job and didn't want the former job to know we are looking for a job so that is one reason it tends to work in their experience this was their advice to hold those meetings where you are considering applicants, real live bodies to do the screening and interviews in closed session. and then once those interviews happened then the body meets and in my past experience and they selected the person to fill that position and i think that is how it also worked with the police commission but i had less experience with that. my suggestion would be at the outset at the next meeting to invite dhr to come and share with the body what they have done in the past for different-i think they have done it differently. i think there are also some entities that have some bodies that have public bodies that have hired a

recruiting firm to do part of it job and whether or not that is in your budget not sure. i think it is good idea for them to be inviting to come to a meeting and share what they have done in the past and what works and doesn't work based on their experience because they are the experts in the city. i know member wechter also shared some job announcements. anyway, that would be my suggestion. but it is up to this body how you decide to proceed, but those are our suggestions. >> thank you city attorney clark. any discussion there colleagues in regards- >> i think i had a point of clarification. i understood that when this body was formed in the contmplation of a officer of inspector general that civil service may have come up with a description and a potential salary for the

position? >> i dont think so, but i can check and let you know. >> okay. >> if there is, we love to get that information. if it could be passed along to us. >> director henderson told me the salary has been set for classification 0961 which is department head for small department head and the range is $153 thousand to 2 (inaudible) the chart shows that is below the comparable position in the san francisco bay area. this is-i have a lot of experience working with oversight practitioners around the country. this position is unlike any other position in the city and county of san francisco. it is a newly created position that create a department from scratch that will be doing oversight of a body that not had civilian oversight before. i think we should as mrs. clark said, go to the professionals, invite the recruitment firms that have done this in the past. there are two that recently

completed recruitment, one for city berkeley and one for sonoma county. it is bob murray associates and the other is escaping my mind, but they v have a lot of experience in the field. they have done it for comparable positions around the country so they know the very specific qualifications required to do the job of establishing a department, investigate complaints against members of the sheriff department who's primarily responsible is custodial and two, conduct audits of that department and those are somewhat different skillsets so you want someone who can do it all and has the background and experience to set this up from the very beginning. it is not a position for someone to learn how to do it, you need someone who is really skilled to get it right the first time because as i alluded to earlier, i saw it done very badly once and it tooks years if not

decades for the agencies to recover from it. and other agencies one in chicago that was abolished and had to start all over again. i think everyone involved in this wants the entity to succeed, wants it fairly and effectively so that is why i advocate a outside consulting firm and how to get the salary raised for comparable positions to attract the necessary talent and not sure who sets those positions, but i think they should establish a separate job classification not based on department size because again i think inspector general is a very very different type of position then the existing department heads we have in the city. >> agreed. thank you member wechter and i think i heard is having the conversation with dhr. that would be who we would have the conversation with. thank you for that and also thank you deputy

city attorney clark for that advice and counsel. anything from colleagues? >> i just had a quick question for city attorney clark. how long did that recruitment process take? >> sorry--am i on? okay. i want to say that it was a pretty accelerated process. trying to remember back. the former chief left the end of november and want to say they were interviewing in december and january and the person was on-board shortly thereafter. the person they ended up selecting was already a city employee so may have gone quicker because of that but someone with the dist rth district attorney office who came as the chief probation officer. dont think it was more then 3 months. the end of november is when the

former chief resigned and the new chief came on-board and like weeks later covid hit and covid was the first week of march. that is why i'm pretty sure it was two months, so yeah--but what i recommend is if you-i do think it is a good idea to hear from dhr and the secretary could invite representatives from that department to the next meeting and they could tell you a lot more about the process. because i want part of hiring outside firm, i know it is something done, just don't know any details of that if that is faster or slower, i don't know. >> it is roughly like two months, maybe quicker if it was-because of the pandemic? >> that was my experience in the past. >> just a point of clarification, dpa will be like the interim to help with investigative cases until we find our inspector? >> in terms of what

happens investigating complaints against or that relate to the sheriff department or investigating the sheriff department, now that is the sheriff responsibility and the sheriff has chosen to enter into mou with dpa to handle the investigations for the sheriff department but that is between the sheriff and dpa and that is not-they are not-i guess effectively they are doing the job of the inspector general now, but it is by arrangement the sheriff made mose arrangements. the sheriff could terminate the mou and continue to handle things as they have done decades in-house if he chose to do that. >> okay, thank you. >> until the inspector general is up and running. >> member soo. >> more recently we had a couple years now that we had new executive director for the

department on the status of women so we went to the department of human resources and they gave us training. we had to go through certified training what kind of questions you ask during the interview process and also sign a statement of non disclosure and i don't like to go on heresay so don't want to put you on the spot director henderson but rather not say what i think you told me in the past and rather you be able to answer directly. first of all, i want to thank you for everything you have done. all the extra hours to get us going. i think your staff has been over-looked and you are over-looked so i want to publicly thank you for everything you have done. i understand you may have candidates that are already available who have been vetted by dpa and i say that because these national search firms can be quite expensive. we had consultants before and sometimes you don't end up turning up anybody so i think if we have available candidates i think it is prudent

to go through them first before pulling the trigger on a national search firm that could be very expensive. i don'ts think we have the budget right now. >> absolutely. that has been discussion and conversation that we definitely have been having and see member wechter. >> for the stated reasons with all due respect i think that is a bad path to go down. i think we want to advertise widely. i don't think we want to accept candidates how one person knows. i think it should be openly advertised and all candidates should be able to apply and take the time to do this carefully and i looked at the budget and think we have a good deal of money in the budget but berkeley found the money to do this, sonoma county found the money to do this, i think it was a worthwhile

investment and i think a lot of experts in the field will tell you that. when you-i have a letter here (inaudible) who worked at oversight agencies including department of police accountability-dont know if (inaudible) don't know when letters come through e-mail, but it argues very forcefully to do a nation wide professionally managed recruitment and if you like i can read it into the record, which- >> i like to hear from director henderson first what candidates may be in the offering first. if we do open it up anyway i think the candidate said would probably reapply possibly. director henderson-sorry to put you on the spot. >> i was going to say depy city attorney clark, because it isn't necessarily on the agenda. it is to have discussion, but is this something that we

should garner more information who the candidates are sent to us currently and also receiving information that member wechter has i think would be good for us as a body to have so we can make a more totality conversation and discussion how to move forward. >> so, what is on the agenda is recruitment of inspector general, so my understanding is you are discussing ways you would recruit an inspector general and i offered one suggestion, which is to bring in dhr to explain how they handled recruitment for another commission in the past, so i think if-it is up to you at this point. if you want to hear from anyone about how their suggestions for how to recruit an inspector general, that is on the agenda, you can do that. ultimately it is up to this body what process you decide to adopt and who you ultimately choose. it would be up to the body. but

i'm sure that the process i'm sure will-sure dhr will advise and i probably will afterwards too, you have to advertise it and give anyone who meets the minimum qualifications the same opportunity basically. >> absolutely. colleagues how do you feel? if we receive information who the candidates are and the information that member wechter has? >> not necessarily specific candidates but the criteria of people who come through dpa. >> okay. if paul is okay with presenting that information. if you have it readily available. >> the information i had was just groups of folks that i have talked to that are interested in the position i think would do well in the position but i echo the same

thing that your legal counsel advertised, it is this body choice how they want to proceed. the issue i was raising when i spoke with all you individually and never given the names of who the folks remember and wont do that now either because i think those folks want to apply on their own to be considered fairly and whatever packet or package way however you want to proceed. from my perspective the issue was and i think we just heard very clearly from mrs. clark is dpa is going to continue in the meantime as long as we have the permission authority from the sheriff office and that continues to do the investigations. the issue that i would raise that i dont know you guys discussed yet is what the time hp line would be until you have your staff where your questions that gets answered, your

inquiries, reports, analysis kind of stuff but i think many of you had interest in how and when that gets done is also contingent on when the staff is hired to be brought in so what you should be also having a conversation about in my humble opinion is what kind of process is going to be most efficient in order to get to whatever goal you guys are going to get to. that said, the folks i know that are interested are likely to remain interested and i'm happy to follow whatever direction and rules or standards you want to follow to be as helpful as i can. >> thank you for that. member wechter. >> director henderson, since you are here, could you clarify the issue about the hiring of a chief position for the office of inspector general that you

discussed with me a couple weeks ago? >> it is also-hiring-when you say the chief, do you mean the chief of staff at the office of inspector general or the inspector general? >> no, director henderson described it as a cross between mrs. hawkins position, chief of staff and the chief of investigations positions at the department of police accountability, correct? you said that person had been hired. the mayor had their name. the job had not been advertise #d so i would like to know and the board should want to know and community as well, has someone been hired as a staff member for the office of inspector general other then mr. leung? >> that is not on the

agenda, so-but--why don't we talk off-line about that? i'll e-mail you tomorrow about that okay? >> okay. >> i'm not aware anyone besides-not aware of anyone being hired to assist this body besides the secretary. i can say that. >> same, but if that is so, we absolutely want to know who the individual is and receive the information on it. >> i would like to make a motion. >> to? >> it isn't a action item. >> any other discussion as it pertains to recruitment? >> if we could adhere to the agenda and also talk about when we hire the inspector general maybe particular criteria or-i dont know if is premature totalk about the staffing we need? >> like structure? >> the number of

people, but think before that-i dont think the sheriff department has a adequate it system so that-the reporting we want. i dont know if we are putting the cart before the horse and like to discuss the it system and having the budget for that, because if it takes more man hours because we don't have a it system-i'm familiar with the police department and they are upgrading now and they are i think-maybe you are not at the mulineal yet. sorry. >> something we can agendize in the future. >> that is what i recommend is suggest that for future agenda item. >> great point. great point. any other discussion in terms of recruitment of inspector general? >> mrs. clark, what would we need to do to have bob murray associate and buyers group make presentation at the next meeting when someone from hr does as well? >> i think you just put it on

the agenda and invite them. >> okay. >> and it is just informational at that point. >> i just wanted to add for the recruitment process, if maybe it is helpful to work towards a deadline when we want to have this inspector general hired by? >> i think that is something obviously brought up. i get weary of timelines. i want to have a conversation with dhr understanding the city process and changing requisitions and just the hiring practice sometimes can be lengthy and with laborious so if we hear from them and put dates and action lines and timelines and milestones in there would be best. >> question. who would we talk to about getting the salary raised and

classification from o961? >> i can look into that and e-mail you if i can get that information. my guess it comes from dhr. >> thank you. i want to say the comparable positions has taken several months and this is established practice, it isn't something that i think can or should be rushed. i don't think the community would want to rush this, i think they want input and see us do it properly according to established practice. i understand we are delayed, but hiring the inspector general is probably the single most important decision this board will make. the one thing we have very significant authority over and these people tend to stay in those position a long time and if you dont hire the right person you are in a very poor foundation and that can doom the success of the agency and doesn't serve the city or community and just spending a million and a half or

$2 million dollar and not getting very much return. >> absolutely. concur. we want to do due diligence and also making sure we have timelines and milestones so we hold ourselves accountability and hold other folks and departments accountability to reach the dates and deadlains. >> based on experience it could be between 3 months and 6 monthsed. we review the it system and what is practical going forward to getting the reports we want. >> absolutely. i think we can all look at our own process in terms of getting here so we know things can take time. anymore discussion from colleagues? okay, seeing none, we'll open up to public comment. >> members of the public who like to make public comment on line item 5, please line up to the podium or if calling in

press star 3 to raise your hand and be added to the queue. >> tracey (inaudible) again. so, my understanding of the position is they are already in the budget and that budget was approve d by the mayor's office so any negotiations about the budget or the salaries would have to be directly with the mayor's office. it could not be with i don't think with director henderson, but city attorney can answer that question for you. there is a budget that was past. there were cuts this year in the budget because we didn't have the oversight committee started and so there were savings and so hopefully next year you all are fighting for that to come back into the budget. hopefully next year in the budget process you are advocating for these positions to be different classifications, higher salaries, whatever the case may be, but for right now

i would say and city attorney can let me know-let you all know what that process is, is to talk to dhr. they will only follow what is in the mayoral budget. >> thank you for that. i think deputy attorney clark it is great if we can get the section within the budget to speak to these positions so we have it and armed with it as we have these discussions in and conversations. any other public comment? >> no. >> let's go to item number 6. >> line item 6, future agenda items and scheduling regular meeting. discussion. >> i'm used to reading the whole thing in. do we normally do that? >> i understand the description to be like items to be considered for future agenda items but don't think

that you are necessarily limited by that list. >> no worries. not that we were but usually is read in. let's go with a future agenda items and scheduling of regular meetings. i think what i hear from colleagues is we absolutely at our next meeting we have want to have dhr come out and begin to have discussion with us on hiring and requisitions as well as able to see funding. members that have other future agenda items they would like to see on the agenda? member wechter. >> i read about staffing issue at the sheriff department and that is something we learned about when we did our tours of the jails so i wonder if we can get a report on staffing how it is changed over last 5 years and how staffing is allocated to the different facilities, because it seems that

is a very potent issue in the public mind and i think-concern that son or daughter does not have access to any educational programs and that is something in the press. also there was a television report, a interview with someone in the jail charged with murder who made statements about the crime so curious what the media policy is for gaining entry to the jail? particularly since i think the mission local article said you to limit or cut down visits because staffing issues, deputies not available to escort visitors so i like to know about that because that is also been in the news. >> absolutely. what i hear is sheriff department and staffing and think it is good to get with dan or chief to make sure the presentation

reflects some of the points we have. i found in some meetings they can be very long and robust and not get to the information the body is requesting so it would behoove all of us to work together what we presented to the body to make sure when folks are reporting they report on what we are asking. any other colleagues fuch r agenda items? >> i have another. >> my apology. >> are director henderson gave figures statics in the welcome packet but his office told me the sheriff department maintains ownership of the statist ics about the work they've done, so i would be interested in seeing statistics getting a sense of the number of complaints, how they are categorized, how they have been disposed of, all the things mentioned in the letter of agreement that would be provided on a monthly and yearly basis to give us a sense of what the nature of

the number of complaints are. might be useful to get some record of lawsuits against the sheriff department which there is a settlement or judgment. get a sense what they are. working for city oakland i know most of their claims against the police department involve vehicle collisions, which the way many people drive today are probably somewhat unavoidable. get a sense what is comparable in the sheriff department. >> absolutely. also presentation from dpa on the statistics. >> i think i would- >> sheriff department. >> so, the way it would work is you ask the sheriff department for that information and the sheriff department can ask those they charged with-they provide it or can provide it themselves. >> okay. >> i just wanted to have a request as we make the

requests for the reports that the numbers be disaggregated and sometimes percentages can be very misleading so also nice to have raw numbers. if we only had two complaints and there was one sustained that is 50 percent which looks high, but we only had two complaints so i want to make sure we have the raw numbers to consider. >> absolutely. i think we heard earlier chief of staff hawkins received 8 files turned into 30 files so make sure we have the raw numbers and aggregates. >> some agencies report number of complains against individual officers and also number of complains generated by a specific individual because my years at dpa we had certain people who generate a complaint any time they had interaction with a police officer, so that could artificially elevate the numbers and if you didn't know that you might have a more negative opinion about the police activity in the dist rth

station or unit, so having the context i think is very important. >> absolutely. look forward working with the sheriff department around those presentations to make sure we gather and get the information and raw data the body definitely wants to see so i appreciate that. anything else from colleagues in terms of future agenda items we like to see ? >> i don't know if there is a particular triage system, but the severity of the complaints so those that come to us more immediately and those that are not so immediate. for instance, someone in custody who has immediate needs then we-and they haven't been able to get them we should know about it and be able to advice and make recommendations. >> absolutely. how about scheduling regular

meetings? now we are on par and on track for the 4th monday? >> i think that we got notice from sfgovtv is we want it to be televised they don't have the staff to accommodate on the 4th monday of the month so i dont know if mr. leung has alternative dates where staff might be available. >> i'm still working on those dates. they have a lot of day time slots available. i don't think our charter says it has to be televised live. the legislation says it can be recorded and so we can continue to have monday at 5:30 if you like and it would be recorded for the public. >> okay. what i hear from now, we are okay with the 4th monday of the month. >> i guess i want to clarification, was it they can record us on tv to show later?

i know some commissioners are only audio recorded. >> it is audio recorded. >> audio only then? >> yes. >> okay. i don't know if that is okay with everyone to clar ify it is just audio. >> thank you for that. do we have public comment? >> hello. joanna hernandez. i want to see if we can discuss language access. when you try to follow a complaint now on the san francisco department website everything is in english and the complaint forms are english. i feel it is very important we provide access to our communities to be able to do that. also, the complaint process not just on the undeputized staff but

civilian staff when it comes to subcontractors. some don't have the best relationship and i would say that with 8420 and program rehabilitation coordinators supposedly the community liaisons. i think is imperative we look at that relationship and how people are being treated when they try to provide a service inside san francisco county jail. thank you. >> thank you for that. i think absolutely. we should ajndize at a afuture meeting to make sure we have information and presentation on language access and how folks that english isn't their first language. >> i was going to say that i worked on equal access service ordinance in 1998 or 99, so it is law that we provide language services and to the extent that people need language interpretation during the meetings or translated materials we should also have it at our meetings as

well. >> absolutely. all our materials. agreed. thank you for that. any other public comment? >> for members of the public who like to make public comment you may line up at the podium or you can call-press star 3 to raise your hand to be added to the queue. it appears there is no other public comment. >> you want to go to item number 7? >> hello. this is (inaudible) been trying to make a comment. i believe other people have been trying to make comments as well but it is a little difficult to be able to be called at the time we want to make comment. maybe something to look into for the next meeting. my comment was i think raised my hand a couple times during the recruitment of inspector general. withed it be preoperative to make that

comment just for the record? >> yes, that's fine. >> okay, great. i think one thing that i heard during the conversation which i want to make very clear from my understanding of the events that have happened in the development and now the implementation of this commission is that the people voted this-for the commission a long time ago and grateful to the people doing the work to get this. i'm grateful for the fact there has been efforts in trying to see and people who are interested in the inspector general position and dpa-thank you (inaudible) leading that in doing the kind of ground work because the roles and responsibilities have been available as voted by the

people, right? so i think it is important to recognize that work. not as something nefarious like trying to choose my person or this that, but it is literally information the people have wanted for a long time so grateful we already have potential candidates and i look forward to our city attorney indicated going through the process as director henderson affirmed following the process of the board and what the board sets out so i want to make sure for the record we make it very clear that isn't what is happening here. we have this process in place now excited to be part of it and it will continue to be transapparent transparent and the board will be able to make inquiries and decisions with guidance from our city attorney so thank you so much. >> thank you mrs.

carrion. >> thank you member carrion. go to item 7. >> line item 7, general public comment. at this time the public is welcome to address the board up to 2 minutes on items that did not appear on tonight's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the sheriff department oversight board. during public comment noorth sheriff nor dpa personnel nor board members are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. as remindser general public comment is for items that did not appear on tonight's agenda. for those present you may line up at the podium. those not present call 415-695-0001 and enter access code 24946096511, press star to raise your hand to be added to the queue.

there is no one in the room for public comment. i believe there is one raised hand. thank you caller. you have two minutes. thank you caller, you have two minutes. >> hi. i'm a news reporter (inaudible) i was hoping the meetings moving forward will be televised live and hope you can find a different time the meeting can be held so the press can cover these meetings and be able to present for them live. thank you. >> thank you. any

other public like to make comment on any agenda item on tonight's agenda due to technical difficulties you may speak now or raise your hand to be added to the queue. there appears to be no public comment. >> we just want to say this was the first meeting tonight so we'll get technical difficulties and glitchs handled and fixed to make sure we continue to hear from members of the public as we are a body here to hear from members of the public. thank you to those who did call in and showed up in person. we'll move to item number 8.

>> item line item 8, adjournment. action item. >> colleagues can i get a motion to adjourn? >> motion to adjourn and thank you for running a very expeditious meeting. >> second? >> properly moved and second. i think can we take it all as one? all those in favor of adjourning today's meeting say aye. any opposers, nay? the ayes have it, we are officially adjourned at 738 p.m. [meeting adjourned]

>> you know i've always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i wasn't i did not think twice about that. >> i currently work as cadet inform the san francisco sheriff's department i've been surprised 0 work within criminal justice system field i had an opportunity to grow within that career path. >> as i got into the department and through the years of problems and everything else that means a lot i can represent women and in order to make that change how people view us as a

very important part of the vice president you have topanga you have to the first foot chase through the fight are you cable of getting that person whether large or small into captivity that is the test at times. >> as an agent worked undercover and prevent external and internal loss to the company it was basically like detective work but through the company from that experience and the people that i worked around law enforcement that gave me an action when i came to be a cadet i saw i was exploded to more people and the security he was able to build on that. >> unfortunately, we have a lot of women retire to recruiting

right now is critical for us we gotten too low faster the percentage of women in the department and us connecting with the community trying to get people to realize this job is definitely for them our community relations group is out attempt all the time. >> in other words, to grow in the fields he capitalized any education and got my bachelors degree so i can current work at city hall i provide security for the front of the building and people are entering entering but within any security or control within the building and checking personal bags is having a awareness of the surrounded. >> there is so month people the brunet of breaking into this career that was every for easier for me had an on the with an

before he cleared the path for laugh us. >> my people he actually looking at lucid up to poem like he joe and kim and merit made they're on the streets working redondo hard their cable of doing this job and textbook took the time to bring us along. >> women have going after their goals and departments line the san francisco sheriff's department provide a lot of training tools and inspiring you to go into the department. >> they gave me any work ethics she spider me to do whatever he wanted to do and work hard at the intersection. >> if you're going to make change you have to be part of change and becoming law enforcement i wanted to show women could do this job it is

hard not easy. >> finds something our compassion about and follow roll models and the gets the necessary skeletals to get to that goal with education and sprirmz whatever gets you there. >> if this is what you want to do dream big and actually do what you desire to do and you can go vertebrae far it is a fast job i wouldn't do anything else. >> ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

dev mission's goal is aiming to train young adults, youth so we can be a wealth and

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

the seniors and the residents. so this computer lab becomes a hub for the community to learn how to use technology, but that's the parents and the adults. we have been able to identify what we call a stem date. the acronym is science technology engineering and math. kids should be exposed no matter what type of background or ethnicity or income status. that's where we actually create magic. >> something that the kids are really excited about is science and so the way that we execute that is through making slime. and as fun as it is, it's still a chemical reaction and you start to understand that with the materials that you need to make the slime. >> they love adding their little twists to everything. it's just a place for them to experiment and that's really what we want. >> i see.

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

go off because it's like, wow, i helped them understand this concept. >> i love playing games and i love having fun with my friends playing dodge ball and a lot of things that i like. it's really cool. >> they don't give you a lot of cheese to put on there, do they? you've got like a little bit left. >> we learn programming to make them work. we do computers and programming. at the bottom here, we talk to them and we press these buttons to make it go. and this is to turn it off.

and this is to make it control on its own. if you press this twice, it can do any type of tricks. like you can move it like this and it moves. it actually can go like this. >> like, wow, they're just absorbing everything. so it definitely is a wholehearted moment that i love experiencing. >> the realities right now, 5.3 latinos working in tech and about 6.7 african americans working in tech. and, of course, those tech companies are funders. so i continue to work really hard with them to close that gap and work with the san francisco unified school district so juniors and seniors come to our program, so kids come to our stem hub and be exposed to all those things. it's a big challenge. >> we have a couple of other

providers here on site, but we've all just been trying to work together and let the kids move around from each department. some kids are comfortable with their admission, but if they want to jump in with city of dreams or hunter's point, we just try to collaborate to provide the best opportunity in the community. >> devmission has provided services on westbrook. they teach you how to code. how to build their own mini robot to providing access for the youth to partnerships with adobe and sony and google and twitter. and so devmission has definitely brought access for our families to resources that our residents may or may not have been able to access in the past. >> the san francisco house and development corporation gave us the grant to implement this

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

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

mates and now is at hudacity. that is the power of what technology does for young people that want to become part of the tech industry. what we've been doing, it's very innovative. helping kids k-12, transitional age youth, families, parents, communities, understand and to be exposed to stem subjects. imagine if that mission one day can be in every affordable housing community. the opportunities that we would create and that's what i'm trying to do with this

>> i am iris long. we are a family business that started in san francisco chinatown by my parents who started the business in the mid 1980s. today we follow the same footsteps of my parents. we source the teas by the harvest season and style of crafting and the specific variety. we specialize in premium tea. today i still visit many of the farms we work with multigenerational farms that produce premium teas with its own natural flavors. it is very much like grapes for wine. what we do is more specialized, but it is more natural. growing up in san francisco i used to come and help my parents after school whether in middle school or high school and throughout college. i went to san francisco state

university. i did stay home and i helped my parents work throughout the summers to learn what it is that makes our community so special. after graduating i worked for an investment bank in hong kong for a few years before returning when my dad said he was retiring. he passed away a few years ago. after taking over the business we made this a little more accessible for visitors as well as residents of san francisco to visit. many of our teas were traditionally labeled only in chinese for the older generation. today of our tea drinkkers are quite young. it is easy to look on the website to view all of our

products and fun to come in and look at the different varieties. they are able to explore what we source, premium teas from the providence and the delicious flavors. san francisco is a beautiful city to me as well as many of the residents and businesses here in chinatown. it is great for tourists to visit apsee how our community thrived through the years. this retail location is open daily. we have minimal hours because of our small team during covid. we do welcome visitors to come in and browse through our products. also, visit us online. we have minimal hours. it is nice to set up viewings of these products here.

>> welcome, welcome, hi issue everyone ip san francisco mayor london breed and i want to welcome phil mo to city hall. to honor uncle monty! a long over due honor. and you know who you have to thank for surprising you like this? uncle monty? that woman right there. and your that concocted this idea because this community is one that loves and celebrates you. i want to just take it back i know we got your family here today. scooty here. thanks for coming out scoot and

he everyone else. it is good to see you all at city hall. i want to take us back to 1989. when uncle monty before 1989, we all remember some of you were in the born yet. but most of us remember the picnics the activities and events. and the things that uncle monty did to bring the community together. it happened regularly and it was a great time in fillmore. things change, though, there were challenge and so many lives were lost to gun violence. and often times the ability to afford to pay for a funeral was not always possible. and low and beholds, people would turn to uncle monty. can you help me. and uncle monty would help with helping to bridge that gap when there were challenges.

he was the go to before there were all the new programs and things that exist that now are part of our city function. the victim of violent crime fund uncle monty startd that thatneatia was the first recipient we remember that after the 89 quake. and what was going on and we were seeing our community really fall arc part. today we celebrate. even though we have beenllow so many challenges, today is irrelevant a happy occasion. it is unfortunate that uncle monty had to spends so much of his life doing work for the community. being there for the community. and let's be honest, the community not always there for him. today, we are here for him. today we lift him up. today we honor his work and

legacy. will [applause] and let me say that he should be proud. because the fruits of his labor have not gone unnoticed. started the victim of violent crime fund and guess what is happening now. there is a fund to support victims here in san francisco that is a part of the city. this was a part of the community and it is now a part of the city. the street violence intervention program the people who go on the streets and help to address some of stuff and do the things he was doing that stuff is now a part of our city. it is embedded in when we do to help address the issues know the issues have not gone away. in the way we hoped. but they would be a lot worse had it not been for the work of uncle monty, his legacy and everything he has done to continue to bring us together. to continue to pray for us,

support us and continue to show up when there was no one else. that's why today, we are here to honor him and recognize his work and commitment. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, we are officially declaring today uncle monty day in san francisco! [applause] >> now, now before we ask uncle monty to say, hi to everyone and speak, i wanted to you know take them opportunity to ask you know another really important part of our community. someone who is an amazing person. she really is the mother, the god mother of fillmore. show is always bringing us together. holding us together and lifting us up. utay come up and say a few

words. [applause]. thank you so much mayor, i want to give an honor to god and uncle monty's beautiful family i love and care for. uncle monthy might not know this but i learned everything i am doing with nile nonprofit in helping the community and feeding and taking care of people i learned from him. i watched him take care of our community and take care of us. this man went to every single person's funeral. did not take a funl sticker out of his car he kept it in. cadillac. kept it in there because he supported everybody. he gave us picnics. i'm telling you, he tried his best to keep us together. as a family. this man prayed for us.

this man loves us and loves his community. i want to let you know uncle monty, everything that me and rodney is doing we are doing it because we learnt it from you. i want to thank you. for teaching me how to take care of the community. i want to thank you, uncle monty, you don't know i learnt it from you, watching you. me and rodney. okay? we are carrying on your legacy of what you started in the community. and that's what imented to say i love you guys all and thank you, uncle monty. [applause]. >> now i know that there are a lot of poke who is got a lot of things to say here. we are going to start with the senior of the family, scooty?

kind of the senior. come on up and say a few words. >> well, first of all honor to god because without god in our life we can't have nothing. and i want to give a special shout out for my uncle mont and he little london the mayor now i'm proud of her on her way to be govern, don't say nothing. on another note, yea, man, put a smile on your face, you did it. you did a lot of things this nobody would do like waking up in the morning and make me get the bbq pit. we gotta do a bbq for somebody's funeral or taking me to the funeral. scoot come on to the funeral. yes your mama and grand mama and folks. it was like that and embedded

something in you that we don't have is love. like. people forget what love it the mean nothing a way it dissolves in other people's minds. it is still here. all you gotta do is show it sometimes and thank y'all and appreciate you for coming out. my family ear. uncle monthy got his nice suit on not a funeral today it it is a celebration we will be 70 years old. a stage 4 cancer survivor and a lot of things. look at the beautiful trees we are all here and happy. and that's all i gotta say. thank you, god bless. [applause]. all right. now do we have any other family members that want to say a few words?

[laughter] >> i remember back -- in the days -- you know when that teesha passed away that was my best friend. we had the best handwriting in class and you know my dad, we were going around collecting and getting money and trying to help her and her family. and i just we did all type of stuff together. rolling down going to every turf around san francisco. show my dad loved every where they loved my dad. respect him. i love my dad. and you know always wanted to be like him and everything.

not like i used to be it is weird out here but i love my dad. he did so much for the community and i want to say, thank you. [applause] uncle monty. bless you. my uncle, man. take care of mow when i was a bad baby. and its like a lot of stuff i have been through but i'm still here. blessed. and you know through all my downfalls and basketball, doing what i do uncle monty was there to keep me lifted because my dad was not always there. i always have my team and my family. but -- stood tall law it all and

i'm still here. god bless. love you monty. [applause]. >> hello great afternoon. first giving honor to god the head of my life. thank you, dad for stepping in for my friends growing up together. she was raised on central street and i was proud my dad stepped up to do that. i do remember one time i wanted a picnic for my birthday and my dad said he did that for people in the memory of them and i felt the way sometimes the family has to take a seat back to actually see what he is doing in the community and our family has done that. his children have stepped back and appreciated him even though he may have not been when we wanted him to be in the household we were able to accept

and respect who he is in the community and step back and realize that and appreciate it. we thank you for that, dad and pray that you continue on and thank you so much for continuing on the legacy and god bless everyone here. thank you. [applause]. >> first to the mayor. scooty is the baby this is the junior/senior i'm tony. to you, terry and sean richards to this city this great city, i sit here and pondering what i was would it was not uncle monty to me, he's my brother. a lot of people don't understand. i want to talk to the young guys. san francisco is a very small, tight city. when i was raised here in the 60s. 7.7 miles point to point. you get anywhere in the city in

15 to 20 minutes without traffic and fillmore was special going back to the 50s. i was born in 59. bbq, pool hall the city was vibrant. i'm now working for you, mayor in park and rec and try to reconnect the city because it is important that our city get back to being san francisco. it is one small unit and has been split up. speaking of monty, old folks say give your roses while you can methem. that is important a lot leave and don't get a chance to smell the roses i'm glad today you smell the roses of the beautiful flowers. i commends you on your work you did a fantastic job. keep it on we need more people

like you sean adopted guns for violence short low after you started and it is heart warming to know that people care in the city and gotta get back to that. gotta hug and love each other and bring it back. i commends you per se on the things you have done you uplifted the city. the whole city. bay area we love and you appreciate this great city and get it back together where it should be. jermaine i'm proud of you in thinking of your uncle. monty, i love you god keep you and bless you. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you, mayor for you know giving uncle monty this honorable award. you know he has been in the community and raised us. i wanted to point on there was an individual that he raised and

brought him up to be part of the community and we lost him that is chichi he was a baby and used to go with uncle monty to work every day. get him up at 6 in the morning. work at the boy's club and he had him doing all work all day and he was like. man, uncle monty keep making me do this work. and i justmented to thank uncle monty for raising us to be a part of the community and loving our people. uncle monty got he me to get my first car. gave me a car and went to the city auction. so uncle monty we didn't get you a car i was 18 and excited. got me up in the morning.

went to the city auction the one at the pier. got me a car and helped me fix it up. he was an influence in my life. i was part of my community work was built on him. i want to thank you uncle and i love you and thank you utay for carrying on his legacy and you, rodney, and all my family in the transition we lost our house on central but fight to get it back. we are still in the community. i'm in the community in fillmore every day and in the city. honor to the mayor, she got me back with the city. everybody -- don't know my position. [applause] i'm working with her initiative the dream keeper initiative a wonderful beautiful, excellent initiative and it is helping our people out. so -- if you need resources you

know reach me and i'm happy to help you out. thank you. >> okay. [applause] first give honor to god who is in control of my life. mayor london breed and uncle monty! i love you. [laughter] my nickname was delicious uncle monty changed it toal capone. >> i was too sweet. okay. anyway, uncle not only you did picnics and raised money you was also the escort to the funeral service. you know and -- after first fooim time in my life i ever seen you put cars in the street to stop traffic and direct us all to do it and did it all the way to the cemetery. i love you. nothing else i can say all these

people here we love you. [inaudible]. use a rock. i married my wife i knew i had a rock. i did not understand what a rock was until i got married. there are years off and on but married 2. god is good. utay my sister. i love you, baby. love you. god has been good to us. he will continue to be good to us. rodney, my brother i see you there. the guy there, man god has been good. all my life i want ed be a bus driver like my father. and -- took me a long time to get there but one day a young lady came to a place i was working and it closed down and said, all of y'all this want to come here come and go.

>> thank you. >> thank you. i used to work for cherry. >> thank you. >> right. i say fillmore is here i appreciate you. god is good. i wanted everybody to understand and know when god instills something in you and when he drive you and on that path, ain't nothing can get in your way. you will change. people ain't going to like the new you. don't worry everybody ain't going where you g. i love you. beverly i love you, too. >> thank you and god bless us all. [applause] by the way the years my baby cousin. uncle monty. you the reason why i do violence against guns. you the reason why we left out one thing you did most important

low casket on the steps of city hall. you carried the casket around every neighborhood and let everybody know this will be you if you go that route. you lead the upon funds raiser for tracie. at la how much. you always been my uncle monty. really uncle monthy. who i love. who always had my back. right or wrong. one thing that you know you could not be disrespectful to him. ain't your home boy. can't use the, n, word. can't be homey. he don't play that he will check you in a minute. was not scared of nobody.

we are here to honor you today. i ain't never forget nothing you done for mow. you checked mow when i was wrong and pat me on my back when i was right and a hug when i was down. and for the smile on my face when i was frowning. so -- i love you. but the day. all this 2022 as our beautiful mayor said. fillmore? i'm original for fillmore you did not know. under my uncle tone competence monty. i want to say that everybody issue thank y'all for coming to celebrate this beautiful man. he is the best that we have and

not only that, he represents the entire city. do me a favor, stand up on your feet and give him a round of applause. >> we love you, uncle monty. >> hello, everybody. i kinds of you have to excuse me because i'm a little nervous and i'm not feeling very limp i'm a stage 4 cancer survivor. and -- my cancer may have returned. i had a blood test and i had x-rays i'm going to have a

biopsy to see if my cancer has returned. i wanted to say that and -- makes me very sad. and the reason why i did all that i could do for my community is because i was one of the ones who [inaudible] the community. all the killings and murders and robberies and drug selling that is going on in our communities is i started it. >> people of my age started it. and that nobody went back to help. after the devastation of the crack epidemic in our community, and our kids were killing each other.

so my daughter spoke, patrice and my son spoke. they went to catholic school together as children. they were very good friends as children and -- i didn't know how to help. my daughter or my son get over this vicious, heinous murder that had been committed. she was pregnant at 15. and so i started a funds raise everybody. i did bbq to help bury her and all of the sudden it was more murders. i did more bbq's to help and like mrs. london breed said victims of i have 11 crime other original coordinators of that group. and i don't know what to say i was tricked down here. i was just i started crying

because i didn't know that this was for me. you know. i told utay how proud i am of her big mama that's what i call her i don't know what y'all call her. i told her that i was proud of her because she picked up where i left aweoff. her and rodney and i appreciate that. no one helped me when i was doing what i was doing. everyone that tried to help memented to get grants. wanted get a paycheck. what i did was from my heart i never got paid and my children will tell you a lot of picnics and gatherings that we had it was at their expense. this one here cried like a baby one year. what is her name that was killed? no the older lady from how much?

maxine hall. she was murdered had a plaque made for her exit still have the plaque to this day. but anyway, it was become to school. and this combon that one they really got anxiety row with me because i did not get them what they wanted for school. and i told them that we had to sacrifice. and -- they sacrificed right along with me. i like to thank my wife, beverly because she has been through everything with me. for 42 years. you know. i trust her. i love her, she is always supported me. and took care of mow when i was sick with cancer. tooks me to the doctor. made sure i had medication.

london breed, her mother and dad friends of mine. she is not my friend she is more than that. you know. i watched her when she was i remember we celebrated her birth. and now today i'm standing here being honored by her i appreciate that. [applause] and her mom and dad just we always communicate and stay in touch with each other. like i said, i was tricked down here i don't know what to say. i should had my mask on. because of my teeth and stuff is gone. you know. >> it is so much i like to say but i like to say thank you to everyone here and -- i wish that someone else was step up and try to help the community because we like i said, we are the ones

my -- age group and generations are the ones to cause the havoc in your life. all of these that are going through is in the your fault it is mine. and it is people like me that will not help. they will not go back and help. but they help took it down. so, just remember when you go out in the world, try to help somebody. try to make a difference. and respect your woman in your mother and parents and stuff like that. i don't know what to say i'm so shockd and arc amazed i saw many others honord and said the last time i lit irrelevant did not want to come here. because the last time i was here i was forced physically remove

friday this building. physically removed i marched on this building for 5 days straight. due to a vicious heinous murder that was commit in the our projects. aaron williams was killed by the police. and i marched on the mayor's office for 5 days straight on the fifth day i did the federal building. mina jamal was on trial. at the federal building. you know that's the -- brother who was tried for murder of the police officer in philadelphia. yea. i just -- i just been through a lot and i wish i could do more like i say my time is running out. and if i can influence anybody

to do better in their community i will if i was well or strong enough to live in the community i would be more active but i'm not able to be active i live 110 miles from here i moved as far as i could because -- i was trying to save my kids. from being murdered in san francisco. my son was murdered in 2016 on my birthday. and i moved away from here. so i literally hate to come become to san francisco because it turned to a cemetery. and i know every place that kids got murdered at. if i had to use the bathroom here in san francisco i would not know where to go. all the people that i knew are gone. they have put out.

i witnessed genocide in my own community. i witnessed racism. i witnessed everything in the community. and i'm a street wise person because i was committed to california youth authority at 10 years old. and i proceeded with my criminal life up to my adult age when i was 17. i was tryd and convicted as a juvenile and from there my career as a criminal exploded. to prison sentences 2-3 times. through it all i tried to be a better person because i never was a gang banger. i was a militant about the

revolutionary. black panters and that stuff but -- thank you, baby for supporting me. and thank you for being by me. i know i'm a hard person it get along with i don't know what i would do without you. thank you, i love you utay, rodney, mayor breed i thank everyone here. remember, you make a difference. [applause]. thank you uncle monty for sharing those words with us and i gotta say it takes me back to a time when our community was together. when we did have really good times was not all completely

bad. and it also remindses me, too of what a blessing it is for someone like me to come from that same community. and be in a position like this, which is why part of many of the initiatives i put forth have everything to do with my experiences and wanting to see my community thrive employmenting to see us not go through. some of the things that we have gone through. i don't want to see the next generation live the way that we had no choice but to live through very difficult times. there is so much opportunity out here. there is so much possibility and to the next generation, you hear from uncle monty the work that he did not because he was asked to do it but because he loved this community. there was not one person in the

community that could not go to him and ask him for anything and he would do his best to do it for you especially if you were in trouble. we have to get back to the basics here. and a lot of it has to do with the love that we have for each other, for our community, how do we bring that back? we bring that back by being the example we bring that back by making sure that the legacy of uncle monty is honor in the our deeds. and the things that we do every day. just remembering and hearing the things remember he worked at the boys and girls club. teaching boxing. everybody thought they would be the next scooty really thought he was going to doing this to everybody it is thing with his heavy hands. i remember that. but just those memories all of those times that we had

especially when he was able to be out there and doing it. it was always happening. and no one was turned away. so, community, i hope that this opportunity inspired you. especially because it reminded you of how valuable ufrng emmonty has been to the success of our community. and yes, there were hard times but there were very good times. there are very fun times. there were times there was love, joy and happiness and peace. and let us just keep those moments at the top of our minds and the feelings and all of that, remember where we came from and remember who we are and take that as we move forward. this work that i do here is hard work. and again i never thought it would ever be possible but know

in your heart, uncle monty, that i stand on your shoulders and i understand what needs to be done relating to our community and every day hearing even from the folks here, hearing their store and hes when they are doing and when they have been able to accomplish. it has everything to do with what you have done to lay the foundation. you may have said you had a role in what happened to our community but god had a role in to making you who you are to make you a blessing for this community. that has to always be at the forefront of everything that you say and you do. you have been a blessing to the people of this city. for decades and your children and grand children and family members are going to continue that legacy because we know we

still have a lot of work to do. thank you so much for coming out and celebrating uncle monty. sorry we had to surprise you in this way. but we know how you are so -- it was the only way we were going to get you in this building. um but clearly, the folks here are here to show you love and appreciation and so we love you, uncle monty and thank you so much. [applause

>> hole to everybody i'm the executive director of the office community investment and infrastructure, oci. i want to welcome to the grounds breaking of the mission bay, bayfront park. [applause]. >> you seat park sit in intersection of person open space transit and development project in mission bay. 5 and a half acres will largest mission bay park in the 40 acre mission park system. future ferry service. fantastic chase arena where the

warriors play and tell be a contribution to the 350 mile bay -- san francisco bay trail system. >> this park once complete will be a huge benefit for the 6 thonned houses in mission bay and the bay area residents who will criminal the city's other new parkses bay front will be an amenity for those who visit. i want to thank the mayor for her leadership in developing parks throughout the city and supervisor dorsey for district 6 and our commissioners oci commission. wee have commissioner gustos in the audience and charles whitaker and e lane forbes from the port and the port staff this will be their park and we look forward to turning it over to you in a year. >> i like to invite our great

mayor to speak. mayor london breed. >> thank you. you know it is hard to believe that this entire area of mission bay just over 25 years ago was a place that was under utilized railway. and this was a place that most people never visited. so to see it come arc live and i started on the former redevelopment agency commission ocii for 5 years. remember when the buildings and the conversation around ucsf and the things happening here, i thought to myself, how are they get being that done? well, we look at mission bay today and -- it is truly a jewel of san francisco. over sick thousand new homes have been created. over 25 acres of park space. new

restaurants, new small businesses even i come for the market which i love. one of my favorite markets in san francisco. but there is also people who work and biotech. they are ucsf, we all know has been extraordinary lead and helped us get through a difficult global pandemic. and last but not least i will say how excited i am to have the national championship team the warriors right here at chase arena playing -- on a regular basis but the concerts issue events and activities. this is such an extraordinary place and now with this new park this bay trail park, tell be more beautiful to watch when we play in the final games and other things the arial views of san francisco. and people will continuing is

more beautiful than they remember. the past year. already, weave have the docks the parking and other areas the bay trails and the bike trails. so many great things but i already know upon that this is going to be a destination. get ready e lane forbes, because people are not going to want to watch the games at the thrive center they want to come here and watch a number of games played bite warriors. some of the soccer games and other activities this will now be a place to be as it relates to getting together on the great lawn for sports and activities. we are luck tow see this community finely come arc live. i wanted to thank so many people for making so the developers, thank you for your work and leadership on developing this mission bay. and we want to thank the port. and ocii and so many folks

including especially the warriors for really putting mission bay on the map like never before. we know that curing diseases and the important work ucsf does is truly remarkable but there is nothing that puts a smile on your face more than watching a game here at chase arena or any place in san francisco. the spirit of san francisco exists. because of the warriors and because of the life that mission bay is bring to san francisco like never before. i'm excited be here with all of you to break grounds. and to get this park done. on time and under budget. finger's crossed. >> thank you. [applause] >> thanks i'm matt dorse i'm the

prierz for district 6. and you know like mayor breed i will tell you, it hen a joy to watch mission bay come arc live. 22 years ago i worked on berry street during the. comera i remember this space, it was under utilized. a year when they were building the ballpark and to watch this remarkable neighborhood come to life, i remember i think this was an idea that started as far as the jordan administration with ucsf it was envisioned as a place this was fwk to be an initial leader in limp sciences and biotech and health care and we are seeing that come to life and seeing the density that fulfills the promise of progressive urbannism. and an important part is open

space and high quality public realm this park represents. so, it is just an honor to be able to represent that this and to be a part of this. i am coming up on my third month anniversary as a member of the board of supervisors, this is my third grounds breaking i was at one last week. last week a graduation at one treasure i lands for young people who were trained got 17 certifications in construction trades and were going to work. we handed out certificates for them. and i was saying how important it is that the job that you have to do is not just it is a great job and contrary and provide for your family but it it is a way to shape the future of our city and right wrongs of zoning and things that happened in housing. this is meaningful. the work that they are doing is changing the world and making our city better.

i told them a bit about what to expect. i wanted educate them and do my part. i said the beginning of projects you will have a ground break. there will be politicians who show up and for no reason they will put hard hatos there is zero chance of them getting hit in the head they will pick up a shovel and shovel one shovel of dirt and get the press and leave and you will do all the work. i said go with it. because those politicians other people i need to work with to make sure we get the projects approved. i will go to the mat to fight for the projects like this open space and that housing and the kindses of work we need do to improve our city and fulfill the promise of our ambitious housing goals it is an honest torto be here and a part of that. and i would that i would like to -- thank partners the port of san francisco. mission bay development brew.

bay confirmation will ocii and everybody the members of the communities and -- one i say, among my favorite constituents i am so proud to represent the world champion your world champion golden state warriors and happy to introduce brandson schneider. thank you. [applause]. >> cutting the cord with the celtics. i love that. hello, everyone. and thank you all. especially mayor breed. supervisor dorse and he the team at ocii for your leadership and partnership o this exciting project. i wanted acknowledge we had titan in our sport's world pass away. so first bill russell. who we know speak of the boston celtics 11 time champion with the celtics. but perhaps more important low

is civil right's pioneer. we know him as a basketball player, his contributions off the court exceeded what hoe did on the court. the other one, yesterday was vince skill. we are all giant's fans he was a dodger. 87 years as the voice of the dodgers but an incredible man and pinormal in our sport. i wanted to acknowledge those before i started. >> what an incredible day it is to be here with you all. to celebrate the grounds breaking for the bayfront park. as we go back i'm looking arc lots of you involved throughout the process, the vision in bringing the warriors here in chase center in san francisco. what we talk about, the park was always a huge part. i hear peter in my head talking about every detail of what this park was going to be and how it would compliment when we were doing across the street.

talked going from a basketball team and sport and entertainment company the basketball team was the center piece we celebrate our fourth championship in 8 years. we are proud of. yes. we think about our expansion and building a communities gathering place. so you heard a bit from the mayor and supervisor of what this is. inside chase you have warrior's games wee hosted the ncaa tournament in march fer the quest regionals the world finals coming up. concerts. family eventses that in the chase centers then outside, we got 3.2 acres of open space and in the last week we hosted fitness classes. concerts the live at thrive city series we the have movie nights we will add more restaurants and retailers for everybody to enjoy. and the park the site now, will

be complementary to all of that. we are so we look forward to partnering with the city and communities organizations to have the right programming, to have something for everybody this is what this about. diverse. we talked before we started a diverse wave of event its is crazy to here but not everybody is a warrior's fan we want something for everybody that hen the goal. the park helps bring that together for all of us. >> we are so thankful for the partnership with ociiu mission bay develop employment mayor breed. supervisor dorsey, mayor's office and the port and mission bay community. and surface design, designs the park that we will see here. thank you to everybody, we can't wait to be standing here a year from now. as we cut the ribbon on this incredible park. with that, i would like to welcome speak of the mission bay neighborhoods our neighbor and my new friends a member of the mission bay cac that is sarah

davis. >> thanks for coming out and having this day with us. what you are seeing here is years and years of people think burglar mission bay. when i grew upon here we moved here when i was 7 the house boat upon community abandoned train yards with jack rabbits and a group partnered with all city friends, some are in this room, to envisionmation bay and sat at tables with building blocks about what ideas the whole community would have. and what it needed to be an addition to the city. you know when i was a little girl, the mission rock would rent row boats row from mission rock to the ferry building and fishermachine's wharf, tic toc

was down the way. everybody friday night you see along this strip, city workers gathering with their friends drinking beer and fishing along this water front. this area's had a history of people gathering and having a good time. i think for the people in the community when we saw this all this mission bay come in fruition, we were not sure like how it was going to affect us. and when chachs center moved in and the ballpark moved in, it welcomed people to this neighborhood. and i think that the challenge now is that san francisco come down here and take the bayfront park and make it a san francisco park and recreate the tradition this is we had in the past. it has been a pleasure to be here and i wanted acknowledge that we stands on the shoulder of great people and acknowledge woods from the mission creek harbor who yea, there is not a

city family that she did not touch. and i wanted to acknowledge her today because she would be proud of this. >> also you may want to explain what you mean by tic toc not. >> okay. so -- tic toc burger was on the corner and weate there all the time. waitresses give my family christmas presents. and it was funny when than i upon went away it was only when spashs came in and chase center came in i saw our community gathering in the same way it had. >> [applause]. >> thank you, sailor's. i want to thank the mission bay cac and their work. the early residents of the community had a lot of input to where this community was designed, parks and buildings. now there are new residents we want to thank them. i think i want to thank everyone

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as

feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china

but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful

representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

>> okay. good afternoon, and welcome to the san francisco historic preservation commission regular hearing for wednesday, august 17, 2022. in p