emerging job centers in mission bay and all the jobs in union square and again here to china town. so, with support from speaker pelosi and a billion dollars of federal funding, we are almost there. we're also really grateful. [cheers and applause] we're grateful to secretary butavig for the bipartisan infrastructure bill. this once in a generation opportunity. [cheers and applause] can provide cities like ours the resources that we need to make a transportation system that works for everyone but particularly the people who have the fewest mobility choices. i also want to make my appreciation known for mayor breed who has continued in her leadership to prioritize the people who need mobility investments and access to opportunity. opportunities that are being created right here in

san francisco. [applause] so i'd like to introduce our first speaker malcolm young who is the executive director of the china town community development center whose work helped shape almost every detail of this project that you see here today. malcolm. [applause] >> i'm going to go old school and read off my phone instead of paper, so that was supposed to be funny but i guess not. first of all, let me say how humbling it is to be here today. there's so many important federal representatives, but just as just as important, there's local friends and allies a part of the project from the beginning and i won't name you all by name but thank you for being a part of this and being here. i know you feel the love coming out of this project. let me extend a china town welcome to pete, mr. secretary. i don't know if this is your first advise ilts here but i hope it's not your

last. we want to extend an open invitation to explore the underlining richness and we like to take you into our public housing so you can see what a deep investment affordability can do for families, adults and seniors. and investment is certainly the theme for today. central subway is a once in a generation investment in this community and in this city. unlike so many so-called investments in low-income communities of color, central subway was not a topdown from city planning, it was demand from the residents and stakeholders and leaders of china town lead by rose pack who mr. tumlin mentioned and the chinese chamber of commence. the transit research and improvement project, china justice project formed in the 70s by form mun bus drivers and the largest

tenant association not just in china town and the association led by the -- it's a demand for transit justice to fill in for the now torn down embark care -- dare em-- mayor brown championed this cause as well. mayor brown may be the first black mayor of san francisco, some say he may have been the first chinese mayor of san francisco, given how he has received when he comes to china town. that's supposed to be a joke, not going well, all right. mayor ed lee, the first chinese-american mayor of this city, also championed the subway to his untimely death and i had the privilege of working with both of them on this project. the central subway is an economic lifeline necessary to reconnect the historic immigrant neighborhood of china town with the populations of the city, visitation valley and bay

viewers point and it's a transient gateway for regional visitors and tourists to maintain the vibrancy and the pandemic threatened to erase and i was remind of this project and tam shaw dug up a 2003 chronicling thousands of signatures and delivering them to be a low see and feinstein and meeting with the congressional committee. norman went on that treat or reverend fong. sorry. and even 20 years ago, speaker a low sew and feinstein moved this project. china town needs this lifeline. but beyond the tremendous economic benefits of central subway will have, i want to share one impact that people outside of our community see.

several years back when tan and i were doing outreach on this street, there was one merchant who pointed out something i will never forget. i said central subway was more than action he economic benefit and having the world china town printed in a citywide map that everyone would see signaled something bigger and permanent for this community and the permanent of china town is not something we can take for granted. china town survived numerous attempts the relocation. first after the great quake '60 and the threat posed by the pandemic. the central subway means as mentioned, merchant implied and china town has been and is and will be forever a part of the fabric of san francisco. thank you. [cheers and applause] with no further or do, i have the honor of introducing the next speaker, someone who needs no introductions in these parts

and not in this community, mayor breed has been a supporter of china town in the most important way and i have the honor of introducing our third chinese-american lead, mayor london breed. [applause] >> i can truly attest to the fact that i definitely probably come in third and that mayor willy brown still comes in first every time he shows up to china town and so, i'm grateful for his leadership, for mayor ed lee and the work that they did to get us here today. but today, i'm going to take all the credit, now that i am mayor for moving this project forward which has been long awaited by this community and this city. but before i give my remarks, i want to take an opportunity to just express my condolences, many of you know that queen elizabeth the second passed away today and on behalf of the city

and county of san francisco, we have setup a book for those who are interested in coming to city hall to sign this book. we will then present it to our council general here who represents europe and make sure that the community receives this book of condolences and so, thank you all so much, many people reached out to us to want -- to know exactly what san francisco plans to do and that's exactly what we plan to do. she was a marvelous lady and she definitely will be missed. and again, thank you malcolm and welcome everyone. i want to start by really thanking our leader, our speaker nancy pelosi and secretary butagy for joining or maybe mayor, i like to call him mayor still because he served as the mayor but we are proud of his work as transportation secretary because it is definitely needed, having

a mayor's perspective is so important because he really understands what it takes to get projects like this done and thank you for bringing us all here today. i want to recognize city staff, many who have worked tirelessly to plan and build this project and thank the community for their patience during the many, many years of construction. we know transit is the backbone of this city and our priority right now is on our recovery and reopening. that means bringing back the transit routes and connections that our communities rely on to get to work and school and around the city or come out on a beautiful day and hang out in china town. what we know is that when we invest in transportation, it benefits our city and it benefit peoples lives and in april we opened up finely the van necessary bus rapid transit system whip has been a huge success -- system which has been a huge success. people are

saving up to 35% of their time now now that brt is here. that's a big difference. that difference is bringing more people to ride the bus and we are going to see those benefits again when the central subway finally opens up later this fall. it will serve some of the dense neighborhoods in the city and help people from china town to oracle park and chase center and the bay views point and it will reduce travel time and ease congestion in the cities busiest areas and it will connect to our regional transit systems, bart and caltrain and we have representatives from those entities here with us today and thank you all for your partnership and your work. it's going to connect the entire bay area network. that's what this is about. so, with central subway opening soon, we already are thinking of what is to come next. i was telling the speaker,

i'm like you do so much for san francisco and we give you love and as soon as we give you love just like family, what have you done for me lately and what can you do for me next? madam speaker, we appreciate you and ask you this, you know, from the heart, we have the central subway coming soon and we're already thinking about what is coming next. we have so much more to do, more planning, more maintenance and more building. we have two funding priorities, we want to bring our existing muni rail system up to the state of good repair after decades of disinvestment and second, we always want to have a subway under construction. i said my priority was, as a native of san franciscan to get this subway all the way to fishermans wharf but native san franciscans knows what i'm talking about, it will be amazing but next on our list is the tunnel to connect

caltrain and high-speed rail to our are transit center. that's for all the commuters in the bay area. that's critical to the future of our city and downtown and yes, secretary, we have applied for federal grant to help fund that critical project, but welcome to san francisco. [laughter] when we invest in transit we feel the difference, it's faster and more reliable and it's a comfortable way to get us to where we need to go, it helps our economy, it helps our family and seniors and it helps our workers who rely on it. september is transit month and i can't imagine a better place to celebrate that than with all of you. i continue to love seeing everyone ride, our kids riding free, like we did when we were kids even though we were supposed to pay but we made it legitimate. tourist taking our cable cars and people commuting to work. this is what it means to experience san francisco and you know what, it feels so good. we wouldn't be here if it wasn't

for the help of our speaker nancy pelosi and funding from sfta new starts program. thank you madam speaker for everything that you always done. i mean, i should just, you know, print a thank you something that she can carry it. thank you for san francisco residents because when it comes to transit, housing, i mean, you name it, she is always delivering time and time again for this community and thank you to secretary butaga for your support and being in san francisco and there's so many places across the country you could travel but you're here highlighting the great work we do and the biden administration prioritizing transit especially rail bus, rapid transit and streetcars. you prioritized connecting communities that have historically been cut out from economic opportunities and we appreciate that. and you've also prioritized street safety, recently, we received a federal grant to help make howard street

in south of market safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, thanks to these two extraordinaria leaders right here. as former mayor, you understand how critical urban connections are to making our cities more livable and successful. that's the kind of leadership we need and we are thankful that you're joining us here in san francisco and if there are any other projects you think you might want to throw some funding at, just let us know much don't worry. we have ready to go shovel ready, whatever it takes, san francisco is your place. but seriously, thank you for being here and all of your work and your leadership and your commitment to making public transit more equitable and efficient and more sustainable for our country and ladies and gentlemen, without further or do, mayor secretary of transportation, pete butaga.

[applause] >> thank you so much mayor. i will also proudly answer to the title of mayor but i acknowledge it's only gotten more demanding since i wore that title and you've got so much to be proud of so thank you for the warm welcome and congratulations on everything that has gone on here. i want to congratulate jeff tumlin and thank you for your tour and you and your team has so much to be proud of and we'll keep you busy with the work ahead. director and sf mta and union worker who's have been working for a decade including during the worst years of the pandemic to bring this to life and to those who spoken to what this means to a community and in this place you can feel the distinctiveness, not only the bustle and the food and the richness and culture but the sense of belonging that's so very important and we're glad this project will support. of course, it is my honor to be at

the side of speaker pelosi. someone who brought so much transformative infrastructure projects like the central subway to the bay area but also has brought so many good investments to the entire country and i spent a few weeks on the road and tulsa and indianapolis, northern new hampshire and southern california and today we were in the inland empire and the projects we saw in common, it wouldn't have happened without the bipartisan infrastructure law and the infrastructure law wouldn't have happened without the leadership of speaker pelosi and we're thankful for that. [applause] and the president recently signed the inflation reduction act. something that's going to make a difference to so many people here and across california. extraordinarily legislative achieve: making prescription drugs affordable for seniors and helping families save on their utility bills and while unfortunately it didn't get any republican votes in

congress, that bill has widespread bipartisan support yong the american people and that's reason that it got done. we're hard at work implementing the bipartisan law funding, so many great projects and the thing that i see and feel everywhere we go and certainly felt it here during our visit to the central subway is the passion that people bring, not maybe because they are transportation wonks like me because because they are passionate about their community and families and work lives and we know how that will benefit from the investments made here. now, when it comes to the central subway, there are so many to acknowledge. the activist chinese town, taught to stabilize china town rent and played a key role in the construction of the central subway. so, we said that planning requires setting sites at least one hundred years from

now. and that kind of long-term thinking is what we believe we need to bring to the investments that we're making today and it was a long time that this central subway has been in the works. the department was proud to support it, a decade ago under president obama who nearly had a billion dollars in funds and is going to pay dividends for years and the most densely populated neighborhoods in san francisco to the social economic lifer of the city and bring tour ifts for food and shopping and making it's why for those who live here to reach schools and jobs and resources in the city. when people can get around with public transit, that makes everyone better off and it means faster commute and cleaner air and for those who don't use transit, there's less congestion and it's a win/win. it's the kind of project we're going to see more of thanks to this buy partisan infrastructure that contains -- the bipartisan

infrastructure and we're going to work hard to deliver on that. it's the same programming that funded this program -- like the ones that allowed us to bring that good news. we drove up to get to our first stop upgrading howard street safer and green infrastructure and more with $23 million in raised funds and i'll end with a broader thought about the worker -- what it means for the people of this country. i'm proud of all of the transportation pieces of the initiatives and the vision that is going on right now under this administration but it is just part of a broader vision to make the entire country better off. to make it easier to afford to get through life, to protect our veterans, to resure manufacturing jobs to america and make sure that families can

thrive in a future that has been all too uncertain as we have looked at the years that have led us to this moment. and with that, i have the pleasure of turning it over to somebody who represents an important part of what this is about, the job creation that will come with this infrastructure spending, rudy gonzalez who will introduce the speaker, represents the san francisco building and construction trades who we are eager to keep at work with the funding that's going on and very much turning to do help prepare the workforce that we're going to need and count on and importantly, to ensure that workforce is inviting. you have been working to women and workers of color who didn't have a family inheritance but pass generational wealth to the next generation of their families thanks to the good paying jobs so thank you again for the chance to join you and rudy, over to you. [applause] >> thank you, mr. secretary. in organized labor we get excited

when we see and you can see it in our eyes when we see movement leaders and see champions and i kind of had a transit nerd moment when i looked over in the crowd and saw adam from tpg and telly from the sfca and they were looking at secretary pete because this is their guy and it's exciting and it's transit week and we can be excited about that. people ask me about the green job that exist. where is it coming from? what is the transition going to look like for workers, what might it be? and i say look no further than public infrastructure and transit. those are the green jobs of today, they are the green jobs of tomorrow and i would be remised if i didn't talk a little bit about the history and being an organized labor, we owe it to everyone in our community to be blunt and to be honest like my partner in crime kim, the head of our ceo will remind, tell me like it is, right, kim. well, like it is has to do with racism and

inequality. and it has to do with connecting the southeast of this city, who have been left out of the economy, let out of our unions historically and it has to do with the chinese immigrant experience and aaip community and their struggle not just for relevant but survival and legitimacy in this city. we champion liberate and san francisco values we we have to acknowledge the hard work it stood to get to this place. and even the interference at times from the political class of seeing a project like this come to completion. i hope that anybody who stood on the sidelines and talked about a boone dogle will have to smile with excitement the same way travelers did when they first crossed the golden gate bridge. that was directed in four years and four and a half months of construction or people talked about of the bart tunnels that was built in a little more than four and a half years but built nonetheless and it took bold leadership at that time, years and years ago, bold leadership,

not in the assembly or city attorney's office as he sits now but when now city attorney david chiu championed the entitlement for this project, many, many years ago and role in the board of supervisors. having a vision and articulate a plan and then going for it. taking risks, taking risks that's political but on behalf of community. i can tell you that in the audience is one of my personal heroes, meg ann prior and she's not anybody. she's a member of the international union of operating engineers. and she's a black woman and a leader in the operating engineers and working mom and she graduated from the city build academy and found her way into apprenticeship and she's a journey man in the skilled trades and it's lives like hers that's changed and communities like hers that's not only connected through this green infrastructure but that are lifted up into the working class and given a future and they can proudly hand that down to others. so whether we're

honoring veterans who put in time after discharge from the military or given new life or second chances to those justice involved and previously incars lating and the building and we want to put everybody to work. in the pro union administration we have seen in our lifetimes, we know that's possible. we know that the, that the country in a bipartisan way support investments in our communities not just in san francisco but across the country and we know with bold leadership and vision today, we cannot only see the completion of our a project like this but breaking ground like the transit terminal and other green infrastructure to keep our people working. so, on the note of keeping our people working, we couldn't be more excited than to be in the presence of another one of my heroes, madam speaker, nancy pelosi. you can clap at that one. [applause] the speaker shown bold and

progressive values but shown what it means to demonstrate effective leadership and courage under fire and quite literately when our democracy have been threatened, nancy pelosi answered the call on behalf of san franciscans and union workers and families and behalf of all-americans and people who seek the promise of the american dream. i couldn't be more honored to stand with one of our champions, battle tested tried and trued, i'm honored to be with you and i have to point out she's wearing her public service award pin made for her on the celebration of our 125th year of lifting up skilled and trained workers but join me in welcoming our hometown hero, our champion for the working class, madam speaker, nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you very much, thank you very much, rudy for your generous remarks which i accept on behalf of the house democrats who courageously voted for so many of these initiatives. it's

an honor to be in china town and i join the mayor in wishing condolences on the passing of queen elizabeth ii. we're flying flags half staff at the capitol and do more bereavement in her honor but we're here today to look to the future and celebrate as jeff pointed out, the path that took us here now talks about the community involvement of it all, the mayor and how leadership in our city weighed in time and time again to make this happen. distinguish secretary of transportation talks about how it fits in with other pieces ever legislation that this president -- pieces of legislation that the president put in place, the inflation act which has many with the -- the priority of protecting the environment, many public transportation initiatives as well. and then i just want to

then say that rudy has been a champion. if it isn't about good paying jobs, we are not interested in advancing it. we say to our colleagues in the congress, if you want to talk to us about advancing legislation, we are not going backward. we're going forward and that means we are going to have good paying union jobs. and not only that, let me say a few words and let me say how poppy i am to be in china town. when i ran for congress 35 years ago, the very first event that i was held for me was in china town tang. it is for your leadership in the community and to see david chiu represents our community so well in the state legislature and the board of supervisors as mentioned and thank you for your leadership and i want to mention

another person because we talked about community and community as malcolm did beautifully. the fact is that it's not only china town and all other communities that are served by this, it was the community that really sacrificed so much and that was union square and karen flood is here who helped orchestrate peace there in materials ever getting us through when everything was shutdown, mr. secretary. many businesses suffered but here we are opened up. thank you, karen flood for your leadership. this president has been about protecting the environment, the transportation issues do that. he's about justice in our economy and in our infrastructure. $60 billion in the infrastructure bill for justice, for fairness, for equity as secretary said, transportation to bring us together, not to celebrate us and that is what this president

is about. so it's about justice and that can happen if we are listening to the communities and opening opportunities for work to believing yoursly underrepresented people whether it's women, people of color, apprenticeship programs that's in that bill but in our chips and science bill which wedge with this very important justice way which are in our infrastructure inflation reduction act which interacts with this in an important way, so we have to be grateful to the president for his leadership, his value system that has impacted so many of the initiatives in these laws and then i want to say about community. i've been here a long time, as the mayor indicated and we have been through a lot of projects starting with the (indiscernible) and they were instrumental in the earthquake

and as well as willy and gavin newsom and mayor lee and our dazzling mayor london breed, thank you, mayor breed for your tremendous leadership, for putting it all in perspective for people and showing what comes next but when talking about this in the congress and i'll tell you this, come closer, when we allocate resources, we want to see it happen. there's competition for all of it. we want to see dirt fly. we want to see it happen. and so when the community comes together and advanced or in the course of all of this, we know that dirt will fly because people have come to agreement. we won't be in court the whole time. we're be underground or opening up beautiful, beautiful, you get my point now. >> i absolutely do. >> we have been there right, mayor and some of and all of you. at any case, this is cause

for celebration. i was telling them when we were doing the groundbreaking a number of years ago, we're sitting there, i think by then it was willy on stage and all ever a sudden, we started jumping up and down with joy. of course we were excited about the project but we found out that the giants made it to the world series. they had won the pendant so we have our sense of community and this project will connect us to (indiscernible), right, mayor. >> yes, it will. >> if you buy a ticket to the game, you get a free ride to that and the mayor promises that on behalf of the golden state warrior. [laughter] to all of you and so many here, thank you kim for your leadership but i want to get back to the person who introduced me, rudy gonzalez. when you're talking to rudy and the other leaders of the

building trade, their big interest are the workers. are they going to have jobs, are we going to have good paying jobs and are we going to be able to lift people up in a way that has justice, fairness and opportunity? and not just jobs. jobs that can lead to ownership, equity of all that's going on. so again for saving the planet, thank you, jeff, for saving the planet, for safety in our community in this system, for just moving kids as the mayor said, kids to school and parents to work and community and shopping and the rest. it's so perfect that we have this celebration here in china town. thank you all for making it possible and again, i said to the secretary, our hopes are riding on you. thank you, mr. secretary. [applause]

>> i'm supposed to open it to questions. any questions? did we anticipate any questions that you may have? >> [audience speaking] >> any interactions on what you shared with her. >> if i may, i'd be happy to answer that and i'm sure the mayor as well but to stay on topic for a moment, anything that relates to what we're doing here for the moment? okay. i was telling someone earlier today when i was speaker and her majesty came to washington, it was when president bush was president. she came in 2007 and they had a garden party outside of the residence of the ambassador and when she came to me, i said to her, you don't

know if you're supposed to initiate a conservation with her majesty. i did. i speak around. [laughter] your majesty, my father was at your card nation. he was there as mayor conference, he was mayor baltimore and he was a get at your car nation and i'm telling you what i was told. after that lovely session with her, later i saw the ambassador and he said, madam speaker, when her majesty came in from seeing everyone at the garden party, she only said one thing. the speaker's father was at my car nation. i haven't shared that

and the queen leaving us today, it was lovely. we will be -- we had been flying half staff of the capitol at the moment we had and we'll have bereavement resolution at the capitol and thank you for having the book of condolences for san franciscans to express their concern, mayor. not that we always agreed on everything with the uk but nonetheless, a great leader for many generations. any questions on what we're doing here today? >> [audience question] >> well, thank you for asking it because i mentioned and i'll go to the secretary as well, i mentioned the chips and science act. we've been negotiating this bill for a long time. there are people that said let's do the chips and get it over with. we said that's fine for now but for the future, we need the science

piece, the science piece is about education, it's about research, it's about involving many people in the community previously that haven't been able to participate. people of color, women, et cetera. so, that part, that bill directly relates to what we're talking about here today as well as what we did in the infrastructure bill. this project precedes all of that legislation but it still needs the people to make it happen and our building trades, and women of drywall and women of steel, women of the ibw, we have seen so many unions now and we have one here, she raved to us earlier, thank you again, at the school which i visited and it's remarkable how it trains young people so your question is very perfect because we have to have the direct relationship with how we train the current

and next generation on how to bring their ideas, the sense of their communities into the future. mr. secretary, did you want to speak to that? >> sure, thank you, speaker. very briefly, we're thinking about generational wealth and when i say generational wealth, i don't mean the wealthy. i mean the family household weather that is built through the middle-class jobs that good paying construction working, union jobs can create and we know that we're going to create so many of those directly through this infrastructure work. extending them also to workers including women and workers of color who historically did not have the opportunity to get those jobs and even for those who don't work near the infrastructure field directly. their opportunities will expand to access school, to access jobs, to access the places they need to be thanks to being better linked up to opportunity, as the subway will provide much also i don't want to be remised in adding to the other leaders who have spoken, i have done an

expression for the british people of queen elizabeth and her extraordinarily reign. >> [audience speaking] >> the next big project will be years. how do we solve that? >> what's happening here today should give people great hope. hope that it can happen when there is cooperation and community involvement and where there's recognition about how needed this is. and that is really what the president's initiative have been all about, so i'm going to go to the secretary because we cannot -- when we were passing the infrastructure bill, people said oh, nobody's going to see it and it's going to take forever and it will be like the other

projects, it build free rail through our neighborhood, and it's not going to be like that. we're celebrating what we're doing here today but what we -- in celebrating that, we're recognizing that things will be done differently and because of the leadership of the president insisting on justice and fairness and safety and the rest, it will be done again with community involvement which frequently can speed up the process, right, mr. secretary? >> indeed. we feel the expectation and the pressure to deliver everything we're funding on time, on budget and on task and that's not an easy thing but my favorite things about transportation projects is the good ones make sceptics into believers and seeing is believing and when you get that benefit, it's something that everybody is glad for. but tendency of large projects, to make longer and cost more than expected is one that goes back through human history to the ancient romans and it's one we're up against and fiercely working to combat because we

have to get every ounce of value out of this $1.2 trillion and half for transportation, but to speaker and congress and president have entrusted us with delivering. >> madam mayor, would you like to say something? >> i would like to add something to that. thank you both to our speaker and our secretary for putting it into perspective. i mean, i haven't heard one complaint about the brt on van ness since it opened and it was definitely not on time and not on budget and i understand the challenges that exist. you got to remember, san francisco is a very dense city. there are complications underground, pipes and other infrastructure that hasn't been looked at or open for decades. and so, i'd rather be delayed in the project and do it right and make sure it's safe and make sure it's secure than to rush through to meet a deadline. these are some of the

things we have to deal with as a result of making san francisco a better place for the future. making san francisco a more transportation friendly network for the entire region. we can't just be concerned with what happens with us today. we have to be concerned about what happens with us tomorrow and the next generation as we try and deal with the challenges of making this transportation system work. i often say to people, like, i wish people who came before me would have thought about putting everything underground so our entire transportation network functioned that way but that didn't happen. so we're trying to make up for some things that did not happen and this is just going to be sadly the price you pay but what we appreciate is that we have the resources and the support from our federal leaders like never before and that means more opportunity to

make things a reality. many of us never thought the possibility of even going to fishermans wharf underground would be seen in our lifetime and the reality is, it could be. so, i'm looking at being optimistic and hopeful of the future and we're going to be inconvenienced a little bit in the process. >> i may said earlier -- we were joined by the lieutenant governor of california and she had to go but she was with us earlier, so we have our shared values at the state level, thank you, david for being here, at the federal and state local level. >> [audience question] >> well, what i say is the

transit is important, not only for those who ride it but it's also in the national interest. the more people choose transit, the more people have excellent access to transit and the stronger or economy and it's no less a part of our fight against climate change than ev's or anything else we're doing to make sure we prevent the worst climate outcomes so in addition to supporting local communities and being proud and thankful for the action that the speakers and congress and president and others took to get transit going during the worst days of covid and we need to invest in the future, it may look different and we don't have a crystal ball to say how commuting patterns will look five or ten years ago but it won't be cease to be important for people to have safe, clean, dignified ways to get to where they need to be and transit is the core to make that happen. >> all right. thank you, everyone. >> thank you all very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much. the septem

2022 meeting. first item is the pledge of allegiance so can we take that. >> if you're able please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> thank you. we have a big agenda tonight so i want to would and jump right in. welcome ac lazar and acting director hawkins. we will -- will director henderson will be joining us today. >> yes, we are having

tech issues and i am filling in. >> no problem. sergeant. >> if i may do the roll. >> yes. >> commissioner walker. >> here. >> commissioner benedicto. >> present. >> commissioner yanez. >> present. >> commissioner byrne is excused. commissioner yee is in route. commissioner cart -- vice president carter-oberstone. >> present. >> president elias you have a quorum. with us we have acting heave david lazar from the police department and director hawkins from the department of police accountability. >> thank you. go ahead and called first item. >> item one general public comment. at this time the public is welcome to address the commission for two minutes for items not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the

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have two minutes. good evening caller. you have two minutes. >> my name is susan and i volunteer with wealth disparities in the black you know community. the following is a quote from our founder. there is urgency to address the emergency in san francisco and i will call it what it is anti-blackness and arrests and racial profiling and traffic stops by san francisco police department. i am tired asking the commission and the board of supervisors where is the urgency. if the tables were turn and it was white folks i know there would be an urgency. when will you spank responsibility and address this? you need to uphold the law for all san franciscans and i am tired and not tired enough to quit but from riding this [inaudible] and sought

attorney general. at last week's meeting we made comment how the [inaudible] for the new policy on (audio is not clear). it seems that the concerns are not hitting home. we urge you listen to the feedback and allow the working group to work and read through recommendations during the meeting. we are disturbed that the commissioners are concerned [inaudible]. the process itself has been skewed in favor of police over the community. finally at the last meeting commissioner walker asked about violent crime in relation to [inaudible]. by definition the elimination of traffic stops excludes violent crime. a commissioner so ignorant what this is about is shocking. thank you. >> thank you caller. good evening caller. you have two minutes. >> good evening everyone. my name is david and i am calling

in regards to the murder investigation of my mother car malita holbrook investigation number as cited. at the last san francisco police commission meeting in july 2022 paul henderson was instructed to contacted me from the sfpd and he failed to do so. i have previously reported that eric balczar is instructing all of my communications to go to him and he's failing to respond to me as well. i have provided evidence in this matter where the original investigators napoleon hendrix and officer sanders were guilty of manufactured and perjured testimony in a separate case. my mother's death certificate doesn't contain the right date

of birth and it was indicated that the witnesses were falsely identified as family members and one being her son and that is at all times i have also can be thed the san francisco district attorney's office as of this week and they're indicating to me they can't find her name nor her file so i want to know why the san francisco police department as well as the san francisco department of public health have closed my complaints and how they determined it's completed when the file is missing? my request is from someone from the police commission to please contacted me directly so we can get some eyes and assistance on this. thank you very much. >> thank you caller. good evening caller. you have two minutes. caller you have two minutes. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> i'm sorry. this

is ms. brown calling concerning my son arbrae who was murdered august 14, 2006 and i just first of all i want to thank the police media and commission for coming out that day on the 13th, august 13th and david lazar and the families that came and all the other officials that came out today. it was really a supporting day and i want to thank da brooks who said that she would -- i have been complaining about my son not having a head stone and she said this is the last year of me without a head stone so i received a text from her saying that everything has been submitted and approved, so i am just waiting for that to happen so i can

at least see my son's head stone this year and i am just hoping that everything will come through and she said in the text, and i believe she will come through for us for my family so that can be some kind of closure, a little closure for myself and his siblings on that day even though it's not going to solve the homicide but at least we can be able to see where our family member lies instead of digging up dirt so i just wanted to give her a shout out for that and the police commission for helping me out and those that have come throughout the years, and i really, really, really, really thank you for even listening to me all these years. i am not done though. i will still come back and just keeping my son's memories alive,

and solve homicides and i thank you very much for listening to me. >> thank you ms. brown. members of the public that have any information regarding the murder of aubrey please call the anonymous stip line cited. good evening caller. you have two minutes. president elias that is the end of public comment. >> thank you. has commissioner yee arrived yet? >> no ma'am. >> okay. all right. so let's call the next item. >> line item 2, consent calendar receive and file action. sfpd 1421 and the monthly reports and the monthly report august and september 2022.

>> can i get a motion to adopt? >> i will move. >> so moved. >> i think -- yes there's a first and a second. sergeant. >> on the motion to accept commissioner walker how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner carter-oberstone, zeus president carter-oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> . >> you have five yeses. >> thank you. next item. >> line item three, chief's report discussion weekly crime concernsist provide overview of offenses or incidents occurring in san francisco that have impact on san francisco and [inaudible] determine for a calendar of

a future meeting. acting chief lazar. >> good evening president elias, vice president carter-oberstone, members of the commission, director henderson, members of the public, members of the police department. i am assistant chief david lazar filling in for sheave cot and providing the chief's report. first i want to say starting with my report the san francisco police department is celebrating this month the latino latina heritage month so we're proud to start our report in honor of that and as i get into crime i want talk about crime starting with violent crime. we are up from -- we are up 3784 from 3573 so we're up in violent crime and from 30,453 to 33,032 so we're up 8% in property crime so for crime in san francisco we're up 8%

so starting with part one crime which includes burglary, motor vehicle thefts and larsen and arson. this week we're down 31% compared to last week. burglaries are down 22%. that's a thousand less in san francisco. we're excited about that number. one is one too many but we're really working on strategies around arresting those that are responsible for burglaries, crews. we're doing prevention awareness, crime prevention, environmental design. the captains are pushing out information. it was a great burglary arrest overnight in the park district and we have been working on a burglary series that we mead an arrest on and continuing that work. unfortunately larceny is up basic theft and encouraging more people to report time and auto burglaries are up 12%. as the city is opening up we're working on that situation and

really promoting prevention trying to get folks not to leave items in their vehicles. okay. so other categories of private property we see a decrease in arson by 13%. however we do have increase in motor vehicle theft by 4% so part one crime and homicides rapes assaults and human trafficking. this week we're down 3% and again up 7%. so for homicides we're slightly down 3%. rapes up 9%, robberies up 4%, assaults up 10% and human trafficking is drown 42% so right now for this reporting period we have 37 homicides, actually 38 but within this period it was 37 but 38 total. in addition to that gun violence has been 131 incidents shooting resulting in 151 victims shot from gun

violence. i'm going to talk a little bit about the strategy in this report as i get through tthere have been 26 homicide victims, victims of gun violence and 125 non fatal but overall total gun violence we're down 7% and a lot of work to do but we're working to keep that number down. in terms of firearms the officers have done a great job recovering them. we recovered 758 firearms and 4% more than we did in 2021 and in terms of ghost guns we have recovered a total of 129, so but it is still more than what we had been recovering so officers are doing a good job with that. we had a couple of homicides that occurred within this week that i am briefly going to explain to the commission and the public. we had a stabbing on the 900 block of geary on 18th

september and that's the situation and two subjects were banging on the door on 900 block of geary. one of the victims let the subjects in the building. there was an argument and both ams have were stabbed and one succumbed to the injuries. there's no arrests on that case just yet. the second homicide occurred on the 19th and in golden gate. we received a shots fire notification that shots were fired at this location. the victim was unresponsive and transported to the hospital. there were several gun cases located and a couple of damaged vehicles. there's no arrest on that case. those are the two homicides. in terms of shootings we had five non fatal shootings resulting in injury to six victims. on the 14th at hyde and fulton the victim was walking in and saw an individual they knew. they had altercation with them months ago and as a result one person shot the other. on

the 14th also on the eight helped block of van ness there were shots fired activation and the sheriff's office said there was a person walked into the hospital and victim of a gunshot wound and said his girlfriend and him were in the area when the shots fired out. the next one is on clay in the central district and in an argument with the neighbor and the suspect pulled out a gun and shot his neighbor. the next case was 15th of september on the 3100 block of mission. there were multiple 9-millimeter and 40 cases rounds that we located but essentially a robbery of a victim from out a cannabis club approached by three subjects and shot and then for the last case city nights club early in the morning on the 18th of september there were

some witnesses that saw someone shooting from third street and as a result there was a victim that was shot in that case so a couple things i would like to mention, some strategies that chief scott has employed and really has promoted in our department with regard to dealing with shootings and homicides. the first is that we know we're mindful of retaliation and things going on with that and we ask our captains in the bayview, ingleside and northern to add presence for visibility and we feel when we have those officer weiss can prevent some of the violence from taking place but in addition the investigations bureau is doing a great job. the community response team is conducting investigations of individuals that have been involved in disputes and as a result of their dispute they of involved in shootings so we have had some pretty good investigations lately that resulted in

recovering guns in our city and other cities throughout the bay area so we continue to work on that and last as the commission knows we have a grant through california partnerships and really as we focus on shooting review, as we focus on individuals that are involved in shootings but more importantly as we work on the life coaches and intervention piece we feel that is going to continue to be a successful way to reduce shootings so i wanted to share and i know each week we report out what is happening but the chief's vision is important too for everyone to know what our strategy is. next i'm going to move on to the tenderloin. the tenderloin grant i believe commissioner benedicto asked about a grant that we have so we have a micro grant in the tenderloin and really it's done three things. one, we increased foot beats in the tenderloin and important to have the visibility. we increase the outreach and education in the community. we

believe that community engagement is essential to establish partnerships and building trust and we partnered specifically with local youth groups like the ymca to promote mentorship opportunities and that's the grant and want that much money but the grantors thought the tenderloin would be a good way to use the grant for the reasons that i have described. so that grant ends at the end of november so it continues and just really quick some of the things we have done is increased foot patrol as i mentioned. we partnered with community groups including community benefit districts and business improvement districts. we've conducted a lot of weekly joint operations with our community. we have stakeholders such as uc hastings, the tenderloin benefit community district. we had high school vests to the tenderloin and did a lot of engagement that way. we partnered with

the teen night out, and the tenderloin children ass playground and work with youth outreach coordinator on a program and coordinated with the tenderloin recreation center. we initiated safe passages. we believe it's important to be present for individuals and youth that are walking. we're trying to promote adopt a block program. really the concept there is every officer adopt a block and be responsible for the conditions on that block get to know all the merchants, the residents and other agencies to clean it up and have individual responsibility in the tenderloin. this is something the chief wants us to promote and i have been doing as well so as a result of this grant 466 engagements, 59 arrests, 325 citations and 82 admonishments. we did enforcement but if you see the big number of engagements we did more to connect with the community. we believe it's important to do that and again to

build trust and build partnerships. a couple last things for the tenderloin we're really focused on the narcotic sales at the moment and our units is doing a good job along with tenderloin to address that. i just looked at a figure this week in 2022 we've recovered about a little over $100,000 in cash from drug sellers that engage in that activity but we're focused on the users as well and i think the ultimate goal is get them connected with public health and we have a harp with them at the moment so we have a coordinated work with the tenderloin and before i wrap up is that everyday -- well five days a week during the week we have a join field operations meeting and what we're doing doing different different there and super excited about that we have leadership from the department, tenderloin station. we have city government and the

community all on the telephone all on a conference call or a call working everyday to figure out where we need to be, what we need to do and doing what and that is true community policing as we try to solve the problems there and as i conclude i have a couple of final things to share. we're excited to kick off officer of the month. we want to thank you. the chief wanted me to thank everyone here for the department awards and we have a schedule now where a bureau selects an officer every month to recognize the great work that the officers are doing and we were able to partner with the hotel council to have a celebration with the officers and today we're able to do that so it's a cri recommendation. it's a 3.09 implementation and so today we congratulated officer rae pasqual from the airport bureau who received officer of the month in august

and we congratulated david esstarry and david ellis from the traffic company who received officer of the month for september and they're partners if we don't do one without the other because they're partners and celebrated with the airport council and their success. dream force is in town. we had thousands of people out there and have officers assigned inside but the chief wanted to make sure we had a large presence outside and something we haven't done until chief scott became the chief we have the police cars parked with the lights o it's kind of like a new york city model and others across america and the car is parked and lights are on and presence of the police and the dream force folks know we're out there and providing for public safety so we have been facilitating -- there was a

seiu demonstration yesterday, today that happens at noon around third and howard and we were facilitating and going good and goes to tomorrow and we're planning fleet week in october and a concert at pier 80 this weekend and expecting thousands of people and bay view station is ready for that. we're attending a community event saturday at alex givish outdoors. it's a collaboration between the police department, fire department, sheriff's department, recreation and park, apri, anti-bullying hero initiative. 100% college prep so it's a collaboration and we're looking to be part of that. that starts at 10:00 o'clock and the last thing i will mention is that on october 5 is national coffee with a cop and we like to participate in that and get to know the community. sometimes we do ice cream

with the cop and other things trying to be creative but at the end of the day we're doing this to build trust and relationships in the community so that concludes my with respect and i love to take any questions that anyone may have. >> thank you. i see this and didn't warn you about the 10 minute time limit but thank you for the thorough reporting. we appreciate it. just a couple of questions and i will turn it over to my colleagues. number one you indicated that the burglaries were down by 1,000 and utilized different strategy in order to attain that result. can those strategies be used or are they being used to combat i have length crime specifically shootings and homicides? and why -- and if it's being used why is it so successful with respect to burglaries but not homicides and shootings? >> well, it's interesting because a lot of same things are used for both so when i talk about

burglaries i talk about being strategically focused on those, crews that are committing burglaries throughout the city. the unit does a great job with that and there's an education piece with the community about making sure that you are doing everything you can to prevent a burglary. making sure crime prevention through environmental design. is your lighting good? do you have an alarm system and all of those things are you doing? it's similar with -- it's sort of similar with violence in that our community violence response team and our crime intelligence center and through the review process that we started recently are focused on the individuals that are involved in violent crime and if you remember the presentation by the california partnerships for safer communities they talked about 12 groups, 200 people, being involved in most of the violent crime

happening in san francisco and between us focused on those individuals most of this is related to the disputes. a lot of this happens on social media so we're focusing in that way but i think similar to burglaries that we try to intervene the intervention piece of getting life coaches to really connect with future potential victims and suspects is really the way to go, and even though the numbers is high and even though we're down a certain percentage i strongly feel we prevented more from taking place because we are focused in on this new process from our consultant so we still have a lot of work to do, but i know that we're heading in the right direction. >> okay. the other thing i wanted to ask that wasn't in the report was the surveillance issue that was recently passed and can you talk about that and

the next steps for the department and utilize this legislation? is it going to meet and confer? what are the next steps? >> the next steps as you may and the public may know there was a board of supervisors discussion about it and approval yesterday for 19b. it's the administrative code related to surveillance technology specifically this had to do with our policies and approvals around historic footage and life monitoring. there was approval at the board of supervisors yesterday but my understanding in a week there has to be a second reading so we're not fully completed on that process but once that happens the next step is really for us to look at that what the final approval of the legislation is, and then develop policies and procedures and training around that, so those will be our next steps. we're not there yet. we have a little ways to go to

get there. >> but is it are you saying that the police department is not going to be engaging and utilizing that technology until there's a policy in place? >> yeah. well, historical footage is what we do i want to say every five minutes in san francisco. i mean we use as everyone is aware the public gives us footage of crimes taking place so we will continue to do that but in terms of the temporary live monitoring we really want to make sure we have the protocols in place. we want to make sure our department is aware of the safeguards and the guardrails. make sure that the captains are fully trained up about the approval process, about the denial process and what they need to do, so that's really where we are as of today. >> do you anticipate a timeline how long it would take forward for the department to be able to utilize the live monitoring? >> yeah. i don't

have a timeline at this point. i think what we have to do is let's get through the final approval process with the board and then we have to figure out internally what the next steps are based -- mostly based on what i just said. >> great. because next week we are dark but i will be a jeopardizing this the first week of october. okay. i will turn it over to people in the chat. vice president carter-oberstone. >> thank you mr. lazar and thanks for filling in with the chief and the reduced numbers for burglary. that's good news and thank you to you and the entire department's work on that. i believe it was last week but could have been two weeks prior they asked chief scott whether dgo 3.1 was in effect and followed by the department? i noticed that it's not on the

department's website right now, the latest version, so i wanted to ask whether the department could post it, if there's a relationship why it's not being posted and relatedly whether it went through power dms? >> commissioner thank you for the question. i will follow up to make sure it's posted and i will find out about power dms and get back to you. thank you for bringing that to our attention. . >> okay. but to get your take on it it's your understanding that 3.1 is effective and the department is following it, the latest version of? >> yeah, i will have to look into it and find out where we are with. i know there's been a lot of discussion about it but let me find out for sure. i don't want to misspeak and i will get back

to you. >> thank you. that's everything for me. >> thank you vice president. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you president elias. you took the surveillance questions out of my mouth. i had a couple of questions. thank you for the report and congratulations to the officers recognized under the 3.09. who is the granter for that j grant? >> it's the cops officer. >> the doj cops office? >> yes. >> okay. i was glad to hear the focus on engagement and not just arrests in the data when chief scott and i talked about this and at the conclusion of the grant there's a more comprehensive data or report out or narrative of some kind. i know it's been extended. is still the plan to have a more comprehensive report when it ends i think you said in october, november? >> yes, these are preliminary numbers to date they provided you, but the requirement for the

grant is have some after action data analysis of how we were, were we successful? did we move forward on the deliverables that we mentioned we would do when we applied for the grant? and the final numbers are and we will definitely develop that towards the end of the grant in november. >> okay. then i ask once we have the after action report ask president elias to have the report so the commission can hear it as well and a stand alone item and not part of the report so so thank you so much. >> thank you. >> that's all i have. >> thank you. commissioner yee. yee you're muted commissioner yee. >> i apologize for not being on time. i guess had to reload my webex and going forward hopefully it will work. first of all i want to thank the san francisco

police officers over at the airport where they had a unite here rally. i know there was some i guess some demonstrations and the blocks on the road there so they had action fighting for one job isn't enough so i was able to also go rally with the workers and see how they handle this rally out in the streets, so it was very orderly i would say that. [inaudible] they were asked if they were ready to come out of this rally and break it up slowly one by one. it was -- i saw first hand how they handle these crisis or situation. i want applaud your officers at the airport where they handled the protesters with respect so thank you very much at the airport. hopefully we don't have too many

more of those but i know i can trust that the police will do the job at the large rallies. thank you very much assistant chief david lazar. >> thank you commissioner, and yes the airport officers did a good job. they facilitated the first amendment and everything worked out well so thank you for recognizing that. >> if it didn't work out you would have heard it right now. thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you commissioner. >> thank you commissioner yee for reporting that to us. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias and good afternoon public and assistant chief lazar. thank you for acknowledging it's latino heritage month and last weekend was mexican independence day. i'm wearing the white in honor and just kudos on the impact that some of the

strategies have had in the tenderloin. i find myself in the tenderloin buying saigon sandwiches more often than i should and things are different and a lot to be said just about the feel of a neighborhood when one enters it considering the challenges that have been experienced there and i would like to get a better sense -- i know chief scott mentioned last week that one of the engagement strategies when people are in contact or when the police department is in contact with people that are either using drugs or have paraphernalia and there is a relationship i am assuming with dph. can you elaborate more what it looks look like our officers are provided with a number of beds that maybe available for people that actually want to go into treatment or is it are they being referred to a health center? what does this engagement look like as we're trying to further our

impact on reducing the public use of substances out there? and obviously of the drug dealing that is taking place in that neighborhood. >> yeah. well thank you commissioner for the question. there's really two things i want to mention around that. number one is our officers when they do enforcement and when we work to make sure that individuals aren't using drugs out in the open and hopefully not over dosing and i know we're doing a lot to save lives with narcan and things like that. we also provide them with information about resources that are available. we say go to the tenderloin community center or soma rise or other different drug treatment centers, the cass on sixth street to try to refer individuals and we have -- so that's one. secondly we have an ongoing conversation with public health about how we can refer people to them because at the end of the day our goal is really how can we help people

get out of addiction? how can we make sure people are safe and all of those things? and we rely on the department of public health and the service providers funded through public health to get people the help they need. we have other ideas on the horizon that we're trying to figure out logistically but great to connect people with public health and services so we're thinking through that piece now but we're doing everything we can kind of the first line in city government in policing to get people help, and we have some work to do. >> is there a mechanism to track impact as far as if a certain number of referrals are being made by a certain number of officers for there to be a follow up by dph or from the police department to ensure there is access being afforded; right? because i think one of the challenges we have with

substance use as most are aware of there are very small windows of opportunity for accessing treatment, right, and sometimes those windows happen you know during an encounter with the police department, but yet if we don't necessarily have a facility or a site to actually enroll them into we miss an opportunity there. is that being structured and formalized with dph and is there a mechanism being rolled out to be able to capture when we're having that positive impact? because it's great to promote when the linkages happen. >> yeah. there's a couple of things and first i think the officers ready not a lot of people are service ready. it's not service resistant. we don't believe in that. it's the multiple engagement for finally somebody is ready to get the help they need and that's what we try to. do we try to encourage them. our partnership with public health is important but we're

also mindful of hipaa so as much as we want say what happened to john smith? are they getting help? are they connected with the family? did we make a difference? we can't ask the question because it's hipaa and can't tell you what is happening with the person and a lot of times the communication is one way and what we need to get a little better at is really providing names and more information to public health. i talked to the chief about that just today how to get better at it and the chief has ideas as well, so the work will continue. the work will continue but i agree with everything commissioner and i thank you for your comments. >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner walker. >> thank you assistant chief lazar. to follow up on the issue of the services and working

with the department of health we got the notice about the treatment on demand report just bringing in all the departments that are involved with that. i will remind people when i was doing a ride along in the tenderloin and i am sure everybody else has experienced this too some of the other partners helping and out there taking folks to treatment they need to sort of step up too. to wait 45 minutes for a hot team is probably not going to help much, so maybe sort of piggybacking on this process of treatment on demand, and really making that real. it's not just words but really getting adult probation issue the sheriff's department, supervisor court, da, police and the coalition out there so

it includes community folks, the non-profit groups who have programming. obviously it's going to take a lot 109 more programming than we have here, so. >> . >> you know i think supervisor mandelman introduced this for advisement. i guess it's going to be -- i am trying to look and see when it's on the -- i'm not sure when the next step in that but is that a good opportunity to actually deal with some of these -- because it's really not the police who really need to do it. it's more of the community groups and the non-profit service providers, so what vehicle, and i know that supervisor dorsey is also doing sf recovers and they're aimed at this issue you're talking about and carry forward the good work you're doing

with that grant that you're building the community relationship, so just curious about that potential? >> yeah commissioner walker really that is a best practice. you know the best practice is when public health is making the outreach, when the department of homelessness and supportive -- hsh and hot are all doing their work to engage, to intervene, to connect. we really want them to be the front line on all of this, and we have a role for public safety, but we don't -- you know the community is better served when the professionals in mental health treatment and substance abuse treatment take the lead, and when we're all working together and are very collaborative and cohesive way and we're coordinating that really is the model for the city, for this country and i have seen it in --

we've seen it in other cities and the chief has seen it and mentioned like the other thing is like a co-responder model that we're with them. at the end of the day it's getting the other agencies to do the work for us to step behind them and support them, and i agree commissioner walker we have to include everyone in this. >> thank you. i mean i feel i want to be supportive of carrying forward the work you're doing even if the grant money is gone that it really seem to be aimed at this specific thing, so whatever i can do to help, whatever we can do to help i am sure the commission is supportive. >> commissioner walker i would say when the grant ends we have to continue to do this work with our own budget to engage, partnership, services and policing. we still have to did that work. >> yep. thank you. >> thank you. >> sergeant.

>> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item three, the chief's report. if you would like to make public comment please press star three. and president elias there is no public comment. >> thank you. [inaudible]. >> line item 4. dpa director's report discussion. report on recent activities and discussion is limited to determine whether any of the issues raised for a future meeting. presentation of the monthly fiscal report for july, august 2022. director henderson. >> welcome director henderson. >> thank you. welcome. it's good to be back. i see you guys didn't wait for me and continued the citizens business while i was away at conference, but i am

happy to be back and join you all. thank you for having me president elias and vice president carter. i'm ready with my report and happy to be here again, so we have 488 cases that have been opened so far this year and we have closed at dpa522 cases. we have 244 cases that are active and pending right now and we've sustained 48 cases. this time last we're we sustained 37 case it ises. we mediated 16 cases this year and a presentation today on mediation that i think you will find enlightening and helpful and a little bit of a shift from what we presented in the past about mediation, a little more expansive and direct about some of

the operations. in terms of cases investigations have gone beyond nine months we have 24 cases in that category. this time last year we had 25 cases that were in that category. of the 24 cases whose investigations have gone beyond the nine months 17 of those cases are toll cases meaning there's outside litigation or civilly involved in the cases that suspended the time counted on the length of the investigations. there are 10 cases that are currently pending with the commission and with the chief's office and currently 79 cases pending and again there's updated spreadsheet that is now on the website. this week dpa received nine cases at the agency. those top agencies and cases

involved cases. >> . >> assaults burglaries and neighborhood disputes. the two top precincts with allegations coming in is northern which of two. the top allegations from northern were failing to respond to calls and also in the tenderloin again with two complaints. the most complaints coming from assisting a person for failing to sign the citation and refusing to call a supervisor or a sergeant. again these are allegations of complaints that have come n the full list of the complaints on the website if anyone needs to see the full break down. in terms of our monthly statistics these are the monthly statistics that we had scheduled today for june, july, august. these were the periods when we weren't meeting. in

june of the 44 cases that came in 34% of those cases involved officers allegations of officers who spoke or behaved inappropriately with the public and 25% of the allegations were about officers failing to take required action as requested by the public. there was total of 82 separate allegations. the reason i am articulating them versus the complaints that come in very frequently someone will complaint about a singular thing but after a investigation a number of issues that are raised in terms of actual allegations that get investigated. for july of the 64 cases that came in 38% of those cases involved officers who spoke allegedly spoke or behaved inappropriately with the public

and 30% involved allegations that officers failed to take required actions from the public, and there were 134 agencies from those 64 allegations that had initially had come in from july. in august the 58 cases that came in in august and 40% with officers that behaved or spoke inappropriately with the public and 38% that officers failed to take required action. coming out to total 112 allegeds that were violated. in terms of outreach we had our teraval station meeting on september 15 and i also spent last week at the neighborhood association of civilian law enforcement oversight agency which was held in fort worth and i attended that conference all

week addressing various issues related to civilian oversight. present for today and today's meeting i have senior investigator candace carpenter is on the line if there are issues to be followed up on from this meeting. there is nothing in closed session but a number of issues on the agenda today so you will hear from myself and staff at dpa on various agenda items throughout the rest of the evening. again if the public has any questions or comments and wants to reach out to dpa specifically we can be reached at sfgtv.org forward slash dpa and contact us directly at the phone also. and i am available in case anyone has any questions beyond the issues that we're about to address with the rest of the agenda. i think we're on agenda item 6,

seven, eight and nine. >> thank you. any questions for director henderson? . >> there will be a lot i am sure with some of the agenda items as we roll them all out. >> yes. i think and also too i was told with respect to the numbers that you gave on the chief's hearing [inaudible] the department is going to present on that on the first meeting in october just so you know director henderson. >> fantastic. is that also going to include any valuation of 3304 tracking and cases with -- (inaudible) >> it should. i was told they are going to provide context for the numbers i provided and the 90 and seems like a lot to us so they will explain what the 90 is and how many are pass the nine month mark and any in jeopardy of [inaudible].

>> will that also go back to track the oldest cases so we know like what the range is? >> i assume so but we can talk off line and make sure that the presentation addresses the issues that were raised. >> fantastic. >> thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. director henderson i just have one clarifying question. when allegations and cases are opened i am going to assume the majority had an interaction with the police officer; right? is there a recourse for members of the public that maybe witnessed a failure of duty and action to submit? and i know it would be very difficult to substantiate that but obviously there has been a lot

of you know -- there have been many articles in the news about officers just not responding to requests, and looking the other way when there's certain incidents taking place but sometimes there's not an inter face with the process so can you go under the process that someone would under take to make that? >> absolutely. thank you for that question. just because it does give me a chance to clear up some of the misunderstandings how the agency works and how folks can make allegations and initiate complaints with the agency so even if you're not the suspect or a target or the person interacting directly with law enforcement if you see something that makes you uncomfortable or witness or have recorded an observation that you think isn't right you can contact dpa directly to either initiate a self reported case of something you observed, but also you can make that same allegation and turn

that information over anonymously which will initiate its own investigation, and that information can be followed up upon even if you don't have the license plate of the car, even if you don't have the name of the officers that are -- that were involved because we can track and this is what we typically do. we will look into the date, time, location to narrow down to try to identify who the officer or officers were, and/or the information that is corobbive from the officers themselves and often times that means we can go through body worn camera to figure out who had the body worn cameras on at the time and if the body worn camera was supposed to be on and who is in the square to try to figure out identification just beyond the allegation and it's the information that we get that leads to those investigations that is really helpful and i think a lot of

folks talk themselves out of sharing information because they feel like well i didn't get a name or i don't remember what day that was, or i'm not sure who the person was they were talking to and i don't know any of their names, but we can still open an investigation and oftentimes can conduct an independent investigation with our own investigators. i think that's really important and i am stressing the "independent" part because i think people misunderstand and we're just asking the department what happened and don't understand that we have a whole team and unit of investigators that find their own evidence that collect their own facts in addition to collecting information from the department in order to try to following out what happened and if whether or not something inappropriate happened. one of the things we're about to talk about shortly and i will wrap it up with this is a way for people that can empower themselves to track what is happening to the

allegations made to the department and even without looking it up and telling you information one thing that frustrates people not knowing i made an alleged last week and i don't know what is happening. i made an alleged last week six months ago and i'm not sure where the process it is. >> >> and one of the things we will talk about today is what i believe is an empowerment tool to track the cases and understand about the cases made and reported to the agent. i hope that answered the question. >> thank you. that's helpful. >> thank you. okay. sergeant public comment please. >> at this time the public is now welcome to make public comment. please press star three now.

good evening caller you have two minutes. >> good evening everyone. my name is david and i am calling in regard to the homicide case of my mother car mellita holbrook number as cited. mr. henderson back in july you were strucked to contact me regarding the mishappening of my complaints. and you have not. i have personal experience with candace carpenter aware that the investigator cal kerr ron [inaudible] about my complaint and [inaudible] closure. i reached out to the department several times and you guys are continuously impeding my ability to get justice so my request again is to have someone properly handle the nature of my complaint as you have been made aware of all of the mishandlings not only

from your agency but by the san francisco police department and the san francisco district attorney's office . you indicated -- no notes in the case over 20 years so again as i have stated before i am getting conflicting information from your agency as well as the san francisco police department. me as a professional i'm a medical coding auditor and i find it really surprising that i have been able to uncover more about my mother's case than your team has. thank you. >> thank you caller. president elias that's the end of public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 5 commission reports, discussion. commission reports will be

limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. discussion is limited to determining whether the calendar any of the issues raised for a future meetings. commission's president's report s and commissioner announcements and identified for consideration at a future meeting. action. >> thank you. fellow commissioners just a couple of things to report. one the surveillance issue is a jeopardized the first week of october as well as the department's presentation on the numbers provided by dpa. additionally for the public we assign some dgos to various commissioners so each commissioner can have a handful of dgos and help shepherd these through the process so we can get them before the commission and get them adopted and approved so we are currently working on that and that's all that i have. i will turn it over to vice