>> the chair called the meeting to order. if you could please rise if you are able for 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. >> president elias, if i can call roll. [roll call] >> you have a quorum. also here we have chief scott from it san francisco police department and diana roseensteen for the department of police accountability. >> thank you. call the first item. >> first item is going to be general public comment. at this

time, the public is now welcome to address the commission up to two minutes on items not on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission. comments are opportunity to speak during public comment are via phone calling 415-655-0001 and enter access code, 24828007508. you may submit public comment e-mail the secretary of the police commission, sfpd commission@(inaudible) members who like to make public comment please approach the podium or press star 3. and president

elias there is no public comment. >> great. next item. >> line item 7 will be taken which is presentation by the center of policing equity report and analysis on traffic stops. discussion. can you hear us? >> i could get us started. scarlet and are doing a dual presentation here. can we get our slides up or is that something we have to share? >> we have great technical support so they are on it as we speak. >> beautiful, beautiful. we are not tech geniuses. >> by tech support i mean sergeant youngblood. >> well, we appreciate

sergeant youngblood. >> there you go thank you for joining us. we know you are on east coast time so why we are taking it out of order. >> thank you so much and thank you so much for having us. i'm sharelet resing, i'm the (inaudible) center for policing equity and scarlet is my colleague a policy research manager at center for policing equity and thank you for allowing to present on the fiendings from the recent white paper on traffic safety. these are recommendations to address racial disparities and traffic crashes as well as enforcement. if i can get the next slide, please. so, just overview of what we'll go over today. i'll introduce the organization for policing equity, we will go over holistic traffic safety recommendations. we

will do a particular focus on stops since i think that is most of interest to the folks here, and then have time for questions at the end. next slide, please. so, a little about for center for policing equity. we are research action group that uses science and social science to research public safety system. we work to create sairf communities reducing the footprint of law enforcement and partnered with over 60 law enforcement agencies in 30 states in the united states. we really rely on science and that science says that situations predict bias much more then individual biases. so we developed these recommendations in the most scientific way we can. we use our social scientist on staff and did a significant amount of

research into reforms happening all over the country. we developed the recommendations to address dual crisis that we are currently seeing in the country which are increases in crashes, and also racial disparities and crashes and enforcement. next slide, please. this is kind of a overview of what we will be talking about today more specifically in terms of the recommendations. we will talk about ending pretextual stops. scarlet will go into that more later. investing in public health approaches to road safety and this is really part of a holistic approach improving equity and road safety and that's important to us because we wantarve everyone to be safer in a equitable way.

some examples are things extending yellow lights,b round abouts which are much safer as traditional intersections, limit the use of fines and fees which we'll get into and provide examples later. piloting alternative to armed enforcement. this includes civilian enforcement and traffic violations, which multiple jurisdictions around the country are look nothing to now and also can include things like photos and enforcement that doesn't involve pulling someone over and giving them a ticket but mailing them a ticket and lastly, improving data collection transparency. [audio cut out] is the only way that we have an ability to see what impacts any of our current

initiatives have and also see where the issues lie. where are the dangerous intersections? how can we address those? what are the most impactful way to address those and finally transparency. just improving the way we communicate with communities and make it clear why we are instituteing different approaches and different initiatives. next slide, please. here is a little more about limiting fines and fees these are recommendations from the report. the first is repair vouchers. repair vourchers in case people not aware listening, provide people with a opportunity to go and get things on their car fixed without giving them a ticket. multiple jurisdictions around the country are utilizing repair

vouchers including chasm county georgia as well as the state patrol of minnesota. both of which are partnering with a organization called lights on that help them basically actualize a voucher system where people can come get their car fixed and not have a fine or fee on top of whatever it cost to get the things fixed and this makes our roads safer because we have all these things fixed for people and it makes it easy for them. the second we have reminder notification or income base fee waver for expired registration. the reminder notification would just be a way for government like the government to essentially communicate with citizens about timing of registration being expired or anything else like that and income base fee waver for expired registration would essentially be a

system in which we can address expired registration but in a way that is equitable. $50, hundred dollars means different things to people who make different amounts of money. here we have driver suspension restoration program. durum has a wonderful program that they have started called deer and it helps people resolve old traffic violations and traffic debt that caused long-term driver license suspensions. and so, those are important because driving in lots of communities is vitedal vital to get to work and pick up their kids and these programs can help people who have had suspension for long periods of time or even short period of time get back to day to day activities and solve some of these issues that get them caught in the system. next slide,

please. what are pretextual stops? when police pull someone over for a miner traffic violation in order to investigate an unrelated offense for which the officer lacks reasonable suspicion. next slide, please. and this is just little diagram, very simple obviously. to short of show what pretext stops are and where a lot of disparities exist in pretext stops as well as non safety related stops. as you can see not every equipment license registration violation, sure everyone here is aware are pretext stops but some are and that intersection where there are non safety related issues or

violations that are happening and folks are getting pulled over, that is where we see extremely high racial disparities and who gets stopped, and tend to be inefficient use of police department resources. i'll turn it over to scarlet to get into more of pretext stops. >> is my audio working now? wonderful. next slide, please. so, going to talk a little about who is effected by pretextual stops,er and we analyze policing data from dozens of jurisdictions nation wide and consistently over and over see that white drivers are more likely to be pulled over for safety related reasons such as speeding while black drivers are more likely to be pulled over for equipment license and registration violations that have a

high likelihood of being a pretextual stop. we also consistently see black drivers are searched at higher rates at traffic stops but they are less likely to produce contraband as white drivers. there is research that sheds light on the extent to which pretextual stops have a crime fighting benefit and we see here in this data set from north carolina that the yield of all these stops producing meaningful contraband, enough to jen rate a arrest is very very low,.03 percent of all traffic stops analyzed over a time period. next slide, please. so, our recommendations to address this issue and limit pretextual stops come from a few

different approaches, which i'll talk about in turn. we first recommend that police departments ban pretextual stops and then we also recommend that cities and states pass laws restricting low level traffic stops and kind of aligned fashion and then we also recommend that these reforms are enforced and monitored. next slide, please. so, first we recommend that police departments prohibit stops that are pretext for criminal investigations. and several police departments nation wide have done this to various degrees including oakland los angeles minneapolis and faytville north carolina to name a few. we are seeing evidence that this is effective at reducing racial disparities in traffic stops. one academic study of

faytville shift away from pretextual stops. show the share of non safety related stops as a share of all traffic stops dropped from 56 percent to 32 percent. racial disparities reduced, traffic crashes reduced and crime was not measurebly effected. to be effective addressing the nature of pretextual stops though, we have a few recommendations for any policies that police departments are putting in place. first we recommend that the policy clearly state that it is banning all pretextual stops with no exceptions. we also recommend that the policy encourage compliance with this shift by also stating that officers are not allowed to ask investigative questions or conduct a consent based search without independent cause to do so.

basically kind of defining the implications of the change on police behavior. finally, we recommend that law enforcement leadership communicate intent of this reform. why is it happening and that should center around limiting racial bias and unnecessary enforcement and that can really foster the necessary culture shift to see this change made in day to day practice. next slide, please. so, another approach to banning pretextual stops you might have heard of is legislative option to define certain categories of stops which police are no longer allowed to enforce as has been done in virginia and cities in pennsylvania. this can really help reinforce any police lead reform being made

in the department as well as deincentivize pretextual stops where departments have not yet made that kind of shift. this change ending low level stops is also important for reprioritizing enforcement and are reducing the volume of stops that are made to black and brown people. and while evidence on this intervention is emerging, there has been a report out of virginia showing 7.5 percent reduction in total stop volume, however, the racial disparities in stops remained unchanged and so this really isn't a panacea to rooting out racial bias, but can be a significant step forward. next slide. so, to monitor compliance with any department policy changes we encourage a

policy that officers are required to report narrative descriptions of the justification for each stop and search they conduct that details the reason for doing so, and research has shown this can help increase compliance with a policy change. those reports should be reviewed daily by a supervisor. we also encourage localities to track outcomes of reform made through data analysis to make sure it is a achieving its intended goal. fortunately california has strong data collection stanards that will be helpful in doing so. next slide. that is our brief overview, but for our full detailed white paper on these recommendations and examples and our evidence and rational for making each of

these suggestions a link to the report here is provided and then you can also free to each out to us and we are happy to answer any questions you have right now. >> thank you again for being here and presenting this report. i am a huge fan of your work. i know the department engaged you in other services and it has been a very i think productive and fruitful engagement and you have been able to provide the department with great data analysis and recommendations and this is a along those lines as well. one question i had is based on research and experience in this field, do you think that banning pretext stops will pose a safety risk on the community? the reason i ask that is, in

discussions while working on the policy there have been a lot of concerns from officers who feel that implementing a ban on pretext stops or specifically outlines which stops are going to be prohibited is taking away their tools and their ability to do their jobs and will eventually effect public safety and so hoping maybe you can speak more to that and address their concerns based on all of the work you have done in this field and the experience you have. >> yeah. absolutely. we certainly understand that concern and have heard it from many law enforcement officials we work with and understand that they obviously want to be able to continue doing the important work they do. our view is that the bar being set of having reasonable suspicion to make a

stop is really not a high bar to clear and it sometimes when folks are describing situations that they are worried about not being able to make it is actually not what we are suggesting to this reform. it isn't actually a true pretextual stop. sometimes there is a little bit of maybe gut reaction there that would not be born out in the actual policy change, and i would just say that a lot of states through the courts have actually fully banned pretext stops for a number of years, and there was not any you know, i think it was a culture shift, but not any measurable negative effect on crime in those communities, so for example, washington state banned

pretextual stops in their state supreme court from 1999-2012 and the studies that came out of that showed really a significant drops in racial disirpaties. >> have you been following los angeles? there was a article in the la times recently about some of the outcomes that have been found based on their policy that they implemented with respect to banning pretext stops. >> yes, i actually just read that article today and saw that i think the drop was from 21 percent of stops to 12 percent of stops being pretextual, which seems really promising. we haven't you know, worked with los angeles or followed that too too closely other then the

public media reports but it does seem certainly a great step. >> it also seems in line with your other research and which you described earlier about it not-the ban on pretext stop not having significant effect on crime in terms of by having this ban, so i think that was also promising as well. >> absolutely. to the point of crime in addition to the-that study, the faytville study with no change in crime after the reform was made. there is also a big analysis out of nashville shows how rarely pretextual stops leads to discovery of drugs or weapons so this is taking place across the country and we are seeing kind of

consistent patterns that indicate that there would not be a big impact on public safety that is (inaudible) >> i'll jump in quickly. i think (inaudible) being very low yield rates frequently for pretext stops, i think one of the focuses for cpe is really that we want police to be able to do their job s and clear homicide rates and protect people, and this is a area where based on research we don't believe that there will be an increase in crime as all these locations there haven't been and we are hoping that the volume of these stops being lowered gives police the opportunity to really do their jobs and protect people in communities. >> thank you. i appreciate that because as we are all

and think every profession facing staffing shortages that is one of the issues we need to keep in mind about people being able to do their job with the limits resources they have. i will turn it over to colleagues. commissioner benedicto. thank you again. >> thank you president elias and thank you both for your time and this analysis. grateful for this work. i wanted to ask a little bit about looking at your recommendation with pretext stops you have officers (inaudible) pretext criminal investigation. you have ban stops for low level violations and collect data enforce reforms. why is it important all those be adopted as part of the holistic approach and are not just one or two of the three? >> i can jump in for this one. i where think the holistic approach is important because we want people to be safe on the roads. we want there

to be increased safety and the holistic approach implements road safety measures that are evidence based and actually improve rates of crashes and rates of fatalities in crashes so having that two pronged approach really makes sure we reduce some of the disparities in enforcement we are seeing right now but while also making people safer and implementing things that are evidence based and really can improve rates of death fatalities and crashes as well as crashes themselves. >> thank you. i like to follow up and say look specifically at recommendation 2 ban stops for low level violations. you spoke how that can reinforce the prohibition. can you speak more about why you think that second component is a important part of your recommendation?

>> yeah. i can take that. so, first of all, we saw in the little diagram earlier on not every pretextual stop is a low level violation and not every low level violation is a pretextual stop and i think the intent behind both of the reforms is cover as broad a swath as possible of those two kinds of stops that are driving racial disparities and traffic enforcement. and i think it is also recognition of the fact that departmental level change can be -there is 18 thousand police departments in the country, it can be incremental to suggest policy change one by one and when something like the state of virginia enacts this

legislative reform that can really you know, have a immediate impact on a lot of people by taking a lot of kinds of stops off the table and then also incentivize police departments in that state to be reexamining their policies. so, it is two bites of the apple i think and the third recommendation we make about enforcing these changes and reinforcing them and monitoring them again speaks to these are complex issues, these are cultural shifts that will take time and it is important to make sure they are really happening, and we know it is not a light switch, if you will sometimes. >> that makes sense. sorry, please go ahead. >> i was going to

quickly jump in and add the low level stops sometimes there is apprehension what low level stops mean. the report and recommendations are very clear on what we mean by low level stops and these are not safety infractions. these are not things that make people less safe on the road immediately and so we think that there are other ways that we can handle some of these infractions or violations that don't increase disparities and or can aid people to actually fix their cars get these things settled to make everyone safer on the roads. >> that makes sense. it sound like then i think it was described as this all the elements reinforce each other having each element in place. that is very helpful to know. do you think-i know president elias talked about the lapd policy which is focused more on

providing articiable ezrooens for pretext stops but doesn't identify low level violations. is it important that those elements be done together to maximize the effect based on your research? >> which element? >> both the prohibition using stops and ban for low level violation. as i said the lapd policy for example doesn't have anything to say about low level violations, it simply requires information before conducting a stop. >> i think something is better then nothing. either of these reforms on their own are likely to decrease volumes of stop. we see across the country they do and that decreases the burden on black and brown drivers and discrease the disparities in which they get pulled over.

doing both together i think would amplify results and disparities. >> thank you. i wanted to ask pretext stops and serious crimes. in the white paper you have a statement that says pretext stops do not improve traffic safety. would you mind speaking to that a little bit? >> yes. sure. so, pretext stops by definition is one in which an officer is pulling over someone with the ultimate goal of looking into more serious crime. a speeding violation can be a pretext stop and that would be related to traffic safety, but by in large majority

of pretext stops are low level equipment, license, registration violations and by spending so much time enforcing those kind of violations and not doing the enforcement directly related to traffic safety, such as high visibility enforcement for drunk driving or speeding violations, the point is just that it is kind of shifting priorities in traffic safety that are not advancing the goals of dangerous driving and things that are really producing traffic crashes. does that answer your question? >> i can also jump in here as well. just-i'm harping on it, but again, the yield rates of

contraband or arrest rates for pretext stops are extremely low and that is across the board, so in our minds this is not something that is really improving public safety to significant-not a significant amount but perhaps not much at all, and again, as scarlet said, there is other places where we think those resources could be deployed that actually vastly emprove improve public safety. >> thank you so much and thank you to you both for your work. i encourage members of the public, there isn't a lot of public discussion about this proposed policy to look at the supporting documents on the commission website and look at the full white paper that policing equity put out. it isn't long, 27 pages but quite reezable and has a lot of really great evidence based recommendations and it's reassuring to see already our draft

policy is in the direction of the changes and i like something they said about amplifying the effect of reducing disparities by doing multiple recommendations. thank you again both. >> thank you so much for having us. >> thank you. turning it over to commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias and thank you for your presentation. i just have a couple of questions. i too was interested in the los angeles results because it does seem to me they had pretty good results for doing what they are doing which is putting what they are doing on tape, becoming more conscious of that. i know that you are recommending kind of three different levels of action here and i wonder if you have the data that actually

supports that using all three is bert then just using the first one or doing what los angeles is doing or whether-are there cities that have done pilot programs so they maybe look at what is happening by doing three different versions because i do feel like it is kind of like when i have a cold and take three different medications like two different vitamins and also a aspirin and feel better. i don't know which it was and these things as much as i hear that you-the data you have doesn't have consequences, i would not expect it would have consequences of increasing crime, but i worry that it might create different

traffic consequences and maybe crime solving data. crime solving statistics. i also know you are using cities that are not san francisco, so i just-it is kind of all scattered here. it is kind of not separated. to the first question, do you have details that separate out all of these different approaches and which one works or do they work better in combination or is that just theoretic? >> i can take some of this. i think scarlet is more the numbers gal but we do have evidence based specifically for each individual reform. as far as i know there isn't a jurisdiction that currently is doing all of these. scarlet, is that correct? >> i don't know of

any. i mean, there might be police departments in (inaudible) in line with the legislation passed. i don't know off the top of my head. >> for each individually we have seen results in cities that implemented. i love the multiple medicine during a cold analogy. for us each of these we have seen the bias and disproportionate impact that results or at least in terms of pretext stops and low level violation and so we know those individually are things that have a outside impact on black and brown people, and the-in terms of the general holistic traffic safety reforms those have significant

evidence base and there are lots of jurisdictions implementing a lot of those reforms, but-and we can share-we do have more specifics, so we would be happy to share that with the commission if people want the statistics. >> like to see that. i feel like some of the issues we are seeing in some of the more crowded areas have to do with sharing sidewalks and different sort of traffic issues that might be effected by eliminating banning stops all together for low level that are actually being thought of here. it may not be what you all have done. i feel like-i'm interested in the los angeles data because i

feel like it shows potential for really reducing the kind of things we are talking about here. i also really like the information about being able to help people solve the issues they have around these miner traffic issues of like registration and maybe getting insurance. having grants available, having help for that is really i think part of the solution. one concern i have, i don't believe we have infrastructure set up to do these mail in tickets for these kind of things. i don't think it is a good solution to not enforce it all together, but the concept of being able to send people tickets instead of pulling them over for things like registration and things like that makes sense to me. i feel

like that's why i'm sort of interested in the concept of pilot programs to test what works and to make sure a system is sufficient to make it work efficiently. i think it would be really good to sort of think about that if other cities did pilots and then tested different things that might work in different areas or city specifically with our traffic things or traffic issues. >> absolutely every jurisdiction has unique needs and will need unique combination of solutions. i think obviously our report is aiming to seek to multiple communities and ideas for you all to (inaudible) and see

what makes sense for you. i would just also say that the first reform we offer, the police lead banning of pretextual stops would be the most direct way to ban pretextual stops if you will, and that is what los angeles is doing and i think they are having good results because they are doing some accountability measures with asking the officers to document their reason for doing stops, which is what we recommend in the third recommendation we presented on. but again we know this is a tricky issue and a really big culture shift for some agencies and police have been used to having this as basically a crime fighting tool for a

long time, so the legislative reform of low level stops is kind of like the second way to encourage and see this kind of change take place while also communicating that shifting enforcement priorities and traffic violations is also important, because there is a lot of deaths on the road, there is rising traffic fatalities now and pulling people over for these low level issues is not really what we want to be seeing police spend their valuable time on. (inaudible) we do think there is value in multiple approaches here. >> i'll jump in here. i think in particular in terms of not having systems set up that makes sense. we encourage jurisdictions we work with and talk to to

have really robust dialogue with other agencies that can help set up these systems and can let people know what currently exists, what the capabilities are, and a lot of jurisdictions of various sizes have set up these new systems and i recognize that is not nothing, that could be a big ask also why we in our report specifically ask for investment in these alternative systems to make sure that these things are still getting taken care of, but in a effective and more equitable way. just one last thing on this, in terms of some of the particularly voucher repair voucher system, there are organizations out there that have been helping jurisdictions actualize this and make it happen, and i think it sounds like from initial implementation of some

of these these jurisdictions find it sightly easier then they thought it would be. there is lots of unexpecting allies you can have in some of these. there is repair shops and larger car repair organizations and companies that are willing to kind of step in and help with this because of the intense racial disparities that come with classic enforcement of them. >> thank you. >> commissioner walker during our working group these were the ideas that came and i think chief and several officers monte were very informative to the group in terms of resources and what used to be available to residents for these type of violations so we have been working on that front as well. refreshing to know we will-our policy may be

different and ground-breaking as similar past policy like 501 carter restraint and things like that so we are a pioneer of the group. >> good evening. thank you and thank you for the presentation. i have one quick comment or clarification i would like to ask on behalf of the public. i know your presentation mentions banning low level stops, but there is no specific explanation of what that universe is so wondering if you can point us or direct us in the public in the direction of what your universe for low level stops look like so we can juxtapose your research and the infractions or traffic violation that you researched and you talked about for our jurisdiction. >> i would actually

say we would not come up with a list of categories of stops that all communities should not be making. i think we have some ideas based on what other jurisdictions have done. things like objects dangling from a rearview mirror, single broken taillight. the point being i think it is important that each jurisdiction who is thinking about this reform look at their data and their stops being made to identify the ones where they are not seeing a clear connection to public safety benefits in terms of traffic safety and they are also seeing high racial disparities as a initial set of stops to take off the table. >> thank you. >> thank you.

commissioner yee. >> thank you very much president elias. i is a couple questions. looking at fines and fees. out of curiosity, what do you have set a budget or projected budget for the city of san francisco of our size in regards to the violations that do come through repairing equipment violations? base fee for expired registration and drivers license suspension and a host of others, because i think it pertains to the state mandate for the violations that set forth. i don't know if we do that here locally, add additional fines to that. just out of

your investigation whether you have in california whether we have done that, limit the use of fines. >> maybe scarlet (inaudible) she is our numbers lady. i am not aware-i don't know specifically for california. i would definitely we can share these resources with the commission after this, but i would look at-there is a few organizations that focus on fines and fees, and there is one large coalition called freedom to drive, which essentially is a group of organizations and corporations that are looking to end license suspensions for fines and fees. >> (inaudible) >> okay. there you go. in terms of some of the other reforms, i am-scarlet are you

aware? >> i don't obviously california is one of many states in the jurisdictions within california so not sure the exact nature of fines and fee system in san francisco, but i do know california is piloting a online tool that lets people look up their traffic ticket and request reduction in the amount owed. a payment plan, more time to pay or the option of doing community service instead of paying and that saved a significant amount of money and reduced fines and fees for participants mostly below the poverty line. that is a example we highlight in our report to minimize the burden of fines and fees for people who are (inaudible) >> do you have a idea about amount of funtding funding that

would be required to address the issue regarding the fines and fees? >> it is a really good question and it is kind of tricky often to uncover the extent to which a city relies on fines and fees, so i don't know off hand, but we would be happy to direct you to organizations doing more specific work in that area who can probably shed light on the extent to which that has been mapped out in san francisco. >> i would also just flag that i think again one of the reasons we are asking for holistic reform is there a certain amount of savings that would be associated with stopping pretext stops and low level violations and i think this is not something that we have necessarily-actually again, scarlet might have more info, but we

don't have any specific to san francisco, but we view those-there can be evening out and again, also for a functioning system, hopefully systems shouldn't be funded by fines and fees of people who are involved in the system. that hopefully would be something that would be funded by taxpayer money and by the city or jurisdiction. and i actually-to add on to that, i think one reason why we say that shouldn't be something relied on is because it creates an inverse incentive for jurisdictions to maintain fines and fees and to levy them without things like fee wavers or income based reductions and we don't really agree

with that calculus. we like people to be assess fees in a way that they actually can be able to pay them and again, i think that is adding to our public safety concern of like $200 ticket for different people means different things and for some people that means that they cant buy groceries that week and that isn't a situation we believe people should be in. >> i'll follow-up with last question. alternative to (inaudible) enforcement is that individually civilians stopping vehicles or is that just they see a new technology i guess capturing the vehicles id or license plates? >> we have multiple options outlined in our report. we do

have some apprehension about automated enforcement, specifically they have been rolled out in ways that are not necessarily equitable. lots of cities have seen many more automated traffic enforcement cameras in localities that have higher black and brown and lower income folks, and so that is something we caution. also, there is varying effectiveness in the automated enforcement, but it is something that i think if you can see-if it is evidence based, there is marked decrease in some sort of infraction that is actually a safety violation, and rolled out in a equitable way and also rolled out in a way that doesn't increase surveillance on folks that is something we talk about in the report but think there are

other options. i am based in denver and one thing they do here-this avoids a lot of the surveillance issues that a lot of places see when they do automated enforcement through companies that they contract. we actually have folks in cars that take pictures of people speeding and that is something that is a option. they mail the tickets afterwards and that is alternative to armed enforce: . ment there is a few different areas and don't know if scarlet wants to add examples there. there is a few different. civilian enforcement is something we also talk about in the report and do find promising. i know in california currently that is not something that is allowed by state law, but in line with our-all our recommendations i think that is a option that places should be

looking into. again, to decrease bias enforcement and disproportionate impacts and also maintain safety guidelines and enforcement. >> thank you very much. >> also to let you know commissioner yee in september 2022 this year the san francisco superior court eliminated 50 million in outstanding debt with late fees for traffic court and this was part of state-wide debt relief program under ab199 and signed into law by governor newsom so i think the effort to eliminate fines that are impacting low income and racial communities is there and something we are looking into. >> i hope the state has funding coming fiscal years. i think they may be short this year so hopefully we have the funds set

aside for those people in need. appreciate it. thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias and thank you for the presentation. this is really helpful and informative as we engage in this process of revising and addressing the disparities in pretext stops. as we kind of noticed with the recent election, safety and economy and cost are at the for efront of mind when we make decisions and it is helpful to hear those jurisdictions and states cities that started implementing this have not noticed increase in safety issues in their cities. along those lines, are you aware of any cost analysis of the implementation

of piloting alternatives? there are various ones, but obviously san francisco things are going to cost more. we can make sure we modify, but is there an analysis of what this would cost to roll out if we were to implement those that 3 pronged holistic approach? >> that is a great question. i am not aware of any cost analysis of rolling out these changes. i think departmental level policy changes are pretty low cost thing to implement. it is just kind of a staff training and shifting the practice. it isn't like a lot of new staff is needed or what not. but i would just say on the cost question, we are

talking-when we talk about the volume of potentially unnecessary traffic stops being made, traffic stops are the most common way police interact with members of the public. there is 20 million people stopped for traffic violation a year, so there is so much cost that goes into that would be saved by scaling it down. there is actually recent analysis of the san diego sheriff department data on officer initiated stops for the type of traffic violations most aligned with being pretextual, and they found a third of officer hours which they quantified at $43.9 million were spent on these kind of traffic stops that result in a warning or no action taken. not needing to be made at all. that is just a glimpse of some of the

costs we are talking about here. >> i would also just flag that i think one of the options here in terms of fees is income based fees, which as a net was not necessarily result in any increased cost to communities. i also just want to flag here, there is more then just the financial cost here. one of the things that is the focus of this report and focus of a lot of our work. the cost emotionally and monetarily to members of the community who are stopped is huge number of people in the united states who get pulled over every year is difficult to quantify. again, this is something that we can see if we have any specifics on and can

circulate after the meeting. >> thank you, i won't keep you up too much later but i have one other question. is there or are you aware of any other jurisdictions that started implementing or preventing or banning pretext stops and there being correlating improvement in clearance rates in other areas? in other words, we spend all this time on pretext stops or low level offense stops and our hope is that that level of effort will be invested in other areas of more severe crime. has that been done in any other jurisdiction as far as you know? >> the research on this is very limited unfortunately. that would be a fantastic study for someone to do because i would hope that it would show the benefits of reallocating officer time. only kind of

related study is out of faytville where they are just looking at implications on traffic safety metric specifically and that shifting away from pretextual stops actually reduced collisions quite significantly in their jurisdiction because of the police ability to do more targeted and meaningful traffic enforcement. i'm not aware of any studies about the implications on other kinds of police activity. >> san francisco implements this reform or some of these reforms hopefully you could be the leader here. >> wouldn't be our first. chief can we do a study like that? the department keeps track of and has dat saw on increments of time based on their job. you use it for

the staffing study when the staffing study they came and analyzed increment of time that officer does task 1, task 2 or task 3. >> workload study. >> correct. >> probably could be done. i thrink think it would be very involved. that workload study was huge lift as you all know. >> we can look at a week and extrapolate and make educated guesses. >> great question. >> thank you very much for your time and for your commitment to this effort. >> commissioner benedicto. >> just two quick points. one want to address the (inaudible) about the stops which is i (inaudible) as you look at the white foot note 26 and 27 have the list other jurisdictions have used in virginia and

pennsylvania (inaudible) done a good job compiling those in 26-28. and then the second quick thing is just to reiterate something that just said about that we a lot of questions focus on the monetary cost of this, but there is important to be reminded of the human cost of this about the 20million people that experience stops and not just statistics you had (inaudible) who was stopped 47 times for routine stops before being killed in what was a routine stops so (inaudible) also not without human cost so i think it is important to remember that as we work towards this policy. thank you. >> thank you commissioner benedicto. before we let scarlet and charlotte go i want to give the chief a opportunity if you have questions or comments? >> no questions. i

read the report and we have been working so want to thank them for coming on. i know they are on three hours time difference, but thank you for coming on and we'll be in touch. >> thank you so much. we really appreciate it. >> thank you for having us. >> on the topic for the chief i have a question. just with regards to providing a narrative description and justification. i know a while ago we talked about there are sometimes stops that officers make with no citation. there is admonishment and education there. are we-i ask whether we were capturing that. i don't know if we have a answer but do we have this kind of cross referencing process right now and if we don't how far away will that be to implement? >> the stops or citation isn't written. we still have to fill out the data that goes to the

state so that is captured in that way. our internal systems-that is reported so how we capture it. i don't know if we have done any research to know if we are missing anything but any time we make those stops we have to report that data to the state. whether or not we cite. >> does that include a justification for the stop itself? (inaudible) >> it doesn't have that type of detail. those are things i think as we get better and dig into the things we are working on like dashboards and all that, that i think we will be able to build some of that out. that is the hope anyway. >> thank you. >> alright. thank you again. enjoy east coast time. we will turn it over to public comment, please. >> the public is welcome to make public

comment regarding line item 7. please approach the podium or press star 3. good evening caller, you have 2 minutes. >> francisco decosta. normally we have a number of people (inaudible) about this pretext stops. i look at it in another way. we cannot compare la to san francisco. if you take the population. secondly, we should pay more

attention to orientation of our officers where we bring the element of empathy rather then try to compare virginia, los angeles and all these other places. for example, they are not (inaudible) we have many hills. what is troubling is that the violence, the (inaudible) crazy people walking in the middle of the street and then we come here you know trying to regulate something using pretext stops. so, whether we like it or not, and our mayor is in charge of this,

quality of life issues on our streets has gone to the hogs. even though we know that there is biasness with some of the officers, we can work on that. we can work on those things. but (inaudible) >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is gene bridges. commission you didn't start the phone participation on the meeting until 545 during the presentation. we have been waiting to comment every since. since 530 over a hour. we are volunteering our busy time to call into these meetings. you cut off general public comment tonight. i'm going to make my item 7cpe comment now. the cpe quotes racism and

traffic stops. the study found over 99 percent of miner traffic stops did not produce contraband in searches. the federal department of justice doj cops report on sfpd called out the need to address racism in policing and stops and searches in several dozen of the report recommendations. the cpe propotes eliminating pretext stops stops for miner traffic infractions which turn into racist searches and violence is a tactic shown to reduce racial disparities in stops so why has sfpd been fighting this? do they not want to reduce racial disparities? is another doj reviewed call for and why are the commissioners allowing police resistance to dominate and derail the combinations in the dgo9.01 process? according to sfpd data a black san franciscans is 5 times more likely to be

stopped as a white san franciscans. 10 times likely to be arrested and 15 times to experience use of force. this is why miner stops by police must cease. recommend officers be required to record narrative justification for each stop. we agree it should be required. they also recommend the enforcement of reforms through accountability. negative consequences for officers exhibitsing racism. we agree. accountability has (inaudible) >> good evening, you have two minutes. >> my name is susan (inaudible) as gene said we were not able to make general public comment so i begin my comment on the cpe report with our usual parrot talk. addressing (inaudible) call what it is, anti-blackness in terms of use of force

(inaudible) by sfpd. tired to talking [difficulty hearing speaker due to audio quality] address the bias unjust certifies. (inaudible) as i said, i'm tired not tired enough to quit but tired of beating a dead horse and tired of concerns falling on deaf ears. (inaudible) i heard discussion about san francisco being unique and special and any recommendations from (inaudible) would not be a one size fits all. we need something special for san francisco. at the same time commissioners are asking for evidence that this works in other cities and other locations in the country. which is it,

special are we waiting for other people to show us the way? i think we are special and need to take the lead on this. (inaudible) thank you. >> president elias that is end of public comment. >> thank you, next item, please. >> technical difficulty we had general public comment was not able to be done on webex, and will call one more time. if you like to make general public comment regarding line item 1 press star 3. good evening, you have 2 minutes. >> sorry, i already made my comments.

>> last call for general public comment, please press star 3. president elias, there is no public comment. >> thank you. >> item 2 adoption of minutes for october 19, 2022 and november 2, 2022. >> motion. >> moved. >> second. >> members of the public that like to make public comment dial star 3 or approach the podium. there is no public comment. on the motion- [roll call]

>> you cannot ubstain under the charter. >> november 2 i wasn't present. >> correct so you can vote or ask for it to be put over for the next agenda meeting. >> it will be yes. >> commissioner yee is yes. president elias is yes. 6 yeses. >> next item. >> line item 3 consent calendar receive and file action. sfpd sb1421 and sb16 monthly report. collaborative reform initiative monthly update. quarterly document protocol third quarter 2022. >> motion? >> motion to receive and file the items. >> second? >> second. >> members of the public that like to make public comment regarding line item 3 consent calendar approach the podium or press star 3 now.

good evening caller you have two minutes. >> hello, my name is susan buckman and volunteer with welths and disparities. california and sfpd has some of the worst racist outcomes of policing in the nation and up to (inaudible) california has been one of the worst in terms of not releasing critical information to the public. (inaudible) and now sb16 to release information on racist and violent policing outcomes must be honored. sfpd is required by law to release personnel information to the public. sfpd biggest issue is refusing to enact accountability measures and statistics around racial profiling via traffic stops use of force and arrest that remain as high as ever. in 2016 up to

the present day, what is missing is accountability. accountability can't be achieved if sfpd is evading scrutiny (inaudible) problem officers in every turn. thank you. >> president elias no more public comment. on the motion- [roll call] 6 yeses. >> thank you. next item. >> item 4, chief report discussion.

weekly crime trends and public safety concerns (provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting.) chief scott. >> thank you sergeant youngblood. >> (inaudible) >> good evening president elias and commission and mrs. roseensteen and public. i'll briefly with crime trends. violent crime is up overall 7 percent. the difference of 300 crimes, 311 crimes actually from this time last year. property crime up 6 percent, difference of about just short of 3,000 crimes this time last year. the leaders in each categories in terms of violent crime are robberies are up 5 percent and assaults are up 10 percent. in terms of property crimes, good news is burglars are down 21 percent but overall larceny up about 13 percent. auto burglaries remain steady at 9 percent. homicides violent crime homicides had 32

fire arm related homicides year to date down by 4 this time last year but overall the homicides are 2 percent up which is difference of 1 from this time last year. weapon seizures we are at 961 guns taken off the street year to date. of those, (inaudible) 163. i will spend more time on significant insdants but there is really good work i want to highlight sfpd officer s. we did have 3 homicides for the week. the first at third and la salle in the bayview a attempted robbery and the investigation revealed the female subject a overnight guest gave 3 suspects access to the complex. they entered the complex and one of the four suspects was shot and later succumb to injuries. our evidence at this point

indicate that it was likely a robbery gone bad and the shooting was taken into custody in this case. the investigation is ongoing. second homicide to report was on november 11 at 949 p.m. 100 block of larken in the tinder loin in front of the main library. (inaudible) reported individual in front of the library who was on the ground and did not have a pulse. a witness later came forward and said he saw the victim arguing with male and female which ended up a fight. the female punched the victim causing him to fall to the ground where he lost consciousness. he was pronounced at the hospital. no arrest made but there is evidence to follow up on the case so will keep you posted as the

investigation develops. th700 block of fulton in northern district on november 12, 858 p.m. responded to shot spotter activation. the victim was unresponsive and multiple gun shot wounds. officers rendered aid but the victim at the hospital succumb to injuries. there is video that captured a portion of the incident and there are numerous suspects in this incident and several guns involved. our investigators located some evidence and that evidence is being fallowed up on so no arrest at this time but a very active investigation is ongoing. we had a series of auto burglaries across the city on november 11 veteran day. the officer observed a stolen vehicle in the area that was believed to be

involved in auto burgly. the vehicle stops the occupant tries to run away. three subjects taken into custody. a large amount of stolen profit recovered and multiple victims believe 9 in all were identified, so really good work by officers in that case. there is also a catalytic converter arrest that occurred. happened october 25. northern officers observed a vehicle lifted off the ground by floor jack and individuals near the vehicle were under the vehicle indicating a catalytic converting theft was taking place. (inaudible) evidence garthered included vehicle and equipment use and catalytic converts case acrauz the city. fire arm not ghost gun

was located at the scene. three individuals booked on various charges including grand theft burglaries and second degree and tampering with a vehicle. one subject charged with possession of firearm. we had rash of catalytic converting thefts across the city and regional thing as well, so much work is being done on these cases. we do believe it is organized but this was a good arrest overnight by these officers from northern station. auto burglaries (inaudible) incorporated has reported that they have been victim of at least 8 auto burglaries between october 12 and october 25 and we believe that involved one suspect. during these incident iphones attached to vehicle dashboard was taken. all were autonomous with no (inaudible) suspect vehicle provided by

technology in the automated vehicle. suspect was identified and taken into custody near the (inaudible) on november 11, 2022 and charged with 8 counts of auto burgly and found to be on probation from alameda county for the same types of offenses. we also had a significant robbery and arrest. 300 block of bay shore. sorry, this is not a open arrest yet but the suspect will be arrested. the victim who is security guard observed two suspects attempting to steal alcohol. confronted the suspect and told them to leave and security guard attempted to stop one suspect as the person exited the store. at that time both bystanders began to join in and several

witnesses began to assist (inaudible) these are good samaritans. a stabeing victim as a suspect arrived at san francisco general with multiple stab wounds. the stabbing victim stated he received the wound during the altercation video does not show the security guard or any other witnesses who joined in into help the security guard stabbing the suspect. we believe that we have identified that stabbing victim as a robbery suspect so once his medical condition is clear we plan to arrest that person. another incident to report and think has a up couple more minutes is robbery that result in arrest. this happened veterans day november 11. two victims and others performing

inside the square when the subjects began to yell at them. the victims started recording one of the suspects who became angry and ran toward the victim and victim ran away. the suspect hit the victim in the back of his head and took his cell phone. the victim called 911 and was punched by the suspect. officers arrived quickly and basically were able to locate the suspect and arrest them very quickly, so this was a really good response and officer both victims were elderly and again this is just ridiculous and cannot be tolerated. central officers who worked at area were in the place they needed to be and resulted in a great arrest there. last thing i'll report is just our safe shopper strategy and deployment started. the macey tree lighting was last wednesday and union square is activated with the holiday

festivities, the ice rink and deployment will be increased not only in union square about corridors across the city for the holiday season. we have ambassadors we rolled on the west side of incity and also ambassadors and officers deployed in union square. haze valley also, the foot beats are very very well received and their deployment resulted in significant robbery arrest this week as well but i know i'm out of time. just want to wish everybody a happy holiday, happy thanks sgiving and we will be out to do everything we can to make sure this is a safe holiday season. >> thank you. amazing 10 minutes. >> i know a couple weeks ago we approved donation of those small vehicles- >> we are get them outfitted so-we have to wait but

excited-very mobile so they at add to effectiveness of the foot beat officers. >> thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you. chief scott want to thank your team for your hard work over this week. it will be tougher going forward as we are down in staff. there is a incident that came out at palace of fine arts. over social media i saw too. just wonder if we have staff out in some of the hot spots maybe palace fine arts, coit towers, these are tourist destinations. seeing your thoughts. >> thank you commissioner for that. we do have a detail overtime detail for tourism deployment. we will up deployment at palace of fine arts. things have gotten better, but

because (inaudible) as we saw with that case we need to be in that area because it goes up and down. places like coit tower, lumbard street, palace of fine arts deployment will be deployed there including north beach, fisherman warf and embarcadero so that will continue through the holiday season. it is good deployment and been able to be effective. in addition to that, some of the plain clothe details working some of the robberies and these car break-insologist also will be deployed across the city. >> thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to public comment regarding line item 4, the chief report approach the podium or press star 3. president elias, no public comment. >> thank you. acting

director you have time to beat so maybe can get done in 9 minutes. >> thank you. good evening commissioners, chief scott. i will try to be quick. with respect to the statistics for this week, up to today in 2022, we have opened a dpa 601 cases. same time last year at 695. cases closed up to today this year, 636, last year 781. cases pending, currently 245, last year 274. cases sustained this year, 53, as opposed to 43 last year, and cases mediated this year, 18 as opposed to 36 same time last year. we do have 23 cases that are past

the 270 day mark and 20 are told. in terms of weekly trends for the cases we are seeing, we received 15 cases and 36 percent of those cases the allegations, these are not substantiated we are in the process of investigating the allegations. the top allegation the officer behave or spoke in inappropriate manner and second is officer failed to take required action and the several others are tied for third place including officer failing to write a incident report, misrepresenting the truth and driving a city vehicle in a gross or negligent manner. the majority complaints came from mission station and second is taraval. with respect what we are doing in our office with outreach, dpa continues to provide information to the public at sfpd

station community meetings. we expanded information to include information about the mediation program to boost those numbers. also, with us today is nicole armstrong along with sarah (inaudible) of our office provided a national representation for our office at the national association for civilian oversight law enforcement. they presented-they did a very well attended presentation over hundred members attended. it was the virtual annual conference and they provided training about upgrading oversight. how to use business analysis to improve civilian oversight operation. we are also full speed ahead in the audit

department. last thursday dpa sent a draft of the first interim report about misconduct audit for sfpd review and on monday this week dpa and the controller office started the 24 month follow-up on recommendations made in the use of force audit. i will have several comments with respect to other agenda items but i like to end last but not least and let you know that sarah hawkins myself and our director of investigation eric baultzar attended the active shooter training with sfpd members. thank you chief for allowing us to attend. again, it was a excellent training that really hit home for me personally. i don't know how many of you

have children here that are school age in san francisco, but i do, and it really helped me understand the amount of work and courage it takes for the officers to respond to active shooter situations and made me very appreciative of their work. i also wanted to let you know that we were welcomed by all of the different members and including the members of (inaudible) everyone from lieutenant mehan to sergeant (inaudible) there were tactical sergeant there that were gracious explaining the different scenarios to us and it was amazing because again, like cmcr these classes are full and these classes are volunteer based, so these are officers that are going out there and learning how to risk their lives on behalf of our children. wanted to

give them the recognition that they deserve and are to also give chief scott and everybody that puts on this complex scenario based training where officers are literally opening doors and getting shot, i wanted to give them a shout out. it is important to talk about it. i know they gave commissioner benedicto a shout out so i give them a shout out. i also-in that vain wanted to also give my personal opinion. i don't know if it is possible, but in terms of training these officers are asking for training and volunteering for training so i know there are a lot of questions and contverseries surrounding the budget for sfpd but to the extent funds can be earmarked to improve expand training for the officers they are ready willing and able

to participate and i think it is important for us to keep that in mind. with that, i just wanted to say thank you and last but not least, say thank you for signing our certificates for our interns. i know it is a small gesture, but it really means a lot to them to receive the certificates from the commission. with that, i open up to any questions or comments that anybody may have. >> i think you wowed the crowd. doesn't look like there is any. >> i strongly urge everyone that is capable of going to go. it is one thing to think about how officers respond. monday morning quarter-backing opposed to the 1 to 3 second window they have to make these important decisions. i think it was a very valuable training for all to attend and we hope to send the rest

of our investigators and attorneys to the trainings moving forward. >> scenario based trainings are very intense. i rememberm when i first joined and think i died in every single scenario. >> thank you. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. one question, i was know there was dialogue around the mou development between dpa and the police department. is there any update or progress you can give us? >> we did write it. i wrote it, and i understand that director henderson sent a copy to chief scott and commissioner-president elias, but my understanding is we have not heard a response back. >> chief. yes. >> we did receive dpa's draft and we met with the district

attorney this week and got input on the mou, because we have been directed to present at the same time, so based on what we now know as far as the mou recommendations from the da office, we will go back to this document and follow up with dpa. we probably have a few things we want to iron out but we have the document, it was turned around very quickly and we will be on it this week and hopefully get this done very quickly. >> chief, it was perfect. [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you for the update and glad that is moving forward because that is a essential element of this transparency. thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment regarding dpa director report approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public

comment. >> thank you, next item. >> 6, commission reports. dish cushion and possible action. (commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.) - commission president's report - commissioners' reports - commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings (action) >> commissioner benedicto. >> couple things to report. first on dgo9.01. there were two (inaudible) took place last week with the collaboration of the human rights commission. i want to thank the human rights commission, director cheryl davis and dedicated staff and volunteers for helping to facilitate these excellent suggestions. there were two more this week including one wrapping up as we speak where vice

president carter oberstone is as well. the sessions have been tremendous sources of valuable feedback. thank the members of the community that attended the sessions. there is a informative article written last week in mission local summarizing sessions last week. overall i think by my count there have been at least 9 or 10 sessions with these additional ones, which are all most durable the most we have done for department general order which 5.01 there were 4 with one commission meeting held so call that 5. the process hasn't been perfect. i guess my friends in wealth and disparities will point out in public comment i like to provide appreciation for wealth and disparities for attention and work on this process but i do think it has been a significant improvement and a lot of transparency and

community feedback and so grateful to members of community to members of organizations who participated in this process. also last week i attended the cit awards which was a tremendous privilege (inaudible) tremendous behavior by officers adopting principles this commission is reinforcing for the last number of years. de-escalation. (inaudible) each of the 7 insdants lives were saved and you saw our policies working exactly the way they are supposed to so i want to commend all the officers and the awards both go to officers and public health practitioners of department of public health who receive awards for their role on the teams so i want to commend all the officers and public health practitioners both recognized in these awards. i was talking to chief and it is hard to

recognize just the awardees because there are so many incident that resolve through the cip principles so i want to acknowledge (inaudible) called out and awarded these principles play a role in the policing. that's all. >> thank you commissioner benedicto. commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias. i had think all did have updates on the dgo list and everything on the list is moving forward. there is one in particular that we were discussing a working group. the hate crimes dgo that you assigned me. we are going to be moving that forward in the near future. i think because of the holidays a lot is being moved off a little bit but it was helpful to get everybody on board with that with the dpa and the department, so also i know there is a

promotion list out and i sort of looked at how it might be moving us back on women in leadership in the department and just recruiting in general. things we talked about and made commitment with, so i had a conversation and there is a strong commitment to carry forward the 30/30 contract and get going and moving forward i think we need to all work on recruitment doing what we can do to get people to choose this as a career. i'm going to really be active in that moving that forward. i also had meetings with community folks business organizations to help with better coordination between all our efforts to make-help with law enforcement to make our streets safe. the ambassador programs the alchemy groups and

discussing possible training partnerships to have these organizations really help us fill in the blanks we might have because of the fact we are down in officers. i'm excited about that. everybody is supportive of getting not just these groups but all the different departments to work as partners on the in the streets. there are things that really aren't prese jurisdiction but there is no one else to do it, so you know, again this is one of those things you asked me to look into and think there is a real interest from different departments and the supervisors and mayor and our department to really make that work better, so hopefully we can have more information to share. >> that would be great. >> thank you. >> interested in the training they receive. >> they don't very much but that is where we could. >> definitely. i know

the 4th amendment civil rights type stuff is really important so we want them to be trained like our officers and held to the same standard and adhering the mission of the department which is safety with respect. >> great. thank you. >> thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. i have a quick report. i want to thank everyone on your team for setting up the ride along. i will go on a ride along on the 9 and excited about that. it will be my first ride along and heard exciting things about that. [laughter] that will take place. we did-commissioner benedicto might give a update but i will chime in, we had a work group meeting for the dgo701, the juvenile dgo and that is in-it is rolling. there was supposed to be a meeting this week but there was a need

to postpone, so that is moving along and there we will have a robust conversations because there is work to do there. and lastly, i met with folks from the electronic frontier foundation and that prompted me to remind myself to ask where we are with regards to the development of the outreach plan and messaging around the or the request for video feeds from the community, and what that documentation looks like, because i know the last time we had a presentation on it, they indicated the paperwork was being developed but it would be great to understand what the roll out will look like and i love to agendize maybe at 6 month point maybe in may or june of next year for us to have like a data crunch on how many request, what

the impact has been and hopefully can continue to avail of the impact hopefully positive impact that had on our safety outcomes. >> i think we did agendize-we were going to get the forms together with respect to how we track the data, especially the racial data around this and circumstances. >> yes. we do need to get it- >> okay. you think december or january? >> i like to do it in december. >> okay. alright. sergeant youngblood can take care of that and also do the 6 month. that is a great idea. >> lastly on community policing, the dgo just revised in 21. we will get involved in the development of the manual. i think that is a good way for us to chime in on best practices, so thank you very much. >> have fun on your ride along. commissioner yee. >> thank you president elias. just want to update you on the dgo. met with the staff

this monday right after commissioner walker, so brought me up to speed. looks like they have done a terrific job. looks like most of these dgo has moved forward, so hopefully by the next meeting we can give you more detail status as they update me as well. also want to thank commissioner burns who worked on the cit award ceremonies that went out. we will meet thursday at 1 p.m. i believe to wrap up the final two recipients on there. on regards to commissioner walker's working with all the communities safety and public safety people in there, i am like you, strength in number like the warriors is watt we have to do. if we can put more eyes on the ground

keep us informed and also public safety. looking forward to see it work here in san francisco moving forward. we have so much resource here-including police department we have the sheriff, traffic officers, ambassadors and even residents that can also be our eyes and ears that make it safer in the city so looking forward to that one day going forward. that's all where have to report. thank you madam president. >> thank you commissioner yee and commissioner benedicto walker and yanez for taking the dgo and running with it and giving update. commissioner burn, any updates? >> excuse me president elias. i gave a update at the last meeting and will be prepared to give

another at the next meeting. >> thank you very much. >> members that like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 8. prezendation of dpa quarterly report 1, 2 and third quarter 2022. discussion. >> good evening presidents elias and fellow commissioners and chief scott. i like to introduce our operations manager nicole arm strong who put this presentation together and she and i will address any issues you may have. but this will give a better overview of it statistical data opposed to weekly trends. these are trends that occurred over sev sl quarters. >> welcome mrs.

armstrong. sergeant you want to start the clock when she is ready. said with you are ready. not going to cheat you out of 10. if you got it done in 9 (inaudible) >> she is rockstar you will want tohear what she has to say. >> no worries. welcome. >> (inaudible) my name is nicole armstrong. i sound like a frog. still recovering when i was sick from covid. i don't have it anymore but still sound like a frog. if i cough i apologize in advance. i will probably go quicker then normer normal because i don't want to sound like a frog very long. please be easy on me, this isn't my first one in person and might be nervous and might talk faster then i usually do and i say like a lot, i apologize. let me begin. i want to start with highlights because i believe in the bottom line up

front give you things we look at specifically and things we are proud of. one as you know from my presentation we are (inaudible) we were able to dine 9 months. so excited it is working and people are using it, getting good feedback and amazing progress. me made 90 policy recommendations to improve policing. our number one improper conduct is failure to comply with general order or department bulletin and can dpa investigated 68 cases invents captured (inaudible) i don't know if you are familiar, basically we are big proponent on body worn camera because there are cases that we have where we can watch the camera and see the action the officer took was proper conduct and able to close on it face is what we call it so able to close those cases. we are huge proponent of body worn

camera. cases open by quarter. as you note i always want to show comparison of a trend of a couple years what it looks like through the quarters and years and this is the same information presented differently because we have different ways of looking and able to read information. what you can see right now through the different quarters you can see really in 2020 huge spike in numbers when we (inaudible) covid violations as well as the protest cases we had and 2020 more balance and now seeing a slight trend downward but going back up as we go into the 4th quarter. close cases more of (inaudible) you see the way it goes down. at beginning of 2020 when we changed to new case management system and went remote we closed cases like crazy and wanted to get the numbers down (inaudible) you see the number settle

until you get to 2022 where we close cases but a slower rate. this is one i'm excited to show. when we present numbers to the commission or anybody we never want to look at numbers from internally at dpa. one thing we wanted to look at because we noticed there was a downward trend in cases is is it just dpa having a downward trend and what i found when we look at the cases is that it is a national trend seeing cases going down. it was funny because we reached out to agencies and departments they were wondering why their numbers were going down and they are look you are looking nationally and we said we want to understand is it bigger picture across the nation or san francisco specific. we are still looking at the numbers but as what you see on the chart there is significant increase down for all the major kind of operations. you will see some with increase and we found there is increase in places

where they had new legislation. creating organizations. like a recognition or brand recognition, so the people that had more name in the news or seeing more of that agency or what they were doing so a higher spike. we will keep looking at the numbers as we go, but this is just limited information but it is interesting to see and study and dive into the data. i want to remind is we are able to look from a certain level but because san francisco charter for dpa is so expensive so we investigate pretty much any case that gets brought to us other agencies don't but may not be able to compare the information in a robust micro level because some people only get use of cases or some cases that are referred from iad so it compares apples to oranges but will look at it data and compare and contrast and see what is going on. how

did dpa receive complaints? we receive phone and online but we start to see a trend upward of people coming into our office and hoping as we continue that more people will come in and use our new facilities are feel are barely touched because the pandemic happened right after we moved in so excited to use it and have more come into the office to talk and tell what we do at dpa. you see a graph. this looks a little crazy. i want you to see who the complaintant are. the right hand size is ages and left you see our ethnisties. the one thing you notice is (inaudible) highest number on both charts. (inaudible) why we would have such a high number? because we make it so people can

pick or choose if they want to provide demographic data, we do not force people to do it. we also found that sometimes our investigators feel uncomfortable asking questions. what do we do to fix this is how we move forward with these things. what we identified is if we have training opportunities for staff that help increase the numbers information we get and also refor matting how we write why we collect demographics online. we have a very stale -we use for (inaudible) if we change our messaging that makes it user friendly or people read it better and hope it increase the number of demo graphics. [speaker speaking too fast] we are also working on this and working on doing new outreach and

targeting different communities. i know some of the new-really proud of the number of (inaudible) help specific groups target communities we are missing out on. excited to work on these programs and i know as we keep move forward we will find new areas we can increase and help get more people into dpa because we need the name recognition as we saw. we have to find a way to notify people we exist and if they come in we are here to help you. we will keep moving forward as we go along. alright. just want to give a snapshot of allegations. just to understand we have allegation levels which is macro approach how we look at cases and then a micro approach. our macro approach is like neglected (inaudible) micro we go into fine detail to find if it is body worn camera or

4th amendment violation. we look a macro and micro level. our allegations we received by type and quarter number one is neglect of duty. that is consistent across the board neglective duty. failure to take required action. failure to activate body worn (inaudible) conduct on becoming officers making rude comments or behaving in a inappropriate way. let me get to the case findings. as you look between our different quarters and this is quarter (inaudible) see the most recent all the way to quarter 1, you see that proper conduct is number one across the board for us. fallowed by insufficient evidence and-means we can't prove or disprove a case. proper conduct is the highest is

something good. i like when we can identify things with cases and make sure we have evidence to prove one way or another. if i was a plaintiff it would suck to have insufficient goal so our true goal is to make sure we investigate (inaudible) to try to answer the questions to best of our ability. improper conduct, this is macro approach. in these quarters we did 46 improper conduct cases and had 145 improper conduct allegations. as you can see on here, the most common was neglect of duty and unwarranted actions. this is micro approach. we will look at details for what it is for the micro one so you notice neglect of duty i took a snapshot, the biggest we had. i want to see the top 3. it is failure to comply with department order or bulletin. next is failure to activate body worn

camera and the other side is officer behave or spoke inappropriately or made a arrest without cause. mediation. we have 17 cases mediated. one thing to highlight is mediation team is going to roll calls and training the officers on mediation and we paid 80 officers so far and will continue to do that. policy. (inaudible) 10 department general orders analyze lots of-love working with her. 90 policy recommendations and are worked really hard on making sure all these different policy things have gone on. it does have the update so these numbers are a little off but just closed 68 cases. (inaudible) i have seen all the work and pages continue and they are probably some of the hard est working people in our office. audit. already covered those. the draft is out now so this is a little old but we are proud of the audit team and work they are doing

and steve is an amazing person and great it bounce ideas off. internship. we hope have (inaudible) 400 hours of research this year. finally i know i'm out of time and you are looking at me like you better stop talking. excited to let you know again that we presented at (inaudible) it was really great and amazing and an amazing experience. we are now analyzing 5 year trends across national levels and excited to let you know our next project we did complainant portal and working to try to design officer portal to allow the officer tuesday look up cases because we want to make it transparent for everyone and they have access and can goal is make it so it does not cost a penny so waiting for the next bridge and hopefully able to get it for free. done. sorry. >> great job. i like the graphics. >> thank you. >> they were informative and loved

the anolysis of the quarters and then-or years and then the quarters. i thought that was helpful so thank you. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. congratulations on your successful presentation. seems there was a lot of interest so we are trailblazing in many areas. quick question around one of the slides had national trends data around complaints. are those sustained or allegations? >> the national trend is just cases received. >> received. >> part of the future is look at the sustained as well so we have asked for sustained. the number some of--it is apple to orange and try to get the data but because of the other ways the other site agencies review that data might not be able to compare so collecting the information and will let you know what we can do with it. >> with the decline to

state, do you do any follow-up? do you inquire about reason for decline to state is there a comment box because there are many-we can speculate in many different ways about why that happens. i from experience know a lot of people who just fear retaliation. i know that doesn't happen anymore not with our current department but do we inquire about the reason? >> we have a long survey we send at the end. i'm looking to try to revamp it because i know from experience if someone gives me a long survey i will probably only make through the first 2 pages and it does cover data. i think i probably add a box on the online form and start doing that. it also is additional training but don't see why we can't. great idea. thank you. >> if i may-commissioner yanez. i think it is

important to give our complainants a safe space to provide the information. it is already nerve-wracking for a lot people to contact us and why we want to give them the opportunity not to have to reveal their identity or information about their identity. for example, we at this point also take anonymous complaints. sometimes we do have complainants that provide us information and then ask not to contact them anymore. we think that generally speaking as a policy it is more important to provide that safe opportunity for people to make the complaint and follow-up and investigate then it is to force them to answer questions that may make them uncomfortable and worst case scenario with draw the complaint which is a option and does occur not often but does occur. i think that is the rational behind

it and the reason why we don't stress or push very hard on that. >> thank you for the clarification. i think consumer driven approach is very important. and then the last question with regard to failure to activate body worn cameras, as you just said, this benefits everyone both the officers and the community in general and ultimately safety for all. do we have any idea of what the cost would be or what it would take for our department to just activatet their camera as soon as we go on? are there department s - >> i think that is question for chief scott. our office in conjunction with sfpd

continues to provide training to officers and giving them trends and what to expect if they have a complaint from dpa and we give explanations watt what we see as biggest area where officers are getting in trouble and body worn camera is one. i think i said it before, i always tell officers when in doubt turn it on. i think the officers have legitimate concerns and do think there are some jurisdictions my understanding los angeles is one that makes officers turn it on all the time, but i would differ to chief scott on that. we are making every effort to convey to the officers how important it is to turn them on. i want to clarify one thing on that issue. there is the issue of them not turning it on at all, which i believe that issue has gone down. what we are

seeing is the officers not turning it on fast enough, so i would just differ to chief scott on some of your questions. >> if i may, it is very (inaudible) there are privacy concerns with having the camera on all the time. officers have to take restrooms braked and things like that. administrative conversation in stations and things like that. i don't think la turns them on all the time. their policy is similar to ours in terms of when they turn them on. one of the things maybe for the future, this technology particularly in critical incidents (inaudible) fire arms or things that i think will be helpful. we don't have any of that yet but it is out there and something we need to explore. >> right. i think it

is important and would just behoove us to explore that direction given how many of these come up and as she just pointed out, the majority of the time these are going to absolve officers of wrong-doing so as long as dpa is willing to put the time in to look at the footage i think that is a reasonable direction for us to take or that would be what i encourage. thank you. >> if i could stress, i think we can't stress it enough that the trend in our findings also reflects positively on body worn camera footage because since the footage has been instated we are much more likely to give the officers and community definitive answer such as whether the officer acted properly or improperly. our statistics with respect to insufficient evidence findings have gone down drastically since body worn camera has been implemented and

we close cases-i don't remember what the exact number is, but we also stress the fact that there are man y cases now that are closed based on body worn camera footage alone. we kronet to ask officers questions because it is clear that what they did and it is clear that they did what we expect them to do. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you. couple questions. (inaudible) numbers vary quarter to quarter. it looks like looking at the case findings by quarter policy failures dropped off completely in third quarter. is there a particular reason? >> we are exploring what the trends are coming up with and what we find is it is really random how-one thing we wanted to look at is do our cases correlate to

call of services or anything like that and what we are looking at so far we don't see a correlation, so it is really just the number of the type of cases that we get and when we are able to resolve the case. because you have to think we might have a case with (inaudible) or case 6 months so just depends when we get it and what evidence we are able to get and time period. the quarters it just rotates about this quarter have a couple more then this one or not. it isn't specific reason. >> got it. another question i had is, side benefit of these sessions (inaudible) members will talk about issues not just related to 9.01 and one thing interesting (inaudible) that have a lot of police interaction that don't know-it sounds like there is a good effort to line up and make sure that officers are aware of the role dpa

plans. is there a plan to do community outreach? >> absolutely. >> i can also take that. i think that directorhanderson wanted to be here to provide you guys with a clearer picture of what we are doing but we are taking these numbers and taking these trends and using the national trends to figure out how we can better access the needs in our community and taylor outreach to address the specific needs of the community, so these numbers are not in vain. we are taking them, analyzing them, comparing them to the national trend and we will be using them to drive our outreach efforts moving forward. >> great. i also wanted for one question that we received at one of the working sessions was about the role of body

worn cameras and want to reiterate everything said about the role they play. (inaudible) 68 cases in the period where body worn cameras (inaudible) that is strong endorsement of the positive benefit adoption of body worn cameras had for this department since adopted in 2016. that speaks strongly. earlier (inaudible) i think it is worth commending dpa for tremendous work and recognition. i am sure if paul were here on a shoestring budget dpa does incredible work and has received recognition from national organizations for its work in civilian oversight and that for those members of the public that want to know what dpa does this presentation is a great starting point and think dpa is

to be commended for its great work. thank you. >> thank you. we appreciate it. i know i'm a (inaudible) for director henderson and his ability to pump us up, but it is definitely-we are here, we are available to the community and we welcome any questions and any complaints no matter how small or large we can be reached online over the phone and again in person, and we have investigators on staff that are able to drop everything at a moments notice and address complaints that the public has. thank you. >> you said shoestring budget? i like that. you got a (inaudible) >> we love doing the dpa (inaudible) i love doing the presentation and there is a lot of people in the office

that enjoy talking to the community and interacting with them so if anybody in the public that wants a presentation or a copy of the presentation or learn about dpa, we are here and we want to do that. that's why we are in the positions. that is why we do what we do because we love our job ares. right? we want to educate people teach people let them know what they can do and how to reach the department. we are here and available. >> one final question i remembered after commissioner yanez. on the national trend slide you indicated overall downward trend nationally on oversight civilian agencies. is that due-you didn't speak to the reason but is it due to reform efforts made nationally and recognition because you said inverse is true. >> we are still looking at the data so don't want to say anything definitive at this time because we just started diving into it. that is

suspicion but as we will look we will let you know the details but don't want to say something and find i'm wrong. if i ruin the surprise what will i talk about for the annual report? >> exactly. thank you, great job. >> thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. >> next item, please. >> line item 9 (inaudible) department of police accountability policy documents for the release of personnel records under california penal code -discussion and possible action. the police commission revising the existing policy to incorporate changes under the law.

>> thank you. commissioner i think the title says it all. the city attorney drafted this policy to comport with sb16. as you are aware we took a great deal of effort when we drafted the sb1421 policy and it was a mirror of the state legislation in that vain sb16 or the edits done to include sb16 were also emirer mirror of the state policy. commissioner-direct henderson. >> wanted to say it would-i know this commission has a history of giving the sf pd and dpa opportunities to weigh in before promoting and accepting policies that effect our departments. it would have been great to see a copy to proof read it before it went to commission because we would have been happy

to inform on page 3 we are listed as the department of public accountability, in fact the department of police accountability so it is great if we could make that change to this document in the future maybe at least get a heads up or opportunity to engage the commissioners city attorney office, sfpd and others in the drafting of documents that effect our protocol. >> if you didn't have a shoestring budget we would probably get your name right. >> on a shoestring budget i can proof read. >> i will ask to make that amendment on the pages you cited with that in mind make a motion to to adopt with the revisions discussed. can i get a second? >> second. >> sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment regarder regarding line item 9 approach

the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. on the motion- [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. line item 10. early intervention system. 2022 second quarter prezbitation discussion. >> who do we have? we have big shoes to fill after mrs. armstrong, so and you have time to beat. >> hello again. good evening. >> thank you. you

have a clock? chief you are the only one on time tonight. [multiple speakers] >> alright. good evening. so,

(inaudible) risk managementophilus office and thanks for the opportunity to present to you the early intervention system which i'll refer to as eis and specifically talk about the second quarter 2022. first i like to give credit to the team because the content of this presentation has been provided by lieutenant william toomy. this is sergeant darwin nuvol who does the day to day work. there are two senior analyst wendy (inaudible) and stephanie (inaudible) answer two questions up front. why do we have a eis system and what are the goal snz they are to identify performance indicators. the mechanisms for insuring accountability that may cause liability. extra support during a stressful time and then capitalize underlined before adverse event and then

finally to improve overall employee performance. i doopt to make a distinction eis is not discipline and that's a point we want to drive across to members too. we do not want eis equated in their minds with discipline because that's not the goal. the current performance indicators for eis are on the slide but i'll read them. use of force, officer involved shootings, officer involved discharges, fire arms discharges, (inaudible) civil suits, (inaudible) vehicle pursuits. i will move on. the current alert threshold. based on those events and performance irdicators

the thresholds one officer involved shooting or one officer involved discharge so any (inaudible) three or more use of force insdants in a 3 month period. 3 or more depa complaints in 6 month period. any 5 or more indicators i read previously in a 6 month period. 4 or more dpa complaints 12 month period. any 6 or more indicators in a 12 month period. with all these thresholds these trigger review for closer look at patterns circumstances and really supervisor and member talk about what's causing this pattern with the officer. okay. quarter 2 is going to be very different from all the other quarters that i reported on. i think we should start with talking about our use of force policy and update on that. i know that this is the

first quarter where the revision of 5.01 dgo was enacted that eis captures that data. there are three endicators that i will talk about. we believe drastically increased the eis alerts. one is the physical control reporting threshold. essentially with 5.01 that changed to lower reporting standard for physical control. with 5.01, firearm at low ready position is new reporting requirement. i want to mention also the third point, it is inefficiency that with the-during implementation we also implemented a new reporting program in cdw or crime data

warehouse and that made more efficient in capturing the data. it is electronic and use said to have forms that had to be filled out and routed through the station to our office and we would move that data on to a database, so now we have the ability to do that in cdw and that is just streamlined and real time. next we will talk about alerts by type. i think what i want to point out in this is there is a outlier and the second quarter of 2022 there were 2 officer involved shootings, one involving one officer and one involving 9 officers so that is very unusual for any quarter in recent history. the other indicators are pretty consistent with what

we see in quarters previously. the members receiving alerts. 16.2 or 321 sworn members generated at least one report during the quarter. by comparison that number is usually closer to 3 or 4 percent so that is a significant increase. i will move to the next slide because that will show comparison and just kind of outlines increase during this quarter. here we have alerts by quarter and there was a 429.2 percent increase in alerts from quarter 1, 2022 to quarter 2. we have gone back over a year just to show. i'll start from the top. quarter 2 were 50eis alerts. quarter 3, 2021, 71. quarter 4, a hundred. quarter 1 of 2022, 89 and

quarter 2 of 2022, 471 alerts. and then just a drilling down further, use of force for the second quarter 2022 there were 1945 indicator points in this quarter. as compared to the previous year during the same time period, only 267. what happens with these alerts? these alerts are generated every month sent to the stations and then let's talk what happens, the dispositions themselves, 132 emerge and that's-i'll let darwin explain. >> or alert system generate alerts every month and we send the alerts out every 2 months so it is if a

member generate a alert, for example march and april and we were to send those alerts out we just send-merj merge the two alerts and snd out to the station rather then sending two alerts for the same person. we will merge those two alerts all the data is going to be still there, no data will be lost. we merge those two alerts to pretty much consolidate and send one alert to the station. >> thank you. and then the other thing i want ed to point out on the pie chart, there are 331, 70 percent active andpeneding review. that means they have been sent out to the various units or departments and supervisors are currently reviewing those reports and whatever is included in the package. okay.

interventions. in quarter 1 of-this is for comparison. quarter 2, 2021 no active or new intervention but one intervention closed in the most current quarter and speaking to which is quarter 2022 there was one active-there is one active intervention, none that were open during the quarter and none completed. outside of natural intervention through sergeant (inaudible) engagement outside eis that include informal counseling, formal counseling and performance improvement plans. i asked for comparison q2021 to q22, 2022 and there is no significant pattern. they are similar enough. okay. and i am about to brap wrap up. i did want to

give a update on benchmark and our work with merging our systems and then moving over to the benchmark system. i will turn this over to sergeant (inaudible) to speak to. >> currently in our current benchmark we are continuing with our data collection. we are gathering data from our aim system, from our use of force system, gathering data from the sheriff department so what benchmark is doing is gathering the data and pretty much validating the data, trying to make sure the data speaks well with their computer programs with algorithms and they are currently returning and assessing data model to see which model works best with our department and come with the best and most accurate results. the next phase with benchmark is set up meetings with the

working group to (inaudible) dgo in line and created and we will be discussing roles and permissions. >> i offer in the future potentially we can have benchmark speak to your directly about the work they are doing. and then that concludes my-say one more thing. i do know the commission has-the department and commission reworked 5.o1 so there could be changes in the eis reporting in the future because of that also so thank you for that and that does conclude my presentation. >> i think that would be a good idea to have benchmark. i heard positive things about them and services they provide so happy to hear we were able to transition utilize them because i think it will be a easier system and easier to understand because it isn't easier to understand the eis

system and how it really helps. >> more technically advanced, more complete and potentially backed by scientific analysis, so intuitively i think our indicators are valid and good,b if we have indicators backed by science and research think that would be improvement. >> we love evidence based practices. commissioner walker. >> thank you for this. i'm trying to understand this is new for me. i haven't been here long enough to see this before. i'm curious of the increase. is that because of a new dgo? is it sort of stricter evaluation? is that what the increase is about?

>> you touched on it after 5.01 i asked to revise it because the feedback was the fact that under the prior 501 we revised there were too many categories the officer had to report so they were overreporting so the number is inflated because of the reason. the department said this isn't working for us, this is one reason why we went back to the table and changed the policy to create different criteria for reporting. >> right. you pretty much answered that. >> i was going to add the high level when 5.01 was revised the threshold lowered so it captured a lot more of the (inaudible) >> that is what i assume about wanted to clarify. great. thank you. >> patterns of use of

force are a driver of eis so any change to that policy will significantly effect eis. as i mentioned in the presentation, it is not disciplinary, officers really don't like being alerted and on eis so when that number went up that has effect on the entire system. >> seems like a very effective in what we are doing here. >> commissioner byrne. >> thank you president elias. it was the same question commissioner walker-what lead to the 472 percent increase and you are saying that there was a lower threshold to report things. saying nothing significant about that 472 increase, if i hear this correctly? >> the threshold for reportable use of

force significantly changed with the old-well, without-the revised. now it has gone through another revision. the version that was in effect in 2-2-2022- >> you say this is a outlier? >> well it was a result of the new definitions and the new thresholds that were put out in 5.01, yes. >> so you expect to see drastic decline for quarter 3, 2022? >> i believe this commission just approved the newest version of 5.01 and that would effect quarter 4 of 2022. we should expect to see- >> it will actually the quarter 1 because we plan to activate december 8- >> they gave

[multiple speakers] >> i believe it will normalize. it will still be higher because the threshold is lower then previously, but because we-feedback it will normalize. it will go down some. >> okay. we'll be back to hear about it. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. thank you commander. i think we are in contact around the eis system and potentially setting up a benchmark presentation. i think that will be beneficial to everyone. just two questions on this report. what does a intervention or closed intervention in-what does the intervention entail and what leads to closure of such intervention? >> i will let sergeant-because he is directly involved in the intervention. >> that is a great

question commissioner. interventions is very unique to each individual, so the intervention plans are created in partnership with the member who received the alart. partnership with the sergeant and partnership with eis unit and we collaborate to work out the best plan to address what the issues are if the issues are time management, the intervention plan could be as simple as giving that member a calendar book and having the pip sergeant check it every month to make sure that schedules are written in that calendar book. it could be if it has to do with use of force the plan could entail setting up private lessens with the staff at the police academy along with taking online training on the

post-learning portal. it could entail just simple as a check in with bsu behavioral science unit. each intervention unique to each individual. what happens is at the-there are checkmarks at 90 days, 180 days and 1 year, so at the 1 year mark the sergeant will conduct a final evaluation and determine if intervention was successful or unsuccessful. they will discuss intervention with the member, discuss with commanding officer and inform the eis unit. >> great. thank you. do these whether pip plans or actual interventions that are documented, do they inform performance evaluation in any way shape or form? >> every time a member receives a eis alert

sergeant conducts a performance evaluation. not sure if that is the same performance evaluation- >> i am thinking more tradition sale set goals for the year, you use these to inform who gets a promotion. it is a system we have to insure that wree are doing a equitable administration of our duties. >> this is outside the normal performance appraisal system. this is in addition to-it doesn't replace it, it is more robust and it would be from the same supervisor, so it would be additional tool in addition to the regular performance appraisal. >> incorporated into the evaluation some way shape or form? >> they are related because both directly

are speaking to the performance of the officer. >> that's the reason why i'm very interested in the issue. not just because i will be working oen the revision of the dgo. i know just the framing and conitation this discipline hasrectomy now it is a negative conitation. i think discipline is something that everyone in the department displays so further discipline doesn't have to have the negative conitation. it is raising awareness and insuring a senior officer or supervisor can help develop and improve performance of a officer. this is helpful and understanding the overall system and i'm excited to engage with you in this process further because i think these are practices that are tried and true all most in any field. bringing things to the

attention of someone when there is a need to improve and it is helpful we know but when the alerts dont lead to performance improvement plans and sometimes the officers may not feel there is anything to improve, so i think it is all interconnected in one way shape or form. >> you hit the nail on the head. this program designed to identify indicators prior to the officer running into discipline issue. the department does spend a lot of effort and time and resources into trying to do exactly what you said. >> thank you commissioner yanez. sergeant. >> members of the public that like to make public comment regarding line item 10 the eis presentation, approach the podium or press star 3. >> there is no pubplic comment. >> great. >> thank you. have a

great evening. >> line item 11. if you like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3 now. there is no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> 12. vote on whether to hold item 13 in closed session. san francisco administratesive code section 67.10 action. >> i vote to hold itedm 13 in closed session. >> second. >> on the motion- [roll call] 7 yeses. we are in closed session.

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closed session. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> on the motion not to disclose- [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. >> public comment. >> members of the public that like to make public comment press star 3 or approach the podium. you have no public comment. >> fantastic. next item. >> adjournment. action. >> yea! five minutes larry, five minutes. [meeting adjourned]

[music] i'm angela romero a lieutenant with the san francisco fire department. i'm a san francisco native. went to an all girl's school st. john and the grammar school prior and went to san francisco state. where i got a degree. and i am fortunate to live in the sdpae raise my family here. i received a degree in international marketing. i thought, i will be a buyer and travel all over the world. it did not happen like that. i went in business in retail but felt like i had it in mow to help others. when i decided to do a career change, it was my husband who said, hey, you are athletic and you care about your community and the city that we live in. go with me and get an interest card for the fire department. it is caring for my community and the citizens of san

francisco does not matter what their make up is or their situation. that is most important to me. taking care of the citizens. i like teaching now. i like sharing my knowledge in the experiences with the young generation coming in new recruits. as a latina, i'm proud of when my culture can bring to this job. and that is a sense of family. which this is my second family. it was and started with my class. the 97th class. that's hai tell my recruits. you learn to help each other we cannot do this job alone. i already had a family i was married and had a family when i -- began to pursue the fire department. it was a lot of work. took me away from my family.

but if it was not for them, i mean encouragement i received, i don't think i would have made it through. so, very happy that i had a family like that and happy that i joined this family. because i have met and worked with very incredible men and women of all walks of life who helped me to get to where i am at. [music]

we know that same sex marriage originated in the netherlands. we like to talk about san francisco and how we are the mecca but we have a sister in the netherlands and how they promote and push for things to support this extraordinary community. >> what an honor it is to be here.

mayor reed, thank you for giving us, not only myself but the people the opportunity to think through. the sister and netherlands and san francisco share so many things. it's something that we feel so strongly about. and i'm here not only to learn about your sister but to learn from each other where we're good at. we have to lead from example. we have to make our lives equal. everybody feels at home where ever they live. this is something that we take serious in the netherlands. with your leader ship but also the leadership with this amazing community. >> so glad when it comes to the rights of the lgbtq community, we all come together and we stand in solidarity and we make magic happen. that's why it's so good to be here with the queen and promote the work that they're doing in the netherlands and what we're doing in the san francisco.

and how we're going to continue to push to support this community to make sure that it's not just these amazing place that's is safe and supportive of this community. but we make sure that the entire world is such. that is what our goal is. having the queen at the for front at the fight, is absolutely extraordinary. >> thank you so much, your majesty for being here with us today. [applause]

>> good morning, everyone. >> good morning, mayor.

>> good morning. my name is dr. gina frommeer and i'm the president of the southeast community facility commission. welcome today. look at this building! the southeast community facility commission provides a forum for discussion on broader issues facing our community. our job is to continue the legacy and work of our founders known as the big six. harold, ethyl, eloise, shirley and the famous dr. jackson. my girl whose unyielding advocacy in leadership led to the mitt geation agreement. i am going to ask the families

to stand. we want to acknowledge we're on then ceded an ves tral homeland of ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land, the ramaytush ohlone have never kredded or lost their responsibility as caretakers of this place as well as other who reside in their traditional territories. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living, working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our rear expects by acknowledging the ancestors

of them. >> he greetings to you my relatives. thank you for having mere here today. i'm greg castro, a ramaytush ohlone. i'm here to represent our community and chair jonathan cordero who is with us today and wish to give good thoughts and prayers to this place that is opening here, that is reflection of not only this community values and hopes and he dreams dreamsbut our own val excuse dr. we might have been under water but near water and our ancestors

took care of these waters and the earth surrounding it and the delta that came from it that sustained and that nurtured the community for thousands of years. and we were here from this place that made us who we are can. for the last 200 years it's been challenging to say the least for our community, but we're still here. now we welcome this opportunity to join with the community in a new village place. that incorporates the same values that our community has carried forward from ancient times of compassion, care, love, integrity and respect for all people. for all members of the family

and whoever comes to this place is a member of the family. in ancient california tradition, all appraisers and rituals and ceremonies and songs are foms of prayer. i would like to offer you a song here as a prayer for opening this place. it is a good luck dance song from the ohlone community borrowed from our rel tifers inn monterey county. i offer this as a good way to open this place and bring people together in a good way. [indigenous singing and

chanting]

thank you. [applause] >> all right. thank you, welcome again. i want to acknowledge the southeast community facility commissioners here today. our former commissioner, other dignitaries and the families of our founders. calvin chan is here as well. i would like to introduce dennis herrera. [applause] >> thank you dr. frommeer. from. i don't know if this is a good omen, how many people noticed that the lucky bayview sign just came up on the building recently because they knew we would have a great turnout today. thank you, everybody for being here today. we're here to deliver on a

promise, a promise that really was decades in the making. you heard dr. frommer mention it a little bit. it was about the strength, foresight and determination of a community that embody itself in six people, the big six as they came known. but they were representatives of a community. and their call was a call to action. a call for inclusion, a call for accountability. ever you see here today is drr everything you see here today is their legacy and the legacy of the community that fought for today's day. thank you so much for being here. at the san francisco public utilities commission, we heard and answered the community's call to reinvest in the people

of bayview hunter's point. this new center is a direct result of extensive outreach and engagement with the community and years of planning and pushing forward. this center truly belongs to the community and would i like to thank the community for continued partnership and i look forward to our joint stewardship and management of this facility together. we hope that the more than 100 million-dollar investment in building this new center demonstrates the puc's commitment to doing the right thing. we hope it shows our intention to be a good neighbor, to do good and be accountable to our community partners. it's my privilege and honor to see this project across the finish line. let's be real. i'm new at this job. not evenly a year yet and i had very little to do with putting this across the finish line.

it was the function of hard work of countless others. too many here to name. but they all need to be recognized. there we go! we wouldn't be here right now without the unflagging support of our southeast community facilities team. i'm talking about victoria bryan, carla von, jason barcelona, nicholas cresta, larry ferry and the executive director of this amazing facility. all for everything you've done to allow us to be stand hearing today. i would -- standing here today. i also want to thank the alan group, our trade part eroners and our team for designing and constructing a stunning building and campus. and i want to thank the arts commission for the great job they did in commissioning local

artists to inspire us all. we know this pandemic has created uncertainty everywhere. but we knew it was critical to maintain our momentum to get this project done. while keeping our trades workers safe and employed and working with the trade partners, we were able to develop policies to achieve that goal ultimately delivering this beautiful project filled with 100 percent union labor. [applause] we're proud of our local hire and local contracting efforts that exceeded the city's goals. on this project, we had a contract commitment of 30%. we exceeded that. nearly 40% of the hundreds of hours it took to build this fantastic center were worked by san francisco residents. even more importantly, almost

100 of the individuals who built this landmark destination are from right here in this community. [applause] there you have it. in some ways, this is a project built by community and for the community. but this is only the start. the puc is committed to providing robust programming at this foilt expand access to resores and opportunities which will lead to better outcomes for youth and families throughout the bayview hunter's point community and beyond. in keeping with our commitment to be a good neighbor, there are more investments including at the southeast treatment plant down the road. we're investing over $3 billion in critical upgrades to not only make the it better prepared for earthquakes and sea level rise but transform an aging sewage

plant into a modern resource recovery sent that are smells better, is an attractive workplace, and most importantly is a neighborhood asset. these are the right kinds of investments to make. they're good for our communities, they're good for our city, and they are smart investment of the funds that all of our customers entrust to us. you have my commitment that our investments we make it this community will going to make life better for all of us. i can tell you no one is going to be more important in keeping me up to my promise. she tells me what to do and i can assure you that she's going to make sure that we are living up to the commitment that i am making to you today to be the best possible neighbor that we can and that is our mayor, mayor london breed.

[applause] >> thank you dennis. and i think that you were selling yourself short in saying that you didn't have anything to do with this when in fact, you served as our city attorney and did all the legal documents to get this process done. but more importantly, the bayview hunters point has a challenging history we know in the city. a lot of the reason why we celebrate the big six has everything to do with the fact that they sood up imns a lot of -- stood up against the environmental injustices until the day jackson passed away, she was an advocate around environmental just physicaller it the community. this is advocacy started in the 1970s because of all the different levels of the power plant, the treatment plant, all the different things that had happened here at the bayview

hunters point and seeing high rates of asthma and cancer and other issues around health that impacted this community for so many years. many of those advocates at that came before us started a movement, a movement where i must say continues on and it continued when supervisor sophie maxwell became supervisor for the district and her along with dennis herrera worked hard to shut the power plant done, it was one of the first major things that happened that set off a number of advocacy and things to come. i see oscar james in the audience and incredible consistent advocates. people who show up and linda richard and people who stay actively engaged in the community to make sure the city meets its promises that we

deliver on our promises. the old southeast community center was a promise that was delivered on, with you not necessarily sufficient. when toya moses ran the facility, he made sure every person in the community had access to the nilt. it's not just about a program and child care center and playground and all the great activities that are going to be here, people from the community would go to toya and say we need to use ifer this event or something. and i want to make sure that you all know this is your facility. this facility should be prioritized for the residents of the bayview hunters point community. because of the blood, sweat and tears over the years, this community deserves this and so much more so i'm happy to be here today, but more importantly, i'm excited to see

the use of this space which members of this community. i don't care if you just want to play dominoes. whatever it is, this is your facility. hopefully this is money involved. i like to win. nevertheless, i'm excited about what this new facility means. it's a new day and along with what is happening with the investments made to make this waterfront better than any other waterfront in the city, to bring the attention and resources and the support of all of these things are going to be truly transformative. so i'm so excited about the future. and i am grateful to so many of the leaders who are here today and so many of the family members of the leaders for the work you continue to do. i know it took a long time, but here we are.

god's -- your prayers have been answered and just because there was a delay does not mean there is a denial. here we are -- here we are celebrating something absolutely extraordinary. and i'm grateful for your work, advocacy. mildred hour las sculptures and so many other incredible people played a role in this. i want to say thank you to emily and the members of the board. we finally got it done. thank you for all who played an important role in making this a beautiful facility for the community. i want to introduce your supervisor. >> thank you madam mayor. something special is happening in bayview. something special is happening

in bayview. i want you to look across the street as general manager hararea said earlier, we have a new lucky store coming next we go. i want you to look around you and look at this amazing space built for the benefit of this community. and i can't talk about being dpl this amaze -- in this amazing space without saying people didn't want us to have this space particularly right here. there were people who fought us every step of the way when we were fighting to make sure this would be a state-of-the-art community center and have a state-of-the-art education zone. i want those people to know that people power, resiliency of the community will always win.

if we go back to '79 with the conversations with the mitigation, if we go back to the work of the big six and we can stand here today and say that we have actually realized a big chunk of the promises made because there is still one more step. there is still a state-of-the-art community fiment that has -- facility an education nailt has to go here as promised. we needed to have the bond money available and now we have to make sure the building gets built. working with our partners from city college and the puc. as your supervisor, as the person that you put fla place to represent you, i said -- in place to represent you, i told you i would fight for things on our agenda. we'll see all of this.

we're going to continue to fight until everything that was promised happens. if i'm fortunate enough to be reelected in november, we only have four short years. the same resiliency we brought toalgt together we'll need moving forward because time constraints are always against us. i want to thank everyone who showed up-to-date, if you think several mayors ago, several commissioners ago, several directors ago, several community leaders ago, promises were made to this community. because everyone came together and said, we're going to make sure that we're not denied what is owed to us, we were able to get to this point. i am proud to stand here with all of you and the supervisor who is able to be here when this vision was realized.

but i definitely want to thank supervisor maxwell for all of her work. i want to thank supervisor corn for all of her work. because we don't do any of this alone. i want to make sure that everybody who played a role in making theur this facility was here gets their proper due. if you screwed in a bowl, if you nailed in a nail, if you stood up at a community meeting, if you came down to city thool say this this has to happen, if you were on oakdale making sure that everyone understood that we needed a better, new improved community center, any role that you played, i want to thank you for that and thrchg this community for their resiliency and i am proud to be your representative of this new facility.

now i have the opportunity to bring up someone who has always stood with us in this community. when i go to him even though we don't always agree on everything, when i go to him and say we need support in our community, we need resources in our community, he's still with us, he's with you and i am thankful for that. i want to bring up our state senator, scott wiener. >> thank you supervisor. thank you madam hair. -- madam mayor. this is -- first of all, this is like breathtakingly beautiful. this is one of the most beautiful buildings in the entire city of san francisco. i don't say at that lightly because we always talk about the new design. this is one of those examples of what it means when we really put our heart and soul into what

something looks like and what we deliver to the community. this so beautiful and i want to congratulate the community and puc and everyone who is involved in this amazing project. i'm a big fan of the san francisco puc. this is an organization committed to sustainability whether it's around clean water or clean energy. this is a clean environmental agency. it's awesome. this building, of course, is so incredibly sustainable. it's a model for what we need. we also know that environment sustainability, yes, it's about energy and water and all that. but it's also about the sustainability of the community. and this is a community -- the bayview hunters point is a community that's been under intense prescriber for so many years. it's not always been prioritized

by our city government. at a time it was cut off and felt neglected. it's important that we be intentional about investing in this community, about supporting

he made sure this building happened. he had a vision. and along with the community, you all helped him make it happen. he made sure the community was involved every step of the way. when i look back at this building, i see this is what a utility of the future is posed to be. our policies -- supposed to be. our policies go beyond do no

harm. our policies are do good and build. that's why licky store is here. this is what a utility of the future has to be. this was harlan's vision but is also my vision and should be everyone's vision. a utility of the future goes beyond. in this neighborhood we've fought for environmental justice and fought to breathe. we have the highest rate of asthma and cancer. you mention it, we had it. this building helps to with the three goals. intentionally, we have water conservation. intentionally, we have good quality air inside. intentionally, we are environmentally sound. everything that was not outside is now inside this building.

that's what a utility of the future does and we need all of you to hold us to that. not about money, it's about what you need. and then in a family, you say what do we need? then you find the money for the need. you don't say what money do we have first? no. that's not what you do. you prioritize. and that's what we have do. i want to make sure that all of, young people, old people are environmentally conscious in this neighborhood. and that's what this facility can do and that's why it's important to have the educational facility. and we also know that opening the doors is the easy part. holding us accountable to making sure up keep and maintenance is done way into the future. holding us accountable as mairt said, to making sure that -- as the mayor said, making sure we

have good programs that are exciting and relevant and take us into the future. i'm excited about this building and i was going to say i know it's going to be shaking off this foundation, but i'm not going to say that. we also have had taken advantage of a $250 million asset and that's the third streetlight rail. that's the buses. when you come in, this is the first thing you see. had you leave, this is the last thing you see. and children are playing and it's green and beautiful. thank you, community. thank you harlan kelly and thank you all of you who had something do with this. [cheers and applause] this man needs to introduction. >> thank you so much. my name is ralph remington director of cultural affairs. it's my pleasure to be here with you today on behalf of the san 8ñ

[cheers and applause] i've only been at my role for two years now, but i have to say this this building -- say that this budding is incredible. a lot of it is due to community activism and political pressure and a lot of it is due to conscientious politicians and a lot is do due to our artists in the community. i want to give a thank you to the san francisco public utilities commission and bayview hunters point community. we're here to celebrate the opening of the beautiful new southeast community center and robust public art collection featuring new collections by local artists,. everyone stawnd, please. descrsh everyone stand up

please. canada, mildred, there they are. thank so much. and we have 37 two-dimension the artwork purchased from 27 ar cysts. each were selected from the bayview registry and each has a meaningful connection to the bayview hunters point community. the art was made possible through the enrichment ordinance which allocates 2% of construction costs from capital improvement projects for the production of art. in collaboration with southeast community facility commission and staff, project stakeholders and community members, they developed the bayview arts master play which established the registry and guided the use of the art enrichment fund

improvements in bayview including this new artwork and collection. joan me in acknowledging the artists here today. as i mention your names again, if you could stand up, i would greatly appreciate it. you deserve to hear the appreciation of this community. mildred howard! mildred howard and her bronze sculpture takes its inspiration from west african currency that was traditionally for the success that embodied their power. philip boi. this honors the six founders of the southeast community center. and canada hinkle. thank you, thank you.

whose vibrant mural a reflects the milestones and relationships that connect community members across time and generation. i would also like to thank the 27 artist whose contribute their artwork which can be found on the center's second and third floors on the wails. i would thank to thank -- as you tour the center, please be sure to stop and take in the magnificent work created to reflect and honor the bayview hunters community. and i would like to thank mayor london breed for guiding us. thank you mayor london breed. and i would also like to thank the art's commission staff who worked on this project including

mary chu. mary chu. jackie von tresko who worked tirelessly with project stakeholders and artists to see themselves if this project through this work. thank you so much. enjoy the work. enjoy your community center. have a ball! thank you everybody! >> before we go back to dr. frommer, i want to acknowledge we have three of our puc commissioners here. two are new. we have tim paulson. kate stacy and tony revera who are our new commissioners and we're happy to have you here. thanks very much. >> all right. you guys be quie oat. this building is a a piece of art. let's give the building a hand! you know, i had my wedding

reception at 1800 oakdale. my memories go deep. i think about the new memories that you're going to make. we feed a place for events. right? and i'm always going to remember that memory from there. now we have a new facility to create new memories. we're honored and want to thank. i want to acknowledge the southeast community center team lead by emily farr rogers. larry barrie concepty director. jason barca clt lon. carla von along with victoria bryant. and nicholas cresta, let's give them all a hand.

i don't think i said enough about my commissioner, southeast community facility commissioner. we spent hours looking at artwork and touring this building. we spent hours crossing stuff out that we didn't want. what they have in presidio, we need betterçc9■ here. i want what they got! we fought for that. i'm honored to be the president of this commission and we have so much more work do. on behalf of the commission, i want to extend recognition to the white water enterprise and the san francisco puc for the commitment to this community. thanks to our tenant partners and the non-public hud, there will be a pavilion to share the information over there about the programs and services and i want to close out and invite the commissioner to gather around

this wonderful mayor to take a picture. and thank you for coming out today. i was born and raised right on this hill. i'm a six generation san franciscan. i got gentrified out but my intlood in this community and i'm not going anywhere. thank you and enjoy your day. we have great food and music and family. congratulations, everybody. ♪♪

i come from the-and-a-half ho tribes and . we'd like to invite up our speaker for the welcoming prayer and blessing. we'll ask you if you are able to please rise.

greetings to you. thank you for having me castro social director and i welcome you to our ancient homeland here with other people now called san francisco with the behalf of our chair johnson. i'd like to thank you for having us here today to begin this ceremony in a good way. part of the tragic story of the people here is that much of our culture was taken from us forcibly. we only have a bit of our language left. a lot of ceremonies and songs with commission with our relatives my cousin is from monterey county. i offered a song to them and it's a good luck song. that's a good way to start off today's event.

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>> our people were made from this place and we have never forgotten our obligation to take care of the place and the people on it. thank you for allowing us to continue that. >> thank you, greg. from what i understand when someone offers a beautiful blessing or song we say, oh. >> oh. >> there we go san francisco. at this point and time we'll bring in our eagle staff and

powwow dancers. we have the all nation drum group anode so x style northern and southern regimens in the bay area community. we'll go over to all nations please at this time to bring in our flags and our dancers. again, if you are able to please rise as we enter our eagle staff. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪ >> as our dancers make their

way in they are lead by the he actual eagle staff. the first flag is the land we call turtle island. ♪ . ♪ follows by the california state flag. the flag of the muskobie.

following we have our california indian dancers. followed by our traditional powwow dancers, our jingle dress dancers grass dancers. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

>> at this time we'll be going to render an appropriate flag and victory song. as we post these colors we post our eagle staff. the songs and the eagle staff predate the stars and stripes and predate the united states of america and the city of san francisco. as we honor our rich heritage right here in our traditional homelands. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

now our victory song as we stand and dance victorious all of the ways our culture attempted we stand before you in the resiliency. we love where we come from. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

>> dancers exit stage left. flag carriers please post the flags. one more time please be seated. give a big round of applause.

it's my great honor and privilege to bring up the executive director of the american indian cultural affairs. ms. april mcgill. it's been great to organize and plan with her. always making sure our american indian voices are heard. she brought her own seat. now to see the things she was able to accomplish. with community members tonight. at this time, we'd like to call april to the podium. [ applause ] >> hello, good evening, everybody. it's such a beautiful evening

and i'm happy to see all of you here. i just want to say thank you to manning and all nations and to our southern express for being here this evening. can we get an applause for all of them. this is a really exciting time because i was reflecting on this event. this is the 18th annual american indian heritage month celebration. it's such an honor under our may matriarch. helen had the passion of a lot of us know about really providing so much culture and tradition to the community and making sure the american indian community had a voice. it's such a privilege for the cultural center and honor for me to be able to take on the

responsibility of the executive director and continue this legacy of the american indian heritage celebration at city hall. i'd like to saw thank you to the community for being here. this work is a lot of work. i couldn't deal without our community and organizes that have supported us. it's great to see the art commission here. the chief of police here i'll just keep this short and sweet. thank you to everyone and just looking forward to celebrating and our reception afterwards and, yeah, just honoring our honorees here today. with that i'd like to

intertuesday the honorable mayor london. please come up. [ applause ] >> thank you good evening. it's great to be here to celebrate the indian community in san francisco and thank you for bringing it into prospective bringing in the right spirit to celebrate the dynamic and resilient community. i'd like to take us back to a time many years ago. the american indian cultural center working hand and hand with the complex we experienced a lot of challenges to get the city to

provide resources with the institution. it was constantly and i see debra walker who is a police commissioner and extraordinary artist. i see her walking the halls for the bit of resources for the work we do. they had challenges and the community came together. i'd like to express my appreciation to you for holding the organize together and elevating the organize and working with the broader community to make sure that this community and the work that's done at the american indian health center and friendship house and the cultural district along with the cultural center, the work you two together has tremendous impact.

we sit and celebrate in honor of the matriarch of the community an elevate their voices and the work they continue to do to pass on the history and culture to the next generation. more importantly bring the community together for the extraordinary celebration at city hall. it's so much more meaningful. we have come a long way from walking down the halls and fighting for resources. it's why i'm so proud to work with the community and we were able to provide additional resources in the budget that had real impacts in the number of disparity in the community centered around communication and so many other and they communicated to my office and others the needs understanding

and respecting the community. not telling community what they need but listening to hear what the community wants and how we as elected leaders can provide the support and resources in at the delig that. that's why tonight is so special. every single year we get better and better and closer to make the sufficient investment to serve and uplift the community in a way san francisco should. not just the population and numbers. we know this is a might yes force. it's about addressing disparity and making sure this community is an important part of the fabric of what makes san francisco so special. i just want to take this

opportunity to acknowledge the leaders here and many of you know valley brown the director of arts. who has been an important part of elevating the funding for this community around the arts programming. i'm grateful for that along with the director remington. our sheriff paul. our fire chief jenny nickelson, our police chief bill scott. [ applause ] whoo r what's special about having our elected leaders and commissioners here at this event they are standing with the community to show support and solidarity for the work you have done and continue to do. because i know without a doubt we are stronger when we work

together. i'd like to take the opportunity to recognize i know there are a number of honoraries. i'd like to take the opportunity to provide a special recognition to the american indian health center and the work we know they have done for over 50 years. [ applause ] >> when you look at a community the health and spiritual health. the well-being is so critical to the success of the community. this center realize the importance of that over 50 years ago. they came together and the fact it's still here is a testament to the resilience of the community. when we needed them most during so many challenging

times. the aids pandemic, the covid-19 pandemic all of the things our city has struggled with around health and wellness this organize provides cultureally competent support to the american indian community of san francisco. it made people want to get the help and support they needed. it made a difference when the people severing you are the people you can trust and are part of your community and understand the culture. i'd like to ask i'd like to ask michelle to come up and accept on behalf of the city and county of san francisco. today we'll honor the american indian health center by declaring today officially american indian health department center day in the

st. and county of san francisco. [ cheering and applause ] i almost messed up the program. forgive me. with that, thank you for being here today and the matriarchs of the community and those who are now just joining us who live-in work in san francisco and those who have come far and wide to uplift the american indian community in san francisco. we are honored for your presence. thank you.

[ applause ] >> all right, i'd like to call april back-up. we will honor more distinguished individuals. beautiful to see and hear the proximation today. awe some work. >> thank you. >> thank you, mayor reed. i appreciate the words of encouragement for the american indian community. i appreciate your support one of our honoraries we'll honor is betty. [ applause ] i'll read it in the bio, i'll talk about betty because betty is an amazing mother. a member of of the navajo

nation. she made san francisco her home. betty is the cultural bearer. she's always here for the community she will volunteer any time she's needed. i always know, if i need somebody i go to betty. she's my go too. betty earned a degree and she's worked as an advocate for the san francisco unified school district. she severed on the chair for the parent advisory committee. she's also the official volunteer with native-american health center.

she volunteered at several community events and also an artist, an amazing artist. there are so many things i could keep going on about. it's an honor to be up here and honor you. we'll ask her to come back-up. [ applause ] the next honoree is chris our

urban res from longoria. so much i'd like to share about chris. he was born and raised in san francisco. she's a san francisco girl. she's come out here during relocation. she's an enrolled member. she's arapahoe and cheyenne. her daughter is here and son-in-law that are here for her. chris' family history in san francisco is very close and special to her heart and it shaped her journey. her grandmother irene arrived in san francisco in the 1950s due to relocation and

also known as public law 959. they originate from oklahoma. he went onto be the first native-american appointed on the human rights commission for the city of san francisco. 40 years ago. that's where you see the strong spirit. she's been a young activist. since she was a young girl she had an activist spirit. her mother is stage road traveler and diana took her and her siblings to alcatras.

all of that in solidarity with our people. so, chris would stand an hold their head high to boycott. this is while learning about this. chris volunteered with friendship house and she's been involved in the longest walk activism and american movement. it's an honor to be able to give this award. thank you for all of your acknowledge and always sharing with us in the community that history of the occupation. this shares why we are here today. thank you so much.

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[ applause ] [ applause ] >> at this time we'll go over to the all nation singers for an appropriate song. they are representing the native-american health center. all nations when you are ready

honor song please. please rise if you are able to as we acknowledge these individuals for their long-standing work in the community. the intention they put to every detail and the struggles on behalf of people they never met. we say thank you. good job.

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>> again san francisco is here for chris, michelle, and ben. at this time, we'll ask each of you to come on up and go ahead and deliver your prepared speech, no just kidding. if you would like to address the crowd this is the time to do so. we'll go in order. we'll allow chris to go first. what an honor. i told i saw my grandma wag the stores for the human

rights committee. she wrote those letters i wear her nicholas. i think my daughter would help me so much fighting the illness. always be in there get me to the events. the american indian. i grew up saying.

that was born in san francisco. it's for my siblings and other relatives. alcatras shaped my entire life. my childhood wasn't like anybody else's childhood. there is just so many stories from all kinds of families like mine. we are not the leaders we are the warriors and street soldiers. we want to fight from our people. that's what i learned that's what my family did.

making coffee and making curty. whatever i have to do. whatever i do to make it a better place. i'd like to thank you guys. just everybody i really appreciate it. i hope i can one day sit with the mayor and tell her some of the stories. somehow we can document these stories like my family and your family that came here that were relocated and how we plant our seeds in san francisco. we are still here. as i close, i just have one thing to say, you and we, me and we, we live on stolen land.

[ applause ] >> now we'll have michelle. >> good evening, thank you so much for having me here today in the cultural center. it's an extreme honor. my name is michelle. my family too came here through the relocation program. i'm second generation urban indian many the bay area. i currently have the pleasure of residing the chief people officer at the native-american health center and i had the pleasure of working there for 14 years. [ applause ] the native-american health center is near and dear to my heart. i'll share something personal about myself. growing up i was apart of the foster care system.

i'd like to end up getting a job at the health center. they welcomed me back to the community and where i come from. the health center does more than provide medical, dental, emotional behavioral health and social services. it's a community and hump for our people. the native-american health center was founded 50 years ago in san francisco and the mission district. [ applause ] >> we started out with five employees and 50 years later we have 300 employees and we are about 40 million in revenue. we provide services across three different counties alameda, san francisco severing over 14,000 members. we see roughly 70,000 people

per year. it's a true honor to be here of people like chris and betty and april and seeing the impact on the community inspires me as a leader to continue that work. i like to thank you both. it's a true honor. [ applause ] >> what's up. yes. i'll translate that in english folks. i'm a navajo. i'd like to thank my parents for giving birth to me.

coming to the bay area. i'm grateful and thank you for your support and continuing support. i guess that means i have to go around it. everybody will see me. thank you, son. >> one more round of applause for our distinguished individuals and their accomplishment and impact in the city of san francisco.

[ applause ] >> at this time we have our california indian dancers. i invite you to take the floor at this time. i ask you to come up to the

podium. >> what a great honor, what a great celebration. because of who we are and because of our matriarch and an assess c -- ancestors. no matter what parking lot part of the world we come from we are all connected. we have the same spirit to take care of one another. you women are amazing. thank you for your services.

the one time you provided your services from people up north. i appreciate and honor it is to be in the sheriff's dances. i'm feeling really good. i'm from round valley and i'm one of the i'm feeling it. assemblyman romez said did you know you opened the door for all of the california native people. you opened that door to hear our voices after centuries and centuries and years of our

cries. we opened that door for everyone. i'm proud to stand here and sing songs and say prayers to celebrate that's what it's all about. we will sing a few songs during that timeframe. just amazing words everybody had to say. start it up. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

[ applause ] >> i'm from round valley

reservation up north of here. it's time. it's been 18 years and years and i know in 1978 they recognized we really this is what happened. we had good news. what i'd like to say, is our people, we are still living our lives and we still trying to maintain our land. people always have done this and ted trying to take care of our family and after another. we still trying to struggle and take care of our family and carry on. you know, one of the worst ones was the invasion of our land and we are still here.

we are still working with the people. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

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>> thank you, everyone. thank you. all of the official people heretia showed up tonight that showed up in the celebration

we continue to pray for you and create watch over you and show you your path and take care of the people in the community. thank you. [ applause ] >> one more time big applause for the resistance. [ cheering and applause ] all right, at this part of our schedule we have several different style of powwow dancers that come out and exhibit their style. we'll start with the male and female categories. northern and southern. we'll go over to so x style. two starts for the traditional

dancers. come out all of you traditional dancers. we have our men's northern traditional dancers. we also have the northern and southern style dancers. we have powwow royalties. good job.

>> okay a big round of applause and big oh for the traditional dancers. thank you you all. >> next we'll ask all of our jingle dress dancers and grace dancers to come out. we will exhibit their style. the metal cones of the grass dancers that will prepare our areas of ceremony. at this time we'll go to all singers to share with you the unique powwow style jingle dress and grass dance styles. take it away. ♪ [ music ] ♪♪

all right san francisco. let's give a oh and [ applause ] to our awd applause. now it's time for the fancy dancers. it's your time to shine. we'll go over to x style and ask them for a fast and furious dance. we have the men fancy and women fancy. dancers have fun. when you are ready take it away.

>> all right, let's hear it from our fancy dancessers. good job fancy dancers. the floor is pretty slick. good we didn't have anybody go

down. if you like what you saw come out to the golden state warriors game this friday. we'll dance at the half time performance for native-american month. with the golden state warriors. it's about 250 tickets. four years later we are now over 1500 tickets sold. big props to the organizing and committees being able to put forth the effort to make sure they are at a large platform. at this point and time it's a great honor for my friend and sister. we have a song of a song of intention. yeah, a song. it says prayer song.

i have been taught when your voice vibrates and travels through the air all of the words are powerful. they don't discriminate. they make you feel goods. it's not that i'll make the indians feel good. everybody will feel the energy the same way i introduce aurora. [ applause ] ♪ . ♪ .

>> just for the fun of it. that was a strong women song for women in recovery. it was shared with my auntie mom from the black feet reservation. i'd just like to add on a little. ♪ .

♪ . >> thank you aurora. another big oh for oh au.

who also happens to be part of the native-american house and doing great work here in san francisco and east bay that concludes our program at least this portion of the program. now time to move to the reception hall for beverages and snacks. hold on. we have our special guest. >> hi, thank you for being here today. i'd like to say thank you for calling all of the dancers and taking good care of us. thank you for what you do for the community.

[ applause ] >> and now that concludes our program. if you would like to head to the reception area. again, make your way on over at this time.

>> goovend, everybody. >> how is everyone doing today? >> awe some. great weather we were dreading it would rain today and look at the sky behind me. gorgeous. this was meant to be. my name is natasha i'm the executive vice president the development at bridge. for northern california. i will also be our mc today. on behalf of bridge and ken lombard could not be here today. i want to welcome all of you and thank you for take the time to celebrate the grounds breaking for potrero block b. bridge was seconded by san francisco to partner with the residents of the potrero community and literally redesign the landscape that you see here. together, we embed on the long

over due and critical task of figuring out how to figure out the potrero terrace andaneck. hours of discussion, design charettes and focus groups with the community resulted in rebuilt potrero. an ambitious vision to redevelop the site in a master plan with 1600 housing units, parks and open space, new street grid other thanning retail and community serving space that grand vision is surely taking shape before our eyes with the development of the second phase with 150, 7 units of affordable family housing and infrastructure. [applause]. 1101 connecticut the building behind you, this you see across the street is 72 family housing

units that opened in 2019 as phase one of potrero. potrero block b includes a 6,000 square foot child pace and provide a home notoriety cross cultural family center a childcare provider serving the communities for many years out of 2 existing apartments. in addition the block b development will include 4,000 square foot public minipark. the first of several parks in community serving open spaces that are an important part of this master plan. our mission is to communities. i have been with bridge for many years. i joined the potrero team earlier this year. this is really personal for me. i upon really want to take this opportunity to thank the residents of the potrero community and all the other stake holders including supervisor walton and his staff. mayor breed, staff at mayor's

office of housing and oewd. the san francisco housing authority, i see tonya here and staff. hope sf for welcoming mow to the team and post in the our collective effort to rebuild potreroism look forward to working with all of you to further our mission. lastly, a shout out to the small and mighty bridge team. april tale. susan newfeld. t. j. bryce. listen all instrumental in bringing us together. give everybody on the stake holders the community let's give everybody a round of alaws. [applause] i would like to

welcome supervisor walton who has been the champion of the rebuild potrero project. good morning, first of all welcome to the beautiful district 10 the sun is always shining. even with the expectation of rain. this is truly a beautiful day for us here and community to be breaking ground on another building more housing and affordable housing in san francisco and in potrero hill. my conversations with bridge start in the 2007 and 8 when i was the director of the family resource center and talking about development and talking about how we would rebuild potrero we are 24 years later, we have first unitings up. more units on the way. this is what we really call fulfilling a promise.

and we will make sure we continue to finish all the units that are going to be replaced here on the hill. when we replace units we are not replacing community. we make sure community can stay, live here in the same neighborhood where they have been raising family and work for the last decades. i'm excited to be on the board of supervisors to see this enter fruition. i look at members in communities and folks, note only lived here for their lives and worked here and been a part of making sure we got to this day and thank the community and residents, they have of course had to endure all of the changes and designs. all of the different models before we got to this date and to see the work coming. thank you for your resiliencey

to the community and thank you for showing up today. looking forward to had this is finished, we'll be back to cut the ribbon and people are moving in. thank you. [applause] >> thank you supervisor walton. i would now like to invite eric shaw to say a few words, potrero with the other hope sf project in san francisco would not be possible without the on going support of the mayor and certainly her staff at mayor's office of housing. eric? [applause]. >> thank you very much. and also proud to say i'm interim director of hope sf. i wear 2 hats and proud of both and want to thank and blessed and fortunate in that initiative as well. i'm proud to be here to celebrate the construction of another building of affordable home in potrero hill. it reflects the promise we made

to the potrero public housing this no residents be displaced as we transform this to a racially and economically inclusive neighborhood. this is a vision of hope sf to create new possibilities and for a city on aging public housing cites this anies back years and guess back to previous mayors. promise deliver on the vision pass friday mayor to mayor. because while the city and the person in city hall may change the community deserves these projects. original buildings built 80 years ago and not built to last for as long as they have. we worked to rebuild the community surrender way with residents move in the 72 new homeos 1101 connecticut. this will be here will be the seconded affordable housing to break ground as part of potrero hill master plan. will bring 157 new homes to the

neighborhood. 117 of those reserved for current residents already call potrero home and will create 40 additional affordable homes new housing opportunity here as we reimagine this neighborhood. includes 10 units servesh reserved through the preference program so they are not displaced. the building will have on sight property management and service. community gathering spaces and on sight minipark and the public. affordable childcare approximate this is just the beginning. i am honored gather to break ground on the next step for the community and i can't wait to be here for the grand opening the next decade planning up to 1700 new home in the neighborhood and 65% will be affordable. and as we invest more in potrero and build the housing we the great new community spaces, job

ands transit opportunity. celebrate >> moment and lift up our communities and create tunes for all regardless of backgroundses. and for recognitions. i like to thank everyone involved in hope sf. raise your hands. >> [applause] i would like to thank bridge housing and team's architects, contractors and service providers took the time to gather feedback from the community. your work made sure the voices were heard and the needs were met. i want to thank the san francisco housing authority and are tonya? who has been an amazing partner through this whole journey. and ultramarathon if we call it that we are coming in mile 25? thank you very much for your leadership as well. i want to thank the city departments including all my teams and the mayor's office of housing community development. can you raise you were hands?

mocd? and our funders it is all about money and by the way we need more. thank you very much. i always have to ask. the supervisor that was your talk happening points to ask for more money. we will do that off line. i want to thank the california department of housing and communities development. provides fund to the california housing accelerator to allow this project to move forward this is one of 5 projects hope sf that are funded. i want to thank you very much. and finally i want to thank the community. you put your faith in us and work for us and without you none of this will be happening. continue to work to commit it possible as we strife for a san francisco that is affordable to everyone. and with that i will bring my fellow partner and development and financials from the stage.

ditransition. [laughter]. hands it over. >> okay. there you go. all of us should ask for funding. it takes a village in that space. thank you very much for your partnership as well. [applause]. before i start i need to take a picture from up here. i -- all of you etch raised your hand and i am getting pictures one at a time. congratulations your victory! good job! thank you. >> of course eric. good morning, everybody. i'm hernandez deputy director for communication at the california d. housing and community development. it is my great pleasure to be here today. [applause]. on behalf of governor newsome, yea. don't record that.

acd director valasciiys wanted to be here today and our entire departmentive want to wish a congratulations and honest low a thank you. i will go off script as i was upon listening to the speakers and eavesdropping on the side conversations, what really resonateed me and is at the core of great investment is community. theancy displacement efforts for this project are critical, they are so important and they speak to when we really care about that is giving people safe, affordable homes for long-term. thank you for this hard work. thank you to the community. i know it can be tough to trust government. and work with government. and i hope today you feel some success. we cannot be here without you. [applause]. so as you heard, we invested

through our housing accelerator fund approximately 94 million that mean this is project within 6 months went from the, ward to today this . is unpresidented, record breaking and critical to keep this project moving. we put in another 20 million with the california growth council for investment in infrastructure, bike ways, walkways and making better transit connections the under production of house nothing general and affordable housing coupled with historic red lining and other policies made housing unaffordable for far too many in our state and for too long. we need more communities like this. the housing accelerator will provide approximately 5,000 new housing units throughout the state they will come online extreme low fast.

developers like bridge and per ins like in the mayor's office. want to thank mayor breed, eric, your team. we need that commitment. this project is years in the make. and we need that dedication so no matter who is in office the projects move forward and represent the community who deserve and over looked for too long. look forward to victim in the city of san francisco. look forward to more opportunitiful i will get prishths after this. i'm looking forward to. thank you again and i cannot wait to be back. our director wants to back when we cut the ribbon and welcome more residents home. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. we appreciated both the state and the mayor's office of housing for the funding they have provided this and other

projects. i would like to invite jonathan, executive director of j. p. mother abchase. >> chase bank provide financing for block b. in addition to the subsidy funding reach out to the banks and our investors always to get more funding and we want to thank you for your support. >> thank you. jonathan beach with chase community development bank. an honest torto be here thank you for inviting me. just to start, i joined chase 4 months ago. prior i managed santa clara affordable housing department of i want to admit i have didn't least amount work of anybody here but get the honor of speaking at the ground break. that said, i want to thank bridge. and all of our partners here

today and congratulations on the ground break. i have been a fan of bridge for a long time at the city and at chase. and i could not think of a better development team to tackle a complicated and master plan development on a site like this the oldest public housing sights in the city. you know chase roll roll was to provide 150 million dollars in construction financing and 50 million dollars in permanent financing and despite the big number there is is no may the project is feasible without the mayor's office, housing authority. monica mentioned, this project here is an example of the success of the state's housing accelerator program to fund projects that would have been stuck in the bottle neck to get tax credits. this projects this otherwise may not have been funded. who knows where the project would be today without the accelerator program.

chase, we funded a number of fais phases through hope sf. we are prud to be a part of the broader initiative. but what is happening at potrero. i want to thank bridge for having us here t and block b is part of the larger goal to the larger goal to increase access affordable housing for everyone. i think we are looking forward to seeing your vision realized here. and come become to see this master plan development fulfilled. thank you and looking forward to communities thrive here. [applause]. >> thank you. i would be remiss if i did not mention the housing authority as always one of the providers for all the projects here. housing authority [inaudible] and i want to reach out and

thank my colleague, tonya, for her leadership and partnership and looking forward to working with you to expedite when we have here. thank you. [applause]. and last but not the least, i want to invite april tality tow come and say a few words. and acknowledge and village of folks you tell we partnered with to make it happen. >> i want to thank april for her dedication approximate hard work in piecing together the financing, you all just heard how much it takes to put the projects together. and as monica said, and i think eric you mentioned this and jonathan; we applied multiple times for financing throughout state under a different program and not successful. and the govern obviously upon

his priority is to increase the amount of affordable housing and expedite building housing. i want to thank april she was curating the applications and trust mow they are not easy. lots of details. i don't know april how many times you applied, twice. >> okay. >> i really would like for to you come up here and say a few words about the projects, your experience and we want to acknowledge everybody. instrumental to work here today. thank you. >> good afternoon, everybody. i think we can do better. good afternoon, everyone! >> thank you. i'm april tally senior project manager at bridge. i am delighted to be here as it

has been a challenging and yet rewarding time. on behalf of bridge housing i would like to take a few moments to thank several team members for make thanksgiving development a reality. i like to acknowledge the residents of potrero public housing. thank you for your patience with this process. we also like to acknowledge the neighbors of potrero public housing as well. we looic to thank our community based organizations that support and uplift residents such as the chant shanti project, care. stand in peace, neighborhood house and rdj. >> our architects paul, jeffrey, alisa and anthony for the

creative design. thanks to gary string and the team at gls for landscape design. i like to thank our consultants at ph pc for financial consultation throughout the predevelopment through construction closing. next i like to thank acc, sunlight and power. concord group and way point our construction managers on this project. thank you to matt irwin. robert and the kay hill team for partners in the redevelopment of potrero. you all know kay hill was the gc for connecticut as well. we appreciate supervisor walton and his staff for supporting the project and a huge thanks to the california department of housing

and community development for helping us >> yes. helping us put your funds from the california housing accelerator. they were in lieu of traditional 4% tax credits and bond [inaudible]. this project would not have been able to start construction and create jobs without them. once again, thank you to the mayor's office of housing and community development for providing both predevelopment and gap funding. i want to thank ryan. sailor abrendzon dwyer. sarah, lydia and eric shaw. additionally, i like to thank staff at oewd for support and asisterance with needlement approvals and the permit process which can be crazy. special thanks to hope sf staff for your community development

effort. thank you to our construction and lendser chase bank for funding the development. i would like to thank acknowledge -- henry, wendy richardson and linda for their hard work and next i like to thank the staff at bridge. we could not have reached such a mile stone without you our accountant. and also a some thanks to our community and residence dents services team for their work to support potrero residents. thank you to jeffrey mccormick and bpmc for letting the potrero hosting and available to answer questions. and finally i want to lynne and

ellen for host thanksgiving events. thank you all. [applause]: >>ing events. thank you all. [applause]: >> music music [music] >> first let me acknowledge paul we left outside. he is under the tent, which is good. he is an ambassador. cudos he is amazing.

[applause] thank you and to acknowledge another doctor carol tang director of the children's creativity museum. put a nice roof over our heads appreciate it, carol >> welcome to the yerba buena gardens a beautiful garden i'm scott ruiz the new director for the yerba buena community benefit district and the gardenace conservesancey. thank you for having me both organizations are dmited improve thanksgiving yerba buena neighborhood. yerba buena is a u neefk neighborhood. culture, convention and community meet. we have world class museums like this amazing children's creativity. the amazing moscone convention center. hotels. educational snoous institutions the yerba buena gardens. small