>> 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. >> like to take roll. [roll call] >> president elias

you have a quorum. (inaudible) department of police accountability. line item 1, general public comment. at this time the public is welcome to address the commission up to 2 minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jursh diction of the police commission. under rules of order neither police or personnel or commissioners are required to respond to the public about may provide a brief response. call 415-655-0001 and entering access code 24850073141. you may submit public comment on either following ways, e-mail secretary

at (inaudible) sent u.s. postal service to public safety building at 245 3 street, san francisco california 94158. this time if you like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. >> good evening. my name is paulett brown, coming concerning my son aubrey murdered 2006, to this day his case isn't solved. i will continue to come here pleading for justice for my son and what do we do to change the laws about people coming forth? i know we have the

meeting and everything concerning where the money was going as far as and how much is paid out. i have a $250 thousand reward. has not yet to be paid out to anyone that came forth. they have all the names of the perpetrators that murdered my son. this is what they left me with. me. standing over my son in a casket. no mother should have to do this. no mother should have to do this at all. i wouldn't wish this on the perpetrators that killed my son and hope my pleading every week and every wednesday is not going to deaf ears. i dont know what else i need to say anymore. if you have a family member, tell them you love them every day. you dont know when the

last time you will see them and walk off the street and get hit by a car. you just grieve this grief. i'm going to pull this up and take it off of that--i want people to see my face. to let them know that this grief never ends. it never goes away. my son lives here in my heart. they took his body, but he still is with me. i still want justice for my child. >> good eke vening caller, you have two minutes. >> yes. this is david elliot lewis. can you hear me? >> yes. >> so, thank you very much. i am a 8 year

member of the sfpd crisis intervention training team, a mental health working group. i'm a civilian member and done training in the past and helped write d dgo related to use of force and i'm here to talk about the staffing needs of this critical unit. ideally it unit should have at least 8 members, actually 10 members but minimum of 8. now it is down because as you know there is a staffing crisis at sfpd. the unit is down to 4 members, 3 active, one away so only 3 people doing this important work. the is model for the nation. the agency gets request from other departments around the country for training, for consulting to train their members. they can't do the work at 3 people, they just cant. half are assigned at field response to help with

department of public health crisis response, half are assigned to training but at 3 members it isn't doable work. we'll be requesting a meeting with chief scott to discuss this further, but we are alerting the police commission that this critical unit is being kind of short-staffed and some of the problems of short staffing are resulting from the police department reassigning its patrol to other duties like standing around at union square for the theft prevention program. it is called something else. for (inaudible), for administrative type positions, for community engagement work and while all those things are important, dont mean to down-play the importance- >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> my name is susan buckman. i live in district 6 and volunteer with wealth

and disparities thin black community. the song is a quote from the (inaudible) addressing injustice against black san franciscans is urgeen. i'm going to call what it is, anti-blackness in terms of use of force, arrest and racial profiling and traffic stops by sfpd. i have grown tired talking to the police commission, sfpd and board of supervisors. where is the urgency? the tables were turned and these stats represented white folks i know there would be a urgency. when you take responsibility to address the hars bias statistics? you took a oath to uphold the law. i'm tired, not tired enough to quit however tired of beating a dead horse and concerns falling on deaf ears. wealth disparities in the black community tracked quarterly data reports issued by sfpd since 2016. the reports long shown

horrific anti-black disparities in use of force arrest and racial profiling. the second quarter 2022 reports published late last year shows sus suspicious chaipg in the data. quarter 1 to quarter 2 the disparity dropped from black people being 15 times more likely to be subject to use of force then white people to 9 times more likely but at the same time sfpd is reporting twice the number of people of unknown or other race being subjected to use of force. 4 percent to 10 percent. (inaudible) sfpd can not change the way of collecting and reporting data to manipulate statistics to avoid scrutiny from the public. thank you. >> good evening, you have two minutes. >> hi, my name is

(inaudible) i'm community organizer (inaudible) oversee collaborative program and i'm speaking on behalf of the safety committee of central city collaborative. i'm here to express my concern and disappointment about how community has been ignored all this time. i know last year mayor did a emergency declaration and part of the declaration also included to address the open end drug market in tenderloin. we have seen little to very little improvement in that aspect. we have also asked for community policing. we asked for visibility which we have seen off and on, not consistently. i just want to take this opportunity to ask commissioners what is the plan for tenderloin to curtail the open air dealing? why tenderloin is considered a containment zone by the city and over the

years demonstrated that is what is going on so i have not heard from commissioner requesting talking about what-i know there have been several meetings and presentations what is going on in tenderloin but not seen a clear concise plan and also engagement from the community as to how to curtail the open air dealings and i am urging and asking what is going to happen and asking commissioners to do something about it, because we have not seen anything yet. thank you. >> good evening, you have two minutes. >> yes. this is gloria barry district 10 calling to send a message to the san francisco pd to do due diligence and (inaudible) the evidence of the case on (inaudible) gwen the man that hold the

homeless woman and not drop the ball and get it in on a timely manner and also execute the warrant and i also like to remind one of the commissioners that these commission meetings do not count as outreach to the community. commissioner walker stating that one time that this-we need commissioners to come out to the community and talk to the people, especially the black people to see what's really going on, versus data that doesn't always tell the full story. thank you. >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> commissioners, my name is francisco decosta and last time when you all were talking about giving the reward i was in a line and somehow i

couldn't connect. (inaudible) the police chief knows about this incident. we had a shooting off (inaudible) known all over the city called (inaudible) and he died-he was shot right in front of his house and the killer was known. the first thing the police did is send a message out that he died. we found out (inaudible) he suffered for 10 days but shot in the leg. now this issue of saying reward for $25 thousand, you must find out why the

community is [difficulty hearing speaker] received as much as $400 thousand, $200 thousand. not long ago, but in the last 5 years. we have to be very sensitive when these killings take place. in this case, the killer killed another person in the east bay and was arrested and is in jail now. i shouldn't be giving the details, but this is a very very serious case. it is-- >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> good evening, my name is (inaudible) volunteer with wealth and disparities thin black community calling to echo susan comments from earlier.

[difficulty hearing speaker] there is history of (inaudible) urge commissioners to not assume the information they are getting is correct. i also want to point out that the (inaudible) police officers (inaudible) when we see it is usually just police officers standing in corners talking to one another and not doing community policing. if we invest community policing it needs to be done well, does not mean officers standing to each other in group s and not talking to people in the community. thank you. >> president elias, that is end of public comment. >> thank you. next item, please. >> line item 2, consenate calendar. receive and file.

action. sfpd sb1421 and sb 16 report. >> motion to receive and file. >> second. >> on the motion- [roll call] >> members that like to make comment regarding line item 2, consent approach the podium or press star 3 now. there is no public comment. once again, sorry- [roll call] you have 7 yeses. >> thank you. next item. >> item 3, chief

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.) >> good evening. i want to before turning the floor over since we love change so much i asked the chief to present his chief report in a different manner. each week he provides us with stats, which the department provides in a sheet attached to our weekly agenda, which has all the stats with respect to the crime report or the crime trends from last week to year to date, and it is a beautiful i think piece of paper that has all of the stats so rather then waste the chief's time i will have sergeant youngblood post the states so the commissioners who already read the information in preparation for tonight know what the stats are and public can look at it so if

we have any questions we can then ask the chief at the end but it also allows the chief more time to focus on substantive issues in terms of giving the commission and public updates of what is going on. we will try this out for a while and hopefully well received and ask dpa to follow suit in terms of providing stats on the screen and giving more substantive updates. chief- >> we are going right- >> going right into substantive. because i think both of your staff provide this information in a really concise well thought out presentation for us already, so--all about efficiency. chief. >> thank you president elias for those efficiencies. i'll make note of one thing in the report statistics and actually this was just caught by commissioner yee. when you see the robbery, the arrow is in the wrong direction. it should

be increase and not decrease. i'll make the note. let me start with significant incident. from last week there were questions by the commission on the incident that happened with the person who was sprayed with a water house. that investigation is ongoing. we are working with the district attorney office and we will update you as that resolved. when we think that will be resolved but update on what the resolution is and when the appropriate time. the district attorney office has been working with the department on that issue and we were hoping to have some information before this meeting but that information has not transpired yet, so i need to wait until i get conformation on the investigation before i can make that public statement as to

what those things are. i wanted to keep the commission updated because that was a item of commission and public interest. i will highlight a couple other significant insdants in the past week, starting with a incident last night and couple things and i will be brief, it voled a cat lit blg converter theft and that is a problem in the city and state, huge problem, and this particular case the officers responded to a theft in progress of catalytic converter, observed suspect and gave chase and one of the individuals actually fired several shots at the officers. thank goodness nobody either office or members of the public were hurt. there is one person in custody, two other suspects are being sought after, the escaped the perimeter and that is

a ongoing investigation. one thing i want to point out, we made a lot off progress of tactical training, coordinated response and the fto unit field training and many other people in the department have invested a lot of time and energy to make sure that as best we can these type of situations have resolution that have successful outcomes and nobody is getting hurt. i just want to commend the officers for their restraint and professionalism in this particular case. obviously a very dangerous situation, but this is where our training and all the investment in the training pays off. again, we have one suspect in custody and we will pursue the evidence to get the other suspects in custody but i wanted to note that very dangerous situation.

also, commissioner walker and i attend ed town hall meeting in the marina. one item of interest that came up, there was a rash of car break-ins in the northern district on filbert street at about just before midnight january 15 so couple days ago. 17 cars total had their windows shattered, some items stolen from some of the cars, other cars were just ransacked and glove compartments . we are investigating and have leads to follow up on to wake up in the middle of the night on a rainy day or next morning and find your window shattered or car interior soaking wet is frustrating for all particularly the victims so we are follow through with captain jackson was at the meeting and addressed the public on this and many other issues of public concerns. if anyone

has tips about any cases i mentioned call 415-575-4444. that is our tip line and you can text the tip at tip411. you can text to tip and your information can remain anonymous. some of the other highlights i want to point out, there were no stunt driving events this week or side shows. we had three shootings incident one 19 and cap, 3100 block of 24th street in the mission district and other at third and harrison and all of those are being investigated. we have leads. some cases better then others, and hopefully can bring those to resolution as far as people involved being taken into custody. there was a robbery involving juvenile youths. this occurred mason and oferrule in the tenderloin on the 14th january at 831

p.m. while in the area of mason and oferrule. 3 people suroubded the victim and began to kick and punch the victim. the victim fell to the ground, lost consciousness and three people took the victim for the cell phone and bank cards. victim transported in stable condition. our officers responded, did search of the area, fallowed on evidence and located the people involved in the area of taylor and market. they were all taken into custody and the stolen property was recovered. so, this was a good piece of police work by responding officers and i know commissioner yanez had spoken about our crimes involving youth, so we will keep the commission and public updated on the trends we are seeing but we have seen a little of a spike in these type of crimes involving youth so hopefully can get that turned around and work with everybody that works with youth to see what to get a handle on this. just

two other insdants i want to talk about. significant incidents couple burglaries the 400 block of gavin and bayview, the 1400 block of 24th avenue in the teravel and gavin street a witness saw 3 people with ski mask going in and out of the victim residents and fled in a black suv driven by a 4th suspect. a witness called 911 because the residents were a elderly cuper and unknown if they were home. officers conducted a protective sweep and determined no one was at home. the residents signed a burg laer occurred. home owner contacted responded to team, brief inventory revealed over $100 thousand worth of jewelry and thousands of dollars in cash were taken from the incident so that we are following up on. the issue being this was a residents of a

elderly couple and it is a trnd also disturbing that we want to get a handle on so hopefully can get the leads to get people in custody that are responsible. the next one was 1400 block of 24th avenue. victim returned and found his residents front door forced open. he left home about 948 a.m. and returned at 305 finding that the forced entry occurred. quick inventory of the residents was done and there was large amount of cash, high end clothing items and accessories taken valuing over hundred thousand dollars. witness adviceed of a loud banging from the residents approximately noon and observed a car on the sidewalk. we have video footage we are following up on and again hopefully we can that will lead to the people responsible and i will keep the

commission posted on that particular incident. trend being high end high value merchandise is being apparently sought after, so that should give leads as well. last thing, community engagement, a update on the community engagement and community liaison unit. during the week they offered outreach to 8 crime victims and one which was african american (inaudible) the past week our community liaison unit officer assisted in 4 incident including robbery 2 robberies with force and pretty significant incident at lincoln high school in which several victims were assaulted in that particular case. just reminder this unit was put up during the global pandemic with a tremendous spike in hate crimes and one of the responsibilities

is provide more support to victims and families, so they do a tremendous amount of work, value added for delivery of service but the primary role is to prevent the crimes from happening. part of what they do is information about crime prevention and how to prevent these events happening again so we dont have repeat victims. that is my report. i heard the bell and thank you. >> you have time to spare. look how much time you have? you have a half minute. great job. so, we have the weekly crime trends up. any commissioners have questions with respect to weekly crime trends? put your name in the queue. commissioner benedicto. >> not for the trends. chief, it looks like while we were in session there was a arrest warrant made (inaudible) can you confirm that?

>> sorry? >> the arrest warrant and officer made the arrest. is that right? >> that is what i was (inaudible) >> i see a video from the reporter so assume. >> my phone is on silent so waiting to confirm that. if that is the case that is the news i was waiting to confirm but that was the development in the case and thanks for letting me know we made the arrest. >> (inaudible) good to hear. i know that last week you noted you presented to the commission that the form for the live surveillance used under the new ordinance. i wanted to check and i mentioned so now that form is out are officers able to use that ordinance or still other details? >> (inaudible) president elias and i had the conversation and took it back to the team to make adjustment i need to present to president elias so that will be done and hopefully if

we met what we are asked to do we'll get that agendized i hope and start that process. >> just confirming so far the live monitoring hasn't been used by the department? >> that is correct. >> i'll repeat the request once it becomes in use, but i ask that when it is used it include in the weekly report (inaudible) x number of times with information. >> happy to do that. >> i think we talked about the mou last week that there is further meetings and will hear back about it in the month of february rsh is that right? >> that is right. one meeting i referenced last week did occur this week with the district attorney to flush out the language. the next step is the meeting is scheduled for the judge the mediator. he was taken time off and when he gets back the meeting is scheduled. which i believe he won't back till the 28. >> dpa and the side

deal as well? >> right. which once (inaudible) we do have some language to give to dpa. they gave us a draft and we have language to get to them to consider on this mou and once we finish the meeting with the mediator we can finalize the process and they will have concurrently as the commission directed. >> the current mou remains in force while the investigations continue? >> yes. >> okay. thank you very much. that's all. >> thank you. commissioner byrne. >> thank you. chief, last week i asked the question about and understand it is in litigation but the injunction preventing the city of san francisco from rounding up homeless people. i don't know has there been a change since i asked the question last week? the magistrate

judge in oakland. >> no change as far as still in litigation so not at liberty to talk about the litigation but no change from last week. our city attorney office is working hard with all the involved departments and as we get the okay to disclose more i will do that on behalf of the department. >> are we to the city attorney, getting a briefing in closed session about this litigation? >> yes, we will. we are working with president elias to schedule it on the agenda. >> thank you. >> that it? great. commissioner yee. >> thank you president elias. chief i have a question looking at the stat sheet for shooting by district versus 2022 to 2023. looking at the mission district, this pops right out. there are

4 shootings compared to zero last year, and i know there's probably a high incidents of homicide that does follow the shooting. it is like a accident waiting to happen so after so many shootings you start having homicides that does happen. i wondering if there is a way to-you have the teams in what you call the crisis or violent crisis intervention team that go into certain neighborhoods where there is retaliatory strikes or shootings and stuff. i wonder if that applies to the mission district as well? >> this particular spike is actually one incident. last week there were 4 people shot in one incident and one of them passed away. yes, the answer is yes. we do have

some significant progress in the case and those things will be done in that case in terms of try ing to mitigate the future-without disclosing to be much because we haven't made the-finalized the case yet or i'm not sure it applies in this particular case, but some of the factors that play it might, so we'll get our community violence response team, the unit that does that type of work on the department of behalf and bring all the resources together including scip and who ever else we need involved to mitigate and try to stop retaliation. if it does apply we will employ that in the case. >> as i understand it, it was right after closing of a bar. i was wondering if there's any strategy of having patrols

coming outright after the bar close and maybe pay more attention to some of the locations, or go to the entertainment commission and making sure that the establishment has proper security as well. just want to see what your thoughts are. >> yes. at this point we don't believe the bar had anything to do with this investigation, i can say that much. to your question, if there are those type of situations where the location for whatever reason has a number of violent incidents in and around the location or over-service that causes people to drink more alcohol then what they should be served, we do work with the entertainment permitting and those entities to mitigate those circumstances. we don't believe that st. the case in this

one, but i'm not ruling out it totally but we don't think that is the case in this particular ensdant. incident. >> thank you very much chief. >> thank you. sergeant. >> members of the public that like to comment regarding item 3 approach the podium or press star 3. >> sorry sergeant youngblood-i had my hand up. >> sorry commissioner yanez, sorry about that. >> it's okay. i want to take the opportunity to make an announcement i checked with the chief about a comment last week made about gun buy backs and considering this conversation is about shooting incidents i had inquiryed with the chief it was possible for members of the community to drop off guns at district stations confidentially, he confirmed that is a possibility so i want to make sure the

community knows that is a option for people. it isn't gun buy back, but a way to get guns off it streets and support the department efforts removing guns from the community. i want to follow up, are there plans in the future to (inaudible) or extend or expand that program? >> united playas is the consistent entity that helps put-put on the gun buy backs and we support them actually, and they just had one a couple months ago, so i believe they do two a year commissioner. i will follow up on that but i believe do two a year. there was another entity a couple years ago pre-covid that went into the bayview. we haven't seen that entity doing anymore since then. but united playas they do good work in that

regard and i'll follow up with them to see when their next one is. >> thank you. >> members that like to comment approach the podium or press star 3. >> the chief report, right? i'm back again. we are talking about the gun buy backs and how people are bringing in their gun. what about the ghost guns, there is no tracing of those. our children are killed with the ghost guns so something needs to be done about that. you can have all the gun buy back programs you want and people bringing in guns they don't but what about the guns being made with no tracing and our children are still dying from them? whether it is-i like to use the overhead again. it doesn't matter whether it is

the police killing our kids or the community violence or black on black crime or however you want to call it. we were talking about the cases being solved and who is coming forth. you have all the names of the perpetrators that murdered my child hanble thomas, paris mauft, andrew budue, jason thompson, anthony hunter and marcus carter-oberstone. -carter. as i mentioned before, this is what they left me with, my son laying on a gurney, my son here look at his face. he is dead. i get tired looking at this sometimes. i get tired of it. my son had a father too. this wasn't a one family. he had a

mother and father at home. he was raised well and i asked again-i know it didn't get mentioned but if anybody know they can come forth concerning my son. please i'm here every wednesday. speaking about my child. i shouldn't have to see my son face like this. >> members who have information about the murder of aubrey (inaudible) call the tip line (inaudible) good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> what i want to speak about today is,

[difficulty hearing speaker] giving a report the entire nation heard. there was no representation from san francisco. there was representation from san jose and i think when we hire policy makers and we say we are going to better the situation, we need them to represent those forums because all the law enforcement entities are there, and they would like to hear the programs we make in san francisco. thank you very much.

>> i'm rumona burden, my brother is mark anthony. i seek justice for my brother as always. again, i can't even formulate a sentence and not usually shy. i'm not usually shy to talk to people, but her passion and she is coaching me on the proper protocol for this meeting and so again, i emplore you to try something different then what you are doing. all of the nice programs are not effective so we need to try something else. i would suggest i would like to see more-the tip process revisited so that there could be tips or rewards for tips that lead to more action towards a case. i think that that would

be beneficial and i also think that more cameras that are workable around these sharp shooter things, i guess that measure the gun shots, there are no cameras there-thank you. maybe cameras in those areas so when the police actually arrive and there is nobody there they can look at the footage of the persons or persons or whatever the shots, where they came from. i would like to see something like that. i love to be a part of some sort of committee that is grounds roots in the community. again, i think more community involvement is necessary and whatever i could do to support that i would be very hap py to do so. thank you. >> good evening caller, you have two minutes. >> hi. gloria berry district 10 again. i want to point out at

the top of the meeting the access code on the sfgovtv was wrong and that isn't the first time, however it has been corrected since we have been calling in and the website was correct and maybe dpa can relate to the sheriff oversight they are having the same problem. (inaudible) it was mention of the arrest of the guy that hosed the homeless woman or don't know if she is homeless. i want to (inaudible) treats homeless people and the rhetoric that folks refuse service needs to stop. (inaudible) i was sent to next door shelter, it was unsafe. someone (inaudible) calling me the b word throughout the night. i left there and they

sent me to rehab and i don't know use drugs but it was the only shelter bed for a woman in san francisco and i refuse to stay there because they treat you like you are in jail there, and transitional housing is also unsafe because a lot of times people want their own room. they dont want a room mate so they an tagonize you and do things do you, threaten you and damage your property to discourage you from staying there, so i really hope we don't move towards someone refuse the service and then police or public works or who ever can take people's property and also let that start being a way to arrest people if that is in the future because i'm sure, i can't tell. thank you. >> that is the end of public comment. >> thank you. next

item. >> item 4, dpa director report. report on recent dpa activities, and announcements (dpa's report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.) >> i commend the chief and department and commission on the new reporting with the department information. i think having that kind of parody elevates the whole conversation. not only that but gives a real opportunity to see beyond just the stats and numbers. some of the work being done and good work being done for the public safety. i just-it is a very big deal for everybody in the room to have information like this that makes policing more publicly accessible for our conversations and makes it less esoteric, more readily available and i think it is a good thing. it is also not lost on me that it gives

context to the information that dpa presents every week and makes it that much more relevant because it compared to what is going on with the policing staff. i didn't want to let it go without acknowledging what a big deal i think it will make specifically for the public in terms of what we do here on a weekly basis. that said, now i will give my report. so, i have 17 cases opened so far this year. this time last year i opened 21 cases. i closed 17 cases as well so far this year. in terms of cases that are pending and open, i have 271 cases that are open in the agency now and we have not sustained any cases so far this year. nor have we mediated any cases so far this year: in terms of cases who's investigations have gone beyond 9 months so far, again not triggering or losing

cases to 3304 which i have not done since taking over, we have 31 cases and of those 21 cases are told meaning the time is not running out on those cases because there's ancillary litigation eerfth civil or criminal associated. 9 cases pending with the commission and 84 cases that are pending resolution with the chief and with the department. in terms of the weekly trend, again, my statistics are published so not going to read all, i give the top 2 to give a-25 percent of the allegations that come in have been referred to department or agency. that is typically a high number. i want to explain it again to make sure what it is. even if you google police reform you will get dpa and so we get frequent calls from a lot of places just looking for information about incident that may have

happened to them. my staff is specifically trained to try and make referrals to other agencies or other places and for instance in san francisco, we will get calls about jurisdiction thingz from the chp or park police or any other kind of jurisdictions so what this number is reflective of are people having narratives not necessarily associated with sfpd and/or the sheriff department which dpa is involved as well so that is what the number is and what it represents. the other highest allegation that came this week is 17 percent or of allegations of officer failure to take required action. frequently those are cases where people have demanded or wanted a police report taken and or action taken by an officer, say they see something and say this person should be arrested and they engage in behavior or something

like that. i am over explaining this week but because we bring it up so often i want to explain what the stats mean even though the records are on the website in case people have questions about them. in terms of the district breakdown which we started doing earlier this year, and again, only going to focus on the top 2 and not go at nauseam to every department. the top 2 allegations of complaints this week were from bayview and tenderloin station and bayview there were calls for officers about people fixing cars on the street and folks wanted the officers to get involved in that situation. in thetened loin there are two allegations where folks wanting the officers to make an arrest on specific individuals. these cases again are

allegations not necessarily cases that are being investigated, but allegations coming in just to give everyone a sense of the kind of cases coming into the agency. also, the full list is on the website in case folks have more questions or want to know what the allegations look like. outreach, tuesday january 17dpa hosted a know your rights training session. this is the first time we have done this. this is for approximately 40 students and the student came in as request from the school district and the student were from john oconnell high school and a teacher there coordinated all of it. we also last week coordinated and conference with the hrc with the department and with dpa on the karen act in terms of how to move forward in interpreting that legislation to make it

more efficient for the city and i'll have more information on that as that collaboration unfolds. audit this week, dpa and office of controller completed preliminary review of sfpd24 month response to the recommendations made in 2020. that was use of force audit and just to make sure everyone knows and understands, once you do a audit there are follow-up requirements, so the agency being audited has follow-up questions and actions that need to take place and everything 6 monthss i give a report on what the follow-ups are. that is why we are still talking about the audit from 2020. those responses will be published and you will see them and continue to receive information on this and the other audits as well. on the 13dpa and controller office sent the results of those reviews back to

sfpd with required clarification on some of the recommended responses that were given by the department. those responses are coming back from sfpd on january 20there will be a publication of what those responses are, so everyone will see and hear this in the ongoing audit. just explaining it more so people know what they are looking for and how to understand how the process works. today we do have one of the cases that are in closed session. also current in the room today are senior investigator matt stonecipher and chief of staff sarah hawkins in case there are issues in today's meeting they can address the situations with the public or audience here today. in terms of a little foreshadow what we will be doing throughout the year, future reports from dpr a also now going to start including

outstanding issues related to san francisco police department in terms of late filings or late responses and three areas. they are investigations, audit and policy. so we are about to start rolling that and explaining what it is will have a deeper explanation is when we roll out the guide lines. these are in the dgo agreed to ahead of time and now i will start revealing how those results play out. if anyone has questions for dpa you can contact us at sfgov.org/dpa or 415-241-7711 and that concludes my report. i have other comments on some of the items but will wait till the item s are called before i give input

comments suggestions and advice. >> thank you director henderson and appreciate your willingness to adapt to the new format style. i think people-i think you and department do a great job putting together the data so i think it will save time and allow you to be more substantive telling all the great things dpa did. >> looking forward to it. i think this is such a good deal. also for people that want to dive deeper into the things myself or the chief is saying to be go to the website and look at the information themselves follow their own stats, look at the trends themselves-i think it is a big deal for the public. i hope it isn't lost on folks how much more they are able to understand the process, whether you agree or disagree, you can't fix what you don't talk about and can't talk about what you don't understand. i think the reports really help and go a long way for the public specifically and understanding

policing and understanding the role of dpa and the issues we deal with regularly during the week. it really is a big deal. i don't want it lost on folks. >> thank you director henderson. i don't see names in the queue but commissioner yanez, questions for director henderson? >> members that like to make public comment for line item 4, approach the podium or press star 3. no public comment. item 5 commission reports. discussion 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) >> thank you. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you president elias. a few things from my report. i want to provide a update on-last week commissioner yee and i mentioned i would be attendeding the chinese (inaudible) on january 20 based on the conversation with commissioner yee before the meeting started with (inaudible) meeting later date as they have other things to attend to but i (inaudible) in order to provide information to those important organizations about our pre-text stop policy. a few updates on the department general orders that i'm responsible for, after a few months of productive meetings between the chief and stakeholders on dgo5.16 regarding search warrant we have reached as far as we will get (inaudible) i will check with the chief after the meeting and stakeholder tuesday see if there is a

chance they can agree on language, otherwise i'll ask that to be agendize said in the month of february with flagged areas where-happy to report on most areas and might be 3 or 4 as a commission we need to break and make decisions on those. on 5.16-(inaudible) >> we have a draft that's pretty much ready so if you want to meet again we'll work on that. >> one last chance for a miracle and then we'll see. >> okay. >> wear them down. >> yes. tomorrow commissioner yanez and i have been having meetings on 7.o1 regarding juveniles so the working group will continue to meet tomorrow. we are making progress on the department general order and working group and i want to thank the members of the community that made themselves available for that working group. continue to advance department general order 10.11 regarding body cameras with the

help of dpa on that one. finally, i know the last-late last year at a meeting vice president carter oberstone had a conversation about missed dead lines (inaudible) tomorrow have call with (inaudible) to make sure the department is staying on task and meeting those commission deadlines under 3.01. finally, we are not only updating the department orderse i'm working with the city attorney to update our commission rules of order which also are out of date so we will be updating those and hope to present those in the coming months with revision for vote as well and that concludes my report. >> thank you commissioner benedicto, i think you have done enough for all of us. vice president carter oberstone. >> thank you president elias, this is something i meant to bring up last meeting

but neglected to. want to recognize former deputy city attorney zack (inaudible) who recently left the office. zack adviceed the commission on disciplinary matters held in closed session so wasn't always public facing, but zack departure is a huge loss for the commission and city. he was a outstanding city attorney. his analysis was always really thorough, well reasoned and well articulated and he always respected that we as clients had to make the ultimate decision and it was his role as the attorney to provide his best analysis. he never treated us like passive consumers, he always empowered us to make the best decision we could make. of course not following zack's advice you did that at your peril because he always seemed to be right,

and just before the holidays i was talking to zack at one of the meetings and discovered for the first time that he had like half a dozen other clients. he was the general counsel for fire commission, and i just never thought to ask if he had ort clients because he had such a high volume of work for us and always done so well i just assumed we had to be his only client but i was very wrong. the last thing i say about zack is you could always go to him to ask what the right answer was or how the process worked, but zack was always very willing to question the system and process itself and was a incredible thought partner in terms of thinking about how to make the system work better then it was work ing. i will miss him a lot. it is a huge loss to the commission, city and me personally and just really want to

wish him the best and thank for his service to the commission and city. >> thank you vice precedent carter oberstone. i appreciate you raising or acknowledging-he was a huge loss and the other thing he did well is keep us in line. he provided us guidance on how to handle certain situations and insured that when we didn't follow the recommended guidance that there were-he made sure we were well aware of why it probably a bad idea not to follow his advice so he will be greatly missed. commissioner yee. >> thank you president elias. my report for this period is that i had a chance to go down to ingleside station to meet with captain derrick lou. i committed two years ago to meet with rick (inaudible) from the asian civic american

community center. able to go down there, captain lou and myself and his staff to meet up with apacc and his some of the community members. also got to talk to mar lean tran and also jenny mack, so it was a great conversation, because rex he has access to ingleside station, if staff is not there the staff is available. they are looking for a substation out there and visitation valley, which probably-because from the distance from ingleside to visitation valley, i found it to be about 10 to 15 minutes. i talk with them, they are here today. the rain is coming through. if you hear

it--there is also a large population of hispanics out there, so next chance i get i'll probably hopefully be able to meet with them with rex. i guess the number one concern out there for mono lingual speaker is reporting of crime. after the third incident of having these crimes happen on them, (inaudible) nothing happening. i stress they report the crime so that it's goes up the chain and making sure additional resources added there. hopefully we can have more resources found there. maybe-i don't know if district supervisor will

provide funding for the san francisco police ambassador, so i did talk to i'll put him on record, safia and he said he is looking forward doing that. sorry about that commissioner benedicto for friday, but the chinese (inaudible) wanted to address other issues and maybe the program is rolling out in the chinese community in the chinese lunar new year, so that's their concern. they say (inaudible) it will probably follow up once it get cleared up going forward. welcome you there. end of report. >> thank you. >> name a time and

i'll be there. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. i will make a quick report back. i do want to take the opportunity to clarify, my wife asked me to remind people that my name is spelled yanez, we can't add the diacritical symbol about the n, but i just want to make sure that folks can try to pronounce the name the way it was intended. my report is going to be brief. we have had as commissioner benedicto mentioned, couple meetings on juvenile dgo. the early intervention system dgo, there is a meeting scheduled tomorrow to discuss some of the early findings and tranition

from early intervention system to benchmark system so have a conversation how to move forward with that. have been meeting with policy director (inaudible) around the social media dgo which we will begin to initiate or gather names for work group on. lastly, we are janelle from dpa and myself are in contact with nob (inaudible) around community policing dgo which isn't up for revision but there is a process right now in revising the community policing manual, which has been shared with us in draft form so we can look at that and provide feedback as necessary. those are my main updates, and thank you for the time. >> thank you. one thing to report, i want to thank richmond

station captain (inaudible) for allow ing me to attend one of the trainings that was hosted by dpa and ia regarding the discipline. i know that dpa and ia have been providing the trainings to district stations and done about half a dozen so far and plan to do more with respect to the remaining stations and different shifts. i want to tell you chief that lieutenant willhelm and staff did an amazing job being there and providing officers the forum and ability to ask questions about the process and how discipline works both with ia and dpa. executive director henderson and i also want to commend chief of staff mrs. roseensteen on her presentation. both did a tremendous job and and was happy to see because we believed a lot of positive feedback but seeing first hand showed why all the

positive feedback is happening because it was a great presentation the way they co-presented and really were focused on educating officers on the disciplinary process, what you all look for and how this works, because you would be amazed how man y officer do not understand or aware of the process when it comes to discipline and we have not provided a forum in real time allowing them to ask real time questions about discipline, about the process and what it is that you all look forward, how this system plays out. the officers had great questions i thought and both of your teams were not only well prepared but answered everything single question and i really felt like the officers appreciated it so i thank you both and really happy that this training is happening and look forward to having it finish with the rest of the stations and rest of the-the rest of the line-ups because there

are different shifts. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. commissioner walker. >> thank you president elias. a couple of the dgo i'm working on specifically the bsu which is lingering for quite a while. edits have gone from dpa to the chief. i think it is really good to have that on calendar to get a update on that and also, 6.3 i think mrs. haywood has updated that the dpa again has edited and sent the edits to the chief so they are resting over there so hopefully those will be before us in some form. i also want to just comment on the-i did attend the marina town hall. there was-it was a packed

audience and people are concerned about sort of the crimes that are occurring there. the break-ins and property theft. a lot of frustrated folks. the department really presented well. i think that it was interesting because department of health was there, the homeless service outreach sam dodge was there. these are issues i are have been talking about with the community a lot in talking about how to coordinate, collaborate with all the different entities and -there was a question about the patrol special status which the chief and i are talking about all of which can be part of the solution for bringing a lot more community attention and community policing out in the community. i also met with some folks on the cart group community

alternative responses who are making recommendations around homeless and providing assistance and help for that. it fits in really well. i think everybody is really interested collaborated between departments and identifies solutions. placing where people can go for help and not focus on policing as a solution for some of the mental health and substance abuse issues that occur on the street and homeless issues. i'm excited about that and hope we can have some sort of discussion to get commissioner feedback on those thingz, but thank you for the meetings we attended together chief. i think there is good opportunities for real issues we are having and number of

officers out there and how do we fill the gaps as it were. that's my update. thank you. >> sergeant. >> members that like to comment on item 5 please approach the podium or press star 3. no public comment. >> item 6. >> item 6 discussion and possible action taapprove revised department order 3.13 field training program. discussion and possible action. >> i will just be very brief on this particular dgo. this dgo is long time coming. the fto program is really the cornerstone of the future of this

department in that, this is where our incoming officers are trained and where they receive the foundational training that carries them throughout their career. this was a collaborative effort with dpa input and just want to highlight lieutenant lisa springer and her team who provided subject matter expertise on this particular dgo. i think the revisions are definitely in the right direction to address some of the evolutions in policing since the last time the dgo was revised. i would ask the commission-i won't belabor the point but ask commission to move this forward to the respective labor associations for meet and confer for those within the scope-the issues within scope. >> thank you president

elias. i want to see if dpa had comments. okay. in that case, i also think this is a strong improvement. if you look at the red line the old was bear bones and this is more comprehensive. this is another since that hadn't been updated since the 90 and expressed the strong desire to move the number to zero last updated in 1998, so very glad to see this come through. i would be happy to make a motion to approve the revised general order for use and meet conferring with the effective bargaining units. i ask we include the same instruction i did for dgo9.07 last week which i ask going forward which is that department direct to only bargain on matters within the

scope not bargain outside the scope and also prepare guideliness within and without the scope of representation. >> i know i said no, but i was look ing at the wrong dgo note. sorry. something to say but i promise i will be brief because you addressed most-i want to acknowledge-don't typically talk about the policy team and work they do in a lot of the dgo and a lot is janelle kaywood but for this in particular i want to acknowledge germane jones and work he did on this particular dgo. just like you said, this one has been a long time coming. part of what made this one more relevant or also relevant but a factor in taking so long is it requires update to the manual as well and that requires a lot more work, a lot more writing and lot more detail to be included to make sure not just we make these policies but we make policies that the department and officers individually can

understand to know what the expectations are for their staff. i just wanted to thank everyone for the hard work specifically the folks on my staff that did writing and collaboration. they don't do it in a vacuum or by themselves and also a shout of appreciation on the limitation for meet and confer. not just as a back and forth but in terms of addressing the efficiency and how fast we move forward to get the reforms in place for everyone, for the public specifically, also for the department to make it more efficient. that's all i wanted to say. >> and it was a dgo on the list of 26 that was languishing so we are knocking that down so i appreciate that. sergeant. commissioner-- >> thank you president elias and i want to go ahead and second the motion. i do have one

suggestion. not sure if it is a edit, might be a point of clarification the chief can address right now. in 3.13, 2b, it references the first line, sergeant to be (inaudible) field training coordinator, and the second other point, represent-(inaudible) members returning to patrol to stations, field training officers which makes it plural. i want to clarify is there a single station field training officer or are there multiple ones to maintain consistency in the language the way it is described at the out-set of the paragraph. >> there are multiple field training officers in each station. there is one sargeent but multiple

officers so that is written because it is written plural speaking of members. >> got it. >> who ever they get assigned to out of the pool of officers is what that refers to. >> okay. with that clarification, i will second the commission benedicto motion to approve. >> thank you. sergeant can we do public comment? >> members that like to comment regarding line item 6- >> i don't see anything here with- >> one second. he has to finish reading. >> approach the podium or star 3 if you have comment. >> thank you. i don't see any community interaction in this field training program. we talked a lot about that last week and so i'm wondering if i'm just not seeing it and if there is any plans to incorporate how to interact with the community in this field training program. thank you.

>> that is end of public comment. >> commissioner benedicto, point of clarification. >> i wanted to since i know we will get ask to clarify the instructions in the motion which is to approve the revised general order 3.13 for the department to use in meeting conferring with effective bargaining units as required by law with the following 2 strucks to direct sfpd and dhr to meet and confer on matter related to working conditions subject to collective bargaining on california law and not (inaudible) not subject to collective bargaining. direct sfpd to set clear boundaries on meet and confer process to insure no unreasonable delays on reformants for matters within the scope of representation. >> commissioner walker. >> i just have a question if that wasn't part of the agenda, is that a

significant amendment >> it is not a change to the dgo, we did it last week as well. it is just instructions for use with moving forward. >> be included in the agenda when these are presented because i think the public needs to know what we are instrucktsing. >> i'm not sure what we would include in the agenda since it is just- >> you request that the in addition to the action item you want the language that with respect to how to proceed with respect to meet and confer also be on the agenda? >> yeah. if we are voting on it. it just seems--i'm supportive of it but i think we need to let the public know we include that in the instructions. that would be my--suggestion. >> i think it is-the

point of the agenda is to give the public fair notice so they know in advance what we discuss and vote on, and it is clear we are voting on a dgo that have to go to meet and confer, so providing instructions on how to proceed in meet and confer is well within the scope of what was agendized. i certainly wouldn't oppose adding more language to the agenda but don't think it is legally required. others might disagree, but i don't think-i think we are well in compliance with the law here since it is clear we are voting on something to meet and confer. >> commissioner yee. >> i guess you are going to regards to the additional language meet and confer and is that going to be i guess i would ask the city attorney if that's how we do the policy of

meet and confer? >> if i can potentially answer first. this was a similar issue that came up last week raised in the letter from the bar association which is simply directing the sfpd labor negotiator to insure that there are guidelines and only meet and conferring within the scope of representation to insure we are within the scope of the law. there was a time on this commission i think a 3 year stretch under both presidency of loftus and (inaudible) where the instructions were added to every past dgo. they don't change the nature of the dgo or any law, all they are are instructions so that our designated labor negotiator has the will of the commission we need to move these expeditiously and are quickly through meet and confer.

>> i guess i was looking for that with the-i guess with there support of commission to go forward with that with our labor lawyer. >> it is it same language president cohen we include in it in exertion. it is direction of commission tell thg labor negotiator to just negotiate those items subject to negotiation and that's it. >> perfect. >> that is what he is saying. he is just saying it in a- >> needed clarification when a lawyer talks to me. >> i'll send you a bill commissioner. >> there you go. >> send the city a bill. >> does it make sense to just add it to it like it was in the past? >> it was never put on the agenda, but what would happen is the motion would be made with the instructions and then we pass the motion. what i'll do is-every week the agenda is posted, the

city attorney reviews to make sure it is legally compliant and meet all the requirements so i'm told that we are legally compliant and good so i will address with the city attorney and if there is other advice that we should follow i will handle it. >> might i make a offer president elias, if it is something this commission is agreed upon and it seems it is we want to continue past commissions have done and include language to the effect if we agendize happy to draft a resolution that states it is policy of commission that when it comes to meet and confer we do these things and if we pass that that is posted on website and say pursuant to resolution 21-1 these are the instructions and i don't have to repeat it every single time. >> that works for me. you know the new rule with respect to agendizing. oral and written. >> i have my purple folder now. >> i appreciate it. commissioner byrne.

>> just-i'm confused. so, to the city attorney, since i have been on the commission there was only commissioner (inaudible) added the language that language was put in. is there a legal distinction between the previous dgo we voted to meet and confer and adding that language? >> from a legal standpoint the notice on the agenda is sufficient. what we are asking is direction to the labor negotiators and that has been done. i can't say consistently for all dgo but done in the past. but for purposes of what is being voted on, i understand that commissioner walker is asking for the specific motion to be placed on the agenda and that is a policy decision, it isn't a legal requirement. >> okay. i got that

part. now, the second part is, if-when i heard president elias say, the two points commissioner benedicto brought up- >> benedicto. >> excuse me, benedicto brought up, is there a material change including the language versus not including the language? >> no. there not a material change for purposes of whether or not you can vote on it tonight. that is what i understand you asking. >> is there a material change to what the directions for the labor negotiator are for the city? >> a change from what? >> from not having the language in? in other words, does it have a legal effect that not putting the language in would? >> from a legal standpoint it is clearer if you provide direction. >> i get that but is there a legal effect

of not putting the language in? >> i think that's a policy call in terms of whether or not you give clear direction to your labor negotiators. there is a difference between giving clear direction in terms how you want negotiations to be handled opposed to a legal requirement. >> thank you. thank you. >> thank you. can we vote now? [roll call] you have 7 yeses. >> next item. >> line item 7, update on budget for public input. discussion.

>> alright. welcome back. >> thank you. good evening president elias, vice president carter oberstone, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, members of the public. my name is patrick leon, the chief financial officer for the san francisco police department. >> 27 pages, sir. >> we'll keep it within the 10 minutes. >> alright. >> the following table describes the budget process timeline. for tonight's discussion, this will be the first of two presentations. the next presentation is scheduled for february 8. tonight we will focus on the budget process and budget priorities. prior to this presentation, i had a meeting with commissioner byrne and we had some

constructive feedback, we also went through the previous slide decks and with commissioner questions from those sessions and we hope to address it within this presentation. given the number of slides i'll for the sake of time will be prioritizing the important highlights. mayor office budget instructions. departments have been structed to reduce 5 percent of the general fund support and additional 3 percent for the following year. departments prioritize vacancies to fulfill core functions to look for efficiencies and prepare for uncertain economic outlook. mayor policy priorities. the mayor priorities are recovery of the local economy, improving public safety and street conditions, reduce homeless and improve mental health service delivery and advance accountability and equity in services. department

priorities. our budget priorities are divided into 5 areas. hiring and recruitment to help address our sworn staffing short-falls, overtime to also help address staffing shortage, technology resources to help department migrate to new rms system, management and analytical support to help improve analytics and work on unfunded mandates such as sb1421, 19b ordinance, prop e. lastly, the department is looking for additional opportunities for civilianization. within these core areas, the department hopes to continue with collaborative reform efforts to help advance accountability, community policing and transparency. budget comparison. the following table shows the department total budget over the last 4 years compared to fiscal year 24. please note the fiscal year 24 number is there base figure and

carried from the board adopted two year fiscal year 23 budget process. comparing 22 with 23 the general fund annual operating budget increased by approximately $45 million. majority of this difference is attributable to cost of living adjustment for wages, it also includes retention pay premiums fringe benefit cost and interdepartment work order increases. these costs are beyond the department control. some are determined by the collective bargaining process and some are pass-through cost from other city departments. collectively these categories don't result in a increase in public safety services but do represent increase cost in doing business. our general fund budget comparison. in this table we break down the general fund supported budget among major categories.

overtime is sub-set of personnel cost and we have broken it out separately here. what the data shows is that our overtime budget allocated for the department while flucuated we will see it isn't efficient to meet service demands. in this slide we show breakdown of the actual cost for each fiscal year. one important note is that the total responding listed may not always align with approved budget year due to carry forward. this is partly due to timing and partly due to the way the city financial system operates. to try to simplify this explanation and analg would be if somebody works a swing shift they might start at 3 p.m. and get off 1 a.m. tomorrow morning. their entire shift is recorded for today even though it overlaps for two days. department full time

equivalent positions. within the table we have comparison of the funded positions and highering thort over the past 5 years for each category. this includes recruits. the city has approximately 2045 (inaudible) we had 200 sworn employees who are other then full duty status and they are denoted within the table. please note for budgeting purpose other then (inaudible) inclusive of officers on modified duty administrative leave and medical leave. for fiscal year 24, the city has a total of 2089 sworn fte. looking deeper into our sworn attrition details, we lost a great number of officers over the last 3 years and rate of attrition steadily

increased. officers latering to other agencies have become a recent trend and approximately 1 in 4 officers are eligible to retire. some officers are choosing to leave prior to maxing out the tenure. sworn retirement eligibility. within the table we show a breakdown of the number of officers eligible to retire and years of service. the city has 384 officers that are eligible to retire and airport has 89. city sworn staffing. within this graph the purple line shows recommended staffing levels as determined by the prop e staffing analysis studies. as of late december, we have 1788 sworn officers as shown in red. this include 28 recruits. also 115 members on disability leave and 1537 full duty sworn. a low point we have not experienced since

2014. there is 108 members on other full duty status and in response to prior commission question, there are 103 sworn members who are on the brady list. please note that number will fluxuate based on separation and any new investigations. when we look at full duty officers and other officers with other then full duty status, we are now at 537 below the 2021 staffing analysis recommendation of 21 paith 2182 sworn and from the (inaudible) 828 are district stations. the sworn staff continued to decline and city lost 331 officerss in the last 3 years. vacancy funding or overtime feeds. we looked at the budgeted positions and have approximately

2045. the sworn staffing of 1788. vacancy savings generated from the vacancy are set by increased overtime and department use of prop f hires. the department has approximately 123 prop h hires. additionally, because of the significant short fall in the sworn officers the department has needed to use overtime to help backfill vac agencies and address service demands. overtime comparison. last year the department expended $47.2 million in overtime versus budget of $14.6 million. during the fiscal year 23 budget process, $10.8 million moved from overtime from position vacancies as back fill. i anticipate a similar scenario occurring during the fiscal year 24 budget process. for the current year, the department already

exhausted its overtime budget and currently using vacancy savings to help off-set the overtime overerages. back-fill to meet minimum staffing is the biggest driver of over time. city initiative to help support recovery of local economy (inaudible) also play a role. increases in gun violence and due to the lack of jail ward at general hospital also contributed to higher over time usage and these areas we expect to double in usage compared to last year. what this has impact to are response times. the significant short fall in staffing contributed to deteriorating response time. priority a calls exceed it 9 minute mark compared to 8 minute mark. priority b (inaudible)

c calls are approaching 76 compared to 60 minute target. when we look at the call for service, we had a reduction of 38 percent in 2022 compared to 2019. when we look deeper to details (inaudible) twice the rate of public calls to 911 and represent majority of drop in call volumes. (inaudible) to law enforcement. and while the ratio of calls responded improved the department still took on more then 60 percent of calls in 2022. we do hope this ratio improves in

2023. part 1 crime comparison, we can see that compared to 2021 for calendar year 2022 violent crimes are up 6.2 percent and total (inaudible) up 5 percent over the prior year. lastly, with the gun violence comparison. when we look at the numbers the total shooting victims remain much higher in 2022 compared to several years ago in 2019. we have achieved some areas of success with violence reduction strategy. total shoot ings down (inaudible) in bayview and 11 percent in ingle side. staffing remains number one priority. department had to rely on overtime to supplement existing staffjug this will continue to the next year. we have a consorted effort to retain existing staff for each sworn officer

that leaves it takes 1.25 recruits to replace each person that leaves when you factor the wash-out rate at the academy. we are at 537 officers below the recommended staffing level and have another 384 officers eligible to leave. recruitment and retention will be a major focus during this budget process. i apologize for running a little over. if any commissioners have any questions i would be happy to answer them. >> 22 slides was not too good to be true but that's okay. i want to give you a second to breathe. >> thank you. i was within the 10 minutes during practice and- >> i know. he slowed you down. he is touching your powerpoint. vice president carter oberstone. >> thank you president elias. thank you director leung. just two questions for me. on page 11, which

outlines retirement eligibility among current staff, there is this note that says does not include service time served in other agencies. i assume there is some type of reciprocity between agencies such if you have few years somewhere else and years here you can combine and retire. do we have a sense what eligibility looks like once we take in other agencies? is it vastly different or--? >> that's not something that-i have to circle back on that. it is true that -and >> it isn't vastly different. >> okay. do you have a sense why that is because i feel there is a lot of officers who have worked at other agencies and i would think that might be effect the numbers in a significant way. >> i think just overall there are not enough officer tuesday off set it. we do get

lateral officers but not droves and droves, so i think that contribute to the problem overall. we can circle back and get numbers of what that would look like factoring in service but dont think it will make a dramatic impact. >> thank you, that is helpful. and then, my other question is about response times. that's slide 15. so, it looks like from 2019, 2020 response times generally get slower. at the same time, calls are all decreasing, particularly among priority b and c calls which are bulk of calls. wonder if you can provide color how we should think about increase in the response time. obviously staffing is part of it but calls

for service are going down. i wonder if you have thoughts on what the main drivers are of the increase in response time. >> to me, the main driver of the deterioration of response times is really associated with the lack of staffing. the dip we see between-within the early part of 2020 was when the city was on a lock-down because of the pandemic. there was a lot less traffic and i was able to drive from one end to the city to the other in less then 15 minutes and we've-traffic returned more towards back to normal and because there is more traffic within the streets coupled with the lack of officers that we have compared to just two years ago--it definitely has a impact to our ability to respond to the

calls for service. >> okay, that makes sense. i'm just asking because total calls for service in 2019 are 690 thousand roughly and in 2022 it is 430 thousand so that is a pretty significant drop. the staffing dropped as a percentage not as much as the calls. granted, a lot of the drop is priority calls, but i guess i was curious if there was something else going on here other then staffing because the drop in calls is so much more precipitous then drop in staff sng >> here is important note on that slide. there is a big decrease from 2019 to 2022, but the majority of that decrease is because of reduction on on view calls which is part of the officer is from proactive time. he's driving his sector and he

encounters an incident in progress and stops--the reduction in on view calls is like 2/3 of the total. of the reduction from 2019 to 2022. so- >> sorry, just to clarify, maybe i need to ask a more basic question since i may not understand. i assume call for service is a non-officer puts in a call asking for assistance. not a officer observing something. you are saying in instances a officer observing something is included as call for service? >> as it is shown from the cad system the city cad system, it's a part of is 911 calls and the other part is on view calls. officer self-initiated calls. the breakdown is the last two rows

within that chart. >> got you. okay. perfect. thanks so much. >> i had a follow-up question on that because today when i was at the richmond station i heard officers expressing concern about the percentage and how many calls they get called out to regarding civil disputes and that majority of the calls they are dispatched are civil disputes that have no business having police intervention where someone calls and says i don't like my landlord, we got into a verbal argument. come do something. officers, they are in training taught to handle civil disputes nor should they because we want them to focus on criminal situations so wondering if there is a way to break up these statistics to show how many civil

disputes they respond versus the criminal a, b rfx , c calls because according to the officer the majority of time is focused on civil disputes and takes away to handle the a and b calls. >> the calls for service, they do separate the different call codes. i don't know if there's a call code specific to that category. >> i got you. >> so, we would be able to parse out some but not all. typically in the situation you just described that would come as 418 which is a fight. there would be no call code that indicate that was a fight because of civil dispute so that where it is hard to parse the data. there are call codes thatland themselves to be more easily targeted as something that would be civil, but not all

of them are quite so easily--so, it would be tricky. we can parse all the call codes out and let you know how many of this we responded and that and the priorities but sometimes there is nuances. a lot of information is coded into the notes which are harder to pull. >> chief maybe that is something we can explore about the civil disputes and how much time it takes away from the officers able to respond to criminal complaints and things they should be responding to. >> yes, we can. a lot of those calls are calls to keep the peace and we do have some procedures how officers should handle those calls. the ones they need to stay and keep the peace and the ones they need to disengage because there is nothing they can do so there is training on that. >> the officer today i think were voicing concern and frustration over the fact the second

category there is nothing they can do and protocols dont apply to the situations they are called out to, which i think is very frustrated and problematic for them. >> we'll dig into it. >> thank you. commissioner byrne. >> thank you. just a few points of clarification. can you tell the commission and public what percentage of the police budget goes to wages? >> if you factor in the salaries that other performing departments provide on behalf of the department, meaning our work orders, it is approximately 90 percent. >> and the vast majority is covered by labor contracts such as the police officer association? >> correct. >> so, basically approximately 90 percent of the budget has to do with the number of officers allocate in a given

fiscal year? >> officers and also our professional staff, correct. >> okay, thank you. and then, just to some of the slides you didn't get to, the sort of outside vendors, so, the public may be interested in why over $3 million goes in rent. can you explain where that money is going to and what it's for? >> sure. for all facilities we do work with the department of real estate. they are actually have-they are responsible for negotiating all the lease agreements on behalf of all city departments and for some of the facilities, actually a lot of our facilities, some are managed centrally by department of real estate and we will pay them via

interdepartmental work order but there are other agreements if it is a space for the police department the city practice is we pay the vendor directly. in this instance, 16th street associates for 3 $3.3 million is annual cost for one facility over on 17th street. >> can you tell for the public what that facility is? >> the facility is for our department operation center. >> okay. the last item that i wanted to call the public attention to is, that the department gets billed by other city departments for the use of services. and that after the wages is the most significant line item in the police budget, is that correct? >> that is correct. we do break out some of the categories and that's on slide

>> 27. >> slide 7. it is approximately-it varies year to year. it is between 10 and 11 percent of the total budget. >> and, again the department has no control over that because it isn't negotiated. the other city departments simply bills the police department for those items? >> correct. >> okay. thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you president cindy elias. first thing i wanted to ask is hiring and recruitment. this year california passed sb960, non citizen right to be employed. is that part of hiring process you have looked into? >> yes, that is new and we are currently in discussion now how

the department will handle that. we have a meeting scheduled in the next month with the city attorney's office and dhr so everybody can come to the table but we are definitely aware of it, exploring the options and we should have update soon. >> okay, so it should be part of the city-police department policy as well is that-and, the way that is structured the department can elect to opt in, and move forward with hiring non u.s. citizens and can also elect not to opt in so we are just making sure we understand all the information before the department makes a decision. >> okay. second question i have on technology, we talked about the body worn cameras where officers have to activate it. i know it is a department that has host trigger that once it is removed from the host it triggers the

body worn camera. do we have-are you aware of that >> we are aware but do not have the technology. >> the question is why? >> because commissioner walker is looking into and we haven't done anything yet commissioner yee but she is on it so will report back. >> the body worn- >> i want to see what the chief says. >> that is technology we are aware of it. (inaudible) deputy jones (inaudible) couple things, including the cost and the availability of that technology when we first acquired this technology body worn cameras we were not ready for that type of technology, so in the-i don't think it was available then, but in the future that is something that we have may discuss. there is a lot that goes into that in terms of cost versus

whether we can afford it and whether it will be value added to the police department so we haven't set lds on the issues but will keep you posted about technology continue to move forward. >> thank you chief. last one, question on the budget. does it include-what is percentage of the budget includes our related to training? i know we will have tons of dgo and have to have updates, so i know that is time off the clock in the field and that may impact the load. >> i do have a slide on that. >> if you have it, if not-i'll take if next time. >> we do have several units that are directly involved with training. most of them are with our academy unit. there

is approximately 49 fte that range from administrative report, (inaudible) field training tactics, emergency vehicle operation course, those total approximately 49fte. woo outside the positions we have training budget of approximately $1.7 million to cover everything else. >> i'll reserve it for next meeting. thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner yee. commissioner yanez. >> thank you president elias. thank you for the effort. few questions about this budget. one of the-so, how many new

fte or attrition from the previous year, how many new hires do we have in calendar year 2022? >> currently we have 64. >> 6 4 new hires. part of the mayor budget instructions are to figure how to maybe reclassify positions and we had the cuneversation here at the commission around increasing or finding non-sworn staff, civilianizing certain positions and i notice that in your report here it sounds like there were efforts to civilianize positions, but i only see maybe i think about 30 that were reflected in the difference between fiscal year 2023. what is the process

department is currently undertaking to determine what types of positions or what type of activity can be civilianized? >> i think a lot has to do with the scope of work, so one of the major areas we are invested in now is transition to the new system. that is -national incident based reporting system, a fbi standard. we have rfp negotiated, we have a vendor for a new rms system but it is a heavy lift to transition from the old system to the new standard. many of those positions helping to support that transition are professional staff in the past we've had to use sworn officers to help supplement our technology division and for those-that's an example of a area we are looking at. as

far as other civilianization opportunities it is dependent upon the scope of work and whether it involves functions that require a sworn member to perform specific functions. >> commissioner we started to meet as command staff regarding this issue exploring the professional staff hiring needs, what can be used to civilianize if not entirely a position at least a portion of the position that free up that officer for duties that would be more (inaudible) so we made a concerted effort to address that. what we are looking at now is a pass through the departments and are again trying to put professional staff in place in this budget cycle that will prevent us from having to bring any sworn officers into do any of this work and also to be able to

potentially put officers back on the street who may be doing the work already. >> thank you for that deputy chief jones. my other question is, i understand that you indicated a large percentage of the calls that are going to the-i believe srt team are also requiring police response, right? department response in addition to the team response even though they are lower priority calls. my understanding is there are some certain type of calls or certain situations with the teams don't feel they can respond to it as effectively without department support. is there any type of cross-training that is taking place to be able to better equip those teams to respond to those priority a and b calls yet?

>> i'm not sure about cross training if we have done anything specific related to that but sure we had conversations. >> are we talking about with other departments? >> yes. so, whether it is--well, i believe they are called the (inaudible) my understanding is sometimes maybe there is a response for someone in the mental health condition or having a episode, they get there and may find there is a weapon or believe there is a weapon and then they require police department response support also, right? >> definitely a lot of discussion on that very type of issue, and it is a evolving

conversation. in terms of training with the fire department, there is some training, not particularly on that specific type of example you gave, it is higher level like the tactical incident, barricade suspect where we train or have trained in the past with the fire department. the day to day stuff is more conversations of how we would respond when we can support them,b when it is appropriate for the fire department or service providers to call us when they need us to respond to try to help protect their safety. there is a lot of those conversations. not necessarily training exercise but so we are all clear on the rules and protocols what we are doing so there is a whole lot of that. >> is training the department offers available to some of the other entities starting to pick up and do some of this work that is for those

non-priority calls for a and b calls? >> we actually given training like cit training to entities like urban alchemy and there are others but urban alchemy we have done it. cyc as well i believe. yes, we do offer training and we daget request for those types of collaborative training opportunities and it does help. i think we all trying to get to the same place in terms of response that is appropriate or de-escalate getting things out of control or turning into bad outcome so we have done it and will continue. >> if i may just add, on slide 17, we do break out calls there is a designation of the number of calls that get referred back to us as pd and it is a relatively small number, so in 2022

there was 10.895 calls from scrt and 252 were referred back to a police department and it is a small number of calls that get referred back. >> good to know. the other question i wanted to ask is, in the area of overtime, i know your first slide indicate some of this overtime is also utilized for writing reports, administrative elements of the work, is there a cap for how much overtime in the field people are allowed to utilize? i can imagine you know based on previous testimony from officers when they are running call to call to call, obviously the paperwork isn't the priority, it is keeping the community safe, but at some

point you know, we are all human and there is a threshold for how much we can hold and how much we can work without getting to be stressed or to begin to make mistakes. how do we monitor this not necessarily for the resource but for the wellbeing of the individual officers? >> sure. i'll answer that in a couple parts. we do have the department does have overtime policy that dictates how many hours an officer may work within a 24 hour period. there is administrative cap by the city of 520 hours in a fiscal year that a person can work overtime. because of the significant staffing shortages we did make a request to dhr to lift that cap. i can't recall what

number that is, but we do have a exception to exceed that cap for this fiscal year. >> got it. chief, are there any plans to support i guess staff with the documentation because i think another commissioner mentioned it earlier with the changes in dgo, is this training that should complement some of the new expectations? is that something that is part of your budget right now increase in training or is that a conversation that has taken place at the department? >> let me answer that--back to what director leung said, the training particularly for dgo we work in a period we train on changes in dgo and depending on the complexity of that it could be shorter or

longer. where that rears its head is officers away from assignments if it is form al training, they are away from assignments so we have to factor in those absences and we feel the cars and stations in terms of back-fills so it really kind of surfaces with overtime. overtime you have to factor officers call in sick, leave due to disability type issues, militarily, all those things, training, and the bottom line is, all these things are happening those assignments have to be completed and sector cars filled, so that is where you see it, because it is factored into our equation. we know we will have absences. there is a pretty consistent percentage of any police department that not fl for those type of reasons and you

have to factor that in. when you are short staffed like we are and face the challenges we are facing, we back-fill those positions so overtime is where usee that, not necessarily increasing the training budget but increasing the overtime budget so people can be away to train. hope that makes sense. >> thank you for the clarification there. those were my main questions. i am going to just piggy back on what commissioner yee said. i would hope we will be opting in to hiring non-citizens in whatever capacity whether non sworn staff or administrative. i think anything to contribute filling those vacancies. thank you very much for your report. >> thank you. sergeant. >> members that like to make public comment for item 7 approach the podium or press

star 3. >> i was going to try not to say anything but the attrition rate is--i work for a truck company and we talk about attrition all the time and plan for it. i'm confused so i would think addressing the attrition rate should be top of mind here. it also keeps our officers safe when there are lots of officers available to support each other so the safety is number 1 concern. if they feel safe they can fight crime and find my brothers killer. i want to throw that in. seriously, i think the attrition rate needs to be addressed by this commission in whatever can be done to support chief scott and his team. thank you. >> from the public. >> caller, you have two minutes.

>> commissioners, this budget needs adjustment. with input from the officers. so, the mayor and some of you all think these 2,000 officers, (inaudible) 900, a thousand, a thousand 200, you have no clue. you need to do a needs assessment and focus on the (inaudible) wellness of the officers. from which all the problems come from. and the mayor doesn't know this because she cannot do a needs

assessment. the commissioners must step up and look after our officers and don't rely on some mickey mouse non profit and other entities that come from la and some other areas, new york with models of this and that (inaudible) how to do our work. and then, the mickey mouse operations get our police involved in this that and the other. wake up. we need standards. (inaudible) thank you very much. >> there is no more public comment. item 8 collaborative reform initiative. quarterly update presentation.

discussion. >> (inaudible) [microphone not on] >> did they break it? >> i'm sure i broke it. >> see why we need our it budget? [laughter] >> good evening commissioner president elias, commissioners,

chief scott and director henderson. my name is sergeants rivera and will give the update for the collaborative reform initiative. as a baseline this is where our initiatives stands so far. there are 272 recommendations that came from this assessment, 245 of which are deemed substantially compliant. leaving with 27 recommendations to work on. much oof the work done over the past year is sustainability of the reforms we have completed while also developing further plans for the remaining 27 recommendations. slide 3 and 4 are reflective of how be establish and work towards sustainability during year 2022. as we moved through the year we incorporated additional sustainability efforts including sharing an a weekly basis the documents with cal doj and jensen hughes

formally known as hillard hines. we begin the new year the captsen and professional standsards do review of sustainability with it goal of identifying effectiveness, efficiency and areas for improvement. the outcome of that review will be presented to chief scott mid-next month. in addition to sustainability work continues towards completion of 27 recommendations. including contract negotiation and entering into contract with jenson (inaudible) work done over the past year as well as proposed project plan and key project milestones moving forward. we'll

begin our guidance calls and working sessions with the cra partners next month. i are apologize the slide reading next week, the calls begin next month. many remaining recommendations are related and have shared work efforts to that end. project plans developed to best address the completion of these recommendations. those planerize shown here in the following slides will go into more detail of each. you'll see this slide is representative of slides you have seen in other presentations. focus attention to the milestones sections. for this one there are two areas of progress made for this project. the use of force data collection and arrest dat a. use of force data collection with the new dgo5.01 update

technology division integrated use of force data collection to incident reporting system. also vendser identified to build improved data collection tool that will be integrated with new records management system. with regards to arrest data the new system will house improved sfpd arrest data for improved analysis. data informed personnel development. working with our vendor this partnership has been developing metrix capturing data from different systems to inform the project. a important aspect is keeping our collaborative partners the cal doj and jensen hughes team informed to reaffirm our approach to make sure we are still on the right track and reaffirm their level of involvement. milestone is budget proposal to enhance our existing contract with the vendors, and

to further refine and develop the scope of work. the department engages in weekly meetings to identify these refinement scopes and analytical review. these community policing recommendations continue to make progress. recently the early drafts of the chief advicery manual and community policing problem solving manual have been shared with our cri partners and department of police accountability. additionally, division unit and district level annual community policing plans are under development for the second year. milestones we look forward looks towards working for center for policing equity to gain independent look at process to development of community policing plans and recommended improvements to those processes. the department also looks to sharing the advisory forum and community policing

manual on a broader scale. management tools and discipline metrics. milestones committee has been identified to help fulfill this project plan. the goal is address fair impartial discipline specifically with focus in variance in the application of discipline and trend identification. upcoming milestones looks towards budget proposal for additional analyst and expanded review of organizational trends, and any trends identified in findings help inform improvement in plaining and officer performance. the objectives here are to use technology to make real time data driven decisions for officer performance and have a community review discipline for fairness and impartialty. among remaining recommend

aizs there are what we call stand alone recommendations, meaning the recommendation isn't tied to others there isn't a lot 06 overlap so stand alone. recommendation 55.2 is to develop report aggregate data regarding complains gaens department members. the effort currently is to acquire analyst for internal affairs and identifying current organizational trends with regards to complaints and developing process for capturing data to inform internal as well as external publication. recommendation 39.1 calls to develop comprehensive strategic plan. and 41.1 is to develop community policing problem solving manual. the current direction for that is engage with partners to explore the utilization of the utilization of strategic plan and manuals to address these two

recommendations. recommendation 1.1 is to review understand the reasons for the disparent use of deadly force. as preparations for the analytical scope of work commence legal review research board and additional guidance became clear so the timeline on 1.1 is extended to accommodate the review iews and participation. as the department we will look at budget proposals to include additional analyst project funding such as funding for records management for years 2 and 3. our partners will monitor this what is hoped to be the final stage through partner calls monthly working sessions and site visits from the jensen hughes team. we will have our finalized timeline, the scope and project metric for the final report and that report is expected towards the end of year 2024.

that point i will pause and answer any questions as what i can and best i can. >> thank you. i just wanted to say thank you for the presentation. i wanted to flag. you talked about transitioning the meetings into the jensen hughes process but i want to affirm for folks in case there was a issue or question the dpa is also included in this in the new meetings and new format so we continue to working with the process as a collaboration and thank you. that's it. >> can we go to public comment sergeant? >> members that like to make public comment regarding item 8 approach the podium or press star 3. vice

president carter oberstone, there is no public comment. >> next iletm. >> item 9,. if you like to make public comment approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. line item 10, vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session including vote whether to assert the attorney client privilege with regard to 11a san francisco administrative code 67.10. action. >> can i get a motion? >> so moved. >> second. >> on the motion- [roll call]

you have 6 yeses. we will go into closed session. [closed session]

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[meeting reconvened] >> we are back in open session. item 12, vote to elect whether to disclose discussion held in closed session. action. >> can i get a motion ? >> i want to be recognized. thank you. on october 12 of 2022 this commission did something very notable and positive for transparency around negotiations with the police officer association and our continued progress repolice reform erfts and voted tonanimously to disclose regarding use

of force that the commission determined fell outside of the bounds of strictly working conditions and therefore entitled to be seen by the public and that was at the time the first time in record i find the commission has done that. you had multiple outside organizations in police accountability commending that action. executive dreckderhanderson commending that and action and positive all around. the poa was a productive partner in the negotiations and it was i think a positive thing members of the public were able to see them working with the commission. i think that situation has arisen and hope the commission will act in a similar way so i make a motion to not disclose item 11 with exceptions of 11c and 11d because it is

my view that the discussion on items 11c and d fall outside the working conditions and no reason those negotiations couldn't be held before the public so i move it not disclose item 11 with exception of 11c and d which will be disclosed to the public. >> i like to second the motion and the only thing i add is that making iletms 11c and d public is not optional. we have a legal obligation. the only reason we can have discussions in closed in the first instance is when those discussions are about iletms within the scope of representation and if they are not in the scope of representation then under public disclosure laws including the brown

act and sunshine law we are required to make those items public so for that reason i think we are legally mandated to do so and second the motion. >> members of the public that like to comment on item 12 approach the podium or press star 3. there is no public comment. on the motion- [roll call] you have 7 yeses. item 13, adjournment. action item. >> adjourn. [meeting adjourned]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

>> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing.

you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry.

we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino

food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to

think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and

sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little

philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000

for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic

maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy

>> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered

to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do.

currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in

need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you. [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand

piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both

red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that.

this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will. mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming.

thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] >> good morning i'm calling our tjp regular meeting of january 12 of 23 to order. i'm rafael mandelman the vice chair and sitting as share our share cannot be here. this meeting is held in person at san francisco assistant district attorney hall. members may attend in person or watch on cable channel 78 or 99

or sfgov.org to stream the live meeting. >> madam secretary. >> thank you. i will note that director forbes and gee and are absent. director baptiste? >> present. >> director lipkin. >> present. >> director shaw. >> here. >> director tumlin. >> here yoochlt and mandelman. >> present. >> directors you have a quorum. next item. >> please. item 3 communications. and directors at this time we note the process near members of the public to make comment on the meeting during public comment period in person or remote and in person kent taken first remote after and the call in line is on the agenda and instructions on the bottom of the screen on sfgovtv.

other communications? >> item 4 is board of directory now and or old business. i'm not aware of any. >> i will call your next item. 5 is executive director's report. >> nice to see you and congratulationses first to director's mandelman and shaw for your reelection and swear nothing to your boards. as well as yesterday am director mandelman sworn in as chair of the transportation authority. chair gee was elected chair of the caltrain board this month. as well as elected redwood city mayor. wee got a lot of leadership on the board. also congratulations to director tumlin and the sfmta for opening of central subway project. will connect the city's

communities and bring our neighborhoods together that was a fantastic event. sorry to miss it overnight weekend. >> on the staff level i want to extend congratulationses to edsome our new chaef engineer going to take the position that [inaudible] will has vacated as is his retirement. and also to welcome becky, our new project control's director joins from hntb a consultant to link 21 project. started on january third and familiar with the project and getting up to speed quickly. we are excited have her with the team and colleagues at the fta. as we start the new year, i mark the end. my first year we look back on a busy 22. welcomed 30,000 attendees to the park in 2022. hosted 600 free activities and events combined including the

holiday activities last month that brought 2,000 to the park over 2 weekends. great it see you at our park lighting and we had 1500 appeal attends the 3 day winter fest the following weekend. last year we 4 tenants open spaces including happy lemon. kaiser's first care essential facility. you should see their prescription ventzing machine the next time you are there. and the latest, bear bottle brewing new tap room opened last month in the plaza of the park. get yourself a drink up in the beautiful roof top park. we have over 90% of spaces leased and director walsh will provide details shortly. we are committed to the neighborhood and downtown economic recovery. we look forward to welcoming more roadwayers and excited for

the dining options opening upon this quarter and the new park program and public activities offered to the 13,000 residents that live in the neighborhood. >> we advanced the downtown rail extension project 30% design. and toward the end rebranded it the portal. with the new rebrand name we look to advancing through the federal transis administration grant process by seek authorization to request entry in the engineering phase in february. >> the team has been steadfast and focused on ensuring we meet mile stones as we advance this program to unlockup to half of the project's total cost. >> we continue to pursue funding sources for the portal project include the state level a 60 million dollars application we are preparing for the cap and trade program. the transit capitol program.

cycle 6 due in early february. these funds were maintained and the govern january proposed budget and happy to have the transportation commission endorsement for our application. the governor proposeed cut funding for the program in the next 2 fiscal years we are coordinating with partners to advocate restoration of the funding as well as the legislative strategy for helping us meet our matching funds for the mission. at regional level we coordinate with the mtc on rebalancing of the funding endorsements for megaprojects they wait the results of funding awards the end of the month and figure out how much more they may be endorse for other projects like ours upon beyond the process. federal level we received a list of the megaprojects considered. include our project. although we have not heard

formally from u sd ot it shoes us not receiving award there were 9 receiving a grant with one, 30 million dollars grant in california. for a will total of 1 billion dollars. the program is over 5 years and we are look to apply later this year to leverage funding opportunities. at every level. we are working with partners on the rail corridor ens dorsed by the mtc application for the federal partnership for rail due on march 7. our citizen committee met in preparation for this meeting and will be announcing recruitment effort kickoff tomorrow friday the 13th. 8 spots opening with the opportunity for members to reapply for a number positions and a member who is interested can find more information on our website at tjpa. org we hope to

get the word out about this opportunity to serve on our cac and impact the economic recovery with bring down rail and downtown sf and continuing it not state's future rail silence. in your board meeting packet you will find the quarterly report for the 40th meeting for the joint committee part of the normal quarterly reporting, note they've in response to a union representative aprentice hours cathed for autization rate for contracts and happy to report that the tenant construction effort rate of 16.67% for apprenticeship usage has been exceed a rate of 18% as of today. we have good participation there. this concludes my portion of the executive director report. happy to answer questions you may have before we ask the facility report. >> colleagues?

was questions? >> keep going. >> great. >> good morning. will i'm the tjpa facility director pleasure to be with you this morning. for our operations update, in january we were excited host lovely holiday festivities last month. the main ones include winter fest and our holiday lighting. you will see familiar faces here when we welcomed 500 people to the sales force park on december ninth. with director van dewater, 1500 the following weekends for

winter fest. program in december were zoup ba, mid day mach and cobbler thursday as usual. >> park attendance is trending up in the right direction and despite wet weather and the holidays in december of we are going in the right direction. and we expect the numbers to improve more in 2023. >> our winter programming is kickoff. we have 8 weekly programs and 3 monthly programs. and -- in addition to the ones here in the chart we will be featuring a poetry series on thursdays and the scottish fiddlers in march. be nice have bear bottle in the sales force park. >> new programming.

i'm excited to announce and discuss we got some -- nice mellow things like silent disco and the mission's own -- xhieted check out got circle it is i wish were there when i was a kid. they are cool and gets the family and kids involved in great educational events. >> upcoming events so in february we have sf bear week kickoff in sales force park. and that will be occurring from noon to 5 p.m. we will have live music there and -- 2 out tasteingly from 20 breweries all over california.

excited see who shows up. restaurantses will serve food. we got epinadas on the park all the time that will be upon present here during this event. more to come but tickets are on sale now and encourage you to take a look. >> you noticed we had severe storms over the last couple weeks. we had more than -- a foot of rain since the 26th of december which is welcomed but scary as a facility director. we had great teamos site. we have been walking the center really focusing on team work and have probably no reported incidents. we are not out yet we have more storms to hit. but we are taking a look and making sure the park is safe but if there is damage we are

addressing it right away. and if i did not say it no reported issues. >> ridership. . so -- the major rider or operators have not published data for december. the holidays are reeking havoc with the weather in early january. but we expect those to be out soon. we did pull together data nationally and compare today with the pacific region and it is showing tapering in december especially with spikes due to holiday volatility. which is expected. retail losing updates. >> i mentioned before bear bottle brewing is open, 12-8 p.m. with the upon final call or last call at 7 p.m. and mentioned they got some 4

flavors of epinadas. and i have tried them all they are great. >> retail updates coming soon. charlie's will phily steaks past the fire test this morning a couple houshs ago. they need to complete hiring, which they are now hiring. and expect be online in the coming weeks. shortly behind them will be tycoon kitchen. they are wrapping up items and performing inspections in january. i want to say next week but i don't know. it the be in january. very soon. fwent tw 23 openings. juice bar, show market, on the ground floor and the show restaurant up in the park. and we got pokey house. we have not figured out their launch date yet.

we are hoping it will be q2 or 3. and to show nice images charlies is ready to go. hiring signs. per diem completed flooring i'm not sure if they meant it to look like warrior's colors. tycoon kitchen next door and the top picture is the rendzerring and item they updated is the walk in cooler. on the right there. >> and that concludes my updates i'm happy to answer questions or address concerns. >> colleagues? gratitude thank you >> this concludes the executive director report ready for the next item >> i will check for public comment. opening the lines, scanning the

room. don't see members that wish it comment on the executive director's report. . taking a look online. we have a member who wish to comment. let the caller in. hello, state your name. >> this is jim patrick with patrick and company i wanted to address the project labor agreement and the fact it is the policy of the board to pay the highest wages possible. i nanning is a poor public policy. it is like having a policy to pay the highest profit for any contractor. or any service provider. i think that is a poor policy

and i continuing should be revisited as a matter of good public judgment. thank you. thank you. checking to see if there are other members that wish to provide public comment. i don't see hahns we will call your next item. >> item 6 is citizen advisory update. and i will note that cac chair larkin is unable to be present on behalf of the cac they had an informative and productive meeting this past tuesday and no items of significance they would like to bring to your attention. >> okay >> we will check and see if there are members of the public in the room first. that want to comment on the item. we'll check online. i don't see any hands raised.

i will move to your next item. >> item 7 is public comment for members to of the public to address the board on -- matters that are within the authority's jurisdiction but not on today's calendar. and we will also scour the -- scan the room. scan the roomful checking to see if members wish to provide comment. not seeing any and checking on line. giving them a moment to raise their electronic hand. seeing no members wish to comment on item 7, we can move to consent. >> great. >> all right. >> directors your next is consent matters listed are routine and acted upon by one

vote. unless a member of the board or public asks then the matter would be removed and considered separately. i have not received indication a member of the board or public wish to have anything considered separate low. i will scan the room and check for public comment before checking online. seeing no members in the room wishing to comment. checking online -- there are no one wish to address you on consent. and no members of the board wish to have items sprayly. item 8 opinion 1 minutes of december 8 of 22 meeting. 8.2 the continued use of teleconferencing for covid reasons. meeting of the bodies pursuant to 361. 8.3 the executive director execute amendments lease

agreements for 2 spaces on the transit center. and juice bar. and address covid impacts. that is your consent. thank you simple there a first approval. all right. and a second. director john baptiste. >> aye joovm director lipkin >> aye >> director shaw. >> aye. >> director tumlin. >> aye >> mandelman. >> aye. >> the consent calendar is approved >> move to the regular calendar. >> excited and pleaseed call the next item 9 appointing the chief official officer. and adam van dewater will present the item. >> directors we are excited have miller with us today as you're consideration with resolution to

apoints our chief financial officer. you know the cfo is responsible for the activities of the tjpa. and including management to the finance team and debt and damage monitoring and financial systems and report. cash flow and pay sxrl audits. we are excited have andre with you today. of following out reach the last several months we had 23 individuals submit résumés. miller was the unanimous selection and tjpa leadership. technical skills, finance and capitol program management, political can do management style and enthusiasm for the vision of the transbay program set her apart as the best fit for cfo for the tjpa. expertise delivers on the vision of the program and makes her the best fit for the position.

25 years of combined experience. and worked at the east bay district as controller. and held financial management role in east of bay cities. and richmond. millery résumé is attached and the resolution rmdzing her for your consideration and she is with us today. andrea would you like to say a few words >>. good morning an honor to be here in this building this morning to hopeful low receive your upon approval of my appointment want to chief financial officer position i look forward to work with youing throughout executive director and chief of staff and excited be here and to join the tjpa. thank you. >> thank you mrs. mill and director van dewater. comments or 83s. >> seeing may be.

>> [laughter]. i was going to say i was going to recommend we move forward. i look forward to working with you. thank you. >> thank you. >> and if that is a motion i second. >> we need to do public comments. i believe. >> yes. >> we will scan the room. >> public comment. i see no members of the public wish to provide comment. online. we have no electronic hands raised. with that, first and second i will do a vote. director baptiste. >> aye. >> director lipkin. >> aye vrm >> director shaw. >> aye. >> director tumlin. >> aye. >> and vase chair mandelman. >> aye. >> the item is approved and congratulations. thank you >> welcome. >> congratulations. >> welcome. >> all right. we will move to item 10 on your regular approving the 23/24

projection 27 million and budget procurement director will present the item. >> i'm happiest staff member. i want to start with our budget proechlsz last june with the current year budget we include a 5 year projection based on that we provided an operating budget to the 2 tenant in assessment. our lease agreement with the san francisco transportation agency requires the board to adopt the operate being budget projection by january 31st to allow the operators to plan for the next year budget. the projections and the item

before you will be refined and staff will develop a draft budget for the operating that service the capitol budget and the improve am plan. in april the outlook and in may we present the draft budgets to you and we exactly back in john to present the budget for the fiscal year as well as the initial improvement fund. highlights the will total operating budget projection is 27.3 million. and includes 2 main changes from the september projection. so we -- have remember taken a look at retail and advertising revenue and recovering slower than participated. as well as participated additional insurance costs due to construction and equipment. and so in order to maintain the tenant contributions at the same

level as projected, and, comidate the higher costs staff is recommending adjusting across most budget categories keeping them at or slightly above the current budget levels. we recognize witheen with this adjustment there is growth or increase in the primary tenant contributions year over year and primarily due to us fully spending the covid reloov funds. second change in this -- projection is the adoption of the improvement plan. cost categories and revenues dedicated have been removed and will come back to you part of the plan. here is a snapshot of the revenues. in addition to anticipated reimbursement. operator contributions and general fund revenues the resources for this year include

transfer of funds from fiscal 22. for total of 28 million. budget divide in the costs associated with the roof top park the expense budget 27.32 million. with most cost categories at or slightly above levels from the current year. and -- with this approximate operating projection we recommending transferring the remaining fiscal 22 fund balance to the operating and main reserve increase to 5.78 million. which is 21% of the expense budget. as we have told nut past, we are slightly and slowly making progress toward the 25% goal.

and as we described we are monitoring our resolution with item 3. so throughout end of 22, we identified 4.5 million dollars in expenses that are eligible for reimbursement from 3. should mtc have a variable outcome on that lawsuit. and we will recommend using those reimburse ams to funds the reserve to the 25% board approved level. this 25% in line where guidance 3 month of the operating costs and reserve. during this budget process we are preparing a plan should mtc in the have a favorable outcome. or it is the delay. so we will come back with more information and march and april and may on what we are planning. and with that i'm happy to

answer questions. thank you. >> thank you, i do appreciate that you are able to keep the numbers what they were in september. and i understand that as we approved earlier abatements in the lease processes. but i gotta say things are not recovering as quickly as all of us would like and transit is no different than an upon restaurant in that it it is not coming back and we don't have the funds either. you know it is a 9.3 increase to ac transit and that could be an issue moving forward? so i'm going to make ape comment that says we need to look at that from everybody's perspective as we move forward. it could be an issue. thank you. >> thank you. director. >> director. >> thank you. i want to acknowledge the efforts of staff to address the

operating reserve this is something that has been a concern on my minds the past years and i skr raised repeated low a desire to funds it or have a strategy and i appreciate it is in the easy to fill those gaps and to appreciate the fact that you figured out how to move it closer to the policy amount in this proposed or projection. and also a strategy to get all the way there. thank you for that. >> thank you. >> all right. public comment. >> we will check the room for members that wish to comment. checking online. no members of the public wish to provide comment. a motion to approve this item? >> moved by baptiste.

>> second by lipkin. madam secretary? call the roll. >> thank you very much. with that director baptiste. >> aye. >> director lipkin. >> aye. >> director shaw. >> aye. >> director tumlin. >> aye. >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. skwoo item 10 is approved. next item. >> item 11 is authorizing the executive director to execute an agreement for services with carpe and clay for 5 years and compensation up to 1.1 million offer to extend for 3, one year terms. lilly wu and legislateors director will present. >> thank you. good morning, everyone. chair mandelman and directors. i'm here to recommend accepting a committee report and authorize at this time execute ever director to execute the agreement for federal advocacy services.

our federal advocacy contract end this is month. the transbay desires to have effective relationship with authorities in dc. for our transit center operations and also our downtown rail extension project that is under way now. the portal. we have been busy on the legislate of front on the federal level and we foresee tell continue. and especially as we requestents real into the engineering phase. next monthace mentioned by director van dewater and as we pursue financing federal loans under the transportation infrastructure finance and innovation act. and also railroad rehab and imhab planning. we want to take advantage of the infrastructure law program that has a 5 year life.

and our under way with grants pursuing funding for the portal. thus, we recommend that you approve this recommendation. as the selected firm brings a team of government relation professionals decades of experience representing in dc. they have served with us the past 15 years as well as our federal advocates. the straf report is in your packet i will be happy to answer questions and jewel freclay is here k and can answer questions you may have. >> thank you. >> colleagues, comments or questions. let's see if we have public comment. >> checking the room. members wishing to provide comment on item 11. do so now. checking online. directors it it is a motion

>> motion to approve item 11? >> moved by tumlin a second? >> [laughter]. >> seconded by baptiste. >> call the roll. >> thank you very much. director baptiste. >> aye. >> director lipkin. >> aye >> director shaw. >> aye. >> director tumlin. >> aye >> vase vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> next item. >> stay there. don't go anywhere. item 12 authorizing the executive director to execute an agreement for add skro vo kaes services for 5 years and compensation of 630,000 option to extend for 3, one year terms. [speak very fast]. >> good morning again. similar to the federal advocate contract the current state contract expires this month. we recommend towns and public affairs for this new contract to

ensure we have representation in sacramento. there is upcoming interesting budgetary considerations on the state level and also for the transit center in terms of operations and for the portal as we move forward. a robust federal program is complimented by robust state and advocacy program we recommend you support this contract. the report is in your packet. i forgot to note. affairs serving with us for 12 years. they will continue that effort and so with your approval, of course, happy to answer questions and voip of towns and public affair system here to answer questions you may have. >> thank you. >> colleague sns >> see if we have public comment. >> public comment if there are anyone in the room. seeing none.

>> all right. >> directors? >> okay. is there a motion to approve item 12? moved. >> second. >> madam secretary. >> with that director baptiste. >> aye. >> director lipkin. >> aye. >> director shaw. >> aye >> director tumlin. >> aye >> vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> item 12 is approved. next item. >> all right. 13 is the san francisco rail program steering committee want and the stats of the downtown rail extension work plan schedule. the caltrain execute of director and esc chair will provide the update and [inaudible] [speak too fast]. good morning i'm the chair of the esc for the last couple

weeks. i want to wish you a happy new year. we reported the last year at a break net pace excellent progress on the portal project. and we the sthan momentum to 2023 i want to give you a brief report had we talked about the last month and i will hand it over to alfonso for the schedule. the item before you today is we will requesting your adoption of a california environmental ceqa a dendzum to the transbay program addressing modifications to the rail extension project. the modifications were developed from phasing study. which has been percentage in here in the operational analysis by ip nt in 2021 and it was also presented to the esc and approved that as well as this

board did. received a presentation last month on the ceqa study and forwards this to the board to adopt if. also receive a briefing on companion evaluation advanced in collaboration with the fta. i ask the project direct rodriguez to look at activity this is lie ahead including the work with developing the project procurement strategy generated boy the board adopted protect deliver study that concludeings my brief remarks, alfonso, if you will join me? >> good morning chair mandelman and members i will go through the slide deck that is -- oops. briefly it looks like hayou saw last among it is our intent to

bring that before you machining low and in future presentations we will expand the balance of the year. i want to point out or draw year attention to next month is -- going to be a busy month. it marks a mile stone the project team will be approximate requesting your authorization to allow us to request ebb real to the next phase of the administration new start's program. at that points, all the documentation we have been working on the last couple of years will be reviewed by the fta and consultances and engage with them the following 6 months to ensure we are alined with the plan and the cost, schedule. the estimate. so that when whey ask our grant anticipated for august of next year. we are alined on all of those leaderships and that matter will come back to you.

another item that we modified in the look ahead is that we'll be bringing buffer next among also a request to approve an moa with caltrain allow them on assign a project manager to work with us as we develop the -- caltrain prushth relocation required for the downtown the portal project. that is a new item on the look that will come before you in february. so -- don't think -- one last new item next month an amendment to the general engineering consulting condition transact. we finds that our schedule is requiring us to begin a good

amount of utility relocation work not authorized in the current contract authority that we brought before of the board a couple years ago. before the board remain the same. i said we will expand it to show greater detail haconcludes my discussion on the look ahead i'm available for questions you might have. >> colleagues. >> thank you. >> the question i have -- where ever that went the mou or moa we are doing with caltrain represe

has been included in the project budget. it is allocating a portion. we have always planned on having an operation staff person that is knowledgeable with caltrain standards to be assigned. we are now transferring that responsibility to caltrain and the funds that have been reserved for this to reimbursement. >> thank you.

>> thank you director shaw. >> yep. >> all right see if we have public comment j. we do. check the room before we allow the electronic hand through. no one in the room. let the public commenter through. >> good morning [inaudible] and happy new year everyone [inaudible]. i do have a couple of comments here which i [inaudible] with regards to the [inaudible] and agreement with caltrain, when i initial low designed the [inaudible] 11 years ago the objective zero impact onical train operation. [inaudible] in the not sdpanlt future. at that point in time it is unclear why we will have to get in the disagreement. you will see on the next item

that caltrain provide information basically violated caltrain engineering standards. on the jc agreement, once again. if we separate instead of ripping up [inaudible] all over the place. [inaudible] we will need to make changes. [inaudible]. the governors of the [inaudible] is becoming clear that we made the wrong decision last year when we chose the model. and i would recommend that we [inaudible] this [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] thank you. >> thank you, caller that concludes the public who wanted to comment on this item. we can move to the next item. >> great. >> thank you. >> all right. alfonso stay there.

>> item 14 adopting the transbay program final environmental impact report incorporating to the rail extension project. all revisions before mitigation measures presented, adopt monitoring reporting under the california environmental act and approving the downtown rail combhengz project analyzed there in. alfonso rodriguez with rod jung will present the item. >> thank you. i will wait for the slide deck to post. i'm going to turn it over to road if our program control's team. before i do i wanted to point out that the project configuration modifications assessed in the study stem from the configuration changes developed from the phasing study and operations analysis that were reviewed by the ip mt and presented recommended to the esc in 2021.

adopting today's recommendation permits tjpa to submit requests to the fta in february with documentation required to request thatents real in engineering with an agency approved and define said project with cost and schedule that will be presented before this board next month. and at that time, the fta will take all of this. i will turn this over to road and i will sit here and advance the slides for him. >> good morning board, i want to wish you a happy new year and bright 2023. thank you alonso for the introduction. today's presentation will cover the ceqa adendzum you have been requested to take ookz and update you on the status of the national environmental policy act review currently under way with the transit administration.

>> so, i will explain haan adendzum is on the environmental equality act and why it is the appropriate ceqa duplicate to prepare for the refinements. are well changes to the project is there new information or impacts severe than reported. under that condition if there are such circumstances an addendum would be promote. second, if there are new mitigation measures or alternatives that were previously considered infeasible but now considered feasible.

and the board declines to adopt modifications. that would not qualify for an a addendum the presentation will cover why it it is the appropriate ceqa path way. the analysis performed shows that more environmental analysis such as supplement or environmental document. are not needed. the prior environmental document that was certified remains valid and a dendzum is appropriate. as a preview yet changes can be addressed is to review the changes. and alfonso advances the changes involve deferral and in this case the nation from the currently proposed project, reductions in the size and scale

of operations that were approved. next slide. i will cover the changes quickly. but organized in various that comprise the corridor the first the transit center project changes involve under ground pedestrian connector and bus facility and taxi staging area and extend train box. as shown here on the left hand side or right hand side there are all cap letters word in cap letters. those will emphasize the nature of the change being proposed part of the action for today. >> this slide identifies the change to the tunnel segment on second and towns ends and it is where the number of tracks reduce friday 3 to 2. allowing a smaller tunnel. >> next slide.

>> caltrain station and rail yard is the only area where project changes would be greater. in other words the footprint or size will be larger than was previously approved in 2018. it includes the fourth and townsends street station. the tunnel stub box realined so more would occur along townsend street but the tunnel box had been designod the cal tran rail yard and the new box would be shorter and less deeply constructed. >> finally, well is a subarea south of the caltrain railiard on the main line on 7th street. in this segment, there was approved tracks needed for rail operations a turn backtrack and

maintenance track. the revisions call for those tracks to be shortened show they no longer cross at 16th street and extend to mariposa. >> next slide. the analysis and document different you show the changes do not result in new or substantial low significant impacts. the slide shows each those different changes on the left side. and on the right side. the implications in terms of new impacts. project component proposes to be deferred or rused on the left side. and the involve less construction and occupy a small are footprint. the related construction and operational tracks would be less than previously reported. i wanted to point out that the reduced sales force transit center train box would okay void

displacement that had been identified in the previous document when the train box would be extended across main street. reduced track work. rail yard avoid the pedestrian and circulation impacts that were previously identifyd and which mitigation measures were recommended and adopted. and avoid many transportation impacts or concerns that were raised by the city. by medical facilities and institutions. because of concerns about emergency access and mission bay area. and a lot of the property owners who felt there would be back ups and congestion on streets. 91 of that would occur as a result of this proposed change. >> in contrast to the 3 components i described, there saturday expansion of the project footprint with the new entrance and exit pavilion. it it is a mall parcel. it it is on tjpa property.

and the affects would be minimal it is a transportation piece of transportation infrastructure would be surrounded by similar type use. on the other hand there are design modifications to the fourth and towns ends street station. and these would result in greater construction impacts along townsend street for circulation. things related mission and noise and properties on towns end. between fourth and 7th street. require approximately penalty 3 acres of the caltrain rail yard. the tunnel stub box would off set the impacts would be small are than approved. jot significant construction impacts for the components are the same as identified in the 2004 and 18 environmental documents. and the most person thing to note the mitigation measures

that were adopted from the environmental documents have been approved and incorporated in the program and would apply to new construction occurring at the rail yard or towns ends street. measures reducing significant. and so does not change the previously conclusions from the 2018 environmental document. >> okay. so the second question or condition is whether there are new changes to the setting. to circumstances under which the project implemented. and in order to do this, it was important to look at all of the things that occurred since 2018 projected occur result of changes and policies. so, i'd like to highlight 5 areas we studied. we knew they were areas that had

changed. so, on this slide, the first area we considered was transportation. and if you are around the transit center you noted there are street improvements, pedestrian improvements. safety improvements and transit for muni. all of those are important and they are all things that the portal project will compliment. the portal project will continue to not in any way affect the improvements they benefit the portal project. so transportation projects the short term once are not going to adverse low affect anything with the portal project. we looked at the future projects of the high speed rail. pennsylvania avenue extension things like that i will touch up on those in a moment. >> moving to the next area. can we go back one. i will speed it up a bit t. is clear the population the number

of housing units and nonresidential floor area increased along the south of market area. especially if you drive on towns ends street. they are the city's general plan and area plan growth on transit corridors the project would support. changes the transportation and demographics would not cause the project to result in new significant impacts. . >> although there have been changes to the left-hand side use and aesthetics along the corridor you will see on the right side a massing diagram or simulation had it might look like in the future with the central soma and other area plans. there will be a change in the lands use character and intensity and the visual scale of the development. however, with the changes there are consistent with local and regional plans promote mixed

uses which the project would spchlt there are no adverse impacts associate with the portal project on these characteristic. with the change sensitive use will be developed. and when i say [inaudible] the residential uses hotel uses. the mitigation measures that were adopted and incorporate in the the program address these types of impacts. noise would be reduced to less than significant. those mitigation measures apply now and reduce affects. >> in addition, there have been updates to the dtx design that further reduce the potential impacts associated with noise and vibration. the 9 area that we took consideration in review of was

the cultural resources. and there have been changes with the adoption of a new historic district along towns end the collide and crook warehouse district. and the marine fire man headquarters on second street. has become historic age. where most buildings are considered eligible when they turn 45 years old. >> both of these are considered eligible. yes, i know. >> both of these resources are considered eligible for the national register of historic places. based on the design of the facility of the portal which under ground in both locations; there are no above ground features adverse real affect the historic resources or encroaching on the properties. potential would be reduced by

the adopted mitigation measures i said but well is a mem randledum of agreement that will has been executed with the state preservation officer the city, tjpa, caltrain and high speed rail and others. on that point i wanted make sure you understood that there is nothing associated with the second condition that is changes to circumstances of the setting or new information that warrant other than an a dendzum. whether a mitigation measure or alternate evers that would considered infeasible. but now deemed feasible. and would ruse impacts and the tjp aboard declineed adopt those measures. we have a situation where the mitigation measures previously adopted are still viable and remain valid. and i will talk a bit about the

alternatives in a moment. >> okay. so in conclusion for the ceqa portion, the board is being asked to take action on this the presentation i went through explains why it is appropriate. and valid. and the actions i will not repeat them they have been mentioned we recall recommending that staff be adopted. i do want to say just quickly before closing the section on ceqa that there were public comments received on the a denned dum and wanted to address them the public comment raised 6 points the first is that there are new mitigation measures and are new alternatives that wouldrous the impacts. that is a correct statement. mind tunnel along second and

townsend would in fact reduce the impacts previously identified. there was a lot of consideration put in to whether the tunnel could be reduced. it was found to be feasible. it has been approved by the environmental executive steering committee and recommended to the board for adoption. the action that you would take today to adopt that alternative, in fact, allows it to move forward it does not invalidate the previous. so that's quirky but -- i wanted point that out. second the tunnel is not constructable. the design has been studied and evaluated by professional engineers specializing in

tunnelling. engineering geology that documentation provided to the project management team and reviewed and vetted and recommended that it be considered for approval. it was accepted. so i don't think there is concerns or questions about the construct ability of the tunnel. the third point that the train box plans represent a threat to link 21 or a new transbay crossing. the sales force transit station plans would not threaten link 21. the team has involved bart consistent low and regularly and included them in discussions overnight plans and designs for the train box. bart has in the indicated the train box preclouds a new transbay crossing. the fourth point raised has to do with the fourth track

crossing of mission bay and how that would violate caltrains standards. there is a plan to put in a fourth electronic at mission bay that would enable the shorter transbay or -- enable the shorter turn back maintenance away tracks so it does not extend to 16th and mariposa. however, should be noted that it was caltrain themselves who rmdzed that proposal. and so it is a viable operational piece of equipment. caltrain indicated they are not using it for revenue service or during the peek hour. it is just for flexibility and operations for trines to move back and fourth to fourth and king rail yard. >> the fifth comment made is bart and muni should take over would under grounds pedestrian