february 15, 2023. san francisco police commission meeting.

>> good evening, the chair

called the meeting to order. if you could rise for the "pledge of allegiance." ["pledge of allegiance"] >> all right. if i can take roll. [roll call] >> president elias is in route. with us tonight, we have chief scott from the san francisco police department. and executive director paul henderson from the department of police accountability. >> sergeant, could you call the first item.

>> line item one. presentation of certificate of appreciation, ms. angela jenkins from the bias working group and mr. roam jones from the bias working group. [gavel] >> good evening, vice-president, carter-oberstone, commissioner and the public. thank you for putting this first on the agenda. i want to acknowledge two community members who have been very, very engaged with this police department and policing in san francisco and i know one other thing we always try to do is get people to be engaged with this police department and our policy making and the commissions policy making and for the public, i want to just say that, this is

what that looks like and i know they aren't the only two because we have many i'm in our city -- we have many people in our city who participate. but i want to gifrng than -- i want to give thanks to be ms. jenkins and rome jones. our bio took a long time for us to develop and there was a lot of community input it. there were workgroups and it was a lot of conversations, commissioner elias, and at the time taylor were the commission leads but what ms. jenkins and mr. jones did, they really started the conversation about the bias buy proxy and ended up in the policy and ended up being a big part of having a policy that actually the state of california and the ripa board held as a model and for those of you that aren't familiar with bio bi proxy, this is when a

person calls the police and their biases are then transmitted to dispatcher and it causes a reaction that sometimes can lead to very bad consequences, so ms. jenkins and mr. jones were the two community members that really raised that issue and we responded and we ended up getting it in our policy and we really appreciate your work. this is long overdue. i think that was like, three, four years ago when those conversations were happening, but it's not too late to appreciate the good work. and their leadership in this process so i want to acknowledge them and i will read their certificates one at a time. first march ms. an -- first, ms. jenkins and you have family here. if you don't mind standing up and there's photos. certificate of appreciation from the san francisco police department in recognition of ms. angela jenkins and gratitude for her work and contributions in the bias working group, these

contributions helped the department move forward. such an example is worthy of the highest sustained by the san francisco police department. awarded on the 15th day of february, 2023. signed by me. [applause] >> i would like to say something. >> ms. jenkins would like -- >> i'll take this off. i think it was -- (indiscernible) saying i was usually at home watching family feud, but my name was inside here, so i what going to come on down and look at this. i'm very, very, i love to see the recognition for people who risk being labeled as snitch to

come to the working group. that's very difficult for me. i'm one of the people who would not really sit in a room with cops for a while and it's contradictory that my brother has a four-year career, over four years in law enforcement and he's nationally recognized, but he gave me a challenge. he said, you know, renee, he uses my baby name, renee and you may be more bias against cops than cops are bias against you so i took on his challenge and the challenge is easy by meeting sergeant williams and officers for justice. they seem to be black first and then cops second and that's really, really hard to do. so, through their (indiscernible), i attended the meetings and still not feeling that policing is really legitimate. i still think policing may be residual slavery

and i hope to see the sunset of -- not legitimate, but i did want to just say that the bias bi proxy that everyone is looking at and talking about, it's something i pitched to the chief and then commander la sdar, we had one working group dealing with bias and one group looking at the community, our community policing, but no one was looking at how -- at how the community and non-police person actually commits a lot of bias policing, having your body launched into wood chipping of policing because someone doesn't like you like in new york. we saw that. someone is going to call the police on the birder, the person who was watching birds in new york and also, here in san francisco, we remember there was a young man who was, just opened up a lemonade,

gourmet lemonade stand and he himself had become a person that they were calling unnecessarily 911 on him, while he was checking on the security system at his own gourmet lemonade shop and he, him receive, he testified here not long ago that he felt the call itself was based on bias. that it was bogus. there were many times we can see people are using policing or using the police to actually launch their prejudice against african americans and many other people, but i'm glad the police, i'm glad that the community looked at that and they see it. i believe the karen act is a manifestation of how we can quail that type of bias bi-proxy, but i really appreciate it, being recognized here today. thank you chief

scott for working with me and my on -- thank you for the tenacity and challenging you on the things i see. thank you. [applause] >> okay. and i won't read it again, rome, yours says the same thing but i want to say a few words about rome jones and speaking of challenging, rome is a young man who has been involved, i think he was on the youth commission when i first met him and he's been before this commission several times to discuss policing issues and get his perspective and his perspective is valuable because it's really hard to get people from his age demographic involved in this type of process and rome has been really, really, instrumental in bringing his perspective and i think his perspective shaped some of our policies and he's been involved in recent ddo development

including 9.07. so i really appreciate you, rome, i through you have a tremendously bright future and we're hiring. i want to recognize you for your work and i won't read it again but you brought a lot of value to this process with the bias ggo that we got passed through the commission and your contributions, along with ms. jenkins and others were recognized by the state of california because i think we were the first department to have that language in our policy and that's a big deal. so thank you, and without further ado, i'll present you with your certificate of appreciation as well. [cheers and applause] >> okay. again, i'm not on the youth commission anymore, so i

don't really like saying stuff anymore. [laughter] okay. yeah, working with law enforcement, i did not think would be my thing. it's very uncomfortable for me to be, like, in a room full of cops, personally because my brother was killed by the police in '09. not sfpd. i think it was richberg. those are my sisters, they know, so.... actually, one of my sisters talked me into some of these things but i'm like man, sitting in a room full of police, i don't know how that's going to go, but i did it because i think it's really easy to be judgemental from outside the room instead of getting involved in the process and as i'm comfortable at some of those meetings, i appreciate the people who made it easier and more understandable.

commissioners, chief, and i think i've built good relationships and i think me and the chief have a good relationship. he seems to like me, right. [laughter] you know, i appreciate the opportunity to grow as an individual, but also i like the opportunity to be acknowledged because i don't think i'm acknowledged enough, actually. i think i'm an amazing person. [laughter] and yeah. thanks! to be very clear, this does not mean i like agreed with sfpd at every turn. but i was working with them, so hopefully the work continues regardless of who is in the room and things continue to grow and head in a better direction. >> oh, no, no, no. [applause] >> rome, you've got to stay up here so we can talk to you for a

minute. don't think you getaway that fast. >> i'm like, what do we do? >> i want to say thank you. i had the pleasure of meeting you in the bias working group, it was our first interaction. you bring an amazing commonsense approach. we get in the room and lawyers and i think police officers and people who really dig into the policy, we mess things up and over complicate things over the time and that would happen both in the bias working group. you were also in the 1107 one and also in the traffic stop, and then all of a sudden in the corner of the room, you would be like, hey, what about this and you would say it so simplistically and commonsense and we over complicated it and when you said what you said, it put it into perspective and brought us back to making things uncomplicated so you're a huge asset, i think to the working groups and to making policy because you're real world experience and your

perspective which is unique is needed in these rooms, so now that you're not on the youth commission, you have more time to hang out with us, i hope. so i want to thank you because you really are an invaluable member, i think, to these things because you come into the room and you don't always agree and you bring a very unique perspective. so, commissioner benedicto. >> thank you so much, president elias. i also want to echo the chief on behalf of the commission. really congratulate and thank both angela and rome for your incredible service to your community and the role you have played in these groups and i was talking to angela before and we were both on the taser working group way back in 2016 and use of force in 2016 and before working groups in total and for all the reasons we have talked about, what you all given to the community, what you both have given, it's hard and it's time-consuming and it's painstaking and uncomfortable

and that's true on so many different levels, whether that's your feeling like a snitch or it's just the time asking of you or being stuck in the room with lawyers and cops, and sounds like most people nightmare and you did it willingly and repeatedly and the discussions and policies were made better by your participation and i hope that you know that. we all have heard, like, angela said, sfpd bias policy has been held as a model for being the first policy to have bias bi-proxy and being a leading policy and it's not enough to just say that sfpd policy. because of the role you played, that's the community's policy, that's the san francisco policy that was shaped and applies to sfpd and it's not just their policy but because of your ideas, it's a model and like president elias said, you

don't always agree with everything going on or should you be expected to, but you're willing to listen and willing to speak and willing to really dig in and that's so invaluable. our system isn't perfect or the department isn't perfect, the structure isn't perfect, but it can always be perfected and you two have played such a significant part in perfecting that system and it's the best way to improve our system is to take part in it and you have done that, so thank you very much. [applause] >> there's more. stay. there's more. >> hold on, mr. rome. thank you very much, president elias and i really, really appreciate your contribution, your sacrifice, your dedication and commitment to helping us improve your department. this is everyone's department. these are our

taxpayer dollars, so you do deserve a voice. you should have a voice and i started this work really young. i wasn't on a young commission but i was a young person working with youth commissioners and you have a lot potential young man and i hope you push people into that direction and your voice is powerful and your voice should be at the center of the conversations and thank you for taking that risk because sometimes when you walk into these spaces, ms. jenkins made a comment that i shared at one point, i didn't think i would be able to sit in spaces with people that have historically oppressed communities and some of the ones i represent but without that voice, we're not going to improve things and so i really, really thank you from the bottom of my heart. >> thank you. [applause] >> vice-president. >> thank you, president elias. just really want to congratulate ms. jenkins and rome on this

incredible award and this honor. the bias working group predated my time on this commission, but i had the pleasure of working with both rome and ms. jenkins on dj9.07, the pretax traffic stop. djo, so it's no surprise to hear this praise today because it applied with -- the same if not more force to their participation. ms. jenkins and rome were selective in terms of when they spoke, but when they spoke, everybody listened because they always said something that hasn't been said before and that nobody else would have said, if they hadn't spoken up. every comment they made was incredibly value added to the process and they were both, kind of totally unafraid to express views that perhaps made some people uncomfortable

or perhaps may have been controversial to some, but they are thoughtful and always value added and they are totally nondogmatic. they never repeated a talking point we never heard before but it was personal and kind of innovative. i'll say a couple of comments. i remember ms. jenkins raised an issue about deficiencies in our traffic data and broadening the pool of data we looked at. i think that was really insightful that no one else had thought about. rome, a cup of things you brought up that i recall, you brought up certain social dynamics around tented windows on cars and the implications of

-- de-prioritizing that and brought up how the policy may affect those with disabilities. those were comments i remembered off the top of my head but there's many more, so i want to acknowledge you both for your work on that dgo and willing to donate your time to this important work because it's really left an important mark, so thank you. [applause] >> commissioner walker. >> i want to thank you both. i'm relatively new so i haven't had a chance to work with you directly, but -- we have had the opportunity to see the results of the input from both of you and the rest of the community in how we're doing reform. of course, it takes a chief who is committed to it but it also takes folks from the public who can sit and input in a way that

moves people and you know, i know that we think it's -- he was kidding when he said he's hiring but he is hiring. and, you know, we need people from the community who have not had trust in our law enforcement to step up and make the changes like you're doing. but also to be out there, so it's a time for a new day in how we keep our streets safe for all of us and for all of us. i mean, that's where the reform part comes in, so it's so important and it's important that we -- it hits us in a way where we can move forward together, all of us, the officers and the public, so i really appreciate your contribution to that, both of you, because we've seen the results. i mean, we have seen what is able to come through, so thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much,

president, cindy elias. i want to take the opportunity to thank both of you for your, i guess, courage coming up and being a voice for your community. sometimes it's difficult to come out there and say it, say what you see and say what you feel, so again, i wasn't in the working group, but chief has given his certificate of appreciation, that means something to us all, so thank you both, and continue to work and making it safe for us, thank you. [applause] >> commissioner byrne. >> thank you. i want to commend your, let alone your giving of your time but your courage to come forward. it's most appreciated and recognized. thank you. [applause] >> ms. jenkins, i'm sorry i was late. i'm a huge fan of yours

and i appreciate your work ask all of your contribution and every time i walk into a working group and see you, i know it's going to be okay. so.... thank you both, we're done. we're finished. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] >> do you want to take a picture with the chief or something? >> yeah, we can. can we to that while we do general public comment? >> sure. >> thanks. >> members of the public who would like to make public comment for item line number one, approach the podium or press star three. >> hi. i'm otis sister, rome jones and kind of a little bit

of a community activist here in san francisco. i want to thank you all for honoring rome. he's his own man and he's done an amazing job, especially, i don't think he emphasized our brother's passing in 2009 when he was just 16 years old and rome was about 8. he could have been very hateful to the police, but he started to be a change-agent from a very young age to try to make it more equitable and deserving for black men, whether or not you're on the right side of the law. so, i appreciate you all for honoring him and he's such an amazing person. wise beyond his years, thank you. [applause] >> hi. i'm julie. i've had the pleasure of working with both of these people. i think angela and

i have been on every single working group together. we attended the dave lazar working group school where we welcomed everybody. i recruited rome to the working bias group and it was met with resistance from the executive sponsor for that working group and i had to go straight to the chief to get rome onto that working group, so i think we should take this as an opportunity to remind ourselves that we need to reach out to community members. we need to make them feel included. we need to invite them and to celebrate them and the best way to celebrate these two and their contributions and i want to remind us, it was rome who brought everyone's attention to the mugshots being released by the tenderloin twitter feed, that was him and we said, what, really, show us. we looked at it and the chief, you know, issued a departmental bulletin immediately but in the community

working group, our strategic plan calls for the cpac to reach out to communities. one of the members of our community working group joined one of the cpap's to say what's going on, as a commander once told me, they are made up of the people who love us. those groups, these working groups really need to be inclusive of community people. thank you for celebrating them. but let's make it systemic, not just a one-time award, but let's learn from the contributions of these amazing people and i personally want to thank them because i've stayed friends with both of them, so thank you. [applause] >> i had a really good idea that if maybe if we found the department getting $27 million, we still -- i don't know, we could think of one, maybe that could be like the sb2 position

that we could collaborate as a liaison and a bridge with some of the oversights and the state needs and community driven things, just as a great idea for us to maybe follow up on. >> see, rome, they have a windfall of money so now is the time to work for the department. >> i've got ideas and i've got plans. >> sergeant? >> that's the end of public comment. >> next item. >> line item two. general item two. (the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or dpa personnel, nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but, may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment.) >> you can call 415-655-0001.

enter the access code 24906549275. e-mail sfpd -- written comments may be sent u.s. postal service at third street. if you would like to make public comment, approach the podium or press star three. >> good evening, executive director, and members of the commission. i know one person one person. my name is greg johnson, i'm a resident of the tenderloin and i'm a member of ccs, which is central city, so collaborative and we're known as the collaborative. i'm a member of their safety committee. and we spend tons of hours addressing safety issues as they

relate to the tenderloin area and now have partnered outside with other agencies to address the matters that ultimately plague the entire city. i want to say first of all, thank you for the recent responses in the tenderloin. we have a seen a difference night and day in that area. that's to be commended. our concern now and moving forward would be the sustainability of that. you know, is that possible? you know, while we continue to do our work and reach out to residents in our community, that's going to be very important. it's going to be very important. thank you. >> good evening, commissioners.

i want to say thank you for the opportunity to address you. so my name is clifford gilmore. i'm with the tender loin clinic and i'm a manager at the clinic. as greg said, we have a resident-led safety committee and we've been working with a lot of city agencies on this public safety matter and yes, absolutely. there's something to be said about when you see people are radiance emit something different. what we have seen recently is people seem to be in a happier mood. you talk about the children who go to school in the tenderloin and they are nltsing something different and this gives them hope and that's what we're

seeing now with the changes that are happening with public safety in recent times, it gives a deeper hope and we appreciate the work that's been put in. we support that work. and sustainability is going to be key because it advances improvements that we're making if we don't have sustainability, we'll lose those gains. and so, we appreciate it and lastly to the president, i know we've reached out to you a few times, so we're looking forward to having you meet with our safety committee members and so, there was an e-mail that came today so we're looking forward to communicating with you. thank you! [applause] >> hello. my name is susie and i'm also with the safety committee at central city collaborative. this is the first

time speaking in public. so i'll make it short and sweet. i want to thank the tenderloin police for stepping up and doing this with the community. we appreciate it. we have noticed a difference. it makes it easier to walk even from walking from ellis to here, it was a better walk and that makes it much nicer for a lot of people that are there that live there and that work there, so i want to thank you for doing this for us, thank you! [applause] >> hello, commissioners. thank you for allowing me a minute to speak. my name is steven tennis and the people before me, i work for san francisco so collaborative on a safety commission. when we left our office to come here and we're on ellis street and we walked down to hyde and made a left on hyde and on the eastside walking down and last year or two, three,

four, five years ago, you cannot see down the street. now, this afternoon when we walked down here, i mean, it was clean and that impressed me. it wasn't the fact there were hardly any drug dealers out there, although there were a few but it's one of those things where it's in the past, there's no doubt because there were so many. so, i don't know what's going on, why it's going on, but please, whatever you're doing, continue it because it's working and i haven't seen it like this and i've been here -- i was born here but been here under 40 years and this is the -- i have been here for 40 years and the best i have seen it. i usually come here and talk but it's never a positive thing and this is a positive statement because it looks great and i would love, as they said, sustainability and i think that's so important and i wanted to thank you all. whoever and whatever is going on, continue, please. and foot

patrols, chief. that's the only negative. i still don't see that and i wish i would. thank you, all. [applause] >> good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> hi, this is gloria berry calling. representing -- not representing district tennis where i live, but however i wanted to encourage one of the commenters earlier and what the commenter said about outreach to the community. she was spot on. the young man you gave the award to, there's a lot of young men like that out in the community and (indiscernible) president elias out in district ten last week and i took her recommendation on what is going

on tonight, which i know we're not speaking on agenda items at this time, but i wanted to emphasize, it's a lot of data and a lot of information and very difficult for the average person to consume and i would hope that more community outreach is done so that some of this can be open bound to where even in layman's terms. and other than that, happy belated valentine's. >> president elias, that's the end of public comment. >> thank you. next item, please. >> line item three, consent calendar. sfpd 1421 & sb 16 report

- dpa 1421 & sb 16 report - sfpd 2022 4q document protocol report - dpa 2022 4q document protocol report - sfpd fourth quarter 2022 audit of electronic communication devices for bias - family code 6228 incident report release quarterly report 2022 q4: oct 1, 2022-dec 31, 2022 - semi-annual report and resolution sexual assault evidence kit (saek) july 1 - dec 31, 2022 - annual report dgo 11.02, secondary employment, calendar year 2022 >> can i get a motion for action? >> motion to receive and file. >> second. >> >> thank you. for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding item no. three, approach the podium or star press star three. >> there's no public comment on the motion, commissioner walker, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner walker is yes. commissioner benedicto? >> yes. >> commissioner january he is. >> yes. commissioner byrne? >> yes. >> commissioner yee is yes. >> vice-president carter? >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. >> line item four, chief's

report, discussion. >> [reading item 4] >> chief scott. >> evening, president elias and the public and vice-president carter. highlights on the crime trends, which you'll see. overall, things are trending very well the first two months, the first six weeks of the year, across the board, property crime is down 21 pern and violent crime is down 2%. also, i want to give thanks to homicide unit. we have homicide clearance rate that exceeds 100% at this part

of the year. that's because they solved some prior year homicides, so a lot of good work being done. a lot of good work still needs to be done on our unsolved cases. but i do want to say thank you to them. incidents for the week, a number of (indiscernible) to report. however, there was a death case and we're waiting for a determination by the medical examiners office and this was for an incident that occurred february 12th, so once we get that determination, i'll up date the commission and the public on that. on yesterday, unfortunately, there was an incident in the tenderloin and a person was located at 1:00 in the morning and the officer located this person with extensive injuries and the person had extensive injuries. officers rendered aid until medics arrived but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene

and a crime scene including a knife was located nearby and surveillance footage shows the assault and the suspect staffed the victim and the suspect fled and others were seen going into a tent nearby and that person was located with a stab wound and transported and was in stable condition so this is ongoing and a lot to sort out and i'll keep the public and commission informed. 700 block farrell street on the 12th at 9:25 a.m., sf, fire department personnel intended to a victim who had swelling and blood in the facial area and declared that victim decease and medical examiners conducted an investigation. we don't know if

it was injuries not by the hands of an individual. there were two shootings during this reporting period. one on the 8th of february at 8:00. in the block of harbor road in the bay view ask the victim standing near his vehicle when he heard a gunshot and he was hit. he was transported with nonlife-threatening injuries and the witnesses did see a possible suspect running away from the location and that case is under investigate. no a reference. the second shooting was on the 11th of february at 6:05 p.m. at cashmere in the bay view district. officers responded to multiple 911 calls and located a 17 year old victim who had multiple gunshot wounds. the victim and his friends were walking in the area when they heard four gunshots and they did not see who fired the shots. the victim was transported and is in stable condition. the incident

is still under investigation at this point, no arrest made. a couple of significant arrests, i want to talk about at least one significant arrest. this was on a residential burglary series and the arrest made on the 4th of february and an investigation into a series of at least 7 burglaries throughout the mission district that occurred in december of 2022 led to the identification of one of the suspects. in the event, the suspects with call boxes of residential buildings entered the building and stealing u.s. mail and other property. on 2/4, officers located and identified the suspect. the vehicle had a doj hold issue by san pueblo police department and had been identified as the suspect in a residential burglary in san pueblo and during the search of the vehicle, u.s. mail from burglary that occurred an hour earlier was located and the suspect was charged with five

counts of burglary and five counts -- thank you to the officers for putting this together and the greater a rest and we believe these individuals or this individual is connected to more and that is still under investigation. a couple of crime trends that we are seeing include burglary that involved suspects ramming a business or a store front of whatever business that they intend to burglarize, driving a car through the door and then they good in and take whatever they can and they flee in another car, so we have seen a number of those in our sit and these are happening outside of -- those in our city and those happening outside of our city. we had an incident past week and with the help of alameda police department, one suspect was arrested in the city of alameda. we think these are connected to a series of these types of

burglaries and that investigation is ongoing but one suspect is in custody in alameda connected to the san francisco burglary. property from that big lary was recovered -- burglary was retrieved. information was received by our stunt driving response unit that sideshows were or side driving events were going to happen in san francisco so the stunt driving response unit was activated from southern and central stations and they were on the lookout. at approximately 1:00 a.m., an event begun at fremont and howard. multiple units responded to that location and disbursed the group fairly quickly. causing the group to go in different directions. units from several stations across the city were called in or called from their stations and used to locate these splinter groups and in the mission district, it was

believed a participant in this stunt event discharged a firearm. they disbursed the vehicles and it moved into the bay view and then to an area behind chase center. the participants went back onto the freeway after our response, on to the pay bridge where they committed another stunt driving act which the chp intervened and requested the assistance of san francisco police units and the vehicles were disbursed without further incident and one person was arrested by chp for dui. this effort took a tremendous amount of staffing from several stations but officers did an excellent job in responding quickly, breaking up these events and actually assisting the chp. so, hats off to that response. lastly, in tenderloin, as you heard from a number of residents, we have tweaked our

strategy and we want to arrest the drug dealers selling trucks on the street and we want to disrupt that activity so our officers, this has taken a while and we have trained officers on plain-clothed officer so we're deploying them in differ ways and if we make arrest or -- one thing we're doing in trying to sustain is we come in with our uniform presence to hold our ground so the dope dealers and narcotics dealers don't reoccupy that block or corner after we make a bunch arrests, so many members of the public commented, we need to sustain this. another thing new we started this week today on certain days of the week, we are rallying resources from around the city to do

operations and it's a combination of visibility presence and disruption, and today we had 16 additional officers from around the city who were working the tenderloin and really they were there for that purpose, so we're going to do everything we can to sustain, as you heard from many community members tonight and that's a sample of the good comments we have gotten since we started this a couple of weeks ago. we want to sustain it, so it's a combination of arrests much it's a combination of dealing with buyers and the users and let me just be clear with the users, we understand that services are out there and we want to get people the help if we can, but we also have to address the behavior that's ruining businesses and have people scared to walk the block and that's on the youth side so we'll address that as well. i'm very pleased to report the progress in this and i want to thank publicly our command staff, assistant chief lazar,

deputy chief sullivan and commander fong and miran and sergio chan who did a good job looking at things with fresh eyes and addressing our strategies and we are committed to trying to sustain these efforts, so they know that's an ongoing topic, not only with the public but this commission as well. we'll keep you posted and the last thing on that strategy, the arrest increased and fentanyl seizures increased across the board and part of what we want to do as best we can is get the fentanyl off the street. this is helping in that regard as well and we'll continue to do that and one other thing, i think i'm at my time. but in the mission, a lot of community concern about the prostitution activity on kaft street. another new initiative is really dedicating resources there and a lot of resources. motorcycle officers who are

citing the people that are soliciting prostitution. we have officers assigned to work the cap street at night when this is happening and we've had really good feedback on that initiative as well, but again, it's a matter of sustainability. so, we're working a lot of over time to sustain this but it's worthwhile and we need to address these concerns because they are, the community is concerned about the two areas. thank you. >> thank you, chief. two quick questions. you said there were operations happening by the officers, what does that mean is this >> operations means to disrupt in the tenderloin in particular part of what they do, as i've just mentioned, if we go and do a bust operation or make -- or in uniform officers make arrest with drug dealers and what happens when the officers book and process the a reference,

there's void in the community. we had to get consistent, when the arrest were made we need to put officers in those locations to the drug dealers don't come back so part of the additional deployment today, the officers who are being brought from the city are handling calls and those who nope the players and community member, they are going to focus on what i just described and that gives us really more bang for our buck because the officers knows who they are dealing with, in terms of the drug dealers and the community members who are making these complaints against the drug dealers. >> they are not patrolling the tenderloins but doing these operations, is that what they are doing? >> it's a combination and we do by bust and visibility. one community member asked for foot beats but foot beats, whatever

operations we're doing that leads to arrest, those officers are off the street for hours as they process the arrestee into evidence and often times, it looks like we would never there. so, one of the things that we are committed to doing is holding ground. if we arrest, you know, five or six drug dealers from a corner and the corner is clean, if we leave they come back or others come back rather, so we hold the ground to not let that happen. >> i think it's interesting the next time in your chief's report to provide us the numbers, if you can provide us the number of arrest from the operations we've been conducting and the tile frame in which the a references have been happening. >> 23 arrest over the past six days from this type of operation and the other thing we're doing, we have identified who the sellers are. we seek warrants and then we go back and serve warrants, arrest warrants so that's another strategy. five arrest warrants are in the works from this past week from doing

these types of operations, in addition to the arrest that have already been made. >> okay. and my second question is, i was reading in sf (indiscernible), there's an article and it had your photo and supervisor dorsey and commissioner yee and the title was da jenkins and dorsey are requesting carveout to the sanctuary policy which is a 34-year policy. i didn't know if that was recent or a photo prior or what your position is on those requests and what the department is doing with respect to the sanctuary city policy. >> i saw that photo too. the department has nothing to do with that at all. that's a stock photo and i'm sure they have hundreds of photos of me and they happened to pick that one. so the department has nothing to do with that. when that article got sent to me, i saw the photo as well. >> you looked good in the photo. i'm happy for you but it was --

>> the department has nothing to do with that and it's a stock photo they help -- whatever media source that printed the article first just happened to put that photo in there. >> i want to make sure we're ad hering to a monthly see. >> we have nothing to do with that. >> great. i feel reassured. commissioner walker. >> i just want to acknowledge the work that has been done in the tenderloin and i'm hearing from folks it's making a difference, you know. i think we all hear from folks who live and work in the tenderloin who have to sort of feel the brunt of our lack of progress there, so this is a really good indicator of the work that you're doing count there and the

coordinating efforts. i think it's really clear, too, that there's a lot of support for collaborating with all the front end groups that are doing things, which i think helps. having foot traffic that, at least before 7:00 p.m. right now, is the alcamy group and ambassadors and police ambassadors, especially as we have really, we have 600, 500 officers short, it's really, it's impressive we can coordinate like you're doing and i think it's really important. i've been doing ride-alongs when there's been arrest, like, two or three arrest within a period of time and it takes all the officers because they have to book all the evidence and do all the reports so i think that's a real important point of filling in those gaps because both

activities are important, so it's one of the things that as we talked about freeing the time of the officers from doing some traffic stops, there are things that could be done by some other groups and freeing up officers to really make these arrests that are really affecting the street, so i appreciate that we're in conversation about a lot of that collaboration, too, with other departments so good work and thank you. >> thank you, commissioner. >> commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. a couple of things, chief. last week, you provided a status update on the mou with the da, it was a new language so i want to confirm that you expect to have that for the commission at our early march meetings, is that correct? >> that's correct. just a quick

update. i reported last week we have an agreement with the district attorney's office and the mediator was a part of that conversation and gave advice as well and today, we've sent our proposed language to director henderson. i know if he received it but it was sent today with the agreement, the side agreement with ddpa, so once they read it and get feedback, if there's anything to resolve, we can get that resolved quickly. >> both the updated language and the side agreement with dpa, you expect to bring up at the same time in march? >> that's the plan and in fairness to director henderson, we sent it to him today so he has too have time to read it and if there's issues he wants to discuss with, we'll do that. we'll try to do it quickly. >> okay. and for members of the public, that language will be posted in advance of the commission meeting so you'll be able -- that will be posted for

you to see and then, has there been an extension between the existing one in place and if so, what date? >> february 28th and being that we won't have an opportunity to get before the commission before that date, we'll extend it. >> okay. it expires the 28th and extended again, do you know how long? >> i had talked about this with the district attorney but probably until the end of march to make sure we have time to get it to the commission if there's anything to resolve, we can get it resolved quickly. >> i think vice-president carter asked this, since we won't meet until the 28th, maybe you can have it down. i know we had a presentation last week on the updated form on the surveillance ordinance and we thank the department for providing that. i understand, now that the presentation is complete, the department started rolling out

the training for the ordinance? >> we haven't trained the entities yet. that's going to be a rollout. but we haven't done it nor have we done operations yet so that's in the works. >> okay. you anticipated my next question. the community reached out to me about sfpd vehicles being parked in bike lanes or in bus lanes or places where members of the general public aren't allowed to park in. i wonder if you might provide what the actual policy is and what circumstances officers can do that? >> we have to follow parking rules like anyone else. in emergency situations, officers will park, double park or park in red zones or what not. normally, they will turn their flashers on or the emergency equipment on. not always, you

normally. but they do and the department is supportive of that when we need to get to a location quick lead and it's an emergency call for service, we don't want officers riding around the block looking for parking. >> sure. >> but if you're going to launch or some routine matter court, those things you need to legally park. >> okay. that's all. if a member of the public would see a vehicle that doesn't have his lights on for an extended period of time and not in operation, is that out of policy? >> i would suggest report it and we can see what the circumstances are and if there's a policy, we can address it. if the member of the public believes it's a violation, report it. it's a dpa complaint. >> microphone -- >> how will they go about that, director henderson in

>> they can report it during police commission because there's an investigator to talk to them live at every police commission and contact the office at 241-7711. i had to think. they can send an e-mail directly through the website and again, those, that type of information can come in anonymously. goggle san francisco department of police accountability. >> okay. >> hopefully that clears everything up. >> or you can go into any station because there's information there to contact us directly. >> commissioner -- >> thank you, president elias. and thank you chief for the report. and i really want to actually applaud all the implementation of the strategies

in the tenderloin and san francisco. it's good to have community members echo the sentiment that they appreciate the work, right. and it's having an impact because perception is so important. i want to thank all the officers and commanders and folks making, that are leading this charge, right. i wanted to ask you about the sustainability kind of plan for some of the efforts that have taken place in the mission district around cap street because last week there was enforcement ask a lot of motorcycles -- and a lot of motorcycles out there. is there a plan to continue that during the weekend or is it a month long strategy? >> we plan to continue it throughout this month. we'll reassess, i mean, we have to sustain it and we're working on what that looks like as far as sustainability. it has been reported to this commission, to the public that the staffing has

touched our solo unit. they have far few officers than two years ago so we have to work out what sustainability looks like, however, i'll say this, if we can get it somewhat in a better place, then it's easier to sustain. i mean, i think part of what i was hearing and many others from community members is they felt like people just (indiscernible) addressed at all. in terms of that behavior, that leads to all kinds of things in their community that they just could not stomach anymore, so if we can get some progress on calming things down a little bit, then we'll sustain, come up with how we're going to sustain it but at least this month, we're committed to doing if and the same thing with the tenderloin. we have to figure out a way to sustain it. there's only so much overtime officers can work but we're going to do what we can. we had

a supplemental introduced to the board and if that gets passed, that part won't be an issue but we'll sustain it in one way or another. >> in addition to the communication with community, is there coordination as commissioner walker has been suggesting with community based organizations? laugh week mentioned the missy organization and lyric works with sex people, that have been sex trafficked, is there formal agreements with these organizations to is mother your efforts or is there a plan to incorporate that? >> nothing formal i'm aware of yet, but we have to work with community organizations. a lot of the advocates for some of the sex workers who we have worked with in the past, we had to have them in this conversation because i believe some solutions can be had that go outside of

enforcement and that type of thing but no formal agreement yet. we plan -- we plan to do that. there's an uproar to make things better, it put the officers there, let's do wha we need to do with enforcement and citing some of the people soliciting and then we'll do the other things once we get things calmed down a little bit so that's in the works. nothing formal yet. >> thank you. and the last thing i will say, i know president elias mentioned this, you know, all our officers read papers and we engage or everyone runs across headlines and i want to promote the fact that as a sanctuary city, the reason why that ordinance is placed is to improve communication between the police department and communities that need that

support, right. and at any time we are unfortunately in this situation, this sounds like a line with a position that will interfere with that on going effort to improve communication, it does actually derail some of those efforts and really contribute to that lack of confidence or trust, especially that immigrant communities have and obviously this is out of our hands. this is at the board of supervisors but i really believe once we start making these decisions as a city, it's a slippery slope much once we make exceptions for certain communities and i hope the department continues to adhere to the expectations that the sanctuary city ordinance has for us and i know you support it so thank you for clarifying that. >> thank you, commissioner. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much, there

president, elias. i want want to go through the crime report you presented and look from last week to this week. looks like both violent crimes and property crimes has decreased. overall, year-to-date, total crime dropped so i know that your team and also i guess the work of a few operations and it's doing a great job. i hear it from our community members who stated to me -- i guess for over a month and during the christmas holiday, and during the chinese new year, it trended down so thank you and your members and staff for that, especially the tenderloin. me and byrne were talking about this a year and a half ago, right. and finally, we were able to see this through and it looks great. i remember

seeing this in december, i think the lighting came on. i thought i was in the wrong neighborhood when i was going down late at night, so congratulations to the city and to the police department putting the resources forward and i know the community in the tenderloin is feeling very relieved on that. my question comes back to this new drug that's out there called iso. i don't know if you know about it but i'm hearing it's ten times more deadly than fentanyl. are you prepared to, i guess, add additional resource to tackle that >> so i believe you're referring to trank. for the public, it's basically an animal tranquilizer sedative and other parts of the done free, other parts of the world, it's causing a spike in

overdoses. we do believe that that is starting to hit the streets of san francisco. we do have, i think about six cases that we know about where they have caused or contributed to an overdose situation. it's something to be alarmed about because one of the issues with that particular drug, if that's what you're referring to is narcan has -- it doesn't work for this particular drug, so if it's mixed with fentanyl or whatever else it could be mixed with, we had to do some training with our officers to recognize. there are some things we need to be looking for but it doesn't, narcan has no affect on it so the reversal we've had -- that we've had success with, with fentanyl, it won't work. >> so it is something to be aware of. we are going to work with public health to do some messaging and some public education and internal education

about this drug. we haven't seen a lot of it yet, but in the east coast of the united states, they are having more of an issue with this in some cities in the ways trend over the years, i think we'll see it in our city so we have to be prepared for it. >> thank you very much, chief. from thank you. >> at this time, the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item four. if you would like to make public comment, approach the podium or press star three. there's no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item five, dpa director's 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.) >> director henderson. >> i'm not reporting but the statistical numbers and they are online and from the normal information i used to track regularly, that's available, and i'm making it clear i'm not going to read all things and our -- i'll start off, however, with the cases that are being told and there's 17 cases that are being told. there are nine cases that are still pending with the commission. and still 88 cases that are pending decisions with the chief's office. this week, we have a number of cases, 13 percent of the cases that came into the office this week fo allegations for officers behaving badly or speaking badly to the public and others were officers arresting a person without cause. for the full breakdown, one hundred percent will be listed on the website.

in terms of the district, allegations and complaints came to the agency and the highest precinct this week was the mission with five complaints that came in. most of which centered around allegations that officers were rioting -- writing inaccurate police reports and we behaving inappropriately and not taking appropriate action for illegal break-ins and the highest number of allegations came from northern station. there were three complaints that came from northern with allegations of an officer misusing their emergency lights and failing to take required action related to making a police report. in terms of outreach this week, on the tenth, several members of the dpa participated in a panelists for the northern california

public interest, public service day. this was a career fair for students to meet and interview with public interest and public sector, legal organizations and we are in the middle of preparing for our big summer program, so i'll have more updates for you about that program and what we're doing in the future. on february 18th, we plan on taking part in the national lgbtq task force creating change conference. it's a nonprofit organization focused on advancing freedom, justice and equity specifically for the lgbtq community. on the 13th, i spoke at alice democratic club, that asked us, dpa to come and represent to speak about concerns in the lgbtq community and policing addressing -- so we're clear, a lot of the concerns that were raised or issues -- they are issues addressed in san francisco, but talking about it gives activist

and community members an opportunity to share the solutions that we've come up with here, both with the rest of the state and with the rest of the nation as well. so that was outreach this week. in terms of audit, we are drafting our next interim report right now as part of the misconduct audit and so this report is on san francisco police department's monitoring department communications and there's a draft of this report to the department by february t. go to the department first before it comes to the commission so we get feedback before it's made public but i'm tracking it so folks know what we're doing and what's happening with the audit department. in terms of operations, we're excited to announce the development of a new online complaint form. we made the improvements and i am panneded the program for -- and improved

and expanded program but we have expanded it for the police department. the new complaint norm can allow officers to complaint received from compliants online instead of filling out a paper norm and the new form will streamline the process and ensure that complaints are received in realtime as they come in. so it eliminates part of the process that we've been having problems with and burdens and inconsistencies in making those complaints; getting those complaints to dpa and the old method required officers to fill out a paper form and scan it and send it to dpa e-mail or department mail which increased the risk of error and delayed the receipt of the complaint so we use available resources and by resources, i mean things that are free, just so we're clear in case anyone wants to give money to the department of dpa. and develop and launch new

efficiencies and accessibilities. and improve transparency and improve record-keeping and we want to create a guidance for spd officer and a video to staff knows how to use the new complaint form. we'll update the commission once the new form is available and it's launched, but i want to thank my technology team, erica ho and it analyst, oscar, for his hard work and nicole armstrong who helped to put these together and drafted the notes to tell me what to say. tonight, we do have a case in closed session. we also have here in the courtroom, senior investigator, chris. also our director of policy, janel kay wood and my chief of staff, sarah hawkins. and for folks

that are interested and would like to get in contact with dpa, i mentioned this earlier before but find us at sf gov dot org forward slash dpa or contact the office at 415-241-7711. i have some further comments but they are tracking with upcoming agenda items so i'll reserve my comments until those items are called. >> thank you, director henderson. two things. you said the audit was going to be sent to the department end of february, when do you think the commission will get it? >> i don't remember the time that the department has to hold onto it. i think it's two weeks. >> okay. >> whatever the -- the audit stuff as you know is so regulated. they are is a designated period of time when it gets sent and i believe it's a reasonable period of time. i think it's two weeks and it says here's what's going to be published and let us know if you think there's mistakes and

sometimes there's back and forth but sometimes not and it gets published. >> okay. second thing you mentioned 88 cases with the chief. how is the -- we addressed this earlier about getting the cases moving and decreasing that number because it seems like a lot. where are we on that? >> well the number has gone down from the initial presentation when i started tracking and counting numbers because it was 90 something, 944, 99 -- 94, 99. it's not just going down quickly but like i said, i just received the information when it's resolved and i don't know what's going on in terms of what the process look like. >> chief? >> a lot of the cases are being appealed and i think, not think, we report it to the commission and we have revamped those and the appeals are moving quickly and the older appeals are being heard and cleared out, so i

think once we get caught up, we'll see this flow of cases move a lot faster but ashley orstrom and folks in internal affairs done a lot of work to speed up the process with the appeals and a lot of it which the commission can appreciate it, people cancelling at the last minute and that type of thing so we had processes in place to try to discourage, and if people have to cancel, they cancel but we had to tighten up processes. >> when can we see double digit decreases? >> you'll see them quickly because i'm getting a lot more cases that are being heard and resolved quickly, so some of them have been resolved but the flow of those cases are increasing and it's a lot more consistent. >> okay. i think i told you this last time, director armstrong

did a great job on the budget presentation and she did a good job making it simple and director >> there's a lot on her plate but you're likely to see more of her this year. >> great. i look forward to it. all right. no one is in the queue so we better hurry, up, sergeant. >> members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item five, approach the podium or press star three. >> no public comment. >> next item. line item 6. (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, fellow commissioners. since everyone else is on a ten-minute timer, we're going to try and aim for that ourselves. so, this is the first week we'll try it and hopefully it works out and

hopefully the chief and director henderson's time. i'm going to start with vice-president carter-oberstone. >> we get ten minutes total for all. >> you want total? >> i'm asking. we're always under ten per person. >> two each. >> okay. >> all right. none of this counted towards my time. okay. [laughter] on january 11th, this commission passed dg9.7, this curtails preopts and the day before chief -- chief scott sent the commission some language that he suggested to amend the policy, to emphasize what the policy was doing, which was de-prioritizing certain discrete categories of low-level traffic offenses and since then, chief scott and i have been working on crafting

some language that affect, i gave an update last meeting and since the last meeting, we've gone back and forth a few more times and i'm glad to report that we've found language that, at least the chief and i agree on and i want to thank the chief for working with me on this. we've sent e-mails back and forth over the weekend so i appreciate the weekend time and doing -- greating this done quickly and i'm -- and getting this done quickly and i'm eager to share the language with my colleagues on the commission and members of the public, so i'm hoping to get that circulated to commissions and posted to the website soon. >> thank you. all right. commissioner benedicto, are you going to beat his time? >> i think so. proo fwres was made on the dgo's i've been assigned but i want inform focus on one part -- which is dgo7.1

which is the department's policy on how it deals with juveniles and youth and commissioner yanez and i are on that meeting and i want to thank the participants for coming to that meeting with an openness to collaboration and i've seen a lot of progress made. i want to call out the executive sponsor, rachel miran and sergeant herald for your great work and director of policy, dpa, ms. kaywood. we got a lot done. it was a really productive meeting and looking forward to continuing to advance that dgo and move that forward to present to the commission later this year. >> you did. good job! no one else in the queue, maybe. right. all right. commissioner yee, you've got to beat his time.

let's see. >> i want to report, today we had aapi summit in victoria hall in china town in the heart of it. i want to thank commander julianne ying for putting it together. joining us was our police chief, william scott, city attorney, david chiu and district attorney brook jenkins. i guess the goal was -- the goal of the summit was to educate our community in china town because many of the victims, they tend not to report the crimes that happened to them. they figure, well, it's okay. i don't want to report it. it's too much red tape and what the community san francisco police department --

the department liaison say we have translators to report it if you want to. city attorney offers victim service information to the community and one in particular is the california, was is it? california community or victims community board where there's funding available for victims that crime has happened to you and, you know, they should look into that, so again, i want to thank the police department for coming out. our community felt this was very well spent time to pass the message and they felt reassured safety -- public safety is number one for all in the city of san francisco. that's all i have to report.

thank you. >> thank you for the district attorney update. sad to report you didn't beat director benedicto's time but maybe next week. >> for those who want to make public comment for line item 6, please approach the podium. no public comment. >> next item please. >> line item 7, sfpd25022 third quarter disciplinary review board discussion. >> hello. >> hi, welcome. >> good evening. >> do you have the report. >> or the drive. >> we'll be under ten minutes. >> now this one is combined. we're not doing ten minutes >> oh, no. we have seven slides. >> it should be animated.

>> maybe nine slides. >> good evening president elias and scott and henderson. it's my pleasure to be with chief of staff, sarah hawkins this evening to present to you and report back the results of the disciplinary review board third quarter for '22. the aggregate trends we saw was discourteous to members of the public as well as failure to write an incident report, a failure to certainly investigate and finally a failure to title multiple body worn camera videos. in dpa's trend were failure to take required action, failure to activate pwuc and this was a smaller number than the other two but there was an uptick and failure to provide star number. >> whether we look at policy

failures, we had two for the san francisco police department during this timeframe and the first was a supplemental incident report wasn't assigned to the proper unit. and bulletin-273 speaks to that specifically. and the second one we had was, we were attempting to locate a department vehicle after a collision was brought to mind. what we found out in our investigation is that very small unit did not have a sign-out and sign-in log for the vehicle and that has been remedied. >> dpa had one in the fourth quarter but the chief asked to be discussed in the third quarter meeting of the drb and it had to do with social media. and ac -- we have had meetings and spoke separately and commissioner yanez, you're revamping the social media policy and the particular case and recommendation we had was

really to station social media and should that be centralized in the department, maybe, maybe not but at the end of the day, the department ruled out the social media department, there needs to be training about how to manage the accounts. >> and the third department, the police department had no failure training. >> same with dpa. no training failures either. >> so then we get down to the recommendations made by the board. the first one was to update department bulletin 12-273 as it relates to a signing unit, excuse me, ports to investigative units. this week i spoke with the written directives unit to discuss where we're at with updating that but there's a component and it relates to the second recommendation and it's to end sure the incident titles are being auto populated within our system because when it comes to an officer writing a police report based on title, the

system will auto populate where it's supposed to go so we need to make sure that there's an i-t issue so we want the codes to be correct and department bulletin so the two recommendations come together. the third one was in relation to training members for their use of social media accounts with the department. this is an interesting topic because there are three buckets, there's personal use of social media covered on 2.09. there's department affiliated use such as the district sessions and each one will have a carveout of its policy and there will be training attached to each one of those, so all the recommendations are being worked on and addressed and i'm happy to report that. >> one thing that's not in this presentation that i just thought was important to follow up on, this represents what came out of the third quarter and we follow up on recommendations from previous quarters and it finds its way to djo and one meeting we had last week was related to

property and that's come up a few times in various dpa cases, for example, property for safe keeping, what are the perimeters around that and i spoke with, was it commander jones? >> acting deputy chief. >> acting deputy chief jones, on monday to talk about dpa's specific recommendations and issues around timelines and property processing. and she explained how much work had been done on her side and we have made progress there. i don't want to forget while this is a snapshot of one quarter, work from the previous quarters is continuing all the time. >> at this time, we don't have a meeting set for the fourth quarter, disciplinary review board and that concludes our presentation. >> wow! a little over five. i'm impressed. under five. yes. thank you. just real quick, i was able to attend several weeks ago, one of the trainings that came from the drb at the

stations that dpa and i put on and i know that i -- i notified director henderson and chief scott, but it's worth mentioning that lieutenant willhelm and chief of staff rosen stein did a phenomenal job and i watched them put ongoing the presentation to the officers and really showing or walking them through the process because it's amazing to me how many officers are familiar with the disciplinary process and how it works and they were able to ask questions and get a lot of information in realtime and i thought it was really, really, such a great training and education piece and i really hope that it continues and i want to say that, director henderson and chief, that was a great combination and i know that the commissioner office extended the invitation to other commissioners to check out that training and i would encourage

you to do it because it's interesting to see some of the questions that the officers raise in the process and the misinformation that's out there and the correct information that's being disseminated by both dpa and ia. >> thank you for attending because it's a big deal because i think it was a joint project both from dpa and the department to do that and it did address, as surprised as you were, but it was consistent and we committed to do the presentation at every precinct to do the presentation but because of the misinformation that people have fundamental misunderstanding about discipline and the process, it might be worth maybe publishing something jointly that goes to the department that answers a lot of the frequently asked questions that came up from that process. i don't know how they'll disseminate it but i'm happy to work that out if

folks think it's a good idea. my big take away from dpa is there's a clear misunderstanding about what the process is, who is doing what and how the process works so i -- >> it was tough. i mean, some of the questions and some of the comments were not -- they weren't easy. but lieutenant welm and ms. rosen stein did a good job because i think some of the comments are from rumor mills and misinformation. >> there are two more coming up, it will be done by the end of march and they are a combination of tenderloin and (indiscernible) and if the commissioners wanted to go, they would get a lot of insight. >> yeah. >> i just want to say as well, those presentations are being well received by officers and i think it's important for our officers to trust in the process to be educated to the process that it's being done fairly and equitably so we're thankful for

the partnership with dpa and our members >> commissioner benedicto. >> i had a question about the miss titling and labeling of the body camera footage. what's the effect of that if it's not taught? >> so, it's really difficult when it comes to investigations. it's part of the policy they have to do this. this came from an audit out of the body worn camera and we found members had multiple offenses in it, so that's the problem, if they don't title it. >> so it's not titled correctly, wouldn't it make it harder to be turned over with respect to a public defender in the case in an investigation? >> ults matly, we would be able to -- ultimately, we can turn it over but as a part of our policy and to be in compliance with our policy, this is what we expect from officers so when they are out of policy, it rises to our

-- it rises to our attention. >> thanks. >> a couple of questions around the social media policy. i believe i heard you say that they, you're thinking about three policy statements and trainings attached to them. would you elaborate on that? >> yeah. what i said was, there would be policy specific to address each one of those, for example, 2.0 the focuses only focuses on personal use of social media as it's drafted. when we look at areas as discussed, there has to be training for how our members are using our department affiliated ones as well and the third conversation which we've had at length is how can social media be used in investigation? so three different buckets trying to decipher, do you go with three different individuals like three different dgo's but there has to be individual training for each of those and we'll

develop that. >> the training element makes sense. i know that once we started the clock on the social media dgo revision, because it's so skimmed the way it stands but it covers different spheres and dives into different media and i think we should collapse this because once you have experts that have this background, it will make it easier to inform all elements of it and my recommendation stands we should collapse all three and it will limit the amount of energy put forth to come up with a good policy and i hope we can figure out what the best way to work in that direction will be. >> yeah. the 90-day deadline for 2.09 is march 7th so i have no doubt after that deadline comes and the draft goes to the next steps, the conversations will continue. >> great, thank you. >>

>> thank you, commissioner, thank you for acknowledging lieutenant william. i did convey our conversation and told her how i am policed you were with her presentation along with rosen stein from dpa, so thank you for that. it's really important, i think for our officers, our members, both professional staff and sworn to hear those type of comments. i know we have talked about morale several months ago but these things are helpful so i want to highlight that and i want to make one more comment about the reformative issue we have been engaged in since 2016. this is a product of that and i'm going to go a little deeper than that and not too longwinded and director henderson and i struggled getting money to built infrastructure. the two positions are part of infrastructure, rebuilding for both of our agencies and i just want to point out to the public, these things do not happen without the proper infrastructure. i don't think paul had a chief of staff like

ms. hawkins when he took the position six years ago and we changed our structure. i want people to know what reform looks like but there's work that goes into building that infrastructure and this is a perfect example of what can be when we do it the right way. >> thank you. sergeant. >> thank you. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item seven. if you would like to make public comment, approach the podium or press star three. there's no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item 8, discussion and possible action to approve dgo 11.13, “directed and recommended referrals to the sfpd behavioral science unit,” for the department to use in meet & confer with the effected bargaining units as required by law discussion and possible action. >> hello, welcome. >> thank you. good evening, president elias, vice-president

carter-oberstone, commissioners, director henderson, chief scoot. i'm acting deputy chief my coal, the administration buresh your and i'm here to present on dgo3.01 which is written communication -- it's under my command and i would like to point out this is a brand-new dgo and not revision and this is a pool see we haven't had previously. it creates a mechanism for sfpd to get emply mental health -- to get mental health that an employee may not recognize they need and we didn't have this before. for this policy, commanding officers macon tact behavior concerning behavior of an employee and it will be a directed referral or recommended referral approach dwrat based on the circumstances from that discussion. directed

referrals are mandatory requirements and the employee has to meet with bsu and recommended referrals are volunteer and encouraged but not required and confidentiality is a key tenant of this policy given the nature of the discussion that are being had. additionally, a referral is not meant to be punitive or disciplinary. so compliance with this policy is required. so, the procedure are laid out in the policy but i want to acknowledge how important this is to have in our toolkit. we have a way to address concerns before problems exacerbate and lead to potentially more severe professional and personal consequences. and with that, i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> i will say too, i think that the bso is an important unit because our dispolice naturely cases require -- our -- we have

referral for counseling or other services in connection with what bsu offers so i think that's important to have that continuing monitoring. >> absolutely! i think what's so nice is it doesn't have to be as a result of discipline. we have this mechanism to get it on the front end and try and snake that impact before it heads down that road. >> thank you. commissioner byrne? >> thank you, president elias. maybe i'm a bit naive and i'm sure members of the public, who exactly is in the we -- behavior science. >> it's officers selected to provide a variety of different services but they are connecting people with treatment, counseling and professional help as it relays to mental health

and substance abuse. i have one sergeant and three officers and they work with clinicians and they have networks, et cetera. it's the first jumping off point where they would meet with bso, it could lead to other treatment whether it's counseling services, therapy, substance abuse, you know, after that. >> do you have physiologist and psychiatrist to refer them to? >> yes. there's a mental health network and they are specifically trained to deal with law enforcement and law enforcement issues so we have those connections available and they don't have to come as a result of this. this is a service we offer across the board regardless so anybody could reach out at any time to request this but as mentioned previously, sometimes people don't recognize that they may need help and we do and discuss

the help. >> we lack a certain amount of self-awareness. >> absolutely! >> okay. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> commissioner yanez. >> thank you. >> i'm happy this is out and i commend the department to create someony -- to give the impression that the work you do is so -- exposes folks to trauma and sometimes actual trauma. vicarious trauma is a form of trauma but i'm happy that this is onboard. i just have one question about, i know -- i understand the need for confidentiality and hipaa but

section 1133c, if says there won't be written records of the directed or a recommended referral so the only question i have, how do we capture when we are being successful with the referrals for training purposes and i know the director referrals are captured in some way, shape or form, so is there a way to be able to -- when it's not directed but is advised to have a point of data there? it doesn't have to be a consent form or anything like that but i think that incident can be reported somehow? >> so no. there isn't and that is one of the keys i think to the success is that this isn't written down, so people really feel comfortable reaching out because they know there's not a documentation attached with it and so, we've -- our behavior science unit don't log the number of calls they take, but

they are on the phone all the time, basically, 24/7 and i think that lack -- not the lack but the choice not to document that has been the keys to its success. >> and when there are directed referrals or self referrals, the system that you're using right now is specific to san francisco, is there interface between that and the private providers that people have access to? >> yes. the network is, like, private providers so they are not city agency providers. they are from all over and so they have access to anything that might be useful to them. >> great! thank you! >> thank you! >> commissioner walker. >> thank you so much for this presentation. i agree one hundred percent. this is really

an important piece for providing support for folks, for officers on the street. i mean, a lot of us have been in ride-alongs and experienced just in a very limited way and abbreviated moment of time, it's a very stressful job and i just want to acknowledge that. the times i've been doing ride-alongs for a few hours, it's pretty emotionally exhausting and so, i'm really glad we're doing this. i do (indiscernible) work and it's part of the same kind of position where you're not counting people calling in that you were there to try and help move things that need to be moved forward and one of the things i want to suggest because this reinforces how we need this

for our officers. i was coming through mission and 9th and ran across the ambassador groups and al camacho meet groups who had to do a cpr response to somebody and the person was just really upset. and rightfully and so properly not trained and there's nowhere to go. i was wondering if we could encourage this kind of response too, for the other folks doing, you know, helping us on the street, they especially don't have anywhere to turn either, so it may be something we want to really think about expanding to our partners out there in the street, too, because as much as

our officers go through academy and get trained for that kind of engagement, it's a lot. so i just want to, in saying that i really support it. i think we could do a lot to think about who else might need it. >> definitely. i think it's really important to point out we have -- a host of professional staff members in our department who are often exposed to a lot of these same traumas. they wear body worn camera footage and this is available to all employees in the san francisco police department not just officers and i think that's important to point out. >> yeah. really good work. >> thank you. vice-president carter-oberstone. >> thank you, president elias. one question, which is, how does this policy affect, if at all,

interactions between eis and biu. >> this is a different parcel from eis so this isn't prescribed by eis unless perhaps in the course of a commanding officer's review of the eis, you know, that this could come into play, but i mean, that's definitely something we can take a look into a little bit more but really, like, the concerning behavior we're talking about is job performance related, does this person appears to be a danger to them receives or a danger to others? but i think that's an intersection that we can absolutely look at and -- >> i guess i'm asking, maybe i should have -- i assume sometimes in the course of an eis alert, the remedy for that is to recommend that an officer reach out to bsu. >> yes. >> i guess i'm wondering if this

dto changes the way that process happens, if there's an eis alert, there's a conveniently appropriate people, there's a decision made inform, let's just say, recommend to the officer to reach out to bsu at their ultimate design, does that dgo change that or reaching out to bsu or is that eis is on its own separate track in following a separate process? >> it doesn't change anything and if the commanding officer was going to reach out to bsu previously, they can do so in the same way now. what this policy does is provide a mechanism to, if bsu in review of all the circumstances that is provided by the commanding officer require that they talk to bsu because right now, that would be voluntary and then with the institution of this policy, there could be more teeth to say, no, no. it's not going to be voluntary. and that would be,

i would think the one change. >> great. thank you! >> thank you! >> thank you. commissioner yee. >> thank you very much there, president cindy elias. again, this is a great tool, i guess, for the members that on a daily base have stress out there. i'm looking at one part and that will be 11.13.04sf regarding, i guess, you can make a recommendation with time off on an fmla. i know it's short-term you what about long-term, does it exceed a certain amount of hours or days? is it allowed to go past -- onto long-term. what's your short-term, eight workdays or something like that? >> for fmla, there's a certain

amounts of hours and it's far beyond that. it's due to employee illness or circumstances where the employee will need protected leave while they are off. but we also have instances when people come in with doctor's notes and that can be long-term leave and including the hours but beyond with certain notes. >> okay. if it goes past a certain amount of hours, it goes into long-term fmla? is there an impact on their employment? meaning that are they still on the books or are they put on long-term disability? does that happen? >> all of these things can happen and there's nuances whether it's work related, not related but fmla says they are remain on the books. it is protected leave. there cannot be changes in employment. and

disability is a little different. disability has different time limits but you can have injuries that aren't work related that you're able to take leave for. >> yeah. okay. thank you very much. >> thank you! >> thank you, great job. >> thank you. >> at this point, we're going to take public comment and i'm going to take a motion for action. >> or a motion first, whatever you want. >> i'll make a motion. >> second. >> without my instructions. i'm going to make a motion we adopt the -- the 11.13 for use in the bargaining unit and the following instructions to direct -- old version. >> we're going to have a written version soon. >> i'm working on it. follow

instructions and the commission hereby directs the san francisco police department and urges the san francisco department of human resources set clear boundaries to the process with the effective bargaining units so make sure there's no delay s items within the scope of representation and second, meeting confer with the bargaining units on matters related to working conditions, subject to collective bargaining under california law and not meet and confer with the effected bargaining unit that constitutes matters not subject to collective bargaining under california law. >> second. >> members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item eight, approach the podium or press star three. there's no public comment. on the

motion.... [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. >> line item 9, discussion of deadlines per dgo 3.01, written communications system, for revisions of dgo 8.10 [guidelines or first amendment activity], at the request of the commission. (discussion) >> good evening. president elias and vice-president carter obamaer stone and henderson, members of the commission and members of the community watching, especially i just -- those members that came from the tenderloin, that means a lot to our investigators. my name is deputy chief sweeny from investigations and what i'd like to do is just, if i can do a

quick presentation or, vice-president, how would you like me to proceed. >> my understanding is the department has a presentation on the broader director units process. my thought was we could start with specific questions about 8.10 and if the department does have a presentation, the department could do that after we get through the 8.10 specific issues. >> sure. i actually am here for 8.10. i was going to give kind of an overview of how sme and sid is setup, 8.10 and some -- give you an idea of my input but we can start that way. >> the way we structure this, i have specific questions. i imagine a lot of what you're going to say is responsive to what i was going to ask and if there are things i didn't ask about that you think is relevant, then certainly, you

should have the opportunity to raise them. >> perfect! >> before we get into it, i want to provide context for the public for those who tuned in last week, it will sound repetitive because we did cover this same issue last week. but just to recap, a few months, director henderson brought to the commissions attention there were 36 dgo in the revision process sitting with the department for a long time. i think over a year and some two years and these are dgo's where dpa provided the department with recommendations on revision and yet they were not moving forward. this is a bad thing, obviously. this is a bad thing for officers, it's a bad thing for members of the public because officers are bound by policies where in many cases they haven't been revised since the mid 90s. the state of the law has changed and so the dgo may be out of compliance with

the law. certainly evidence-based best practices have changed so the policy doesn't reflect those. and so, in response to this, president elias took the step of assigning to each commissioner a cluster, each one of us, kind of owns a cluster of these 26 dgo's and it's each commissioner's job to make sure the dgo's are shepherds through the process and nothing kind of sits the way it had been sitting previously. related the commission enabled dgo 3.01 which sets strict timelines and sets out a specific process for revisions of dgo's. and while there are timelines for or i should say deadlines for each step of the process, 3.10 is not totally flexible. it allows dma or the department to seek a request for extension of time if either dpa or the department feels as

though they can't meet a deadline and they have to write to the commission and explain the circumstances and why there's good caution for granting an extension. and so, as it relates to dgo 8.10 which relates to surveillance and first amended first protected activity, it seems that or seem that some -- an important deadline and 3.101 process lapsed and there wasn't a request for extension of time. as i've said before, ultimately, it's the commissions responsibility to ensure that monthly see revision happens in a timely fashion and so, when we have lapsed deadlines under 3.10, we need to have a public conversation about it for two reasons. one to inform the public and two, to inform the commission to understand what's going on. this is not meant to be punitive but it is meant to

shine a light on what exactly is happening at a nuts and bolts level so that we can make sure that this process is working for everyone. so, just wanted to provide that context. sergeant, would you lined putting up the timeline graphic. great. this is a timeline of the relevant events as it relates to dgo8.10. on october 27th, dpa e-mailed the department requesting certain documents it felt it needed to make its phase i recommendations. it did not receive response. on november 3rd, dpa sent its phase i recommendations to the

department and notified the department that those recommendations, sending those recommendations triggered a december 6th deadline for the department to respond to the recommendation grid. the department did respond and acknowledged receipt of the recommendation grid and acknowledged the deadline. on november 22nd, dpa e-mailed the department following up on its october 27th e-mail requesting certain documents. no response was, there's no response as far as i can tell. then the december 6th deadline to respond, dpa's recommendation grid came in and went with no response from the department. on december 8th, three things happened. dpa e-mailed the department requesting an update en light of the deadline. there was an e-mail regarding the deadline and deputy eswani

replayed he was vacation and returning december 12th and december 12th, they did speak. december 14th i e-mailed the chief asking for an update regarding deadlines and lieutenant o'connor, did, c swanny made internal request to seek an extension of time and on december 20th, chief scott did in fact submit an extension of time to the commission, so before we actually -- before we start, i had a couple of questions for ms. kaywood, if you wouldn't mind coming up. >> good evening. >> good evening, ms. kaywood. this process was kicked off by dpa sending its, is it phase i or stage one? >> stage one. >> stage one recommendation grids, could you explain to the

public what a stage one recommendation grid is? >> sure much a stage one recommendation grid is, basically an excel spreadsheet and has four columns and the first column, dpa's recommendations are listed numerical order and the second column is the date we submitted the recommendations, the third column is sfpd's response, whether they agree with our recommendation or not. and the fourth column is just a brief explanation of sfpd's decision. stage one recommendations are pre-drafting recommendations so they are high-level recommendations that we sent to the department to let them know the topics that we're interested this. once we get a draft from the dgo department, we submit stage two recommendations and those are recommendations based on the actual updated dgo where we go line-by-line. >> great, thank you. and in this

particular case, how many recommendations did dpa make? >> i believe it was four. >> if i recall, one of those four was the request for documents. >> correct. >> there were three steps for recommendations into the dgo? >> yes. >> okay. so the department, once you sent the recommendation was due to respond, wha does a response to a recommendation grid looks like generally? >> it's usually a couple of sentences. >> okay. >> per recommendation. >> and i know that, you don't know exactly what goes on perhaps in written directives on the other side, but do you have a sense in this particular case, given those three substantive recommendations how long you think it would have taken to respond to them? >> less than an hour. the documents probably took some time to compile but the actual

recommendations were very high level, like, one of them was update, the dgo to take into account into technologies like the internet. that's basic. it wasn't very complicated or granular. >> okay. and i just wanted to confirm, did you receive any response to your october 27th e-mail or your november 22nd e-mail to the department? >> no. not until january after this issue was raised at the commission. >> great! thank you so much, ms. -- thank you, ms. kaywood. >> thank you. >> so, deputy chief, can you explain your role as it relates to the role of -- >> i'm the executive sponsor for this dgo and i think a total of 13 dgo we touch in investigations and some are sitting with written directives that might have been moved from

investigations to another bureau, but we started on it or we have a specialty input into it. i would definitely like to respond to the timeline and i do appreciate janel coming up here and providing insight on the grid. >> oh, certainly. we'll get to that. >> okay. >> do i have it right and ms. kay wood right, there was no response to her october 27th and november 22nd e-mail? >> yes, that's correct. >> why was there no response? >> so, there was an internal discussion on the grid at a later time. the 27th, october 27th, that e-mail that came in, the 28th at 2:23 in the morning, we had the pelosi

incident so after 2/23, isd was the primarily lead on that. i was notified around 3:00 a.m., from that day on, that case would have easily taken about a week just to stabilize and that's just doing -- dealing with different facets of the case, without going into it, we never reconnected, when i mean, we, as in my subject matter expert, lieutenant connor and us about this. this took the back-burner as everything else did. that case literately took up the whole office. and i mean the whole office, it's a small unit. there's only five general investigators and three arson investigators and the other are specialized people that don't investigate the cases. >> thank you. that's helpful.

you're not saying there wasn't time to sent an e-mail saying, hey, we're very busy working on this extremely high profile matter? there was time to do that? >> i don't know if the e-mail was looked at between the night of the 28th and what day it was looked at. >> you didn't open the e-mail on october 27th? >> many e-mails, if i'm not cc' d on it and i get e-mails directed towards me, which i'll read first. >> so you did or not? >> i did not. >> you're sure you didn't open the e-mail? >> i don't know for sure. >> you're not sure? >> yeah, i'm not. >> okay. >> but we did have a discussion at a later point regarding that dgo and that came, that was triggered by written directives reaching out and saying, hey, what is the status of the grid and that's when the had the conversation with dave o'connor.

>> great, thank you. ms. kay wood said three recommendation were high levels such as updating the dgo to confirm with the internet and other intervening technologies and it would take around an hour to respond, is that -- do you think that's right? >> i do think it's fair they were high level but it also involved the audit, right, so there was an audit done in 2021 that was completed in november of 2021 and so there were still some action items on that that were being accomplished, so i asked him, i said, can you give me an update on what's going on with? the main -- the main part of it was some of the documents that were requested, i asked, i said can you look at what we have, what we don't have? but we also need to have an internal discussion about that. >> right. but setting aside the documents and the audit, which

were separate. i'm asking the response to the three substantive recommendations and the recommendation grid. was it accurate that it would take an hour to do that. >> it would take longer. >> what's your ball park? >> it would involve other parts of the department, like, i would have -- >> you have responded by now, right. the department sent -- >> yeah. >> you know how long it takes. >> by the time we're done, it does require some due diligence on our part. i know it said the draft stage and discussion stage but internally, it's important for us as an organization to have a discussion about how we go about our policies and procedures that impact our officers every single day. >> how long did it take roughly? >> after the -- [multiple voices] >> to the recommendation grid?

>> two, three hours. >> okay. >> that's just crafting language back and forth, et cetera. >> that's helpful. who is charged with drafting those responses? >> so, unfortunately, with the said item, i don't have the luxury of being able to have multiple subject matter experts because on that policy because it's so specific, it's just the one lieutenant and even that, with the amount of other stuff that he has on his plate, i asked if there were someway we can find somebody else that we might have the bandwidth and there wasn't. in his unit, he was low on staffing. everybody has not only, do they investigate high profile cases like that, they are handling hate crimes and handling threats

of potential shootings at schools, workplace violence, et cetera. so he didn't want, he took ownership of it and i appreciate that, but he literately said, i go -- is there somebody and then what we did decide on is to get help from written directives which they helped us out tremendously and get some help from internally just to have an attorney assist us. >> okay. i think the answer is principally lieutenant o'connor but he was busy with the pelosi incident so you reached out to get help from others? >> yes. >> okay. great. why is it, why didn't the department meet the december 6th deadline? is there a reason other than the, than the pelosi investigation? >> i felt that this was an

important enough dgo. you agree with that. i mean, this dgo impacts freedom of religion, press, assembly. it gives some guidelines to our investigators of -- and rightly so and also protecting people's civil rights and freedom of assembly that we need to have a conversation at a high level. some of that conversation might involve attorneys, it might -- in looking at best practices, director henderson's office, his audit was helpful but the chicago policy, that was the research done by dave o'connor and his discussion with the dpa attorney who did the audit and i think, i believe it was steve parody who did the audit so i

wanted to look at the chicago policy. i asked him. i said, hey, can i take a look at the chicago policy and then i asked him, like, i go, could the santa cruz and metro dc policy, what are your thoughts on that? internally, i know it looks simple and -- >> if i could, so i do understand, i had a more specific question, which is judge did you not meet the december 6th deadline? you said there's the pelosi investigation that required a lot of time. are there any other specific things that led to that and the reason i'm asking, there are 20 business days that elapsed and you've just said now that it takes around in your view, two to three hours, dpa said one hour. were there two to three hours in that business take to respond to this grid saying,

yes, i agree we should update the dpa to -- are you saying there weren't two to three hours? >> there are two to three hours to write that specific response, but it's not just the response. it's the collaboration internally. it's discussing how we're going to move forward. >> you said the collaboration, everything takes two to three hours. >> no, no, what i'm saying is writing and responding to the four actual responses. i looked at it and a -- agreed with the title. i said that's a good point and i didn't -- it's not like i had an objection to anything outright but it's not just -- the policy is more than just me and the subject matter expert. >> okay. i guess i'm asking because if somebody works eight hours a day, 20 business days,

it's 160 hours and it's hard to understand why -- we have experienced times in our jobs where we have an influx of more work than we can handle so i understand that, but in all that time, there weren't two to three hours out of 160 working hours is just, that's the piece that is not evident why that wasn't possible. if there's anything else -- if you can provide clarity. >> there's a lot else because ultimately, everyday there's literately things that the sid unit and many other units in investigations in the police department handle. to give you an example on the 8th and 9th and the reason i didn't respond to janel's e-mail, i only took that thursday, friday off but i couldn't connect with o'connor because there was a

vice-president, former vice-president, i'm sorry, former first lady visit on 9th, 10th, 11th and he was busy planning for that so i wanted to talk to him and go over it. we couldn't connect and we connected right after i got back and then that weekend, he worked the weekend, so it's way more than the 40 hours a week. i'm calling in at 11 at night, midnight, 1:00 sometimes. to answer your questions, of course. in the 20 days, is there three hours? of course, there is but there's literately, we've had three officers shot at in the last couple of weeks and two officers are from my command and one from sid. just to give an example of something like that

happening, i'm driving to oakland, i'm going out to the scene, i'm going out to, where -- and literately everything else stops for me or for whoever the lieutenant or captain that works for me and we literately drop everything and handle that. >> all right. can i ask a separate question, which is, why didn't you seek an extension of time before the december 6th deadline? it sounded like you were very busy. at a certain point it was clear you weren't going to make the december 6th deadline. why wasn't there a request for an extension made? >> you're completely right. i should asked for an extension. >> why didn't you? >> i do not know. i've been going back and forth with, like, of how we should proceed on it and you know, i think it was

oversight on my part. >> but you knew the december 6th deadline was pending and -- i guess i'm just, i'm not sure what the answer is. you knew it was pending. you decided not to seek an extension. [multiple voices] >> you don't know why you didn't seek an extension. >> we just needed more work on it. and again, the extension, i didn't realize it was as simple as an e-mail or letter. i wanted to make sure that i wasn't the only one that -- i wanted to get some input on how much more work we had to do on it. >> so you're saying you didn't have time to send an extension? >> i didn't have time. >> you didn't have time to send an extension request? >> i should have done the extension request and like i said, i think it was oversight

on my part. >> okay. do you have a personal twitter account? >> i do. >> okay. and you tweet a lot? >> i do. >> okay. and a lot of it is about sfpd work? >> it's about community issues, sfpd. it's about highlighting the good work of our officers going out there and making our community safer, out there conducting the work of public safety, yes. >> okay. between the first e-mail you received from ms. kaywood and the december 6th deadline, how many tweets did you send is this >> i have no idea. >> how many do you think i have too much time s my hands. you sent 129 tweets so you had time to send 129 tweets but you didn't have time to send, write a five-minute e-mail saying

we're not going -- we can't meet deadline because we have these important matters? >> the tweets don't require any kind of collaboration. it's just a retweet. >> some of them aren't re-tweeted like the day after after ms. kaywood's deadline, you said i leave my office and there's tweets with you with selfies. some were original. >> that was a really good one. that was -- [multiple voices] >> that was a tenderloin, i think, community event and it was, i thought it was a positive tweet about going out to, attending a community event. i think it hits home when i put a tweet like that to the fact that i'm stuck in my office so much that sometimes, it's nice to go out. i try to go out to search warrants when i can. i try to go out to crime scenes when i can

because i think it's important for the investigators to see out there when they are working and they appreciate it. i've been told personally that they appreciate it. >> no, i think a lot of them are really great content and highlights and important work being done but my point is, you had time to send nearly 200 tweets but now you're telling us you didn't have five minutes to request an extension of time. you didn't have two hours in all of that time to respond to the recommendation grid. it's a little bit difficult to accept that, if there's time for, i think, something we would all agree is clearly less urgent than that, so it's a little tough to accept that representation. we'll just say, the commission has charter authority to set policy for the department, right. >> yes. >> okay. so whether we passed dgo's they have the -- when we

pass dgo's they have the force of laws? >> yes. >> when dgo's is violated, it's a violation of the law? >> yes. >> right. it seems like you were aware of the deadline. you willfully decided not to seek an extension. >> commissioner, if we're going to go down accusing this -- >> no, no. okay. that's not where i'm going. >> if you're going to accuse deputy chief of a violation -- >> i will not stand here and allow that to happen in public. >> that's not what i'm doing. >> you're already doing it. >> okay. well, can i just finish up. as we know, the commission has no role in initiating disciplinary proceedings. >> yes, but this deputy chief has rights to not have a

disciplinary inquiry in public. >> okay. this is not -- this is not a disciplinary inquiry but a policy. the reason i bring that up is because i think we ask a lot of our officers and in the disciplinary context, we, you know, the job is very difficult and sometimes the department has disciplined cases where there isn't a willful -- i'm concerned it sets a double standard when you have someone in a very senior position that appears to be willfully disregarding the commissions policies and so, i want to say i'm troubled by that. and i will leave it at

that. and if there's anything, i know you said the outset, there's certain issues you wanted to cover. if there's anything i didn't cover that you would like to address, then i would certainly welcome that. but that's everything for me. >> commissioner walker, oh. >> i would like to respond. i do think it's important. i know the role of the commission. i realize how important it is to not only our department but to the community and please don't get me wrong, i don't -- i'm not showing disrespect. it's just, there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes. i didn't know how else i would satisfy your answer, so i said, okay. i didn't send the extension but ultimately, you have to also realize that our day is very fluid. as i'm sitting here today, not only looking at this outline, there's a shooting going on at hunters point so i'm texting, like, three different units right now to be able to

manage that, so i mean, should i have not tweeted, maybe. i don't know what to tell you regarding that but i apologize if you think i'm disrespecting you or the commission or the commissioners and i hope i didn't come across that way because ultimately, like, there's a lot of value -- the police commission was established in the 1870s. it's an important body for the city government, for the public. it's a very -- it's critical in our role and i hope that our relationship, when i mean our and police department and the officers, we have a lot on our plate and i'm not saying me much i didn't mean to make it sound like that. what i mean is most of the units are spread really

thin but they do awesome work. they are constantly doing more than we even ask them to at many times and at times, there are times when i need information or collaboration but i don't control other people's schedules, times, and information. also, and i don't want to sit there and send an e-mail asking for an extension when i'm not sure if that's what i should be doing and ultimately, part of that, maybe i should have called the commission secretary or written directors and said, hey, do we send something formal or do they know -- i know -- we, as in gpa and i connected after the fact,

so it wasn't before that 6th and i didn't actually even know that, assumed there were some conversation going on at a different level, so i didn't realize that dpa didn't get any response. >> okay. thank you. commissioner walker. >> i want to thank you for coming and answering questions and i have concerns about just tone of this because it does feel a bit harassing and i think that we all are sort of committing to an accelerated finishing of some of these dgo's and it behooves us to meet the objectives. you have a set of expectations, commissioner, and the department has a lot on their plate, so i feel like all

of these duties and we have our job and i appreciate your reaching out to others to get input on these things because it's the whole department that has to do it, not just you, so i feel like this has been on now for second time as an agenda item and hopefully, we all understand it's serious and we want to get these done, so maybe we need to reiterate what the schedule is in the -- in the communication in the e-mails and if there's an expectation to get back, maybe we need to include that in the e-mail. thank you for being here and i agree, chief, i think it's not our job to discipline anyone, to initiate discipline, so thank you. >> thank you. chief, before you begin, i do want to say that i think that we just implemented 3.01 and there's a learning curve but it comes from a place

where since 2016, when the doj said, look, you have dgo's that's decades old and they really are harmful to both the officers and to the community and they really got on us about getting these dgo's revised and it was a big chunk of the 272 recommendations and when i started in 2018 on this commission, there had only been a handful of recommendations that had been fulfilled and another complaint or criticism was the fact we weren't getting our dgo's done and that was in 2018. we made some progress, the board of supervisors, supervisor feur at the time wasn't happy with the progress we were making with fulfilling these djo's recommendations and fast forward to the '22 and it has been sitting with the department for two years so you can understand

the frustration or our desire to get these things moving because while we appreciate the efforts that you all make, the department does have a larger policy department in terms of moving these things along, verses dpa who has a party of one and so, you know, when we see that, it just -- we have a lot of questions, i think, and i think everyone knows that the goal and that's why i assigned dgo's to commissioners because we as commissioners need to be held accountable for why these aren't moving because the department had them for such a long time and nothing was done and so since they didn't get anything done, as a commission, we need to step in and make sure that they get done, so i think that's where we're coming from and i'm, you know, i'm hopeful that 3.01, once we work out the kinks will be a smoother process

to get the dgo's completed in a more timely fashion. go ahead, chief. >> thank you, vice-president. i do understand the public inquiry as a form of accountability and i believe deputy chief swanny understanding how busy he is, did say that this was an oversight on his part. we had to find time to respond and we need to take responsibility when we don't. i understand all of that. i just want to say, moving forward, i believe we have worked out many of the issues that got us to this point, this conversation, but i would like to ask if we have members of this police department in front of this commission that we do not put them in this position again where we're asking questions and making statements, like, violations of the law and talking about things that may be disciplinary because this isn't the venue for that in my

opinion. i would ask for that support from the commission and again, we own what we own. we should have responded. i think we've fixed those issues and we'll make sure we get our extensions in on time and we have a path moving forward. >> thank you, chief. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. thank you, chief for saying that. i first wanted to say that i don't believe that any behavior was harassing. i take issue with that interpretation. i think there were tough questions asked and deputy chief, i hope you appreciate these were policy questions and i don't believe, to your point, chief, i appreciate we shouldn't be making disciplinary, it's not something we do, but i don't think that was done. the argument was -- we have a responsibility to comply with general orders and that goes

from the institution to all members. i think vice-president carter-oberstone was making a policy point we ask of our members and we should ask from the institution all the way down that we're in agreement on. no one on this commission disputes the tremendous amount that we ask of the department and the officers from command staff all the way down. it's a tremendous amount of responsibility and you're put under immense burden especially with staffing short arranges and that's something that's recognized. i made this point last week and we've had this on the agenda two weeks, we've had deputy chief (indiscernible), deputy sullivan last week and now deputy chief swanee and the conversations can be difficult and uncomfortable like chief said. a public inquiry is a form of accountability and so, i do

think it's important to the members of the public who we serve that we have these discussions even when they are and can be uncomfortable. i also expressed this last week, but as president ely as said, 3 -- president elias said, 3.01 new. now that we have had these uncomfortable and important conversations before the public, it can be something that's, we see it as (indiscernible) moving forward and this process gets ironed out and i'm confident it is. i recognize the department is working and the commission and dpa is working hard and we'll continue to move forward, so i would like to thank all the deputy chiefs and chief for their accountability and i hope this is the last time we have to

agendized this. thank you. >> thank you, sergeant. >> at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item nine. if you would like to make public comment, approach the podium or press star three. there's no public comment. >> thank you. next item. >> line item ten, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 12 below, closed session, including public comment on item 11, vote whether to hold item 12 in closed session. >> >> there's no public comment. line item 11, vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to item 12 (a) (san francisco administrative code section . action.

>> i'm make a motion. >> thank you. >> i'll second. >> on the motion.... [roll call] you have seven yeses, we'll go into closed session. >> thank you. [gavel]

[closed session]

>> item no. 13, open session -vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 12 held in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to item 12 (a) (s.f. administrative code section 67.12(a)) (action). >> i'll make a motion to not disclose items 12b, 12c, and 12d to a certificate the client/attorney privilege for item 12e with the exception of factual updates by the labor relations director regarding the schedule of upcoming bargaining sessions with the poa and the mea. >> second. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment for line time 13, approach the podium or press star three now. there's no

public comment. on the motion, commissioner walker, how do you vote? >> yes. [roll call] >> you have seven yeses. >> line time 13, adjournment. >> thank 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]

>> well, thank you for your patience. usually i'm always most low on time. so i appreciate you waiting.

i'm san francisco mir london breed and welcome the brown bombers to city hall today! thank you to the parents and theville tierce, all the coaches and all the folk who is show up every day for our kids it make sure they are a success. both on the field and off. when i heard from roberto hernandez how amazing you were doing i was excited. back in the day i wanted being a cheer leader but it was expensive. i know you went to florida to compete and did really u really good among cheer team usa from all overnight country. you came in second this year we going for first place, am i right! you gotta be proud. let me tell you, you sought

other cheerleaders. bive it to 12d! let's give it up! because there is no way that our team usa healered have been successful without our cheer cheering them on. congratulations to 6u on their championship and 14u on their championship! and what would you say, sweetie? nothing, okay. you know i'm happy to be here to celebrate young people in san francisco because you know our kids deserve the love and support and encourage am we can give them temperature is hard there nowadays and the fact that so many of you are engage in the this capacity to work hard and

make sure your children are supported and others people's children are supported to raise the monand he resources and do do everything to get to a place like this, it is significant. i want to say, to raena and ross, as long as i have known rainen we grew up in the same neighborhood but he is way older than i am. i gotta tell you hoe is right or die for the brown bombers. has been the president since 1999 before any of them were born, i believe. and some people come and gone in the various organizations but he remained consistent in advocacy to support the work of the communities. i'm honored to be here to recognize the accomplishment of the extraordinary, talityentsed young people and here to

appreciate you for your work and consistency and being that voice for them every step of the way. without further adieu, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of san francisco, i want to front rainen ross with a certificate recognizing the brown bombers and the incredible w they do. [applause]. thank you. and with that i want to say a few words to your folks who are here. >> thank you very much. so, first i want to say thank you to our honorable mayor london breed and everyone here. i have been working with the mayor's office the last week on this event. certificate was not mentioned. thank you. it it is a pleasant surprise. san francisco brown bombers

start in the 1999. black history month fact. it was created in the name honor and image of mayor willie brown. and now today, 24 years later, this organization is being honored by the 45th mayor of san francisco, mayor london breed. [applause]. i know it is not lost on anybody that today is february 6. black history month. i want to say to everybody here, the san francisco brown bombers born and bred out of the bayview hunter point communities, we are black history. we are black history! our staff, our coaches, our parents and our communities. >> i cannot go any further

without acknowledging where i get my strength. it is from my wife reggina has been by my side and allowed me to sacrifice a great deal to keep this organization running. to our board of directors and our staff, and i'm proud to say this; of our nonprofit board of directors has been together for 24 years the level of consistency and commitment we have given to the youth of the city and county. san francisco. you can give it up for the brown bombers and their work all of you are a part of that! [applause]. today we are here -- to honestor work of the organization but we are here to honor some of our

teams for their accomplishments this past season. honor our d12 dance team that went to florida, finished second. missed first place by 3-1/2 points! they will give a better effort and do great again this coming season! this organization is a 4 time national dance champion. we know what it takes to win. we are here to honor our 16 and 14u for being championships in the turkey bowl playing against teams we never play exclude bringing home the gold trophy. again, just to shed the light on other folks in the organization, enough about me. i like to call to the microphone, mr. randy taylor head coach of the 14u football team. [applause]. >> good evening.

thank you ms. breed. i have been with this organization for over 15 years. this is the big achievements we ever seen as far as you welcoming in our house. this past year has been rough starting off. once again, me and my staff pull things together. travel across to east bay and came out victorious. against talent we know nothing about. never seen or heard before. our guys stuck together and came out victorious? correct, fellows? >> as of right now, i have about 4 kids eighth grade look to be getting scholarships, full rides! you know -- and that is a blessing. >> i want you guys to know this organization is topnotch from top to bottom! and we will keep on getting the talityents in the high schools.

and wish all parents success in the kids that i coach and my staff, without me, there would not be bomber staff. my staff is what i roll with. they say my name but coach bill and terelf they started this they make me look good. [laughter]. with that said, we gotta cheer leader coach that is topnotch and look cute. i welcome coach nija to the stage. [applause]. >> thank you. nationals. this year our national trip was exciting because it was our first time back since the 2019 due to the pandemic. return and new members were determineed earn their way back to the florida floor.

each of the ladies worked and committed themselves to dance and one another. together, they showed up in glits and glam and showed out to the hip hop beat. sorry. we are blessed and grateful to be have gotten for the experience and proud of ourselves are frubing home a prize. second place nationals, we'll take temperature one team, one dream. mission accomplished. and now i would like to welcome our dedicated team moms raquel. >> hello. good evening am i'm raquel nighten the member of nastia jones on 14 u i have been a parent in this organization for 12 years starting with my oldest

son kirt who is is 18. this season was about development and growth. preparation and understanding how it is to play at a higher level. and to build lasting relationships before entering high school. these kids of they worked really hard. they fought and never gave up even when things got heard. and i watched them continue to encourage each other after each game. i am grateful that my son has had just genuine coaches that care about him. his talents and his abilities as well as the developing him on approximate off the field. i want to thank you to the whole san francisco brown bomber's organization for all you do for our kids.

[applause]. >> i'm so sorry. got nervous. next i will be have elijah and roberto come up. [applause]. >> hi i'm i liegea, i like to thank my coaches. parent and the mayor for having us. brown bombers are more than a football and cheer program they build relationship and allowed us to show case our talents to high schools. in my year on the team i built strong relationships with coaches and team and others with the program since they were 6. thank you for appropriating mow for high school football and a great season. [applause]. >> good afternoon, everyone i'm roberto hernandez, thank you, mayor breed for having us today. we are grateful and appreciative of your time. this was my first year playing

football for the bombers. first i want to thank my parents and families that event supported me and been to my games. secondly, thank my brothers that played with me. i had fun with them and i wish them the best for college and hopefully the nfl. finally i want to thank the coaches, coach sully, randy, t, sue, john and coach bill. i'm grateful you taught us the game strategies, discipline and pushing us to be the best. thank you. [applause]. >> i gotta say, in 24 years since we start in the 1999, never was this moment ever a part of our thought process.

when i was asked or tasked with creating a program in the bay vow to give kids an opportunity for a program where they receive youth leadership opportunity, i initiately said, amount i'm from the western edition. and as a good friends of mine judge perkins asked mow to come up, and asked me why did i tell this young lady, no. and so i turned and told her i will think about it, low and behold dihad they asked. we started a program. here i am 24 years later still remaining as the president. and i gotta say, this is an all volunteer program. we have over 50 staff members. that give their time more than 20 hours a week during the season lasts 4 months.

to love, to serve, to moteerate and inspire the children that come in our organization. winning is great. but this organization is built on creating. a new family for our youth >> whether they come from a great home or a home with challenges, we are that alternative family that will embrace our kids and serve our kids no matter what. and that's what carried us for 24 years. so give it up for all the volunteers who give their time. all of the parents who give their love! money, bloods, sweat and tierce. to all the athletes who give us all their energy each day when they are out there representing that orange and black! [applause] let's give it up one more time for all the kids! let's go! all right!

[applause] [crowd noise] honorable mayor, yes, we grew up in the same community. yes, we served on the nwacp youth leadership committee. yea, we have been each other. the woman you have become is amazing i watched you grow and proud it have known you and more proud you are the mayor of my city the 45th mayor of the city of san francisco. for all our kids here this , is an opportunity to see what a dream can become. coming from the streets of fillmore. coming from that western edition, city hall is her office.

she runs this city and we could not be more proud and say, thank you. give it up for mayor london breed! [applause]. mayor, before we conclude, we have some young ladyos our d12 dance team, ladies stand up, you just stands up i need to you come here and take 3 steps forward. i need you to all turn to your right. no, face this way. this way. get that -- you need get that it it is all on you now. these young ladies would like to present you something on behalf of this entire organization. we hope and pray that it will adorn in your office for your

next 6 years as the mayor of san francisco. mayor, if you could, please, come up. >> my goodness. why they would like to present to you! your framed jersey the number one sayer of the san francisco brown bombers. give it up for mayor london breed! [applause]. you got it. i don't have any other jerseys or sports framed like this! so tell have to go up in my office. thank you very much! thank you. [applause] wow! that is so cool. [laughter]. that's a brand-new jersey.

thank you. all right. well, let's take a few you want to take a few photos? okay! let's do it! i gotta follow eileen's rules here. we will bring update teams one at a time. biggest to smallest the service u football team first to take a picture with the mayor! 6u players and staff and team moms.

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 good mo

welcome to the february 14th, happy valentine's day. the san francisco county transportation authority board. i'm

>> supervisor rafael mandelman: chair of the board with >> supervisor myrna melgar: clerk, >> roll call, please. >> >> supervisor connie chan: absent. >> supervisor matt dorsey: present, >> supervisor myrna melgar: absent. >>supervisor aaron peskin: present. >> supervisor dean preston: present. >>supervisor hillary ronen: absent. >> supervisor ahsha safai: absent. >> supervisor catherine stefani: present. chair, we have a quorum. >> thank you. i believe you have

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public comment on items on the agenda will be taken first. >> thank you very much. i would like to take items 2.6 from our roll call order. we are to give each speaker two minutes. mr. clerk, please call our next item. >> 1. roll call 2. [final approval on first appearance] approve the resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 54953(e) - action* >> thank you. if the governor's order expires this month, this will be the last meeting. we have a motion and second.

>> roll call, please. >> excuse me, chair. please take public comment on this item. >> you are right. i will take public comment on this item. checking for remote public comment on item 2. there is no public comment. >> all right. thank you. the motion is moved and seconded. >> roll call, please. there are 10 ayes, the

resolution is approved. great, please call the next item. 3. approve the minutes of the january 24, 2023 meeting — action* >> we should take open public comment. if anyone in the chambers would like to speak on the minutes, please come forward. i don't see anyone. let's go to remote public comment for item 3. >> checking for remote public comment on items 3. your two minutes begins now. public speaker: good morning chair mandelman and commissioners. a very quick comment and i apologize. i should have captured sooner. item 12, public comment of the bottom of page 5. there is a signpost that says it does not support the switch from two track tunnel. this is absolutely not true. i have always made

this very clear that the third track is what stopped anybody from reconsidering the 7th street alignment. i will read to you directly from the transcript is that the good news from the three tracks is a game changer because we know people who are able to deliver the one 1/2 mile on time for $238 million. thank you. >> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. >> public comment on item 3 is closed, and i am going to look to staff because one of the commenters indicating that the minutes do not accurately describe what he was saying.

>> we'll go ahead and fix that, chair. >> okay. is there a motion to approve the minutes with that change? moved by mellinger -- melgar. and second. we will take that without objection. next item. >> 4. community advisory committee report — information* this is an information item. we have siegel, the vice-chair. >> good morning, members, i'm cat siegel. we had a lengthy discussion at the cac and vote

as chair and vice-chair and we are grateful for our fellow members. we also we can cac district 4, kelvin. the motions you speak of are on the tax funds which is also on your agenda today. two specific requests were on the deliberation and the 1st three from the vision zero phase program on funding request. chair expressed concern about his understanding about the schedule on the quick build project and wanted to know why this had only six quarters identified and wants a status of all the quick projects and explanation why they are not

scheduled and would like to be completed faster and was not supported for such date. in the meantime would like to prevent further delays. ultimately the quick build request was removed from the request and voted on separately and approved by a vote of 6-2. the other much discussed request was the jay church forward design funding request. we had four members of the public called in to speak to this item during public comment and they expressed concerns about the traffic lights, removable stoplights and parking. and representative ortega expressed concerns and the community was not able to provide support for the design and ultimately lending support for the project after this indicated information

for the project and including the jay church project and in 2015, there was a federal legislation for the program. and finally we received from the sf mta and called about car volume and speed data and metrics but no notable concerns were raised. that concludes my presentation. >> thank you very much. do we have any public comment? checking for public comment on item 4. there is no public

comment. public comment on item 4 is closed. next item. >> 5. appoint one member to the community advisory committee — action* >> good morning commissioners. my name is amelia wally. this is the community advisory committee with each member serving a two year term and there are two open seats. applicants must be san francisco residents and appear before the board at least once to discuss their qualifications. there is one oac requesting board application today. i will also note that it continues to work to identify candidates for

the vacancy. those interested in applying should seek sf gov.org. i'm happy to take any questions and i believe she was going to be available to discuss her qualifications. >> i have no comments. let's see if she is online. >> hello, can you hear me? >> yes, we can. good morning to board members. my name is ms. davidson, and i live in san francisco with my husband and my two boys.

i would like to make sure my two boys can walk the sidewalk and navigate traffic. i would like this to be accessible to our most vulnerable users, our children. we need to be safe for everyone else. everyday we ride in our e bike and that transforms how we use this and now i use all my e-bikes and i use it everywhere which makes me aware of the vulnerable points of use especially a woman carting young children around. everyday i see new cyclist with

kids on their bikes and we need our children to be safe to be able to go to school and after school programs and this is for all children and if we can encourage this alone, we begin by reducing emissions and safe to walk and safe outcomes by increasing movement in people's daily lives. i want to bring my experience as a resident, a bicyclist and organizer and

urban planner to encourage and create active transportation infrastructure and more involved as residents. thank you very much for your time. and opportunity. >> thank you. >> sorry. ms. davidson, said it all. she's tremendous. i'm so happy to have a mom, someone that's absolutely on e-bike and getting around the city with her kids and bringing that perspective. i think it's a pretty straight forward appointment. so i would like to make a motion to appoint her. >> commissioner safai has made a motion to appoint ms. david son to the community advisory committee.

there is a second by commissioner dorsey. i will take public comment on this item. if there is someone in chamber to speak to item 5, please come forward. not seeing anyone. is there anyone on the line? >> i'm checking for public comment on item 5. seeing no one available to comment. >> all right. please take the roll. [roll call]

>> the item is approved. >> next item. >> >>clerk: 6. allocate $4,188,294 and appropriate $50,000 in prop k funds, with conditions, allocate $1,179,000 in prop aa funds, and allocate $2,000,000 in tnc tax funds for seven requests — action* projects: sfcta: decarbonizing downtown business deliveries study (prop k $50,000). sfmta: j church muni forward (prop k $3,184,360), great highway signal upgrade - additional funds (prop k $480,000), fy23 vision zero quick build program implementation (prop k $345,143, tnc tax $2,000,000), m ocean view transit reliability and mobility improvements (prop aa $1,000,000). sfpw: alemany interchange improvement phase 2 - additional funds (prop k $178,791), innes avenue sidewalk improvements (prop aa $179,000). this is an action item. >> good morning. sf govtv, i believe we have the slides up. we are sending requests from three different programs from the tax, fees and tnc tax. the 1st two requests are from the mta for funding to fund the muni going forward for jay church and for optimization, pedestrian improvement. outreach is on going through spring 2023

and mta has secured a grant and this project will be open for use in 2027. the second request is to fund the highway signal funds project and for signals, conduits and controllers and new audible pedestrian activated signals. mta already funded the design signals in 2018 and now requesting the design improvements that the public works accessibility access coordinator determined to be requirements. these signals are needed for mta. the next request is from public works to fund. public works

received a $2 million state grant from the active transportation program and this request would cover a portion of the cost due to unanticipated traffic signals. >> thank you. this is a map to the car -- alliance representing communities for reducing carbon emissions especially the districts serving community priorities.

the following two requests. pedestrian safety and accessibility between aurelius walker. improvements include construction of ada compliance curb ramps and sidewalk. this is going to provide pedestrians with a more complete street. public works will come back when design is complete to request the funds for the program in prop double a. the next request is for the mobility and reliability improvement to improve the time between outreach is on going until spring 2023. mta has

already secured a state grant from the inner city capital program for this construction and this project should be open for use in 2027. the last request is for tnc funds to fund the vision zero program implementation part one. the tnc part funds will design and fund the construction phase for the corridors and for program evaluation and outreach. design and construction are concurrent and overlap and recommending this scope of work and $2 million already programmed from 2020 and part 2 will cover the remaining costs. we are working on developing the tmc recommendations which will cover the requests for funding and we'll bring this back for review. with that, i'm able to answer questions and we also have project managers and staff

from other agencies that are available as well. sf govtv. >> thank you. i want to comment on the item for the $2 million. my constituents have been dealing with these mta issues and working on these major improvements on the j line that we share for sure that runs through san jose, and this funding will be crucial for the redesign pedestrian safety, more robust infrastructure and traffic lights and quick build project to change the corridor for the better. this funding was starting to provide the community with real opportunities to see some changes become a reality. in fact, today, many of my neighbors in mission terrace are

doing a little bit of community organizing effort for pedestrian safety called "have a heart". they are going to be out there in san jose today for valentine's day promoting public safety. i'm very proud to support their efforts. so i understand that we share this line predominantly with you, supervisor mandelman in district 8, but i would really hope that we can move this forward today because the pedestrian issues and the concerns along san jose have been really neglected for a significant amount of time. i'm really happy to see the energy and organizing for the last couple years within my community to really push these efforts forward. i'm in full support of seeing this move forward today and very thankful for the efforts of the improvement

association and everyone that has organized around it. >> thank you, commissioner safai. vice-chair melgar? >> >> supervisor myrna melgar: thank you so much. i would like to thank the staff for their robust discussion. i think that these allocations represent a big investment in the southwestern part of san francisco in district 7, district 4, and i really appreciate that because i'm always talking about how we are neglected in terms of infrastructure for biking and pedestrian safety concerns. so i am really grateful for that. i also wanted to lend myself support for the j improvement project. it runs right at the border of 7 and 11, but it's also a really important way that sunny side residents get to

downtown and most importantly city college students. i am excited that we are doing this and also hope that we move it forward. thank you. >> thank you, vice-chair melgar. >> supervisor rafael mandelman: thank you, chair. >> one of the downtown deliveries. thank you for the update. is this specifically for bike deliveries? >> not specifically for deliveries but one possible that it can recommend. we understand that it's conducting a link so we are in coordination with them

and looking forward to the results of that study and will be promoting that among the working group. >> great, that was my next question and glad to hear that coordination is happening since the department of environment pilot is now underway and as i said in the context of that department of environment, the pilot which i think is 35 e-bikes to delivery folks. we know, the survey has been done to show there is a significant demand, 70% of delivery drivers in the lafco study and said they would use e-bikes, and the fact that we are using only 35 bikes with we have the neighborhood corridors clogged with delivery vehicles, it makes no sense. seeing the $16,000 price tag, i

would encourage that in every way possible that we be more robust in this and also would be ramping them up. i appreciate this and thank you for clarifying that. then on the quick builds, i did want to both recognize them and appreciate that there is some good stuff in district 5 on larkin street and golden gate in particular. i did want to hear some response to the issue that the vice-chair that was apparently discussed and questions around why only six are moving forward at this time. i think the broader goal is to have 20 of these quick builds annually in the vision zero action plan. so why are we only seeing such a limited number and

what's blocking or holding up. why isn't this double the number of quick build before us or triple? >> i'm going to invite -- to speak on that and answer that question. >> good morning, commissioners. jimmy, mta. with respect to the pace of quick build, this specific allocation request is matched to the amount of tnc tax money available, and so we try to find projects that have great coordination efforts whether it's repaving or following up. we look for coordinating opportunities that add up that are available right now for t tax and we use other funding sources as we can. sf mta is

using this for pedestrian safety and looking forward to get more earmarked for a one $1/2 million for quick build. we do take these opportunities when they are available as well. we do wish to advance these more quickly. >> got it. for this particular item, it's limited by dollars available, not by any capacity to implement. >> correct. based on the amount of tnc tax available right now. >> got it. and i don't know if this is for you, but just on the jfk connection item, can you elaborate and this is the connection and what that specific item, what quick build that references? >> sure. the purpose is there is

to look at the connection between jfk and promenade and the panhandle and no you that promenade is closed to cars and that is really critical and that is a big capital investment working directly with the parks and working to make that connection from the jfk promenade to make it more seamless and will also work well with the emergency bike lane to a permanent status and the oak quick build set up to start in a month or so. there is a lot of energy there. >> the timeframe for that? >> we would run that concurrently with the oak quick build and that would start with design and outreach in march or april of this year. >> great, thank you so much. i

want to emphasize that intersection and especially now as you say jfk is permanent, it's really essential. we have so many folks using that amazing work that we've all done around the east west connections here, and you just go out to that intersection on any given day and you see people trying to navigate from the end of the panhandle there and basically across over multiple lanes of traffic not just high speed traffic but folks turning and i think there is a real urgency for us to resolve that weak link sort of west of divisadero and east west. thank you for all of your work on that. >> >> thank you, commissioner preston. do we have someone from mta?

>> i believe we have felipe robles on the line. >> hello. >> for any discussion on the j church from my point of view gives me a little bit of ptsd and very bad taste in my mouth. it has been the least reliable muni metro in the system. so i asked mta to do some thinking about what we can do to improve that. and then we went through, oh gosh, i'm going to say a year 1/2 of thinking and planning and many community meetings and

there were some things that were proposed and some were valuable and incorporated into this plan that mta has. some were controversial and there were removals of stops and consolidations of stops, and taking out a parking which of course some people don't like and various things. at the end, the question that was asked to mta is what kind of improvement are we going to get and the answer was something like two minutes of potential improvement for a lot of disruption. what was also clear in that conversation was that mta staff didn't believe that we can run the volume of j church cars into the tunnel that we were running the prepandemic times and reliable on the j.

with the pandemic and with a variety of other experiments, the mta tried taking the j out of the tunnel but didn't deliver the promise reliable fremont service on the surface to the great consternation of my constituents who rallied and advocated to have it put back in the tunnel which did happen and we now have the worse service on the j in my time on the board with incredibly long head winds and people waiting for the train. i have asked for more than a year now for the mta to do some thinking about the big changes that might make the j actually that wouldn't destroy tunnel operations but also deliver more frequent service and reliable

service on the surface and i understand that mta is buried with hiring and staffing shortages and a zillion challenges but it was shocking to me that mta wanted to continue or to repoke the bear and start another conversation about changes with the j church without a broader vision for how to make that line work. i understand you want to hear more about the improvements that are going to happen frankly outside on the stretch on san jose because i do recognize that that is, there are dangers there and that needs to get improved. but how much of this $3 million is going to that and what improvements are folks going to see? >> yes, i think it's a lot of good questions. i think we can answer by considering the two different aspects of improving the j church. one piece being

this capital piece that we are discussing with this funding that will be going towards including the bulbs and traffic stops about the service portion of the line. between church all the way down to balboa park. the other frustration i think is related more to the service, and the way that the line operates on the street and in the tunnel. i think from my perspective the $3 million is going towards those capital improvements and being responsive to the concerns about member safai's district and also talked about this piece about the project looking at church and market and looking at the reliability there and it is from that 2019 project that you were talking about earlier where

we had some initial discussions and we heard from the community that they didn't want certain aspects of the capital project included and we listened to them and we refined those signs and why we are back with a little bit of perspective on the street part of the line and down to church and market. that's where this $3 million for design funding will go to. the other piece that i mentioned is more service related. my colleagues at the mta are doing a separate parallel analysis of j church service. we are looking to continue to train and hire operators while we make operational improvements for the j. i'm told that we are about 12-18 months away from the potential increase option and working with your office while we work through this plan and through potential impacts.

that's the main point i'm trying to make is that there is two big pieces to improve this jay line and the dollars going into the design side and the parallel service evaluation that my colleagues are working on as well. >> so am i to understand that this investment is primarily about solving the san jose problems and the church and market problem and the folks in the valley don't need to worry? >> i wouldn't say that's entirely the case here. the major aspect of the j transit stop improvements in the valley area includes some of the same pedestrian safety issues that we've heard from residents along san jose avenue. we heard similar concerns from --

residents in the valley as well and we talked about the train without any cars parked or without a traffic lane. these type of improvements are also part of this project and are in the san jose avenue portion of the line as well as the church street portion of the line. >> any stop removals in noe valley here. >> we don't have those in our scope, but if folks would like to tell us about stops they would like us to implement, we can always look that the in the future. >> it's not -- for noe valley.

>> we are going to public comment. >> public speaker: good morning commissioners. hi, deputy director for policy and programming. i'm sorry. i'm in covid land. i appreciate the opportunity to speak on behalf of the transportation authority regarding the quick build program and jamie is correct. this is the amount of funding that we had collected from the tnc tax available for allocation, and when we return to the board in april, we will be bringing recommendations for the funds that have been collected over the last six months, and we are planning to

recommend funding for the residential application base traffic calming program which is turning into a continuous cycle of concurrent implementation rather than a hard stop on a june 30th, applications due by program. so we'll introduce that new program to the board in april. and then we will fulfill the request for tnc tax funds for the quick build program. any additional funds that we have in the bank that we are able to recommend for allocation at that time could also supplement this traffic, the tnc quick build request and we have also prop l and the funds are there if we needed it from prop

l. thank you. >> now we'll take public comment. >> public speaker: good morning, folks, my name is mark norton, a muni rider. i'm here to speak briefly about the j church part of this. i do appreciate your question, supervisor mandelman. i heard the gentleman from the screen who said there is no longer removal of stops and i heard that and glad to hear that. that's what i'm talking about. i'm sure there are some very good things in this proposal, one of the bad things is the proposal that they had made for 29 and church street that according to sf mta would literally save about 15 seconds because they have to stop the train and the train has to stop there any way because there is a stop sign. all they have to do is open the doors and let people

in and out, that's it. i won't talk about accessibility issues with that many stops. you know how important that is. before this pandemic, we had a quick petition online and collected 759 signatures from san franciscans opposing this legislation and continue to oppose it. we hope it stays off the scope and goes away because otherwise we'll rekindle that fight and who knows where it will be. i have copies here. i will put them here. if you guys want them, you got it with all the signatures on it. thank you very much and happy valentine's day, everybody. >> thank you. our staff will

review those at some point. >> next speaker, please. >> >> good morning, supervisors, my name is david cooper and i live in mission terrace. the j line has gotten our attention but primarily for pedestrian issues. starting when he was supervisor, we have been trying to work on this. since then we have one sign at san jose. where in this afternoon we will be having our valentine's day have a heart and trying to get the sf mta increase traffic control stops on san jose avenue in our community. the thought is that the j line needs to increase its through put. it doesn't have a problem in our san jose

community. it takes time. the same people in noe valley who use it. the real problem is in the subway. my last 12 years at muni is four as a train controller and the other eight as a manager. the problem is in the subway. this has been acknowledged by judy and others at public meetings. but with regard to the particulars for san jose avenue, i have reached out and made contact with the people of noe valley and they drew my attention to your package which is a long list. >> this list on your packet is something that draws attention and it needs comment. the only time there is really

leverage with the sf mta or any city department is when there is money on the table. so i would like to say that i appreciate the comments made by my supervisor safai, supervisor melgar, and by supervisor mendleman by trying to get sf mta come to the table >> >> your time is up. >> it says 15 seconds. >> i started too early, my apology. >> thank you. hold their feet to the fire. >> that's our in person public comment. checking for remote public comment on the item. >> checking for public comment on item 6. hi, caller, your two minutes begins now. public speaker: good morning

chair mandelman and supervisors, my name is madras. i'm here to express strong support for the funding request brought forward today. i just want to remind everybody that the city did make a very strong commitment with the vision zero action strategy to bring safety improvements to the entire high injury network by 2024. while the city has made progress, there is many miles that has yet to receive any improvements. what we saw in 2021 and 2022, the sf mta has fallen short with the number of quick build projects completed and are already slipping on their stated goal. so walk san francisco, along with our members of safe streets and partners in the vision zero coalition are eager to really understand when the net -- next

set of quick builds will be approve through the commission and we hope this is not going to be a problem in 2023. we also want to know how sf mta plans to pick up the pace in the quick build. these are successful and have positive results by implementing the most positive tools that the city has to create safe streets. we are very encouraging of this commission and can do everything in its power to make sure that sf mta has the resources and moves quickly on the entire high injury network by 2024. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> hi, caller, your two minutes

begin now. >> public speaker: this is the muni going forward and no more or less reliable on the rail line that was 45,000 miles for failure than the same 25,000 miles and accumulate 4-5,000 miles per month. and also operator availability as a key element. in 2019 reports of a proposed 5% travel time savings between 30th street and market street equating to one minute for the 19 minute trip and we are going to do this for $20 million and it really lacks the cost benefit analysis. this is a right-of-way speed restriction including the outbound 10 miles per hour. the market church plan

rail plan to support the vision with the downtown. the 80 foot curb proposed will only eliminate street parking and traffic lane this is again in jeopardy with a solution to the problem. a fiduciary [inaudible] eliminating four way stops -- and can provide a variety of possible -- [away from microphone] >> we can't hear you clearly. >> his time is up. >> thank you, caller.

public speaker: good morning, this is an noe valley resident. i'm pleased to be able to call. you received from our neighbors asking to you reconsider and perhaps abandoned the j church proposal. i attended the cac meeting and this was up for debate. the only reason that our representative from district 8 rachel ortega decided to go forwards with this was because it would bring some money so we can study the problem further. this is not ready for primetime. it will not reduce its intended goals to reduce travel times and improve reliability along its

routes between balboa park station or increase pedestrian safety. instead it will increase congestion, hinder trains and buses and remove safe passage for pedestrians crossing church street. further the project will likely have a negative effect on upper noe merchants on church street who are recovering from pandemic losses and just beginning to refill store fronts. overall there is not any need for this project as currently described. it's a waste of dollars. thank you. >> thanks, caller. hi, caller, your first two minutes begins now. >> hi, i'm with noe neighbors.

thank youance -- for quoting me on that letter. i sent a letter in detail to the board and hope the board will look at it in detail. we are in favor of pedestrian safety measures and the work along san jose avenue, and stand with the groups out there on that work. we know that pedestrian safety is an issue and it's an issue for us. one of our major concerns with this project in the church street and 30th street areas is that we feel it will have a large negative impact upon pedestrian safety that calls for removal of stop signs. it places a traffic like at an intersection that is not that busy while ignoring caesar chavez that really could

use some traffic lights and when there are no stops, the j can cruise right through. that is someway to really make improvements in speed. furthermore, some of the traffic bulbs particularly on 30th street, we have concerns that traffic will divert specifically traffic going eastbound on 30th street. they would not be able to make that right hand turn if any one vehicle was stopped at the light which would actually hinder the j church and the buses running in that direction. previously that has been proposed and ballards have been put there and that has working for several years now. you should look at that as a solution. thank you very much for your time.

>> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. public comment on item 6 is closed. is there a motion to approve? moved by safai, seconded by medical -- melgar. >> we received notable public comment on item 6. [roll call] >> there are 11 ayes. the item is approved. >> thank you, mr. clerk. please call item 7.

>>clerk: 7. adopt the fiscal year 2022/23 transportation fund for clean air local expenditure criteria — action* thank you. the transportation fund for clean air is a program to improve air quality. revenues come from a $4 surcharge or motor vehicle registrations in the bay area and used for regional programs including e v chargers. 47% of the funds are distributed at the county level program with the transportation authority for this program. we call for projects and help projects pursue regional funds. we have $850,000 available for the projects. the agency establishes eligible project

requirements and to establish local projects which we are discussing here today. the air district requirements include thresholds which each project must meet and able to fund 2-4 projects per year. we are able to fund most of the projects that meet the districts eligibility requirements for low emission hubs and pathways and state student id cards. for this year we are not recommending any changes to the criteria for the last couple years which is prioritizing non-vehicle projects which is bike facilities and shuttle services and vehicle projects. our local criteria includes projects that reduce emissions and generally projects that made great progress with greater diversity

and non-mta projects can be funded for the non-public entity for the mta funds requested to be sure it's getting a great value. we will review this by march 3rd and make our recommendations to the board in june. i will take any questions. >> thank you. i do not see any questions. let's open this item to public comment. is there anyone in the chambers, please come forward. it doesn't look like there is. we'll check for remote public comment. checking for remote public comment on item 7. there is no public comment. all right. public comment on item 7 is closed. thank you, mr.

picksberd. is there a motion and second? >> roll call, please. >>clerk: [roll call] >> there are 11 ayes, the motion is approved. >> thank you. please call item 8. >> >>clerk: 17 8. approve the 2023 state and federal legislation program — action* >> good morning, chair and members. this is an item we bring to you every year basically setting our priorities throughout the year and informing positions that we bring to you for approval every

month. it's comprised of the golden strategy. it's generally seeking programs and greenhouse gas emissions reductions. with respect to specific priorities in 2023 at the state level, the top priority is going to be seeking studying multiyear funding for transit operations that safety operators are seeking as the covid relief funding is being expended and important for many officials across the state. it would be important for any year but this year the state is expecting a significant deficit and the cost

strategies propose to reducing capital funding by $2 million and transportation by $200 million and this is to restore that funding for transportation. we'll also be keeping an eye out for any legislation that advances regional efforts and includes anything around the implementation and the transit action plan as well as the efforts to advance regional transit management and any early work on transportation revenue measure after 2024. we'll also be engaging in efforts for the 2021 climate action plan for climate investment and for how state and local priorities are set for state spending and looking for opportunities to advance san

francisco's own climate action plan as well as hazards and climate and resilience plan. with respect to mobilities and especially autonomic vehicles and looking to ensure those in a way to balance the impacts and benefits in particular around safety, equity and accessibility. we may also seek updates to regulations in traffic codes and also seek legislation that would allow local jurisdiction to take some aspects of regulation. at the federal level, we are not even through the transportation bill approved years ago, we are not looking for authorization yet but focused on making sure that appropriations happen above the level and also securing long-term grant opportunities for major projects including the

downtown extension. finally there is likely in 2023 going to be an effort to advance regulatory and policy frame works to ensure that the local governments have a strong role to play in that process. without anything more, i'm happy to answer any questions on the state and federal and legislative programs. >> thank you. i do not see comments or questions. so we will open this item up for public comment. if there is anyone in the chamber for public comment, i see no one. is there anyone on the line? >> there is no public comment. >> seeing none, this item is

closed. is there a motion? moved by -- melgar, thank you. second. we can take that, colleagues, can we take this item same house same call? without objection this item is approved. >> next item. 9. state and federal legislation >> good morning. i want to set the context where the

legislature is as you are probably aware. i have been receiving sales calls every hour on the hour and i apologize. so back to the context, this friday is the deadline for introducing bills for 2023, and we expect to see a major up particular for the next several days. we have somewhere between 700 and 800 bills introduced and could jump to over a thousand. we have been monitoring this production and provide staff to build the matrix. that leads to the second item i want to address to you and that is the table that begins on page 75. these are the first bills that the staff wants to bring to your

attention. i will address two of them first, ab 6 and ab 7 by the chair of the transportation committee laura friedman may pick up where she left off last year. ab 6 itself will require that regional entities putting together sustainable community strategies must coordinate and align the planning efforts in these community strategies with greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and other climate goals. right now it's to clear its intent and the other measure is the legislation that was unsuccessful last year and that will state the intent to eliminate single occupancy vehicles from capacity and programming in the future,

allowing only brt rail and active transportation projects or other projects that add to the safety of the roadway. that is an attempt and bringing the two together, the chair has formed a stakeholder group and we had a first meeting. i'm a participant on the stakeholder group along with the sub contractor and so you have great coverage on the stakeholder group. we expect to receive an offer from the chair staff, the summary of the activities from their perspective and to the extent that i can share that with outside individuals to get to your staff. those bills will most likely be amended before the next commission meeting, authority board meeting. so we will be looking at this very

closely and the best analysis at that point. two other measures on the table 8251, mr. ward's proposal will take a look at the relationship between the weight of passenger vehicles and the level of injury to vulnerable road users and also look at costs and benefits proposed to potential weight fee for passenger vehicles and that would be under the ctc. we'll see how the ctc reacts as they are given this responsibility if the bill were passed. that's a watch position as well. lastly, ca 1, we have seen the last similar bill in the last several years, california is sponsoring this measure that would reduce the threshold from

two-thirds to 2.5% for cities bond measures for construction rehabilitation. and senator from your city as well as assembly member haenay is a coauthor for this support. there will be a request for action on these watch bills and the support measure at the conclusion of my presentation. several other items that i want to bring to your attention. first is the state budget. i think there has been a brief reference to the state budget affecting potential future tarcp and atp allocations. overall the budget reflects a modest reduction as best as the department of finance and lao's

legislative analyst office can project approximately from the finance side 22 1/2 billion from the legislative analyst office looking at 45 billion. subsequently the leadership feels they are going to be able to handle this if it stays in that order of magnitude by making some reductions in the future promised allocations to transportation and a sleuth of other modest changes without actually reducing the state safety net budget or education budget. so there has been no further news on the numbers since the release of the budget back in january, and we are waiting to see the actions by the budget subcommittees that are formed that will be holding

their hearings and dealing with the modest proposals within the budget as they head up towards the main revision where the full number will be adjusted again at that point in time when we have a better handle on how they are progressing. in addition, i wanted to mention a very strong effort largely statewide by mtc in conjunction with the two transportation committees and has to deal with the short-term funding for transit for trying to put together and longer term transformation state assistance for transit and the focus is to bring back transit ridership throughout the state. the transit association appears to be the third lead. you have the

two chairs and -- [away from microphone] >> we lost you for about 30 seconds. >> that has never happened before. we look forward to the hearing for discussing the modest proposal and sub 3 for the assembly committee and sub 5, the agenda committee to be putting together towards the middle attend of march. with that, i will bring my presentation, there is one other item, a very important one. i apologize. back in 2021, the california

business round table submitted language towards an initiative. they got permission to circulate the signatures. they didn't meet the 2022 ballot date, but they did receive ballot signatures and that was for further counting of the signatures submitted and they are now as of february 1st cleared to appear on the november 24th ballot. that's a concern because the way its written could have a backwards effect on the measure that was first introduced in 2021 which include prop l and others. it's a detour for those abiding by the current tax laws and having the measure people in

two more years and may have a backwards retroactive effect. the next steps now that its been cleared to be on the ballot, the sponsors and other organizations would like to see taxes stifled to a degree will be putting together in a campaign to support in 2024, as well as already out of the announcements of the approval of the measure to move forward, several labor unions have put together at the start of the campaign. we need to be sure before at this point. that is the end of my report. there is no federal legislative report today. we are available

for questions about the proposals. thank you. >> thank you, mr. watts, thank you, ms. crab. i do not see any comments or questions from colleagues. i will invite anyone in the chamber who wants to talk about item 9 to come forward. i don't see anybody. let's see if we have remote public comment on item 9. >> checking for remote public comment on item 9. >> your two minutes begins now. public speaker: eileen, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods. speaking on my own behalf. in strong opposition to the cta's recommendation to support assembly constitutional amendment 1 by assembly member curry. plan case, the recent prop l authorization campaign. the campaign spent $1.5 million, some of it from out of state donors. the campaign spent

$2,000. even though it had compelling arguments, it couldn't compete with the amount of cash by the campaign. and as united is repealed and more level playing field in campaign financing, the money interest will continue to have an outside advantage. lowering the threshold from two-thirds to 55%, will only further exacerbate the advantage of money's interest and the lobbyist. thank you. >> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. >> public comment on item 9 is closed. is there a motion to approve item 9 in support of assembly constitutional amendment 1 moved by melgar, second by stefan.

we can take that item same house same call. next item. >> 10. visitacion valley community based transportation plan update >> good morning, directors, members of the public. i'm with the planning subdivision at sf mta and also the project manager for the divisadero valley plan update. a quick overview of what a transportation plan is for transportation projects directly reflecting the values and needs of the challenges of the given community. for this project, we are inclusive of four different neighborhoods. sun valley,

little hollywood, and other neighborhoods. that includes $25 million in identified potential projects. a streetscape design and series of policy recommendations for the non-infrastructure needs and challenges that people have around transportation that we want to be sure we are documenting. for just a quick explanation around this for our project collaborators is a cal trans sustainable program and including a broad coalition for both agency partners as well as community partners directly with director ronen. we had an outreach process that spanned over a full calendar year and included three phases with public outreach with the

river life church as well as centers. all of our project materials were translated into five different languages as our focus was really on reaching the broad diversity of these two communities especially reaching people of low-income and people who don't speak english as a first language. throughout this process which of course is very hampered by covid and other covid restrictions, we were still able to reach over 300 residents and more than 60% of the people earn less than $65,000 a year and more filled out applications in languages other than english. we tried to understand the priorities and needs of the communities as well as the needs to place our focus on. through that, we learned that the community really prioritized pedestrian safety and access and as well as safety

on transit. the map on this slideshows the different streets and intersections that residents self prioritized for us to focus our work on for future phases. our next phase which happened december of 2022, we brought back a series of projects that we felt directly responded to those priorities and locations that people have told us about in phase 1 and asked to vote on those which they like and which they didn't and to remove which project. for the projects we did proposed, we did receive majority of support from the residents for various levels of support. the final outreach started through january, we went to the public and brought it to community and part of that outreach, they were able to rank their finals of projects. and to

implementing the projects ranked by community in the order they ranked them. for the final projects in our final plan which we are hoping to publish later this week, we have a series of projects in the portola and the valley to be more digestible. they were more in portola for improving the access to the farmer's market and desire and emphasis on increased lighting and safety especially under some of the freeway crossings on san bruno corridor and access and improvements to the maclaren park to the west. in the west valley the projects that came to the top were safety improvements on san bruno avenue down the boulevard to connect the bike network and along that section the south streetscape

which will show a concept of the design and connect the valley greenway which is a greenway that goes up 6-7 blocks up to the hillside but no dedicated crossing to connect this piece of the greenway. we are finding way to connect them to a one single linear park and improvements for transit access around the sunny dale development as that site develops. we developed a specific concept for this street and find that is a very competitive plan. we worked with the community and understand they want to activate this medium specifically and want to be able to access it safely and have opportunities

for walking and public heart. we came up with a few different concepts which show a new pathway which include bicycles and pedestrian pathways including pedestrian crossing opportunities as well as an opportunity to improve transit access for the 29 sunset. what we heard so far from community around this concept is we need to keep focused on safety for this corridor and to be sure this is a medium and safe space to access for it to be a successful space. we plan to increase this process to continue to engage with the community around what is a successful design and how we can align a future grant to be successful. lastly, this plan also includes a series of policy recommendations which is spelled out in much more detail in the plan draft documents on the webs

and memorialize the needs and values of the community beyond what we can just build on the street and that is to keep focus on transit safety and access for this community and both safety on transit and also safety with waiting for transit. improving our mobile access that we provide as well as continuing our progress with communicating with the community. and we plan to bring this to the board of directors next month and following that hopefully with adoption at hand, we are hopeful to be able to move to some projects in the community and as well as to implement using funds from the director's office that we are working on with them for allocating. following that, we hope to move into grant applications in 2024 to help fund some of the more robust projects as well as

further implementation of our planned recommendations. our project website is listed here as well as the email and the draft itself is on the website and the final plan available later this week. thank you very much. >> thank you. commissioner ronen? >>supervisor hillary ronen: thank you. i wanted to say how excited we are for this project and thank you for the way you went about it and truly letting the community prioritize which project is most important. all of these improvements are desperately needed. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> >> supervisor shamann walton: ditto to what commissioner ronen said. >> all right. i will take public comment if you would like to

talk about the transportation plan update. please come forward. i don't see anyone. i will look for remote public comment. >> checking for public comment on item 10. there is no public comment. >> public comment on item 10 is closed. thank you, planner. mr. clerk, please call item 11. >> >>clerk: — information* 11. internal accounting report, investment report, and debt expenditure report for the six months ending december 31, 2022 — this is an information item. >> deputy director for finance and administration. cynthia fong. >> thank you for the introduction, chair. can you hear me? >> yes. we can. >> great, wonderful. good morning. this is our second quarter update as of december 31, 2022. this is up to $170 million and

$87 million for liabilities which is out stand federal government our 2017 sales tax revenue bond. we also earned $67.6 million in revenue and slightly above our midyear target right now. expenses total $49 million and below anticipated budget and that is information from our sponsors that is not yet received. and in compliance with the california government code and investment policies we have also do not have any outstanding loans at this time from the bank but we anticipate it in the budget for this coming fiscal year. with that, i'm happy to take any questions regarding our second quarter numbers for our financials. >> thank you, director fong. thank you for all of your work. i do not see any comments or questions. let's open item 11 to public

comment. if there is anyone in the chamber who would like to speak on item 11, please come forward. i don't see anyone. let's go to remote public comment on item 11. >> checking for remote public comment on item 11. >> and there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 11 is closed. thank you again cynthia fong. mr. clerk, please call item 12. >>clerk: skipped skipped skipped skipped -- >> >> >> >> >> there is no general public comment. item 13, public comment? >> let's see if there are any callers. >> checking for remote public comment on item 13. there is no

public comment. >> public comment on item 13 is closed. mr. clerk, please call item 14. >> item 14, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >>59

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americanamericanamericanam art e complex.complex.complex.complexk we did there for the community had everything to do with being able to work with the arts commission to provide not only the resources but also the guidance and understanding of what we as a city owned cultural facility that served the community could do to make sure that we are meeting the needs of the community and providing that first space that first opportunity for someone to showcase their art or sell their art and actually make money from it or get in front of a crowd and feel confident and comfortable about their performances. the arts commission does so much in san francisco, and this city is so committed to the arts that time and time again when asked for resources through our various voter initiatives. there is consistency in support, whether it is the opera, ballet symphony and the larger institutions that really have a historic presence in our city, or the smaller

institutions like you're providing a center for the arts and other great wonderful arts institutions and groups that exist in san francisco. in some form or fashion. it will touch the arts commission. what's so great about san francisco? on top of that is all of a sudden you might see some random performance out in the streets and think, where is that coming from? who coordinated that and oftentimes again that touches the arts commission and in some way, whether you're seeing it inside a building, you're seeing it outside and being able to smile and enjoy it because it's so amazing, or even when you're looking at it and saying, you know what? that's not my cup of tea, but at least the city's giving artists an opportunity. so i'm really grateful that we have three extraordinary individuals. and i want to thank ralph remington, the director of the arts commission for being here. as well as so many of our

commissioners who are joining us here today. it's probably one of the most, uh exciting and fun commissions that exist in san francisco. and so we're glad to have some of our commissioners as well as commissioners of other commissions in the city and county of san francisco. i will start with seth because most people in addition to his work at walden school, he teaches arts music and other things. he is a professional singer and has actually performed with the san francisco symphony, which many of you know they won an academy award. and i wonder if that has something to do with you, seth. maybe he'll show us in singing today. who knows, but his work is not just around arts and arts education for our kids, but he continues to fight to ensure that kids in this city, um have a decent school board and have just

really are meeting the basics and what we need to do to provide kids with a well rounded education, and we appreciate his advocacy and his work, so i'm really excited to have him here today. uh susie is returning. she is an artist and has been able to really build a really great reputation out in the avenues, richmond or whatever neighborhood you want to call it, but she owns her own business. and she's been able to produce and provide various graphic arts related stuff, which, uh, is artistic. i don't really understand it completely . um but it's art something and it's something professional, and it has led to some extraordinary work. uh and really proud that she's a native san franciscan and continues to grow in the arts community but also be really a great ambassador on the arts commission for change. and last but not least. the amazing ricardo. now. i should swear

ricardo in every day because i don't know if you saw those flowers in front of the mayor's office. um but any of you who have attended any of these big gallons these big events, you know what this man is capable of his mind is brilliant as it relates to creativity and creating a space more so to make people smile to make them feel good, and to make them really appreciate what they're syrian saying and so ricardo, we're so grateful that you decided in 1992 to, you know, leave the world of the hyatt and, uh, neiman's and all of those kinds of jobs that you had that you were doing a great job for to start your own venture and become really, uh, that the go to party planner for san francisco. and i want to thank you personally, because when tom horn miriam madre glue who is

our chief of protocol here today , and david szymon, who's also here when we coordinated this grand event for the counselor, core people who are here from all over the world, it was probably one of the best events that we ever had and showcase san francisco in an extraordinary light, so we're grateful to have you here in your talents. which will be used in an incredible way for the arts commission. and so the arts commission is probably with with with the three of you going to be a lot more fun and interesting. um even though the existing commissioners are also fun and interesting this is let me tell you if you want to be on any commission in this city, the arts commission is the place to be and so now with that. it is time to swear in our new commissioners. so come on over so everybody can see you. and we're going to have you all let's see for our cameras. we're

going to have you all maybe stand along here. and then i will stand here. how about that? and then when i point at you and my blocking anybody, just the tab. it so when i point at you just make sure you state your name. and then just repeat after me. are we ready? crowd. are we ready? all right. please raise your right hand and repeat after me. i state your name. do solemnly swear. that i will support and defend and defend the constitution of the united states, the united states and the constitution of the state of california to shin of the state of california against all enemies, foreign and domestic domestic that i bear true faith. and i'm their truth and allegiance to the same that i

take this obligation, freely obligation freely without any mental reservation, mental reservation or purpose of evasion of mediation and that i will well and faithfully. nobel and faithfully discharge the duties duties upon which i am about to enter, which i'm about to have and during such time as i serve as commissioner. for the arts commission of the city and county of san francisco county of san congratulations. so we're going to have you guys say a few words and susie. since you're returning you'll you're up first. thank you guys. all so

much for being here and celebrating with us celebrating with the san francisco arts commission. it is one of my greatest joys and pleasures to serve as the san francisco arts commissioner to represent my hometown. my small hometown of san francisco and to be an artist advocate in our city, which is so needed in a time where artists are struggling to survive, and san francisco and the need to make sure our culture stay strong. which is something that san francisco is famous for. arts music and culture. so thank you so much. madam mayor for being the arts mayor of san francisco. and thank you, everybody for joining us and celebrating our amazing city. also welcome to our new commissioners. i prepared a few remarks, um so i just want to say i'm honored and excited to be joining the san francisco arts commission. thank you. mayor breed. for this appointment. i'm eager to serve

the city of san francisco and its arts communities through the work of the commission. i so appreciate your interesting me with this responsibility. and i look forward to collaborating across the city to keep the arts and the city thriving. thank you to president collins and my fellow commissioners for the warm welcome. you have shown me thank you to director remington trigo lopez, white comet and everyone in the arts commission staff who are helping me learn my role and orienting me to the great work of the arts commission. thank you, tyra funnel for shepherding me through the appointment process. and thank you. deborah walker, my predecessor on the arts commission. for your support. thank you to my friends and colleagues and family who are here with me today and to everyone who is supporting me from afar. i am grateful for everyone's support. most especially that of my daughter, cora. and my husband, malcolm.

who am i married? for the first time. just across the way. 19 years ago tomorrow. during the historic weekend of love in 2004. happy almost anniversary. 40 years ago, i began taking piano lessons and music classes at the san francisco conservatory of music on 19th and ortega. my mom and my dad driving me from sacramento each saturday morning until i went off to college. in 1995. i auditioned for maestro advance george, then director of the san francisco symphony chorus, and i've been singing tenor there ever since. and since 1994 i've worked in music education at the walden school, serving as executive director for the last 20 years. i look forward to bringing these experiencing experiences as a performing artist and as an arts educator. to my work as a commissioner.

along with my experiences working with many nonprofit committees and boards. i'm almost done. i wish to close with a final thought that captures the deep love i have for our city. during our second wedding. which took place in 2006 in the green room in the war memorial building. our efficient know him cook who's here with me today? read a brief quotation from an inscription. in the city hall rotunda. directly above us. it reads. oh glorious city of our hearts that has been tried and not found wanting. go thou with like spirit to make the future teen thank you very much. how am i going to beat that? what can i say to that? he said pretty much everything, and i

don't even remember all the commissioners names. but it's such an honor to be with his mayor and we have to make our city the best city in the world. i used to say the country, but now it's the world because we are and everyone that's here today. came to support me in their own way. and i picked you because i really need you to help me. make this city better than it's ever been. and i really, really mean that i look at every street and i think how beautiful our city as and we're gonna get to that point. it's just going to take a little struggle, but it's from my heart and i'm so honored to be with this mayor and her team have opened up their arms to me and that's all i can say. thanks. doesn't that just make you feel good? you know, yesterday was

valentine's day and city hall was packed. with so many couples who came here to get married. and today it's packed with all of you and supporting our new and returning commissioner. so i thank you for bringing a little light to city hall today. um it's great. it's great to have you here for anything other than just the events. this is your city hall and i look forward to the future of all the great things were going to be able to continue to do not just here in city hall, but throughout san francisco. we have a lot of exciting activities that are going to occur, and we're going to need each and every one of you. and we're going to need our commissioners. i'm looking forward to a new day in san francisco. people have tried and failed when they have tried to write us off, and we continue to say write in pencil because you're going to have to erase a lot of the things you said especially especially knowing

what we are capable of were capable of great things. and these three new commissioners are an example of something great that has happened and will continue to happen for the future of our city. we appreciate you being here now. what we're going to do is sign the paperwork. we're gonna take a few pictures. and then we're going to just enjoy this time. thank you all so much for being here and thank you all so much for what you do to support and serve the city and county of san francisco. camera.

okay we'll start with the three of you. the arts commissioners get ready, commissioner.

. >> my name is dave, and i play defense. >> my name is mustafa, and i am a midfielder, but right now, i am trying to play as a goalkeeper, because they need a goalkeeper. >> soccer u.s.a. is a nonprofessional organization. we use sports, soccer in particular to engage communities that can benefit from quality programs in order to lift people up, helping to regain a sense of control in one's life. >> the san francisco recreation and park department and street

soccer u.s.a. have been partners now for nearly a decade. street soccer shares our mission in using sport as a vehicle for youth development and for reaching people of all ages. rec and park has a team. >> i'm been playing soccer all my life. soccer is my life. >> i played in the streets when i was a kid. and i loved soccer back home. i joined street soccer here. it was the best club to join. it helps me out. >> the tenderloin soccer club started in the summer of 2016. we put one of our mini soccer pitches in one of our facilities there. the kids who kpriez the club team came out to utilize that space, and it was beautiful because they used it as an opportunity to express themselves in a place where they were free to do so, and it was a safe space, in a

neighborhood that really isn't the most hospitalable to youth -- hospitable to youth playing in the streets. >> one day, i saw the coach and my friends because they went there to join the team before me. so i went up to the coach and asked, and they said oh, i've got a soccer team, and i joined, and they said yeah, it was he for everybody, and i joined, and it was the best experience ever. >> a lot of our programs, the kids are in the process of achieving citizenship. it's a pretty lengthy process. >> here, i am the only one with my dad. we were in the housing program, and we are trying to find housing. my sister, she's in my country,

so i realize that i have a lot of opportunities here for getting good education to help her, you know? yeah. that's the -- one of the most important things that challenge me. >> my dad was over here, making some money because there was not a lot of jobs back home. i came here, finish elementary in san francisco. after that, i used to go back to my country, go to yemen, my country, and then back here. last time i went back was a couple years ago. >> i came here six months, i know nobody. now i have the team has a family, the coaches. amazing. >> i'm hoping for lifelong friendships, and i'm super inspired by what they've been able to achieve and want to continue to grow alongside them. >> i love my family, i love my

team. they're just like a family. it's really nice. >> street soccer just received a five year grant from the department of children, youth and family, and this is an important inreflection point for street soccer u.s.a. because their work in our most important communities is now known beyond just san francisco recreation and park department, and together, we're going to continue to work with our city's most vulnerable kids and teach them to love the beautiful game. >> i want to tell everybody back home, i hope you all make it over here and join teams like this like street soccer u.s.a., and live your life. get a better life. >> right away, just be patient, and then, everything will be

okay. >> in august 2019 construction began on the new facility at 1995 evans avenue in bayview. it will house motorcycle police and department of forensic services division. both sfpd groups are in two buildings that need to be vacated. they will join the new $183 million facility in late 2021. >> elements of the cfi and the traffic company are housed at the hall of justice, which has been determined to be seismically unfit. it is slated for demolition. in addition to that the forensic

services crime lab is also slated for demolition. it was time and made sense to put these elements currently spread in different parts of the city together into a new facility. >> the project is located in the bayview area, in the area near estes creek. when san francisco was first formed and the streetcars were built back it was part of the bay. we had to move the building as close to the edge as possible on bedrock and solid elements piles down to make sure it was secure. >> it will be approximately 100,000 square feet, that includes 8,000 square feet for traffic company parking garage. >> the reason we needed too new building, this is inadequate for the current staffing needs and also our motor department. the officers need more room, secured parking. so the csi unit location is at

the hall of justice, and the crime laboratory is located at building 60 sixty old hunters point shipyard. >> not co-located doesn't allow for easy exchange of information to occur. >> traffic division was started in 1909. they were motor officers. they used sidecars. officers who road by themselves without the sidecar were called solo. that is a common term for the motorcycle officers. we have 45 officers assigned to the motorcycles. all parking at the new facility will be in one location. the current locker room with shared with other officers. it is not assigned to just traffic companies. there are two showers downstairs and up. both are gym and shop weres are

old. it needs constant maintenance. >> forensic services provides five major types of testing. we develop fingerprints on substances and comparisons. there are firearms identification to deal with projectiles, bullets or cartridge casings from shootings. dna is looking at a whole an rare of evidence from -- array of evidence from dna to sexual assault to homicide. we are also in the business of doing breath allyzer analysis for dui cases. we are resurrecting the gunshot residue testing to look for the presence of gunshot residue.

lifespan is 50 years. >> it has been raised up high enough that if the bay starts to rise that building will operate. the facility is versus sustainable. if the lead gold highest. the lighting is led. gives them good lights and reduces energy use way down. water throughout the project we have low water use facilities. gardens outside, same thing, low water use for that. other things we have are green roofs on the project. we have studies to make sure we have maximum daylight to bring it into the building. >> the new facility will not be open to the public. there will be a lobby. there will be a deconstruction motorcycle and have parts around. >> the dna labs will have a vestibule before you go to the

space you are making sure the air is clean, people are coming in and you are not contaminating anything in the labs. >> test firing in the building you are generating lead and chemicals. we want to quickly remove that from the individuals who are working in that environment and ensure what we put in the air is not toxic. there are scrubbers in the air to ensure any air coming out is also at the cleanest standards. >> you will see that kind of at the site. it has three buildings on the site. one is for the motorcycle parking, main building and back behind is a smaller building for evidence vehicles. there is a crime, crime scene. they are put into the secure facility that locks the cars down while they are examined. >> they could be vehicles involved in the shooting. there might be projectiles lodged in the vehicle, cartridge

casings inside the vehicle, it could be a vehicle where a aggravated sexual occurred and there might be biological evidence, fingerprints, recovered merchandise from a potential robbery or other things. >> the greatest challenge on the project is meeting the scope requirements of the project given the superheated construction market we have been facing. i am proud to say we are delivering a project where we are on budget. >> the front plaza on the corner will be inviting to the public. something that gives back to the public. the building sits off the edge. it helps it be protected. >> what we are looking for is an updated building, with facilities to meet our unit's

needs. >> working with the san francisco police department is an honor and privilege. i am looking forward to seeing their faces as the police officers move to the new facility. >> it is a welcome change, a new surrounding that is free from all of the challenges that we face with being remote, and then the ability to offer new expanded services to the city and police department investigations unit. i can't wait until fall of 2021 when the building is finally ready to go and be occupied and the people can get into the facility to serve them and serve the community.