approval is what is being sought from the district attorney's office. i recommended this compromise language to dpa and the chief. they seem to like it in theory and for a while, no one responded to my e-mail, so i was very concerned that they would not like it in practice. but just yesterday, both the chief and dpa informed me they accepted the compromise draft, which is the highlighted draft that you have before you today. in addition, there are two more language drafts that both sfpd and dpa noted this meeting. when i do my motion, i'll note when we edit those. i'm happy with this process. i wish it was faster but i'm happy with the outcome. it's a great example of dpa and sfpd working together, which we like to see, but an example of where commission involvement can help bridge gaps and help reach a compromise that both agencies

agreed to. so you have the draft materials in front of you. and so, you have the subject matter experts here for questions. but with that, i'm going to make a motion to approve department general order 5.16 for the department to use in meeting and conferring bargaining units and it's two with two additional edits. if you go to page four of 11 on the dgo, under g1a, the third paragraph says the name of the lieutenant that authorized direct submission and remember for the agency and the -- there are more one, so we're going to strike the words, for the (indiscernible). the name of the lieutenant who authorized the direct submission and reason shall be documented. >> page three.

>> remove the words for the exit-gency on page three. the other minor change is on page 8 of 11. journalist and california shield law. if you look at the third paragraph that begins with for any search warrants, and the third line, it says members shall consult. that was just left over language. that should be changed to members shall provide the search warrant and consult, so it's consistent with all the rest of the general order. so, i will make a motion to adopt the dgo with those amendments and with my labor instructions, which i guess, hopefully this is the last time i have to read. with the instructions, the san francisco police commission directs the san francisco police department and urges the san francisco department of human resources,

strictly meet and confer only over matter that's mandatory subject to bargaining by law and not meet and confer on those management rights and are not subject to collective bargaining under california law and set clear boundaries to the meet and confer process with the affected bargaining units to ensure there's no delay s items within the scope of representation and i promise, i will get our commission secretary a written version of what i said. >> great. i'm going to second your motion but i want to acknowledge that i think this really speaks and i know how humble you are and you never take credit for things, but i think this speaks to your leadership, commissioner benedicto. you came and rolled up your sleeves and it's helpful to have a third-party to bridge that gap which is important because it takes a lot of work to get the department and dpo on

the same page when they have different views so i want to commend you and thank you for handling that at the 11th hour, so that we have a more unified, i think, cohesive document, so thank you. i'm seconding the motion. i'll give the chief and dpa, or director henderson to briefly comment if they would like to. >> certainly, thank you, commissioner benedicto. there's a lot good about this process. the frustrating part is it took four years. and you know, i know the commission has since policies and practices in place where we won't have a four-year dgo. that's our intention, but i do want to say there's a lot of hands that went into this. a lot of discussion and i want to appreciate and thank dpa and all the other stakeholders in the community, the bar association,

the public defenders office and our internal folks, he worked through most of those four years with the different versions of this dgo. i want to say to the public, i know sometimes it seems like things aren't moving and things are stagnated but this process never stopped. that four years, there were constant meetings, discussions, outreach with dpa and others, and it never stopped, but i do want to also reiterate, commissioner benedicto coming in and just kind of saying, okay, we've heard everybody's arguments. it's time to move this forward, so i highly encourage that that be the practice moving forward because we have too much work to do to install dgo's or take four years to get to the finish line. thank you for your leadership as well, commissioner elias. >> i need that energy when it comes to the mou, chief.

>> i have one other person to thank, carol lacy in the back who have been at every meeting since she has been in this department about this particular dgo so her expertise and practical hands on knowledge really was helpful for this process. >> director henderson? >> thank you. i also want to thank the folks that really did the work. these meetings have been going on for a long time and involved a lot of work, so i want to start off by thanking janel change wood, thank you for your work and dedication for doing this work and i want to acknowledge commissioner benedicto for coming in. i sit on both sides of the fence because i'm on the bar association with you, so i saw the transition and i know the work that was required. i know what you inherited to come and do this work and part of -- the real issue is acknowledge, even with the 90% agreement on most of the things, it was the

10% that was the real issue that set, that was really the hard work. exacerbated by the over 60 recommendations that came, both from the public, the bar association, the public defender's office, there's a lot of cooks in this kitchen, which made this more argue russ. we're disappointed with the timeframe and i think this process has shown us that it's possible to get through this and hopefully, we've all learned new tools, new pathways to get through a process like this without it having to take this long in the future. but the result is still what i want to acknowledge and make sure it doesn't get lost in terms of the public's understanding of what we have done. this new policy in terms of addressing search warrants

puts us at the top of departments in this nation, both for encompassing and you alluded to it earlier, having a policy that encompasses go-fencing warrants and codifies the no-knock warrants that's reflective of the federal recommendations and not standards. and that's an important part to acknowledge. we still have more than 2/3 of every department in the united states does not have a use of force policy, does not have a contemplation to address these policies. us having a policy that incorporates the no-knock policy, the no-knock warrant recommendations and the go-fencing sets us in a class above, as a city, beyond a lot of other cities and so, it's not loss on me on how significant this is, how important it is. so many of us continue to do the work and i'm looking forward to this process being as efficient as it was for this complicated

issue and future issues that takes less time. so, thank you, everybody that was at the table. but this is a very important step forward that is really going to define both san francisco and the department in a very good way, i believe, in the future. >> thank you. i don't see any names on the roster. sergeant, can we do comment and vote. >> for members of the public who would like to make public comment, approach the podium. there's no public comment. on the motion.... [roll call] >> you have 7 yeses. >> next item. >> line item 7, discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 6.05, “death cases" for the department to use in meeting and conferring with

the effected bargaining units as required by law. discussion and possible action. >> commissioners, this is before us for a vote. as you'll see the redline and final version with the recommendations that have been accepted, it's my understanding that there is no dispute among dpa or the department with respect to dgo. i ask for a motion to accept. commissioner byrne, are you making the motion? >> no, i had a question on page four about suspects. minors are -- minors are mirandized and adults aren't? >> captain. >> captain, on page four, number four, it says members should not

mirandized a suspect unless the suspect is a youth. youth are entitled to be mirandized but adults are not? >> that's just clarifying that when they detain a suspect, they are going to be waiting for the homicide investigator to get there, but for 7.10, if it's youth, they have to mirandized them as a matter of policy, so they are not questioning the suspect. that's more to say, make sure you mirandize the youth in the 7.0 and don't mirandize until the homicide unit can get to interview. it's for the officers at the scene. the officers aren't what ran diezing the suspect and taking a statement. >> right. the youth will be --

the youth will be mirandized. >> why is that? >> 7.10 mandates that. these are unintended consequences of policy as you all know and we have to mirandize every youth. >> you can't, you're not going to wait like adults wait, okay. i understand. thank you. >> you raised an interesting point because i mean, well, commissioner benedicto? >> i was going to make a motion, but i was going to say on that point, i think 7.10 has more detailed instructions so as long as it's crossless, it would specify what needs to be done. >> here's the problem that the department may run into is that if there's an officer and he has a suspect in custody and he's waiting for homicide, i mean, there's certain criteria if they are in custody and make a statement, it would behoove the department to mirandize them before a suspect makes the

statement because if they make the statement, then he waits for the homicide to come later, i mean, the suspect could claim that -- >> you're all lawyers up there. it's custody plus interrogation. you have to have both. >> right. but there's cases that indicate that an officer, you know, even simple questions that they could ask, not those of a homicide inspector, can be considered interrogation, so -- >> correct. it would be up for the judge, we don't want officers mirandized homicide suspects at the scene until the homicide inspector can get there. >> chief, should we add a clarifying sentence. >> it restricts them from asking anything already. so, they wouldn't be able to ask, so movement of the statement is 7.1. >> there juveniles but byrne brought up -- brought up adults

it's different. >> we're not going to have the officers not record the statement. it gets to interrogation and whether there is or statements that can be construed to be interrogations is something else and i think that's what the captain is referring to, a judge will decide that. i don't think it would be -- it would be the right practice to tell officers to automatically mirandize an adult that's suspected of a homicide before any interrogation or something like that. that would be done by the homicide investigators, but if it's spontaneous, i think i'm getting your question. if it's a spontaneous question and the person is talking, there's no requirement for the officers to say stop talking. >> right. there's a difference between spontaneous statement and him speaking to the officer.

it wasn't clear. okay. i'm -- commissioner benedicto, you made the motion. vice-president carter-oberstone? >> i'm going to make the motion but with the same way with instructions used in 5.16 >> thank you. just a point of clarification, so is it, i understand the policy is not for the officers on the scene to mirandize suspect, but is it clear in some other policy they shouldn't interrogate the suspect until homicide arrives on the scene? >> no, there's no -- they are not -- they are all on body worn camera. they have their body-worn camera. if they have a suspect detained, they are not conducting any of those investigative steps past that. they are waiting for the homicide investigator. >> so, is that what you just said, they are not to do any interrogation before homicide shows up. is that in a policy somewhere? because i'm -- the reason i ask is because if all we say is not do not mirandize

but we don't say interrogate, it gives that you can interrogate and not mirandize. is there somewhere in the policy that makes it clear, don't ask this person any questions until homicide shows up? >> i'm trying to think right now. sorry, commissioner, you caught me off guard. >> it's all right. >> it might seem like a big question to you, it seems like a non-issue to me because a patrolman would never think of interrogating a homicide suspect. it's just something, you know -- that wouldn't occur to them but i'm trying to think of a policy that would address that. >> i don't believe there's a policy on that, commissioner. it is, you know, accepted in the training and protocols for these type of scenes. there is a policy -- >> i think it's in the post training when they mirandize,

they are taught what is interrogation and -- >> leaving it right there. not that i'm aware of that i have came across a policy that strictly prohibits an officer for mirandized or interrogating a suspect. we want the officer -- you don't want to be premature on that investigation. to the point, i think moving forward, let us -- i don't think there's anything specifically in writing but it could be something that we could do as far as a training, both from the academy. i really don't think that should be rooted in dgo because the cases can be -- maybe a case wherein tare gags is necessary -- where interrogation is necessary. we can put that in a training document or something of that nature >> okay. thanks. so, it sounds

like, from chief scott and captain ahern, as a practical matter in real life, you don't have a concern that an officer would say, i can't mirandize the suspect, but that officer might think that she could question the suspect before homicide shows up. you think as a practical matter, it's very clear to officers that we just don't do that until homicide arrives at the scene? >> correct. that's my, i mean, i'm just trying to think, wreck my brain, it doesn't occur. >> okay, great. thank you. >> commissioner yee. >> thank you very much, president elias. my question is, you're going to wait for, i guess, the homicide investigator to come to the interrogation before, suppose time -- there's

none available or there's a delay, is there another option that you will, i guess, use somebody else instead of a homicide investigator? >> there's two teams on call. there's four to five homicide investigators in each team and the lieutenant homicide. unless they were all trapped in an escape room and couldn't get out, there's going to be someone who will be able to respond. >> god forbid there was more than -- there's multiple happenings out there, and you get tied up, is there -- >> maybe a mass casualty, multiple shooters where we have a major incident response team and at that time, we would activate that team, which would activate all -- all inspector bureaus. and it would be a mass casualty incident. >> thank you. >> motion.

>> second. >> sergeant. for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item seven, approach the podium. there's no public comment. on the motion, commissioner walker.... [roll call] >> you have seven yeses. >> next item. >> line item 8, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 10 below, closed session, including public comment on item 9, vote whether to hold item 10 in closed session. if you would like to make public comment, approach podium. there's no public comment. >> line item 9,

vote on whether to hold item 10 in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to item 10(a) through 10(d) (san francisco administrative code section 67.10) action. >> motion to hold item ten in close session. >> second. >> on the motion, commissioner walker.... [roll call] >> you have seven yeses. we are going into closed. >> commissioners, we're back in open session. line item 11, open session -vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 10 held in closed session including vote on whether to assert the attorney-client privilege with regards to item 10(a) through 10(d) (s.f. admin. code section 67.12(a)) (action)

>> motion not to disclose and assert of the attorney client privilege. >> second. >> any member of the public like to make public comment regarding line item 11, approach the podium. no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? [roll call] >> you have seven yeses. >> line item 12, adjournment. >> adjourn. >> all right.

>> look at all of these beautiful people. before we get started, i just want to get a shout out to all our women. [cheers and applause]. women's history month, we've got to represent. hello i'm dr. llena miller. i'm a third generation san franciscan. and i am the ceo and cofounder

along with the fabulous bayron wilson of urban alkamy. who is urban al chamy. we're 400 strong through here and portland. the time is catching on all across this country. over 90% of our staff were either formerly incarcerated or experienced homelessness, over 90% are black and people of color. and our practitioners are dedicated to using their character, courage and emotional intelligence to improve the lives of people they serve every day here in san francisco. we are creating jobs, more importantly a career path for people who now have a different

role in society. we are creating peace so that some of the most vulnerable people in our city, no longer have to suffer a wild west type of environment. we help people in crisis get connected to service sxz support and we intervene if somebody is asking in a threatening way if kids are walk to go school and disabled and elderly walk the street in the streets. and for knows who live in the tenderloin, you know what we are talking about. we literally save lives in overdoses, we have done about 800 overdose reversals, that's 800 people here because of these women and men standing behind me. that's something that you never read about in the newspapers. we pickup trash, we pickup

needles, we clean toilets, we provide showers, we staff the sip hotels when nobody else would and we're still staffing some of the most innovative models are saying, which many are saying what are you guys doing down there? we need to do something. these men and women who you see behind me, the beginning of a revolution of how we provide social services, and it's time. because it's been stagnant for about 50 years. we're here today at this oasis, how many remember what this used to look like just three years ago? i'm not going to say it because i don't want any weird sound bites but you know what i'm talking about. i think this is symbolic of what we're working for every day, to create a change in this city.

it's been two months, mayor breed you said, enough is enough for this bull shit. and that resonated with everybody because everybody felt it in their heart, i know you took a lot for it but it needed to be safe. urban space is for and by the community we work hand and land in the tenderloin community to build this space, we serve coffee, tea and water in the morning, a dog park over there because so many people have animals but there are not any dog parks. so it's a place for the community to gather. this is what the men and women of urban alcamy put together a love letter to the community. so today we're here to celebrate and to embrace a new

model for public safety. san francisco has always been a bedrock of creativity and innovation. that was for the music, we look at tech, and now we're looking at social services. things are changing. things are shaking up. our city leaders have answered the call, to help build a new and needed model for public safety. a creative model that provides inclusion and opportunities for folks who traditionally have been counted out but who we know have been part of the important solution. this model is providing a blueprint that other cities are start to go follow and implement. this model is designed and being implemented by those who are most impacted. it recognizes the people who have been closest to the problems and closest to the solutions. we know that not every issue or emergency requires police response. sometimes people just need to be patient to talk to them

provide advance deescalation and connecting to services. let police work to prevent and intervene in people committing crimes. that's what they want to do. that's what they're trained to do. society as used them as a de fault for everything, but now it's time to resolve. we have heard it across the country, we need another model. our mayor, our police chief have been brave enough to say we're going to try something new. we heard all over the country, we need another model, right here is where it started. right now, urban alcamy is the largest community base public safety in this country and it started here. because these leaders were brave enough to do something different. and it has not been easy, we know there is been a lot of

criticism and stuff like that but it's changing the reality for the people who live in this community. we have eyes and ears on the streets. so people think twice before doing something that they shouldn't be doing. or people there who are intervening and talking to them before a situation gets out of control, we made it safer for families and kids to walk to school, for businesses to operate, for people to just walk down the street. i remember when we first, when we first cleared the street, there was a man who walked out and you can tell he was struggling with some mental issues he came out and started dancing. dancing, and singing, i can walk down the street, i don't think people who don't live here really don't realize how serious that that is or how it's been. i want to talk this opportunity now to thank my partner, my coo

mr. wilson. this is the man who makes it happen every day. i get up here and say speeches but this is the man who is doing all the work. i want to thank, artie lou, jeff, because they designed this program. [applause] these are the men who designed this program. not a bunch of social workers or politicians or whoever else sitting somewhere and doing it, this men designed this program it came from them. and i want to make sure that i thank the city for really believing in us and having the courage to do something different and stand with the community to create a new model for the rest of the country to follow about how to improve public safety and outcomes for people. it's easy for people to criticize those who try something new.

jimmy hendrix, got criticized. prince got criticized, you name it, jesus christ, anybody who did something new and innovated, gets trashed. this is not easy, it is hard. but we got to do something different. and we are not going to bow down in the face of criticism when you talk about changing the lives and outcomes for so many people. with that, i want to thank and i want to introduce a woman who i look up to, who i've watched grow and who i really admire and hope to be like one day. mayor breed, thank you. [cheers and applause] >> mayor london breed: thank you, thank you to urban alcamy. i'm filled with so much emotion here today because so many of

the people that are joining us are people that i've interacted with at one capacity or another. whether it's something that i grew up or somebody i saw go through hard times. i know why people say that san francisco is a place of opportunity. a place of second chances, a place of hope and an opportunity to turn your life around to have a better future. and that's what today is about. because the fact is, the city with all of its open and all of its possibilities, it's also a political city. and politics are being played at some of the worse levels that i've ever seen. you know, the fact is, i know there are a lot of people that don't like that there is a black woman that grew up in the

projects and is the mayor of san francisco. [applause] and so you often times have people and not just two years in the projects over 20 plus, we know what it's like to live in hopelessness and despair and the drama that comes with that. so i come from experience of living in that, and seeing the lack of opportunities for people that i grew up with. why do i say all of this in light of what we came here to talk about today? because there are not many programs that actually when they talk about a second chance, when they talk about an opportunity for somebody, they talk about it. they aren't about it. they don't do what urban alcamy does every single day. you can walk the streets and you say, help me, and urban

alcamy says here i go, what can i do. every supervisor should be falling all over themselves to make sure that the contract gets extended so we don't have to layoff all of these people who put their lives on the line every single day to protect the tenderloin community. people have been stabbed in you areurban alcamy and they still show up as alternative to police station to this community. every day. so i want to thank the board of supervisors who are actually joining us today and who believe in this program and have been strong advocate for public safety in san francisco including supervisor matt dorsey, longgorio, and sadly

the supervisor of tenderloin is not here today and that's a problem. but we're not going to let that stop us what we're going to do. here's the thing, at the end of day, who does not want to walk down the street and feel safe. a lot of folks from hunters point live here now, people who immigranted from other countries looking for a better life and opportunity. there are a lot of people who choose the tenderloin for hope, to start a new business, to work a new job, to get treatment and turn their life around to do something that will lead to something better. that's what the tenderloin represents. and when i hear the stories, when i hear the stories about my own friend who was gunned down in the tender line, trying to stop folks from selling dope down the block where he has

become clean. where they're trying to look out for the community. when i hear about the stories about the mom who what was attacked in front of her six-year-old son and left for dead. about the merchant who is giving back to the community and her window is broken time and time again. why is that okay for that to happen in the tenderloin? it's not. and i know that a lot of people have their philosophies about police officers and this city has developed a lot of measures to policing, our street crisis response team, ambassadors including urban alcamy, we appreciate that. but at the end of the day, if you get hit upside the head you're going to need a police officer to come and deal with the situation like that.

if your son is gunned down and killed in the city, you want justice and that requires a police not only responding to the call but the investigation and the work to make sure that the perpetrator of that crime is brought to justice! [applause] all of this goes hand and hand. safety is struggling in this city and especially in this community. and people have taken over in a way that has pushed a lot of fear. because i know living in the community filled with violence, i know how scary it can be. when you know when you know who is doing the crime, but you're scared to be the one to stand up against it because you're life is on the line because you've got to live here every day. you've got to live here and work here, i get that there is fear.

and so guess what? i'm not afraid, i'm not afraid to stand up against what is happening in the tenderloin. i'm not afraid to a pos the advocates who are constantly opposing the policies that will help around safety but they don't live here. they don't work here. they don't understand growing up and being forced to be a part of this experience. they don't understand it. but i know many of the people joining us here today is because you feel it and understand it and you have to live through it every single day and that is not okay. and that's why we're here. because i'm fighting for this city. no one is going to push me out of the city that i was born and raised it. nobody is going to stop me for standing up for what i believe in. because i was that person that was afraid growing up, worried about what might happen to my

family. going to too many funerals. this is not okay, i get an alert every day about some sort of assault in the tenderloin, somebody was shot or something was killed or somebody was stabbed or somebody was beaten. we have to change this. if not now, then when? so the reason why we're here with so many of our various coalition so you can hear them about their experience the tenderloin coalition, the china town khaim chinese chamber of commerce, china town merchants association and benevolent association in china town, so many groups saying enough is enough. we care about public safety. we don't want to see our grandmas knocked down and beat down. we have to do better and

protect them. and better means we have to make changes. there are four things that i am here to push for. and i want the board of the members of supervisors who sadly are saying no to these things, who sadly are being obstructionist, who sadly will not even calendar the items to give it a chance to be heard in the public, that we need this. we need you to be better than that. we need you to put politics aside and think about the people's lives. what if were you? what if you had no other choice? that's what today is about. we have no other choice. we need change. so the first thing i'm asking the board of supervisors to do, stop playing games with the urbanalcamy contract and pass it. stop playing games with these

people he's lives who are out here. the same people who claim and believe in second chances, but when it come to urban alcamy all of a sudden, they got amnesia about what they said. that's number one. the other thing that we're asking the board of supervisors to do is approve calendar and approve the budget supplemental that will allow the city and county of san francisco to cover the costs of basic police service. we are short 541 cops and we're feeling it. because as i said, it's not just about showing up in the arrest it's also about the investigation. we wonder why we need police officers to do that. to maintain our basic staffing levels.

if the board of supervisors does not calendar or rejects this 27 million dollars supplemental, then you think it's challenging to get police officers in this community now, it will be virtually impossible and you think that our city is unsafe, it will be terrible for the city and county of san francisco, absolutely terrible. the other part, the other part of that is also the support for ambassadors. so right now, that the facts that this is not even calendar means we have to freeze all hiring. we have to freeze hiring for police, we have to freeze hiring for ambassadors so we need their support. we need it to be heard. we need 8 votes at the board of supervisors. there is a lot of work that goes into this. and what we're looking for today is your help and your support and your understanding as to why this is so critical. we need change.

especially in the tenderloin and the last thing i want to also say is it includes additional resources for our district attorney to specifically prosecutor fentanyl drug dealers. [applause] now i'm sympathetic to the fact that some people, you know, feel as though they have do what they have to do to make a living. but when we have less than 3% unemployment, we'll hire anywhere to hire almost anything legitimately. so there is no excuse for what we have to endure, because we saw more people at the height of the covid pandemic die interest fentanyl than we did for covid, and we shut the downtown for covid. what does that tell you?

we have work to do. we have work to do in the city. and that's why we came to the tend ir loin today. often times we're trying to do this work and people are like what are you doing? what are you doing? and stuff happens at city hall and you're like, how did that happen. i'm going to tell you, if these things don't go through, you'll know how it happened. we have to put on the pressure of supervisors minus the four that are cosponsored rafael mannedleman is not with us today. the future of the city depends on it and safety of the community depends on it. and we want to thank you for today for being advocate and most importantly for putting your lives on the line to make sure that people are safe and protected, because i know it's not easy, walking up on somebody even though you know they have a weapon, asking them not to stand in front of a playground.

i know it's not easy when you have somebody in mental illness and you're trying to get them help but then they're sitting in nr own feces. we appreciate that you're hanging and helping us. it's time to change the city and we're hopeful that the board will have compassion. i'm praying, i am praying that they see the light and they see the need and they see the understanding of what this community is going through. and they have compassion and understanding. and that they do the right thing and push aside the politics, the future of the city depends on it and again we're grateful for all of you who are joining us today and with that, i want to introduce our district attorney brooke jenkins. >> we love you, mayor london breed. we love you. >> good morning, everybody, when i took over just 8 months

ago, i started off my speech at my swearing in saying that the tenderloin would be one of my priorities, one of my top priorities. that a eradicating the drug situation we have in san francisco would be the number one priority. it remains the number one priority, that has not changed. i am here today to advocate for this supplemental budget. as a part of that, as you just heard, my office is in desperate need of additional prosecutors. thankful to the san francisco police who have done everything to make sure that the arrest are increasing in this very neighborhood regarding drug dealing. that has lead to almost a double increase in the amount of case that's we filed. almost double, the same time period of last year with the

previous d.a. i should not have to take prosecutors off of murder cases, i should not have to take prosecutors off vicious assaults in order to staff these cases. that's why i'm standing here asking for you to advocate and push for my office to get these additional resource that's we need in order to make sure that the drug dealers in the city are held accountable as they should be. [applause] as i've gone around the city and met with community members, i have yet to hear one community that says, we feel safe. i have yet to say to hear one community that says we don't want police. i hear the office, we don't feel safe, we need greater police presence, we need to you

do more district attorney than what the last one did. but in order to make that happen, we need this supplemental budget. we need the support of everyone in san francisco to make sure that every single neighborhood has the resourced it needs from the police department so that my office can do what it needs to serve every single community, not just the ones that we believe deserve it, every single community. as a mother of two small children, i owe it to the mothers of this community not to have to drag their babies through drug dealing to take their children to school. i owe it to the mothers in this community, to make sure that their sons and daughters don't die of overdose because those are not throw away lives. those are human beings. those are human beings that need our protection as lawsuit. law enforcement.

and if they can't save themselves, we need to step up. it requires the arrest of these people who are selling deadly poison to some of our most vulnerable on the street. that's why i will continue to stand with this community and continue to fight for communities like the mission, like bay view who are suffering through some of the same issues where drug dealing has spiraled out of control, they deserve a police officer present also. they deserve my office to make sure that accountability is fair across the board. i will stand with you, at all times to make sure that this community improves and na it's not the safe haven for criminal activity. and so again, thank you for your support. i'm going to turn it over to chief scott who has been a tremendous support and somebody

who is equally educated in making these streets safer. >> good morning, district attorney jenkins and mayor breed. community, community, that is what this is about. when i look behind me, i am encouraged that tenderloin is a very challenging area and it's been that way for decades. i cannot tell you how many times i heard from many of the people standing behind me that we've had enough. i cannot tell you how many times i've heard from officers, we need help. i cannot tell you how many times and how many conversations i've had with people like dr. miller who said work with us, we can do this together. that's what community is about. as i look behind me and around this circle, i'm excited.

i'm excited because there is hope. things are changing, things are changing and we need to sustain that effort. when we talked about drug dealing, gun violence when we talk about assault and some of the things that have been mentioned by the mayor and district attorney, that's our job as police officers to take care of those problems. we have to have the people to do it. anybody running an organization at 75% will tell you that that is challenge. our workload analysis, that's where we are at. by proposition e that the board supervisors says that we need 2182 officers. as i stand here today, we have about 1600.

you do the math. the only way, the only way that we temporary bridge that gap is through overtime. and we need the funding, that is what the supplemental is all about. now let me tell you how the money is being spent. i've heard so many, so many criticisms about you're dumping all the money in the tenderloin and union square to people who have money. i would argue with that. the majority of that overtime has been spent back filling stations, the ten district stations all across the city, that impacts all the community. that is where the majority of the overtime will go. yes the tenderloin is a challenge and we have committed to providing the resource to see had this community to address problems that have been here for decades, we cannot

accept to continue the status quo. we cannot accept it. [applause] complaints about union square, let me tell you something. the embarrassment that we saw in november of 2021, put a black eye in the city that will take us years to erase. but i will tell you this, this past holiday season, things were different. i heard it from hundreds of people, things were different, there was a different feel, people felt safe when they came to our city or the people that live in the city, when they came to our shopping corridor to see shop because we invested the resources to make sure that that happen. that's how we change this black eye of what this city is seeing. people who live here, they know this is a great city. but people that don't, what they see is news articles about

people getting assaulted, news articles about needles in people's arm in every corner and you know and i know that that is not true. but that's the image that is is being portrayed. and we provide resource to see sustain what we're seeing in the tenderloin right now. i have hope, i have hope. it's an investment. it's an investment not only in public safety but it's an investment of hope because we have to change that narrative and we as is of san franciscans we need to write our own narrative about a city that knows how, a city that is bold enough to take risk even when somebody says, that's a crazy idea, because you know what, how many people copy what we do here in san francisco. [applause]

let's be bold. let's do what we need to do. let's make sure that san francisco changes the narrative. and let me tell you one other thing before i close about hope. this police station is about 500 police short. here's what gives me hope. we have doubled the number of applications 3 months or 2 months into the year than we did last year. we've had almost 1,000 applications since november. which is a tremendous up tick from where we were in 2021, that gives me hope. because people are seeing, i believe, that the city leaders are willing to invest in this police department and the policing component of public safety in this city and they're

serious about it. that gives me hope. people are seeing that we're willing to work with dr. miller at urban alcamy to do something differently and people are seeing that this can be really really good because the outcomes of what we have done are positive. people are seeing that i can come to san francisco and shop. people are seeing that when i go to lumbar, i'm going to see police officers there. we still have challenges. let me be clear about that. these problems did not happen overnight, they will not be solved overnight. but we have a commitment that we're going to do what we need to do. that's why we need your support. that's why we need your commitment and that's why we need everybody to do their part to work together to make these problems better. so thank you, mayor breed and now i will introduce supervisor

matt dordey. [applause] >> thank you so much chief scott, thank you mayor breed. you know, it's still a little weird to be here with chief scott who, just a little over a year ago, i talked to him about i said chief i want you to know i'm going to consider asking mayor breed to appoint me to her board of supervisors and the reason i wanted to do that is not because i had the resume but because of my recovery from drug addiction to consider me for this role for a job that i never thought i would want let alone want. when i look at the possibilities about the city, when i city the people struggling with substance use disorder on our streets, i see

human beings, that's what mayor breed saw, when she gave the bull shit speech. human beings, people struggle with substance use disorders we're seeing. and i make no apologies that i am fighting for the lives of drug addicts and not the livelihoods of drug dealers. i make no apology for it. let me just say, we have a police staffing shortage in san francisco. and one number that chief scott left out is that 500 of the police officers we have, are eligible for retirement right now. we have a lot of public safety challenges that we need to solve and we're not going to make much progress solving anything if we can't solve our police hiring and under staffing crisis and that start with this.

we need this budget supplemental, i urge my colleagues to support it, i urge all of you to put the heat on city hall and understand that this is necessary but not sufficient because the next thing we have to do is bring in more cops. this is a world class city that deserves a fully staffed police department and we've got to get to work on it. thank you so much. and now, i want to introduce my colleague, joe longardio. >> good evening everyone, i i'm joe longorai, i want to talk about the sunset, from golden park to daily city, 32,00

thousands. on my given night, there is 7 police officers for 32,000 people. to would be lower if not for the overtime. just four years, we've lost half of our police officers serving the sunset station. it's vital that we pass this funding supplement so we can do the base line support for our police officers. and it's not just about the money, the last police academy only had 12 graduates. and the current academy are 8. we have a shortage of over 500 officers. so yes, we need more resources, and we need to pay a competitive wage and retain police officers but we need to know. our police department has

implemented 90% of reformed, it's honorable to be a police officer in san francisco today. we need to tell people that so people are willing to apply. our city leaders need to support our police department, because it's what our residents want, the residents in the sunset want public safety, they want more police officer. we just had a cadalltic theft and the owner came out and he was shot at in the sunset. we need to support the police department and we need to fund what they need so residents can feel safe, thank you. [applause] >> hi everyone i'm catherine stefani, i'm the district 2 supervisor for the west side of san francisco. and i want to say thank you for everyone for being hered.

--here today. i want to thank the mayor, you have my vote. thank you for creating safer streets and we need more of it and to chief scott, thank you, thank you, thank you for continuing to persevere under very hard times in san francisco. you know, i want to say i'm also a mother, i have an 18-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter and sometimes they say things that i don't understand. like that's fire, and i'm like, what does that mean, cool. and they say things like you're so basic, okay is that a bad thing? i'm so basic but when i think about public safety as a san francisco city supervisor, public safety is the basic foundation of all of it! and if we are not doing everything we can to make sure

everyone in the city all crime victims feel safe, then we are failing san francisco and we are failing all of those who visit and all those who live here. right now, in southern station, which is the station that covers most of district 2, we are 50 officers short and that plays out in many different ways. all our neighborhoods are suffering and i don't know a colleague of mine who have not asked chief scott or the command staff for more officers in their district because something is going wrong that requires a police officer. and in district 2, i'm sure you heard about the pal of fine arts, iconic place in san francisco, a tourist destination that we advertise all over the world and yet if you go to the palace of fine art for your wedding photos is your photographer is going to get held point. and i'm not kidding, that

happened nearly four times recently. and also 82-year-old was walking to his daughter's house in the middle of daylight and jumped by six people, they beat him up and took his watch. i went to his house and his black and blue and nose broken and he said why? i had no answers for him. my answer is we continue everything we can for public safety. the fact that we're almost 600 officers short, i don't understand why people that translates into we don't have the enough officers, the investigationing and everything we do. and this formula to come up to determine how much police officers we need, what is this? the voters agreed to, the board of supervisors has agreed to

it, and the police commission has agreed to it. and based on the 911 calls, we're close to 600 officers short and that tells me we better dam well do something about it. we only had 12 people in the last graduating class, we make sure that we fund overtime so we have officers out there to do the basics, keep san franciscans safe. i am proud to support this supplemental, people need to feel safe, it's a basic right it is it's the foundation of everything. we talked about downtown recovery, we talk about converting commercial do residential. we talk about all of these ideas but you know what everybody says, clean and safe. that is the foundation of everything. and this supplemental is so important and i'm tired of playing politics with public safety.

it's time we put an end to that. at this point, i want to introduce the people from the community that tell us their experience and i want to hear from hareland wong and oslina, a small business owner in the tenderloin. thank you again everybody for being here. [applause] >> in the last six and a half months that i lived in tenderloin i have been caught in two cross fires, three break in attempt while when i was working inside at 8:00 am. and one public murder with drug dealers using machete all at front. i came to this country for a

better life twenty years ago. i have been running my business for 12 years and still considered a low income business owner in san francisco. i pay multitude of taxes, permit and ridiculous fees in rent. it was doable before pandemic, but now, i'm hanging on by the thread. my father reminds us we can all have our version of pursuit of happiness, i cannot have mine because san francisco is too worried about idea of limits and drug dealers by allowing open air drug you're giving permission for aggressive behavior that is causing people and reframe people to come business like mine.

this is noting compassion, this is usery. tenderloin is famously known as contentment zone, difunctional, but we forget the beating hearts of children, mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers embodiment of economy. we want change now, not tomorrow. tenderloin disease is spreading throughout the city which has been going on for decades. my job is to tell stories through my food, and i'm not trained to protect and preserve life. these are the jobs of police and policy makers.

we desperately need enforcement and policy. things are changing in tenderloin with focus on increased police activity. this small police enforcement are making an impact. we need to keep consistency with our uncommitted opinions. we can't continue spending billions for safety short lived effort. it's a fundsment agreed upon civil right flt it's time to keep our sleeves up and not succumb to the complex. people ask me, why here? i remind me, my country birth me but this place made me. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody.

thank you for all being here to address a very important concern that our very issue that concerns our city. the funding for the police department. i'm sure you heard about cities having sister cities. well for san francisco china town, tenderloin is a sister community. san francisco, china town, our chamber of commerce, presents the largest celebration of the lunar new year outside of asia. hundreds and thousands of people spend millions of dollars and fill all of our hotels during the celebration. due to the resent gun shooting, the question on everyone's mind was what will be done?

to ensure that the environment for all participants, a safe environment all our attendees and all our parade volunteers. before a single fire cracker was lit, i reached out to captain farmer and he coordinated with police officers to work overtime to ensure a safe environment for everyone. to support our short supply of police department, the short supply to the police department, we must provide a budget so we can train new officers. i urge the board of supervisors to approve the mayor's proposed

budget for fund the overtime pay to our police officers. this will will ultimately benefit our communities. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank you all for your patience, i know this has been long program but i have one more speaker before we wrap it up. many know that my grandmother raised me when i lost my grandmother there were a lot of grandmothers in china town that adopted me and it filled my heart with so much joy, especially the next speaker who basically lead the charge, embraced me and i'm going to tell you something when i saw all of the uprising around the challenges that were happening where many of our elderly, mostly chinese grandmothers were being attacked, it broke

my heart because i couldn't imagine how their families and communities were feeling especially if something like would have happened like that to my grandmother. i don't know what i would do. so ms. wong spends a lot of time in china town, on the 30 stockton and on the subway but she goes to visitation valley, china town, she is all over the city and i think about her often and always happy and encouraged to see her. she never asked to speak but when i invited her to this press conference, she said, i've got something to say. ladies and gentlemen, welcome my grandmother, ms. wong. [applause]

>> [speaking chinese]

>> my name is tuka wong, i live in the apartment building near the subway station on 4th and 5th street. just a few days ago, i saw some drug dealers outside of the sub station and one of the suspect almost followed me home and i discovered that i decided not to return to my apartment. i was fine after. i'm here to express my support for police department and support the work for public safety. thank you. [translator] >> mayor london breed: and

before i wrap up, i got emotional and i forgot. what we're asking the supervisor to do four things. number one, make sure that they approve the urban alcamy contract so we continue the work that they do. [applause] number two, we want them to approve the supplemental for 27 million dollars that will not only support the overtime to support basic services in the department but also help us with retired police officer as ambassadors in the community. number three, we are asking for the support for the supplemental for the district attorney's office to prosecutor the people who are dealing poison fentanyl in this community and all over the city. [applause] and last but not least, you heard a lot of conversations about the police department. and i know that you know, even

my own history with the department has not been the best and as the mayor of the city, i want to make it clear, taking care of the city means taking care of this workforce and means being responsible and taking care of the police officers who serve and protect the city every single day. we need them but we also need to show them kindness and compassion, it's been a hard time for law enforcement we know throughout the country. but here in san francisco i'm so proud of the reforms and the work that we're doing. i'm so grateful for many of the officers who go the extra mile providing narkan for those overdosing, who pay for those sleeping on the street out of their own pocket, trying to connect them through services. i'm introducing today through the police association a wage increase that will allow us to be more competitive with the

entire bay area region and retention bonuses so we don't continue to hemorrhage police officers. we know we're short and we want them to show up during the challenging time, yes we want to hold offices accountable and change our reform to make sure that there is fairness. but we also want to make sure that people who experience crime get the support and services that they need, that we have police officers who feel confident that they have the support of the community, so they can be proactive when somebody says, hey i need your heap, something is going on here. there is a lot of work that we have to do. and the fact that we have people from urban alcamy who many did not have good interactions with police, they want to work together, that is testament to a significant change in this city that is

necessary in order to improve public safety. so it's time that we listen to the people of the city, it's time that we put aside our ideaology and politics and the community of tenderloin and entire city, depends on it. thank you for being here today. [applause]

>> 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.

>> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact.

[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested.

one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on

the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last

show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and

i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting.

one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.

>> today's special guest michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks, music and other developments. mr. ginsberg, welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question, how can will park's system play a part in the

economic recovery? >> well, our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic. parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role >> people are out and having a good time. there are special events happening in parks. concerts and the weather is good. the best way parks play a role in our economic recovery is to motivate -- people to come to our city from other places and to motivate our residents to get out and enjoy themselves

>> exciting to her we opened a new park and there is another. what is special about the 2 new projects? >> sure. san francisco is going through, i think, a park renaissance. we opened the francisco park, which is just magnificent property that sits on top of an old reservoir dating back to the gold rush and has tremendous views of the golden gate bridge and bay and a place where you can bring kids. a cool play ground to bring dogs an amazing dog park. a meadow to watch the fireworks. fog willing. fleet week, community gardens, it is just such an incredible unique space. we are proud of it. >> and then right down the road in a few years, we will be pleased to welcome everybody to

india basin in the bay view in the southeast part along the southern water front. 1.7 miles of waterfront that until recently has been under utilized and under fulfill in the a community this needs it the most. india basin is really a feel moment for the bay view and southeastern part of san francisco. it is going to be san francisco's next great and one of the most important parks >> that's fantastic. now, we have a great history of having conference in parks. can you touch on the year's highlights? >> upcoming and on going. this is something i'm particularly excited about. i don't think there is ever have been more music in san francisco parks than there is right now >> so, let's go around the city and talk about music. stern grove, is in the 85th

concert season. back after the pandemic. in this just fabulously treasured meadow. free concerts all summer long. in golden gate park, at the man shell not guilty music concourse free concerts 4 days a week. wednesday, friday, saturday and sundays. we have sing are song writer wednesday. jazz and seoul on friday. communities performances on saturdays of different kindses and sundays reggae it is extraordinary. and of course, later this summer we are pleased to welcome back outside lands for an exciting 3 days and 3 nights of incredible concerts and food and community. as we go across the city, we got wonderful performances in the jerry theatre in mc clarnin park

a special jerry day coming back to the theatre. on june 21st we had make music day appearing all over the city in park in civic center. on the marina green. again in golden gate park. it has been a great time for music and ties into the recovery and the tremendous energy where we are feeling and -- you know anybody who says san francisco is struggling needs to hang out in the park system. where well is joy and beaut and he inspiration every day. >> so, the san francisco board of supervisors passed legislation to make jfk drive in will golden gate park car free. how have residents responds. >> the san francisco residents responds positive. families. bicyclists, joggers, people with dogs and people from every corner of san francisco have

discovered that jfk promenade is a treasure. it enhances the parks so much. imagine a beautiful day in the park and weather on foot or on bike you are strolling down jfk, you pass sixth avenue and head to the music concourse for a concert or the museum; it is joyous and made golden gate park sproord. i have been hering about disk golf and pickle ball. can you tell us about and where people can practice and play. >> i knew you were going. pickle ball the fastest growing sports. you know across between 10 and is ping pong and may be with a whiffle ball. ping pong on a life sized course it is easy to learn about skill based people who are good are irrelevant good and it is easy to play.

it is fun and accessible. we are trying to accommodate sport. we have over 55 courts around san francisco. 11 dedicated just for pickle balt others per pickle ball and tennis. we have 5 or 10 space you can play pickle ball indoors and keeping up with the tremendous popularity of the sport. disk golf has a loyal following it is also going to continue to growch we opened our first disk golf course in golden gate park in 2005. and you know, whether you are an expert at disk golf or beginner, the idea of chucking a frisbee through the beautiful park and. it does not matter what you score t. is just a good excuse to be outside and enjoy a

beautiful day in nature. >> exactly. well, thank you. i really appreciate you coming on the show, thank you for the time you have given us tuesday. >> thank you, i hope everybody enjoys summer. get out and play in san francisco's parks. >> thanks again. that's it for this episode we will back with another shortly you have been watching san francisco rising i'm chris manners, thanks forrrrrrrrrrrrrr

>> shared spaces have transformed san francisco's adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their neighborhood centers are more vibrant and mildly. sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. we're counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. people with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. these devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long

and 30 inches tall. they can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. but during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. please provide at least one wheelchair accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. to ensure that wheelchair users can get to the wheelchair accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. nobody wants to trip or get stuck. cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. instead, electrical cables should run

overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf.govt/shared spaces.