good morning, everyone. welcome to the monday, april 24th, 2023 meeting of rules of

the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor dorsey, chair and i'm joined by chair walton and committee member safai. on behalf of my clothes i express gratitude to our clerk victor young and the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting our producer today which is ms. coleena mendoza. >> the board of supervisors and commit eye have hybrid meetings and providing remote access and comment via phone. >> those here will speak first and then those on the phone line. the public call in number is streaming across the stream. you will hear the meeting discussion but in listening mode. when your item come up and public comment is called those

in person lineup to speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the line if you meaner phone turn down your television and all other listening devices you may be using. you may submit comment in writing e mail them to myself at victor. young sfgov.org you may sends them by u.s. mail to city hall. 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california, 94102. items acted upon today will appear on the agenda on may second, 2023 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. call item one. >> item one is motion approving rejecting the nommation for appointment of vaiesa aquino to the assessor agency commission.

>> term ending november 30 of 24. >> thank you, mr. clerk. >> ms. aquino is person. welcome to rowels committee the floor is yours. >> >> good morning. thank you and rules committee supervisor walton, matt dorse and he supervisor safai. thank you for allowing me to speak i'm a native of san francisco a resident of dog patch and active member of my community. i have lived in this community for 20 years and during that time i seen importance and impact that redevelopment can have oi a community. i am proud to have received 2 certificate of honors recognition of the board of supervisor in 2015 for dog patch party honors the work i have done to improve social

interaction in dog patch and 2016 for my leadership in community service and work to improve conscience of angel al and he beautifying our neighborhoods temperature is important top have projects benefit local community through small, local business, contracting, local hiring and as well as having a neighborhood preference for the affordable housing we build. i believe that smart sustainable develop the can improve quality of life and preserve the character of our city. >> i'm committed to working on the ocii commission to ensure our city continues to thrive and evolve in a way that benefits everyone. i thank you for considering my candidacy, i look forward to the opportunity to contribute to planerating long with my skills and experience to the commission. i also brought with me 2 letters of recommendations if you need

it. and have an amazing day and go warriors. thank you. >> thank you. and vice chair walton >> thank you, chair dorse. thank you very much ms. aquino. excited see you wanting to serve in this role and manner as we address all the work around former redevelop will agency and that is happen nothing district 10 and close to your community, i am excited see someone from dog patch in this role. thank you very much for being willing to serve. >> thank you. i appreciate your wellingness to serve and value your experience and community out roach and engagement and that is manage that is important before supervisor walton and i ocii is important to aloft neighborhoods

we represent. reach out to me i will make sure you have my phone number and aware of my staff if there is anything mull pull neighborhoods but i want to make sure we are all engaged i appreciate your willingness to serve. >> thank you very much. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you so much and i think there is no one else who wants to ask a question. mr. clerk open this up to public comment. why members of public who wish to speak and joining person should lineup at this time. for those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue to begin your comments. there are no speakers in the room and nobody on the call in line. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment is closed. and i'd like to make a motion to

strike the word reject from the motion before it and send this to the full board. we have a roll call >> on the motion to instructor: reject the motion and recommend as amended voice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. jot motion pass without objection. >> thank you, mr. young an ums item one approving the major's nomination for appointment of vanessa a queeno to community investment and infrastructure. goes to the full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you, all. i appreciate it. >> mr. clerk call item 2. >> item 2 is ordinance amending the administrative code to require the board approval of a funding acwaying suspicion and use of law enforcement equipment of the sheriff's department consistent with state law and

improving the use of equipment policy. >> thank you, mr. clerk. this was heard become in january when this committee was chaired by my prez seszor now president aaron peskin. this ordinance satisfies the requirement under bill 481. i want to thank sheriff and all of his staff for the work on this equipment policy. especially ronnie sing joining us today. ms. singh welcome. >> good morning chair dorsey and supervisors walton and safai. i want to provide context and history on our collaboration am in is this regard it propose a fair and transparent military equipment use policy. this dates back to the work we start in the october of the last year when the ordinance was submitted to the board for approval. we had several meetings with then chair peskin and other

members of the rules committee as well as opened up comment to any of the board in preparation for the january hearing. chair peskin at this time asks us to work with the public. to really provide what i believe is the gold standard in collaboration in regards to an issue like this, that quite frankly, can be controversial. when public safety and collaboration meet, this is the product. so we worked with the american friend service committee and the other public members that came forward. myself and i want to give a huge thank you to lieutenant coons and cappine quantico. lieutenant coons and i had 17 or 18 meeting with thes american friend service committee, who in many respects is an supporter with military equipment. we provided feedback.

they provide feedback. we edited the document no less then and there a dozen times. january we made final edits. i received a helpful call from supervisor preston's office asking us about a deletion of a comment in regards to chemical agent use on crowd control. we deleted that sentence and we presented that deletion as well as other amendments in january. at this time chair peskin, supervisor chan and supervisor mandelman unanimously passed this before the full board but with caution and again i thank another member, an pierson who has been great in guiding this criminal lawyer in the world of civil ordinance and legislation indicated that we wanted make sure in true spirit and under the guidelines that we made sure we have 30-day window after that amendment. because that amendment was considered substantive for the purchase passing.

so we have waited now to present in to the new rule it is committee members and i'm available for questions as provided, the updated use policy in a more digestible format. also the power point that has been on our website but that the members have a hard copy of this morning and i'm available for questions. if it is a technical question, i will leave it up tollow lute coons, if a policy question i have upon captain quantico availablism hope that gives you an idea where we have been, upon westbound and are today in hopes we can get this approved and before the full board. >> great. thank you very much. mrs. singh. colleagues any questions or comments? >> okay. i want to express my appreciation. i having been around city hall for a language time i appreciate that the amount of work that is

put in on the front end saves us headaches later in the process. so i want to extend my appreciation to you, sheriff, my colleague assistant district attorney attorney's office, obviously, for the help they lend to us and everybody at the sheriff's office for all the great work you did on this. thank you. mr. clerk open this up to public comment? >> members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person should lineup at this time. for those remote on the public call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue wait until you are unmute exclude that is your queue to comment. can we have our first in person speaker? >> hello board of supervisors. speaking of the sheriff, i got a badge here from this weekend's emergency preparedness fair over

at on larkin. that was a great event this item is great. equipment usage. um -- and i want to say thank you. . thank you. no further persons in the room can we have our first telephone commenter? i'm jennifer chu with american friends service committee, we worked with ms. singh and lieutenant coons over several drafts. the proposed policy being considered is compliant with state law and incorporates better practice compared to first drafts. some better practice include for the weapons clarifications on authorized use and providing context on recent use. while we believe there are areas

for improvement in considering more careful low to authorize use for assault weapons we phase out the automatic fire weapons no longer needed. we recommend this referred to the full board for consideration and look forward to working with ms. singh and lieutenant coons and the sheriff's office as they appropriate for their annual use report and dialogue on how policies can better protect the people of san francisco including vulnerable populations. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> can you hear me? yes, we can. >> thank you i'm john coland i work for the american fund service committee and part of the many meetings with the sheriff's office andllow lute coons and weityerate that we

appreciate the responsive back and forth about the policies. which we get in the weeds. i recommend you forward this to the full board and believe that the approximate machine gun in the sheriff's office is that is not therzed for deployment >> and supervisor rule. ultimately we support that. [inaudible] and that also appreciate the policies for use of some items that can be dangerous or harmful. include the consideration as whether children or people who [inaudible] or have

environmental health crisis. that those be considered in the over all of whether or not to deploy the weapons. again, hope this committee will forward to the full burden for the consideration. thank you. >> thank you. that completes our callers on the opinion call in line. >> thank you, mr. young. public comment on item twom is closed. >> and i would like to make a motion to move item 2 to the full board of supervisors with positive recommendation. >> yes. >> on the motion to recommend. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you on a unanimous vote item 2 funding acquisition and

use of sheriff department equipment under the code goes to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk do we have further business >> that completes our agenda for today. >> thank you, everyone we are adjourned

>> 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.

[music] >> san francisco is known as

yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s.

he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san

francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property.

he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

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

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

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

to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take yourself and be your authentic

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city.

this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool

part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪)

>> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you

know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says

"you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help

>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are

available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and

adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel

good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. am at noin fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first responders, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is brooke jenkins. >> hi, i'm chris

manners and you are watchs san francisco rising, the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining our city. ourguest san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins here to talk about theopeioid crisis, criminal justice and more. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. let's start with organized restale threft. some jurisdictions across the country imposed most of the punishment against people shop lifting in groups but that may be applied disproportionately to epipooal and doesn't address the organization behind it all. how can we make sure both prosecute the ring leaders behind the crimes and make sure justice is handed out eveningly? >> making sure we get to the higher level of organizations in the organized retail threrft area so that is something myophilus is very much focused on working the police department on. looking at organized retail

threat ringzsx but we have to make sure people are being caught who have stealing and that is a big challenge in the sit a so we have worked with retailers and small business owners to insure the necessary protocols and procedures are in place to at the very laest catch people who are stealing because they have been running out of the stores and therefore facing no consequence so we have to start there and trying to do more with intervention with the youth who are some of the population doing some of the threfts. many stores have turned to not detaining employees stealing oertrying to stop them and that change in procedure lead to making it very difficult for the police department to capture these people stealing. we have been working with them on a change in their protocol going back to the way it used to be done so we can actually have the opportunity to have people face consequences. >> right. so, let's move to the opioid crisis

which had a devastating impact across the community and across the country, including san francisco. how can your office help address the issue? >> the main thing is going back to where people feel there is a consequence dealing drugs in the city. we can't treat drug steel dealing as a victimless crime. we have ooverage 2 people dying a day from overdose. there are victims of this offense so quha what is did is say no longer the case we decriminalizing drug sales in san francisco as the da office. we have to put consequence on the table and insure the most agregiouss sellers so massive quantityties of fentanyl, some enough to kill all most half the city. sometimes with people with wep ens and guns are multiple of cases with fentanyl are treated differently then thoges with small contties so i ask those people detain in

custody. we can't have them on the street hours later, but also trying to work with the police department and our city making sure our laws are enforced. it is the only people people suffering from addiction will have a opportunity at recovry. imagine if you are trying to get clean and every 10 steps doin the block you are offered the drug you have been addicted to. it is impossible. that is one way we are dealing with the supply side and we are taking a different approach on the demand side, which is to say, if people are publicly using drugs over and over again, that we believe we need to intervene in those situations and so the police are citing them and when somebody reaches 3 of the citations, we then file a complaint, but route them into a treatment court to try to help them get help. >> they have a option take treatment or face charges? >> correct. essentially. we of course encourage treatment because that is what

these folks need. >> absolutely, absolutely. san francisco is known for being forfront of criminal justice reform with initiatives such as community justice center and restoreative justice, how do you plan to build on the efforts and push for aggressive policies insuring we have a fair system that holds people accountable? >> i have been clear accountability comes in many different forms. historically, da office used one form and that is incarceration. the way i functioned as a prosecutor over the years is make sure we are finding the appropriate form of accountability for each and every person for their specific circumstance, and so for some people it may be incarceration, others it is treatment and going through behavioral health to stabilize mental health issue. some it is say ing we toopt see you get a job so we require that you go through a trade program so you can get a skill that allows you to take care of yourself in a

different way. for me it is investing in those opportunities which requires us to be partnering with community based organizations to identify what programs we can send people to, but i'm very much invested in seeing our collaborative courts, which is what community justice center, drug court, young adult court seeing those courts thrive and encouraging the lawyers to explore those opportunities. >> right. what role do you think the da office can play addressing the issue of police misconduct and promoting accountability? >> our job is to prosecute police officers when they commit such misconduct and use excessive force in a way that is illegal so we'll continue to maintain that is our job and our position. we prosecute all crime in san francisco, it is not about what your statue is, what your position is or what

office you hold. the law will always be our standard. we can't treat differently where they come from, whether they wear a uniform or not, our standard is the law. for me, as a black latino woman it is issue very personal to me. we had a death in police custody in my family that i heard about my entire life. i'm raising two black children including a black son who you know, i will have to talk about these type of issues as he grows up. i was out raged long before george floyd. the list goes on and on, but as a prosecutor i have to maintain one standard and it is whether somebody according to the law has committed a crime and so that's what we always look at. >> absolutely. finally, what message do you have for the people of san francisco and what you hope to accomplish during your tenure? >> i want the people

of san francisco to know i'm committed serving the function the da office was designed to serve which is make sure we promote public safety across san francisco. like i said, we have to have accountability in our city. what we see going on in our streets is the result of people feeling as though there was none. they didn't fear even the police walking by as they were committing a crime because there was a belief that even if you arrest me, the da office isn't going to do anything that i'm afraid of experiencing, and so we want people to have a healthy fear of what a consequence will be, but i also want san francisco to know we are a da office that stands by the val aoos we have here in san francisco which is second chances, compassion, responsible alternative to incourseeration bought the end of the day accountability has to be what people said back on the street or community in a fashion where they can

succeed. every time somebody cycles into the system we are thoughtful what the person needs to get back on their feet and not create another victim in the future. >> quite right. thank you. thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you have given us today. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll back for another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time.

all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20

or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want

something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be

the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him.

>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> president alias can i take roll. >> please. >> clerk: commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez is excused. >> vice president. >> present. >> president elias you have a quorum and we have paul henderson from the police accountability. >> thank you, hello welcome to our april 19, police commission meeting. sergeant can you please call the first item.

>> weekly officer presentation to an officer that has gone beyond and above officer mohamed bay view station. >> welcome, good to see you. >> mine too. >> thank you, chief scott, thank you president elias, good to see you again. fellow commissioners and our new acquaintance, commissioner henderson. i'm from bay view station, i want to thank you for allowing me to speak before you tonight and have the distinction to present an outstanding officer to receive this police recognition award. before i begin, i would like to point out that bay view station has some of the toughest officers. we have many deserving candidates. i first met officer mohamed,

when i was lieutenant working at park station. back then he was assigned to the hardest shift, the midnight watch. shortly after, he was transferred to baby station. like a lot of captains we're having some staffing challenge and i had my mine and one included the third street corridor. it's not an easy assignment. i'll say that again, it's not an easy assignment. it's often a place where a lot of crime occurs, as you will hear. building strong relationships between lawsuit and the communities they serve. foot beat officers have greater opportunities to engage with the residents, identify potential problems and proactive lea dress issues before they escalate.

overall helped to create safer and more connected communities. one day, officer expressed--he felt he would better communicate and interact with the members of the community and working a foot beat would allow him that opportunity. as we continued our conversation, it became quite clear that officer sueman was the right choice and right person, besides his mild personality and smile, he continues to exemplify, in order to prevent crime, solve problems and improve the overall quality of life in our neighborhoods. he's becoming a well-known figure along the wall street

corridor. on the corner and nuke and nucom, the person became agitated. officer was able to sprint after the subject and take him into custody with the assistant of several officers despite the attempts to physically resist. an arrest search revealed a loaded handgun with a magazine concealed in the subject's waist band. the handgun was also discovered to be a ghost gun. fortunately, nobody was arrested. and an illegal handgun was taken off the street. this is just an example of the work that he does. i'm fortunate that we have hyme and i believe the city of san

francisco is very happy to have him as well. >> thank you for the description, you're doing a phenomenal job, but having spoke pen, officer thank you for your service. having spoke tone several business sxz them expressing to me the various challenges that they face with the loitering and things that happen in the area, it's a very difficult task to do foot patrol for that area. thank you for your service, and the fact that you're chasing scooters speaks to another amazing talent that you have. thank you for your service.

>> commissioner yee. >> graduations being selected for your outstanding duties and your courage making it safer for all of us. taking out that ghost gun, i could have, i guess could have caused more damage in the community. and your commitment really shows. we wish you well and continue keeping us safe and be safe yourself. thank you, officer. >> thank you, i think they want to have a picture now? thank you, again. >> we're here every first three wednesday of the month if you want to come back.

sergeant young blood won't let us. >> if any member of the public would like to make public comment on the item 1, please approach the podium. they were all dressed up from earlier too.

>> applause. >> and there is no public comment. >> next item, please. >> line item 2, general public. at this time the public is allowed to approach us. nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. you may submit public comment, in either of the wayses, email or you can submit written comments by postal service to 1235 third street. if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

>> i want to talk about my son who was murdered, 17th year august 14th, will be the 17th year that my son has been gone. i come here every wednesday and i was just asking about the money that the reward for our children and where is the money going? i'm still waiting for that. this is what i live with every day, i talk with my pitchers, this is my son and depth even

in life, i still remember, the last time i was here i talked about the five stages of grief which i still go through even after 17 years. i need my son's case solve, find a way to solve the case. find some other way to hire people to solve these cases of our children being murdered on the street. who wants to see shoulder son laying like this? --see their son laying like this? this is me standing over my son. and it's foggy. you don't want to do this. you're probably tired of looking at these pictures, but i'm not. grief never ends because love

never dies and the love for my son will never die. >> if any members of the public has any information on the murder of aubrey abicasa, you can contact us. this is the end of public comment. >> next item please. >> receive and action, and sp report. >> motion receive and file. >> second. >> if any members of the public would like to make public comment online item 3, please approach the podium. there is no public comment on

the motion. commissioner walker? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone? >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes. >> president elias, that is 7 yeses. >> line item number 4, provide an overview of incidents and events happening in san francisco. >> executive henderson and the public. i want to start by saying thank you to the commission for attending today's award ceremony and thank you for recognizing the officer of the week in the commission. that goes a long way in terms of just letting officers know

that the good work that they do is being recognized and appreciated and i know as we try to dig ourselves out of morale issues, it goes a long way. thank you for that. carter oberstone, it does go a long way. >> thank you for the invite chief, we would never been able to attend without the invitation. the chief's report, i want to give a couple of updates from the last week. we designed a tab for the website, the only thing that remains is we're going to do an introduction so that language, just to socialize this, this is something new. that language is continuing to work on and i'll post it. the other update on the department bulletin that should roll into a notice on system

update, that expired on april 7th, we did, we did need some claire tickation on what we believe may have been conflicted hang so that opinion, has been received from the city attorney's office. so we're now finishing that and i will update when that is posted as well. those of the two updates, as far as the chief's report, starting off with overall crime trends, to lead off with violent crime which is up 4%, our shootings are turning in the right direction, we're up in 5%. but to put it in perspective as a difference of three which will take but it's not a big difference. in terms of homicides with firearms, we're seen with next year and we're trending in the right direction. i would like to highlight the

homicide is 85% and, and all over the news but we did make an arrest in the murder of robert lee. just some really good work and hard work by our detectives. we have other homicides to work on and we'll continue to work on those as well. so that's, i say that because these cases that have leads, we will not give up on them. here to date, that's over almost 1600 crimes fewer than this time. so overall crime decrease for part one or is negative 10%, that's almost, 1500.

twlfs one shooting april 13 at 11:42 am and that particular incident officers responded to the shooting to the tenderloin market and deli. video footage shows they entered the market, one of the suspect wrapped the arms. the victim was able to wrestle the gun and handed it to the third person. all three ran from the scene, one of the subjects can be heard saying where is my money. that investigation is on going, we do have video but we have some more work with that. so no arrests have been made at

this time. i would like to property a pretty significant arrest on narcotic suspects in the tenderloin, this is beyond the street level work that we do. three people were taken for position of sales of narcotic following a three search warrants, during the search warrant, 4.6 kilogram as well as meth and cocaine powder and synthetic pills along with a rifle with a drum magazine and three pistols were all seized. two of the peopled these crimes while we leased on their own

recognizant and other narcotic tensions. i and just to put it in perspective, it's fimented that one kilograms of fentanyl has the potential of 500,000 lethal doses and 4.1 kilograms which is when we see has the lethal potential to affect over two million dollars. that's quite a bit of fentanyl taken off the street. as an aside, there is report that overdose is up. we still need to do a lot of work of fentanyl. we still have a lot of incidents to report. this is the 30 victim was waiting for the bus after school when the vehicle pulled up.

that is still upped investigation and this is on 414 at 745, the victim was at bo lo res park when unknown people approached him. the victim's cell phone was taken. the victim was violated by medic and released at the scene. no arrest at this point and that is still under investigation. the last thing to report we had a number of attempted stunt driving events over the weekend. we were able to cut these people off in almost every situation.

as they left the city because we went to places that they traditionally go to. we radioed pd and they picked them up on the bridges, so as i said to the commission before, our objective is to stop these things before they happen but if they can't pickup them up, if they're legally, if they're legal' able we do follow-up and sees vehicles. and that will conclude my chief's report for tonight. >> thank you, again madam

president. i just want to thank you chief scott and your command staff and all of the investigation. to resolve the incident or the murder of robert lee and other case that's are still, 1994 case as well. the reason why i say that is because it's national implication because one in particular is twitter that came out and really ravaged our city and i was appalled that that is happening to us. also on the arrest and seizure of fentanyl, 10 pounds. as you said, pretty close to city population of san francisco. so i'm glad that you, your team against this stop and apprehend the suspects as well.

and as you know, stunt driving is beginning to ram up up. it's good that we're getting a jump on it, thanks to the award ceremony that you gave to the officers, i know their family and members really truly appreciate it. thanks again, chief for all of your hard work and the rest of the command staff and members. thank you. >> commissioner walker. >> yes, thank you very much, president elias, you know that the statistics are trending good and i was watching especially the street scenes were going on. i really appreciate your

officers work in managing that, because it can be really dangerous. i guess, these were pretty large crowds. did they come from other areas over here? or did they start here and go? >> they came from other areas and we monitor open source and social media and we communicate with border police department, and chp. this particular most of them came from the areas. and once it gets going on social media, local people may join in. but a lot is coming from other areas. >> and it's so large, it's pretty hard, you look and go surround them. >> right. >> thank you for that. thank you for your following up on that. >> thank you, also chief i wanted to thank you for the [no

audio] >> thank you for that, there was a lot of hands-on that. it was really good to see the commission there and community and people coming together. thank you, it was inspiration to be there. and discussing the recruitment.

i really thank you for celebrating. >> that's nice, thank you. >> public would like to public comment, line item 4, please approach the podium. >> speaker: good evening, it's not necessarily related to the

chief's comments, it's more general, it's informational, i'm french accent, i've been here 20 years. i'm an artist. , definitely you have a tough job i want to lift the spirits. i think the times have come to unite our energy, it becomes a necessity for our city. we must unite to make san franciscan example from now on. for the rest and the rest of the world. including my country where i'm going to go, which is admission

which is to try to connect whether just sit here to make it happen really. this is very important we must walk, we are working for everybody's happiness, that's it. not my own. everybody, happiness and you use it concept, got beauty. bear with me. >> speaker: good evening, again. we're talking about the cases being solved. >> i just remember the case solved, cases take precedence

over african-american boys just like this young man that got stabbed, because they got money, it seems like. and our cases are not getting solved. but anyone that gets by a police, case because their skin was white. i keep saying my son was a white boy with blonde hair and blue eyes, is would not be dealing with this right now. i'm tired, i come here not to entertain you, i come here because i want to help. i don't want to be pacified oh ms. brown will do this or ms. brown will do that. i want something done. you put on the agenda where the money is going. when are they going to get

hired? but still i come with the pictures with my son on a gurney but other cases get solved. it should not be like that. what i do need to be? do i need money? what to i need? what do i need to look like? tell me what do i need to have. >> speaker: first of all i with like to say good evening to everyone. i would like to say that you know, every, every city and every state we need good

policing. so the police is a good thing everywhere you go. but you know, i had an incident with the police officer and it was a while back. and when you try to move on you try to forget the episodes and incidents you had. but when you continue to see the police officer that you had the incident and you make the report, it should not be no bullying or taunting or no reaction from the police that you made the report on. so this is one of the situations that i'm having with the officer, i made a police department and i tried to go about living my life and try to do the right thing and be a productive citizen, but making like bullying. when you ride past me, you see me on the street. then, you make it a point to slow down like you kind of

casing me and then you go back, double across to make the u turn to come back across me like you're kind of like hunting me. well, like i said you need good policing and you know, and to say something back would create a situation. >> thank you. >> that is the end of public comment. update on future commission meeting. director henderson. >> thank you. >> all right so currently on the dpa, we have 286 cases that are pending and open. of those cases 23 of them have

investigations whom have exceeded nine months or still a year but those are the case that's are still on going that have gone on past nine months. and of those 23 cases 19 are toll cases, meaning that they have cases that are active in the criminal or civil arenas so time is not running on them. there are also 7 cases with waiting on decision from the commission and still 85 cases that are pending decisions from the chief. just fyi, a lot of those unpacking the details where the 85 cases are contained in the audit, both what is forthcoming in front of this commission. in terms of the weekly trends for this week, the top trend for allegations has been for against officers failing to

investigate claims made of the public. and if you want a break down of the allegations as they come in from the public, they're available on our website. in terms of a district break down from allegations coming into the agency, the top two precincts this week are for central station, the top allegation being failing to properly investigate. there were four allegations made in central down from last week where it was five. the second highest was tenderloin station, there were four allegations up one more since last week when there were three allegations made. the top allegation was about selectively enforcing traffic laws. presumably or hopefully some of that was made on the d g.o. that we had which will clarify many of these issues.

steve flaherty will be given the, i'm not sure if i mentioned it before won an award for the audit. so we won a national award, it's a big deal, it's not given out very often, it's never been given to an oversight agency except for dpa in conjunction with the controller's office, this is the first year that we've been pretty independent and creating and it won an award, i'll try mentioning it again, because i know you want to know. in terms of out reach, this week, both my chief of star and steve we're really excite

beside this partnership that is going to put work back in the community so people will see us more broadly and we'll be able to host broader events separate from just in the building here on market and vaness. we do have a case this week, later on tonight in closed session and our lawyers are here, stephanie wilson is here on that case. also present tonight with me is senior investigator brent bajin and my deputy, my chief of staff is also here. if anyone would like to get in contact, we're available online, or you can contact us on the phone at 415-421-6621 i'll reserve my comments for agenda comment as they come up and relevant to the agency.

that concludes my weekly presentation which was shorter than the chief's. >> i see, substantially. >> not that it's a competition, but. >> i'm glad to hear you're collaboration with sf safe because i know before the pandemic, you had done a lot of out reach and host events on weekends and night and they were intense. one of the things that it's going to allow us to do, it's going to allow us to build events where we can host something, we don't have enough space for it in our office. but being able to have access in the facility, allows us to bring collaboratively communities together for broadly, so especially for public safety related issues. i think it's going to be a big real. >> yeah, and i've seen the

literature, you brought the brochures, the juvenile cards, know your rights stuff that you've done a lot of work and have done a great job in terms of bringing awareness to your organization. this summer when we get the intern it's going to be a relaunch of all the materials that is public facing so it's collaborative did i sim natured. we want to bring the agency that care about it together like the juvenile commissions or organizations that care about these issues to collaborate. you'll hear a lot about it this summer as i launch everything. >> i'm excited, i know thompson does a lot great job with the intern. whatever she says, i'm sure they will do. >> oh you'll see them. >> commissioner benedicto. >> on that note, to be able to

track, has there been any data or just agile response. >> i have not measured it to track it. we've only received positive information that appreciated and being able to track independently because people have to go in and they don't have to go in and ask, they can check twice a day to see what the status of their case and what is going on. as we have limitations, i have limitations in terms of budget, i like to empower to reach more people and to reach them more effectively and this is one of the tools for doing that. it's really tricky with the technology upgrades, because we're a city agency and it has to be structured.

we cannot go in and make our own website. so it's, it's small movements like this that make a difference for the department, but i'll ask, my tech people so i can give you more detailed answered become people that use it seem to like it. i know there was a next stage to allow access to better information on that at that time us. >> no. >> that's a goal to supply that. people were not working on i just don't happen to know it right here. but if you give me notice, not publicly i'll come and tell you, so i'll have the answer for you. i'll tell you next week. i know there were. >> we will not be here next

week. >> i'm going to tell you next week. i'm going to come here. >> i'll give you an update on it. >> thank you very much, that's all. >> thank you for that report, i do have a question in looking at the report, the largest category is failing to do whatever the complaintant wants. i'm going to coordinate with the other departments that may be better served to make those and how we coordinate with it. so i'm going to follow-up with you to go into the details. >> it's one of the big issues that people are contacting the agency for when they feel like

they want or demand services and the department is not able or does not give them what they're asking for, managing the expectations is a big deal. i would love to sit down with you or share some of the details. >> great i love that. >> the other thing that we can also do in response to what commissioner benedicto was saying was in tracking the cases, another great tool is tracking the tres posity, that tracks daily update of every case that dpa is involved back, having that resprocessity would be fantastic, we still have not built that out and that would be a wonderful tool for us in terms of efficiencies since we're talking about solutions. >> perfect. >> thank you no other people on the board, sergeant?

>> members of the public that would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. >> so i was saying something earlier, and sometimes it's good to go with the change and try to, hope things get better. but then, when certain situations keep occurring and the investigation, where is there an investigation because if there was an investigation, this officer does not deserve to be an in a uniform. the words that he told me, he said i'm going to either kill you or send you to the penitentiary for the rest of your life. i reported this, but not only does this officer feel like he's above the law, on record,

well i don't know if it's on record or not, but onsite as humans in the tenderloin, like his area, his beat, he sleeps with prostitutes, he planted drugs on me but i was already on parole for drugs, i got i violation and went to the pent tent re. but when i got home, he had the nerve to follow me and taunt me. i reported this, not once or twice but each time i came across this officer, to my knowledge nothing has been done and that's bad in the fine city of san francisco. >> i have somebody here that

can speak with him regarding allegations involving the department. >> next item. >> commission reports will be brief description of activity and announcements, whether to calendar any for future meetings, and commission announcements and schedule and items identified in a future meeting. i didn't i mentioned this the last time i was asked. i was asked to attend the women's luncheon at the sfpd, there were several leader speakers and commander jones was one of our speakers, our

district attorney, honorary chief scott and myself. there were hundreds of folks there. we talked a lot about recruitment. i know we're going to get our 3030 presentation later. i was inspired by all the women there doing the work and it was just wonderful to have our log', that was really excited. it was just great, i'm very excited about it and i know it's going to be how we do the

3030. so also i've been meeting on going with some of the folks, i think we're making really good steps towards having something to discuss. that exist and have something to present to the commission on that. i'm really excited about it i do feel like it's going to fill some gaps that we're noticing in some of our neighborhoods. so, i think that is it for now. but thank you, thank you. and it was great to be included in that honoring ceremony, so really happy to be there to honor our folks doing good work.

>> mriek many of my colleagues i was happy to join the awards. and i waint today recognize all the officers, parkin, roach, dias, and galvez, sambana for their heroic work and inspiring work and was glad i was able to participate or attend rather their commemoration is very well deserved. on the policy update, chief i think you said this in your report, did you say that you were going aiming to post the bureau next week? >> yes, we just need the design, hopefully by next week. i will give an update, i anticipate it will be done by then. >> and to be clear, is it the

plan for those orders to sunset after the d g.o.s in that respective areas? >> yes, when bureau orders in the past bulletins are replaced by general orders and those get deactivated. >> great, that's helpful. i do want to make clear for the record, i did say this last week, i don't think that's the problem is solved by posting. because i think the underlying issues, the department does not have the authority to issue a policy through bureau orders, so i'm concerned about the precedence that going forward. i'm glad to hear that the plan is to resinned them. that's an important step. i think that the commission should and i'm going to respectfully ask that we

agendize this for next mobsinger pass a resolution to make it formal that the bureau orders will be rescinded upon the d g.o.s, the underlying d g.o.s. i know with d g.o., the plane clothes d g.o., we're pretty much to the finish line with that, is that right chief? >> yes, it's deep into the development. >> on the social media dgo, do you happen to know where we are on that? >> so there has not been any work on social media. we do have something to start with. that needs to be involved as well.

there was no investigative media, but i would assume that the commission would want to work on that as well. >> right, i know that this is commissioner yanez's territory and i don't want to step on his toes, if the issue is to issue an order is because there is exgent cc, we should be moving moving full speed ahead. so it would be my inclination that the commission should pass resolution to rescind to the order unless the department initiates a working group in 30 days or something of that

nature. otherwise we can't have an order out there. i'm very concerned about the precedence that that sets and the damage that it can do to police commission if the department is just issuing your orders that are making new policy. i'm going to ask that we agendize that for next month, thank you. >> thank you very much for my report, last thursday i went over to sf stop crime briefly and met w9 people and also

dropping by was captain heart to meet with the community members over there that does know him. and also reported that, the report of the 9.07, addition of the chief additional language to it. i appreciate the chief's hard work. i also want to thank the mayor and chief scott for today's event for chorally police officer ceremony as for us and the commission, we have the officers who put their life on the line and hear the great work that they're doing here as well. and i also want to report from the executive--executor of philips that passed away,

executor michael asked me to say that we recognize him in as we, you know, for his hard work and signing you also, when he came over in the 1973 and started cofunded lark ins use street currently and many of the youth that are out as well. he has a helped many of the police form in the tenderloin, set up the tenderloin task force. i want to thank him for making our city safer especially on the tenderloin, that's all i have to report. >> thank you, commissioner byrne. >> thank you, president elias. chief with the bureau orders

can they be forwarded to the commission staff? thank you and finally, i reiterate my request are there any committees of three that have been formed and who was on the committee so that we know, so the rest of the commission knows exactly what is going on? and i respectfully ask that the minutes reflect that i asked that again. >> thank you, the answer is no. commissioner benedicto. >> thank you, president elias. >> excuse me, there is no committees or no? >> that was your question, and the answer is no. >> just that the minutes are clear, there is no other

committees of three people on this board right now. >> no. >> and will the president inform us if committees are form. >> we have a committee assignment so you will receive that information. >> thank you. >> uh-huh. >> thank you, president elias. i want today echo what all the commission said about the quarterly ceremony. i also want to recognize the commanding officers of each of the station for the work that they've done. that is captain and captain martin and acting captain farmer for their excellent work as well. one of the areas where there is a current bureau hopefully that will continue to move through the process quickly.

i no long term the commission is working on update to department general order 3.01 to streamline that process and clarify things including jurisdiction but in the meantime, the chief questioned resolution at minimum for the publication orders. i'm working on that. i spoke to lerona today yesterday and to get their input as well and i hope to have that for the commission in may. commissioner yanez and i are work oning a resolution reaffirming this commission for heart and expect that resolution to be up in may or june. thank you. >> members of the westbound

that would like to make public comment regarding commission reports, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. mine item 7, discussion on 30 by 30 initiative updates. discussion? >> i'm commander nicole jones as the administration bureau and i'm here to provide you an update with 30 by 30 efforts. and i want to apologize in advance that i'm the end of a two-week cold that my nine-year-old gave me, shout ot moms. sfpd signed on to the 30 by 30

initiative and the ultimate goals *f this program are two fold. recruitment component to increasing the representation of women and law enforcement by increasing the representation of women and our academy class to see 30% by the year 2030. there is also a retention component for policies and success of women throughout their careers. sfpd along with other agencies have agreed to do the following. to take measures to increase the representation of women in all ranks of law enforcement, to ensure that policies and procedure are free from bias, to promotion provincial of women officers and to ensure our culture is inclusive respectful and supportive of women in all rank s and rules of enforcement. provide the department with specific guidance for the first

months of participation known as phase 1. collect base line demographic data. specific data relates to overall demographic and includes sworn officers by gender and gender in conjunction with other factors including race, age, rank assignment and tenure and data relate today recruits including recruits by gender and gender to race and age. to our information will be collected in late april and submitted in early may to maintain compliance by our 30 by 30 deadline. we're ahead of our game, we collected a lot of this data already so i feel confident that we'll be able to get our information in because we already have it. another is to distribute anonymous survey to all sworn women. the goal is to learn about women's concerns and priority and perspective on the opportunities within that department.

to date we have had 107 of the 274 sworn swem respond. the next action item was to promoting women strategic women through public statement and internal orders. we have a very good foundation already and we already developed several document that's speak directly to this, namely the strategic plan 1.0 that was developed as part of the recommendation 89.9 and racial equity action plan. additionally sfpd issued a press release in conjunction with women's history month announcing our participation and reaffirming our commitment to women in law enforcement. another action item was to affirm zero tolerance for

discriminatory practices or harassment. sfpd has a robust policy already, which is prohibiting discrimination and retaliation. we also issued department notices related to the rights and responsibility under the whistleblower laws. also specific action items relate today lactation and nursing mothers, so each of has a designate lactation location. the department schedules flexibility and temporary accommodations for nursing mothers. we have a lactation accommodation that is outlined and all of this overseen by penny c who is the coordinator. the last immediate action item was to ensure all equipment for women officers is appropriate and fit to their proportions. so sometimes the equipment have

specific options which is our vest and uniform. and additional knee we have a uniform. so we're ahead of game on many of these items and we already had a lost infrastructure in place, but just for the first six months, we're going to fine tune and expand as we move forward in the next 18 months. so in terms of demographic updates in the last six months, we have made a slight improvement on gender demographic fairly nominal in that we had 14.3 preparation when we signed the pledge. and you're going to hear this a lot from me, we have work to do and we're very commit today increasing that.

i want to give the caveat, we also had one class in 2013. when we get more data, we'll have a better understanding but traditionally in the last couple of years we've had about 20%. so things have started promising, hopefully we can maintain that. in the addition to the immediate action step, sfpd has taken numberous supportive action. our new sfpd websites features women throughout. can you go to slide 8, here are a few example from the website that demonstrate the highlight of women.

our annual summit was held on march 2, commissioner yanez attended. we reached out for on candidates. of our marketing is geared towards attracting women. we released three videos featuring sworn women. one of the video accompanied our march 3030 redress. the slogan is be the change, which we believe embodies the value. and the kind of what we're trying to attract, women in particular. we we make sure that we have ample representation. one female recruiter and we're

continuing that trend in 2023. we transitions away from the trigger pool, to a strength grip test which is shown a much better success for women. we have dunaway with a specific height and weight which often impacted women and we worked with our hr to have our testing standards to be in more in line with those we compete with. and physical ability test, we are offering women's workout session one on one personal training, mentor ship is a huge component in supporting women.

a noupsing our formal participation in the 30 by 30 initiative. and reaffirming the apartment commitment to attention of sworn women. the 30 by 30 was issued by march 15th to better understand their experiences and needs. we have offered many women opportunities including participation in the national law enforcement executive annual conference that is taking place in april. we also offer a very unique opportunity for women to fellowship through an organization called simsee and that has to do a lot environment something unique that we have not done before. we're excited about that and helping them support them in

the education process. a host of speakers presented including commissioner walker, district attorney brooke jenkins, it was very well attended and very informational and this is one of many more to come. a formalized mentor ship program has been a goal for a while and we're finally there and one of the few agency to see have a structure program like that. so today we have 86 members that have signed up to participate. so these are the things that we have accomplished in the first six months, but we have a lot work to do. in terms of next steps, we would like to form a formal 30 by 30 committee to get input on future connection.

a dpept notice will be issued for this. we're also trying to transition to a firearm. and this transition is really only contingent upon funding at this point. program open to all city employees, preliminary vision is that we would offer monetary incentive, say a 1,000 to any city employee who incentivize women. that will be at the tail end of this two-year process. and with that, i'm happy to answer any questions. >> great job on the

presentation, it's really inspiring and heartfelt to hear all the advancement and things that you've been able to accomplish within the 6-month period. and i'm looking forward to the smaller firearm. it's good that there is something being done about that. thank you about that. vice president oberstone. >> thank you, president elias and stephanie for the presentation. do we have a goal of what we want the percentage of gender break down? kind of thinking, we spr a sense of what the retention and kind of, do we have a sense of what percentage of each academy class needs to be women in order for us to get to 30 by 30? >> so let's talk about high in

the sky, you know, commissioner walker and i were joking that we would like to 50% by 2025 but we're starting with what we can do. i think that not only do we have to recruit to the 30% but the other critical component is retention of the 30%. where we're losing numbers as well, that we don't discuss as much is women leaving the department. we're trying to talk about a many year goal to try to get 30% to try to move the needle and then we have to look at how how that is going to offset and that comes in phase 2. there is a deeper dive and i

think that's why, we're asked for age and tenure and understanding, it's only so good if we replace this number if this number leaves. we attend today offer around 15% for decades. so we have work to do. >> i understand that we have phase one, but it will be helpful to know what numbers need to be hitting in the recruiting klasz, i assume higher than 30% if we're going to get to 30% by 2030, that's what we need to do. you discussed this, briefly when you talked about the convening of a committee 30 by 30 committee but curious what you envision might be potential

next steps and usages of the anonymous survey that you discussed. >> we need to get the survey. and what do we do? nothing. so by having a committee, that committee can look at the survey results and decide what those specific action plans are are that may offset what everybody is saying. and i think it's really important to look all around the department and again, discussed this at nauseam, it's not just a committee for women, it's the committee for the 85% of the men as well to be supportive of women and to be able to move the needle. so i do think the vision for that committee is to have tangible things to put in place

now instead of just talking about it. >> that's good to hear. >> one thing i want today mention is 90% of the recruiting events there is one woman recruiting officer which is great. this can be a double sword, sometimes women, asked to, i'm wondering, how the department thinks about that? if at all? >> yeah, absolutely, so we put out a department notice that officers a notice, so those people who come into our recruitment and are attending these events are people who have applied for those, every single time. everybody has put in has done

it in their tuition. >> just curious if we've given any thought or head way on expanding the pool of applicant recruiting from non traditional pool of applicant that would have higher percentage of women, folks that would make great officers folks with counciling back grounds, has there been any thought. >> i laugh because we talk about this every day, where do we get the new pools of people. the one thing that i will say is we're at the tail end of recruitment firm to answer questions just like that. and i think that we could benefit from guidance from an outside showser and that's what we're hoping to achieve with that.

>> great, would i like to see us make head way. increasing the number of officers generally. so if you hit two birds with that, thank you for the presentation. >> thank you. >> i think one of the officers is in your slides is one that was honored today? >> i don't think so, but yeah, i don't think, yeah. i think it looks like lorena. >> maybe not. >> commissioner walker? >> thank you, this is really great. it's a very good start and i was at like i said, both recruitment event which was

exciting, it was there was problem 100 people. we had some amazing speakers to talk about recruitment in general. there is groups locally, like the league of women voters i met with them to talk about the dgo information that we're going with. but they're interested in helping as much as they can with recruitment. >> we're ready. >> give me their information today.

and i think it would be good to let people know. i'll help you with that. >> fantastic. >> and i'll be happy to go to any of those meetings with you too. >> and i'll call you. >> and i know you're trying to work on childcare support which i think in addition to the, the lactation needs, just in general, childcare for people doing overtime especially. >> i think the commission would support those efforts and it would be well received too. >> the committee has started the discussion with kinder care. ipg it's doable and i think people are very very passionate

about that. one of the things that i focused on is encouraging folks who are already with us to apply for promotion to do this, to really be there and take it on and women in general tend not to take the first step. they need to be asked so i think it's really a good issue that was brought up. we need to be asking everybody to participate. and asking, you know, sometimes it takes a little extra step. that's part of what this is

about really mentoring. i think there is a lot of folks that have left the force and would like to help recruit more women too. >> we already had interested from retired women members to come back as mentors which has been embraced, you know. >> perfect, thank you for this. i'm really excite beside this. anything i can do to help i know how who to call. >> yes. the 30 by 30 is recruit population by 2030. >> i think the thought process by 3030 is 30% from recruit class.

so it's kind of interchange but it's because one leads to another. that's helpful. and then, the goal is, i imagine recruit classes, not entering the academy. we're collecting the data as we're asking for it, we need to do a look back. those are entering. >> entering, yes. and the expecting looks different. would you be able to create a version that is just for graduation? >> to have that provide as a written document. >> yes.

>> yes and we can include that in the communication. >> is it about the same. >> i don't want to make a statement that i'm not 100% sure of. but it's similar. we had a class that did not all three women failed at the range and which we had not seen in a long time but we also had classed like i believe and i'll double check my facts tlts been proportional but i'll double check. >> and when there are women officers that are either retiring or making lateral

moves, has there been any effort to gain extra information to see if there is anything so the exit interview is the standard but i think that's interesting concept of any women related issue that would cause an exitous, anecdotely we have not heard that but it's rell. >> i think if that can be added on the exit interview. and on the next steps on slide 10. is there some kind of approximately timing goals, we can go through them for example to have the 30 by 30 committee formed. >> so the department, i would like to see it forms in the next months, but that may be a

lofty goal. we want to move fairly quickly, six months is flying. and now it's 6 months later, we're in our first reporting period, so we understand that this is going to fly by and we have a lot of work to do and a lot of work to do fast. >> and at the concurrent phase. >> yes. >> it should be close to being issued. >> okay. >> what about transition to a smaller firearm. >> like all of the inter tern al documents have been approved but really that's going to be contention upon funding. that's definitely the goal, so it's not the case, it would be a separate budget request in terms of. >> i think it would be folded

into whatever budget we would request. >> you would hope to include it in the next fiscal year. >> we do have some stash and not enough to outfit the department. and >> got it and how about timing? >> i think by november 2024 with the help of this committee, we can all the buzzle places in place. that's going to be a plan because in 2024, we'll still have, i'm committed and that's our timeline is to have that plan. >> thank you so much for the

presentation. >> for audience that would like to make a public comment on the item 7, please approach the podium. there is no comment. >> next item. >> item 8, if you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. line number 9 vote to whether or not to hold close section, section 67.10 action. >> we need a motion. >> motion to hold that in closed session and assert attorney-client privilege in

10c. >> on the motion commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> vice president--commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have six yeses. >> all right and we are going into >> we are regard to implement the attorney-client privilege action. >> i will make a motion to disclose factual information for 10 a and 10b in the minutes for this meeting, language to be finalized by myself and commission staff and our deputy city attorney and we'll provide

to my fellow commissioners and to other not disclose to 10c and 10d. >> second. >> so we're going to see the language before its disclosed? >> yes, to the extent that we'll provide with without violating the brown act yes. >> okay, thank you. >> for members of the public that would like to make a comment online item 11, there is no public comment. commissioner walker. >> yes. >> benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commission yee. >> yes. >> vice president carter oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have six yeses. line item number 12, adjournment. thank you.sfgovtv.

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