>> this meeting will come to order. good morning and welcome to the may 1, 2023 rules committee. i'm supervisor dorsey chair of the committee and joined by vice chair walton and committee member safai. on behalf of colleagues i want to express gratitude to committee clerk, victor young and thanks to the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our producer jason. mr.

clerk, any announcements >> yes, the board is convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and public comment. public comment will be taken on each item. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then take those waiting on the telephone line. the public comment call in number is straeming across the stream. you will hear the meat ing discussion and muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on it telephone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please remember to turn down your television and all listening devices you may be using. you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail them to myself the rules committee clerk at

victor.young@sfgvo.org or send to city hall. finally, items act aupon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda may 9 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, please call item number one. >> item 1 is hearing to consider appointing one member aterm ending february 1, 2029 to the ethic commission. >> thank you mr. clerk. on item 1 and want to express a oversight that resulted in the item be agendized in error after i made commitments to the community members and one applicants and intended not to call the item this week. the published agenda was a version control error on my part so i beg everyone's forgiveness. i don't know if it is

too late-been here long enough to call a rookie mistake but do apologize. as viewers may know we had a couple delay said and a couple other 11th hour applicant. i want to make sure the ethic commission applicant have time to meet with colleagues and are heard from community members they want more time to be heard. i know this item has been continued a few times for few different reasons, the ethics commission is aue naeckly important body of the city and county of san francisco with unique powers in our city government and think it is important we take time need today make the best most thoughtful choice in the best most participatory process for all involved so i move to continue this item. mr. clerk, can we take public comment on the continuance? >> would you like to continue to date certain or call of the chair? >> call of the chair. probably next week. >> continued to our

meeting next week. on the motion to continue, we are taking public comment. members who wish to speak on the item and joining in person line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please wait until the system states you are unmuted. there is nobody in the room for public comment and no callers in the queue on this matter. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on the continuance on this item is now closed. okay. >> the motion to continue the matter to may 8 which is next monday, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes

without objections. >> mr. clerk, the item is continued to the-well, to next week. mr. clerk, please call item 2? >> yes, item 2 is ordinance amending the campaign governmental conduct code to create permit priotorization task force responsible for recommending permit prioritization guidelines to department of building inspection, planning department and public works requiring the review and update the permit prioritization guidelines periodly and requiring each commission to oversee each department to approve the department permit prioritization guidelines. >> thank you mr. clerk. i appreciate supervisor safai leadership on this and he is a member of this committee and prepared to speak to it, supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> thank you chair. colleagues, this is-i feel a pretty straight forward piece of legislation but i want to give background how it

came about. in terms of priority processing, there are certain categories that make for individuals or sponsors or others to want to put forward something, whether it is affordable, whether it adds to the city housing stock in great need, so in this instance this came about a as result of a issue in my district. if you-many may recall but was a strong champion and have been a strong champion of home sf program to create more density, affordable housing and get more housing in the city. essentially zoning incentives and affordable housing with market rate housing together and after we passed it we wanted to see more home sss f projects not just in my city but city wide so we push project sponsors to consider it and a number submitted

applications in my district in particular, but what we found out was the planning department to their credit were and are prioritizing home sf projects, but department of building inspection and public works were not, and so it isn't helpful to have one department and others that are part of this process not prioritize. dpw has not updated that priority processing list since 2014, and working-when we brought this to the attention of the department of building inspection, director orearden did pake the change of the priority processing. we worked with the city attorney highlighting this as a need and wanting to bring parallel to what the planning department is doing. but we shouldn't have

to go throughs this on a individual basis. it should be the city should have a list of priority permit processing so this process should be inform ed and driven by data and looking what we are trying to accomplish based on the priortaz of the city and data. in this case you have a program with home sf doing affordable housing, market rate housing, greater density, greater number of units. the result is stakeholder and commission input done in a public meeting and that way we have the opportunity for there to be a public vetting of the process. but we should allow individual department said the flexibility to have department specific priorities that may not be shared by other departments so each has its own flexibility but meeting the common goal of a particular policy objective. but this is also how in my mind how you also root out

corruption, because these department by making it clear to them and clear by our permit department and what they prioritize and why they are prioritizing not based on individual relationships or individual circumstances. so, what you have before you is a ordinance that amends chapter 4 section 3.4 of the campaign government conduct code to require the creation of a permit prioritization task force responsible for developing a recommended city wide list of prioritize permits and projeblth types and recommending guidelines department of building inspection, planning department and the department of public works. requiring those departments to review and update their permit prioritization guidelines periodically and requiring the commission that oversees each department to approve the departments permit prioritization guidelines and that again goes back to the

public vetting and public process for it. we did have some additional edit said in here we handed outd today to clarify the task force is recommendation and not binding departments. given this is created by ordinance it doesn't have the power to override the commission and charter authority but felt it was important to have a specific group focusing on this then advising the commissions and their departments and as we understand the city attorney has deemed that these are non substantive. so, that's it colleagues. if there is any questions, happy to answer them, but we felt at the end of the day-i know we have folks here from the planning department. i don't know if dan snyder wanted to hop in and say anything. nope, just here to look good. okay, great. [laughter] thanks for being here, dan. >> great. thank you

supervisor safai. i don't see any other question from colleagues. i will just say that i know it may seem counter intuitive sometimes we need process to speed process, but it has been my experience in city government that there are task forces in particular in the city attorney office over the years i have seen a code enforcement task force that brought together a lot of different departments with a lot of different skills and areas of expertise to speed the process, so while it may be we don't need another task force or commission, i think the realty is that having a task focused task force really can be something that improves the operation of city government for everybody involved, so i want to express my appreciation to supervisor safai for that. mr. clerk, can we open up to public comment? >> yes, members who wish to speak and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those

listening remotely on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker linement those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you with with begin your comment. no parties in the room, checking the call-in line- >> one here. >> good morning, joe kelly is my name. i got in here just as you were closing the public comment on item 1 and i made my way down here so i wanted to just say that-i could speak on this as well but i wont. efficiency of government, i'll just address this and the other one, it boggles my mind the inefficiency of this government and the fact item 1 is tabled with a gentleman who

has basically- >> my apologies, i hate to- >> that's fine. >> item 1 was not tabled, it was continued. >> continued. whatever. the person that-there is a person that is up for the commission appointment that basically wrote- >> okay, again, we take comment on item 1. >> on this, the permitting process, just because i'm here and i am small business man and do insurance in the city and-it is monday morning and will give your jolt of coffee, it is absurd what you are talking about. it is so broken that-i'll just say that. i was here for the other item, but this discussion, it is really depressing and i care about city government. i served on it civil grand jury,

8, 10 years ago and i just would really ask you folks to contemplate what you're doing, because it is not serving the public interest i don't believe. anyway, have a good one. >> thank you. no further speakers in the room, just like to note, we do not have any call in speakers on the matter. i believe we can close public comment. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. supervisor safai would you like to make a motion? >> yeah, i want to add one more bit of clarity so folks know that the task force the group will be lead by the san francisco permit center director and their area of city government, which we think is appropriate and just for clarity for those listening, the campaign in government code requires all permits as they come before can

department said are treated equally to insure there isn't corruption and favoritism, however, unless the departments declare a priority permit and provide administrative bulletins to memorialize why they are prioritizing something and in this instance we have asked that when someone or some project sponsor is creating affordable housing and greater density and greater housing, we want that to be prioritized, we want that to move faster through the process. hundred percent affordable should be prioritized and in this instance home sf is in exchange for much greater levels of affordability and greater density. we want that to be prioritized as well and so we found there was unevenness in the application so that was the genesis why we did this. anyway, thank you. and then just one last thing, the reason this task force

expires, one of the amendments on page 8-6, is we have to provide a date for a-expiration date for a task force so-so-is that not right? anyway,wy did, so it will expire unless it is extended and hopefully good work has been done and there's a lot of clarity in terms of moving forward. thank you. i like to make a motion to accept these amendments that we have in front of you today that i distributed. >> thanks. mr. clerk, roll call on that. >> on the motion to amend the ordinance, that will be vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> now we can make a motion to send this to full board with positive recommendation. >> on the motion to- >> as a-minded.

>> walton aye. safai, aye. dorsey, aye. motion passes. >> on unanimous vote permit prioritization task force moves to the full board with positive recommendation. and mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> yes, item number 3 is a motion amending the bord of supervisors rules of order by amending 3.25 and 3.25.1 and striking rule 3.31 young desolve the youth young adult and family committee. >> thank you mr. clerk, this item introduced by supervisor hillary ronen who chairs the committee and she has some brief remarks i'll share. desolving the yuth young adult family committee the board is no way deprioritizing youth and

education issues. we will continue to engage in these issues by channeling hearings and legislation as needed to other committee assignments a well as through the work each district office does doing support youth in san francisco in partner ship with sfusd, dcyf and other important youth base #d organizations. i want to echo supervisor ronen's sentiment as someone who served for a short time on that committee a few months as did supervisor safai. i really appreciate the work of the staff at usd and dcyf and hearings that took place at that committee. this is a area that i was-relative newcomer to joining the board, but i learned a lot and one thing that i think is really going to be a challenge that is with us is to remember that we have kids who went through a period of time where they didn't have school during the covid lock

down and we are going to have too cognisant of that in our work around youth and young adult and educational issues, so i want to express appreciation to supervisor ronen for her leadership on this and echo her commitment that this is not something-the fact we are getting rid of the committee does not mean we are in any way getting rid of the important work in front of us. mr. clerk-don't know if there other comments from colleagues? seeing none- >> i agree hundred percent, and we will continue to take up issues for children youth and families and many different committees we sit on, and i would just add i think one of the most lasting and consequential things i have done on the board grew out of that committee which was prop g which is setting significant dollars aside as

opportunities at doing enrichment for math and reading literacy and helping close the achievement gap as referred to, building on so much that has been done in the city, but unfortunately many times a lot of the work is funded in very short stints. good work and good momentum is created and funding removed and we created a opportunity building on the success of thing s we learned from covid from the work of department children youth and family and board of supervisors and the board of education and sfusd, so those schools that are the most under-resourced in the city will have the opportunity to create community school model and have enrichments other schools have benefited from for years because they had

strong pta. anyway, i just want to say that tremendous work done by chair ronen, supervisor melgar, all of those-supervisor walton, everyone involved in this process, but i have to say one of the most consequential things i have been a part of and grew out of that committee and we'll continue that work. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai and echo your appreciation for the leadership on the stud ntd success fund which i was a latecomer today but proceed proud to be cosponsor. can we open up to public comment? [providing instructions for public comment] no persons in the room for public comment, there is nobody on the phone line for

public comment at this time. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item 3 is now closed. i like to make a motion to snd this item to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, roll call on the motion. >> yes. on that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk. that item goes to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, please call item number 4. >> item 4 is resolution approving the use of city corporate seal for the purpose of jackets for district 6 supervisor dorsey and staff that identify them as members of the board of supervisors and board of supervisors staff representing district 6. >> thank you mr. clerk. colleagues, section 1.6 of our administrative code governs the use of the corporate

seal in the law but what we know as the city seal of the city and county of san francisco, which i think we all know is a well recognized brand that features the rising phoenix alongside visual reference and mining and navigation history. i represent downtown district with several different union ambassador programs and dont think my district unique in having residents who appreciate the high visibility of public servants where city contractors or community ambassadors representing their role when they serve in the public role. for some time i have been working with staff to explore options how we might represent our office when we have public facing roles out in the community and we all agreed we think it is more important then ever we should be visible representation of the city we serve and the board of supervisors when working in

this public capacity. this past weekday i was with staff and we were at the leukemia and lymphoma society, big event to support efforts that that organization does to cure blood cancers and we were at oracle park with the firefighters and there was a lot of public entities and private entities representing visibly their teams, and we didn't have any representation. i think people who recognized us were appreciative, but it wasn't showing the support of the city that we could have been and i think could have made a difference. we went to a meeting with equality california board. the same thing. some people know me and some dont but think showing the support of the city and board of supervisors for a important community based organization. we went to oasis for legalized drag event for a community that is under siege in many

parts of the country. i think this would have been important to show visible representation of the city. and went to the holy event the celebration from south asian community that involves a lot of colored chalk and might have taken the jacket off for that one because it was a little messy, but a lot of fun. when we are showing up for our city and our public roles whether as matt dorsey or (indiscernible) we love our city as individuals of course, but also serve our city proudly as city employees, and i talked to them about it and we agreed it would mean a lot we think for those we serve to see us and to recognize we are public servants acting on our residents behalf separate from this also aware there is one community ambassador program in-pretty

visible district 6 office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. they have the florescent jackets with city seals. it is my understanding their seals may not be authorized so i want to take steps to retroactively authorize them because i want to make sure for the same reason they have a lotf ofans in the neighborhood and people appreciate seeing them and understanding this is the city that is there. so, i hope-i want to makesure we are respecting the process of the administrative code. this is something we should do thoughtfully and have policies around it. i want to make sure this isn't something we are cheapening the brand and when we wear the city seal we are doing so in a way that reflects the high expectations our residents have of us and think when you put our city name on our uniform whether it is stef curry or steve young or anybody-there is high

expectations for excellence and think that is-and integrity and think that is true of my office. i think that is true of the members of the board of supervisors i serve with and think it is true with the excellent staff all of them have that we will take this seriously, but i hope i can get support for the authorization of the city seal on office jackets. with that, i guess i dont know if there is comments from colleagues? if i can invite up the clerk of the board, angela. >> good morning chair dorsey and members of the committee. i ran down the hall, forgive me. angela. clerk of the board. pursuant to administrative code 1.6 as you know, the clerk of the board is the constodeian of the steel and the space i occupy with that item is that when there are requests that come to the board of supervisors

for usage of the seal that the clerk of the board is authorized to provide approval upon review of the look and feel and style of what that city seal-the placement of the seal. i have done that the last 16 years and my predecessors as well 6789 the style guide is such that when there is an item that is requested, that it is slightly-yes, it may be the official business, but there might be considerations associated with it. that is generally when i ask that the board of supervisors get a toint to opportunity to review and there are times you see the city seal come for adoption without reference to committee portion of the agenda. with this particular item, it is the first time we received an official request in writing to

utilize the city seal, and with the intention that this move forward. my request that a resolution be placed in front of the board of supervisors was not to say no to the request, but to just bring up the consideration. the considerations i mentioned to your staff and your office are, any liability to the city, if an individual is wearing the jacket is hurt. if there-with the city receive the jacket back from an individual who might not be in your employment any further and so while there are several departments and agencies and programs that are definitely utilizing the city seal on clothing, it did not come to the board of supervisors for usage and so we had not had the opportunity to have the conversation

around these considerations mostly for the city protection, for the individual's protection and so that is why that item is also here before you today. f it is again not to say that it is not a worthy usage of the city seal. would never want to say that, but there are some things to consider. i'm available for questions if there were to be any. thank you. >> great. thank you so much madam clerk. i agree. i will say as-i am not a lawyer, but i worked most of my career with lawyers and spent of my career in city government and city attorney office. there is a reason there are laws and should respect that and think that is why it is important we go through the process administrative code provides. and we should be able to hear concerns and i know one of them for example, if somebody leaves city service, we dont

want official looking gear out there. i know when i worked in the police department, there were jackets and there was actually a badge. i was always nervous having to have a badge because i was worried there is a expectation i will be able to do something useful in a emergency and that isn't a well placed expectation. even-i quickly gave that-this is no longer my role and giving that back as well as my jacket. i appreciate your participation in this and i really do want to make sure we respect the process of what the administrative code provides, so making sure we are doing this the right way is really what matters. thank you for that. colleagues, i don't know if there is comment? can we open this up to public comment? >> yes [providing instructions for public comment]

we have speaker in the room at this time. >> thank you chair dorsey, vice chair walton. i applaud this item. this is a excellent item. i think it will look great on whatever-which ever garment to attach the seal and think it will reflect great. it reflect very nicely on the work you do. you guys-i know this board is-very proud to be here and to listen to the activities and the discussions that occur, and i hope to be a part of the solutions that you guys are providing or making. when i first started working for the city, i got a seal myself. i work frd

the sheriff department and i got a badge. my uniform said san francisco sheriff department cadet and that was a very very proud moment for me. i got the uniform for the first time, got into my car and was in a hanger and hanged it up in the car and if you were passing by the car you saw my uniform. you knew i was part of the sheriff department, and that makes me proud. that makes everybody proud. this is a great item. i urge you to pass it to the full board for consideration with positive recommendations and let's make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. moving on to our public call in line, can we have our first caller? >> can you hear me now? yes, please proceed. >> great. david

pillpel, good morning. interesting item. thank you for the thoughtful comments from chair dorsey and clerk of the board calvio. it is in my experience rare, but not without precedent that items come before the board for use of the seal. i would note that the mayor declared a emergency over a year ago in the tenderloin and took certain actions as did the rest of the city to address concerns in the tenderloin. it seems to me like one of the easier things that can be done to improve the visibility of supervisor dorsey and his staff is to approve this particular use of the city seal on jackets. it is certainly not go toog

clean up the tenderloin or address the myriad of problems there, but i think having a presence that indicates when the supervisor and staff are out that they care and are in the community doing work is a very good positive sign. i have no objection and in fact support the proposed use. i did have at least one thing in the legislation to bring up i think on page 2, line 8, the word "termination". i would suggest replacing that with the word separation. upon separation from the board of supervisors and page 2 line 19, the time period through november 3, 2026 makes it look like it is more elect torl related. i suggest (indiscernible) >> your time has

elapsed. thank you. just checking to see if we have additional speakers. that was our last telephone speaker and believe we can close public comment at this time. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item number 4 is now closed. can i ask-i appreciate the comment and the observation from mr. pillpel and don't disagree. can i ask deputy city attorney, is that a substantive amendment? >> no, those amendments could be made today. >> okay. i like to make a motion then to substitute the word separation for termination and to move the date reference for the end of the period that was one thing that did-i like the idea of let's bring this back for reauthorization. i like sunsetting things because we can try it. mr.

(indiscernible) the date referenced i move that we amend that to say it will end at noon january 8, 2027. >> january 8, 2027? >> correct. and could we have a motion amending- >> on the motion to amend? vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> and could we now have-could i move to positive recommendation? >> would you like to go out as

committee report? >> sure, yeah. actually, we can just are send it- >> okay. recommended as amended not as a committee report? >> correct. >> on is that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> okay. thank you mr. young. on unanimous vote use of city corporate seal moves to full board with positive recommendation. and before we call the next item i want to-i see we have visitors i like to recognize. ellen, can we introduce- >> would you like to introduce your class? >> you want to come up to the--so we can say

hello? >> hi, good morning. this is (indiscernible) elementary second great, room 208. >> thank you second graders. grateful for you to be here. i was actually a second grader when i was-i was like a government nerd. hopefully maybe some will be sitting in these seats. welcome to the board of supervisors, to the rules committee. i think this is. is there anymore business? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> okay, we have no further business. thank you everyone, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

san francisco, 911, what's the emergency? >> san francisco 911, police, fire and medical. >> the tenderloin. suspect with a six inch knife. >> he was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. >> san francisco 911 what's the exact location of your

emergency? >> welcome to the san francisco department of emergency management. my name is shannon bond and i'm the lead instructor for our dispatch add -- academy. i want to tell you about what we do here. >> this is san francisco 911. do you need police, fire or medical? >> san francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you? >> you're helping people in their -- what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. so be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, it's really rewarding. >> our agency is a very combined agency. we answer emergency and non-emergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. >> we staff multiple call taking positions. as well as positions for police and fire dispatch. >> we have a priority 221. >> i wanted to become a

dispatcher so i could help people. i really like people. i enjoy talking to people. this is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. >> as a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. even though i never go on seen -- scene i'm the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. the information allows us to coordinate a response. police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. it is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that you've also saved a citizen's life. >> our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> this is shift work. that means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes that's mandatory. >> this is a high stress career so it's important to have a good

balance between work and life. >> we have resources available like wellness and peer support groups. our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. >> i received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. so for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. i was surprised to even get it. at the end of the day i was just doing my job. >> a typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. it takes a large dedicated group of first responders to make this department run and in turn keep the city safe. >> when you work here you don't work alone, you work as part of a team. you may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. >> i was born and raised in san francisco so it's really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that

i have a part in -- you know, even if it's behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. >> the training program begins with our seven-week academy followed by on the job training. this means you're actually taking calls or dispatching responders. >> you can walk in with a high school diploma, you don't need to have a college degree. we will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. >> we just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. >> if it's too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. >> good. that's right. >> from the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. >> training is a little over a year and may change in time. the training is intense. very intense. >> what's the number one thing that kills people in this country? so we're going to assume that

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>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you talk about what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january

made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. our team trying to address that. we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub

utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a

interesting process, so the first step is we have our geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the

city response, brings us to southeast community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the

ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from

the 1906 earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have

to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator

office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the

research. preparing for the split. looking at all the touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. one of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san

francisco rising. welcome to the budget and proerpgdz committee i'm connie chan joined by supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton and will be joined by safai and ronen. our clerk is brent jalipa i would like to thank sfgovtv paul, for brusque thanksgiving

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members when wish to comment call 415-655-0001. access code: 2592 192 7055 ##. then press star 3. wait until the system kcets you have been unmute exclude begin your comments. >> thank you, mr. clerk and this item is continued from left week we made amendments we make them to this capital plan with the language proposed by supervisor peskin to basically wapping out the time line for the fordable housing and shelter bond 200 million dollars worth of it from november to march 2024. and then the public healing shelter bond from march of 24 to november of 2, 300 million dollars worth of it.

today we have mr. brian strong here. from capital planning. we don't need a presentation we already had one. today i would like to make a quick question and answer i think had clothes, we have received requests from our climate advocates. concerns about the stele's climate action plan and huwe implement that plan. supervisor ronen, is going to join us shortly. she is in the mtc commission and delayed. i understand this. switched the time from 1:30 to none to get through this today this is the only item on the

agenda. you and not supervisor ronen has articulated left time that we do understand and of course this body has heard the climate action plan and -- actually introduced by vice chair mandelman. this body supportive of course we care about the environment. where i am similar to prosecute supervisor ronen brought up last time. looking at bond in the pipeline thinking about how do we incorporate our climate action plan in all these in i do believe in the reality when we should do as a city about this to being fiscally responsible and look to the future and understand we must have take climb action is every bond should be a climate okay bond expect when we must do incorporate the action goals within everything we do and how

incorporate that. today the question for you and i believe this we are machine from department of environment which is, yea. mr. charlie shehahn is here to answer questions. question is how do we make sure as we move forward with all the bonds starting from 20 torand on out. i think that is part of the presentation last time. is there a space this you could the capital planning committee wed with department of environment to both the 2 goals the decarbon wragz and water conversation within all the infrastructure and capital planning projects. making sure the process of design and determine the scope of the bond program that we have contingancey in terms of budget

and design that we incorporate those functions? good afternoon. brian strong with office of capital planning thank you for having me back. >> yes. we are looking at all of our projects in terms of how can ensure they are climate mitigation. retalked about reducing green house gas. these are thing this is you adopted part of chapter 7 reforms. they near our code we are moving away from natural gas and those things. and then similarly, when we look at our projects we do our budget we look at them from different

perspect i was resilience and climate change the other with seismic vulnerability. we are taking those into consideration when a project come before us. the other question this supervisor ronen asked about left time and how are we america the impacts. of the decisions we made and i mentioned we have been doing leads silver and now lead gold requirements for our buildings going back 20 years i think at least. we had those requirements. it is manage we would be interested in working on which is trying to understand more clear how those projects impact the environment. lead is not always the best way to do this. there are so many lead

categories reduction in green house gas is one thing. i'm not an expert on that. sf you have anything to add? >> mr. shehahn, talk about voice chair mandelman's legislation which repeal the green building code and how this would be incorporated in be part of how that will be applicable in terms of like a bobble program? >> sure. chrls shehuman san francisco environmental department thank you for having us today. in terms of green building codes we passed over the past couple years the recent is chapter 7

update. ensures we do a number of things the critical item for this topic had a gas boiler amroins in a city building fails and needs to be replaced. the city will replace with all electric. affect of this immediate reduction in green house gases. i want to connect this to had supervisor machine man did a couple year ago with all electric new construction ordinance. today had we build a now building in the city it is all electric. not ewe likewising natural gals. and that's where we want to be. promotes better air quality. does in the contribute to e missions but does not reduce e mission its makes sure this with every new building we are not adding ghg to the air. going forward, we need to look on at existing building to take out guess appliances to reduce.

and that's what i think we want to keep in mind when we electric at tracking that in our 10 year capital plan and the types of project in the 10ier plan. you know any new building built will be all electric. grit. not going to add we need to subtract taking out gas and taking out the infrastructure and making sure we are reducing had we put in the atmosphere. that is where we need to be focused on going forward. it rerelates to previous building codes there will be more updates manage forward issue of existing buildings and replacing gas for electric. >> voice chair mandelman do you have anything to add in in terms of capital plan.

anything or related to the okay >> i don't feel -- i don't -- i -- i feel this capital plan is a work in progress >> i don't -- without any -- lack of respect or you know -- sort of commendation for the heard work. lot of people bring a lot of things together and fulfill priorities. i commends the office for herding the capps i'm not thrill exclude unthrilled with where the caps have landed. and i don't know there is agreement about -- the difficult part is you got the bureaucratic

and political cats are in the in agreement, either. i have 2 concerns where the plan is. one i think this waiting until 2026 for i bond this should have happened in 2022 for transportation bond is too long. i think witting that time and coming in with a number this is less by 100 million than when we would strife to do in 20 too is not what i want terror our instruction system that is for you % of green house e missions and also we are talking about adding 80,000 you know housing units. how will that work with transportation? the physics don't work and to neil this ask a problem and i would think climate and transit a bunch of people should be concerned. i think that there are investments that we could make out of bond funds and some of things in the just the public

will be the seconder will be asked to do but private as well and private who don't have tremendous access to resources. how much of this we want to try to subsidize, i don't know. whether it is us changing our requirements and -- are demanding what existing buildings switch out. whether we do it or not the state will do it the somebody will do it and will help if we have not plan exclude come up with resources to support, you know the patriot actors who don't have the money there will be a [inaudible] at some point. are what that looks like should be determined. if we have a trespassing bond we can move forward in 2024 tell make sense to put additional investment in this. related e very close charging

men related to other building and trees. i think there is i bunch of stuff it do part of transportation and climate bond that would be xoiting in 2024 but agree that i don't think we are there i think we should try to get there. the, this is in the environment but the other anxiety i have about the capital plan is i have trouble with public healing bond unless we have done the w to think through the needs. before we put that on front of the voters i'm not voting on bonds i'm happy i'm voting oi plan to change approximate amend and i hope get amended. i think there is conversations to go forward before i support bonds i help we address the concerns i just raised. thank you and supervisor walton?

alcoholic beveraging, chair chan special thank you to the capital planning committee and the entire city leadership with the workthework to capture and -- really address competing interests at the same time doing the best we can with resources that will be available during this climate. i think that you have been the messaging should be -- that we are trying to do everything we can for the best of city. for the betterment of the city. wing with the region and of course with the city leadership and the same time, understanding had there are major things we need to tackle affordable housing. transportation. climate change. safety. everything that we have to do in this city is important. and i definite low agree with

supervisor ronen the conversation chair chan starting incorporate climate goal in everything we do. i agree with the community and the advocates that as we do that obviously it is i resource and role support and something tangible to affect climate change i look forward to continue thanksgiving work exit understanding had there are men things we are trying to tackle going to 20 tor. like supervisor mandelman being able to jump out there now and say, what i would be excite body supporting in terms of a bond in general is manage this is going take more thought and work. and not solved here in this room today. i had conversations with advocates and talked bh that to the fact of what we are facing from the budgetary stand point and all of the priors that are important to all of us.

being compote and doing the best to address them. thank you to the committee. and to my clothes and advocates we will work to of course address every concern we can and put the resource behind it. we have to be thoughtful how we do that. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai. >> thank you, for the heard work on behalf of the city and capital planning committee. and all of the different stake holders and group and community activists involved in this conversation. i will reiterate from left week well is additional capacity supervisor peskin will tuck about that to needs to be realized for fordable housing that is important aspect of when we are trying to accomplish. other thing i said this left time, i have tremendous reservations proposals relating

to physical shelters and the aim of return we get on the investment well there per bed. is there 9 other options theory more impactful. i reserve the right in future conversations as we mend this plan to continue to have those conversations. and then lastly there is in the enough consideration to some of our environmental goal and environmental plans we have. there are opportunity i think in some of existing proposal this is we have this could relate and impact the environment in i positive way but we need to been this going forward. so i reserve the rest my comments i don't want to reiterate everything bow we have w to do >> supervisor ronen. >> thank you. i'm sorry i missed most of this conversation i was stuck in mtc i just got a little recap from

mandelman. i want to agree not red to commit to a bond yet for 2024 approximate -- q.ed this we are going to keep working on it and seems we are most of us are. wanted to put that on the record. thank you. >> thank you. >> welcome at this time chamber president peskin and the flower is yours. >> thank you chair chan and members of budget and appropriations and appreciate your deliberations over the tality plan an opportunity for us to weigh the fundamental priorities of our society and as i said last week. or invoke the words of form are controller edherrington there is unlimited amount of need and limited amount of resources and that is what the capital plan tries to make sense of over

time. and important document and thorough and forward roaching bills down to climate change. sea level rise. transportation product >> affordable housing as well as the basic thing this is cities rely on repaving of streets, making sure our libraries and public building and public healing facilities near state of good repair. i think the report the plan sets you will of this forth and hope lovely we will recover and pay more as we go. but the issue that i don't were grappling with last week has to do with the immediate order of bonds where in i suggested this we consider and thank you, colleagues for vote to consider flipping bond schedule of the

fordable housing homeless bond this was scheduled for november of 24 with the department of public healing bond scheduled for merchandise of twr. thank you for allowing that conversation to continue. the plan is i plan the rubber hits the road when the board votes to put it on the bell on the. at least leaves space for this conversation. in the innervocabularying week, colleagues, and we can hear from the controller. we have good nows based on new property tax information. which is thisseen within our self impezed condition trains where we issue no more debt than we retire we have a bit more bond capacity and we can hear how this works and we all received yesterday a high level report from the controller's office. what that means in real terms for us is had for twenty 24

there is additional 150 million dollars of capacity. we heard left week from the department of public health this flipping the bonds would lead to 9 opinion 9 million dollars of additional costs in this 8 mont delay which seemed like a lot but what i was going to propose we take that 150 and put 140 in to the affordable housing bond for march and the balance of 10 in to the affordable the public healing bond for november of 24. and would after we hear from the controller and the public, request a further resolved to the resolution that the board amends it is cal tap plan revise amount of yes or no obligation bonds scheduled for 20 torsuch

tht amount of the affordable housing and shelter bonds increase to 340 million. from the original 200 and amount of public health bond increased to 320 million from the 310. >> and again we can continue to talk about these as we have to make real decisions as march and november of next year approach. but i not that controller's office is here i'm help to answer questions that's what i was going to throw out. would l week continuance. because this is deemed to be substantive. which means that the capital plan not be voted on until may the ninth. the code says we do it by may first. the chink this we made last week put us in code jail for a day

this would lead to 8 days but00 eye think it it is no harm no foul situation. i wanted everybody to know that. by way of full disclosure.think situation. i wanted everybody to know that. eye think it it is no harm no foul situation. i wanted everybody to know that. by way of full disclosure.no fo. i wanted everybody to know that. by way of full disclosure. i wanted it note this with the presence of board president and arrival of a member ronen we convened as a special meeting as. 12. . 25. >> supervisor ronen. >> thank you. 2 questions through the chair to president peskin. number one is it -- necessary to up this 150 in begin that we are all saying that we are in the ready to say had we think is ready for 2024 bonds.

if there is a reason to include the 150 now why would you -- what is the justification behind putting 140 in the housing bond and to the public healing bond where my gut is to dot opposite. . the behavioral needs are through the officer and we will have a -- regional bond -- in -- november. housing bond. and from 10 to 20 million dollars. i would do it reverse or all 150 in public health bond. >> to supervisor ronen through the chair. i would answer in a couple of ways. one is pursuant to when we heard

from the mayor's office of housing as to what their need is and what they have identified that and they showed 3 quarter in billing of grz of identify okay need for role projects. and in the same breath they are available, mrs. ely is available by phone approximate listening. i don't know there has been enough actual planning i say this respectful low to some of my frind in the environmental commune relating with climate change bond. there needs to be enough in a bond and plan nothing i bond and enough ceqa if you have named project in a bond in advance of what you actually pull the trig exert vote to if you on a

ballot. in the case of d ph i don't know if enough of this is formed to if we were to stick with the current skechld d ph has a very, very clear list of projects in this 310 million dollars. we when the helling searches are. a lot of planning gone into them. design and working druings on them. it is in the and ceqa done on named projects. as compared to a more they need money to yet named projects. i say that to my friends hor all equal low concerned about today which is sea level rise and climate change and addressed them in some things. we did this level of work relating to the sea wall bond for prospect a for port. but we need to dot advance work of drilling down. if you vote for this this is had

we will spend the money on this is not been we are not ready, yet. if we add this for march bond them is my high level sponse and i think we heard that gives d ph more time to get their duck fist a row as well. >> but. >> thank you. and voice chair mandelman. sorry. does this answer your question. supervisor ronen? >> in back. vice chair mandelman >> um -- i guess i share the question of whether we need to decide about this 150 million dollars today. because i -- would expect this future behavior past mayor and public health and limited rolls royce planning resources lead mow to believe not with standing

my strong sdoir to have a laguna handa worth of mental health facilities rolling out in the next 5 years. my sense we have a huge night for it. yea, i think it it is entirely possible that even with supervisors pushing for it and the administration buying into it, this there will in the be the ability for the department of public health and whoever needs to figure out operating costs and the design and the mix of facility and not locked facilities and where they go and how that would work. i can imagine we would roach a point we are like, we have the housing needs we know we have them and should put this money in to actual housing projects this will get builteen he the critical kroiing ned in san

francisco now and in california. and my view is for longer term if sill isfor mental health and a need we continue not to meet. things get worse and san francisco's biggest problem. this being said witness the machine sein the housing boinld continue is upon not coming out. once we say this is going to housing. supervisor robe sxen moiz will have a hard time saying in this housing development will not help. you know we will -- so and a too bad so sad the next bond in 2030 and -- those of us on the board had are you know -- filled with anxiety about this can encourage successors to carry the torch further. but you know i very much take

president peskin's point have you to do that you have the ability to do that may well be housing but bums mow out and heim not red to say this now >> before i go to supervisor safai can we have a tech calgary question answered. i think this who i we say today mendzing this legislation and then we indicated a dollar amount we like to increase. there is nothing this is perhaps when voice chair mandelman is saying but technically if we up the dollar amount today. we could in the -- in event when the when which bond going forward. we don't have to. give us an admit to exceed amount but does in the say you must go with this dollar amount. we have done this before in adjusting.

>> good afternoon. it it is correct if you move forward with the tality plan you in we need to come back with okay item before we bring anything forward there would be another town to discuss. in terms of the dollar amount. >> yes. >> if we do not increase the dollar amount today. or to amend for the increase, can we by the time it does come to us this we increase the dollar aim then. the question was on just in terms of the individual amount of the individual bond. >> today we are down to say we would like to next the dollar amount for each boundary top 340

million dollars for the afford annual housing shelter and 320 for public health in shelter is the dollar amount we are discussing. the all of us on this committee expressed the fact that we are not into any of it. we understand we should, prove a plan with this time that we agreed to the flipping it and that's again was kind of uncertain because we all are waiting for an actual principle that come to us with a more specific details on the scope of the work and how it works. what about the dollar amounts in the event we amend increase. nothing is stopping us from decreasing it. back to original dollar amount. if we sdoen increase it today does this mean we are elementing

ourselves? that's the question. what is the flexibility? >> so, the plan is just i plan example it is tindzed reflect the board's vision direct the departments in what in the direction you would like to go in. thereupon is a lot of w this needs to be done to appropriate to for the bond. does in the binds you to these dollar amount and as said before you will have another opportunity to act on the actual bonds before they are approved. >> i thank you is a question had you know we talked about this details like scope of we need to figure out scope out a bond program this is in order for us to have the details and say, yes

we approve and yes we can passport this. without having this dollar amount to know how much you flex in between. hard to determine had the bond program would look like. in terms of scope of work. >>iel. i money i think that deputy city attorney said it is a plan a significant until. and it it is what we need that to develop the bond programs around so -- familiar we are not sure. and certainly we had in the past what happens when we get to the board with a bond it guess up. have not had situations where it goes down. but it is for us it is work with departments and develop the bond program and when president peskin said the detailed programs, which are important. not just it is important to the

voters. important to you know the members here. everyone is very clear approximate transparent hat dollars will be used for. it is helpful to know what the target is. you know. >> as muchs we can. >> supervisor safai. >> i want to say i agree with the proposed amendment because i continuing is clear and i mean listen if we are even a bit serious about trying to achoef 82,000 units many affordable we are to have the money in the bond to achoef that. i think 200 million dollars bond for affordable housing is the smallest we had in some time. and in this market the cost of construction, cost lending and cost of building has all increased. i agree with supervisor machine man that's why i said i reserve

the rights to make amendment in the future how the equalization of public health and homelessness and housing dollars are allocated. we could make the decision to say let's put some of this toward [inaudible] bed in a -- that is manage we can do. and do need to make the move to add to that i think is what one of the things we collectively agreed that oui have utilize the capacity now the need is now. it is dire in terms of try to achieve and building affordable housing. as much as i'm not ready to finalize how all the aspects of plan, i think making the must have to put the machine in the bucket is important. and there are negotiations and conversation busy how we deal with inclusionary housing and

just starting fordzable this is a piece of that that is important. i agree with this amendment >> thank you supervisor safai and before i go to supervisor walon i want to add to the point made i would i to want to come to the affordable housing bond and have a clarification whether affordable house suggest defined public work project and whether ruwill be covered boy our prshth labor agreement or ordinance in on a local level. those are things i'm eager to learn more about before i make that decision as well. and after supervisor walton let's go to public comment. >> thank you, quick we can't increase without stating where we want to direct the 150 million? the way that we mottle today the

bond capacity is we typically programmed the additional exclusive to a specific project this i would defer to brian strong on -- if there is another way to do that. i understand this is the practice but is that manage we have to do in >> no you don't have to do that. so. and we had situation list is exclusive where we have not used capacity in the past we save it for future unanimous this is an option typically this capacity in the out years of the capital plan there is so much we know immediate needism say that you know if you leave this capacity it does mobile home there may be there will be pressure it penned it on the next bond of whafrn the bond is. >> correct. >> yea.

supervisor robe and then public comment. why i wanted make a couple more points. you know, i'm missing retreat now. nat mtc is having they will discuss in detail the 10-20 billion dollars roej nal bond for housing. i think this that bond is going to be a heavy lift but there is all hands on deck prop to getting it passed. it will go on the november bell on the and a massive come pain. part of me worries this if we -- san francisco verts will be a major pos of this puzzle getting this bond passed. part of me worries and i talked to president peskin about the fact it it is heard to pull on this and there will be i

different voter approximately in merchandise then and there november. but i worry if we have i large housing bond in march. san francisco voters are going to say we just voted on this and less likely to vote on a much large are bond the size we have been needing to deal with our housing crisis. and so i have some strategic questions and pause about the housing bond in general let, lone increasing it. right now and i don't know the answer i think we need to think about it. and men investigate. some potential polling on that question. the prior should be the miscellaneousive regional billioned in november and doing everything in our power to pass it buzz that not only gives san francisco the money we need to not only meet the projects named

by mohcd this are red to go. but more projects and then the region affordable housing need all this pressure is in the always on san francisco alone. which it it is basically now. >> in terms of public health and the behavioral health, you know what come to minds for me is -- a couple budgets ago we started a fund this is now wiped out. to increase the amount of cooperative living permanent supportive housing for people living with mental illness we don't have funds to extend it. it is successful program. and provides permanent solutions for people living with menthol

ill balance. putting people and giving folks i chance to have i normal life. we don't have a source for that program. this would require no operating costs from the city. it is one example of an option. once you gettet capitol it pays for itself through medical pays for 24 off sight supportive providers to the people living there and the people there it doesn't expand they don't have the capital to buy the buildings

where the models work. i'm out as an example. of where we can expand it is fordable but for people with permanent menthol illness this d ph condition transacts for. we have a fund this has no money it. when we put 10 million dollars general fund allocation it was used and have successful programs one in the mission. and you know it is an example. when i talked to greg wagner one of many that dp heart attack could useen though there is in the a planned project you in to build 24 hour healing center we need. there are many projects we bea build and then have the pritting fund issues.

my gut would be either to leave it out there i'm find with or in not put in behavioral health bond in the the housing bond i have many questions about the housing bond we have endless need in behavioral health for tality and wanted to make that clear. i'm fine not allocating it. >> thank you. go to public comment. why members who wish to peek and joining person should line up now. approximate for those joining remost press star 3. >> hi. e 11a engle district 9 if you meanfects are condition fouzed you better believe we are condition fouzed we don't understand all of the city

processes. when i'm hearing 150 mission that you can add to the bond program you have been getting calls and letters from climate activists and you are not putting it in climate in and i don't see why according to the [inaudible] this could not be part of the housing bond that deals with existing housing so it couldrous the ghgy if you decarbonized. if you are dog a climate bond it it is not something this is a biproduct silling we are doing this and has some climate affect you have to set out to decarbonize transportation or bodiesings. and i like what supervisor ronen said left time let us put labels on bonds the affect of this on climate. does it add to it? new buildings will add to your climb burden.

does this add to climate or detract. why thank you. next next.

i'm sarah grownwad district 2. contextualize this, i thank you for considering this bond schedule much more careful low an excellent sign you are irrelevant aware and -- just you know the context. you know that the titanic is going down. nothing to pick us up. we would like to see a climate bond in 2024. and i agree that -- a good step forward probably after that we need all the departments to electronic the ghgy that result from their work. that has been in the mill for awhile.

and i guess i have i follow up question. if you don't have i climate bond, then how are we going to raise the money to impelement the climate action plan? open question. can anyone answer? >> thank you, sarah for your question. comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. supervisors. i'm ronnie wilson and i'm a member of the within,000 grand mothers. thank you for not, proving the go bond schedule the left meeting of budget and appropriation committee. we need to pull a climate billioned on the ballot in 24 to begin seriously funding the implementation of our city's climate action plan. we can't wait.

the most rent ip cc report said this if we act now, keep can funds -- fendz off the worse and scour a liveable sustainable 40 for all ofs. this does not mean preparing for the next disaster. meansrousing the actual cause of climate change. in know front mustrous emissions from buildings and transportation. we need make sure this well is money to take the actions and that people who cannot afford them are not left behind. find a way to include i climate bond on the ballot in 2024. thank you.

>> i'm judi i live in d9 and with a thousand grand mothers you have a heck of a jock. i don't know why you want this job. it is irrelevant, irrelevant hard. every meeting you go to you are faced with one dilemma after another. i don't know how you cope it strit. and i applaud you for trying it is more than i ever able to do. thank you. but please, we do i know this you i think you all agree this we need to address the climate change in this city a huge thing that you guys can do is coordinate. i have been to different meetings on different issues and it points the if anythingtory one person this agency, that

agency the mayor. but right now you guys have the purand it is if you can do it. i then and there if you do, people will back you. people will back you. it is within your power. that to coordinate and to make sure that people are doing what they have to do tracking. and i hope that there is money for a climate bond. i hope -- if not, you guys have to we will help you tell us. we will help you figure out how do you track everything in the stele that it is addressing climate. it must. it must. thank you. thank you for your work and for sitting through all these meetings. >> thank you for sharing your

comments. next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon supervisors. am i'm joyce. district 11 with safai i'm always a spiritual mentor for the [inaudible] training program. so -- you heard of pope francis and he has written a book [inaudible]. spokes to everyone on the planet to take care of your home. we are connected department and i have suggestions i am a homeowner. and i can't ford to electrify my home i was in meeting with chapter of climate [inaudible] project. and said check with b, yrens.

i did but hopefully [inaudible]. i'm think of. oh. department climate and public health. thank you. remember who you are. you other city of san francisco this is the st. francis. and the [inaudible]. the know mas eastboundingology and environment. so remember who you are and act

accordingly. why thank you. next speaker, please. this is the big, big committee. the budget appropriation's committee. 10 years you have been degree this for 10 yers capital expenditure. big old buildings and assets. okay agreementful awe some. so what i'm asking is, what is going on? what is going on? no answers. blank. you know what i mean. so, it is irrelevant krez. can you imagine this done to anybody. no. only you. only me.

you can't. >> all you hear. so -- i'm wondering when i'm going to be fro. when am i going to be fro?

when? thank you. seeing no further peeshgs here, we have 5 members in the queue with 4 in the queue. unmute the first one. >> great. david pilpel. good afternoon. i made comment on this issue here last week and at the capital planning mittee. i support the proposed tality plan if the board will amend that's fine the text the tables and the thinking there is, lot of the thinking binds this plan it is well thought through and staff and the other city departments are to be appreciated for their w in make thanksgiving plan happen approximate to you. if there is another 150 million of bobble capacity i would

address general fund tality needs. difference between the high scene air i don't and low for the pay as you go program suggests additional bond capacity could be used to address those general fund needs in the next 2 years including way of a bond measure not the best way to pay for things. and fundamentally at the core the plan is about keeping city general fund and nongeneral in a state of good reparity others are noise. i'm proenvironment. i'm not antiaffordable housing but i don't think those are core city general fund and nun general fund assets. thank you very much. >> thank you. david pilpel. next speaker, please.

eileen, opposing unless amended. my concern the proposed earthquake safety and emergency sponse bond for 310 million to be on the november 20 tea ballot my concern is in the seismic for police approximate fire stiegz stairgz in the spending on emergency firefighting water system. my concern how puc spends the funds. puc spent the fundos constructing new on the wife side. one to pump the water out it and one to put out the fire. they don't automatically refill. the puc used bob funds for a flexible water supply system.

hoses we 350 pound and too doyle left and there has been a so called, drinking water [inaudible] relies on lake merced which is in the drinking water unless transfers from the fire department to the puc then mayor newsome to develop the city's budget. handled the city attorney aspects of transfer. i'm opposed to the bond funding going to the puc to fund the misguided policies. our solution may be transfer engineer to dpw and administration to a new deputy under the city add administrator. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good morning. good afternoon.

i'm susan green climate emergency commito approximate become in week. many meantses indicate we can't afford to slow transit decarbon wraith in the city regard will of all the serious [inaudible] for limited resource i'm surety next few years of heat waists conscience will mech that more apparent. i'd like to disagree with president peskin about the capital plan [inaudible]. it does in the take in account the climate action plan. it looks a representative who can champion the plan's goal and work to ensure that every project in the plan incorporates electronic and dem tris cashon reductions. currently evercurrent plan demonstrates we are unlikely to develop future plans that incorporate actions needed.

i'm heartened by comments rethinking the bond schedule andk knowledging role action on climate mitigation. allocate amount of the new 150 million dollars bobble capacity to support build and transit decarbonization. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, sorry i'm not talking about bonds. i want to take you to laguna honda. do you, supervisors, feel ashamed that could do nothing for laguna honda, which is i new building and old building put to use. doll you all feel ashamed that y'all are not providing a place

with wrap around services for the mentally challenged? you have thousands roaming the streets. and some of the add have indicates do when we can. but every time you want help somebody who has ment will problems than i want to you give out money 5-8 thousand dollars to help per month. you talk the talk but don't walk the walk. supervisors, you irrelevant want to have the constituents of san pran and thus ans that roam our streets and thousands that are living in parole. stop talking and start acting.

thank you very much. >> mr. lamb, next speaker, please. >> good afternoon members of budget and appropriation commito i'm charlie i'm calling on behalf of community housing organization and i member organizations that are rotted in throughout the city. building the long-term resources to, chief the housing element fordable housing goal and stabilizing our economy and workforce is most important decisions the city will make in the next few years. there months where you will make a decision on the 24 bond cycle. we foal is important the city do diligence and keep open the possibility of affordable housing bond for next year's primary and november election cycleless. here is why.

foordzable housing bobs the most inconsistent local ref now source to finance the preservation of affordable housing. voter was including affordable housing in the bond schedule stabilize neighborhoods, how we house vulnerable and house the workforce and what we keep the next generation in the city. urge the city to pursue a strategy ensure the highest level success for stage the local and regional housing bond of commitment to ensuring successful bond we know this measure also depens on the uncertain support of and advance the funding strategy asked about resources the city only supports i fwhoond does in the come to fruition. i local bond implement the host of strategy s and supervisors

adopt from the 2023 housing element above the [inaudible]. thank you for your consideration. why thank you. mr. lm, this completes our queue >> no more comment t. is closed. >> supervisor safai. you want to say i appreciate the comments from folk this is came in person side. i know this is in the an 'press to know. one thing that president peskin said that is a truth is that when we allocate monies for to the projects you have to have a details list of physical things you intends do. one thing i will suggest and there is flex at in the existing buckets we have. you talked about building new

housing or reason i having now house willing is room when we are talking about affordable housing to come up with detailed plans on how this is built. when is looks like. and what climate goal its achieves. we can w with xu where you are group and talk about this while we work on the affordable housing detail plans. this can help in the existing proposals. the other thing is we do have to build more housing. temperature is a reality. we have existing buckets of money we utilized in the past for existing husband and some of this is our -- monies that we put toward small cites program. money exist thanksgiving is general fund toward affordable housing in the competiing system and ewe likewise this to achieve

our environmental goals and so i'm committed to working with you on that. we have a need to build more physical housing. so one thing i talked about last week and this week and supervisor peskin president peskin talked about. it is important we allocate toward one of the most dire needs not the most. not a second time trying to pit the 2 against each other we have know affordable housing krois in the city and can do housing and achieve environmental goals at the same time. i'm appropriateed make amendments to use some of this existing capacity and read in the referred i can read it gwen we add a further resolve this board amends it is capital plan to revise the amounts of general obligation bond. the amount of the affordable housing and shelter bonds shall

increase it 340 million public health and shelter bond shall be increased to 320 million this is a good billions of i thank you still allows flexibility in the 40 to defind what is in those categories. and anyway. that's my proposal. is this a megz? >> yes. >> second. >> supervisor before we call the roll, supervisor ronen. gi will not support this motion for all the reasons i stated earlier. working on getting more affordable housing with everything in mow the past sick years but i don't know how this will impact the much big are bond that is a few monting later that could be a problem. i don't think we should take this light low. i don't think today it is necessary to put this money anywhere this will be an on going discussion.

we will have to come become with the to -- revise it anyway. so i will oppose the motion. >> with that said, mr. clerk call the roll. >> on the motion to amend the resolution to include the language read in the record by member safai. vice chair mandelman. >> no. >> member safai. >> aye. >> member ronen. >> no. >> member walton. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 3 aye avenue with 2 no with mandelman and ronen in decent. >> thank you the motion passes and then the amended item needs to be continued for a week i make the motion to continue to next week with that a second? >> second. >> by supervisor safai and mr. clerk, call the roll.

why on the motion to continue this resolution to the may third moteingly of this committee as amended. vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member safai. >> aye. why member ronen. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye >> cheaper hahn. >> aye. why we have 5 aye's >> thank you the item conditions. i say you got a lot of work cut out for you. i had a time if you see i think it should not no one should thank you is done deal. with this mr. clerk is there other business before us today. >> this condition clouds the business. why this meeting is adjourned. clear clear

>> there is a lot of unique characteristics about visitation valley. it is a unique part of the city.

>> we are off in a corner of the city against the san francisco county line 101 on one side. vis station valley is still one of the last blue color neighborhoods in san francisco. a lot of working class families out here. it is unusual. not a lot of apartment buildings. a lot of single family homes. >> great business corridor. so much traffic coming through here and stopping off to grab coffee or sandwich or pick up food before going home. >> a lot of customers are from the neighborhood. they are painters or mechanics. they are like blue color workers, a lot of them. >> the community is lovely. multi-racial and hopefully we can look out for each other. >> there is a variety of businesses on the block. you think of buffalo kitchen,

chinese food, pork buns, sandwich. library, bank of america with a parking lot. the market where you can grab anything. amazing food choices, nail salons. basically everything you need is here. >> a lot of these businesses up and down leland are family owned. people running them are family. when you come here and you have an uncle and nephew and go across the street and have the guy and his dad. lisa and her daughter in the dog parlor and pam. it is very cool. >> is small businesses make the neighborhood unique. >> new businesses coming. in mission blue, gourmet chocolate manufacturing. the corridor has changed and is continuing to change. we hope to see more businesses coming in the near future.

>> this is what is needed. first, stay home. unless it is absoluteliness scary. social distancing is the most important step right now to limit spread of virus. cancel all nonessential gather everythings. >> when the pandemic litly land avenue suffered like other corridors. a few nail salons couldn't operate. they shut down. restaurants that had to adapt to more of a take out model. they haven't totally brought back indoor seating. >> it is heartbreaking to see the businesses that have closed down and shut because of the pandemic. >> when the pandemic first hit it got really slow.

we had to change our hours. we never had to close, which is a blessing. thank god. we stayed open the whole time. >> we were kind of nervous and anxious to see what was going to come next hoping we will not have to close down. >> during covid we would go outside and look on both sides of the street. it looked like old western town. nobody on the street. no cars. >> it was a hard eight or nine months. when they opened up half the people couldn't afford a haircut. >> during that time we kept saying the coffee shop was the living room of the valley. people would come to make sure they were okay. >> we checked on each other and patronized each other. i would get a cup of coffee, shirt, they would get a haircut. >> this is a generous and kind community. people would be like i am

getting the toffee for the guy behind me and some days it went on and on. it was amazing to watch. we saw a perfect picture of community. we are all in this together. >> since we began to reopen one year later, we will emerge stronger. we will emerge better as a city because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> when we opened up august 1st. i will not say it was all good. we are still struggling due to covid. it affected a lot of people. >> we are still in the pandemic right now. things are opening up a little bit. it is great to have space to come together. i did a three painting series of visitation valley and the businesses on leland.

it felt good to drop off the paintings and hung them. >> my business is picking up. the city is opening up. we have mask requirements. i check temperatures. i ask for vaccination card and/or recent test. the older folks they want to feel safe here. >> i feel like there is a sense of unity happening. >> what got us through the pandemic was our customers. their dogs needed groomed, we have to cut their nails so they don't over grow. >> this is only going to push us forward. i sense a spirit of community and just belief in one another. >> we are trying to see if we can help all small businesses around here. there is a cannabis club lounge next to the dog parlor to bring foot traffic. my business is not going to work if the business across the street is not getting help.

>> in hit us hard. i see a bright future to get the storefronts full. >> once people come here i think they really like it. >> if you are from san francisco visit visitation valley to see how this side of the city is the same but different.

>> my background is in engineering. i am a civil engineer by training. my career has really been around government service. when the opportunity came up to serve the city of san francisco, that was just an opportunity i really needed to explore. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] i think it was in junior high and really started to do well in math but i faced some really interesting challenges. many young ladies were not in math and i was the only one in some of these classes. it was tough, it was difficult to succeed when a teacher didn't have confidence in you, but i was determined and i realized

that engineering really is what i was interested in. as i moved into college and took engineering, preengineering classes, once again i hit some of those same stereotypes that women are not in this field. that just challenged me more. because i was enjoying it, i was determined to be successful. now i took that drive that i have and a couple it with public service. often we are the unsung heroes of technology in the city whether it is delivering network services internally, or for our broadband services to low income housing. >> free wi-fi for all of the residents here so that folks have access to do job searches, housing searches, or anything else that anyone else could do in our great city. >> we are putting the plant in the ground to make all of the city services available to our

residents. it is difficult work, but it is also very exciting and rewarding our team is exceptional. they are very talented engineers and analysts who work to deliver the data and the services and the technology every day. >> i love working with linda because she is fun. you can tell her anything under the sun and she will listen and give you solutions or advice. she is very generous and thoughtful and remembers all the special days that you are celebrating. >> i have seen recent employee safety and cyber security. it is always a top priority. i am always feeling proud working with her. >> what is interesting about my work and my family is my experience is not unique, but it is different. i am a single parent. so having a career that is

demanding and also having a child to raise has been a challenge. i think for parents that are working and trying to balance a career that takes a lot of time, we may have some interruptions. if there is an emergency or that sort of thing then you have to be able to still take care of your family and then also do your service to your job. that is probably my take away and a lot of lessons learned. a lot of parents have the concern of how to do the balance i like to think i did a good job for me, watching my son go through school and now enter the job market, and he is in the medical field and starting his career, he was always an intern. one of the things that we try to do here and one of my takeaways from raising him is how important internships are. and here in the department of technology, we pride ourselves on our interns. we have 20 to 25 each year.

they do a terrific job contributing to our outside plant five or work or our network engineering or our finance team. this last time they took to programming our reception robot, pepper, and they added videos to it and all of these sort of things. it was fun to see their creativity and their innovation come out. >> amazing. >> intriguing. >> the way i unwind is with my photography and taking pictures around the city. when i drive around california, i enjoy taking a lot of landscapes. the weather here changes very often, so you get a beautiful sunset or you get a big bunch of clouds. especially along the waterfront. it is spectacular.

i just took some photos of big server and had a wonderful time, not only with the water photos, but also the rocks and the bushes and the landscapes. they are phenomenal. [♪♪♪] my advice to young ladies and women who would like to move into stem fields is to really look at why you are there. if you are -- if you are a problem solver, if you like to analyse information, if you like to discover new things, if you like to come up with alternatives and invent new practice, it is such a fabulous opportunity. whether it is computer science or engineering or biology or medicine, oh, my goodness, there are so many opportunities. if you have that kind of mindset i have enjoyed working in san francisco so much because of the diversity. the diversity of the people, of this city, of the values, of the

talent that is here in the city. it is stimulating and motivating and inspiring and i cannot imagine working anywhere else but in sannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn >> good afternoon everyone, i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm joined here today with commissioner shawn dureof the california highway patrol, major (indiscernible) national guard. our district attorney, brook jenkins, our police chief bill scott, and president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin as well as a representative on behalf of sheriff

miyamoto. he are here to talk about the partnership that will be established between the state and our federal law enforcement agencies. let me begin by expressing my appreciation to governor gavin newsom for answering the call for taking on this problem head on and his willingness to be a partner in the work that he knows we need to do. as a former mayor of san francisco and someone who grew up in the city, he understands the value of partnership and also understands the value of san francisco as it relates to entire state. here locally, we have been doing i think a extraordinary job between our police department and our district attorney's office. they have been working hand in hand as partners to help us address the many challenges around public safety, but more

specifically, the challenges related to this fentanyl crisis, which includes the large number of people who have died from overdose deaths, as well as the open air drug dealing, the violence associated with this, and how it impacted the tenderloin and soma communities considerably. time and time again, we have you know, reached out for resources to try and get support and the fact that this is finally happening and it is something that is never happened before will be significant for our city and will send a strong message to those who are perpetrating these crimes that are holding communities hostage, that we will do everything we can to work together to make sure that there is accountability. some of the challenges that have recently been highlighted that you may not be aware

of, just this past tuesday, the san francisco police department made an arrest of someone who five kilos of fentanyl, and just today our district attorney announced the charges associated with that arrest, and the point i want to make is, this is something that was not happening previously, and the fact that our district attorney and our police chief are working hand in hand and just between january and march this past quarter, the amount of drugs seized was over 150 percent from even last quarter, demonstrates to the public that we are doing everything we can. we are making the arrests, we are bringing charges, we are being aggressive as we possibly can to hold people accountable and i want to appreciate the leadership of our

district attorney brook jenkins and leadership of bill scott and the teams that they represent, because it does take a village, it does take partnership and now that partnership is expanding. expanding on a state-wide level. so, we are appreciative to have our state representative here to talk about some specifics of what they plan to do, but we will not provide all of the details of what we plan to do to the public, just the basics. we know when this plan was first mentioned when the governor came to san francisco with the attorney general and they did a walk in the tenderloin, they heard the pleas and cries of the community asking for help, asking for something different. this is something different and i'm looking forward to a real change in our city. separately from what we plan to do around law enforcement, people have consistently tried to say really horrible

things about san francisco and the challenges around safety, and i say like any other major city, we have our challenges, but there are so many other wonderful things happening in san francisco right now. just this morning i was out at mlk middle school with kids who were scooting and biking to school and i was at fort mason with a number of high school leaders who all are public school students who are thinking about ways to change the future. all over the city, there are communities coming together for various reasons and loving and enjoying our parks and open space,b the public schools, the warriors will be playing tonight and the championship and concerts and activities and we just hosted one of the biggest conferences here over 40,000 participant desnded upon san francisco and many had a really great experience and there opponent i'm making is, it is time for

us to write our own narrative about what san francisco is, because we live it and breathe it every single day, and part of adding to the value of our amazing city will be the fact that we will continue around our reforms and the work we need to do and the criminal justice world, but there will and must be accountability associated with that. with that, to talk a little bit more about the plans, is commissioner shawn dere of the california highway patrol. >> thank you madam mayor, good afternoon everyone. my name is shawn, the commissioner of the california highway patrol. the chp has a mutual interest insuring the safety of california communities and we are committed to collaborating with partners here in san francisco. under the direction and leadership of governor gavin newsom and mayor breed,

state agencies partnered with city officials and we have identified specific action items we can take immediately to improve the current issues in san francisco. beginning may 1, next monday, the chp will deploy officers to work side by side with san francisco police officers to enhance public safety within the city, with a focus on specified high crime areas. this will be accomplished through three main objectives at the highway patrol. first, we'll assist the san francisco police department increasing uniformed officer in spirfck area with intend to deter and disrupt criminal activity. second, provide specialized training to sfpd officers to assist those officers in the ability to detect, deter and prevent drug and alcohol related crimes, and finally, we will use the highway patrol existing resources from our specialized units to provide investigative support to develop

crimial cases that disrupt illegal narcotic traffic. the chp mission is provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of california. we are proud to stand with the california national guard, the california department of justice, the san francisco police department, and the san francisco district attorney's office in a collaborative effort to address these public safety issues. i'm happy to turn it over to major general matt beavers. >> matt beaver of the cal guard and what i want to do up front is spell out rumor, the california national guard presence in this is not boots on the ground in san francisco. the support that we will provide really consists of very talented and dedicated soldiers and airman that do essentially criminal analyst work and that is taking a look at all the

information that we-gets generated by law enforcement agencies, taking that information, senticizing it and into actionable information we can map, cartel networks inside and outside the city, understand those networks build a common picture of and dismantle the network. we have 14 or 15 folks working on the ground today supporting the northern california high intensity drug traffic area and we have proven success in the area. in san diego, dug traffic area where we support, in the last month in march alone, all most $50 million of fentanyl seizures that our soldiers and airman supported so we can do it in san diego and intend to do the same work here in your city. with that i'll be fallowed by district attorney brook jenkins. >> good afternoon. i first

want to say thank you to governor gavin newsom as well as general beavers from the national guard as well as commissioner dere from the california highway patrol for offering their assistance with tackling the open air drug market in san francisco that chief scott and our departments have both been working vigiously to address the last 9 months together. what we know is that this is not a problem that is easily solved and the more support and collaboration that we have allows us to address this problem more expeditiously so i'm very excited about the prospckt of this collaboration and this new partnership. this was an opportunity that at least from the vantage point of the national guard that was offered to my office about a year or two ago and declined. that was not in the best interest of san francisco. what is in the best interest of san francisco and particularly communities like

the tenderloin and south of market, they deserve to make sure that they get to walk down the street without the situation that we currently see. an additional benefit of this collaboration is how it will assist us in the prosecution of these cases. more recently, we have experienced many criminal defendants in narcotic dealing are asserting a umhooen trafficking defense. it requires significant evidence on our part in order to robut that defense so i'm excited at the prospect of having additional resources to be able to dispel the notion that people are not here dealing drugs of their own accord, because that is clearly what is happening. today we announced charges against an individual as the mayor pointed out in possession of 5 kilos of fentanyl that can kill

more then this entire city. that individual we argue should be detained based on the public safety risk he presents and the judge at this point agreed to that. we are moving the ball forward in trying to keep san francisco safe and as i said, this part nership will only allow us to do that on a higher level and at this time, i will bring up police chief bill scott. >> thank you district attorney jinken. i like to start by thanking our mayor london breed and thachck governor newsom and all the partners here today. as well as our board of supervisor president aaron peskin who's here with us today and is a supporter of making our city a safe city. i will fill in some of the blanks with some of what you heard here. the tenderloin and the

epicenter of the crisis with fentanyl is a very small area, about a square mile. generally. about a square mile. san francisco police officers have made 269 arrests in a very small area in the course of 4 months. think about your own community and think about a 10 block radius where you live and think about 269 drug dealers dealing poison on the street taken from your community. that is what the people who live and work in the tenderloin have to deal with day in and day out and that has to stop. our police officers have confisicated 39,000 grams of fentanyl year to date. a conversion is about 85 pounds of fentanyl. that's a lot of death and destruction.

think about it for a second. that is higher then what we have seen this time last year. we are working very hard as a city to address these issues, but it is not enough and that is why we have partners here. that is why we have commissioner dere and general beavers and their respective organizations here to help us and we need the help. i want to make a few things very clear, this city is committed to policing the right way, to policing with dignity and respect. to respecting the people who live work here and respecting the people who commit crimes here and our partners are here to enhance that. nothing short, nothing more, nothing less. they will enhance the values of this city. most of us who live here

and work here, the mayor has lead the charge, the district charge brook jenkins, myself, chief lazar from san francisco police department here, supervisor peskin, all most every public official in this city have heard over and over again that this has to stop. people are fed up with, we are fed up with it, and our attention needs to be on the people who are causing the problems. not only each other. our attention needs to be on the drug dealers that are making all this happen and that is exactly where our focus will be. we know this isn't a san francisco alone problem, we know that these people who deal drugs in our streets have tentacles in other cities, and other states, and perhaps in other countries and we have to do everything we can to bring every resource to bear

to identify every piece of these networks that are killing people in our city and we have to dismantle them, and that is exactly what we intend to do. whether it be da jenkins and straight prosecution or whether be federal prosecution, we will do what we need to do to make this problem better. because together, we are stronger. i want to again thank all the partners for being here. i know there is a lot of questions and i think at least the general questions have been answered. what is it national guard role, what is chp role? we are blessed to have a leader who pulled this all together in the mayor and we'll do everything we can to work together to solve this problem and with that, i will open it up for questions. >> [unable to hear speaker]

>> we seize crack cocaine, powder crack, meth, we see a garden variety, but when you look at the medical examiners reporting of the last couple years and this year is no exception, what is leading the charge and killing people thin city is fentanyl by far, it isn't even close. that is why we focused on fentanyl, because that is what is literally kills us now and we'll continue to focus on that. but we do make arrests and seizures for all the other illicit drugs as well. >> (indiscernible) when you talk about cartel, how does that factor into what we see on the streets? >> i think it is appropriate place to start. the drugs that come to our cities across the state, not independent of each city, it is not independent of each county, it is

fundamentally transnational organizations that bring narcotics into the state and city, so if we start from there and look through that prism it gives a good jumping off point to do the tough analytical work to determine who those folks are, and understand the network and their associations and go after dismantling them. thank you. >> [unable to hear speaker] >> yes, ma'am, just the mere presence of the officers being with the sfpd officers we believe will help deter criminal activity. the officers are trained in crim 2348 apprehension and take action if they see it and make appropriate arrests. we are not coming in here to take over, the highway patrol will supplement san francisco efforts and we'll

complement them in the efforts. >> (indiscernible) >> that is a fair question and i think we are early in this. we are having discussions we measure the success of it and those are things we'll establish in the days to come. >> the most immediate measure of success is we have to see a change in the streets. you heard me say we have to see a change in the streets. when people-i was out there last night, 10 o'clock last night, there were people visiting our city from lands far away that for a short second before our officers cleared it could not walk down it the sidewalks. that has to change. >> (indiscernible) >> arrest stutistics tell a story and we'll keep reporting those statistics because it is public interest and people want to see we are working and doing

something about the problem, but if i came and told you-told you 269, if i told you a thousand and walked out the building and still saw drug dealing on the streets that probably would not matter to you. if you had to see that every day, you probably don't care about statistics we bring before you so we have to see a change in the streets and see a change in behavior more importantly. it isn't okay to do what people are doing and not okay not only to deal drugs on the streets but to use drugs on the streets. if anybody thinks that's okay, it's not. >> (indiscernible) >> these things take time but we expect to see immediate changes. here's the realty and our officers see it every day and many of you see it every

day-when we deploy large amounts of officers in areas in the tenderloin or anywhere in the city the problem tends to go away while we are there. that isn't the long-term solution because sometimes that is unsustainable but temporarily that will go away. we want to disrupt this behavior. we want to make it difficult for people to come in the city and county and do what they've been doing, dealing drugs. the longer term plan as many speakers said today, there is a-there is dismantling the organizations bringing these drugs to our streets. there's prosecutions both state and federal prosecutions and at the end of all this, what we want to see is some of these organizations go away and be dismantled. that is a sign of success, because when that happens you won't see what you see right now on our streets. >> (indiscernible) >> i can't tell you. i know what the commitment is

from these people that are standing here. now we'll do whatever we need to do and the mayor and the governor will get together and decide. we are trying to build this for sustainability. part of that process is putting infrastructure in place or enhancing infrastructure that already exists, so we can sustain the effort. the last thing we want to do is clean the streets up for a week, two weeks, a month and then everybody goes back to their regular way of doing things and it starts all over again. we have to sustain this effort and so that is how we are trying to build this. >> (indiscernible) >> well, our federal partners are definitely dealing with

that and that's a little of what general beavers were talking about with the work they are doing in san diego. this takes partnership. that question the answer to that question is this takes partnership and no one organization that is standing before you can do this alone. people who do this, people deal, people who distribute, people who bring narcotics to any city, they don't care about boarders, they dont care where the county lines or city lines are, all they care about is making money and kill people in the money and we are not smart enough to join together and fight this together then shame on us. i applaud the mayor for asking for this help and applaud all our partners for willing to say, we'll help. we are all impacted by this. thank you. >> how many chp officers and national guard are there? >> i can have

commissioner general beavers answer their parts of the question and then-- >> for the safety of the officers and integ taef of the operation i won't disclose. they are all coming out of the san francisco area. the chp has 75 uniformed officers assigned to the san francisco area. in june we have academy scheduled to graduate and plan to send additional 9 officers so bring up to 84. i will tell you this, the officers that volunteered to work alongside sfpd officers all volunteered for it. they all are from san francisco, they love the community, they want to be there and serve the community so i think that's a important aspect from our viewpoint. >> we have 14 criminal analyst assigned to the northern california high intensity drug traffic area. those

14 will be assigned a multijurisdictional task force that include the folks up here on the stage today. 14. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i have more concerns about the number of people who are dying from drug overdoses. i have more concerns about the families and the people who are struggling in these various neighborhoods overrun by drug dealers who have increasingly become violent and fight over territory and number other things, so as far as i'm concerned, my plan is part of what's been missing, because this city has been extremely generous with regards to social services. in fact, when you look at our city budget, the amount of money that

we spend for non profits and organizations to help with treatment, to help with second chances and support and resources are mostly in the tenderloin, soma communities and that will not change. we will continue to invest heavily in providing opportunities for people and second chances and all of those things, which is different from what was happening in the 80 . there were hardly alternatives or nobody seemed to care about that, everything is about arrests and lock people up and in fact this is different. this is program services, second chance opportunities and also accountability and what is missing is accountb ability and that's what this is all about. i do want to also mention that measuring of success includes reducing the number of drugs overdose deaths in this city, which we have seen

decline at one point and starting to see a spike and increase and so we want to make sure that we are saving lives in the process of the work we are doing here in our city. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i hope it does and i think that you know, just recently you recall when we declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin, and we set up a link it center which was supposed to be the place we help people and officers had a alternative place to take those struggling with addiction and it didn't quite work out that way for a number of

reasons including challenges with capacity of the police department. ulimately we can't sit back and throw our hands up. we need to be innovative and do everything we can to provide all the resources so that we have the capacity to handle a problem of this magnitude, and as i said earlier, you see the arrests have gone up considerably from the police department in terms of drug arrests, not just for fentanyl but this past weekday meth. you see the da time and time again to charge people in these many many cases so we'll continue to do all we can, but the partnership is going to hopefully make a significant difference. i want the streets to be safe , we all want the streets to be safe and part of that includes all the right programs we are doing but there has to be accountability attached to this and think this capacity will help us get to a

better place. alright. thank you very much.

. . >> good afternoon. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 1, 2023 regular meeting of the land use transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. happy international workers day to everyone. i'm supervisor myrna melgar chair of the committee and joined by dean preston a