>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> i would like to take roll. >> please. >> commissioner walker?

>> present. >> commissioner benedicto. >> present. >> commissioner yanez. >> present. >> commissioner byrne. >> here. >> commissioner yee. >> here. >> vice are the is in route, you have a quorum and we have chief scott from the san francisco police department and chief of staff diana rosenstein from the department of police accountability. >> thank you, welcome to our june 7, 2023 meeting. we had a nice two-week break, but we missed you all as i'm sure you missed us. let's get started with the first item. >> presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond. officer gil, 1249 richmond station.

>> thank you very much. madam president, chief scott, honorable commissioners. it's my honor to present but officer kevin gil of the richmond police station. a few words about officer gil, officer gil has been a police officer here in the san francisco police department for nearly 8 years. his assignments have included the engel side station where he was trained central police station where he served as probation airy period. he has served as permanent assign sxment part of a swing watch. a few things about officer gil, that i would like to note and i am again honored to be here, representing officer gil. when i first landed at richmond station in about october, there was a significant crime that occured on gary boulevard, very

significant and traumatic for a community, there was a car to car shooting and that involved foot and run and firearm that was thrown during the foot chase, officer gil was the responding officer that took control of that incident and actually over the course of a couple of days, not only conducted a thorough preliminary investigation, identified suspect that was captured by responding officers, coordinated the department of csi team and so forth and able to provide a very thorough investigation, during his preliminary casework to the investigation's bureau. this consulted in an arrest and recovery of a firearm and more than anything seamless exercise and very very helpful to me as i was able to reassure the shaount that there was a swift

response not only from richmond through other station that's came to assist the sfrnz. --officers, i would have not have been able to do that without the assistance of officer gil. officer gil is an anchor on his watch, it was it very easy for me to recognize him as i work with the lieutenanted at the richmond station. his name was mentioned a number of times, and as i spoke to lieutenants, and to the public, is that he is very thorough, responsive, reliable, consistent, comes up for calls for service and supports his fellow officers. there is a level of commitment and service in his family, his significant life partner, not only are they servant, she they parent and she is a teacher and

among the family dynamic of officer gil's family, it's committed to public service. so with again, my distinct privilege, would i like to present to you officer gil for this recognition. [applause] >> may i read this. >> please. >> officer gil, if i may read this for the record *, the san francisco police department and the police commission recognizes officer kevin gil, star 1249 as the officer that in recognition of your dedication and professionalist demonstrated for the police and practice and showing greatness as guardians of our community such an example of dedication is worthy of the highest esteem by the city and county of san francisco, the san francisco police department and san francisco police commission presented on this 7th day of

june, 2023 signed by chief scott. congratulations. [applause] >> president: officer gil, welcome, we would like to give you an opportunity to speak if you would like, if not i would turn it over to my colleagues too. >> well i didn't prepare anything, but i just want to say, i really appreciate this, we know times are tough and to receive any recognition means a lot. >> president elias: it's great to see you at richmond station and i'm glad you gave us this officer to recognize and honor. we are very grateful for your service. commissioner walker? >> commissioner walker: thank you, congratulations officer gil and thank you for your service and thank your family and wife too. it's extra special that you

know, it's a family thing that is everybody is involved in service to the city. we really appreciate and captain, it's good to see you. i have to come out and do a right along in richmond now, last time i saw you, you were in the tenderloin. thank you and i know all of us are really happy to honor your service. >> president elias:xhs commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you, officer, as captain knows we had that ice cream out that day. i just want to thank you and your family. sometimes we don't say enough. we here honor you, thank you. >> commissioner benedicto.

>> commissioner benedicto: thank you, president elias. i never met a commissioner 15 years in. i hope that, that you feel recognized, and i hope that you'll take the message back. it's not just when you're in trouble. thank you for your service. >> president elias: chief do you want to say anything? >> chief scott: it's that day-to-day work that carries this department. we appreciate and we appreciate

your work. and thank you for recognizing officer gil. >> president:thank you. they're going to take some glamour shots there and then we're going to go to public comment. >> for any member of the public that would like to make a public comment online item number 1, please approach the podium. >> speaker: i'm here to ask to give us the retired officer at night, i forget the name of them. we need them badly. >> excuse me, i'm going to stop

you, this is public comment regarding line item 1. >> speaker: okay, okay. >> if you want to come back for general public. the next one one. >> speaker: i have having smo to* say. >> i will restart your time. >> speaker: okay. >> commissioner, it appears there is no public commentment line item 2, general public comment. jaou, i'm here to discuss the misinterpretation that is happening with this injunction. and we have a thorough research on it and the police department, not addressing the american with disability act concerning this injunction.

and we have some pictures for you with him, of them blocking it. we have a couple that have terrorized our neighborhood. and the last month and a half, they've two months, they have been involved with the commonality thing. they have flashed young children, they have threatened them with metal pipes. they have broken into houses, obvious dealing of drugs. and our neighbors are afraid. the relief not by defendant's to keep places clean and sanitary and safe access. 3 feet is not a safe access. sitting san francisco has a 6-foot regulation and is not

being followed throughout the city. this is past, being this is past just a homeless issue, this is a health safety. if they block lamb ard street, or any of our alleys, you have to walk on lambart street. somebody is going to get killed, and they run across it and either they're going to get killed.

>> speaker: good evening i'm james time i'm a 22 year resident of the marina and would i like to share some comments. the san francisco police department weak response to nathanial and ashley's drug dealing in the lambart laguna area, causes chaos for businesses. both nathanial and ashley's violate the american disability act, the sale of narcotic. san francisco pd allows them to continue their illegal activities. their illegal en camp part on lambart have blocked crosswalks

created and forced walkers and those in wheelchair to go around them by having to move to the edge of the sidewalk bordering highway 101. in the case of a d.a. clearance limit means something where disabled and elderlies must pass and full hazardous materials from christ cal and meth use. nathanial and ashley are dangerous not only because of their tendency to violence but because of the violence they create when they urinate and defecate on the swaution. --sidewalk. this can cause trauma to those disabled or elderly where they wait at bus stops where they sometimes camp. these two have been on the streets for more than two years.

illegal activities have expanded throughout the neighborhood. their actions have become more obstructive and violence. there are hours long wait and waiting time for them to arrive, meanwhile ashley and nathanial. >> thank you, sir. i'm afraid your two minutes are up. >> speaker: and that's it, thank you. >> i feel the san francisco police department has an illegal arrangement with the white coalition. i do not see them enforcing our laws regarding bike list. now they're electrified, there is electric scooters out there,

they're blowing through red lights, blowing lines and having little kids on the back all overtime. i have a family member that got run over in the sidewalk and the person took off. i went to your park side station and asked them to enforce it on pay street. he said with straight face, that there was a law that they don't have to stop at the stop sign. and i told them please, write me down this law. that you're quoting me. 5 minutes passed, he comes in and says he made a mistake that his sergeant told him that they have to obey the law the same way as cars do. so i said can we have somebody enforce this? and then he said with another straight face, he said you've heard the news, that we are short staffed.

i couldn't believe it and i said, just tell it to somebody. and another thing about the police commission, i understand we're short staffed so why don't we have more secretary in the police station and more cops outside the police station. you don't need a gun to write down messages and take calls, a secretary can do that at a fraction of the cost. thank you. >> speaker: yes, good evening. i'm going to show a video, i usually show my pictures but most of you seen this video before but there is an upsurge in killings in san francisco.

so it's just a reminder. this is just a reminder, my son is on here too. now? isn't hear it, there is suppose to be sound. i'm going to stop it if there is no sound. i think i heard something. let me try it again.

you've got to start my time over too. >> yes, i will. i'm going to start it now. >> it is one thing to die of elderly it's another to lose a loved one to violent death. >> speaker: can everybody hear it that's sf gov. hearing it?

i can't hear it. it's usually louder than this. [gunshots] video: since 2004 san francisco has experienced ununprecedented number of homicides. >> speaker: there is been an upsurge in killings in san francisco whether by the police or community violence. >> video: 60% of homicide victims are people of color.

their loved one. >> speaker: my son. >> video: living in neighborhoods of neglect must deal with their tragedy while at the same time facing the crime of the neighborhoods around them every day.

>> speaker: these are all the people that have lost loved once in our healing circle. >> video: death impacts relatives and the community. >> speaker: me and my daughter, over 250 people are in the church today i'll stop it and play it later. thank you. >> speaker: good evening, it's jerry caesar. good spirit at first, nice two weeks vacation, i said last time, the whole idea is to push the responsibility, it's still the price, who does that? the city has to do it.

the sfonlt for your action, reaction, creation and under consequences now something even more important i think is to push the concept of critical thinking. critical thinking. who does not want to do that? you don't want to push the concept of critical thinking? why? you don't think critically? that's not good. we want to solve the problem if you push critical thinking, we are not to be afraid of that critical thinking. look, have a nice evening. >> good afternoon, i'm paul, on may 22, i send a memorandum to

the commission urging that it comply with section 8.22 and charter and purpose. it's easy to trivialize with respect to many of the 100 plus commissions that exist in the city but not this commission. this commission has more authority more influence than any other commission except perhaps plan anding obviously with respect to public safety, it has the most influence of any commission in the city. and why is that? because you have the authority to prom gate rules and regulations. but the question is for what purpose? what are the goals when you develop the rules and regulations? what are you trying to accomplish? and what are the bench marks to measure performance? these are important questions that i think should be answered. now the commission has prided itself on adopting using it a standard of national best practices when it comes to the

department of d g.o.s and frankly one would be hard press to come to any commission meeting without hearing the words transparently and responsibility echo off the walls usually as it applies to sfpd. but these standards are applicable to internal governorance as they are to rule making. and it seems to me that in that context and that setting, the police commission has a special obligation, a special obligation in a manner that is consistent with its civil responsibilities. thank you. one other thing, perhaps, a working group would be in order. thank you. >> president elias, that's the end of public comment.

line item 3, consent calendar, receive and file action, to accept the 5,000 donation to be given to the recipient of the officer of the month awards for january, february and march of 2023. >> motion received. motion received and file and accept the donation. >> president elias: second. >> to members of the public who would like to make public comment online item 3, please approach the podium? and there is no public comment. commissioner walker on the motion? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president carter oberstone? >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes.

>> you have 7 yeses. line item 4 adoption of minutes action for meetings of 19 , may 10, and may 17, 2023. >> move to approve all the minutes. >> second. >> commissioner byrne? >> i would like on the 17th, the minutes of the 17th to reflect that on the resolution involving that the amount from commissioner benedicto advancing the d g.o., city attorney as i understand it, i don't have the type in front of me, ruled that there had to be notice because it was different than what was on the agenda. and i would like the minutes to reflect that. so that the record is clear.

>> thank you. >> yes just to clarify, stacy with check the tape but i believe it was one that required ten-day posting if i'm not mistaken. >> sorry, can i ask? >> president elias: it would be better to give secretary direction. sorry commissioner benedicto. >> my recollection was the resolution itself was not posted not specific to the night of. >> president elias:it was to the side, that policies and

proceedings that were setforth. it's not the resolution itself, it was the content of it. >> commissioner benedicto: okay. >> president elias: i think we should bring it back. >> commissioner benedicto: i'll bring the motion. >> okay, commissioner walker is going to withdrawal that. >> i just need another second. >> second. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 4, adoption of the minutes please approach the podium. on the motion, commissioner walker how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> commission vice president carter oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses.

line item 5, chief report, discussion, weekly crime trends and public safety concerns, offenses and incidents or events occurring in san francisco having an impact on the county safety. chief scott? >> thank you, sergeant young blood, good evening, president elias, vice president carter oberstone and acting director o behrstein. i'll start with the high level, we're down a 7% in par 1 crimes, serious crime and we're 8 percent down in property crimes and our violent crime is up 5 percent. so the total reduction is about 1500 fewer crimes than this time last year. as far as gun violence, there is no homicide, but there was a homicide on june 5th bringing our total number of homicides for the year to 22, this time

last year. we had 20. so we're up by 2. there are two shootings, two incidents causing injuries to victims. and for the year there is a total of 77 incidents resulting in 85 victims, that is a slight decrease in each category of 7% for shooting victims and 3% for gun violence victims. our homicide year to date is 95%. so i want to say, we're not even halfway through the year yet but some really really hard and good work being done by our investigators and everybody who has contributed to those case that's we have been able to solve last year. but we still have a lot of work. this is something that i walked about, the week of april 1 when really the bob lee murder, captured all the headlines and there is another person killed that week by the name of

jermaine ruiz and the message that week, we will continue to work that case just as hard that we did with bob lee case, good news as far as that issue. our homicide, actually our narcotic unit, arrested a suspect in that case and that person also had a gun with him when he was arrested. so just wanted give some circle back on that, that particular case because it's important that people know that we put energy into all of our cases. and i know that our lead cases, lee got a lot of attention and resources. but our investigators are working on all of the cases. that one an arrest was made and i wanted to update you on that one. the other cases that are of note this week, this is a follow-up from a prior police

commission meeting from the cold case and a lot of discussion about the rewards and website. so since that time, our homicide unit and actually public affairs unit with lilly romero and our technical folks have put some updates, that is on the sfpd website. i want today provide some update. so we lost a page on the sfpd website that included information including which ones had rewards and that reward information to make the site more user friendly. our homicide unit long with our people in our technical division, they have worked this entire page on the website.

the search has a search engine by name and date. the information from each case now includes brief summary and if a reward has been issued for that particular case. that information is also on the website. the name and contact of the information of the currently assigned investigator is also on the website. so for those who want to check it out, or to hopefully somebody out there wants to provide information on the cold cases, the page is found at san francisco police.sfgov.org under the tab stay safe and that should be at the top of the website. i just want to thank the lieutenant sanders and others in the homicide unit, director and from our tech division and lilly romero who worked hard to put this work together.

so as always, if the website does not hit the mark, we will improve it but that's a step in the right direction. as far as significant incidents just want to report on a couple of arrests, several arrests, the we had a robbery with a firearm on april 10th at the nightclub and 10,000 block of commission, robbed him of his high end watch. through the investigation one of the suspect was identified and warrant approved. a ping for cell phone was also approved. the suspect was located in daily city followed by an arrest team into the area of 2300 block of 16th street. suspect was taken into custody and loaded a firearm was located on him and that person was booked for this particular robbery and the courts had no bail for this particular

individual. the investigation does continue. there is a stabbing on may 29th at 9:50 am and central the victim was working in the bakery, this was very high profile. the suspect stabbed the victim multiple times and then exited the bakery. the suspect was seen short distance, officers were able to obtain without incident. and the victim was transported in stable condition. the suspect was ultimately arrested for this stab anding also on parole from a similar incident. the victim on that incident was the father from the victim. very horrific, couple of things, officers were there right away and were able to able to detain and one of our

resident community member, robert chong who actually, did what he could to interrupt this heinous crime and rendered aid to our victim. mr. chong i met him at an event in china town that commissioner yee hosted, he did not have to do that. and i just want to thank mr. chong for what he did to try to interrupt. and just want to a word to the wise on this, we don't expect people to put themselves in harms way, call the police, take notes in your mind or if you can make note of what you can, but we don't want to put themselves in danger. and mr. chong was very wise about how he intervened and thankfully, nobody else was hurt. another arrest was robbery with force of an elderly victim that happened on the 100 block of

stockton on june 4 at 1:15. the suspect grabbed his wallet from his hand. the suspect tried to flee and the victim chased him on foot. a second suspect tried to trip the victim and unsuccessful. the victim continued the pursuit of the two subject when two china town officers on high visibility patrol witnessed the victims chasing the suspect. the officers got involved and were able to catch and detain the suspect. and then the officer was alerted to another suspect who was taken into custody and he had a gun in his waist band. both were arrested on that incident. the last thing i want to talk about with arrest, there have been a number of shootings in the tenderloin recently and thankfully several of these, nobody was actually hit.

but we have made some arrests and we have addressed our strategies in terms of trying to address this issue. one was at 6:44 lark instreet, that one did not result in the arrest, witnesses were located told officer that suspect fired shot and fled in opposite direction. two bullets were recovered from the scene and will be analyzed to see if we can match this up with other shootings. there was an assault of firearm discharge and one 100 block of jones street. this will one there was no arrest and medics on view or observed the shots fired when the police arrived, they located evidence of a shooting. an off duty officer heard the fire. he saw the firearm and fired 3 times. the off duty officer observed a

potential suspect who the officer believed was involved in it. that person was detained but later released, there was not enough evidence to hold him for the shooting. but they were detained and that investigation is on going. okay, there were two other, three others that i'll quickly talk about, shots fired at larkin turk. three people were arrested. and lastly shots fired at 25 mason and a person was arrested and a gun was recovered in that particular case. captain in the tenderloin has adjusted that there are officers out at night, we are putting more officers to make

sure that there is a focus on that area. we'll continue with that strategy but while we do our work. and that concludes my report. [audio off] [mic off] >> thank you, my buzzard went off so i cut my report short. this is pride month, and i

believe since 2019, the police department with the commissioner's approval have allowed our officers to wear the pride patches. so as of june 1, again, our officers are allowed to wear pride patches and where appropriate wear pride t-shirts. these patches are actually, will take donations for these patches and any proceeds from those donations will be donate today charity. so pride alliance has raised thousands of dollars from prosides of the donations from these patches and it's for a good was. but it's really to support pride. there is a lot going on right now in our country as far as this issue and we want people to understand that in this city, we support pride and we will stand by our patches and

our people in our community to have the freedom to do the things that we are suppose to be able to do in this country. please help support the effort if you wish to do so. as far as the tragedies, the open air market, one thing that is happening and this is somewhat related to the government's support from the chp officer in the tenderloin, is we've reemployed some of our officers and put some of the tenderloin officers into teams actually that are doing a lot more of the arrest on the narcotic sales side. and the chp visibility gives us to have uniform president as our officers, many of them many

of them wear plainclothes assignment and that has resulted in more arrest just across the board. the other thing on the other side of that is the open air drug use, the open air possession of drugs and everything that comes with that, this police department has to address that issue. there is nothing fancy about this, we're just going to do our jobs. and the officers have been instructed when they see open air drug use, to engage and intervene and many have resulted insightation sxz arrests. many are being transported to county jail and being booked. and so, the over arching issue on this from the part that we this department from the community over and over again, this activity, sometimes goes unabated.

really a culture that people can use narcotic and shoot up and use meth and it's okay. we get a lot of complaints. so one thing that is that we will do is do our jobs. that's not the way to solve addiction, we try to connect people to services. on the other side of that, when the officer sees the activity, they can't just drive by, they have to engage and not just let people go,. and then all of the other stuff that goes along with that, that our public, members of our public complain about. it's a small piece of the puzzle. grant it, the law enforcement

is not the answer, it's not the solution. i will say that as long as i'm in this profession but we are a part of the puzzle and we have to do our job. we want to make sure that we support officers to do with jobs with 'em empathy, but at the same time, we have to address this issue. way too much of this activity going on and it has to be evaded. this is not a pilot thing, we have officers dedicated to do this type of work. and when they're called to do so, they're supporting narcotic sales, these officers are in uniform, they support the plainclothes to disrupt the narcotic sales. and again, the chp being visible in the tenderloin, allow us to have the uniform presents and freeze us to do a few more of those types of

things. that is where we are, i believe this is agendized. >> president elias: it will be agendized for next week. >> thank you, president and we can talk about it more in detail. we're transparent, we just need to go back to the basics do part of that job better and more consistent. >> president elias: great, i remember when we voted several years ago, when the patch was created. and we had to vote to allow officers to wear it because there were strict restrixz, it was a big deal, i remember and the pride alliance was here and presented to the great presentation. so i would offer or extend an invitation to come back to this commission which was not hear before, to share, i think some of the history and allow us to

buy their merch, i think they have great stories and whatever we can do to help contribute to their cause is important. >> chief scott: i will make sure that they know that that invitation is there for them. having meetings for the time that i've been here, i'm sure they will be excited. >> i really hope they accept that. we've got two more meetings. second thing, i have a lot of questions about this open air drug program or new enforcement that you're doing. i guess my question is, you know, how is this different? i think open air drug use has been illegal. nothing has changed.

and i know your new directive is to do your job. how is this going to be different from what is happening? where it's been illegal but nothing has been done. >> we have to be consistent with going out and walking with answers and going out even without officers, patrol officers and seeing this with my own eyes. when you see people who are using the openly in the streets, we've got to a point even when they see a uniform officers, it's like okay. let me be clear, we're not look to go people to fear police officer but we're hoping to discourage this in the streets because it's gotten to that point.

sxl this area, civic center plaza parts of the tenderloin is the epi center but it happens all over the city. and it is nothing new and this has happened overtime where we've gotten away from it and there is a lot of reasons why, and this is not about what is going on with the court system and prosecution this is not about any of that, this is about what we can do and what we can control to do the jobs. i've been through enough meetings where people are, are really upset with what they see and what they, with this issue. consistent and enforcement, just consistency and enforcement, and it's not hard to stop. i've been out there enough to know. number one is consistent and number 2, it's really hard for

officers, particularly in the tenderloin because their call load is one of the busiest to focus their efforts on this. but particularly in the peek hours to to have a dedicated unit so they can spend the time to be on sister ant is really important, is that new? no, i'm not saying it has not been done before but we have not done it this way and not during my time of year. that's their focus, their foc sus to curve the open air drug usage and try to get people into services. >> i guess my question is how you're going to get police officers to do their job? that's what the crooks of this is. >> the work that they do. first of all, >> the other thing that comes to find is the emergency deckation and all of these resource that's were flooded

that the tenderloin were flooded with and it didn't have any impact. >> yeah, so let's talk about that for a minute. part of what i wish had happened, that our officers were able to actually be able to take them to the litchingerage center and be part of that. and that part of the equation was not done. we were hands-off in terms of getting people in the epi center. and i'm not trying to blame anybody, but i looking back, i wish we would have been more forceful of being part of that. the other part is we have not been consistent addressing this issue, people use on the streets all the time quite often, and whatever reason, that we are not consistent in

addressing that issue i think has contributed to what we see in the streets. we have to be consistent, there are more people out there that we have the ability to arrest. the officers can only do what they can do. they got to write the reports and if a person needs medical attention, we need the person that can provide medical attention. the thing that we can do is be consistent. and this is not some policy where we want to go out and these are misdemeanor crimes, people will, they're not going to be detained for a prolonged period of times of time and if they have to be arrested. one thing that i know is happening, they are sfrd

services while they're in custody and while they are released. hopefully that piece at some point for the people that are willing to take advantage of the services will pay some dividended to address the bigger issue, the root is addiction. it's not going solve or cure addiction. but what i do think it will do, it will set a tone of, this is not okay and we're not going to allow people to do it without abatement. >> i think you raised a great point which is my second question. are there, have there been conversations as to what the overall game plan is? it seems to me, from what i read thus far, none of them have accepted services. but i think you raise a good point which is this is a misdemeanor time with the maximum jail time is 6 months if urine kept in custody.

so you're now arresting people, a majority are not going to be in custody and then what? and then, or if they are, they stay for three months and they maxed out, and we have a court system where, you know, people are waiting for trials on serious cases for years. >> yeah. >> so this is going to add to that backlog and affect that. this is, just one piece in a very multi layered puzzle and so i'm wondering if people are having conversations about how this really plays out rather than just? >> yes, on all those. and to a lot, let me address some of what you said. >> not to put you on the spot and maybe this is something when we agendize this issue, i'm going to ask for the stats from the number of arrests and from 647 and national guard and chp. >> just a correction, 647 is one of the things that we can

arrest for but a lot of arrest have been for, you know, 11550 health and safety code when people are using openly and under the influence. le >> that's still a misdemeanor. >> i think nine of the number, i think the number is nine and i'll have the actual statistics number 9 have warrants, there is that too where some of the folks that we're coming in contact, have warrants. and out of all the people that we arrested, only 2 are san francisco residents of all of people we arrested. so there is a plan to see what we can do with that as well because there are services in the city that connect people with their families and that type of thing. we have to bring all of these things to the table.

>> i look forward to it being agendized, because the tidbits that we get from the news and the briefings, i don't think that they're sufficient enough for the public that have a lot of questions. i think it's going to be incumbent for you to lay it out. >> i look forward to that. >> vice president, carter-oberstone. >> thank you, just a couple of follow-up on being more aggressive and intervene withing folks who are openly using drugs. that they're being provided officers. can you clarify what services and who is providing them. >> so public health, our public health i don't know if they're

actually doctors but our department is in the jail, and it's a variety of detox services that they're determining what the individual needs are. there are people that that they're meeting people where they're at. so that will continue to be part of that. and then when they're in custody, they are depending on what they're condition is, they are offered services. and sometimes if it goes to medical care, we have to provide that medical care when they're in custody. that will be an on going thing. a lot of people do take advantage of those services.

so we want to get to this population, officers are on the streets, even before we were arresting, they were engagement and we tried a variety of strategies to try to get to this. and we have tried and none of them have been sustained but the part that we have to be consistent on is what is our role in terms of what we see these things happening. that really don't, i don't think the right thing to do is to say there is nothing we can do. we only want part of this. we have the power to enforce

the law and get people off the streets, whether they agree to services or, if it's appropriate, you know, at the county jail. but hopefully, we'll keep offering services. >> great. you mentioned that this is not a pilot program, i heard that last week there was a pilot program where six officers were assigned to do this full-time under one sergeant supervision and that was going to serve as a pilot program, that the department would learn from before its implemented more widely. is that correct or not? and secondly, kind of it, if you can report what the plan was. >> yeah yeah, 8 officers and a sergeant, when we say pilot, the commitment is to be consistent and continue to do

this work. we talked about our staffing issues in this commission hearing. but they're the commitment to a reassess after the first couple of months. it has been raised in the commission how the streets look at night so we have to figure out what to do at night in order to curb this activity. we will not expand until we see how this is working. we want to be thoughtful with the resource that's we do have. we need consistency and we need some focus for this area. so the pilot is the beginning for sure.

it's a task force because we have to abide by the m.o. u in terms of scheduling. they have the ability to address specialized problem and the people that are there, they want to be there, they video. we definitely want to do the work and make sure we do it the right way. >> thanks, so i have it right, we have 8 officers assigned to this full-time, has not been ruled out beyond that. and then just, you know, just wanted to know since we're in the pilot phase, how will we be evaluating failure or success? number of arrests? number of overdoses, what are the factors that we'll use to evaluate the success of the problem. >> the big picture and bottom line is to reduce the number of people dying on the streets, not just in the streets but the overdoses period. and that's why part of our

strategy to get as much fentanyl off the streets as we legally can is a part of, the other part of this is, but, the arrests matrix or whatever those arrests end up being, is really the important thing, because hopefully, the arrests if the activity is not happening, we'll make many fewer arrests. you know, we want to curb the activity. and the main test is, we have to see a differentlies in the streets. i can come in here and site statistics, that's not a measure of what we're doing. narcotic arrests are up hear to date, pretty significantly. but i just had a meet width tenderloin and they're still seeing the dealers out there and they're well it's changed a little bit but not much.

so what difference are we seeing on the streets can people live a better quality of life that they have to step through and run through a gauntlet of drug dealers and all of this stuff that comes along with it. and some of the stuff that i read tonight, i didn't say this, i ran out of time. three of the shootings were absolutely narcotic related. and we had a guy that overdosed and he's in the car with a gun that somebody could have taken. we want it all to be reduced. it's not about the numbers, it's really not but we do have to change the behavior as much as we can impact so there is less of it. >> thanks chief, one last

thing, i pulled up department notice, entitled syringe access and disposal programs which was issued in may of 2021. i know you're very familiar with it, you issued it. but briefly to recap, basically state law, authorized and in fact encourages local governments to provide certain services, so providing clean syringes and fentanyl test strips, we know that will stop the spread of serious diseases by doing that. i just want to ask, is this new program, are those officers in this pilot task force, are they, a biding by this? and the reason i ask is because i was reached out by a member of the community that was sfrd

that the officers were not abiding by this, that officers were kind of intervening while these health services were being provided. so i did want to ask you about whether we're continue to go a boyd by this and if there have been any issues with implementing the mayor's new directive and abiding by our commitment to public comment. >> that's something that we're very familiar with. and we are abiding by that, so we what we have asked our officers usage, you see somebody smoking and whatever substance they're smoking or injecting whatever the case may be. that does not impact the health and using in public which is another section of 11550.

so that's been where the focus has been. with the paraphernalia we went through this about a year ago, we were at that point, we did run into a lot of these conversations with a lot of public health people that service providers the cbos and so we had to really make sure that we and this our officers understood, the health order which basically saids that if the person gets paraphernalia from an agency that is authorized to give it, is decriminalized, that's the short of it. we have to abide by that and we understand the health reasons that those health orders with there. but it still does not give the right and permission where people can take that

paraphernalia and stay in public. we have to stay in the separate lanes. nobody has been arrested for fa pa* ra if --paraphernalia, we can still cease that if they're smoke ining public. that's what the strategy is. it's a good point somebody that has been raised with us with community organizations, we met with community organizations several of them when this was a hot topic about a year ago. and we made sure that our officers are trained on that issue and retrained when needed. >> great. leaving this issue, it's been a couple of weeks since last meeting, so couple of things have been recorded. --reported. one issue was that it was a vehicle purchase saoet for car jacking that one person was killed in the pursuit, and maybe 4 injured.

first thing i want to ask is whether or not an officer was injured? >> no, i don't believe any officers were injured and i'll verify that before this hearing is over. >> okay, and is there aside from the investigation into the car jacking of course, is there any kind of review into >> city attorney: our vehicle pursuit and in light of this? this is car jacking a violent felony that our policy permits. but at the same time, they try to a pretend and here the results are quite tragic and i'm curious if the ball started rolling in terms of assessing, whether this is a policy.

>> ye, the ball has to start rolling. so with those types of pursuit, there is a review to see if the policy is reviewed. the final results but the ball has got to start rolling. >> great. >> last question for me, was also reported last month, and maybe it was in the course of a lawsuit that sfpd avail itself of the new, availability to get access to private security cameras to sur veil a tyri nickel protest. you're looking at me like i have that wrong? >> no, i'm just. no, well i'm not aware of the lawsuit, i'm not saying that there is not a lawsuit but, i

don't have any, i would not comment on it if i did. >> yeah, is could be wrong about the lawsuit. are you aware of and prepare to discuss the issue of requesting access to the video cameras to sur veil the protests. >> no, not aware of it, but i will follow-up, if you want to do that. >> we can chat about it or bring it up next week. >> that's it for me. >> president elias: mr. benedicto. >> commissioner benedicto: couple of questions, chief. when answering, reported that there have been 25 arrests made under this new program and so far none have accepted the services upon release, is that my understanding? >> i think that was as of yesterday, so that number is higher today. >> i don't know if any accepted services today but i know the

numbers are in 25. >> i know part of these things that we're seeing, there was a command center being set up. has that been launched? >> no, that has not been launched yet. so, it's really about, you know, the coordination with a lot of what has been raised, you know, particularly with commissioner elias's with the many entities that have to be involved and it's hard for us to do what we have to do with the city. it has to be coordinated. we have to work with public health and public works, we have to work with homeless and supportive houses. all of these things kind of touch and coordination is, on the for front of what we have to do as the many departments that are involved in this. so there will be a coordination

effort center that will be stood up. but it's not stood up yet. do you know when the command center will be stood up? >> it should be in the very near future and hopefully within the next couple of weeks that we'll have everything together. some of these conversation right side happening anyway but to have the people who have a stake in this, in a room is really important and we're really looking at the bigger picture. some of the questions that this commission has asked about, is not about numbers, we can say that we help 1,000 people. have we saved lives? those are the things that we have to focus on. it's not about numbers, i know

that's a means to get us where we need to go, maybe. but what can we do without making arrests? let's try to figure that out. right now, we changed behavior. to be as efficiently with our resources. >> if you let us know, once that command center stood up. is that your understanding? >> i don't think any of that has been decided yet. but i will update the commission. >> so, is dph going to be part of that command center? >> yes. >> and emergency management be part? >> yes. >> will chp be part of that. >> chp will not be part and they're doing what they do. it's like a fire branch and law branch and sfpd portion of this

team, will carry whatever the law enforcement commission is. and if we have to get other agencies on board to help out and be part of this, it will be our role to do that. but i don't anticipate that chp will be part of that? >> national guard? >> one of the things that they offered is administrative assistance from national guard. and this is one of the things that they do well in terms of setting these up. so we are, hoping that we get some administrative support. that's what the, what the one of the things that has been set publicly and what is the administrative role, to do the type of work hopefully alleviate, not hopefully some of our city people that are strapped to do some of those administrative tasks. so i'm hoping, i'm hopeful.

a lot of this is coming together. i'm hopeful that those resources that the governor has offered will be put to good use in that way. >> okay, i know we've been offered to regular updates. have there been any new uses of that in the last recording period? >> i didn't get an update but i know it's going to be agendized soon? >> okay, i look forward to getting that update then. that's all for me, thank you chief. >> thank you. >> president elias: mr. byrne. >> commissioner byrne: thank you, president elias, i have a number of questions. i read in the media, i remember when i first came to the commission, there was a 16-year-old women that died of

an overdose in san francisco. and i was happy to read that the san francisco police have made an arrest. that lady came from a troubled household and she was not forgotten. i think that's important and for that, i before i go into my other stuff, i think that's important to mention. >> thank you. that life was as important as mr. lee's life. the next thing, i had a sent a client over to get a signature required for u visa. this is important for the undocumented community particularly in san francisco. my client didn't do anything. the client reported that there were three other people there

seeking the on the immigration form to applied for u visa, for the public those are victims of certain criminal offensers that allow people to stay in the united states to change their status. and they also were turned away. they're not my client. and that's why i'm calling out publicly, i think it's important that the police take this matter very seriously. because it's important to have san francisco immigrant population and it's important that they feel that they can confide for criminal offenses. and it's an important part, i hope that was just a blip but, as i said it appears to be with my client. but there were three others one that day.

the next thing that i wanted to comment, there are more officers deployed to the tenderloin? is that day shift or night shift? >> they're on day shift. >> is that the aid? >> yes. >> and you menged something about something needs to be in the evening time. >> in the evening time, yes. they do go down into southern district and like 7th and mission, that's southern. but the issue that we're facing are pretty substantial there as well. but tender line and part of southern upper part. >> i'm familiar. you understand that there is irony that two weeks ago, i'm

in falton in the transfers that crosses the park. and there was a police officer conducting the speed trap. and in normal times, i would not, it was the daytime and all of that. but with an average of almost two people a day dying of mostly fentanyl overdose in san francisco, the plurality, it's not from my mind, it was not the best use of resources. it was only one officer but i think the more important message is to deal with that. and the other part that i want to bring up is that i understand the, the people that have addiction problem and what the police department wants to do. but there is a second

component, to deal drugs, you know, they've got backpacks on them and all that. whenever there is a uniform police presence, between mission and market and up in the u.n. plaza or even on golden gate across from uc san francisco. they disburse, they leave. you talk about bringing a quality of life to the neighborhood, but this is an issue, those people. i agree with you, it's not how many arrested. but it's a huge affect to uniform presence on those areas as many hours as possible. and with all due respect to the

california highway patrol driving around in a vehicle, they would be better off, pulling their cars in and standing at 7th and market street than what they're doing. i look forward to the upcoming agendized matter. it's not public health, it's not anything, it's not the other institution that's exist in san francisco. and that a police presence, a uniform police presence, it will deter that type of behavior. and they need to be, they need to feel like this is not the place to do business. like if we've got to go someplace else but we're not going to do it in the tenderloin to san francisco and that's the message the police department needs to send. thank you. >> thank you, thank you commissioner. can i follow-up with the visa

thing, whatever information you can share so we can follow-up. >> like i said, my client went back and it appears that it will be sorted, i'll know next week. but i would deal my own client separately. what my client reported about the three other individuals that did annoy me and i thought that was appropriate to bring up. you know better than i do, we need the cooperation of the immigrant community in san francisco. and this is a manner that they can stay in the united states, but we need their cooperation. thank you. >> thank you. >> president elias: mr. yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you. i want to thank you for report,

the last two weeks there was zero out there, and i'm saying that because the incidents you mentioned about stabbing on 1000 stockton street, there was a community leader, member that was right there when it did happen. i applaud him for it and his name is robert chang and he turned around and the person was being stabbed which he didn't know at the first sign of it. but as he, ushered the persona way, told him to get out, he saw the person bleeding profusely down there and he rendered a, as i was told, if he didn't stop the person, the person would probably would have died. and that would have been one of

the statistics here as a homicide so i thank you and your officers for arriving on the scene promptly. i was going to go over to the tenderloin where we had the fentanyl death. april was reported by the chronicle was 66 deaths overdose, so i don't know if it's in the tenderloin or in the private use. but i was wondering if we can get a chart to see where they are, these overdose, deaths are happening. and the arrests that we are doing out there is, seeing a drop in the fentanyl overdose, as commissioner byrne says, visibility is a deterrent for

drug sales in our tenderloin and throughout the city. we have to stop it, at the rate of 66 a month, we'll be approaching over 700 deaths in our city. many of them our kids, moms, somebody there that you know, we'll miss them and we need to stop that. so i'm looking forward to more police involvement and keeping these drug sales off our streets as much as possible. so thank you chive and your members for keeping us safe. i know it's a difficult job, thank you very much chief. >> thank you, commissioner. >> commissioner walker: thank you chief for the report. i read the article and i heard all the news broadcast about

the new policy or sort of recommitting to it and i think it would be a really good thing to have an agenda item but also maybe include some of our partner agencies. you know, addiction as everybody agrees, it's not solved by putting people in jail. so the issue of, of how the police make sure that it's safe but still all the hard team now, i think is what the department of emergency management issued in response to the cart presentation. you know, it's a complicated problem that we all see. i, i walk in the city a lot. and just the other night, i walked through 7th and mission

and threatened because i was trying, i probably was looking too much what was going on. and i mean that's real. it's not, it's not without consequence. and i also will refined everybody here and listening that during covid there was a real intentional effort to let people be on the street and not do enforcement and that was a call from city hall and maybe rightfully so because there were complicated issues. it sets up the habit of what we see, and it interferes from the public right away. we heard on this topic, of you know, when people are using and occupying a whole sidewalk then folks are disabled and seniors can't.

i've seen that in every neighborhood. and i think that it's a situation where yes, if you have uniform officers there, then they do disburse but they go somebody else. wiier running up into this situation where we have not enough staff to handle this as you said earlier. so really coordinating in a real way and what can people do about transporting people to the hospital, the sheriff's office can do a little bit more they do, especially if somebody is waiting in the hospital. and the nonprofit how is that communication happening? it's all going to be presented to the commission at some point. i want to support that, i think that really the only way that

we know how it's working is seeing what is happening in the streets, including not just arrest but, you know, the overdose deaths, how many people get in the treatment and how many people are living. it's just a complicated issue. i want to support that. i was in the tenderloin last night after a play and you know, it's, it's sad. we really need to take care of people and it's a dangerous situation out there with fentanyl. i want to say i support what you're doing and look forward to the agenda item and and really thank the folks out there doing the work. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president elias: commissioner yanez. >> commissioner yanez: thank

you president elias. i know this item is going to be agendized and we'll have more time. without covering too much ground that will eventually cover, i do have a question how and whether this is constructed, i think it's besides the point, commissioner walker and other people have stated before, one of the challenges that city has is coordination. and getting all the cooks in the kitchen to communication with one another. and as we enter into the process, with more cooks coming on, and different entities, i would like to get better sense of given that the san francisco has the harm reduction policy.

i heard from community members who work in the fields, whether of providing whether it's syringes. enforcement activities impacting those people even when they have not been using. so it's good to hear that the policy has not changed. but i think i mentioned this at the last meeting, i would get like to get a better sense, when you say it's a sense of better engagement where people would move along or go into treatment, because weener incarcerate our way out of this, this issue of substance use, we currently have an

actual m.o. u if the department of public health that tells how these deter activities can lead to engagement and treatment? >> no we don't, not for that. and thank you to your point commissioner. the location where we are where this collaborative effort happens, overtime, that's important. but what is more important is that we're communicating and collaborating with each other. if we have a spontaneous incident and we have a command, we'll do it whenever we have to, and if it's at the corner of walk and don't walk beinger that's where we set up. it's not the place, ultimately, if this is a prolongister,

we're going to need a place to work. what will is important is we get the people that we need at the table at the table. i don't think care if you're working out of a closet, we need to communicate. there is no m.o. u as far as public health, and as complicated as this issue is there is no one entity that can do this alone, whether it's public health or based organization that has a part of this. i do think that we all have a little piece. i know that sounds high in the sky but it's really not. we're trying to get people in to help and off the streets. for the drug dealers that are

truly drug dealers we're trying to get them off the streets. and county jail until they have a place in court, so be it. but we have to be the police department really focused on our work. and bring 9 other people in. and that's the spirit behind all of this. >> and i believe i heard you mention earlier, the police department is one element of continued solutions right. and i know that there is, you know an opportunity when officers engage with people in the community to also be changes of change. and clarify what our goals are when we are implementing some of the strategies, it goes a long way.

in addressing the issues in an intentional way. and the way to not solely focus on the arrest elements but words continues to come up, the deterant and the presence of the officer is deterrent and as president elias was mentioning, how are we going to make sure that the officers are going to do their job? especially when there are more players in the field doing different types of work. i know that there are community ambassadors is that conversation taking place? would that be part of the commander process? >> as far as our ambassadors, whatever the need is, it will

happen it through whoever we have as represent in this collaborative team. there are other ambassador that's do other things, they don't have police radios, we have, we have other ambassadors. so if there is a need for that, urban alchemy are doing what they do in the tenderloin and other places, whatever entity that is responsible for that, that particular people, would have to bring that to bear. and if there is a collaborative decision or the unified command decision that hey, we stablelized this block, now can ambassadors go out and do what they do and make their part of the work? brought to bear. they're not going to replace

the police part of the work. but some is stabilizing and holding that ground as best we can. and it's hard to say that because it's been said tonight. i've seen it with my own eyes. i've been out there enough to see it with my own eyes, they just wait us out. and i do think that there is a use for non police services but we've got to get these areas stable. and the engagement, i would like to see more of that more nights and weekends, honestly. we've got to have people doing that engagement in these hours that we're talking about.

9 s*efshs provider has to be out there do the work. >> i'm really happy that you mentioned that collaboration with service providers, because it's important. they build a different type of relationship. and to the last point, i would like to get a better sense of, there was mentioned a couple of times today as a result of a story in the paper of the 25 people up until yesterday, i guess they had been arrested, none of them had accepted services. and i remember asking this question a few months back and getting the response from the department that as a result of a hippa, we could not track what the outcome of referrals linkages were. how is it that we were obtain that information in this

instance and how can we continue to collect that information as we move forward as part of our standard practices? >> well where we are now and what we're trying to do is part of this, this work. is get aggregate data, they have been very clear that they will not provide individual data to us. that is protected information but aggregated data is where we're right now. so even that is helpful, just to have an idea for questions that are asked. how many people have accepted services. so they are willing to do that aggregated data, it is not protected information in terms of health information but that data is also helpful. and i'm hopeful as this goes on, it will not be zeros.

i'm very hopeful that it will not be zeros if this goes on. >> commissioner yanez: i'm really happy that you mentioned that, without measuring the impact on our efforts on these tangible outcomes, we're, you know, we're shooting without necessarily having the goal in mind. and i really like that, you are looking at the data and at the outcome so we can determine where we're at. i know we're going to have a longer conversation about this once it's agendized, thank you. >> thank you, thank you commissioner. >> sergeant? >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 5, please approach the podium. >> good evening, i'm going to

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killing my children and they will not come forward. >> speaker: thank you, and i hope that somebody is going to to something about these unsolved homicides and hire somebody to do something. thank you. >> and for members of the public, we're removing line item 8 and line item 10 will be heard before line item 9. line item 6, dp a director's report, report on announcements. will be any of the issues made. director rosenstein. >> good evening. can you believe i volunteered

to be here. well we have a lot of fans, i have some life choice to see think about. good evening, i'm diana rosenstein i'm here on behalf of paul henderson to represent the presentation for police accountability. we're pretty much of the same level of open cases and cases closed as we were a year ago. we have closed more cases. we have the same number pending 263 versus 265 last year. the number of cases, that have been sustained which means where an officer or multiple officers have been found to have been committed misconduct is down. we currently are at 28 as oppose today 32.

still not a significant difference. we have mediated the same number of cases, 10 so far this year. last year we were at 8. and we currently have 24 cases past the 270 day mark that is bestowed upon us by the charter. and 20 of those cases are told which means there is a reason why we cannot move forward with our investigation. currently, we have 6 pending cases with the commission and 89 pending with the chief. last week, the number, we received 14 different complaints, the majority 24% had to do with officers behaving or speaking inappropriately. again these are allegations that we will be investigating, these are not the results of an investigated case. the second place allegation, there is a 3-way tie, officers failed to take required action,

officers displayed threatening intimidating or harassing behavior and officers drove inappropriately. in terms of operations, commissioner yanez, i hope you're still on, you'll be happy to know that we did speak to our operations manager nicole armstrong and she is engaged in developing a disciplinary study which will incompass. it will be included in the dp a's annual report. the report is currently undergoing a peer review process internally. in terms of out reach, we are asking for any information from the public about the recently involved shooting. otherwise i don't have enough to report on the out reach side.

in terms of our audit, our award auditor is here and he'll be presenting the reports on the discipline audit shortly. we have no cases in closed session, thank god. and our senior investigator today that is present with us and can answer any questions that anybody may have is steve ball. you can always contact us online or give us a call at 415-241-7711. trying to sweep it short and sweet, i will have additional information to discuss with you regarding the other agenda items, even though you stole my thunder with my discussion that was suppose to be the reason why i was here, which was agenda number 8. thank you.

>> president elias: well we love to have you on any event. did you say, there are 89 cases. >> some can be awaiting chief's hearing some waiting the final discipline letter, possibly. >> got it, got it. well you did a thorough job, nobody has questions for you. look at that, sergeant? >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item number 6, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 7. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar these meetings raised. commission reports and commissioner announcements and identifies identify in a future meeting. >> thank you, so chief i want to be clear, i'm going to have

to agendize next week, we had some logitic al issues. but next week, the national guard efforts, i think we need more information and a finite plan, when it was initially introduced, we didn't get the specifics and it was unclear, so i think we need to be transparent in what this program is going to be and what the goals are. i would like the numbers in terms of the number of arrests and any tracking data. i would also like to you to include the open air effort that we discussed today. and i think i outlined some of the issues that i think we should address which is the numbers the data, but another data that needs to be addressed when it comes to the open air drug initiative is the affect or, the plan that the department has to inform officers in terms of what the goal of this initiative is

because i, i want worry that given the morale when officers are asked to arrest people and these arrests are not leading anybody because of a clog system and other factors what that does to officer and how it fekz their work. --affects their work. we heard plans and how they do their job. so i think that's an area that you should report on. and what message we're sending to the officers in terms of being clear as to why these initiatives are happening and what we can expect from them. >> as far as the statistics, as far as the chp, they, have communicated to us that, they had to get approval from the governor's office and they will release statistics and that's what we're waiting on.

they want to put auto efficiently statistics of their processes, they have to get approval through governor's office. when we get that, i'll be happy to report it. >> i walked through the tenderloin and i have seen fuel police officers arresting people, and i thought it was just on cars so if we can get some clarity on that and how many patrol cars and sectors and the hours of operation, i think just so we're more transparent on what that program is. >> definitely, and to reiterate what i said, they can make arrests they have. >> great. commissioner benedicto?

>> commissioner benedicto: we have a resolution that i ask to be agendized next week for the response team or cart. we had a tremendous presentation by part not only did this commission unanimously support cart, we kicked off the process that lead to the process of cart coalition entirely. so i ask that resolution be agendized for our meeting next week. the plan is to support that resolution and very very excited to have that. also assisted and revisions for resolution regarding daour o orders which we'll get to item 11s. i would ask president elias, for i think as a chief noted, it's going to be difficult when it comes to the national guard and chp presence other than

himself. and so i ask that, the president send written invitation on behalf of the commission to the representatives to voluntarily hopefully accept the presentation and provide an update either next week's meeting, if they're able to make that or if there are other layers, i'm sure we can make time to have them later in the summer. but i think it's important that we offer them that opportunity, because i think there is a significant public interest. so i ask the representative of the national guard and chp to be present so we can speak to them directly. >> great, we'll work on that. vice president carter-oberstone? >> vice president carter-oberstone: i had the

pleasure of speak with the women of league voters that had me attend their meet to go discuss the policy. and i met on the demand coalition, and i believe we had two working group meetings since the last commission meeting for d g.o. 10 first amendment. we've got two remaining on the books and we may add some additional ones additional meetings because of interest from the communities, so looking forward to pressing ahead on that policy. >> thank you. chief? >> oh you already allowed me to speak. >> okay, commissioner walker. >> commissioner walker: thank you, president elias, i attended the last graduation that was after our last meeting.

there were 9 wonderful candidates that's the good news, that graduated and the bad news is there were only 9 graduates. one of the issues that i'm working on with inter directer flaherty, that i get? acting chief, excuse me. is recruiting more women so we're having a follow-up meeting with kimberly who runs the commission of the status of women and commissioner well guard who is working to get more women recruit. i'm committed to 30-30, actually i bragged that we're accelerating to 50 by 29.

>> president elias: we need to work on those numbers. >> commissioner walker: yes, i think so. so bizarre and several staff works, are working, just getting up to speed on the control specials, the current status as well as you know, how that may work as a tool for on going policing collaborations. the private sector is out there, it's really important that we collaborate well, provide oversight. make sure that we're getting what we need in terms of going out there. and this ties in to the cart review with the new, dem, presentation about about the

heart response which i think includes the part requests, i'm not sure. it would be really important to see if we should look at that at the same time as a review of cart. again, words are wonderful but action is what really makes a difference. i think that we're good, i think that there is a lot of good things happening in the city and sort of make sure that we have a proper response is crucial. i'm appreciative. that's what i'm seeing is there are good programs and the key is that we have the right people to responding and place to see take people, so i'm involved in some of the conversation with the different groups that are out there.

i think that's all i want to report. >> commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you. i attended the graduation and seeing the class president being a woman, was great. her going back to norton which is part of japan town so great for her to come back. also attend the ice cream by a cop, i was invited by community member david heller given by richmond community. knows ice cream, get the feeling for the community that, you know, we're back hopefully.

also may 31, i attended the newly elected asian police officer covert chu given by the chinese association. they wanted to acknowledge all the great work. and we had our chief thank our members for all of their commitment. today i went up to visit norton station to meet up with captain derek jackson. he was in a meeting with the filmore community, they're planning a filmore festival.

he showed me around and talked to me with supervisor and they, tell me something of the concerns. and maybe one of these days i'll share with the members. to the members, we thank you for keeping us safe. as you know, norton covers the tenderloin, city hall, japan town and all the way to marina cahale, many of them enjoy serving that area. that ends my report, president. >> president elias: thank you. commissioner yanez. >> commissioner yanez: i have thank you president elias.

i have a short report, i've been following with some of the partners that are interested in prebooking for juveniles, prebooking diversion program and we're making head way. follow-up conversation at some point next month and indicated 60 days after next month's presentation. so we're trying to figure out what the best format and how to support the department's effort in creating a prebooking diversion program. so meeting with the center and president juvenile probation commission. so that work is still taking place and we hope to be able to present something more formal next month as far as our

recommendation sxz a resolution with how we can support the department advancing this project. and i do want to give a shout out i was at carnival and it was a beautiful community building event. i saw you know, the departments i saw personnel and officers doing the out reach and i was very pleased with what i saw, especially with one incident where there was some true community policing taking place. an incident of the lowrider show, that could have lead to escalation that could have created an unsafe situation there.

allow community to address whatever issue was taking place. and i thought it was a really good demonstration of the partnership that the police department has with the orderers of the carnival program and the respect for those the individuals that decided to contain and deescalate a situation from going out of control. so i thank everybody that was present, that whole weekend because beautiful. a launching of the commission and it's all about carnival i'm grateful for everyone's effort. and i thank the chief for making sure that the event was properly staffed. >> thank you, commissioner byrne? >> thank you, president elias.

just couple of things, i would like to commend commissioner benedicto. he gave a wonderful speech at the last police academy graduation. i would like to thank president elias for agendizing the tenderloin for next week. during the break i was contacted by the sfc law school formerly hastings that wants to come here and talk about this. i know that you have no jurisdiction over the highway patrol control, but you do have a good relationship with the district attorney, so i would assume when the chp makes arrest, they turn a file over to the district attorney. so i'm going to ask that the

department contact the district attorney so we can see how many arrests were turned in, they should be able to give you that information, chief. >> great point. >> commissioner byrne: thank you. >> president elias: thank you. >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment on the line item 7, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 10, dp a discussion and presentation on key issue report handling of officer discipline. discussion. >> president elias: welcome. i with like to introduce, isn't

it like twice award winning. >> multi award winning. >> president elias: please auditor, don't sell your staff short. welcome, welcome back. >> thank you, good evening. good evening, president elias, vice president cartr-oberstone and commissioners and members of the public. steve for the department of accountability. today i'm going to report on sfpd handling of officer discipline. we offered this report on may third. thises the third key issue report that we have issued as part of this audit, the first report was on reporting on officer misconduct and discipline which was issued in november of 2022. the second key issue report was on the department's monitoring of department communication for biased and that was issued in march of 2023.

we rented both of those reports to you and the public in november of 2022. the san francisco charter requires that dpa audit sfpd handling of misconduct. we're looking how they handle officer discipline. prior to issuing our report we provide and bring to our attention any errors concerning the issues in these key issue reports. the intention of the key issue report is to bring to the police commission and police department attention matters needing attention so any can happen before the full report is issued. so at a high level, there are two key issues. concerns the holding discipline

and advance without documented criteria on when this is appropriate. and deals of disciplinary actions issued by the chief. so in key issue number 1, to hold discipline in advance. the police department told us that advance period is like a probation term where the discipline is only imposed if the officer has further misconduct. however, these explanations are not found in a police department documentation. we examined data for the period of 2019, 2021. they suspended 120 police officers. 14 of police officers or 11% in advance.

cautions when used wisely, habitual can introduce excessive deal making and arbitrary into a disciplinary system. next please. so although the police department does not have guidance on when it hold discipline on advance, others do. example by criteria set by two other agencies. part of suspension to be served. the albuquerque police department, they can hold no more than 25% and no more than 6 months. the image shows on when bans are appropriate, and includes the officers accepting responsibility for their action sxz whether further offensers are likely to occur.

another example in the report is diego police department, they offer a lower level of discipline if the officer accepts a last chance agreement where the more discipline is put in advance if the officer does not violate an agreement. the example that we provide is termination which can be converted into a five-day suspension with the last-chance agreement determine tation is put in determination for five years. for key issue number 2 appeals of the chief intended discipline does not include completion time frames. just by way of quick background and i apologize this is is going to cover on what the other presentation is going to cover as well. discussed in 2.07 which is the process for sworn officers. when a police officer accused of misconduct is notified of

their intended punishment, they're given an opportunity to appeal this decision. although d g.o. requires officers to have a hearing it does not establish time frames for when this hearing must take place or when the appeal must be resolved. it hopes to have hearings but that the delays happens and the ability of accused member. we analyze data for investigations and found that over half of them, 28 or 56% were pending for more than a year. the aging of misconduct pend ing the chief's hearings is outlined in this slide. united states department of justice has issued guidance which states a disciplinary justice, appeals an increase the time and officer and messages to the department and

the community can be severely compromised the longer it takes to its resolution. in the issue report, we have example of two other california agency that's have specific time frames for their administrative processes. these law enforcement agencies are the city of los angeles and their police department and long beach police department. for example the long beach police department has established a time frame for the reprimands. they require that the chief of police meet with officers within ten working days of receiving an appeal and receive a decision within 30 days. so real quickly i want to address some opportunities, provide the police department with the opportunity to create efficient discipline process,

establishing a clear documented guidance, and equitable a bleed without consideration and factors like the race, gender rank or assignment. the amount of time between when misconduct occurs can compromise the message to the community and affect employee's opinions on fairness. setting time frames for setting appeals of discipline may help avoid these risks and ensure a discipline process. so just in closing, i want to discuss next steps. it's our goal to try and get a draft of full audit reports to the police department in june. the full report will combine the information that i presented to you and the key issue reports as well as analysis on buy policies and the police departments discipline case management system. the full report will provide the department and police department with specific recommendation to see address

our audit findings. this concludes my presentation, i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have about our report. >> president elias: thank you. acting director. >> i just wanted to follow-up and be frank. i think that this is evidence of the fact that our system of trying to to implement vans a discipline is not working. and it is also bleeding over into the other key issue which is setting reasonable time frames during which the disciplinary matters that are at the chief's level can be conducted. we at the dp a urge to think of other solutions other than using a vans type discipline for several reasons. first i think it was started in

good faith and there are some, i think that the detriments outweigh the benefits. because we don'ts have the infrastructure in place to truly implement a vans in non arbitrary way. the way it works in criminal cayses, during their probation period, they are arrested for a new case. that is considered a violation of probation. but whether that happens, they're entitled to a separate hearing not just on the new case and the district attorney can elect to move forward on both or just one. we don't have the infrastructure to do that here.

we are struggling with having chief's hearings in a timely manner which are the hearings that are the officers are entitled to in the base level let alone any type of infrastructure that will allow us to also provide officers with some type of hearing on the case that's are held in a bans. there is no criteria right now and i don't think that we can come up with criteria that satisfies the due process for issuing the time that is held in advance if they pickup a new discipline matter. the plan is, you have to proof

beyond a reasonable, prepondans of the evidence. that is something that would be required. another hearing would most likely be required in order tone sure that the possibler rights are adhere to. the issue is what if the a issued but the underlying case is only chief level. does the commission hear the bands ref occasion so to speak? or does the chief get to make that decision? at this point, we recommend that we move forward in terms of our discipline structure

without the use of a bans. and i'm happy to answer any practice questions about that. the key issue number 2 that has been brought up by our award winning auditor, has largely been resolved by the conversations and the revisions of department general order 2.07 that has occured with the help of jenel kaywood and stephen at san francisco police department. we've got a draft ready. we've got time frames ready but it was pulled back because this abans issue is still out there and we can, we as dp a and commission have to make a decision about whether we continue on this path of using it and if so, if it's suppose to live? is it suppose to different in 2.0?

is it suppose to be to live in a resolution? that's a lot of work for very little benefit. so at this point, we respectfully request that we reframe from future bans in discipline matters. the basis for the use of a bands has been where, there are factors and mitigation, if there are factors and mitigation, then the officer's discipline should be using rather than using a bans. that would be our recommendation at this point. if we want to discuss crating infrastructure for implementing this, i think we can do that. but for now, we recommend moving forward to get the chief hearings under control. >> when you say the issue to not issue a bands that for commission as well as the chief's cases. >> yes. >> okay, i know that i have

been in discussion with the commission office dp a as well as supervisor attorney and this is an issue that has come up and we're working it out and addressing it. so hopefully we'll get some more guidance once we have something on paper and you and i will have a discussion and we can lay it out or address some of these concerns. >> sorry, one last point, i do think that it has a place in negotiated dispositions. because in a negotiated disposition, in other words, a settlement, the officer can agree in response to getting a certain level of discipline to give up certain rights. and the a bands criteria can be easily spelled out in a settlement and easily implemented. the problem is when it's used

as a tool of punishment by you the commission or the chief and there is no criteria of how it gets triggered and when it gets triggered and what the burden of proof is and who makes that decision. so in negotiating disposition that it is useful tool but aside from that, at this point, at this juncture, it's not a great tool to move forward and it's holding back our ability to move forward on 2.07. >> great, thank you. it is on the chief and my radar it's been sometime so i think we'll have an update soon. thank you for pointing it out. my second question on slide six, so we talk about the number of hearings and you say it's 51 and then earlier you said cases were 89, and i know that they mean different things. so if you can clarify that. then when i look at the department's hearings, they

have another number which is different than your number. or not page of theirs, it's 66, you have 51. >> i may be able to speak on that. it may be a timing issue on the slide on the bottom of the table there, it says our analysis was of april 2022. >> okay. so we can rely on the department 66 number. >> that would be more current. >> what is the difference between 89 and the 66 number? >> so 89 represents the number of cases that have left our office and with the risk management office or with the chief. so that includes cases that we sent over where the chief has already agreed with us and

issued a notice of intent to discipline. and we're waiting for the officers to decide whether or not they want a chief hearing. that includes cases that are awaiting a chief's hearing and that also includes cases where the chief's hearing has been conduct asked we're waiting for the chief's final decision. so it literally is the number of cases that left dp a, are with sfpd that are not completely closed. >> okay, and the number of chief hearings are the actual hearings that members go through for the chief to impose discipline? >> correct. that represents the number of cases where the chief has issued a notice of intent to discipline to the officer, has given the officer an opportunity to request a hearing, the officer has requested a hearing and we're waiting to schedule that hearing. >> thank you, for the

clarification. commissioner benedicto? >> commissioner benedicto: thank you, president elias. really is award winning audit, but for anybody changes the huge change to see the audit and shift of the key issue reports has really allowed us to have what we're having which is full discussion. sometimes in the past, you get a report and jend eyesed and it would just be, a service discussion about multiple recommendations was not efficient. you can get a lot of information about that oversight.

so chief negotiated this position and commission. >> it does not include commission cases just police department. >> okay. i think they raise a good point, that without criteria it's a very confusing case right now. and you don't want it to holdup 1.207. it can be an affective tool? >> i do, but we need to have written criteria, it's going to have to live in multiple places. so multiple revisions.

i also think that just like our, our attempt to get ahold of chief's hearings, we're going to have to create some type of infrastructure. the study after study is shown, it has to be measured with the level of misconduct and it has to be swift and it has to be concern. and none of those things are happening right now, unfortunately. >> i think i had a brief conversation where ever it lives, it needs to live somewhere, we need to make sure that it lives somewhere and that the public can comment on it. i think that it's important whatever the criteria, they're also written for when the commission decides to pose a bans. for purposes of due process officers facing discipline should have standards that are

clear and governor the commission and the chief's 6789 whenever we're going to take this process, i'm glad to hear that the chief and president are on it, i want to make sure that it mriez to the commission as well. >> that's our intention. >> i think the albuquerque department is a good example. the albuquerque department is under a decree and after checking with policy, they even have a federal monitor. that means that they're done with the deepest scrutiny. i think that it's a good model to look at.

>> thank you for the report director flaherty. my first question is going to be, you're director of audit? >> correct. >> thank you, just wanted to confirm. so i was going to ask the question that commissioner benedicto asked. so you're not looking at commission instituted. i guess my question is with that, is there any concern that that will scue the results in the convenience that advanced behavior, we would expect it to be different for commission cases because commission cases volve higher benefits or potential penalties so you would observe different usage

of advance in that contact? so whatever we take from this, would not apply where the commission is doing? >> i cannot speak to that, just because i haven't, as part of this audit, the commission's rational for holding for issuing discipline was not part of our scope of our audit. >> okay. another background, this includes, is there a widespread use of a part of the initial charging document? or not? >> i can speak to that, i don't think that there is ever a bans used in initial docking document. >> and for the purpose of this report, we just looked at the outcome of the discipline. >> practically speaking is once

we have a new case, let's say, where we're about to recommend discipline, we contact our counterpart at-risk management office to find out whether that particular officer has any outstanding or prior misconduct allegations within the last 7 years and we find the officer has has xy z. and we find out discipline is held in advance. and we take that into consideration when making the recommendation to the chief. in specific cases and confered with the chief, then we have to make this decision of how do we deal with this? is this enough? i don't know of any cases where

there is been a hearing. >> thanks that's helpful. and i want to ask, are they endorsing the criteria? >> no example just an example. >> will the eventual report prevent the criteria? >> and is it within, is it wp the per view how to have cry too i can't. the reason i ask that, is this issue of bans a symptom of a larger point, is that there are arbitrary, and charging decision and you know, so i ask

that because i think we can benefit. >> as part of the audit, we will point out documentation and support for disciplinary decision wise and to the extent possible provide other jurisdictions about how they're doing that in their processes. >> okay, thanks so much, appreciate it. >> chief? >> thank you, and thank you steve for the director flaherty for the audit. they're some great recommendations on here. i just wanted to speak on couple of things that ms. rosenstein. i have slightly different point of view on that, there are point for advances and codifying what that is, including the definition of bans, would be a huge step in the right direction.

i know the commissions are part of this report but there have been careers saved from advances and officers who have gone on to be very productive who have some serious discipline. so let's not forget about what discipline is to correct behavior. there is a punishment element, but the real purpose of discipline is to teach and correct behavior. and i do think that a bans can play a roll. the other thing i want to point out, and i know that audit did not go to this level of detail, i knew what the terms of bans are. it's triggered by sustained misconduct. i'm pretty sure that the instructions are detailed.

there have beener some trigger. so i think it's a good idea to codify this. i would strongly advocate for, keeping advances as a part of our system, and having some

rules and regulations for at least chief's level discipline. it should be applied with every level of discipline in my opinion but i do think it could be part of this. total amount of discipline whether or not a bans is triggered where we start from. so it's important to address that issue as well. thank you. >> right, i agree and those are things that we discussed with you chief and things we discussed with president elias and yes, there have been situations squaitions, what if,

let's say in the future an officer challenges and separate and apart on the a bans issue alone. we don't even have criteria, what is the burden of proof, are they entitled to a hearing? if so what is the burden of proof, who owns that burden? because the procedure al due process, guidelines established by a peace officer's bill of rights and case law involved in this are clear about, you know the fact and facts. what i'm concerned about is whether or not that same level of scrutiny can exist and can be adhere to from a legal perspective. so that's where i'm coming from.

they had language like, any future discipline. and those, the ones that i know about are overturned. this is where a sustained allegation triggers a penalty that has been adjudicated. and i don't see where there is a burden of proof. that's what the burden of proof is. all of this needs to be vetted, those are the cases that i know about.

>> i agree with you, but people officer have the right to administrative appeal. so if they issue a timely request does the bands get help? do they opposed? whatever a writ? there is a lot. >> that's where the due process comes in. we cannot do anything until the discipline is final. and i think that's fair. >> yeah, and i i think that when we, we need to fine tune the language like i said what is on the radar, we're working with the city departments. these are all issues and we're waiting through them. >> absolutely, thank you. >> all right. thank you. sergeant? >> for members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 10, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item 9, discussion and

presentation on chief disciplinary process with the case with less than 10 days suspension. discussion? >> hello? >> good evening. >> are the elias, you're like our favorite face here now. acting director rosenstein and general public. i'm with the risk management office and with me, are lieutenant angelina, the officer in charge of the with the gition and sergeant craig wells. so tonight, we'll be presenting the chief's hearing process. and to make this presentation slightly interactive, we're going to start with slide 9.

>> nine! you're not doing pop quizzes at the end, are you? >> okay, slide nine, we hope to explain the work document work flow. and before we get to the blue arrow, let me explain a few things. prior to the blue arrow, a lot of work is done, first there is a violation of policy or misconduct against an officer. then we thoroughly investigate that allegation and it could take up to one year but less than a year. and we call that the 3304 date. so we may refer to that again. and then finally if the complaint is sustained, that we believe the misconduct occured. the chief of police makes a disciplinary decision, that's where we get to the blue arrow. what happens is the officers notices and a date is selected.

so the case received from the chief office and intent to discipline or in i guess is a noid, noid, and preselects current dates. in that process, the iad process prepares a discussion, all entity when discoveries are ready and the entities review the case prepared for the hearing. finally when all the parties are agreable to the date and they reviewed all the discovery we have the chief's hearing. and that text kind of explains what i just said. as i said it was interactive accountser i'm going to move the presentation to lieutenant and we're going to go back to slide 2, at this point. >> you want us to wait?

i guess we'll ask questions at the end. >> so going back to slide 2, and just, important to note, this is all data that we collected as of april 24th. and why i say that is because these numbers fluctuate. so as the chief hears new cases, they're assigned to the attorneys that number can go up and down and then, as we also have chief's hearings that will also impact the total number of cases that are pending at chief's hearing. and i just want to, articulate that when there are 124 cases pending that's 124 officers, each case can have multiple officers that so these are 124

of our members that are currently waiting chief's hearings. we have them broken down by year whether it's dp a or internal affairs case. and as you had asked at a previous presentation, and as chief alluded to, as of april 24th, we have 66dpa cases that pending. i do want to say that i had had our senior clerk pull the case that's are currently set for a chief's hearing starting tomorrow through august 8th, in the next 8 weeks. we have 24 hearings that are scheduled. we do have 24 members that are

scheduled for the chief's hearing. some of these cases how many officers that have multiple and as of end of april, we have four officers of 124 that are multiple hearings pending. i just listed out the types of hearings that they have and statistically speaking, this is less than 1% of the total number of cases where we have officers that have maybe, multiple cases pending at the chief's hearing level. for some of the older cases that are pending a chief's hearing, we have 15 officers

that are included in these 2018 and 2019 case that's are either dpa or id cases. i think the important thing to note is even though a case, the complaint or the allegations may have come in in 2018 or 2019, there are factors that would toll the matter until the administrative clock starts. some of the cases may have included a criminal investigation or the member may have been unavailable, so what the important thing to look at is the third column, the date that the chief actually reviewed the case and made a decision on the finding and discipline, that's what would trigger the notice of intent and that process of achieve's hearing being set.

i did want to note for the 2018 cases, three of the officers are scheduled for hearings in the next 8 weeks. so just to let you know, we're moving forward on some of these cases that are a little bit older. so just to give you a little bit of a background as to how, we got to the number of case that's are pending at chief's hearing. covid hit us all march of 2020, it created a significant backlog for us for a couple of reasons, one, we come to figure out the process of chief's hearings and how to do that remotely. another factor that came into

play, we had one of our staff members retire who was instrumental in scheduling the chief's hearings and i'll get into later the partners that we have to work with when we schedule these hearings. we really lacked a data management system na allowed us to track these cases once the chief signed the discipline notice. and when the officer requested an appeal. the other thing is when our partners filed a motion to continue, whether it was the hearing officer, maybe it was dpa or iaa attorney, maybe a member, we were not able to track that. and then we had a hearing officer shortage which played a part in being able to schedule these on a regular basis.

there are several entities that have to come together in order for these chief hearings to take place. you have the hearing officer, you have an attorney from dpa, our ia attorney, you have the named member and then the named member's representative or attorney. and it's the scheduling of all those folks where you really need the stars to align in order to get a date and time for the chief's hearing to take place. at the time, i a was trying to coordinate with all of these entities to schedule the hearings and we had conflicts that would come up either with these entities and other priority matters that take place. >> thank you, lieutenant helm. >> i'm going to go into, i'm

very thankful with the audit. i do want to say that we've been talking about this in the office even before the audit. in october 2022, our managing attorney and the team realized that there was a backlog and we proposed some modification. a new process was adopted and it's more traem lined. the intent to discipline, the past practice was to give the member ten days to see whether or not they wanted to set that date. we have gained the sefshszes of analyst and i'm very excited for her and the work that she is going to do in iad. and finally, i know i'm running

out of time, we do staffing shortage and some of the positions that we would like to fill if things workout right, that we alleviate this to have another attorney or paralegal or legal process or clerk, we're working on the update to include time lines for hearings. we really had a long discussion about what that timeline would be. we proposed 180 days, because we think that's realistic based on our staffing and workload that we can fit it into that time, but we wanted to choose a time that would not set us up for failure. and then finally we're going to reverse the table and have a recommendation although not award winning. just because we have staffing in workload issues that we're proposing dpa handles, and that came from our own attorneys and provide discovery and we would share the workload and we're

being serious about that. and that came from the attorneys. and finally, we're looking to increase the members that can be at the meetings. okay, that concludes our presentation. >> president elias: great thank you. i had a question, page 9, the interactive part, the three buckets, you said we have up to a year, what is the average wait time of how long it takes for to you file the case? i know dpa gives us an estimate on their cases, there are so many cases pre9-month and do you have that tracking mechanism or data? do you know what i'm talking about? >> yeah, so we have a unit order that requires the investigators to complete nr investigation within 6 months. i meet with them biweekly and

then we also have an internal case tracking spreadsheet that allows me to keep track and there on track with those time lines. i believe our current data management system we can pull that information for you if needed. >> do you have an average wait time? like 50% of our case right side completed? 25 or within 9-month? >> i don't. i don't have that off the top of my head but we can get that for you. >> okay. what is the time frame on that. you have the year-end how long is it taking to the get to the red and the gray arrow? >> so i would say once the sergeant completes the investigation and it comes to my desk between my desk and then it goes on to the

commander and then finally the chief, i would say the average on that is four weeks or so when it leaves them and then getsds to the chief. obviously there are things that comes up that could extend that, for example we had a covered incident, officer involved shooting, things, the workload, you know, delays and so. but just on average, i would say the cases move from the investigator through me to the chief in about four weeks. >> good. and then the 24 number sounds great fwoer scheduling in terms of august, i hope that there are no continuances and we can keep that date. on slide six, where it talks about the chief hearings, i'm wondering if there is a sort of have i think you mentioned about the new process of giving them a date when the notice goes out. is there a way to schedule it

so that the chief's, the hearing officers for these chief hearings have designated dates? that this is a date and i'm going to do four hearings for this date and sort of just prioritize these? i know that they have other duties and responsibilities can that happen so we can clear some of these? >> i think that's one of the solutions that the managing attorney has looked at. could we find a day in the week that is designated for chief's hearings and i think those discussions have happened. >> i can speak on that, we've had those discussions, unfortunately from a practical perspective, the majority are continued because the deputy chiefs are so busy. and we are hoping, we think that's a great resolution basically, i think there is

four deputy chiefs, if i'm remembering, five or four available because i think one is on leave. and to have them dough vote one a day once every week to just doing these, because so many times we have things scheduled and they're scheduled very far in advance. and then they get pulled from us, i think that's a great idea and that's something that i have been discuss withing my counterpart at dpa legal. >> the other question i had and i didn't get a answer, i know you can designate folks to be the hearings officers, have we made any progress on that? i know i had volunteered the commission to step in and help you out, i don't think that was a viable option. >> sorry. so the commanders are where we're headed and we've got to

put it in action and trained them up. but we do believe, we just got to get them trained up and get this rolling. >> do you have an eta? >> i'll get back to you with that, i can follow-up next week in terms of eta, i know ashley is on vacation. >> that's something that we also discussed. and we discussed going lower. but there are reasons that we can't because there is a difference between, unions and commission officers versus non commission officers, so commenders are a great resource. and hopefully can help with the backlog. >> my last question is with slide 11, i'm wondering how

that would work since they're prosecutor attorney. >> we're talking about the discovery, so the work that it takes to the hearing. >> the discovery is the easy, part, we can send it to the poa, i'm concerned about setting our own controls, we have even less control over the deputy's schedules. officer schedules and the representative schedules then as sfpd legal. that's not a feasible solution. but whether it's from us or you guys, it's not email usually or with a one-drive link. if that helps us, we're happy to do that as soon as you let us know who to send it to.

we cannot have our own chief hearings. >> when they send out the notice of intent, they like i said, have your dates in advance to pick from so when you do do that, there are some dates that have been selected. >> so here's how it works right now, we get the notice of intent from the discipline from the legal department. we get a copy of it and it does have a date within it, that notifies the officer. and us of when a potential chief's hearing will take place if the officer avails himself of the right to appeal. practically speaking, those dates are hardly ever followed. i did an informal survey of our legal team, there have been four requests from the last

year where we requested the date be changed. the majority of the dates are being changed by the representatives of the officers and by the deputy chiefs. so i'm not sure while the intention was great, the problem is sticking to the date, i don't think we're, we're having a hard time sticking to that date. >> i have a question for that, if you're open to the open to the idea it's the discussion that is taking a lot of time. so if you're open to working with her on how that can be expedited. we can have a conversation about the nuances between the attorneys. >> sure, this is the first we've heard of it. usually we have these discussions. >> they didn't even tell you about the idea? >> no. >> they chose me to introduce it. >> okay, you spring it on them, nice job, i like that.

the discovery piece is the easy fix. as soon as we get the notice of accident, we can send out the wup drive link like we do to the officer and representatives. the biggest problem is that we don't always know who the representative is until the end. so if sfpd can share with us, then we are more than happy to help with that endeavor. we just have no clue how that happens. >> and i'm going to have ice cream with lieutenant so i can say i've had ice cream with a cop as well. >> thank you, president elias,

i think a lot of the questions were answered. i'm focused on slide 11 proposal. it seems like 2.07, president elias and dpa and the chief are working on that already. it sounds like they're, now that dpa can talk about. i want to ask about that. i thought would already done this, the chief, explain to commanders that is in process to only holdup the process trained up on discipline? are there road blocks? >> potentially, there could be other road blocks, but we will work through that. but the main thing is they have to be trained up and they may

not be road blocks but, we'll have to report that. >> okay, so hopefully when you told president elias you'll come back next week, hopefully you'll know more about the road blocks. and how many will increase the pool? >> there are six. >> so we go from 4 to 10? >> 5 to 11. >> okay, how about, is there any, do you think that's sufficient at this time or are you looking at outside hearings officers or retired commanders. >> no, we're not looking at retired, that would be it for me. that's where we are right now. >> will will there be any limitations? >> idea lino. these are chief level hearings anyway. of course there is a process

for the commission. item lino, we just want to make sure that is thoroughly vetted. >> and are any of the potential road blocks are any of them are in the commission is there any action that we need to take? >> i don't believe so. this is something that we definitely, some bargaining issues, i believe we want to make sure that we're clear on that. >> thank you, chief. >> i just have one comment, these will be sufficient. or should be. moving forward. >> thank you, and commander and sergeant for your presentation. >> thank you, have a great evening. >> thank you, sergeant can we go to public comment. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. there is no public comment.

line item 11, discussion and possible action, to to rescind. >> so i was not here the last discussion but i'm glad, i think that important thing is to focus on the fact that we're here. based on my discussion with the chief, he has committed to me that we are here and focus going forward is how do we solve it so we don't end up here again and to put things in place so this does not happen again. we set ourselves up for success moving forward. i did review the resolution and

i did make in edits but i'm going to turn to commissioner benedicto. >> commissioner benedicto: thank you very much president elias, we had a very robust discussion on may 17 and i don't think we need to relitigate this discussion, my goal is to move this quickly. on may 17, this item was discussed by this commission in a slightly different version of this resolution was considered. on may 31, a very viced version was post asked made available on the police commission website ten days in advance of this meeting, it remains on the website now. on june 1, 72 years before this meeting, an updated version was posted and available to the public and posted on the commission's website.

changes between the may 31 and june 1 draft were not substancetive. today on june 6th, a version that made minor revisions was posted on the website. i had another change that i'll be providing a as oral amendment with the city attorney as well which i will get to. so that's the housekeeping on the timeline here. like i said, i don't plan to repeat our discussion that was

thorough and vibrant discussion that we had. the bottom line as to why we're here was most articulated by one of our public commenters from the bar association of san francisco which is the bottom line is, the practice of making general policy bureau orders is not consistent with 21st policing practices, it's not consistent with best practices and the progress that has been made here. these bureau orders were without as it notes and the opinion of the resolution. the resolution will speak for itself. i want to be clear that this resolution is a statement of dis approval about some of the action that's were taken. and as president elias said, it

should be a clear and ambiguous fashion. there have been a lot of reforms. abs. it's important and i've had the conversation with the chief, it's important to call out when a lot of progress has been made but equally important to note when things are done that, are inconsistent with that which is what we see here. like president elias said, what i'm most focused on resolution is outcomes, is making sure that we're on the front page and this will not happen again. i've had numerous conversation with the chief, they're not asking to consign, those belong with the commission, i know the chief disagrees with a number

of of them both with the may 17th and that disagreement was discussed clearly at a prior discussion. as i asked on may 17th, i'm confirming with the chief rescinding dgo that the plainclothes order it's fully enacted and rescinding the social media order after the dgo is an outcome that you can support, chief. >> yes, it is. >> thank you. so with i would also like to note that as i said may 17th, this is a first step. this is not the b all, something that we've discuss with the chief, updates are needed with 3.01 to make sure that it's clear what, the

evening clearer what the wla the commission's view is with bureau orders and i look forward to having that discussion. i think this is the first step in making sure that we're not backsliding. this has been a process to go from the draft that we had to the one we had today and i would like to express my gratitude before i introduce the final amendment. i would like to thank our deputy city attorney lisa cabrera who has patiently read every version and en proposed language up to and including suggesting the oral amendment that i'll be making today. the deputy city attorney has been helpful and i'm grateful for that assistance. i would like to thank the chief this is obviously a resolution that is one of ambiguous dis

approval and i'm glad the chief was able to focus on the outcomes and we're able to work and reach a consent on agreement. just like president elias is the most important thing is that we're moving forward. i would like to thank my colleagues and fellow commissioners but vice president carter-oberstone for raising thish with the seriousness that it deserves and with a clarity and certainly that is admirable and providing the base of the this resolution is based on, so i'm glad that vice president raised this. and i'm happy for president elias for bringing this back today, i think it's important that we pass this resolution and that we get it right and i

thank president elias for bringing it back so we can get it back. so with that, would i like to make a motion to adopt this with minor revisions on june 6 and sent to the commission by commission staff with two further non substance edits. one is to remove the name of the recipients he at the end of the resolution. after consultation with the director, we don't need it's neglect to include those names under the c lines. --cc lines. as well as to clarify one change to the second to the last further resolve clause. this was a change that i discussed with the city attorney lisa cabrera today and to make this, just clarifying exactly what we want this process to look like. so this is the second to the

last further resolve clause, it will read, further resolve the chief of police is directed to provide a draft to the commission, within 10 days which will be used by the commission and posted pursuant to d g.o. 3.01, the draft will be available for comment and the chief police and the department chief of accountability and members of the public for 30 days. and with those ed its, those are my effort. >> and i would think that you would like to thank the staff for working even on their staff. >> yes, commission staff not only providing that, providing advise when there were things we missed. it's an invaluable role and they went above and beyond here, so thank you. >> president elias: can i get a second.

>> second. >> president elias: commissioner byrne. >> commissioner byrne: thank you, i have a few concerns. the first concern, i hope can be resolved. i'm concerned with the concern that there were the third resolution, which you made a minor amendment to is fundamentally different. from the third resolution that was posted before, because it gives us ten-day turn around from the police department to present the, the draft of the d g.o. within 10 days.

i understand the urgency and i don't want to diminish the urgency of changing it. but realistically as something this important is ten days really, i'm not asking for a unlimented days, but 30 days is much more appropriate. that's why i would not category as a minor and non substancetive it's fair to the department. this is a notice of contempt to the department, give them time to draft the thing and think it through. what we're going to get is a rushed job in ten days. the second point, i want to

make, the four resolve are direct the chief of police to do certain matters. and as i said, other than my objection to the tight timeline of the ten days which i think is unduelly harsh, i agree with them. but the third resolution, to me, it's an unnecessary. there was enough as in the whereases as to what happened. it's not necessary to slap the department more than it needs to be slapped with that. it does not direct the department to do anything. it just says, we find this. and the where as speaks to the

fact the resolution speaks to what we intend to do. and as i said at the beginning, i would like to vote to this thing. i would like to send a message too, but i don't want to put what i think is a slap down in a way that does not affect what needs to be done. and that does not resolution, the where as states the fact as to what is going on. i know i would be slow in jeopardy because i didn't push the button fast enough, but would i like to make those two amendments, number one that we give the department 30 days and number 2, that we get rid of the first resolution and go to

the for direct the chief as to what to do. anyway that's all i have to say. >> vice president oberstone. >> i just want to respond to commissioner byrne. i want to comment on the 10-day, it's just a minor change is because the overall period is the same. on the prior draft, we were given a 35-days under a different provision of 3.01. all we're doing here is requiring ten days for that initial the department is free to improve.

and i also don't think the case will be a rush job as you stated, because the basis will be the bureau order which by the department's own admission, it spent two years. so we're not asking the department to write a deal from scratch, this is a significant topic that i spoke with the chief. and he believes that 2 plus 30 is doable, i wanted to respond to that. and i'll note that it's not a change that we're directed them. >> i don't think have a, i don't have a problem with your amendment. maybe i'm getting old and missing everything but the one that was posted on june first the one we got in the packet, says that the chief of police

shall present the investigated social media accounts t g.o. within 35 days. the one tonight says, the one accounts d g.o. within ten days. so maybe i'm reading mill language wrong because of what goes on after, but i see 10 and i see 35. >> right, i think the thing to note is the prior draft that the d g.o. is going to revise under the 30-day process. under this new new draft it will be commission lead. so the commission will be taking, will be principally charged with the revision. so there is, the ten, so the ten-day is just for the department and by the way, it already has an initial draft. it's the bureau order that it worked on for the better part of two years.

i think that addresses your question. i just wanted to add one person to the litany of things that commissioner benedicto enumerated. i want to thank director katewood, we would not be here without her. they are were issued without any notice to the public. so we would have not discovered this, if it was not for director wood. i don't think that was necessarily an easy decision. but that's the type of oversight that the public demands so i just want to thank director kaywood, because we would have never have known because her actions.

when i initially introduced this resolution to the department, i said that there was a threat to the commission. the department acted in secret to uusrp the policy authority, it was outragous, it was unethical and it was unlawful. and i said that the commission need today take decisive action to stall harm to the institution standing and to defend the public's right to oversight and policy making and policing arena. and i think this revised resolution does that. i don't lover single one but this resolution does the one thing that it must do which is

that it sends, a clear message that this conduct will not be tolerate asked provides a deterrent from this happening again which is the most important thing. and the deterrent, the chief deterrent that it provides it makes the social media policy a commission lead policy. and i think to understand why it provides deterrents, we need to understand item department issued these bureau orders in the first instance. and as chief scott said at the last meeting, to hear him tell is because they needed a policy in the books and something was better than nothing. there are two things about that. first the need, the need to act swiftly can never be a reason

to act unlawfully, whether it's, violating the speed limit is not, the need to get somewhere in a hurry is not a justification for violating the speed limit or charter. and secondly, that rational we know can't be right because the department could have gotten a policy faster had it used the lawful process, and gotten a d g.o. in 30 days which our policy permits. so the fact that this resolution makes social media a commission lead policy, has essentially taken this out of the department's hands and sends a clear message that the this this is the course that the commission will take in the future if the department were ever to do this again. the very last thing i want to say, and i think one thing that has not been said at all and

that's been missed is that are the affects of this course of conduct on officers? right now, i presume officers need to be trained up on these bureau orders of questionable bureau authority. at the same time, the plainclothes order directly contradicts the current commission policy on plainclothes officers and it contradicts on the body worn camera d g.o. so right now, officers republic asked to follow a bureau order on one hand that is in consistent with the policy and maybe put in the policy to take action in furred ans--furtherance. and i think that is extremely unfair position to put officers in. and the other thing it not only

contradict current policy but it contradict what will be the new policy. so again we'll have to retrain officers on the new policy which is a recipe for constitution. so i wanted to highlight that it's not a just a threat and oversight but it's a terrible for our officers in the field and it's unfair to them. so for all of those reasons, i would urge my colleagues to support the resolution. >> president elias: chief scott. >> chief scott: thank you, president elias, i'm not going to reask on carter-oberstone, i think i restated that last week. however i do want to point out

two things. the department as required by d g.o. 3.01 did get notice to dpa, that's how at least one of the policies came to their attention. and on the other policy, there was conversations with dpa along the way as well. i don't agree with that. i'm not here to argue but i want to state the facts. and in terms of the policy themselves, i want to thank all the commission for working the department on this resolution and to me, it's about the work. i said two points but i'll make a third point. i disagree because i don't think it's a punishment for the department to work with this commission. we should want to work with

this commission. so to look at that like we're being punished and the punishment is now you need to work with commission. i don't think that's well placed and i don't think that's the right spirit of, totally get the commission is the oversight board but to turn this conversation like we're being punished, now you've got to go work with the commission, what kind of message is that sending? not a constructive? >> president elias:thank you, we are here now and we have a resolution, you have seen it and we're moving forward, you know, how we got here and where we are, does not matter, we are here now and we have a solution. commissioner yee. >> commissioner yee: thank you, very much president elias.

thank you very much for rewriting i guess this resolution to be for straightforward for the chief and the rest of the members. but just looking at the, as i printed out the other day, it says within 35 days, further police should present a investigation, social media within 35 days, that's what i saw. and then it's 10 days on the new one, is it substantial? >> yes, carter oberstone explained the difference, now it will be the commission, so we have a different timeline. so it wouldn't, it's not going to it's be going to jam them up.

and made sure that they're going to miss a deadline, it's fine. >> so the question is, why was it written in 35 days and now changed to 10. >> no no no, that's kevin. >> may i. >> so, under the prie version in 35 days, we would be here hearing the d g.o. in this version in 40 days, we're here hearing the d g.o. so the total number of days for consideration is 40 instead of 35. the difference is under this system, the public can see it sooner and the chief felt we can make that timing work but the outcome is the same, which is this commission and both time lines, the department is able to actually, if we want to make should change when it's up for final consideration. so outcome is in the original one is in 35 days this

commission is considering the d g.o. and now ten plus 20, so in 40 days. so that's why the change is not substantial. >> it's like you pay your tax nz ten days or 35 days? i would rather do it in 35 days, i'm just considering that you give the chief ample time. >> 35 or 40. >> no no no, the first thing is 35 things when you have to pay it. that's what i'm looking at, so it's 35 days, you have written down. next day you change it to ten. >> so use your analogy, the check is do in 40 days. >> it's like i say, you pay in 30 days. so you have more time to do it, as compared to ten days. i always say give the person more time.

at the end of the day, you say it's similar instead of 35 days plus or 40 days. >> that's why we went to the chief and asked him if he was okay with this time and change. and and he was, that's why commissioner benedicto and i made the change. >> as a commissioner, i don't like to be changed, you give me a day one day and tomorrow another day. >> fair enough. >> yeah. >> commissioner walker? >> commissioner walker: um, i would like to thank commissioner benedicto for the rewrite. i think that it's important that we call things out that feel that we're not working together. i'm supportive of this.

the goal is to we work together on these things. so is would like, there is still some faoun tiff language that i would like to not have in here. if i'm voting is to get on the business. i don't know what it's like to confront the kind of dangers that the officers do on a daily basis. i can look at the directives that we get from the mayor and the mayor and the board and others about what they want policy wise and you know, sort of look at the results and data that we get from from thed various reports that we see. i want to thank the chief too for getting ahead of this

process in some ways. and hope that we can really be transparent in what we do together. thank you commissioner benedicto for helping us support it. >> not making, allowing. >> i guess when which read the friday version as opposed to the wednesday version, i was under the impression that the comment period that would take place after that. when you get the new one, the comment period will take place after the ten days if i. so i'm, like i said, i to me,

you know. i found that, you know substancetive enough to this. i want to vote for this but i don't want to vote on the first resolution and i would like to vote on that first to see if that can be taken out so we can. and i would like to vote on 30 days versus that, but i'm not quick at jeopardy, so i understand you were able to make the resolution first. >> we can move onto it right now. >> i'm in deed. >> okay, good. so commissioner benedicto you have a motion that has been second. you can accept commission byrne's amendment if you do, we can second it and move forward. if you do not, we'll take a

roll call vote. >> i would like to move on with my motion and second it and public comment. >> great, that's what we will do. >> members of the public that would like to make public comment online item 11, please approach the podium. there is no public comment. commissioner walker, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> no. >> commissioner yee. >> no. >> vice president carter-oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 5 yeses. >> 5-2, got it. next item. >> public comment on all public

matters on closed session vote whether to hold item 14 in closed session. if would you like to make public comment please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. item 14, vote to hold item 14 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10 a, action. >> motion to hold item 14 in closed session and assert attorney-client privilege. >> second. >> second. >> on the motion, commissioner walker how do you vote. >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yes. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yells. >> commission vice president carter-oberstone. >> yes. >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses, we will go into closed session. [police commission in closed

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held in closed session or assert attorney-client privilege. action? >> motion to not disclose item 14 and assert the attorney-client privilege from 14 a to c. >> second. n.for members of the public that would like to make public comment. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. commissioner walker >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> yells. >> commissioner yanez. >> yes. >> commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> commissioner yee. >> yes. >> vice president oberstone. >> yes >> and president elias. >> yes. >> you have 7 yeses. line 17, adjournment. >> yay.

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you may send written comments u.s. mail to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california, 94102. items acted upon today are expected to be on the board agenda of june 13th, 2023 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. would you call item one? >> item one is hearing to consider appointing a member end the children and family's first commission. why we have one applicant for the seat today. mr. elizabeth winograd. welcome. the flower is yours. >> you bring up your mic. >> good morning supervisor dorsey and supervisor walton i would like to thank you for

consider me are seat 6 of children and first the children and family first commission. i have been part of the early childhood community for over 20 years in various capacities. first as a teach and sdreshth of child development center in san francisco and other parts of the bay area and currently, i manage the san francisco ece program at the low income investment fund a national cdfi based in san francisco focus is early childhood and access to a learning environment. chair of it for 3 year and member for longer. i have been hum belled serving san francisco ec community for the past 2 democracied. and would be an honor to serve on the commission to further work toward the goals to ensure every child can thrive and learn in high quality learning programs. >> thank you, mr. winograd.

i appreciate your willingness to service. last year i served on the youth young adults and families commission. one thing to me was -- you know as the rest us move beyond covid. it was fascinate to me there is children who were going to deal with the affects of that you know during the formative periods of lives. love to invite to you explore thoughts on that and how the commission might be helpful. >> yea. while the -- public school system were closed our childcare community remained open. and we are taking all children if parents were want be to bring them in. it is. it was hard the first few weeks children were doing online learning from 2-4 which is ditch i think now that we are back, and we are pretty close to full

capacity in our centers and family childcares in san francisco. we are noticing that. and where seeing how important it is for to really manage the children who are having difficulty and part of that is really, a program that was created in the middle of covid by connect children to nature. and we have been naturalizing out door spaces and getting children back and connecting and being able to sort of get all of their what we will call the wiggles out and then able to concentrate. it is getting them to move and connect with all parts of nature. out and bringing that inside. and we see that it is working. >> thank you. >> okay. and seeing no other questions or comments from colleagues why don't we open to public comment. >> members who are wish to speak

in person lineup. for those remote on the public call in line press star 3 to enter the line. for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted then begin your comments. have the first in person speaker. >> hello board, i'm diane charles here with san francisco early care and education. add vo case and coalition and childrens of sudden front i'm here to speak in favor of elizabeth winograd for the first 5 commission. i got to know her through c pack and she has become chair we have our first updated strategic plan, 15 years, our need's assessment expanded data we had not tracked before to better serve children. and in addition, our relationship with the board of supervisors has greatly expanded. i think that her dedication is

beyond. i think a mix of passion and i think to do this work they have an impact have you to have both not either. it is my highest recommendation i recommend elizabeth winograd. thank you for your time rules committee. good morning. i'm the director of the san francisco children collaborative to the san francisco rec and parks department. and i'm here in support of elizabeth winograd to children and families first commission i worked with elizabeth the past 5 years and seen her passion and commitment to promoting children's learn and well being. her leadership lead to the development of collaboration with the rec and park's department and early childhood community. resulting in programs to benefit children, and care givers throughout funds created the nature program. that has seen renovation of 10

early childhood centers and home in their play space bringing nature and social and health benefits to the children in their care. 10 more are being planned this year. her commitment to improve. is exceptional. continues to seek out new approaches, collaborations and best practice incorporating them to ensure best out come for children and family i endorse her appointment. yop good morning, supervisors. i'm moneastbounding. i'm with early care and education program and a mfbt childcare planning council. i'm here to support elizabeth winograd for seat 6 for children and family first commission. liz advocated for over 2 decades. as the c pack chair and manager

of lift for the childcare facility funds she supported over 100 families issue children and steepers and family childcare providers. as commissioner of first 5 she will support san francisco youngest and families. i highly recommend liz. for the children and families commission. thank you. . no further speakers in the room. double check the line and nobody in line to speak on the phone. >> thank you mr. clerk. supervisor safai. i wanted to add my voice. liz has been a phenomenonal partner in almost every single childcare project we have done in the excelsior, lake view, district 11 and others i have been involved in the city. a phenomenonal partner.

we did i think the first week we were in office 6-7 years ago did the largest childcare in the city. mission childcare. working with her. we gone on to do family childcare projects. one of the moment -- day care this was phenomenonal. i wanted say i don't think we could have a more qualified person. happy she wants to serve and we need people that not the mechanics of when makes childcare successful in san francisco and so happy to have her step forward. >> thank you, vice chair wappon >> thank you. i want to state as always wonder when will we have folks with expertise. want to step up and serve. the work is time consuming and appreciate you willing to serve. this is favorable.

i will rap up staying i forgot public comment is closed. i want to say, thank you i want to express my grad tude and value your expert eaches i would like to make a motion to recommend elizabeth winograd to seat 6 children and family's commission and sends it to the full board. we will call a vote. >> yes, on that motion vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. on a unanimous vote elizabeth winograd to seat 6 for children and family commission and will move to the full board. congratulations. >> can you call item twochl ordinance amending the code to designate wild parrots the official animal of san francisco. >> thank you.

mike the chief experience the experience, welcome. >> thank you. good morning and thank you for conseening early on a monday it is the early bird gets the worm. am this code change parrots what the board supported by resolution. you may know, san francisco has an official bird the quail this marks the parrot as the official animal. birds of a feather flock together. >> thank you for your support and make supervisor happy as a lark if you keep in committee i'm worried tell end up dead as a dod o you are crazy as a loon if you did not support i'm sure that supervisor melgar will take it like water off a duck's back or proud as a peacock if you spchlt thank you for upon listeningil fly like an eagle back to the office.

>> thank you, and despite your best efforts to lose my vote i will be supporting this. >> i was about to reconsider my supportful someone pulled out the dad joke book this morning. >> i do want to say and i than you know san francisco grapples with serious issues and sometimes tell play out on social media why are we doing this when we have serious problems. i think it is i said the full board i want to say here, we can walk and chew gum at the same time and address serious issues and celebrating our city. i appreciate this. i was a will seal guy i will support the parrot and shout out to peter and heather knight at the chronicle for had they did on this. vice chair walton >> thank you, chair dorse. want to start by saying i'm

going to support this. i do want to say that i do think that i wish this process was more inclusive. and different. but most certainly i have not had a grounds swell folks roach out and oppose this. i, too, prefer seals. but the people who have participated have spoken. and so what i would say to anybody that -- is opposed to this or that has issues or concerns, this is irrelevant why i participation matters. people reach out and participate and give input about when you want to see happen in the city. it is very important that you participate. because if you don't you don't have the right to have an issue or concern. i will be supporting this. but again, i think we could went about the process different low.

>> thank you. vase chair walton. supervisor safai. gi appreciate the creativity from motorcycle this morning. i thought you would say had people complain we can walk and chew gum i thought you would say we can walk and quack like a duck. [laughter]. listen, i think there is a lot of wonderful animals representative of san francisco the crab, sale the seal the parrot upon rates something welcoming and change of the city. and although their were people that got feelings hurt in this process it is something that pretty u nobodying to an urban area to have a flock of birds that migrate all over the city and live and be in the city and colorful and from other places and so many of our families and people are from other places that is what that symbolizes. it was a fun -- exercise and

does not mean we can't have more than one in the future. it is something to add to makes san francisco special. thank you. >> thank you. and let's open this up to public comment. >> members of public wishing to peek and in person lineup to speak at this time. for those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. like to make coalition in full support of the wild parrot being san francisco's bird. when i was work at the capitol in sacramento, my first year my jokeville was that i got assigned was to name california's dinosaur the august

morsey passed unanimously i hope this will as well. i urge the board to look into if there is a dinosaur representative to san francisco as well. thank you. >> thank you. our first caller. >> >> eileen with speak. sunset park side education and action committee. following up on speaks upon written submission speak is in support for the wild parrots as the official animal of san francisco. designating the parrots the official animal of the city speak believes there needs to be a strategic plan to assure their survivability. what is the strategic plan to protect the food source of pine seeds and juniper berys. there are images of them also

appears to be a granny smith apple. what is the strategy plan for -- protect their natural habitat including flight paths and trees for them. also -- avoiding the use of kurt an wall grass facades. what is the strategic plan to maintain a healthy population with vets monitoring for diseases. and studying life cycle issues and behaviors. a question is, how does san francisco create a city that flourishes for more then and there just humans. at this time i would mention to francis the animals however my sense is that for new comers it is irrelevant. is this because they are heartless and soulless.

next caller. agreement david pilpel. although this ordinance does not designate mike the official city hall punster i support it and i would note, to supervisor walton and others i don't believe this precludes designation of other animals or other beings or things as official things of the city. that could also be policed in the code. so, thank you and i appreciated the puns. >> thank you. we have no additional callers on the line. >> thank you. mr. public ment on item 2 is closed. >> i like to send item 2 to the board with positive

recommendation. >> yes. on this motion. walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the megz passes without objection. >> thank you. on a unanimous vote item 2 designate being the parrot the animal of san francisco moves to the board with a positive recommendation. do we have further business y. that completes the agenda. >> thank you we are adjourned

in fire prevention. i'm very happy at fire prevention because not only am i able to enforce the code and make changes to help the citizen of san francisco be safe in their homes or place of business, but i think my work also make sure that my fellow firefighters and first responders, when they respond to a fire, the building is also safe for them. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is brooke jenkins. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watchs san francisco rising, the show about restarting rebuilding and reimagining our city. ourguest san francisco district attorney brooke jenkins here to talk about theopeioid crisis, criminal justice and more. >> thank you so much for having me. >> thank you for being here. let's start with organized restale threft. some jurisdictions across the country imposed most of the punishment against people shop lifting in groups but that may be applied disproportionately to epipooal and doesn't address the organization behind it all. how can we make sure both prosecute the ring leaders behind the crimes and make sure justice is handed out

eveningly? >> making sure we get to the higher level of organizations in the organized retail threrft area so that is something myophilus is very much focused on working the police department on. looking at organized retail threat ringzsx but we have to make sure people are being caught who have stealing and that is a big challenge in the sit a so we have worked with retailers and small business owners to insure the necessary protocols and procedures are in place to at the very laest catch people who are stealing because they have been running out of the stores and therefore facing no consequence so we have to start there and trying to do more with intervention with the youth who are some of the population doing some of the threfts. many stores have turned to not detaining employees stealing oertrying to stop them and that change in procedure lead to making it very difficult for the police department to capture these people stealing. we

have been working with them on a change in their protocol going back to the way it used to be done so we can actually have the opportunity to have people face consequences. >> right. so, let's move to the opioid crisis which had a devastating impact across the community and across the country, including san francisco. how can your office help address the issue? >> the main thing is going back to where people feel there is a consequence dealing drugs in the city. we can't treat drug steel dealing as a victimless crime. we have ooverage 2 people dying a day from overdose. there are victims of this offense so quha what is did is say no longer the case we decriminalizing drug sales in san francisco as the da office. we have to put consequence on the table and insure the most agregiouss sellers so massive quantityties of fentanyl, some enough to kill all most half the

city. sometimes with people with wep ens and guns are multiple of cases with fentanyl are treated differently then thoges with small contties so i ask those people detain in custody. we can't have them on the street hours later, but also trying to work with the police department and our city making sure our laws are enforced. it is the only people people suffering from addiction will have a opportunity at recovry. imagine if you are trying to get clean and every 10 steps doin the block you are offered the drug you have been addicted to. it is impossible. that is one way we are dealing with the supply side and we are taking a different approach on the demand side, which is to say, if people are publicly using drugs over and over again, that we believe we need to intervene in those situations and so the police are citing them and when somebody reaches 3 of the citations, we then file a

complaint, but route them into a treatment court to try to help them get help. >> they have a option take treatment or face charges? >> correct. essentially. we of course encourage treatment because that is what these folks need. >> absolutely, absolutely. san francisco is known for being forfront of criminal justice reform with initiatives such as community justice center and restoreative justice, how do you plan to build on the efforts and push for aggressive policies insuring we have a fair system that holds people accountable? >> i have been clear accountability comes in many different forms. historically, da office used one form and that is incarceration. the way i functioned as a prosecutor over the years is make sure we are finding the appropriate form of accountability for each and every person for their specific circumstance, and so for some people it may be incarceration, others it is treatment and going

through behavioral health to stabilize mental health issue. some it is say ing we toopt see you get a job so we require that you go through a trade program so you can get a skill that allows you to take care of yourself in a different way. for me it is investing in those opportunities which requires us to be partnering with community based organizations to identify what programs we can send people to, but i'm very much invested in seeing our collaborative courts, which is what community justice center, drug court, young adult court seeing those courts thrive and encouraging the lawyers to explore those opportunities. >> right. what role do you think the da office can play addressing the issue of police misconduct and promoting accountability? >> our job is to prosecute police officers when they commit such misconduct

and use excessive force in a way that is illegal so we'll continue to maintain that is our job and our position. we prosecute all crime in san francisco, it is not about what your statue is, what your position is or what office you hold. the law will always be our standard. we can't treat differently where they come from, whether they wear a uniform or not, our standard is the law. for me, as a black latino woman it is issue very personal to me. we had a death in police custody in my family that i heard about my entire life. i'm raising two black children including a black son who you know, i will have to talk about these type of issues as he grows up. i was out raged long before george floyd. the list goes on and on, but as a prosecutor i have to maintain one standard and it is whether somebody according to the law

has committed a crime and so that's what we always look at. >> absolutely. finally, what message do you have for the people of san francisco and what you hope to accomplish during your tenure? >> i want the people of san francisco to know i'm committed serving the function the da office was designed to serve which is make sure we promote public safety across san francisco. like i said, we have to have accountability in our city. what we see going on in our streets is the result of people feeling as though there was none. they didn't fear even the police walking by as they were committing a crime because there was a belief that even if you arrest me, the da office isn't going to do anything that i'm afraid of experiencing, and so we want people to have a healthy fear of what a consequence will be, but i also want san francisco to know we are a da office that stands by the val aoos we have here in san francisco which is second chances,

compassion, responsible alternative to incourseeration bought the end of the day accountability has to be what people said back on the street or community in a fashion where they can succeed. every time somebody cycles into the system we are thoughtful what the person needs to get back on their feet and not create another victim in the future. >> quite right. thank you. thank you so much for coming on the show. i really appreciate the time you have given us today. >> thank you. >> that's it for this episode. we'll back for another shortly. for sfgovtv, i'm

>> thank you the meeting will come to order, welcome to the special june 7 meeting of lafco. i'm chair chan joined by vice chair jackie and sing. our clerk is alisa sa mara and thank the staff at sfgovtv who are james for broadcast this meeting. madam clerk to you have announcement. >> today's lafco meeting is in person and providing remote access via phone. public comment available on each item and prioritize those joining in person before to the remote call in system. remote the call in information is streaming.

when your item come up dial star 3 to be add. best practice call from a quiet location, and turn down listening device you may have. you may submit public comment via e mail to the lafco clerk. or u.s. mail to 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. if you submit comment in these ways tell be forwarded to the commissioners and include as part of the official file. that concludes my announcements. >> thank you. call the role. >> chair chan >> present. >> vice chair fielder. >> present. >> commissioner preston. >> absent. commissioner singh. >> present. >> commissioner williams. >> absent. madam chair, you have a quorum

>> thank you and madam clerk i would like to make the motion to excuse commissioners preston and williams from this meet being can i have a second? >> seconded? and call the roll. >> on the motion to excuse commissioners preston and williams today moved by chair chan and seconded by vice chair fielder, chair chan. >> aye. >> vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> xhrp singh. >> aye. >> there are 3 aye's. >> the motion pass. madam clerk please call item 2. >> item 2 approval of the lafco minutes from may 19 of 23 regular meeting. >> do we have any i don't see name on the roster. seeing no comments as limp assuming no changes so could i have a motion to approve the minuteses? so moved.

>> seconded. >> thank you. and madam clerk. call the roll >> would you like to open up public comment. first. >> thank you. public comments let's go to public comment >> thank you, madam chair. no one here in the chamber for comment upon james will check the remote call in line to see if we have callers. and madam chair there are none. public comment is now closed. call the roll. >> vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> commissioner singh. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> there are 3. >> thank you the motion passes minutes approved and please call item 2 and 3 together. >> 3 and 4 together. yes. >> item 3 the final budget and w plan for fiscal 23/24. and item 4 approval of the fiscal 23/24 lafco regular

meeting schedule. >> thank you and i think we have our executive officer jeremie pollock to present the final budget >> good afternoon jeremie pollock and if sfgovtv can show my slide deck through teams? so. you know lafco required by state law to adopt a budget by may first and final by june 15th. the commission voted on april 21 to adopt the proposed budget and the final budget is here with 2 minor changes. upon we worked with sfgovtv to reduce the amount of the line item there. it was based on 12 meetings per year and revised to our schedule is 9 meeting per year the savings shown there. with the proposal on today's

agenda to witch to bimonthly schedule be revisiting this at the mid year point. this budget is already put in the books on sfgovtv's budget for the year. and we will reevaluate depending on the leth of meetings we have and any special meetings and the true up to actual expenses with them at the mid year point. and then one other correction is -- in the reserve fund, that is corrected to 57, 917, and that is maintained by the clerk of the board for us. and the amounts to 15% of the general funding to lafco. this slide shows the source of the funds with the carry over funding. and the general fund amount requesting is 386, 113.

represents a 45 thousand dollars increase from the previous fiscal year. and then as well as shows the anticipated sources from the mou with the puc. and this page here shoes the line items i give a small font size happy to answer questions on details and -- have slides as well on the work plan that is unchanged from last month's meeting and -- in the interest of timil hold off on this unless you have a question on any of the studies on the work plan or the other activities. and i move ahead to the other item we have is the approval of the meeting schedule item 4. and

chair chan proposed bimonth low to meet every other month. and is shown below based on the previously adopted schedule for the calendar year, this would the change would result in canceling the previously schedule october meeting. and so we would have a meeting july, september, november for the rest of the calendar year. and in the event of time low business contract approvals the chair can schedule a special meeting or adjourn a regular meeting to another dealt accommodate that. and that concludes my presentation and happy to answer questions. >> thank you. i want to responded and first want to thank vice chair fielder for her leadership leading us in the first part of the budget discussions. and leading where we are at today. i really appreciate all her

leadership and look forward to seeing her continue on this commission. and -- just also.ed to with is that said it is because with her leadership that we land third degree mou with puc that is now concretely part of our work plan moving forward. i think that i adopt to flag that for the year that it it is my intention we should -- looking at the calendar, too is that we should schedule and make sure with help and support for our council that we -- have scheduled and allow closed session for personnel evaluation. for both officer apologiock and make sure this or the team, you know we can have some closed session job performance evaluation with the commission. and so let's start thinking

about that timing looks like for calendar and future agenda and separately i want to thank our general council, thank you for all your work. leading us through pandemic. leading us through back in person. and answering all our willing questions as a state body under this very strange unique if set up in the city and county of san francisco. it is none like no other county where they have individual county with the city councils the year looking at city and county make up and power structure and you know elected officials mixing in space. your independent legal council and he will guidance have been helpful in our conversation with bobble puc and others. and i think that i'm going to

let other commissioner to speak on their own about this. i look forward to continuing our work together. and also perhaps i have a conversation in the future for the future calendar to think about during closed session about how we condition this partnership if need be >> through the chair. to clarify. absolutely fine to do a closed session for evaluations of my position and the executive officers. since executive officer is tasked with hiring other staff you can evaluate his management but you would not evaluate any other employees or contractors that is under his authority. why i would be help to work with the clerk and executive officer to get closed sessions schedule for you. my understanding you would like both general counsel and executive officer separate closed session. >> that's right. that would be fair and we can

focus and give commissioners a chance to dive upon deeper and have conversation. thank you. and with that i don't see names on the roster and i think that thank you, colleagues like this is a second reading of the budget we are finalizing now. i want to flag that the mayor -- of san francisco has proposed her budget which -- on the initial proposed budget impacting of specifically lafco's budget because it is also part of the san francisco board of supervisor's budgetful lafco's budget is independent we will function and operate continuously without significant impact even though it may list as such. with this said, we should go to

public comment? >> yes. madam chair. seeing no individuals here in person we'll go to the remote comment line. checking to see if we have callers. there are no callers, madam chair >> public comment is now closed. vice chair would you like to move the -- make the motion to approve the budget and calendar? >> sure. i move to approve the fiscal year 23-24 budget. that would be my motion. we are planning in the schedule. and the lafco meeting schedule for the rest of this year and the start of 2024. second that. >> great. >> madam clerk, call the roll. >> take items 3 and 4 together. >> yes. >> on the motion for items 3 and

4 vice chair fielder. >> aye. >> commissioner singh. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> there are 3 aye's. >> the motion passes, approved of both item 3 and 4. item 5? >> item 5 is general public comment. members of the public may address the lafco on matters within their jurisdiction and in the on today's agenda. >> seeing no individuals here in person. checking to see if we have callers in the queue. we will give everyone a moment. there are no callers. >> thank you no public comment. it is now closed. call item 6. >> item 6 is future agenda items. >> thank you, colleagues we discussed we have some closed sessions ahead of us and that we now will change to a bimonthly meeting and so our next meeting is going to be july. thank you.

and so we will see everyone in july and madam clerk. go to public comment for item 6. >> no one in person. is there anyone online? giving the members a moment. there are no callers. >> seeing mow public comment, it is now closed. and madam clerk are there other business before us today. >> this concludes our business. thank you. the meeting is adjourned.

[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> so i grew up in cambridge, massachusetts and i was very fortunate to meet my future wife, now my wife while we were both attending graduate school at m.i.t., studying urban planning. so this is her hometown. so, we fell in love and moved to her city. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i was introduced to this part of town while working on a campaign for gavin, who is running for mayor. i was one of the organizers out here and i met the people and i fell in love with them in the neighborhood. so it also was a place in the city that at the time that i could afford to buy a home and i wanted to own my own home. this is where we laid down our roots like many people in this

neighborhood and we started our family and this is where we are going to be. i mean we are the part of san francisco. it's the two neighborhoods with the most children under the age of 18. everybody likes to talk about how san francisco is not family-friendly, there are not a lot of children and families. we have predominately single family homes. as i said, people move here to buy their first home, maybe with multiple family members or multiple families in the same home and they laid down their roots. [♪♪♪] >> it's different because again, we have little small storefronts. we don't have light industrial space or space where you can build high-rises or large office

buildings. so the tech boom will never hit our neighborhood in that way when it comes to jobs. >> turkey, cheddar, avocado, lettuce and mayo, and little bit of mustard. that's my usual. >> mike is the owner, born and bred in the neighborhood. he worked in the drugstore forever. he saved his money and opened up his own spot. we're always going to support home grown businesses and he spent generations living in this part of town, focusing on the family, and the vibe is great and people feel at home. it's like a little community gathering spot. >> this is the part of the city with a small town feel. a lot of mom and pop businesses,

a lot of family run businesses. there is a conversation on whether starbucks would come in. i think there are some people that would embrace that. i think there are others that would prefer that not to be. i think we moved beyond that conversation. i think where we are now, we really want to enhance and embrace and encourage the businesses and small businesses that we have here. in fact, it's more of a mom and pop style business. i think at the end of the day, what we're really trying to do is encourage and embrace the diversity and enhance that diversity of businesses we already have. we're the only supervisor in the city that has a permanent district office. a lot of folks use cafes or use offices or different places, but i want out and was able to raise money and open up a spot that we

could pay for. i'm very fortunate to have that. >> hi, good to see you. just wanted to say hi, hi to the owner, see how he's doing. everything okay? >> yeah. >> good. >> we spend the entire day in the district so we can talk to constituents and talk to small businesses. we put money in the budget so you guys could be out here. this is like a commercial corridor, so they focus on cleaning the streets and it made a significant impact as you can see. what an improvement it has made to have you guys out here. >> for sure. >> we have a significantly diverse neighborhood and population. so i think that's the richness of the mission and it always has

been. it's what made me fall in love with this neighborhood and why i love it so much. [music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small.

a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba

buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war, of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the

public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many

things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you. like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music] fire department ems at station 49. i was born raise in the oak land

my dad is mexican my mom is black i was playing soft ball this hayward and directly behind our soft ball field is an empty field. and almost every day at practice i saw this tiny woman leading the big people in work outs and eventual low i look in the and found out she was teaching how to do physical trin to get people red to work in the fire department. that peeked my interest. the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. i did a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city. i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every

day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back. took it, passed and continued to paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i

encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the city of san francisco. i love to show up on a scene and i can see the comfort in member who men looks like me or my family members they see me and they are comforts. i hope there are women that see me and see themselves in me and know they can do this job limp i have a 20 month old daughter at home. i would like to teach my daughter it is okay to say no as a woman and have and voice that opinion. and i did a good job of that already. >> i really hope that anybody considering this field schedule a ride along. go to your local deputy or knock on an ambulance window can ask to schedule a ride along. that is irrelevant how diit my

first couple ride alongs i saw things that blew my mind and said, that's what i want to do with my life. [music] everybody is happy today it is money day! [laughter] well, thank you for being here i'm mayor breed and i'm here to talk a little bit about the next 2 fiscal years in our budget. let me just first start by thanking anna dun and my budget team who worked tierls leech [applause] >> can the budget team stand up?

>> we sent them through a lot thank you for your work, patience and thank you to our controller ben rosenfield, for all of your work. y appreciate the board of supervisors joining us especially the budget chair connie chan who worked tirelessly with us. to get us to this point thank you very much, supervisorism seat imfamous harvey rose joining us today. so, harvey for the love of god don't eliminate my position. but thank you to the department heads to community members to people who represent the city, far and wide. you know, this was a very, very

difficult budget for us. because as you know. we have been forced to make really challenging changes to our budget. for the past several year when is i was on the board of supervisors, we did not see a deficit at all. we were fortunate and in this case, we were able to cut a 780 million dollars, two year budget deficit while still making the investment that we know are important to the people san francisco. that we know are important to what we need to do to come out of a once in i generation global pandemic. and i truly believe that the work this we have done together throughout this budget process will leave us in a better place. make us stronger.

but more important, it will provide the change we need to move san francisco in a completely different direction. i'm grateful to be here with our department heads leaders and others because it is important to talk about it as we then turn this budget over to the board of supervisors to go through the process of combing through every thing and trying to squeeze every dollar out of the budget for what i know are their priority bunkham when my hope that when they seat budget they realize this things they have asked for are also a part of what we are proposing in order to build a collaborative budget. where we had to make hard choices. so, i want to put thing in a perspective now, when i first became mayor, our budget was just arounded 10 billion

dollars. and now our budget that i'm introducing for this year and next year is both years 14.6 billion dollars. and here is the thing, at the same time we are dealing with a deficit. faster than revenues we understands there are layers of challenges to that, one of the things i said to my budget team and staff in moving forward with this budget. i want to make sure that people are our priorities. we need to focus on safety and our economic recovery and development and we need to make sure we get to a better place with our workforce. i'm proud in balancing we were able to deliver for our nonprofit workers and ihss workers, public safety officials and other thingseen though

again, we are facing a budget defy state. i wanted get more resources in the hands of people so they make their own decisions about how they spend their money. part whf we are looking at to put this in perspective, you know, for those of you who remember san francisco back in the 70s and 80s, you remember what our city used to look like. neighborhoods issue downtown locations and let's talk about that. downtown where moscoi was parking lots. west field there were few single stores on the block along with emporium and woolworths across the street. there was a change and a shift to think about the future and

the downtown region different low at that time and when some of the proposals came inform many of those proposals were not things this people wanted to see happen. they did not want their park to go away. could not imagine how you get all the people here for conventions under ground in the way and how they build mosconi and the central subway and the link of china town and downtown and the southeast community area. when we proposed the big ideas and changes that will change the fabric of our city. une times there is opposition. uncertainty and sometimes fear. what is happening in san francisco now. is a lot of fear. and alegality of narrative and things that are trying to paint

a tishth of san francisco and trying to write and talk about our city in ways where it is passing a cloud a negative narrative about what san francisco is. with all the work do you in your neighborhoods in the city and all over any major staechl you also know that there are possibilities. there are great things happening. there are buildings opening. there is work done. will we be what we were before a global pandemic, no. but if i had told you in 2019 that wield be experiencing the global pan dem and i can have to shut the city down, and we would still be able to set up testing cites and vaccination sites and food pant row and it is stuff we were able to do not in years but

in weeks and months. you would have told me i was crazy. in san francisco when we accomplished emstraights what we do when we come together. what is possible and how we think different low about things we never thought about before am what is this budget about? this budget is about change. this budget is about thinking different low. . doing the same thing and expecting a different result is insanity. we have to think differently. everything can't be a tax on the ballot. everybody is trying to say retail is going, way because of safety but they also are because of the lars of taxes that are

contributing to destroying the retail and online shopping and delivers there are layers of things contribute to that is help nothing stores i don't think most in the room step foot in. what does that mean. look at retail commoninging these could be places for new lab space or education or something instagram moments like the kids like. could be anything for with this new soccer team that was purchased a women's soccer team coming to the bay area. planting that in the middle of mosconi, who knows. these things may not happen but this is how we will have to think. my hope by the incentives and

the change in our budget that it will help us get there yes, we have to deal with the challenges. we have to take care of workforce. we have to save laguna handa and support nonprofits. we have to provide food security, take care of kids and fight for state and federal resources for our public transportation. we have to build 82,000 unit in next 8 years. we have to do all of this. and think about the future and moving forward. because as much as people are saying, that they hear only me talking about downtown, well the ability to pay for this come from somewhere. it come from a lot of those tax. and how we get people and businesses back on their feet is had that budget is proposing to do. first, changes to our taxes. i want to appreciate supervisor

ronen for coming up with a creative idea around first year free. first year free provided the small businesses and brick and mortar businesses to open their doors special not pay the fees from the city. office of of economic and workforce invest in the build out costs and neighborhoods like bayview and third and newcome is another place, supervisor walton, because of the work we do together to invest in small businesses because they don't have angel investors beating down their door. and when we make those investments not only the business owners have an opportunity but the community they have an opportunity to shop, dine in their neighborhoods and communities. so first year free is a program we will continue to support and build upon. we also plan to provide a delay

in taxes for some existing businesses. now to be clear, 14 new tax since 2018 we know well are businesses that can afford to pay those taxes. but there are others that may want we don't want the unintended consequences of destroying our manufacturing businesses and other things we know we need in san francisco. to develop and grow. we want things made in san francisco and what i hear time and time again is you know we will create it in san francisco but manufacture it in nebraska. because of the costs. of doing business in san francisco and the state of california. we are proposing some delay in our taxes. we are also offering new tax breaks for new businesses because we know that there are a lot of vacancies every where in san francisco.

and we want to again, do our part we can't control what the landlords charge. we are trying to work with them to work with us. we can control what we do to respond to that and provide support and incentives. the other thing is we want to get rid of the double dipping and the things around fees and tax structures that may not make complete sense and could be a potential barrier. these things by themselves do one thing they combine demonstrate that san francisco is going to be a business friendly city. because even though we may not be happy about the millions and billions of dollars that the coe's makes in the businesses. we are happy about the j.w. they provide for the jan tors and the human resource folks the people employed as a result and the tax

they pay to our city to help us pifor homeless and childcare services and public transportation and the things we need the most. they go hand in hand. we can't take down business and expect to not have an increasing deficit. we'll be making investments in that area. the other thing in this budget is public safety. now, i want to be clear i know there has been a lot of talk about account at. we can have a safe city. and we can have a just city. we can make sure that when the lines are crossed that people are accountable but as we hold them account believe we lift them up and provide opportunity for a second chance. incredible promise like positive direction and accomplices to

provide with a second chance and programs that support opportunity to help people get clean and the right path and a safe place to live. [applause]. we are investing in our wellness hums to make sure people have a place to go. changing the department of public health. we will not keep doing the same thing, we mead people to have the ability to get treatment on demand upon easier. the medicine team and it is things that we'll do to help those struggling. at the end of the day, the open air drug dealing, the violence where i have had friends lose their lives just trying to protect their block so appeal are not distributing and selling

drugos their block and better in the tenderloin. the accountability is coming. and this is why we are make investment in our police department. to make sure that our rates are competitive. to make sure what we have incentives to not only attract officers and people who want to work in the police department but to retain them. and what i say to those who may want to criticize law enforcement. and the police department in san francisco, don't talk about it be about it. join the san francisco police department! be the change you want to see. be that community mrfrs everyone asking for. be the fortunate step and up sayil be a different time police officer if that's what you want to see. that's when we need in san

francisco. when somebody is shot ambassador is not the person who will show up because we have to protect them, too. so our upon police department will be invested in. supported. and will be held accountable, too. we are invest nothing alternative to policing. we know mental health is a change. we know that the there are hard work people of san francisco who work in our city departments who are showing up and dealing with this and we need to show them respect and love, too, for all the work they are trying to do to help people. and i want to appreciate urban al kemp for amazing advocacy and

the work they done as premayor community ambassadors. same people who were out there once. may be using the drugs and dealing the drugs and arresting and involved in the criminal justice system are now a part of the solutions with exactly what should be happening. and ambassadors for and by the community. tell be a billions. invest nothing alternates. in programs, investing in treatment, investing in law enforcement. making sure resources are there and fair and balanced. and making sure that we turn things around for our city. yesterday, i talked about some investments in homelessness. now, of course, not everyone is going to be happy about the

decisions that i made to take resources that are not being used and spends them on people this we know need help and support now. i don't really chairman because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, we need to take the money we have and use it for the people we need to help now. we can't wait for the people we need to help in the future. investments and trying to get to a 50% reduction unsheltered homelessness meaned decision and hard changes you know what it means, people like mama t who i met yesterday at the cabin community, it means people like mama t sleeping on the street who is a senior in our community who deserves to live in dignity -- she gets a roof over her head i'm ready to take on

that fight any day, any time. [applause]. despite our budget cuts this budget includes resources. to ensure that we have bed this is we can open now. shelter beds, housing. permanent housing solutions and resources to ensure that people who are struggling don't bottom homeings in the first place all of the things we mode to do to make significant change. i want to talk about our fentanyl response. because you know i wanted to push back on the myth that we north coordinated. we are not doing anything. nothing is happening. and i want to be clear that we can't tell you everything not because i don't want to but because there are layers to all of this.

special what i don't want are the people that we are going after to know what we are doing. so, the same thing we did during the pandemic i did not know everything sometimes and i did not tell you things that were not true. i waited until i have the facts. i waited until it was appropriate to share i did not want to cause panic i think that the same will happen with this thing we are dealings with fentanyl. what i ask is patience. and understanding. because we are coordinating, we are working with the department of emergency management, department of public health, police department, our state, federal officials and others to make an impact on not just behind the scenes and what is happening on a larger scale with the various drug cartels but also to deal with the challenges

on the ground. it is a really very hard issue. and not as simple as a treatment program or a second chance or a job opportunity. it is in the that simple. it is very complex as we continue. and so what that means is, yes, we have our treatment programs and the investments we are making. yes we are going to use law enforcement in a creative way to get drugs off the streets and weapons off the streets to do what we can to hold people accountability and also wellingness to give them a second chance. we are not going to keep doing the same thing we gotta change it and get aggressive and do what it takes to get our streets under control so they are safe for everyone who lives, breathes, works and does business in the tenderloin. and i know i know some of

decision are not going to be popular but again i don't care. i did not become mayor to be afraid to do this job the way it need says to be done of the [applause] i didn't become mayor to stroke the egoes of the most active and loudest voices. i became mayor because those people in the tenderloin are my people i grew up with baby sat me. looked out for me, took care of community they need our help, respect and support. [applause]. let me tell you when we doll around of fentanyl. expanding our law enforcement

staffing to shut down open air drug market and it is already started. [applause]. as i said, launching new programs to make sure that people can access service and we bring them to care and i want to put the people who are doing the service on notice that we are doing a deeper dive and if you are delivering you get fundd and then smchl if you are not delivering we are taking away dollars. because enough is enough. accountability heads to be a part of that, too. we will be expanding our health services to provide more support for those struggling with addiction. and this is going to be the hardest part we know. and we have to address the neighborhood impact by providing nonlaw enforcement support to keep the streets safe and clean like we are with folks who are

like a part of urban alchemy. those are a few things around this issue where we are making budget investments. and i want to also say what we will make the investments to keep our streets cleanful investing resource in graf fittee and road repaving. invest nothing park and do so. we have the best parks in the world. our limp everlibraries those are place of sanctuary. children and family investments will condition with pay and vouch and investment in facilities. our climate action plan is on track to get us to a 100% e mission free in the city before the state by 2040.

goal to keep our transportation system running. iff.he case of a massive fiscal and we are trying to appeal to our state partners and others to support us so we can ensure that our transportation system is robust so we get people back to the office as we began to push for transformtive change. so. there is a budget book you with read. everything we do for all different departments i want to really thank the department heads because i squeezed as much money as i could out of most of them and many of them would not

provide cuts. even when i asked but this time they d. and made a world of difference and beens the budget. it seemed like it was seamless but it wasn't. i want to say they know there was a lot said here that needed to be said but -- at the end of the day again i want to go back to reminding us who we are. because -- we can't keep letting other people write the story. we can't let other people talk about san francisco the way that they want to talk about san francisco when we know what san francisco is. so i challenge all of you tell the store. talk about the experience you have innior neighborhoods. not just bad butt good. the beautiful places that just

opened the new businesses and the new opportunity tell the story of the goodness of our city. because -- upon even though there are challenges that exist when i appreciate is when the time come to invest in the shelter we come together. when the time come to help member in need we come together. when the time come to support a business from closing we come together. yes, hard decisions had to be made. in this budget, sacrifice in this budget that 19~ means every dollar cannot be wasted. it has to be used. to change san francisco for the better. not just the narrative of what people write. how people feel. what we are delivering.

what we are changing. you hear all the stories but san francisco is on the top 10 places to visit. [applause] you hear all the stories but our airport is the number one in the country. you hear all these stories but between 2019 and 2022, no other bay area county saw a reduction in unsheltered home and reduced by 15%. [applause]. as we think about moving through this budget process. as we think about the work that we need to do. let's not do it the same way. let's not advocate for the same thing. advocate for change. advocate for something different. think bigger. who would have thought that mission bay which was where

people went to play golf in a range and a railroad would become the home of the national champions of golden state warriors and concerts and efforts and university of california san francisco that area is buzzing. withhold have thought that pier 70 empty and vaccand. and no one not there closed off to the beautiful waterfront shipps were built and repaird and now it is open to the public and satellite company is developing and building. who would have thought? the freeway that blocked the beautiful views and a cloud on the ferry building area. withhold have thought that after the 89 quake when everyone thought the city was destroyed things were over the waterfront is the most sought after death

of the nations of san franciscans and people who visit who would have thought. san francisco, san franciscans we would have thought. we know what we are capable of. we know what we can do. we than when we come together anything is possible. so let's transform san francisco and let's make magic happen! [applause] thank you. [applause]

>> welcome everyone, thank yo