all right. since we do not have a chair or a vice chair this evening, we're going to have to take a motion on electing a temporary chair for the evening . i move. i second. all right. yeah. take a call. all right. on the motion to have commissioner yee chair the meeting tonight, commissioner walker, how do you vote? aye. mr. walker is i commissioner benedicto? yes commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez? yes. mr. yanez is. yes, commissioner burn. yes. commissioner burn is yes. and commissioner yee? yes. mr. yee is yes. the motion passes. okay thank you very much. there let's call it a

first item. line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties, sergeant robert trujillo, star number 928 community violence reduction team. good afternoon, chief commissioners director henderson. i'm noah mallinger, captain of the department's strategic investigations. it's my privilege to introduce you to sergeant robert trujillo. sergeant trujillo has been in the san francisco police department for over 17 years. in 2014, sergeant trujillo joined the investigations bureau and began working on organized crime cases, and he still does so today. sergeant trujillo specializes in crimes that predominantly occur in the mission district. he has investigated hundreds of violent crimes, including, but not limited to homicide shootings, stabbings, robberies. sergeant trujillo has earned the

recognition as one of the foremost experts on mara salvatrucha or ms. 13, in the state of california, and routinely works with other local, state and federal agencies in the investigation, apprehension and prosecution of ms. 13 gang members. sergeant trujillo is an instructor at the robert presley institute of criminal investigations, teaching a course on informant management. he teaches a san francisco latin gang course at the san francisco police academy and regularly travels throughout the bay area to teach an ms. 13 gang course in 2018, sergeant trujillo traveled with law enforcement officers from across the country to the fbi transnational anti-gang unit in el salvador. while there, sergeant trujillo studied current gang trends on both a local and international level, he worked with investigators, prosecutors and analysts and interviewed active ms. 13 gang members. while he was there. sergeant trujillo also takes time out of his busy schedule to

teach cadets in the sf program. sergeant trujillo has become an extremely successful investigator for due to his tenacity, intelligence and superior work ethic. he has also dedicated his career to paying forward the tremendous experience and knowledge he has gained. two new officers and investigators in the city and well beyond that, providing this vital information as officers stay safe in the day to day work they do in the streets and also brought violent crime investigations to a successful end. he's increased the safety for all those who live in work in and visit the city of san francisco. rob. sorry isn't real. do you want to say a few words? sure. as an investigator , i think each day i come to

work, i'm very lucky to work with the colleagues that i have . my job is based on teamwork and the team that i work with and i've been working with for the last nine years has allowed me to be successful in my investigations and along as an investigator working with patrol, you know, patrol is the backbone. if it's department and they really help with investigators and helping us solve crimes and obtaining evidence. and i think it's a team effort and everything we do. and i thank you guys and thank you police commission for recognizing me as an investigator. thank you. rocky. acting chief david lazar. thank you, commissioner yee, i just also want to commend and really applaud sergeant trujillo for all the work that you do in the department. and i know your work saves lives as you get guns off the street and as you apprehend those that commit a lot of harm

in our community. thank you very much for what you do each and every day. and i also want to acknowledge deputy chief rob o'sullivan from rob o'sullivan from the investigations bureau. thank you for being here. thank you. captain mallinger. and last thank you to the commission. i know this is a fairly recent item that we have started with recognizing starting off the commission by recognize our members and it goes a long way and they're very, very grateful for all the recognition that they have been received. so thank you for that as well. thank you very much. their acting chief, david lazaro. i'd like to call up commissioner deborah walker. congratulations, sergeant trujillo. you know the work you do matters to all of us . i've been living in the mission for since 1981, and you keep our neighborhood safe. so i really appreciate it. i know the work you do in investigations is important to us, but also to the

public. you know, they come here a lot. people come here a lot. and talk about how important it is to solve these cases and to, you know, to make sure that we keep our streets safe. so thank you for the work you do, all of you in that capacity. really appreciate it. yeah and again, thank you very much to sergeant trillo for all you've done and keeping us safe day in, day out. and thank you again, deputy chief robert sullivan, and then captain. thank you. picture, picture, public comment. no for members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. thank you very much. there sergeant youngblood. let's go to item number two. line item two, general public comment at this time, the public is now welcome

to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission. rules of order during public comment. neither police nor dpr personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public. but may provide a brief response. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways email the secretary of the police commission at sfpd commission at sf gov. org or written comments may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building located at 1245 third street, san francisco, california. 94158. if you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. my name is karina velazquez. i live and work in the city based on my observations of commissioners comments and opinions, i have concluded that most of you advocate for criminal by unreasonably restricting basic police policing practices and thereby reducing the consequences of crime. in doing

so, you may believe you are helping people of color in particular, but the truth is that you are ignoring the people of color who more often than not are the victims of crime. so to make a point in the hopes that you stop making such mistakes, shake with me today are on documented victims of recent violent crime in the city of san francisco. they are taking time of their super busy lives to thank the police officers because they were there when they needed it the most. and all . so we are here to stay that our police officers are fully

trained and have real world experience. so they don't need restrictions in posed by an elected and untrained group of 11 civil unions. finally we this body doesn't seem to understand or doesn't value the urgency for safety that the people of san francisco are demanding because when you restrict basic police policy and practices, you are not only hurting recruitment efforts for a severely understaffed. san francisco.

good evening, commissioners. my name is jay connor ortega and i am co president of iconic d three in my district. three i am here because this commission, like the board of supervisors, is only gets face time by a lunatic s who demand that you placate their hunger to see the general public at the mercy of criminals. my see a working class resident and the majority of san francisco depends on the police to do their job. they are sworn to do to protect and serve the community. what prevents them from being able to do their job is a board who plays with their funding and this commission who constantly restricts their ability to keep criminals at bay constantly. our city is put on full, embarrassed mental display to the country and the entire world. the lawlessness in our city, and that this commission contributed to. and because the people are only the ones affected by it, i say enough. originally i was

planning to speak on a proposed item by this commission where you all wanted to restrict the sfpd from chasing down criminals. but thankfully i don't see it and i'm hopeful. you all caught wind of the storm. you all were going to get. but like i told the board of supervisors yesterday, please get comfortable at seeing my face and hearing my voice because we the city of san francisco, are no longer going to allow public officials to write decrees unchallenged. but as always, i want to thank the men and women of our san francisco police force. you do a job that none of us can do. thank you. good evening. the last meeting i attended about the hill bomb was truly disappointing at that meeting. two competing. but important narratives deserved your full attention public safety and the rights of minors upon arrest.

combining them into one unruly discussion, an shortchanged them both. one meeting exclusive for the parents of juveniles would have allowed their legitimate and real concerns to be heard. inviting chief scott to explain his department's actions instead of interrogating him about them might have led to a more productive healing conversation about solutions for improvement and policy changes. moving forward. you could and should have been something akin to mediators, but instead you begged parents to file complaints with the dpa. a separate meeting should have been held for the general public and residents near dolores park, who were justifiably horrified about the non-skating mob's mayhem and destruction on concerned citizens who understand the societal value of the rule of law deserve to have you address why you seemed only mildly bothered by the defacing of public property, endangerment of muni passengers and assault of our police officers. this commission barely touched on those aspects of that evening, focusing almost exclusively on blaming the police for executing the known consequences of illegal behavior in lieu of demonstrating unbiased concern for all parties involved. this

commission chose to allow the verbal abuse of chief scott and every speaker supporting the police and the enforcement of our laws. myself included. your bias was significant and wholly obvious. most public officials would have levied consequences such as ejection from the meeting for such aggressive and inappropriate behavior if you were dividers not uniting as commissioners like yourselves who hold the premise that arrest incarceration and being held accountable for one's actions are never acceptable by definition, will never be unbiased and will always be a threat to public safety and our rule of law. thank you. good evening. my name is surbhi. i'm 30 years of age and i'm a proud resident of sf. on 6th of august, i was walking towards my home and at the crossing of fourth and mission street, i was assaulted unprovoked by two

women who pulled my hair, delivered multiple blows to my face and my hand. they were hurling abuses and racial slurs. they said, go back to where you came from. i immediately called 911. it took two attempts and 15 minutes for the cops to arrive, by which time the girls had fled . i was shocked and stunned even after living and loving this city and being a permanent resident of this country, i can make no sense of that attack. i came here as an immigrant. i came here to work hard for a better quality of life. there has been no consequence to this violence. even after a month, we have all the evidence. we have photos of those culprits. we have videos. the cops have those on my case file. and yet no action has been taken. even now , i've been following up consistently with both the law enforcement as well as administration and everyone's passing the buck. the administration says, we are sorry this happened, let's

escalate to cops. the cops say we don't have the manpower because the administration doesn't give us the budget. i'm stuck in the middle and i'm asking for your help. we have the evidence. i'm ready to volunteer my time. if you don't have the manpower to even if your department is short staffed, there are some viable alternatives which shouldn't take too long. why can't we post the photos on social media and ask the public to identify them as a law abiding and taxpaying resident of san francisco? i'm here to urge that we need to do better. we need to do better by our city and our people, including myself. this is not fair. these micro crimes are forcing high taxpaying residents such as myself to leave the city. this is a serious case of xenophobia and public safety that happened with me. i. hi my name is deepika. same as

my friend surbhi. i came to this country because of opportunities provided to me by the tech space and now i'm very privileged to be able to run my own company and being able to volunteer my time to help tenants and residents in district three, but similar to what happened to my best friend surbhi, residents in d three have faced similar situations and they do not have the courage to come here and speak. i commend my friend because she she feels, i think, a lot safer given that she is a permanent resident. but i speak on behalf of two other tenants in d three who have faced something similar racial slurs or go back to where you came from are absolute lutely not acceptable given that we're in first world, silicon valley and especially a place like san francisco, which is supposed to be a haven for people who are more diverse and are coming here to work hard, but increasingly, we're seeing this behavior. and i wanted to plus one on that because there are more people who are unable to show up. but

micro crimes like these are happening and are forcing people to think of their options of leaving the city. we understand there are bigger crimes happening and bigger issues that need to be addressed, but there's got to be a scalable way to address these micro crimes because it's not fair, because these are high taxpaying residents do not have any voting rights in this country, but that does not mean they tolerate and put up with behavior like this. thank you. is there any other speakers. good evening, commissioners and laser and executive director henderson. i'm deputy public defender brian cox. earlier today, i submitted a letter to this body on behalf of the coalition to end bias stops, asking this commission to exercise its powers to end, meet and confer a process regarding 9.07. it appears that the pretext and its data collection provisions can't return fast enough because this morning a

san francisco standard article identifies an sfpd officer mentioned in the may openness report who appears to have misidentified the race of those he stopped, quote, the officer allegedly misidentified the races of people he stopped in nearly half of the 50 encounters reviewed by i have the articles right here. you can all read them. well, that's disturbing. what's perhaps the larger issue is how widespread this practice may be within sfpd. the article identifies other officers who appear to have engaged in similar behavior. if officers have been falsifying traffic, stop data. the already unacceptable racial disparities will become likely far worse. when i first saw the may openness report that i emailed asking it to conduct an audit, the commission should do the same and direct epa to audit sfpd's traffic. stop data to determine how widespread the practice of falsifying data is within sfpd. moreover, the commission should explore director of policy caywood suggestion to create a working group focused on traffic stop

data moving forward. the need for such a working group is underscored by a recent my office submitted to sfpd regarding officer michael shavers. we simply ask for a list of all arrests he has made within the past few years. after diligently searching sfpd told me that it doesn't keep those records. how can this department not know when and how many arrests an officer has made? the commission has the authority to remedy many of these ills. it should start first with exploring all options to swiftly return 9.07 from the meet and confer process. the community deserves no less. thank you. and the articles are right here. in case you haven't read the standard article. happy to pass it out. so at this time i want to thank the public for your public comment. coming up here and telling us your stories of some of the challenges you have and some of the violence that you receive. so thank you very much. let's go to item number three. item three, consent calendar receive and file

action, sfpd and dpa's 1421 and sb 16 monthly report motion to receive and file a second on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? do we need public comment? sorry, i'm sorry. you are correct for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item three consent calendar. please approach the podium and there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? i mr. walker is i. commissioner benedicto yes. mr. benedicto is yes. commissioner yanez. yes mr. yanez is yes. commissioner burn. yes commissioner burn is yes. commissioner yee yes. mr. yee is yes. you have five yeses. okay line item for chief support discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents or events occurring in san francisco. having an impact on public safety commission, discussions on unplanned events and activities that chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. okay. good

evening, commissioners assistant chief david lazaro filling in for chief bill scott this evening. i first want to start off by offering up my condolences to the one young woman here who spoke about what happened to her at at fourth and mission. and i'd like i have officer donahue in the back. i would definitely like to get her contact information. and we will follow up on her incident, make sure her case is being investigated, making sure all the evidence is collected, the videos and everything we need to do to investigate the case. so thank you for coming to the commission this evening to speak about what occurred. okay. in terms of highlights on behalf of the department, first in the city, we have dreamforce. this is a very large event south of market. you probably realize that if you drove and got stuck in traffic, but we have thousands of people from all over the country, if not the world here in san francisco, plenty of officers out deployed , high visible presence had the

opportunity to spend most of my day down at dreamforce. very thankful for the officers who were on patrol with their lights on, creating a high visibility presence and working to really keep the event safe. so very grateful for that. in terms of crime overall for this week. so crime is down by 3. however violent crime is up 3% and property crime is down 4. but crime overall is down by 3. our aggravated assaults are down by 7% and our firearm by firearms down by 9. our burglaries are down 7. our larceny is down by 6% and our auto burglaries are down by 3. we do still encourage the public to do everything they can to leave everything out of their vehicles and keep their vehicles empty. we still hear complaints about windows being broken. that is very unfortunate effort and we absolutely don't want anything stolen. so we have to keep everything out of our vehicles. i think our biggest challenge this year is

robberies, which are up 16% at this time. last year we had 1646 robberies. year to date, we've got 1908. so we are definitely working on the robberies and having discussions about our strategies and officers are out every day working to apprehend suspects that are involved in robberies. we have had 38 homicides year to date. we had 36 this time last year. and our gun violence is up by 6, 153 incidences, shootings a year to date. we had one shooting within this last week, which was on cesar chavez and 280 northbound person was shot and they are in stable condition. as far as the work we're doing in the tenderloin through our drug market agency coordination center, the officers are doing a tremendous job to address what is happening in the tenderloin. we have made 658 arrests for possession, for sale or sales

year to date, which is exceeding the 500 plus number that we had all of last year. so this week alone, we made 89 arrests, which is very significant agent and sees 3297g of narcotics. to put things into perspective, year to date, we've recovered 211 pounds with our narcotics year to date. as of today's date. so there are a lot of great a lot of great work happening there in terms of some significant incidents, i would like everyone to know about the first being in the crocker-amazon area on september the 5th, around 515 in the morning, there was a person who broke into 12 cars overnight. officers responded quickly. they saw the suspect fleeing on a stolen scooter. were they went after and pursued the suspect. it was a brief foot chase and they apprehended him at ralph and cordova. it was a really good arrest, given that we have auto burglaries and we work hard

to make those arrests on the 8th of september, where we had a robbery that occurred also in the excelsior mission and excelsior victim was robbed at gunpoint at and there were three subjects located at mission in russia with the assistance of the ingleside officers and night investigations. they also were involved in a foot pursuit where they they took they took the suspects into custody. so it was a great work by everyone involved. we've had some challenges at westfield. this is something that we continue to work on. there was a retail theft incident in westfield where about $75,000 in retail purses and other things were taken. the security was able to recover about 57,000 worth of the merchandise. but we are working in westfield now to the point where we have officers assigned inside westfield in a in an effort to really maintain a sense of security for individuals that go and shop. there speaking of westfield, the

day prior to this, so this was september 10th. on september 9th, there was a large fight involving youth inside westfield. someone was one young person was armed with a knife. and by the time the officers arrived, everyone had dispersed . but one person who had a knife was still there and he was slightly injured. so again, it just reemphasizes the importance of us being in westfield, and i know we're doing the same for stonestown and any of our malls. we need to have presence, a presence now just really to prevent out things from happening is really what our strategy is. i'm going to tell you about some some driving incidences and situations we've had stunt driving occur, also known as sideshows, but we refer to it as stunt driving. so on sunday, september 10th, first in the geneva naples area, there were about 426 in the afternoon on a sunday, we had 30 cars with 80 people watching. three officers broke up. that stunt driving event about a half hour later, we believe the group met

up at 22nd and folsom at that time, there were 100 plus cars in the intersection and vehicles were driving at high rates of speed. we had our officers respond to that as well. we broke up that group and then we believe on social media. there was another big spot in the bayview at quentin oakdale. our officers responded out there. hundred plus cars were able to break it up. and then finally at 630 in the evening, there were at palace of fine arts. i want to share with this commission that there was a point in time where we really didn't have a strategy. we didn't really see this big in san francisco. this was more of a south bay san jose thing. but right around covid we started seeing this happen in our city and we developed our stunt driving response unit. we put a lot of thought into putting it together. former captain cherniss, who was the captain of traffic, developed a plan that basically provides for our presence and flushing folks out of areas, and then we work to investigate later on who's involved. and we do the work

later to confiscate vehicles. so we have we have an investigator that does that work full time. okay. in the last couple of things i'd like to mention, we had a couple of bad traffic collisions. one was on september 8th near the golden gate bridge at richardson and lyon, a person on a motorcycle was ejected. he's in critical condition. that was on the eighth. on the 10th, at 19th and south venice 19th and mission 19th in south venice. we had a drunk driver that actually hit five people that were in a crosswalk. we took that suspect into custody, and then we had an elderly woman at 46th and taraval on the 11th of september that was hit. and she unfortunately passed away. the last thing i'd like to say is in terms of staffing right now, the numbers continue to drop. so we're at 1474 full duty officers. we actually have 72 less officers than we did this time last year, which is very unfortunate. and if we work off

of that, that report that we received on staffing, the 2021 report of 2182 were 601 below that which is really affecting staffing deployment, workload and officers being tired and all those things that affect the workforce. yes, i would like to conclude by inviting each and every one of you to a graduation tomorrow night, academy class six recruits, six recruits is better than no recruits. we're excited for the six. we're changing the venue because it's a smaller class to the lake merced boathouse. it's going to occur at 6:00 tomorrow evening, and we would definitely love to have your support for the graduating class. as this concludes my presentation. thank you. thank you very much, sir. acting chief david lazard. i just have a question on academy

classes. how many more do you expect for, i guess for this fiscal year? so right now we have 25 recruits that are in the academy. we have another group that's starting in in this month. i think it's between 20 between 20 and 30, somewhere around there. i'm not exactly sure. i'm looking at acting assistant chief walsh. and then our plan is to hire whatever we have budgeted. and so we are going to do everything we can to recruit and hire. i will say the good news is that we have more applicants, significantly more applicants than we did this time last year. and with this last class starting at around 30 or 31, recruits, that was more than we have seen in three years. so so it's going up slowly. however, it's going to take a time. it's going to take a while to get us to where we need to be as a city. having adequate police force. but thank you.

this will follow up. you know, you have the people that apply and they went through the testing. are you going through the same list or you having them to retest for the new new classes? this this just out of curiosity, is that fair? yeah let's let's have our acting assistant chief, pete walsh. he's filling in for ac flaherty to talk a little bit about the hiring. i will say that the other good news is that we're working to streamline the process so that it doesn't take as long where we have multiple tests happening on the same day. this is something new for us, but whatever we can to be competitive, to get people hired as quick as possible. thank you, commissioner. thank you. commission as far as people who repeat, they can apply again. we also have people who for instance, have injuries during the academy that we bring through in the following academy. so there is unless you're basically not eligible to

be a police officer somewhere in our application process, you can come back and either reapply or again, like i said, using injuries. an example, come back and go through the academy. thank you there, deputy chief peter walsh. um i guess i have a question about the amount of arrests that you have out in tenderloin. is there any correlation in with overdose death that has dropped or i guess is, you know, any, any relations to that? yeah, i don't at this moment have the latest numbers on where we are. i know that we were averaging around two overdose a day. i know that we also administer narcan in an effort to save lives. and the officers have done a great job to do that. and we believe that we were going to continue to focus on both sellers and users with a hope that we can connect users with public health and other things available for their addiction. but i don't have

that, and it's something that we could look into and definitely get back to this commission on. thank you. thank you very much. there are commissioner deborah walker. thank you for your report. i have a couple of questions. i'm working with a group of folks. we're working on recruiting. so to that point, six in a class, it is better than none. but we are working really hard to try and deal with the issues of services for recruits or the child care for folks who are already officers working. i mean, i think everybody uses that. everybody needs it. and keeping our existing staff as well as recruiting is both important. so i just want to mention one issue that i heard and there's talk

about limiting the command staff when we're in a in a state where we really need to encourage people by promoting them and making sure that officers and all the different command staff have experience throughout the city. i mean, that's what we need more than anything. so our are we taking that seriously? i mean, is there a real effort to do that. yes. well, there's the two items that you mentioned. first, recruitment and retention . to your point, retention is just as important. we have to be very competitive with other agencies that offer bonus passes or they offer child care or they offer different things to really get the workforce to come out and be involved in policing. and we want young people to see this as a very noble profession, the ability to help people, the ability to make a difference. and really we have to sell this

as an important job. so, yes, and we have to keep who we have. and thankfully, some people who have left have returned, and we welcome them with open arms and say, welcome back and we put them back on patrol. so that's that's important. if you could just clarify your command staff question, and i'd love to answer. well, i heard from somebody that there's discussions at the board about limiting command staff and which i think it's probably not their business, but, you know, it's yeah, i would say that the way that we're structured is really if you think about about the reform that we just went through, i mean, that's a very heavy lift since 2016, 272 recommendations, 90% compliance. if you think about the demands of police right now, the accountability, the fact that we have that we that we want to move forward on making sure that we comply with everything we put in place, including use of force and all the requirements and

investigations and if you think about the way we're structured, we're structured so that we have the control and oversight of our department. so that we are complying with policy so that we are, you know, not preventing so that we're working to prevent a scandal. so scandal. so we're working to make sure that that everything is covered. i mean, every single command staff person has a big, big task, a big to do list, a lot of work to do. if you think about recruitment, if you think about the work in risk management, if you think about the 60 recommendation signs and community engagement, if you think about now all the work we're doing in the tenderloin and we have a commander assigned to that just to complete command and control structure of our organization is needed in order to move policing forward in san francisco and i know the chief has been very vocal about it and he is very articulate about why the structure is the way it is. i know everybody works very hard

and there's a reason why we are in place the way the way we are. yes. and i know i mean, the issues that we've been hearing about from the community about the response time is taking a while because we are low on officers. there was a there was a an article written really highlighting the federal state and local partnership. and everyone's putting in money towards expanding those partner ships. and it seems to be working really well both on our our dealing with the issues that you have prioritized in the tenderloin as well as dealing with the what you call the driving episodes, the gang, the bomb, the hill bombs and the there was a motorcycle bomb, i think, out in the richmond and, you know, there's all of those things that happen that take that take a lot of people to respond. and so are you having a good success with that

partnership? well yes. in terms of the partnership with our state and federal partners, we i don't think the partnership has ever been better. and we are working really collaboratively to deal with some of our biggest challenges in this city, including the tenderloin, as you know, the chp has been out there doing a tremendous job. and then our federal partners are helping us with narcotics sales and things like that. but commissioner, the other thing you're mentioning about response time is, you know, we're working to we're using the overtime that's been provided to us by the board of supervisors in order to adequately staff our staff, our stations every single day in order to respond to those 911 calls. i mean, that's one aspect of what we spend the money on so that we improve our response time. i mean, a response time of 8.5 minutes to an a priority is not as good as it was when i was a captain. and it was around five minutes. so that goes to the whole point about being understaffed that our folks are working very hard

and but we have to do what we have to do in terms of staffing in order to get to calls quickly . great. thank you. thank you. at this time, i'll turn it back over to our chair. vice president carter. thanks commissioner yee, commissioner yanez, thank you. acting president carter overshadowed a quick question about the recruitment, but i believe at some point last year or maybe earlier this year, california freed up the minimum required. right. for hiring. and i believe that they now allow for people who are not necessarily citizens to apply. are we getting any of those applicants? are we promoting this new opportunity? i guess at and are we being proactive about. there is a there are a lot of people out there who would see this as a viable career for them. so high commissioner for the recruiting . yes. so that's specifically to

permanent residents, right. and again, they would have to apply like anybody else. it's a pretty new i know the chief and the department came out with a statement saying that we welcomed it. i don't believe we've gone out to target that recruitment group. we're still kind of concentrate on what we what we normally do and expanding that to traveling to as far away as to john jay college to recruit and things like that. but it is something that is available to us at and as we get more into the recruiting groove, we'll definitely look at that aspect. thank you for that. i'd encourage we have a big press unit, you know, press releases and, you know, really, really proactive finding new avenues for recruitment would be helpful, right? because six recruits is unfortunately i mean, we got some, but i'm i'm glad that or i hope we can get more people applying. and just

one clarification on the six just so everybody those are laterals. so those classes are a little different. like that wasn't directly us going out and recruiting a bunch of people who didn't. so we've that that is a group of laterals and the other class lazaro was talking about. we'll start, i believe, at the end of the september. i don't have the direct number, but we can get you that that will be following this class that's graduating. well, even lateral poaching, whatever it takes, right. recruit thing. okay. recruiting, recruiting. um, another question i'd ask for this information. last week and the chief said that he would provide an update this week and it has to do with those young people during the hill bomb whose charges were dropped and they were juveniles, the chief was unclear about whether their records being cleared was something that automatically happened through probation,

through the juvenile probation department. i'm pretty sure that doesn't happen that way. we have a representative from the public defender's office who can tell us, you know what, it really takes the clean slate program and all these procedures. but i think that it would behoove us to explore, especially in an instance where over 80 individuals were arrested and those charges were dropped, that they don't have to go through the procedure of a clean slate program of an appeal to a judge or whatever, that case may be. do we have that information, commissioner? i do not have that. on first glance. i will look through my binder to just double check and maybe ask a question, but i don't have that. i know you asked a few questions. i don't have that particular answer at this moment. if we can have that answer next week, because i've asked it a few times and i know that it shouldn't be that challenging. i mean, it's law or it should be written somewhere, right? okay. we'll do so. that would be really helpful. um another, i mean, i before our

break had a mentioned the fact that there was an article about the increase in use of force. it was supposed to be agendize for last week and then the use of force conversation went somewhere else last week. i'd like to know what your comments are with your opinion is about that fourth quarter report. we their use of force incidents went up, skyrocketed to 25 to 1 for african americans in comparison to our white residents and 3 to 1 for latinos and our white residents. do you have any idea why that increase was so sudden? there was also in that report and in that document , another chart that demonstrated that arrest for white people are actually going down while arrests for black and brown people are going up. do we have any idea how these or what is the reason for these increases? yeah i haven't had the opportunity to read the report. i didn't know that this

was going to be an issue brought up at the commission tonight, but we will definitely be prepared to respond to that question and get to the bottom of it. i don't want to speculate and say maybe there was one particular incident that caused the spike. i know we got through the change in policy. some time ago where the numbers were really up and then they came back down because we changed the criteria. but if it's acceptable to you, we will look into it and definitely be able to report back. please thank you. thank you. commissioner benedicto. thank you. acting president carter oberstar. i just one note. thank you for your report , acting chief. i think that we learned i'd like to congratulate the class that's graduating tomorrow. i had the privilege of attending. i think, every graduation since i was on the commission. i think due to the change in venue, we learned that they've asked the commissioners not to attend to focus on the family of the of the recruits. so i don't think i don't think we made the cut this time. but we do want to express our

congratulations to the recruits. well, you did have the invitation for me. so i did have you in mind. i didn't know about this that i think we reached out. we can all are welcome. but i think right now i'm sitting here today. all are welcome. thank you. all right. all right. assistant chief was our welcome. it's nice to have you here tonight. just one question for me, which last week i asked chief for an update out on this new initiative that started a couple of months ago to arrest drug users more aggressively and ask for the total number of arrests and the number of those arrested who had accepted treatment. and i'm just wondering if we have any updated numbers. i know no updated numbers. i did provide in my weekly report just now about the 89 or so arrests that we made this week totaling total arrests that involve sellers and both users. but but we will definitely come back to this commission with the with the

response. i believe, if i understand your question correctly, is, is out of all the drug users that we arrest, how many have accepted services or have been connected to. that's right. last week, the total was 467 arrests, two had accepted services. and so i was just wondering if there was any update on either of those numbers. but if not, we'll circle back next week. okay thank you. okay. thank you. sergeant, can we go to public comment for members of the public? they'd like to make public comment regarding line item for the chief's report. please approach the podium and there is no public comment. line item five directors report discussion report on recent activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. good evening. so this week i'll start off with a thank you. i'll start off with our stats. so so far this year we

have opened 562 new cases. this year we currently have about 302 cases that are pending. and of those cases that we have pending, about 22 of them have longer investigation options that have investigations that have gone past nine months. and of those 22 cases, 17 of them are cold cases, meaning that there are civil or criminal legal issues, pausing the tolling of the time for the investigations. in terms of the cases that we still have pending decisions on, we have seven cases that are pending decisions with the commission and 87 cases that are still awaiting decisions with the chief. so and more of these details obviously, are online. i'm not going to go line by line through all of the numbers one by one. but in case

folks want more information or want to review that information, it's available on our website. during the report, i typically review and talk about the number of cases that have come in that week. and so for this week, we can talk about the allegations that have come in. again, these are allegations. so this week, 29% of the allegations involve old allegations that officers either behaved or spoke inappropriately to the public. and 14% of the allegations involved allegations that officers failed to take required actions as requested from the public. the full breakdown of all of the allegations, again, is on our website. but i will focus on just the top ones, the top allegations in terms of districts this week was central. that had three complaints points . complainants came in addressing complaints in the central central district and all

of the information with all of the precincts, again, is on on the website for the department of police accountability and director henderson, thank you for your report. i wasn't done. oh, i thought that was it. no i was just turning the page. hold on it. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. i know. i know. sorry. i was okay . you threw me off. yeah, okay. i was. i was creating a dramatic pause for the rest of the information in terms of outreach this week as an update for last week's announcements, our community connect took place. the mediation division is going to take take place on october 3rd from noon to two, and that's going to take place on one eight eight inches the embarcadero for folks that are interested in that information, please feel free to reach out to us at outreach at sfo .org information

is already online in terms of how to register folks who are interested in following up with that information on as as well as the audits that i mentioned this last week. we're following up on the status of the recommendations made in prior dpr audits regarding sfpd's compliance with dgo 8.10 and we are still currently reviewing documentation provided by the department regarding the destruction of files of investigation is governed by dgo 8.10. we don't have anything in closed session this evening. present in the courtroom though, is senior investigate. later. ali schultz, who is here, and ali, if you don't mind following up with the young woman that spoke with us earlier to see if there's some way that we can be helpful with what's been going on with her case as well. she's here tonight. if that's helpful for you. also present this evening is our director of

recruiting and hiring tonight of thompson and the chief of staff from the office is sarah hawkins at and one of the lawyers from our policy division, jermaine jones. i'm just making sure i'm not missing any staff. also one of our interns from the summer, maddie is here, unpaid right now. so thank you for being here for this. for folks that have questions about about anything involving the department of police accountability, our website is sf gov.org/dpr. you can also contact us on the phone . (415)!a241-7711. we have a couple of agenda items on the docket tonight, but i will reserve my conversations until we call those items. agenda item seven and agenda item eight. i think that concludes my report.

thank you, mr. president. commissioner yanez. uh, thank you for the report. director henderson, i just have one question. i know that previous lee asked about a five year analysis and you guys are working that. really appreciate it. is this an unusual no increase in cases opened in your experience from 22 to 23 through what, three quarters? about not necessarily it fluctuate rates on it's there's so many different i think you're asking me why. right but there's so many different factors that determine on the volume of cases that come in and the complaints that are being made, the kind of complaints that are being made in so many thing affects those things. for instance, if something is getting a lot of media or press attention an or there's a big event that a lot of people know about, people will observe or have things that they have concerns about that

they raise more and more. we're growing broader complaints are coming in from ancillary partners like the public defender's office, the coalition on homelessness, the bar association, the aclu. just it just depends. it's really hard to gauge what people are observing or what people are pointing out that are going to be specific issues, but which is part of why we record all of it and it gets turned over to the commission so that you can see we've only in real time what comes into the department for people to evaluate not just what they're seeing, but even what the allegations are independently of what is being sustained or proven from the investigation as as part of discipline. i don't know if that answers the question. it does. thank you. and it was kind of an underhand pitch for you to just congratulate your outreach team . but thank you for that report. we really try and focus on the agencies and the community

parties that heretofore weren't connected to governmental agencies that have real concerns , concerns that have restrictions, real or perceived about speaking to authoritative agencies, but want to have a voice to articulate concerns. very well put. oh, thank you, commissioner byrne. um, director henderson, last week i asked about the number of officers that complaints were made about related to the dolores hill bombing. you did, and i had that in my notes and couldn't remember what this note meant. and that's exactly what it meant. and so we talked about that, and i said that i would get a report and would submit that some of those details which i submitted, i think it's going to be discussed specifically in an upcoming meeting. but just to reference that, we talked about

. the number of complaints and the volume of complaints that translated into allegations that were being made. if i'm not incorrect, because i think i was telling you offline, but not publicly from yesterday when i got the information from last week that it was six specific complaints. but but between 70 and 80 full allegations owns. so it was six officer calls that were complained about of no. six allegations, six complaint notes . am i saying that right that yeah i'll ask my chief of staff . there were six separate complaints filed called complainants don't often tie it to a specific officer because they might not know. it might have been several officers. so it was six individual complaints . okay. that kind of referenced the whole incident or different

aspects of the incident. right because it was difficult from the meeting that we had to figure out exactly the effects. so six complaints have been filed with dpa. okay correct. thank you. and that number, in terms of articulating the specific number of officers involved is still part of an ongoing thing. and so the number fluctuates. but yeah, you may you made that clear. i got that. yeah. sometimes they don't. thank you, director. thank you, director henderson. just one question for me this morning. the standard published in article covering a discipline case brought by dpa against an officer that alleges falsified race data when making traffic stops is obviously certain parts of disciplinary disciplinary proceedings are not public and

can't be discussed. but my question is not about that particular case, but whether dpa and its what i've heard award winning audit team plans on plans on conducting an audit or any investigation to determine whether this was an isolated incident or whether there is more widespread practice and any cause for concern about the integrity of sfpd. stop data. so those are things that we are involved in already. and just to give context, a lot of that information relates to the data. that's the data that's required. that requires law enforcement agencies to provide data to a central database about the racial makeup of people that are stopped, searched and detained. and a lot of these practices outside of ripa in california are nationwide practices. however, that data in order to be accurate and helpful, needs

to service purpose by being accurate. and so we already know that if we have bad information that goes into those recordings, then we get bad data that comes out of those recordings. the rule is that officers have to input what the perceived race of the individuals that they've stopped, searched or detained nationwide. we've seen this issue come up already and audits and investigations revealing that officers and jurisdictions have not accurately reported the data that they're required to report about the race of the people stopped, detained and searched. and there's a number of cases that i won't go into, but there's a number of states and counties, louisiana, missouri, l.a. county the state of connecticut, all involving racial profiling systems. so here in california, it's ripa and we have uncovered and issues

here in san francisco with sfpd as well. and again you alluded to it but i can't talk about specific cases and specific investigations. but but we have conducted investigations and have reviewed open data where issues have come up, specifically involving proper and accurate entry of this kind of data. and we've seen three basic different type of stop data issues. and those those discrepancies involve three different types of problems. one where officers are not entering any data for the stops where they're required to enter data to officer enter the wrong race of the person. they've stopped at. for example, a person clearly identified as

african-american often is identified as caucaso an and three where officers enter multiple races for the people being stopped to obscure any obvious or specific racial makeup. and so that's what the problem is. and those are some of the issues that we've come across. yes. and i know the article was talking about it, but again, the article was very specific in ways that i couldn't i can't even comment on and can't be specific about. all right. thank you. that's helpful. it sounds it sounds like maybe there's been some at least preliminary review of the data that's revealed, at least some additional issue. does that warrant further investigation? i did want to invite assistant chief lazarre to comment on this at all, if you have a comment, only because it is my understanding that the department is under an ongoing

obligation to audit its own stop data. is the department regularly, regularly auditing its own stop data? has it discovered any issues that would call into question the integrity of the data? yeah commissioner, what i can say is that that in terms of auditing, one of the things we do is we, we our standard operating procedure for auditing is to determine the amount of stops versus the amount of entries to see if there's a discrepancy there. in terms of the numbers, for example, just arbitrarily, if you had 1000 stops, is there a thousand data entry? what we're going to need to do is look a little further at this point and do some comparisons based on this information that we have received. of course, there's an ongoing investigation. i can't speak to, but we definitely need to further that audit to make sure that we're looking at what's being entered versus who's being stopped. so and so will your audit go beyond that

issue? because obviously, that wouldn't account for a lot of the other issues being raised in the article. so it just to be clear, your audit about looking at number of stops versus number of entries wouldn't detect if an officer was was recording the incorrect race. so is there going to be an audit to look at all of those different potential issues? yeah, we're going to have to look at what that workload entails and what we need to do. we're also going to have to, at minimum, do auditing in terms of random auditing to see see in terms of the comparisons for the stops and who has been stopped. but yeah, there's more work to be done based on what we're discovering. we have to address it and we have to make sure that those who are not doing it are held accountable. yeah, i'm glad to hear you say that, that we have to address it because i think we have to. i agree. we have to address it. and i think i quickly perused the 2016 d.o.j. cops report on my way here. and

this is one of the issues covered in the report and in particular at pages 356 357 it talks about the necessity of thorough not just thorough audits, but thorough out side independent audits and gauging academic institutions and other partners who can come in and be a third party to actually verify that outside of sfpd. it doesn't seem like we are for following that recommendation. and given these latest revelations, i do think that that would be i think the commission needs to take this issue up more fully. but i think that needs to be something on the table that we're considering, whether it's in an outside organization or bringing in this comptroller and cpa or some combination of that. i think that this is maybe something to be agendized and

taken up more fully by the commission. the last thing i'll ask you, assistant chief, is there is a unit order on the books requiring periodic auditing. 20 1-01. so to be clear, for members of the public, a unit order is imposed and not by the commission, but something that the department imposed upon itself in this case , captain eric altaffer signed this unit order on july of 2021, and it does specify early. it talks about the general necessity for periodic auditing, but it calls out three categories. and one of those is the stop data, the sdc's data, and the importance of doing quarterly audits. for next commission meeting for the chief's report. i would like the department to furnish the commission with the last year of quarterly audits that were done pursuant to unit order 20 1-01

so that we can at least review the work that's that's already been completed. and okay. thank you. great. thank you. appreciate it. director henderson. thank you. if i can just say, you mentioned you summarized a lot of the stuff. i would say, though, that you know, we take this very seriously and the inaccurate see of this data speaks directly to the foundation of the groundbreaking legislation that was aimed at computing these systemic inequities in law enforcement. so i do think that this is something that we should be taking very seriously and really should be focusing on. and you mentioned the possibility of working with the controller's office on an independent sort of audit. we also are capable of doing such audits with an expanded type of

practice. right now we are near capacity with our charter mandate, but charter mandated investigations with both policy and work that we're doing. but i don't want to give short shrift to the option or the opportunity 80 for partner with an academic institution or an independent agency as well. and i know you mentioned it, but beyond just thinking aspirationally, we about preparatory plans, i think it needs to be something that is focused and specific to make sure that something is going to happen specifically beyond just the caseload from what dpa is working on and beyond just the issues that dpa is uncovering and validating, if we had more

access to the information. that, as you already articulated, should have been provided or should exist just in some of those unit orders and requirements from the department already. so great. thank you, director anderson seeing no other names in the queue. sergeant, could you take us to public comment for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the dpa director's report, please approach the podium. i'm new to this and i was just listening to what you were saying and like i wouldn't presume somebody pronouns, i wouldn't presume somebody anything wrong. so i'm wondering if it just is it not policy or appropriate or i mean, i don't know for the police officer to ask the person's race as opposed to trying to guess it and put it down and then get it wrong. i'm just you know,

because i wouldn't know or i wouldn't presume to know what anybody's race actually is. so i'm just curious if that actually could be helpful in in asking the police to just ask like they ask for many things. thank you. i've asked the same i have asked the same question. i know that we will be agenda izing this because there is a way to reconcile this information. right. and we know that that report has been very skewed, to say the least. and this article that i haven't read apparently also substantiates underscores this. so i'm hoping we agendize this asap. but answer your question, there's nothing in san francisco that prohibits us from having an officer ask an individual to self-report their own ethnicity or race.

and there is no further public comment. line item six commission reports discussion of possible action commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to counter any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. commission president's report. commissioner's reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. commissioner walker. i would like to say i went to i mean, i hope all of you watched or went to the officer involved shooting town hall regarding the handling shooting really well presented and i really appreciate the work that goes into those. i think it really helps the public to understand, to understand what

happens in those events and really get how intense those things are. so i really appreciated that. i also was invited to the to a meeting in the tenderloin specifically about it with some of the community members and chief scott. people really appreciate being there. it's really traumatic for folks to go through that. our officers, as well as the public and, you know, it just really helps for us to have these conversations. so i really appreciate the outreach you all are doing, not just in the tenderloin, but i think in every district, the more that we can meet, you know , i know that we've we've gotten requests from the public to open up public comment online again. but i think a better solution would be to meet out in the neighborhoods. so i really want to encourage us sometimes to schedule meetings out in the neighborhoods, especially

neighborhoods that are having issues so that we can be out there and people can we can hear people. i'm happy to help with that. i know it's kind of a hassle, but i think a few times a year it would really be nice to be able to meet out. i've also been meeting, as i said, with a group of folks who are looking at the 3030 commitment at. we had a really interesting conversation today with state and national child care program . um, folks who are working, especially with the state on some pilot programs in san diego and los angeles, and they would love to include our city to be able to offer child care to our officers. i think it would be really helpful, especially so many are working overtime. i think it's a hard situation, but , you know, we asked we asked to we have some action items around finding potential locations near our stations. i suggested

looking into some of these retail stores that are empty that maybe if we can get some long term commitments, it might be good to have child care facilities in our neighborhood. commercial areas. i think that there's a lot that people are really doing statewide on this issue. so i'll report back. also, we were scheduled for another meeting with the city attorney and ac lozar on the patrol specials. just getting up to date on all the current status and legal advising. and we're preparing to have a presentation at the commission next week just to sort of bring it all together to talk about what we're thinking and what the department is thinking. i think that the community is supportive of these when they've had patrol special beads and officers that work well with our with our officers and our department. so i think it would be helpful if

we can have a discussion at the commission level. so i appreciate it. all the work we've done, i know that it it's been a it's been a long research project to get clear on what's happening. so i really appreciate that. thank you. thank you. commissioner benedicto thank you, mr. president. a couple of things. first, i would like to echo what the acting chief and commissioner yee and director henderson said to the woman who spoke today. thank you for your your candor and your courage in talking to us and, you know, this is a body that sometimes has many different views on most different issues. but i can tell you that we unequivocally and all believe that what happened to you and these kinds of acts are unacceptable. they have no place in our city. they have no place in our society. and our country as as the son of immigrants who fled repressive regime to come here and have

themselves faced their share of discrimination. thank you for coming out tonight. and i'm glad that hopefully some of the resources made available to you will help. but thank you for that. i had to recently, as our the commission audit liaison, i had to reschedule our regular meeting with dpa's audit chief steve flaherty. but that should be rescheduled and i'll report back to the commission when that happens. as i also had a conversation with the department on implementing some of the audit recommendations from prior audits, particularly in the area of the audit, about some of the it and technology issues, which i think are some low hanging fruit that we can knock out. i'm going to resume those conversations with the department now that we're back from recess like a number of commissioners and members of the public. i also read the story in the standard about the officer and the potential misreporting of race data. while i know we can't get into the specific facets of the case, the this is

not the first department in the country where mr. porting of race data has now been seen and i think it's been noted by director henderson, by commissioner jones, by president carter oberstein, that this is a really serious issue. we are a policy making body and can only make good policy if we are presented with good and reliable data and when there are implications that there might be threats to the integrity of that data, those should be taken very seriously so we can continue our policy and oversight role, recognize that that article just came out today. i don't expect for there to be a plan, but i would like to agendize for the future to see if the department can come up with an action plan on how to deal with a larger systemic issue of ensuring that we're doing a good job and preventing any issues when it comes to misreporting of data. because we are seeing that again in that story. but as well as in a number of other departments. so i'll make sure we're getting

ahead of that. thank you, commissioner yee, thank you very much. there chair carter was just want to echo what commissioner deborah walker said about the officer involved shooting it was it was very helpful for the community to see what happened. i guess, through that video that i did see, it was the final video clip that was provided by, i guess, the residents up on top where you had a top view of what really happened on that officer shooting because on the ground floor, you just seeing this, what's coming towards you at that time? um, but on the elevation video, you did see that knife come out. it was wasn't just a regular knife. it was a hunting knife. he was coming toward the officers. i know this person needed help. it's very tragic that it

happened. i wish we could have done it, handle it differently. but it is what it is. so i want to thank the officer for, you know, their commitment of public safety. this one also report out that commissioner burns and myself and acting chief david lazaro attended the 75th annual fire police and sheriff mass. i just want to give condolence and tribute to the officers, retirees that did pass and i say, i guess bless the officers and keeping them safe going forward. so that ends my report . thank you. commissioner yanez . thank you. acting president carter oberstar done a quick report. i do want to just clarify that last week i was out

and wasn't able to give a proper update on certain items just because i wasn't in a good place. but i am in a better place today. and with regards to our investigative social media working group, i know janelle did a great job of kind of summarizing some of the issues that have been raised by our stakeholders in the various areas that we're working with. we have people over at cal berkeley, at stanford, at the brennan center. we've got all hands on deck. the public defender's office has already submitted their recommendations and they are are, you know, pretty lengthy. but i want to clarify that we did request and obtain an extension to complete the work around social media. janelle indicated that it was a hard line of december, but we actually did not want to create a timeline with a finite date at this point just because there is a lot to sift through as far as the myriad recommendations that are being provided by the different groups. so just wanted

to provide that update. and i'm also working with some community partners on the prebooking diversion in an effort to try to identify the best direction to take with that and a group of folks that came and presented or spoke during the hill bomb presentation reached out to try to create an opportunity for the department to engage separate some community best practices around youth development. and i really hope that the department takes this group up on their offer and that we can create some opportune cities for them to contribute to and collaborate, which will actually, you know, facilitate better community policing outcomes comes the other other thing that i've been working on is around identifying how we can work with the juvenile probation

department to ensure that we are coordinating our efforts both with the diversion that is in place right now with the community assessment and referral center so that we can set the groundwork for a pretrial sorry, pre booking diversion program. so those are my updates for today. i do want to agendize. i know that the report data collection seems to already have been agendized, but considering some of the comments that have been made and the ongoing challenges that we have with both recruitment and increasing our policing, staffing, i'd like to agendize the sojourn investment because i believe we're on year three. and from what i understand today, we have 70 officers away for probably a full week when we are this short staffed. i really believe that it is a necessary

to find out what purported or projected outcomes we have have for this investment in sojourn, because if we have 70 officers away from, you know, a couple of times a year, because i don't know necessarily feel that, consider bring the staffing shortages and challenges that it's the best use of our resources right now. so i'd like to schedule a presentation to find out what exactly the tangible outcomes have been considering that report that said that you know, the discrepancies and disproportionate minority impacts are still increasing. so that's my agenda item. and my report. thank you. thank you. assistant chief lazarre. yes. thank you very much. so commissioner yanez, just for clarification, so we do have a sojourn trip taking place. there are not 70 officers on the trip . there's probably around 70 people, but there's many folks from the community, from from all over the city. there's other

city government people, people from the nonprofit that i don't have the exact number of officers as i am grateful that you and i were on a sojourn trip together and learned. personally speaking, i learned a lot about american history and a lot about the history and policing in hopes to really educate our members and the public about what that history and how we can be better in policing. so we'll get you the exact number, but there's not 70 officers that have left the city. it's a much, much, much smaller number. and we feel like when we bring the community with us, we just have that much better of an experience like the experience we had. so thank you. thank you. just one update for me. last week the commission approved revisions to dgo 5.01 to set out clear standards for when officers could preemptively or proactively deploy spike strips. the whole commission supported it and want to thank once again

commissioner benedicto, lieutenant jonas and janelle caywood for their work on that. and we also learned how effective the preemptive deployment is as a tool. all we were told in the latest 15 month period, there were 46 preemptive deployments, which resulted in 82 arrests, roughly 360 cases closed and 331 firearms arms recovered, including four assault rifles. and the only negative was one relatively minor injury. so while i certainly support the revisions that will set out clear standards for when we can use them, what i don't support is i don't support sfpd's decision to unilaterally suspend the preemptive use of spike strips pending the revision of 5.01. as i said last week, i don't think that it was necessary to suspend the use pending the revision. i don't think that there's anything in the current policy that prohibits it. and so next

week i'm going to introduce a resolution that will interpret our current policies to permit the preemptive use of spike strips. this will allow officers to resume using spike strips preemptively immediately upon the passage of the resolution and they won't have to wait for the multi-month meet and confer process and then for the commission to vote on it again. and then typically there's another delay for training. so i just wanted to let the community know and let officers know that i spoke with assistant chief lazaro and he assured me that the department would support this resolution. so i'm hopeful that my colleagues will as well and just wanted to let officers know that hopefully next week, this time at 530, they can start using spike strips preemptively again. sergeant, can you take us to public comment for members of the public? do like to make public comment regarding line item six commission reports,

please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item seven presentation and introduction of dpa's fall interns and internship program discussion. and go. to

good evening. active acting president carter oberstein police commissioners ac lazard executive director henderson members of our community and members of our community watching and listening at home. i would like to. my name is tanita rockmore thompson. i'm a lawyer and the director of recruitment for the department of police accountability. it is an honor and privilege to be before you tonight to present to you our fabulous summer 2023 law and justice cohort. this has been our largest cohort. you saw us in the beginning of the summer. we are now down to the one representing our summer cohort and one representing our fall. this is madison donahue, wolfe and i will say that she is the current managing editor of the usf law review. i want to give her those props right now and our incoming fall intern, law clerk, hannah hutton, who will be joining us next week. and i am just so delighted to present this program. if we can

cue up the intro slides, please . this summer we had a ten week professional development program , um, roughly from june to august and roughly about 75% of those interns were funded. and the majority of that is through mayor breed's. opportunities for all program, which we cannot have made possible if we did not have that resource. we had 23 interns, again, our largest cohort, 50% of them were lost students and 50% undergraduate. and i am proud to say that 87% were underrepresented minority. but that's just not all that we had in our program. we wanted to have a diversity pipeline to bring back to the city, which is why we expose them to the various public and private sectors that we all intersect and work with. as a san francisco agency. so we were looking and we were intentional

with our recruitment. this past year, we went to the hbcus using our own personal funds. so we can get that diverse applicant. we looked internally, we went through opportunities for all we eliminated, eliminated some of those facts that may have been barriers for some students to apply for because we wanted that student because we know that it's more than what our standardized tests will bring, what it's what's more than what your gpa will bring, that systemic racism has hindered and made a challenge throughout the years. we have students that are not only diverse from racial and ethnic backgrounds, but also socioeconomic first generation out of state. you know, immigrant immigrant resources. you know, women, you know, lgbtq , plus all of those were represented in this internship program. and i cannot be absolutely more proud of them. we actually, with the help of

opportune cities for all and dr. davis of the human rights commission provided transportation and housing at usf for eight weeks. we collaborated with ten city departments, which made this program even more out standing, which included our oci district, ten housing authority, sf da's office, juvenile probation office of cannabis arts commission department on the status of women and of course, dpr. we had 12 field trips and activities, again intersecting the public and private sector and 20 to guest speakers from the public and private sector, which all made for an amazing program. it was impacted. it was not only a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun and we wanted to expose them to san francisco to let them know what we have to offer here because one day we want them to come back. we want them to be part of our community and we want them

to be part of the city and county of san francisco. and this also was a huge part of our racial equity and our racial equity action plan because of the diverse city that we brought and the diversity that we brought to these ten city agencies as well. again, we were very intentional and we wanted to show that and we wanted to highlight that. again, this program would not be made possible without dr. davis. sarah williams and terry jones and opportunities for all jcc mayor breed and opportunities for all our own executive director paul david henderson for giving us the vision and for supporting it throughout our entire executive staff. every every person at dpr, our operations unit, our mentors at dpr, we were able to provide all 23 students with mentors at dpr. and, you know, we're a small agency, but we were able to have them double up, you know, maybe 2 or 3. but we wanted them to have that so they can see what

dpr is like, what we do, and, you know, just wasn't lawyers who were mentors. we had it from every level. we had our investigators, our senior investigators, our our audit division, our mediation unit. you know, all of our all of our units came together to make this a memorable summer for these young people who i have now officially, my 23 other children, in addition to my one son. so, again, and of course, our amazing public service aide and intern coordinator, karen turner, without her, this wouldn't be possible. and so with that, i present to you what they've been working on so hard for is our our presentation of a policy recommendation that they do every year as part of being part of dpa's cohort. and here we have them. yeah. oh

this internship experience has definitely helped us with our professional development and we are confident that many of our skills and knowledge we've gained this summer will be used in our careers no matter the path we all take down the road. we will now begin introductions . and we have fabian, wesley, jeremiah. i'm just mentioning a few. it's kind of slide, but you see the logos on the side are each of their agencies that they were housed at. stationed. and we took as part of their professional development, we

took headshots during this internship, we had an hbcu cohort. there were students from morehouse and howard university that received funding and housing. thanks to opportunities for all. this summer we were all placed at the department of police accountability, which is an oversight agency that by executive director paul david henderson invested gates complaints filed against senator civil police officers conduct audits of police department practices. additionally, dpr proposes changes to existing policy as well as recommends new policy to both the police commission and sfpd. collectively, the dpr staff works to ensure that city law enforcement follows their practice and operates with the goal of improving all interactions and all interactions between officers and the public. there are only a small portion of the many interns that spent their summer at dpr. the group holds a mix of

law students and undergrads, including students from all over the country. we spent our time eating deep staff of varying capacities as well as visiting and hearing from speakers in every corner of the legal field before we move on, we would like to acknowledge and recognize dr. cheryl davis, who is the executive director of the city's human rights commission. it is with her work and contributions that made funding for this internship for roughly half of our interns possible through opportunities for all. thank you so much, dr. davis. and these were some of their favorite intern moments, especially when they got to go to a working group session on a department general order and participate. they were very excited. they were very excited about it. i was at that one. i'm just happy they didn't fall asleep. no, look, that was the highlights. it's a highlight and made the highlights read and analyzed bias uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think and do by dr. jennifer eberhardt in this book,

she defines implicit bias as a kind of distorting lens that has the power to bias our perception, our attention, our memory and our actions, all despite our conscious awareness or deliberate intentions. her book guided our weekly group discussions and helped inspire our policy proposal that we will present to you today. the next two slides discuss how implicit bias manifests in forms like cross-racial bias and dr. eberhardt's example of implicit bias through a case study of airbnb. pursuant to our summer research in dpr findings, our intern cohort has created a policy proposal regarding officer witness interactions which will attempt to reduce implicit bias . currently, the sfpd does not have a comprehensive policy for officer witness interactions. the closest dgos focus on interactions with people from

specific populations who are not necessarily witnesses. dpr has received numerous complaints regarding how sfpd conducts witness procedures. these include making witnesses wait too long and stations before giving their statements, not having visitor logs to keep track of how long witnesses wait and not taking statements from witnesses because the officers decided the witness will provide evidentiary value. we believe that a comprehensive officer witness dgo may fix this disconnect with the community as well as address implicit biases that affect witness identifications. we suggest that sfpd implement the following recommendations on procedural regulations and community outreach and education for federal regulations. we recommend two approaches to improving sfpd proceedings surrounding officer witness interactions. one by utilizing

the universal color complexion chart, which consists of varying skin tones covering the spectrum of human coloring. this color spectrum will combat the single race category, which often is over relied upon by law enforcement and fuels inaccuracy in witness statements. s two. we recommend implementing eyewitness identification procedures such as the pre administration instruction in which notifies witnesses that the suspect may not be present in the lineup and informs them that i don't know is an appropriate response, as well as sequential lineups, which encourage the witness to compare individuals to their own description of the suspect instead of comparing individuals to each other. outreach and education to further mitigate implicit bias through community policing. we recommend that sfpd implements a community awareness campaign for reporting suspects or suspicious activity. this can look like training officers to ask a standardized series of questions to elicit responses about specific suspect characteristics and promoting community outreach to educate

the public on descriptor training. using specific adjectives to describe suspects or specific behavior. lastly, we recommend that the sfpd create a how to page on their website that outlines specific ways witnesses can effectively describe suspects or suspicious activity. these are just some low effort, high impact ways to mitigate implicit bias and increase witness accuracy in suspect identification. thank you for your time and attention and we hope you have enjoyed our presentation. i just want to say i'm so proud. i know there watching wherever they are. some are back on the east coast at howard. we did have a hbcu cohort and at morehouse college, the first time we've ever done that. the first time that it's actually been done in the city strategically to have an hbcu cohort. we're so proud of that. this is totally their own work. they did everything. we just made sure that it was in the parameters and within the

guidelines lines. but i just want to say i'm so proud of the work that these young people did over the summer. they really they were you know, we wanted them to bond. we wanted them to interact, and we wanted them to put forth a product that they know that could make a difference. and using the tools that they had around them. so thank you so much for your time , director henderson great. just thank you so much and thank you all for your attention with this. we really put a lot of work into the program, not just through the summer but through the year as well. but i just really want to come in on the intentionality, be reflected in the diversity of the program that we've put together that goes beyond just the dpa and expands into all of these partner agencies that heretofore or would not have access either to the students and the interns , but also would not have as broad a pipeline that is intentional about diversity as we do now have with this

program. and it does take a village, but i would be remiss if i didn't acknowledge and convey gratulate neta for doing so much of the labor and the work to both build out the program and manage the program on a day to day basis. both in taking out her personal time, using her vacation days, spending her evenings and weekends, both in building out the relationships and making sure that the program gets done and executed ad well, as well as kieran turner this summer. i wouldn't be here without their leadership that spills over and is directly focused on these young people that i believe were greatly improved. we've talked about some of the highlights from the program. i hope you all can appreciate that. so many of the things that are built into this program that go beyond a typical internship program. and i think you see the results of that effort and what gets

reflected to the commission in terms of them actually generating concrete and solid ideas that i think are valid and helpful for the work that we're doing. it's not lost on me that the presentation that was made tonight and making a recommendation about a witness specific dgo is a particular good one. oh, did i not have my microphone on? that's all right. i'll just keep talking. thank you. that speaks specifically not just to some of the issues that were raised in public comment today in terms of how folks are treated when they're interacting with law enforcement, but also directly addresses some of the race clarifications that i think were raised on some of our some of the issues that we've already been discussing. so i'd love to make sure that we have a follow up and we take steps to address as a witness specific dgo as recommended by the summer interns that are here. and i thank you all, all thank you all

for your attention. but thank you all those voices that aren't here that you saw reflected in the slide that have been supportive of the work. it really is not just impactful but meaningful to all of us doing the work to have folks working side by side with us. and so thank you once again, commissioner benedicto. thank you. thank you, mr. president. i also want to echo what director henderson said and thank you tonight and thank you to karen turner, and thank you to the interns both that are here and that are watching. it was a privilege to come go down and speak to them this summer. and, you know, for those that that are watching know that the last couple of presentations have translated directly to commission resolution ins and commission changes to the department of general orders. so the work you did, in addition to being exemplary in its own right, will actually help contribute to make the city and county of san francisco better

and to make our policing more transparent and accountable and fair. so thank you so much for your hard work. thank you so much. commissioner walker. thank you. thank you so much. thank you so much. the for the work that you do. all of you, all of you interns and the mentors, not just for dpa and the police commission and the police department, but for all for all of our agencies, our partner agencies. it's so important. i had a great opportunity. i was going to a community art event and ran into one of your interns , and we had just an amazing discussion about policing. and i, of course, handed him a joint joint sfpd, because i said we need police officers like you from the community. so i will say that to anyone listening who is in the intern class, please consider to please consider a career in law enforcement. we need you. we need you because

the training here, it is ironic . we were just talking about some of these things and this, you know, having having a witness that includes things of a chart around, you know, it sort of helps train people how to deal with this issue. we were talking about about ms. miscarriage authorizing race. when they're stopping, i mean, helping train around that issue will help turn around that issue. so it's really it is just ironic. maybe it isn't ironic, but thank you very much for this . you know, it's heartening and i really appreciate it, all of you and all of you interns. i'd also like to thank all the interns, both those present and those watching for their service to our city. many of them traveled far from home. they could have interned somewhere closer. they could have interned somewhere with more generous compensation packages, but they chose to spend the summer with us. and as commissioner benedicto said, the interns have

a long track record of making recommendations that are ultimately adopted. so their hard work and hard for little pay will not be for naught. and i imagine this year's class will be no different. i also want to thank miss thompson for all of your hard work to make this program what it is to make it an incredible experience for the interns and also make it something that results in such excellent work product consistently that the commission adopts. so thank you, sergeant. can we go to public comment for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item seven, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. again, thank you for your continued support. commissioners absolutely. line item eight sfpd's firearm discharge review board report and in-custody death board report. second

quarter 2023 discussion. good evening. commissioner carter oberstein commissioners director henderson and ac. our deputy chief peter walsh. i'm the deputy chief of administration. i'm going to be presenting the firearm ems discharge review board report along with the in-custody death review report. so it's for the second quarter of 2023. there's only two incidents for the firearm discharge. review board is 22 004. and. 22 002. i will start

with. 22 004. i'm not going to read verbatim. i'll give you an overview. i believe everybody has a copy this case was actually involving an sfpd officer who was under investigation and there was a service of a search warrant that took place on june 15th, 2022. investigators who handle these matters responded to the officer's residence with his personal attorney in order to have an easy way, way of getting into the home and negotiating the search. the isd members maintained surveillance at that case at some point, there was no response after an initial contact had been made, the attorney went in and at that time the discharge took place and the officer suffered a

self-inflicted gunshot wound. obviously in this case, the investigation found that unfortunately, due to department regulations, that's obviously not a case where the discharge of a firearm is within policy. and that recommendation, an has gone to the chief as not in policy. moving to the next case, officer involved shooting 22 002. this case actually took place outside of san francisco. so over in contra costa county, in concord, it happened on april 15th of last year. the officer was off duty at the time and was awakened by a numerous shouts. and then what he thought to be shooting, he went to the window and saw his son being fired upon

by an unknown assailant. the officer, in order to protect the life of his son, fired upon the assailant. it is unknown whether or not that assailant was hit. there was no information or any evidence to show that that person was hit at that at that location. contra costa sheriff's investigators and the da investigators, da's office handled that case as in regards to this. obviously, the officer was were making the recommendation to the chief that the general rules of conduct were in policy, the use of force. specifically, why the fb was here was voted on in policy and the recommendation that the actual investigation of that officer involved shooting was in policy. and that is it for the

report. there were no in-custody deaths during that quarter for this review. i do want to point out one thing for our i believe the commission is aware to, but general or excuse me, department notice 23 143 did come out on september 8th and that now enlists formally the training division within crb to help review the tactics and the actions of officers as they have been there in a non formal way. they're invited outside of what you see in the current general order and this general order is 3.10 and it is under revision at this time. i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. deputy chief walsh. that last statement that you made, i just wanted to ask you about the training

division being included going forward during the review board deliberations. was that specifically in response to the officer who took his own life? no this had been in the works. if you look at the old policy, it's a very who's listed the deputy chief of administration, the commanding officer. it's very limited to really just the voting members. and a couple advisory. so this was just a formal way it had been looked at for a while. and as the revision, as you know, is going on, that is something that we've had great success outside of shootings. but using the academy and the training staff up there to teach our officers better tactics and better ways to respond, all the way from simple arrests, all the way to, unfortunately officer involved shootings. okay. i understand. thank you for that clarification. i guess i would ask and it was on my mind because i recall when this was first reported in the news and there were at least in news articles, there was one in the standard, at least eight

questions posed about the way the warrant was executed. and in that case, because if i recall, there was this particular officer was known to have, i think the way it was described by one person was an unhealthy obsession with guns. i think he had he was known to have mental health issues and exhibited some erratic behavior for i think he might have had a domestic violence restraining order against him. is there any internal discussion about tactics when executing a warrant against an officer or a person with these kind of constellation of traits where you might have a tragic ending like this or you might be able to avoid a tragic ending like this, there is actually a formal investigation action. i believe that i'm not 100% sure if that's been completed yet, but i do know within that that is being looked at a specific basically

warrants. i'll bifurcate it. we do handle warrants in a certain way. you may know or have knowledge of using a threat matrix where if it hits a certain number, we change the tactics. all the way up to executing with the swat team, the officer involved situation is this is the i can say in my career that i know of. i've been a part of two and reporting on this one officer involved search warrants and arrest warrants are extremely complex. and we've i can tell you i've again i've been involved one is the lead investigator where an officer has taken his life. and a second one where i was the commanding officer there, where the officers affected an arrest and the person took their life, i don't know if we'll be able to come out with a box that we can necessarily put it in, but we're always striving that i can't

speak. i don't have all the details on this case, just knowing it. but i know that there is a review on how to handle these these issues better . it is one intangible being a police officer who is subject to a search or arrest warrant on a very serious criminal matter that we need to concentrate on, on on how to handle that. thank you. and just one last question and please only answer if it's public and you're able to answer publicly, which is do are you able to say what the basis of the search warrant was that was being executed that day? i don't know if that search warrants public. and i personally don't have the details of it. all right. thank you. i see no names in the queue. so, sergeant, could you please take us to public comment for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item eight, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item nine

public comment and all matters pertaining to item 11 below closed session, including public comment on item ten vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session. if you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item ten vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10. action motion to hold the item in closed session. second on on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes, mr. walker is yes. commissioner benedicto. yes mr. benedicto is yes. commissioner yanez. yes mr. janez is yes. commissioner byrne . yes. commissioner byrne is. yes. commissioner yee yes. commissioner yee is yes. and vice president carter overstone yes, vice president stone is. yes. you have

going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica

and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know

everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to

look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers. i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you.

it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him.

>> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people

love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are

gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing]

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here.

we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays.

whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different

levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless because they're scared. >> i came here to san francisco the day after september 11. i have been here since and homeless since when i met erika and claudia and them, my life changed. for the better. why they got mow in the navigation center. >> good morning! >> >> hi. >> this is claudia and aircraftasm how are you.

hi. >> they are working doing out reach t. is building trust. and -- finding out what their needs are. everybody who i should be housed that is true. a lot of people don't know how to live indoors and how do we fix that? the number one service this we need to do that is the new vision of the team, is to be a familiar face that is consistent and reoccur nothing the community. >> behavioral health starts with us and other coalitions that relate. just building the friendships and the resource this is go with that. >> once hi near i better place they will be able to help and support someone else. peers and inspire someone based on the hard work. like a lot of people around him in the castro. >> y'all saved my life getting

me up off the streets. thank you. >> if you see someone experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis on the streets call 911. for nonemergencies use 311. you can learn more about the street

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>> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken

enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. >> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been

hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. >> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be

[music] >> i'm alex the find and proprietor of willow on the green on ninth and irving innin are sunset, san francisco. we are the only cheese shop instead west coast am focus on high quality luxury goods from uk and we have a fine selection of teas, chutneys bills quiets and product from thes uk >> we came up with the idea of the name. willow is the tree that makes picnic basket and it is baskets that cheese are press in the the uk this . shop is on a parklet and the british term for parklet is a common green. willow on the grown is picnic in the park. i came up with the idea i lived

in neighborhood for 8 years. 7 years ago we had a cheese shop. during covid there was a need have a new flavor and rejuvenate business. located between 2 beautiful bakeries. i realized the shop opening next to the bakery we have a beautiful cheese shop in the area >> we started autopsy with british cheese and support local cheese makers in the bay area. but of course from the british perspect you have once you have cheese you need chutney and bills quiets and tea, jam. cream and lemon kurd. crackers and a bit of chocolate and all of the products are based from the uk. our most popular product when wales the black bomber a cheddar. and our second popular protect

is definitely the scarlett jam. made with strawberry seeds. >> this is about supporting northern california cheese makers and food growers in the bay area. supporting women owned businesses from around the worlds. i wanted to support the community. we experience several concerts. we support charities that come to the aid of those in need. such as the british society. and the st. andrew society of san francisco and the high land games in san francisco if you mean never had british cheese i recommend you come in the shop every weekend, saturday and sunday free cheese tastings. we are knowledgeable about all products. we are passionate about when we do here. and it gives you a chance to

explore our culture, food and our values. i encourage to you come to thein are sunset with a beautiful park, deyoung and academy of science here. come in the shop we have picnic baskets and blankets to fill and up enjoy the nature and come to the neighborhood to support the businesses out here. >> i'm alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joe's ice cream in san francisco. joe's ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a san francisco legacy business since

2017. and we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. and delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. we have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean i'm from korea. korean coffee krooem. we mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in san francisco. so as immigrants, we have a special connection to this diverse community, san francisco richmond district. so we made this place our home.

that is where we are trying to build our business as a place where everybody can feel welcome like we felt when we first came here what really makes fisher or joe's ice cream we have been growing together with our community. so we support our local schools throughout the fundraiser. we provide job opportunity for high school, i hire them every year. built a beautiful parklet outside funded by donations from over 200 neighbors and friends and i think this really shows how joe's ice cream and our community like lives together. so -- you see our mission is to serve as a fun community hub in san francisco and richmond district. so, i hope that we can stay this

way for many years. >> so i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in jeopardy an town. >> paper tree opened by my parent in 1968. so we other second oldest business in jap an town. at 55 years this year. we have beautiful papers from japan, thailand, italy, korea and the biggest selection of orgami. i do it because of my grand father and he wrote to the first english in it in the early 50s. he had an import business to import japanese goods and of course we had our line of paper. to go with the books he

produced. it is something i have been doing since i was 5 and i'm happy to say i'm a designer now and of course having paper tree. it is grit. >> during the pandemic i wanted do something to make a statement to help combat the asian hate that was prevalent at that time. and so i put a call out to have a thousand hearts. this is a spin on the tradition of holding 1,000 cranes when you have a wish. well, a thousand cranes does not make a statement enough why not change it and a call for a thousand hearts? i created a website dedicated to the project. a video and fold heart instructions. people sent them in the first mont was 1,000 hearts. they kept coming in. and the next goal was 7, 698, which was the total number of

case of reported hate by the ap i website. those were the reported case of hate. there are more not reported. that became the new goal. we achieved 2 months later. the hearts were coming in it it is a big project, we have it part of our store. anyone can come and fold an easy heart. keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. its great.

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

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

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

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

>> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> all right. good morning, everyone welcome to the september 12 meeting of san francisco county transportation authority board. i'm supervisor mandelman i'm chair. vice chair is melgar. i want to thank sfgovtv. that is who i'm thanking and our clerk is elijia seaneders. >> commissioner chan. >> present. >> commissioner dorsey. >> present. >> commissioner engardio. >> present. why chair mandelman. why present. >> voice chair melgar. >> present. >> commissioner supervisor peskin. >> present. >> commissioner preston. >> present. why commissioner ronen. >> present.

>> commissioner safai. >> absent >> commissioner stefani. >> present. why commissioner with theon. >> present >> we have quorum >> thank you, mr. clerk and commissioner safai is excused and i'm going to excuse him. and i think you have a public comment announcement. >> i do, thank you. members of public interested in participate negligent board meeting we welcome you in person in the chamber room 250 in city all or watch cable 26 or 99 and stroll it live on sfgov.org. for those wish to comment remote dial 415-655-0001, access code: 2660 504 1267 ##. again you will listen to the meet nothing real time comment is called for the item, press star 3 to be added. don't press it gwen or you will be removed from the queue.

when the system your line un muted the operator will advise you are allowed 2 minutes had this is up we will move to the next caller. calls taken in the order received. best practices speak slowly, scomploo early turn down anything urnld. public comment will be taken from members in person and then after from the queue on the phone line. thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk. and before calling the next i didn't mean want to invoke low.26 to limit total comment for items to 30 minutes for the meeting my intention it give each 2 minutes to speak unless i indicate otherwise at the start of that item. would you call the next item? >> item 2, approve minutes of july 25, 2023 meeting an action item. >> thank you. let's open this item for public comment. >> if there is anyone had wants to speak about the minutes come

forward. seeing no one. see if we have, oop. may be we do. >> good morning, everybodych again. i don't have comments. but it is coming. >> okay. >> let's see if we are remote comments on this item. >> checking for remote public comment on item 2. there suspect no public comment. all right. public ment on item 2 is closed. is there a motion to approve the minutes? moved by walton and preston. mr. clerk call the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> aye >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye >> engardio. >> aye >> chair mandelman. >> aye >> commissioner melgar. >> aye >> commissioner supervisor peskin. >> aye.

>> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye >> commissioner walton. >> aye >> there are 10 aye's the minutes are approved. >> thank you. call the next item >> 3, community committee report an informational item. kat settleal is here to give the cac report? >> hi. >> can you hear me. >> yes. >> great. >> good morning issue commissioners. the cac met twice since the left report in july and left week. at our july meeting receives a quick build project update from sfmta with vision zero and the quick build program being a top priority for the cac. many members raised concerns about the valencia street bike lane quick build project and

asked to receive further updates once the pilot period had begun. and the cac hopes to see treatments completed on the 50 miles of the network by the end of 2024. at the july meeting the cac conferred the transportation project delivery study. failed to pass a motion in support due to outstanding questions about the implementation of the capital project management office and the city bid and prosecute curement process. several members met with staff to have questions answered after the july meeting and the item was approved on the second appearance on the cac meeting. of voted release funds for downtown railroad project and, prove the contract for yerba buena hill crest road

improvement and thetory pedo building preservation project. and adopt treasure island transportation study, however, several requested this staff evaluate the impact to the city of make the muni route free and rate the top against the operational costs of administering a transit stereotypen for low income residents and workers proposed by the study. several raised concerns to staff about further weather proofing the muni bus shelters. begin [inaudible] on treasure island. we received a respondent everpresentation from staff about autonomous vehicles which meet with a lot of questions about what creative regular [inaudible] at the city's dispose although and encouragement from members at the t. a. board and staff advocate with law makers for

greater local control. thank you and i'm available for questions you may have. >> thank you. vice chair settleal and the members of cac for their diligent participation in the committee. and i don't see comments let's open the item to public comment if there is anyone had wants to speak come forward. and if not do we have remote comment on item 3. >> checking for remote comment on item 3. and well is no public comment. >> public comment on 3 is closed. will you call item 4 which is the totality of our consent agenda >> the consent agenda staff is in the going to present but visible for questions. >> all right. we have taken public comment on this item. so, is there a motion to approve

item for you? >> moved by walton and seconded by melgar and i think we can take this same house same call without objection. >> and mr. clerk. call item 5 >> appoint phoebe ford a d4 representative to the community advisory committee. this is an action item. mike pickford transportation planner >> good morning. the transportation authority has an 11 member committee with each member serving 2 years the board appoints to fill seats staff north cac make recommendations. applicants may apply via our website and must be res dent and appear before the board one once to describe their interests. attachment 2 has information on each applicant. there are 2 open seats the board may act on today. i can take questions and chair, as discussed phoebe ford d4 resident is here to peek to her

interests. >> fantastic. let's -- hear from am our candidate. good morning. thank you for having me here. i'm a san francisco residents and now live with my husband and 2 sons in the sunset near autoive school. i applied for this as a citizen. taking to heart the challenge you don't need to move to live in a better neighborhood. i am a pedestrian, transportation cyclist, occasionally a driver to my office in the south bay and i believe we need to move faster to achieve vision zero and our climate goals. i don't have a professional background in urban planning or activism. i'm nervous and awkward hand

being out noticeers but good at meetings. so. i have had a become ground in transportation logistics ocean freight and e commerce. reasonable as a product manager building transportation technology. but i love geography and cities and love this city. and we have great bones to be fantastic t. is compact, we have wonderful transportation investments and we have great weather and room to cycle all the time. but we still have a lot of ways to go on our vision zero and meeting standards that are set around the world. a new car bought today will be on the road in 2050 f. we want to meet our vision zero goals we need to make choices that reduce the number of car there is are in 2050. thank you. thank you phoebe ford. open this for public ment if

there is anyone in the chamber withhold like to speak on item 5, come forward. >> i spoke to this one. vision zero story. there is not such a thing as a vision zero well is nothing if you don't have a vision. you need a vision. we are always dealing with the same thing here. it is bad but too much it is cover ups does in the work you look at journals you see [inaudible]. but so you lose the vision. you get in accidents. okay. sorry submit [inaudible]. all right. if there is no further public comment in the chamber do we have remote comment on item 5. checking for remote comment on

item 5. there is no public comment. opinion comment on item 5 is closed. if the d4 representative would like to say, there we go. commissioner engardio. thank you phoebe for introducing yourself i'm pleased nominate her she is a sunset parent. modal transportation user. a committed advocate for bike and pedestrian issues on the golden gate transportation bike and pedestrian committee. in a professional career phoebe's value logistic and incytokinesis will provide a value add to the community commit each she understands how people, goods and service move. i do believe phoebe will help arrangement the hard working accidents, young families and seniors of the sun cement thank you, colleagues i request your

support. >> i will take that as a motion to approve item 5. is well a second. >> and i think we can not take that same house same call or we can. same house same call without objection. >> mr. clerk, item 6. >> item 6, state and federal legislation update this . is an informational item. we have mark watts. >> i'm remotely here. >> good morning, chair mandelman and commissioners. i got a chess pie. i'm not sure. let me proceed. is this better. >> looking amazing. thank you. my apologies.

first the left week of the legislative session for 2023. halfway through the 2 year session. i specific low this thursday the 14th of september is the end of the first year. and -- let's face and not passed by the point in time. carry over to next year and the fall they will be doing in the legislator conducting some studies to the processes and developing build packages for next year. in your packet, item 6 on page 79. there is a spreadsheet that shoes the status for position taking this year for bills that are moving not moving forward but considered 2 year bills at this point in time unless there are actions between now and

thursday. -- if this is a snapshot of the bill status the end of left week and both amber and myself will be available for questions on the spreadsheet on page 79. bills i want to draw your attention to a b 45 which is the legislation bill with [inaudible]. is scheduled today at the heard on the senate floor. will [inaudible] may carry over a day or 2. we have supported the bill every step throughout process and the staff will continue to work with mta to advocate for the approval if the bill does advance to the governor this week. >> ata one the measure that has been around for several sessions is finally catching fire and has

moved rapidly through the assembly process and it is senate of and it did pass senate elections yesterday. and is scheduled to be heard any moment in the appropriation's committee. aca rule out -- authorized local taxes and local bonds approvals. level [inaudible]. rather than the 2 thirds level now. the bond approval rating is -- consistent with the would be educational community able to accomplish a decade and a half ago. and there is a lot of advocacy in support of that. i do know the entire transportation transportation did support this measure. will worked and preparing to see it pass this week. if is does, it is interesting

because it a resolution in the a bill. it does not require govern signature. nor approval. i see does not like the measure step and up try to turn that around, otherwise, he does not have the opportunity to veto it. moving forward, the bill did pass. it intended to be under current election's code law. to be scheduled for the march consolidated presidential primary. so, it then occurred measures could be policed next november's ballot. local measures. with the clear understanding that the 55% threshold would be advised. in addition, i like to point out that it is known across the bay area. senator wiener had to hold his

sb532 at this point in time and working with a sessions this he is proposed in the fall to generate a greater level of support for the tool program he was proposing. moving ahead to next year it is heard it predict what will help we know with the changes in the assembly and senate there will be charge in committees and chairs of the committees. across the board. most likely. i'm not going to speculate public low about what will happen to chairs that are in our daily work. but i think anything is up in the air at this point in time. as i indicated amber and i are available to answer questions especially with regard to the status of legislation on the matrix on page 79.

thank you very much, appreciate the opportunity to address you. this summer. and look forward to questions you might have. >> thank you, mr. watts for your update and all your work commissioner dorsey? >> thank you, chair mandelman. mostly i wanted express my gratitude to everyone at cta for the work on ab645. i was in sacramento last week with walk sf and jodi. i am appreciative to sfmta whom we are working already on getting ready if fingers crossed, if this is gets throughout legislative process, and gets a positive vote today in the senate; and you know gets signed in luby the goner, i want to make sure this san francisco hits the ground running we're already starts to work on that with immediate son tammy and my office. board chair eaken was in

sacramento long with a lot of community folks who are involved with walk sf. my gratitude to member laura freed man who has shepherd third degree to a further level of success then and there we have seen in the past. senator wiener you not senate champion for this. but also our own member phil ting and david chu now our city attorney and past assembly member champion of this for a language time temperature has been a language process. i think i have more optimism from when i hear from everybody this is something we can be optimistic about and i have optimism for the anthropologist as well. i really believe that this is a policy that will change behavior and people's understanding of what it is to drive in a dense residential neighborhood especially off of a freeway. knowing certainty about getting a ticketism think this will keep

our neighborhoods safer and as we get denser as a city, hopefully things go right. safety will be more important and speed is the number one issue we have to address. my grad tude. fingers acrossed. >> thank you, commissioner dorsey open to public comment if there is anyone who would like to speak on item 6 come forward. nice. i don't think everything you are working on will happen i know tell not happen. please preserve your energy for something that will happen. because i'm not sure i don't know, i don't know the details of when you are working on i just know that the proposal is not good. not for the people.

so. please, put your energy now for something that you know will happen because here you are wasting your energy. it is bad. the clock is tick. please pay attention. >> see if well is remote public comment on item 6. checking for remote comment on item 6. and there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment is closed and thanks to mr. watts and crab and mr. clerk, item 7 >> item 7 release 4, 687, 100 in previously allocated sales tax funds with conditions to the joint power's authority for engineering and procurement this is an action item. >> thank you, mr. clerk.

we have jessy taylor our rail program manager. and i want to highlight the progress made on the portal by the portal project team. and the tjpa. where i serve as vice chair. and last month's board meeting the board authorized a submittal to the federal transit transportation seek more than 4 billion dollars in capitol funds. this was a major step for the project and i want to thank and recognize typa our transportation staff and the project team on achieving an ambitious schedule this we set to reach this mile stone. so mr. tailor, update us. >> good morning chair mandelman and commissioners i'm with the transportation authority, for sfgovtv i share my presentation

we are joined by staff from the joint power's authority for the rail extension project nought portal. anna harvey direct with us this morning. this item is a prop k action follow up to allocation of funds sick months ago. begin project gentleman development during this time,il use this presentation to previously provide the board with highlights of developments since that time as well as mile stones. >> as a reminder for the public will bring rail to the sales force transit center in downtown to complete the program. the transit center constructed with train box ready to receive trains throughout construction of the portal. project is along standing priority near transit expansion

and federal funding. >> portal project is developed through a partnership of 6 agency under the memorandum of understanding. this was an out growth of the transportation authority board [reading fast]. bring the project to red for procure am status. under this the transportation authority and the mtc responsible for preparing recommendations for project to serve the projects through construction and implementation. last month the board approved the portal blueprint reflecting government recommendations by the transportation authority and mtc. in march of the year board after indicates 10 million in front k for the portal in order to dedicate the funds prior to the sunset of the program. at this time the blueprint work was not complete. giving the board's interest in this work the board policed 4.7

million dollars on reserve subject to future release by the board following completion of the blueprint and presentation to the board on the recommended governors prop for procurement and construction. ] reading very fast] we're here to summarize and recommend the release of the reserve of the prop circumstance funds. >> the governors blueprint approve in the august provides guide the preparation of new among the 6 partner agencies to succeed the current mou and serve the project through implementation. the blueprint focuses on the prushth for collaboration and decisionmaking. [reading fast]. this slide displace the structure in the blueprint this . approach will build on the partnership and integration developed overnight past 3 plus years under the current rimou with the focus on would burglar capacity and partnership at each

level in support of the delivery of the project. a few leaderships to highlight the structure includes assistanting committee of the board including representation from san francisco and caltrain for pol review. board committee and policy review process further supported by upon continued executive levels throughout work work senior executives from the partner agency. at the senior management and project deliver levels the blueprint recommends integration of agency resources including from caltrain, city, and transportation authority to enable managementa, linement and [inaudible] delivery resource. the structure includes a change control board with bay area practice for megaprojects in order to provide oversight and transparency of the management of scope, schedule, budget, contract and risks. [reading very fast [bathroom the illuminated puts forward the stage gate framework on this

slide the purpose of the stage gate aline decisionmaking during assessment of readiness to succeed and with policy level considering of the identified inputs the first gate is planed proceed in the coming months the procurement process a mile tone in the project to identify the team usa of qualified contractors whom the team will advance the project design do prekruck phase of work the plans in the common months to advance early activities and other preconstruction accysts utility relocation and right-of-way. >> shifting gears i would like to turn to a summary of the significant progress this year with respect to the federal funding program. the transit administration new starts program the largest funding for the project for under half of the project's costs. energy and attention across the team in the past 3 year focused on our accelerates program to

seek this grant from the administration. the project was admit in the 2021 and this past spring there was risk review of the project. last month in addition to aprufring the government's recommendations it is board authorizes a submittal to the fta to veterans the project to the next faftz process this keep its on track to secure the fta grant by spring of 2025. >> the submittal to fta reflects the risk review i noted this spring this result in the recommended 6% increase in costs to accounts for costs and schedule risks identified by the fta. along with the number of other minor adjustments by fta review and submittal requirements the estimated cost is 7 and a half billion dollars. this estimate is subject to further refinement this fall the formal review of the project. the project team received

positive new this is summer with ft approval of the inclusion of the previously comneeded train box investment. allowing to count the more than 700 million dollars previous investment a committed, nonfta investment allowing the project to seek a higher level of fta funding. in concert with the updated cost estimate team advancing the funding plan. currently estimated within.9 billion is identified committed to the project. are pry to the grant agreement the project must have the commitment of all nonft afunds up to approximately 2 billion dollars in funding committed over the next 18 months. this strategy will prior confirming state funding. securing additional nonfta grant fund and developing new and expanded local and regional fundings source this is is a significant mountain to climb

and require coordinated engagement at all levels. still the funding environment never better for opportunity to fully funds the project. and leverage expand funds available through fta and the infrastructure law. >> finallyil close highlighting that the transportation authority will continue to conduct oversight of portal project as it moves to the delivery phases. allocation of sales tax funds subject to the oversight protocol and partnership with the team supported by the governors structure and local victim in the project the high risk profile and fact that the fta investment capped. this oversight is complimentary to the oversight throughout delivery. >> that concludeses my res our staff recommendation is buffer we and staff are here to address

your questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. tailor and thank you for your work and presentation we have i believe adam van de water dana harvey if you have questions and appear people do. commissioner dorsey? >> thank you. chair mandelman and thank you jessy most low this is to express my gratitude to everybody for their work on this and i appreciate your engage am with my office and giving me a tour of the project and exciting to be a part of and i will be a partner in moving this forward. thank you. >> commissioner supervisor peskin. >> a few things. one is that earlier this year there was a little thing as to

the mou extension now extended the end of this calendar year and i believe the parties are contemplaying an extension throughout end ofical dar year 2024 andmented to inquire as to the status of those discussions and get assurances that there will not be another on said extension. thank you. through the chair. what the team is focused on guided by the blueprint i described is developing a successor agreement that would succeed the current mou we are work to prepare this document in the first form to be brought forward in the coming months. in the spirit of this successor agreement that will be forth coming, i think when is important for this body the transportation authority, is getting and maintaining a level

of comfort that given the funding gap and operational issues that -- the transportation authority and its staff and city staff be working close low and kept in the lop as we go forward and i'd like a representation that will continue to be true. >> sounds like aion for mrs. harvey. >> good morning >> anna harvey director for engineering with the joint pur's authority. to speak to how we are collaborating with city agencies, earlier this year in collaboration with oewd and the city attorney, tjpa took annin are agency cooperation agreement with 11 different city agencies through a variety of board and commissions. adopted by the board of supervisor in june. this ica provides a framework

for reimburse and want updated scope for individual agency collaboration on the portal project. through the hospices we established a quarter low invoice reimbursement and month low advisory meetings. this ensures a single agency point of contact is available to tjpa and the portal to make sure we cover all of our needs and their needs related to collaboration and cordination on the project moving forward. and then i guess i will note in light of the item we approved on the consent calendar, transportation capitol project delivery study and this is in many ways not as a transportation upon authority commissionering but a supervisor i want to note that on the city side. we have a lot of city side cordination and efficiency this will have to happen between public works and the puc as

relates to utility and sfmta and there is a lot of need for coordination on this side. and as you move forward, and noting a 2 billion dollars unidentified funding gap; as we move forward with right-of-way acquisitions and u tillrity relocation. i want to get a better understanding of the temporal realities and have a funding gap, how that works. >> related to right-of-way? the upcoming mile stones are a draft item in november and the final item in december related studies this are required for us to commence our programs. this would not start before the beginning of next year.

and as we move forward our right-of-way program manager with adam van de water and rodriguez with project director making sure to dot necessary legislate exist stake holder briefing so everybody is on the same page on what the mile stones are the next will be happy to provide more as to what triggers the next steps, next spring related to the right-of-way program. >> okay. the 2 billion dollars funding gap we have to figure out in 18 months and early next year is like 4-5 months, way i want to make sure we don't get our cart in front of our horse. >> thank you. >> you want to locked, okay. >> i don't know if our staff has anything they want to add or questions they would like to ask. mr. chairman. >> seeing shaking heads.

may be mr. taylor or mr. harvey, so -- steps between where we are now and you know i mean the next big thing is wore get thanksgiving application in and explain the big things. got the application in or getting that in for new starts. we will get some sense from ftu how they view how we are doing. we'll pose this 2 billion dollars gap somehow. and well is w this will be happening between now and january can you flush out a bit when is happening between now and january and february. >> thank you. il start and mr. harvey may add. there was a reason why i chose to present the framework part of the presentation. as it -- we're propering this major set of my stones on the

project. reflecting the success of the team and delivering near low all of the work specify in the our existing mou over the past 3 plus year this is is exciting. challenges are more significant. and the stage gate identifies a number of inputs which are i gut check for the red knows of the project to proceed and continue to build there say balance risk and reward in moving activities forward as other pieces of the funding puzzle come together this . later this month at the steering committee supports and you board across the 6 agencies will be considering an item support to the mile stones specific for the prosecute cure am press for the project and which we want to have i sense of the status of the project went fta progress the work described the key party agreements ms.

harvey referenced andical train. over the course of met likely twoft executive steering committee meetings to provide advice to the tjpa they will grapple with the implementation and schedules. this is in practice this fall. but will require a hard look at each element of redness on the project. in order to keep us having momentum and collect the right condition transactor teams. this is important to note the selection of the condition transactor teams does not mean we immediately construct under the learning contracts the procurement strategy put forward by tjpa under the mo uconn templays bringing them on board for precorrection for design and contract for delivery. executing under the condition tracts would not start until

2026. big decision ahead. you want to add. >> briefly related huwe work with partners as we move forward with right-of-way and a mont real meeting with the project management over silent consultance there is cord nigz and oversight regularly on the portal project. >> and do we have i deadline for closing the 2 billion dollars gap? the dead line is securing the full grant agreement. they will not enter in this agreement unless we demonstrate the fud this is is scheduled for 2025. and in order to dot negotiation we need to have a good picture

by end of next year to hit that schedule. of 2024 is i big year for this. why correct. a lot of missing money. and a let we found. great. >> thank you. both. and let's open this up it public comment. >> [inaudible] from the sky i see had -- you don't know what you are doing. its okay so far by the because what is the points of when you are doing right-of-way. i mean. it is just retoric. the confusing from and [inaudible] it is the same store it seems. never mind for now.

>> see if we have remote comment on this item. checking for remote comment on item 7. hi other thanning caller your 2 minutes begins now. >> good morning, commissioners. [inaudible] san jose. i'm like to star by calling commissioner dorsey's comments [inaudible]. and [inaudible] getting you to this point. commissioner supervisor peskin's comment about cord nigz. i would like to fwring on your attention last week caltrain board meeting. director chavez inquired of coordination with 21. and the last conversation will come to you tomorrow morning.

if because you may know. caltrain director chavez is the chair of the [inaudible] committee. to [inaudible] the various station. takes that to mtc. and wrote down every time. and looks to the left and wonder how can this people do this. this completes my comment. thank you. >> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. >> public comment is closed. i will move approval is there a second? seconded by dorsey. and i think we can take this

item same house same call. mr. clerk, can you call item 8. >> item 8 adopt ti study and final report this . is an action item. >> rachael. deputy treshth for planning >> good morning i'm joined by sheryl williams who is the coexecutive director of one treasure i land they were our partner on this study which is the district 6 and planning project. and identifying supplemental services and improvements. oriented to the current residents and workers on the island. the objective is to bring near term benefits to the concern residents ahead of the improvements this will come over a period of years with the

redevelopment. one treasure island sheryl and he nela were our per ins ask lead all of the out reach activities. lead a working group. that decided the study throughout the process. a need's assessment survey oui conduct third degree informed the goals and objectives and the draft strategies and frame w and focus groups help refine and prioritize the recommendations. the objectives and the evaluation frak work this followed were through this out roach cocreate with the ti community. >> through the process, we realized that there are existing services and offerings available to ti and all san francisco neighborhoods that many people don't know about including folks on treasure island. so i want to take the

opportunity to share that ti and all san francisco neighborhoods have access to the essential trip card. which provides discounted taxi rides for essential services for people who have mobile issues and disabilities and seniors. the other services available to that population are the veteran go shuttle and shop around shuttle. ultimately there are 5 top priority recommendations. this the study recommends. and they are a little atypical in all but one are service. or -- programs that are on going prescriptions. rather than capitol projects. which makes them well a let more difficult to fund. i will go through each of the 5. first is a commune ambassador program to support safety and security for folks travelling on the island, accessing and

waiting for transit. one treasure i land is piloting a community program with funds thanksgiving i have received. the capitol improvement recommendation to upgrade the bus shelter in the last phase the shelters in the current residential area of the i land and will be the left ones to be replaced with the new development. and the community was very clear that they are interested in restoration of the prepandemic levels of service on muni route 25 affected by the pan dem and i can by the construction on the island result nothing long are run times in the past, the life line transportation program of regional grant fund provided operating funding to increase

frequencies on the 25. another option or complementary option is a motorcycle row transit service the communities desire from single seat rise to main land destinations i molthsdz we tlook is the mta's bayview shuttle a state grant funded turn key service this will launch some time in the next year in the bayview and on demands operation that provides folks single seat ride in a defined service area. this is a type of service that could be coordinated with the future on island ti shuttle and east bay. and the last is for more

communication and about the existing improvements that folks are eligible for and coming to the island in the future. >> the because 4 of these service. however, there are some grants programs that the state or regional level could provide pilot funding for a period of a few start up years and then the programs continued would switch to on going source. in the caves treasure island is the mobility management program. this the agency may launch in the coming years. sherri williams or per in in the study is also here on the line.

thank you. great. thank you. and upon commissioner dorsey. >> thank you, so measure chair mandelman and colleagues for being here for the d6 portion of the meeting i want to say that -- rachael and sherri, this is irrelevant impressive report. and great work. i know this start before my time here i am appreciative to my predecessor matt hene who requested this. it is i great job and terrific. there was one question i had about you know there are 2 the we talk about 2,000 residents there now. when we community engage am the number seems low. i wonder is there anything. this is men for yous well. anything we could be doing more?

to make sure we are in touch with people. when i'm out there sometimes i hear from people that you know i know there are a lot of efforts to do out roach and people don't feel there are included. anything this we or i can do. >> sure and may be i will invite sheryl tow peek to this first if you would like, sherri? see if we can get sherri. i can see her. i don't hear her. okay. one thing that we did this year is had program so this we now text residents on they have to tooin sign up for it. and so we can give information and we do a weekly update on things that are happening on treasure island. throughout text program. we have i think close to 1200

people that, it is residents and workers and people interested in what is happening. this was a new effort we made. we do weekly out reaches in the food.real and the different bulletin boards. and so there hen a few different efforts. i will say i think the text now is -- one great one we are stiff doing things like posting and handling of noticers and that kind of out reach as well. >> i department to say that the project has been an absolute exciting project for us. because we realliment to see the transit first effort work on treasure i land but need the

transportations ones and it is very initiate you in this we have the study to find out how we actually financial low make them happen and make a reality we are excited get to the next point of finding the resources and we are active low working on bus shelter improvement projects. so i think we can see accomplishments but we need to make it help. the other thing we did in terms of sorry, out roach is this and this is per of that ambassador program a welcome packet for new residents and existing residents telling them about the transportation options i a lot were unwear of we are furthering education about that. >> anything i can do to be helpful i'm happy to continue to engage and thank you for this is an excellent work. >> great. >> thank you very much. supervisor dorsey. >> open this item to public

comment. anyone here would like to speak about item 8. come forward. nice. transportation in treasure i lands be a problem, no. well is so much traffic. you need to put people in bus. if than i are walking in the city. the same time we know. yes, i think this is all i can say. otherwise tell make no sense. >> let's see if we have remote comment on item 8. >> checking for remote comment. and there is in public comment. opinion comment on item 8 is closed. commissioner dorsey, would you like to move approval i'm happy to second this and i think we

can take this same house same call without objection. call items 9 and 10 together. >> yes. item 9 increase service contract with wmh350 thousand dollar not to exceed 3 million. right-of-way approval for the yerba buena hill crest project this is know action item. item 10 approve awe 2 year services contract with wsp usa inc. not to exceed 4 million dollars. for construction management services for the yerba buena hill crest road project. and improve a tw year professional contract with g hd in the to exceed 1 million dollars. for construction management services for thetory pedo preservation project and pier e

phase 2 that is an action item. >> welcome deputy director homes. welcome, good morning. >> so, next slide wanted to gift commissioners and opinion reminder of the improvements going on on yerba buena. today's actions are focussed on the hill crest in the right on the slide you see that project is in the middle of the south gate project in the yellow we opened up in play as well as on the left is west side bridges the board ordinary care prove in the may of this year. so this project -- is focusing

on alining hill crest to meet city standards and as well as installing retaining walls to make that happen cutting in the hill side and installing class 2 bike facility. next slide. the expected duration of hill crest is 2 years. and this project the base scope is fully funded under 30 mission by hcd housing community development via infrill infrastructure grant. these are fully funded. however, we had the project is expected to start next year. so early 24. with the expects completion of 25. next slide. am so we have an opportunity to -- be better stewards of

public funds there is a possibility that we will try to not only incorporate -- complete improvements but incorporate improvements part of the multiuse pass traverses long side half of the island. ranging from the south gate project all the way through hill crest. through west side bridges and further up to the closer to the treasure island proper. what you are seeing on the slide is a comparison of the bay scope a 36 food wide roadway that is part of the project this is designed now. and we are trying to add in to cut in the hill side more. to incorporate this -- multiuse

path. 16 foot wide bike pedestrian path way and when we are trying to do is -- instul stall that now and i year later taking out the wall and installing another wall. so that is an unfunded scope. but we are working internal low with our ppd and deputy director will come become to this board next mont to look at funding and other ways to provide fund and w with mtc as well to close this unfunded gap. but again it is an opportunity that we are trying to use to build this one time of all this being said,il go into the items agenda items 9 and 10 i wanted give this back drop for transparency.

so, agenda item 9, is focussed on seeking board approval for contract amendment for design. we are 95% completion of design. we mead this 100% mark and it is valued in amount 350 thousand dollars. why are we doing this? when we had the infill infrastructure grant there was a 10% cap on soft costs. and we have been successful in increasing this cap to allow for reimburse am. a good news store and he had to go through this effort to get to this but it is a good newster tow get us to 100% design. >> this is again map just to show everything for reference. this next item agenda item 10 is again focussed on hill crest and touches on 2 other if sillities on the top right of the slide

under the bay bridge. one thetory pedo building the other is the pier e 2 facility which we are at phase 2. and i will get more in the next slide. please. so, the hill crest portion and the pier e 2 torpedo we put out an rfp and that was to get construction services and construction management services as well as post construction scope that we needed complete working with bay area toll authority and treasure island development authority. regard its collaborating and administering this w on both of

their behalf. the valley of this rfp is over 5 million and we had 2 year effort of 20%. so, when we issued the rfp sufficients for you proposals. we interviewed 3. and the selection panel came up with 2 awards i will get into in a moment. first award is for the hillcrest sxoep that is decided to be granted to wsp. there are benefits of ewe likewising them begin they are construction management consultant for west side bridge and begin this ajayceancey well is an advantage to be able to attack issues for both projects with one firm. the torpedo building is under

the bay bridge. and it was built in 1891, for the purposes of defending the bay for attack. it stored military devices including what is torpedoes used to protect the bay. those were policed out i have 've via cable the building has been empty since the 30s. tell is on the historic registry and part of our diligence to weather proof the build and along side -- the pier e-2 facility which is available for vowing as a viv point. but the next phases to provide park and restrooms and other utility relocations in order to make it trowel an accessible

feature of the bay area >> next slide. this was per of the same prosecute cure am process the selection yielded g hd an anywhere is entering fourth into the bay area market. of the selection panel is pleased with their shore line experience or experience in shore line projects and their experience w with bcdc. and with this, i will go to the next slide. again, in summary, we have 2 separate action items. item 9 related to wmh design and item 10 related construction management services. i will turn it become to you, chair. >> thank you director homes. commissioner chan. >> thank you, chair. just a question about the

preservation for torpedo project. this you mentioned about restrooms the 400 thousand dollars is for the preservation condition transact and not inclusive of the restrooms are those are to be identified for the restrooms and rest area, is this correct? >> restrooms are per of the phase 2 project. and the numbers this you saw on the slide are related to the professional services to perform construction management. we stillville to put this project out to bid for construction bidders to give us low bids. so we will be back at this point early next year. >> and sorry. through the chair. what you say is the preservation 400 thousand dollars for preservation and then the e-2 pier is 800 thousand dollars but those are just design and soft

costs and we have to go out for bid for the construction this is including the restrooms? >> yes. this is for soft calls. all 3 of the numbers created are soft costs. we will come become to the board when we get bids to seek board approval to enter the contracts to dot work >> thank you. >> thank you. commissioner dorsey? >> thank you, chair mandelman. as we round out the d6 portion i did not go without saying thank you for your work on this. you continue is interesting what yerba buena island well is a let i have not seen there. it is great to see all this stuff coming together. yerba buena for a long time was an inaccessible now it is i special thing. mystery historic resources out

there. grit work and let me know how i can help. >> thank you. commissioner dorse. and let's hope this up to public comment. anybody who would like to speak on 9 or 10, come on up. is there remote comment on 9 and 10. >> checking for remote public comment on items 9 and 10... hi. your 2 minutes begins now. >> hello again, commissioners. [inaudible]. thank you for the opportunity to speak. i would like to start by showing my appreciation for um -- [inaudible] and his team [inaudible].

integrating the multiple over lapping [inaudible] in a very small area of yerba buena island. but i would like to echo the [inaudible] the cac. is is that i would like to reminds take this opportunity to reminds the board this the area immediately to the right of hillcrest, must be reserved or considered for the future launch shaft for the new transbay terminal boring mission. and i hope everybody keeps that in minds, thank you. >> thank you, caller. is their is no more public

comment. public comment on 9 and 10 is closed. commissioner dorsey would you like to move approval on 9 and 10 i will second this. and i think this we can take those that motion same house same call. mr. clerk call item 11. >> item 11 victim report and expenditure quarter ending june 30 of 23 this is an informational item. >> deputy director for finance and administration, cynthia fong. >> good morning. thank you for the destructions sorry i'm in the process of clezing the books for fiscal 22/23 i'm happy to report on fourth quarter numbers. these are estimate numbers i'm close on closing the book as of

june 30 cash balances 124 million. as of the fiscal end of the year this represents 56% of the funds in the city pool. and in terms of debt compliance we have no outstanding loans at this time but hold a balance of 190 million in outstanding 2017 ref now bonds. now our sales tax revenues prop aa and tnc revenues. sales tax i'm happy to report 111.5 million over by am 300 thousand dollars. for our prop aa vehicle registration fees 4. sick million and budgeted 4. 8 this . is under is what we anticipated and our tnc prospect g we have

collected 8.3 million. had amounted 7.5 to come in this . is an over by 812 thousand i'm happy to see those revenues come in. with this, i am happy to take questionsil be bain the fall with the results of the fiscal 22/23. >> thank you. and i don't see comments or questions if there is any public comment on item 11. come on up. >> and sigh if there is remote public comment. >> checking for remote public comment on item 11. and there is no public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 11 is closed. mr. clerk. item 12. >> introduction of new items this is informational. why commissioner melgar. thank you, chair mandelman.

colleagues, today i am introducing a resolution urging the sfmta to cldz san francisco unified schools in the active communities plan. studies have shown that people who walk, bike and roll and take public transportation if i young age carry those handles to adult hood this creates communities theory healthier and also better for the planet. the stage for a new generation of san franciscans dedicated to transportation networks encouraging young people to walk, bike and roll means ensuring all school vs safe and easy access the development of active communities plan is a prime opportunity to ensure naall school in san francisco unified have safe routes for students cross san francisco. this must include physical infrastructure improvements to

active communities. network do ensure the passage ways don't put students at risk. the mta hen assessing five schools a year. process would take 20 dwroers complete. may to the seat school have a safe passage until after they leave college. our students, climate and city cannot wait. i was prompt said to you know, have desire to speed this up by my youngest daughter started as a freshman we live less then and there a mile away and i did the bike train for her and our neighbor employed and it was it is dangerous. less then and there a mile. the bike lanes we do havure western out. not well maintaind and there are long stretches where there are

competing with cars and the schools themselves which is next to like shore elementary school in supervisor engardio's district, have poor infrastructure. no curb cuts. you know upon they are competing with cars and you know the school is 3,000 people competing for space with, did you tells and cars and it is very dangerous. so, today i'm introducing this to include upon schools on going development of the active communities plan to be completed boy may 2024. i want to thank my colleagues at chair mandelman, commissioner supervisor peskin, and engardio for army experienceship i look forward for us all working together to make san francisco safe for students, families and travellers. and i want to thank robin tammy

and sailor embarrass with save sf for their collaboration. thank you. >> thank you. open this item to public comment. >> if there is anyone withhold like to come forward? >> no matter what we are to raise the credit of education. you see you are talking about yes. so we must prosecute mote this and you have a safe transportation system because deliver the -- it is bad it is very low. and i'm talking about intelligence. [inaudible] it is not [inaudible] it follows while sorry definded the make of unintelligence. this the way it guess you in you are trespassed. remember you are we must raise the elf level of education no

way around it otherwise it will be catastrophic. we want to be able to avoid. so -- yes. >> see if we have remote comment on item 12. check for example remote public comment on item 12. ... and there is no public comment. >> public comment on 12 is closed mr. clerk call item 13. >> public comment. >> if there is anyone who would like to speak. >> transportation is essential, of course this is why there is a lot of attention to it. put on -- money is in the the keep issue anymore. it is the goal. vision objective.

so you want -- san francisco to shine, right? become or will be something will happen so when you are trying to walk on is will not work:because something is going to happen. before it could work. focus your attention on understanding this because you can't avoid it. >> i'm sorry, because of the pressure this speed and the sheer, yes, too much low intelligence. at least an accident not possible. please, think focus and remember. it is in your best interests and that of our children. and [inaudible]. [inaudible]. so it is a plays to transportation, yes, transportation is key in any society and so city and et cetera . make its [inaudible].

okay. see you later. >> all right. see if well is remote public comment on item 13. >> checking for remote public comment on item 13. ... and there is in public comment. >> public comment is closed. mr. clerk, can you call item 14 >> adjournment. >> we are adjourned. for force

>> when o'shaughnessy dam opened 1923, there was a grand celebration that was an achievement of ensuring san francisco's new water supply but it was the beginning of a unique collaboration between the city of san francisco and yosemite national park. >> lands around the dam are critically important. we, along with the park service have a very common goal thereof protection of that watershed, both for national park values and water supply values in yosemite is the cub tree's

premiere national park visited by millions of visitors but the protection of our watershed and the city provides significant outside funding for the national park, over $8 million a year is for trail maintenance and wilderness education and park operations and security keeping the water safe and the park a haven. >> one hundred years ago when the dam was first built, there was a different view of the environment back then, than there is today. and the dam was part of changing that view across the nation. that brings an importance to our work here at o'shaughnessy dam, how we manage this dam and manage our releases and the environment downstream, it's very important to san francisco that we need that challenge. >> for 100 years, o'shaughnessy dam and the park service ensured the bay area has clean water, along with ongoing stewardship

much our precious natural resources. >> this o'shaughnessy >> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep

the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a

richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly

favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of

1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers

across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have

to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something

to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way.

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