pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. vice president carter, i'd like to take roll. commissioner walker here. commissioner benedicto here. mr. yanez here. commissioner byrne here. commissioner yee here. vice president cordova stone. you have a quorum also with us tonight, we have assistant chief denise flaherty for the san

francisco police department. and acting executive director sarah hawkins for the department of police accountability. line item one 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 epa personnel or 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 icgov.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 would like to make public comment, please approach the podium. just some points from last meeting. this commission is misusing or misunderstanding the studies

about policing and drug overdoses is not to oversimplify, but the gist of the studies is that arrest causes a pause in the users use. and that pause may affect the tolerance of the user, such that when the user is back out on the streets, their tolerance is now an unknown. and so for a variety of reasons, overdose could happen. for the record, interruption of use could also lead to a path of recovery. and it often does regardless, either one overdose or recovery are consequences for which the user bears full responsibility. this is not a policing issue. the studies themselves are careful to warn readers not to confuse causation and correlation with the fundamentals of this complex problem. um. i urge you all to review the concept of proximate cause because some members of this commission erroneously believe that the sfpd is the proximate cause for every single ill that befalls drug users, dealers and criminals. this commission's reliance on and treatment of non definitive studies highlights a fundamental issue this commission has an almost fanatical effort to shoehorn every issue through an anti law enforcement lens. everything that is discussed by

this commission is trapped under the bias. myopic anti law enforcement perspective. and there are some on this commission who want to keep that point of view dominant and unchallenged, regardless of how inappropriate or unsubstantiated. the data challenge you led. commissioner carter oberstein to state that there is a dangerous and unfortunate effort to use state public meeting laws to silence dissenting views on the commission. i urge this commission to educate itself on the first amendment and for whom it affords protection. by definition, the public cannot silence you. the government. however, i will get silenced by this commission. after two minutes, you have even taken steps to silence all potential remote commenters. all we're doing is exercising our right and responsibility to hold you accountable and based on the way you misuse data and manipulate answers to your questions, i'm really glad we do. good evening, commissioners. i am nash daniels . i'm a representative of seiu 1021 and i represent the 911 dispatchers. i'm here to shed

some light on what is a very what is very unsettling for me and my members. the department of police accountability has been sending complaints from their office to the department of emergency management with the intent for possible discipline of dispatchers. the issue we have with this as it now stands, is the process does not afford my members or the union due process. as you are aware, the dispatchers are civilian staff and not privy to a 3303 hearing. it also seems like an exhaustion of city resources, as we are hoping that you could look into this and provide all parties with clarity and a fair process for the civil servant employees this is affecting. thank you, chair. can i ask i just want to thank the 911 dispatchers. i know how much stress you guys are on and all the calls that you get on a daily base. so so thank to our or i guess 911

dispatchers and members. so thank you for all the hard work. relay the message. thank you. good evening members of the police commission. i'm a born and raised resident of san francisco, growing up in the richmond district and residing in glen park since 1989, i'm aware of policing in other countries, particularly in brazil, where i lived for five years, as well as in mexico, where i've traveled extensive and for extended lengths of time policing in other countries is often very corrupt and violent, with little oversight, mainly due to poor pay and bad training . and private security is used by the wealthy here in san francisco. fortunately the situation is different. very different, at least for now. we have a good police force, if not woefully understaffed and underfunded. they're well trained, conscientious and strive to be better than ever. nevertheless, there is a high level of anti-police bias. in san francisco, we watched it come to a fever pitch with the

hysteria and mob violence in the summer of 2020, with acab and abolish the police graffitied all over the city center and beyond and frenzied people making deranged demands. the city's elected leaders joined this mob mania by impulsively defunding the police to the tune of 120 million, a ruinous decision. i know you all know, but the anti-police bias continues today. it's unabated on this commission, i witnessed thinly veiled hostility. some yes, anti-police bias among certain members during the meetings. and it was evident last week during the agenda item number nine, when the use of force report was discussed, the why of the disparity between black and white encounters was pressed. yes. why? a good question. but is it solely the fault of the san francisco police department that was insinuated in the tone of some vocal members? so i stand here with due respect to, say, humble yourselves, contemplate that the why may very possibly lie outside the purview of the san francisco police and within the realm of the civilized nation that's unfurling before us.

there's a lot of bad education going on out there. commissioner walker suggestion to review body cam footage is a good start. it may reveal a lot. also. yes a bad education, that's for sure. it's going to look like a slight digress, but i need to finish what i told the board of supervisors yesterday because it concerns you too. it is not allowed to mess with the skies any more. it's not allowed. so we don't want to see any ugliness in the skies, the skies don't need artificial whatever. if you keep doing that, you're going to finish your life unhappy, ugly and your descendants are going to pay for you. except offensively. this

concerns every one of us here. nobody wants to address this because this is very complicated to address, but we must face what's going on. the police. okay. i guess i'll just use the overhead again, as usual. good evening. i come here every wednesday concerning my son, aubrey abacus, who was murdered august 14th, 2006, to this day is case is unsolved. i bring these names of the perpetrators that was there that had a hand in murdering my child. hannibal thomas, paris moffat. andrew

purdue. jason thomas. anthony hunter and marcus carter. one of which is deceased. i'm not sure whether it's the first or the second one. i come here not just for my son, but for all unsolved homicides that are not solved today. and seeing the faces of all these men, young men and babies that were murdered, still cases aren't solved and the mothers are still suffering. again, as a mother, i wouldn't have to want to stand over my son's or any of my children that i have left because of homicide or murder or gun violence or domestic violence or child abuse. anything. would no one want to have to do this? i've been coming here for years and

still no justice. this is what the perpetrators left me with a lifeless body of my child decaying. and this is what i have to remember for the rest of my life. and i keep saying grief never ends because my love for my son will never die. so i'm asking for justice. that maybe some kind of way that we can as family, that we can get some justice for our children, some kind of closure. and with that, i thank you for hearing me. anyone has any information regarding the murder of aubrey abacus, you can call the anonymous 24/7 tip line. at (415)!a575-4444. good evening, commissioners. allen braddell. i want. to express my sympathies

for this prior speakers comment. it's here and to express my support for the first speaker who showed up here tonight and i stand with that speaker and all the points that she made. thank you. commissioners. that is the end of public comment at line item two consent calendar receive and file action sfpd's third quarter 2023 audit of electronic communication devices for bias sfpd's firearm discharge review board and in custody death review board quarter three 2023 2023 department award certification in sfpd's, sfpd and dpa's sb 1421 and sb 16 monthly report motion to receive and file. second, any member of the public like to make public comment regarding line item two please approach the podium. and there

is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes, commissioner walker is yes. commissioner benedicto yes. commissioner benedicto is yes. commissioner yanez is excused. commissioner byrne yes. commissioner byrne is yes. commissioner yee yes. commissioner yee is yes. and vice president carter overstone yes. vice president wilson is. yes. you have five yeses. line item three chief's report discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns. providing an overview of offenses, incidents or events occurring in san francisco. having an impact on public safety, including a brief overview of a staffing and resources for the upcoming apec leaders meeting. 1211. 11. 12 through 1117 2023. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities. the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. chief scott, thank you, sergeant youngblood. good evening. vice president carter overstone commission and acting executive director hawkins and the public get a little closer. i'll start

the report off with just an overall quick overview of crime trends. we are down in total part one crime 7, which is about 3200 fewer crimes than this time last year. violent crimes are up 3% and property crimes are down 8. the 3% increase in violent crimes is a total of 128 more crimes than this time last year. and the majority of that reduction or the reduction in property crimes for the year as to violent crime, there are 49 homicides year to date that is a 9% increase over the 45. we had this time last year. our overall homicide clearance rate. is 72. however that will go up because we just made two arrests in the last few days. over the weekend of two separate homicides that occurred in october of this year. so the homicide rate, once those are counted, will be 76. there was one homicide for this

week, and i'll talk about that in a second. as far as shootings, the overall reduction is 6% for the year compared to 2022. that's 175 victims. and 148 incidents of gun violence. so that is lower by 6% than this time last year. as i mentioned, there was a homicide during this past week and that one occurred on 1030, 23 at 7:18 p.m. and a 300 block of leavenworth in the tenderloin. the victim was transported to the hospital for a gunshot wound. the witness said that the victim was walking on the sidewalk when he heard a loud sound that he thought to be a firework. the witness said that the victim screamed in pain, fell to the ground and succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. no arrest has been made at this time. that investigation is ongoing. there was another shooting on 1030, 123. that was halloween night at 9:10 p.m. at 15th. and shotwell subject and the victim were involved in a road rage incident

where the subject used the vehicle to strike the victim in the victim's vehicle. the physical altercation then happened from there and the subject shot the victim in the lower extremities. no rest at this time. and that case is also still under investigation. another significant incident of note, there was a home invasion with that resulted in a possible traumatic brain injury to the victim. this happened on the 200 block of santos in the ingleside district on november second at 3:03 a.m. three unknown subjects announced themselves as police officers then kicked in the door of the home. the front door hearing the commotion, residents locked their bedroom door and hid inside the subjects, then kicked down the bedroom door and demanded gold chains. the subjects pistol whipped, kicked and punched the victim. the victim lost consciousness and suffered an 11 inch laceration to their head. the subject also stole gold jewelry, cash and two

vehicles from the residence, driving the stolen vehicles. the unknown subjects fled and have not been captured at this time. so that case is still under investigation. last thing of note, there was a stunt driving event that occurred at california and divisadero over the weekend. there were about 50 vehicles in a caravan and officers arrived and dispersed the group and they dispersed in different directions. officers were able to monitor a small group of about five cars, which traveled westbound on california , and the group eventually dispersed towards downtown and south of market. no arrests have been made at this time, but i would like to remind the public that we continue those investigations, even though some people believe they got away with it. if we can identify the car and have the probable cause to see that, seize that car, that's exactly what we will do. and we have done that on numerous occasions. as as for the apec conference, just to

give an update that will be starting this coming weekend. and i know the commission was interested in the staffing and deployment for apec. so just an overview. we have seven several, several hundred law enforcement officers from outside agencies, actually more than that responding to san francisco, cisco to assist us with security. the chp will send the largest group of officers. the california highway patrol will have a presence at both bridges and at various venues or apec venues throughout the city. they will have a role in site security, dignitary, escorts as well as they will be available to assist. if needed for any type of civil disobedience that may occur. that's beyond the capabilities of the san francisco police department at several other bay area law enforcement agencies will also assist in our escort of the dignitaries around the city during apec. those agencies include san mateo county

sheriffs, brisbane police department, belmont police department, daly city police department. foster city police department. menlo park police department. san mateo police department. and south san francisco. all of these are small departments, but they did send what they could, small numbers of officers, but their help is very, very much appreciated. san jose state police department is also sending officers to help with some of our fixed posts in the site venues as well as the fairfield police department. so in total that's around 50 additional officers and as far as the san francisco police department, every able bodied officer will be working as the department will mobilize during this next week. and what that means for apec, approximately just under 600 officers over the week will be assigned to apec in various capacities. the rest of the officers will be basically working in the field, working patrol our stations will be

staffed. so we don't expect any interruption in service in terms of responding to emergency calls for service as a matter of fact, because we're mobilized, each district station will have probably more deployment than they have on a typical night because we do have to plan for contingencies as to contingencies in the event that unexpected things happen or the events go beyond what the scheduled deployment can handle. we have contacted the california department of emergency. office of emergency services in the event that we need mutual aid, we will we will request mutual aid. and alameda county is the regional for this region anyway, mutual aid coordinator. so we have been in contact with them just drawing up contingency plans. the plan is for the san francisco police department to handle any protests that happened as if they happen as a

result of apec. if it goes if it goes beyond our capabilities, then we have the california highway patrol and if we have to trigger mutual aid, we will do so. and that is really the high level snapshot of apec for next week. we expect that people, all the dignitaries and their and their staffs to start some of them, i think are already starting to fly into town. but this weekend will probably be when most people fly into town or come to town and they will be here for approximately a week. and that concludes this week's report. thank you, chief, for the report. commissioner walker. thank you so much for the report . i know that there's going to be disruption to traffic and public transit and all of that. and i just i wanted to let people know if they have if they need information about about what's going to be happening over the course of the next

week, they can go to sf gov backslash apec, apec dash. 2023 and you can get information. but i think it's really important if anybody has information or needs anything, they can either go there to find out information about what the disruptions might be or who to contact, and if there's issues on the street 301. or in an emergency 911. so thank you, commissioner, for that. and that's a great point. so any also any updates that will happen will be on those websites as well. so for the public, in terms of the there are security zones, for instance , around mosconi, basically from market st down to harrison from second street to fifth street, that is a secured area. but people who live inside that area can go about their their business. there will be vehicle, vehicle traffic restrictions

there. there will be checkpoints . it's even for people who live in the area. and then the mosconi zone will be a hard closure. if you look at the maps, you'll see where the hard closures are and only credentialed people can go in that zone. and there are checkpoints as far as security checks or inspections for those zones as well. and all the venues basically will operate like that. they will be open for local traffic, but they will be minimal. businesses as far as what we know, that will be impacted. as far as you know, not operating, but in these zones, the businesses and restaurants will be open for business. so if you live in that area, you can you can frequent those establishments. you can shop for your groceries and whatever else you need. great, great. thank you. thank you. commissioner yee. hey, thank you very much there. vice president carter ulverstone. thank you. commissioner walker's for that information on where to get an update on the apex. i want to

thank the chief and the members and all the i guess the public first responders and contingencies that has been set in place. i hope wish you success in this event. i know it's a they're they're probably have additional some somewhere from 20 to 40,000 people here in in the state in the city. so i hope we do well and wish you the best. thank you. thank you, commissioner. uh, chief, last week when we discussed apec, you mentioned that there were a number of local law enforcement agencies that would be assisting us with the event, and i think today you listed roughly half a dozen. and you mentioned that you that the department entered memory of understanding with each of those local departments.

is that do i have that right? yes okay. and is it your understanding that any of those memoranda of understanding impacts a geo that's currently on the books, if you're talking about the geo 3.01, those memoranda of understanding basically are all operating, all memorandums, and they lay out whether or not the city will reimburse which we're not. and they're very simple mou. so basically these these departments that have offered to help us, we had to lay out what the parameters were, where the whether or not there would be reimbursement on those type of things. so it's a very fluid situation in. but other than the operational components of them coming in to help, i don't believe those rise to that level . so then they don't cover operational issues. it's mostly

about reimbursement. they cover what these departments will be. some of them cover what these departments for instance, the motorcycle officers, they're going to participate in dignitary, dignitary, dignitary, escorts, and they we are not reimbursing them for their services. they're doing that out of the goodness of their heart. so mainly those that's the purpose of the mou. but again, these are very fluid documents in terms of some of these organizations just recently committed this week in terms of these mou. so we needed to get the work done and get the commitments and so we can set our deployment. i remember i was speaking with an officer, maybe as close to a year ago, and i can't remember his name, but he mentioned that there were some times issues with doing these types of dignitary escorts with other agencies that had

different policies and used different tactics. do you do you see that as as an issue or an area of concern? no i don't. one of the things that that we have done for many years, particularly with the highway patrol, the way we deploy for when, let's say, the president and vice president both agencies take a take a piece of that. and so that is been the practice for as long as anybody can remember. so it's not uncommon. usually, usually at least in the city of san francisco. that's how the dignitary protections go. this is a little different because we have so many dignitaries at one time. so these officers, once they did once their departments indicated that they would be or may be joining us, they have trained and debriefed and all that stuff. but we don't think

that that's going to be an issue. and because, as you said at the outset, each of these outside agencies have sent us a relatively small number of officers each these convoys, cars or escorts will comprise both both sfpd and outside law enforcement in in the same escort. is that right? some of them will some of them. right. and so in those instance, is does the outside agency we follow sfpd policy and tactics just because i imagine every agency does these things a little bit differently. yeah. no, they follow their own tactics as far as policies, if like, for instance, use of force or those type of things, the agencies follow their own tactics, policies as their training in terms of the escorts themselves, i mean, there's some things are just basic in terms of escorts that are universal. however it is important that there is communications. there

is some training in terms of what roles each person on that on that motorcade escort has. and so that's where the communication and the training comes in place. but they will follow their own policies, their own tactics, and that's pretty standard when you're working with outside agencies, as it would be when we go to any place where mutual aid is requested, we have to follow our own policies and is are any of these roles response abilities or tactics set forth in the mou that we have with these outside agencies? no, no specific tactics. i don't know if there's language in there off the top of my head with. the what i just said as far as officers follow their own policies. but that is standard pretty much. you don't expect officers to come to another town and then all of a sudden learn different policies, different tactics and they they follow their own because their

agency still has a responsibility to hold them accountable for following their policies. great. and just last question for me. you've referenced mutual aid tonight and also last week. would you just mind explaining for members of the public what that is and also how it might figure into our apec plan? yes. thank you for that. so mutual aid there is regional mutual aid across the state of california, and there's different zones. so the zone that we're in, the northern california zone basically are the nine county bay areas. northern california counties. i think it goes actually up to humboldt. i believe. and when in the event that anybody in this in this mutual aid zone requests mutual aid, the alameda county sheriffs are the regional mutual aid coordinators. so the process is that request is made through alameda county sheriffs and then they marshal the resources of whatever is requested and they coordinate that mutual aid request. a good example of when

this typically happens, like the north bay fires, they those cities needed officers, they needed firefighters. but speaking for police, we participated in mutual aid several times since i've been here in assisting those cities in 2020, when the civil unrest really swept the nation after the george floyd murder, san francisco requested mutual aid. i think it was late may and we did receive, i think, about 200 officers or so from across the state. so it's fair rare for us to request being the we're the biggest city in the in the biggest police department in the area. but it's not totally uncommon. and the trigger for mutual aid, if it's beyond the resources that a city can handle, extraordinary incidents, civil unrest, wildfires that go beyond the resources, those types of things. typically, you

do not request or get mutual aid for pre-planned events. but there are some nuances depending on what information you have. if you can predict that it's going to go beyond the norm, it's a wise idea to start having that conversation. and so we are at least setting up for contingencies based on some of what's out there in open source about first amendment activity. we don't know what's going to happen, but we need to prepare for it as if everything that we see is going to happen. great. thanks chief. that's everything for me, commissioner burn. thank you, vice president carter over stone. chief. when the outside departments come, unlike the chp coming into the. into the tenderloin, is there like a coordination? will there be like a particular captain or something of sfpd to coordinate? or do these people just answer

to their own? the way the chp is doing now in the tenderloin? there are not coordinating per se with san francisco police, where as with this apec thing, it would seem to me that there needs to be some coordination with the sfpd as to deployment and as to how it's all going to operate there. there there is a coordination. i mean, this is this is a really, really large scale event. so that is really important coordination in i didn't say this, but let me back up a second. because of the security designation, the national special security designation for this event, the us secret service actually is the lead agency on security. so there is coordination at the federal level. but in terms of what we're talking about, the sfpd will be the coordinator of anything local protest, first amendment and anything that that spins from that is our department. we coordinating that

piece of it. so there is coordination, a lot of logistical coordination to make sure that everybody is communicating and talking. so that's a big part of our hopefully what will be a good outcome. so will there be patrols of out of city police cars in different areas of san francisco? no all the all of the officer cars that are coming are working. the apec venues and mainly the like. the motorcycle officers for escort dignitary, escorts, but other other than those escorts will, i assume from what you described, there will be other officers in san francisco? yeah. the officers will be working venues. so all the venues the for venues, all have fixed post assignments because they're secured. and like the moscone venue is a pretty large perimeter. so there are going to be fixed post assignments with uniformed officers at the checkpoints throughout the venue. so that's what these officers most of these officers, if not all, will

be doing. and so the normal patrols will be as it was before apec. yes. as far as sfpd outside of apec, right. and then the chp will still be roaming south of market in the tenderloin, correct? okay. thank you. thank you. sergeant, could we go to public comment, please? members of the public, they would like to make public comment regarding line item three, the chief's report. please approach the podium. okay, great. okay. where i think way beyond or above these technicalities. technicalities say right. you keep the perspective. actually like if you were a bird. so you see, remember, it's going to be a good occasion to own yourself and pass the word, by the way, on yourself. you know, pass the word big time. the perspective from above is to not forget that this gathering for apec, all

these guys promote war, all of them. so basically they promote in one way or another. but nobody talks about peace. peace is what the people want. all of us with a few exception. so it's good to remember this, at least i think. okay, sorry. i'm again, the guy who is talking. look, okay, keep the perspective. look, because it's so. wow. it's amazing. it takes a little bit to move back and say, yeah, that's exactly it. what can we do? okay, wait. step by step by. thank you. um i wanted to talk about the last time i was here. i was talking about the. the digital posters at all the district stations, and i went by

a couple of them, and they were up. but then when i went back, the next day, they were down. so why are we having this if they can't consistently be up there? it's supposed to be on 24 over seven. how are we going to get our cases solved if these if these digital televisions and the district stations don't stay on 24/7? i know in a couple of them they were on 24 over seven. i know that you're trying to do some operation because of the getting them fixed, but i would like to when i go to these stations that to see that they're up, you know, again, there's taxpayers money that has been spent for these things to be put up and help spearhead getting them up too, because i'm tired of climbing up on poles and pasting pictures up of the homicide of my child. you know, i'm getting too old for that,

you know, so if we have a venue and the only venue is at the district stations right now, how come they can't consistently keep these televisions on so that maybe someone might walk in there and solve our children's cases, especially mine? i take my pictures in there and ask them, can they put it up on their bulletin board or something, or via the television . but these digital things need to stay on consistently. why do we have them? why do i have to wait for somebody to go in there and get the remote control and snap it on while i wait? because then i don't want to leave? and i say, can i wait until you cut it on? you know, we need to keep these things up. there consistently. thank you. hi, commissioners. alan braddell and chief, i just wanted to respond

to the discussion of potential upcoming disturbed cases. there there will be disturbances. as i've been reading about them. i will read right now from a posting that i saw in a newsletter from the dsa. that's the democratic socialists of america. they are holding a online course to educate folks and the topics include the following this night school will provide an overview of what it is, who it is, and what it does to widen economic inequality and push the planet closer to climate catastrophe. every day. and what the no to apec coalition is planning to do in response? yes, you are invited to learn about this event and join in the acts of resistance and this is happening on sunday.

and again, this is the democratic socialists of america. we have several sitting commissioners in san francisco and a sitting supervisor. that's kristin evans, jackie fielder, dean preston, you may see them down there. it's on sunday and it's to shut down the apec mass mobilization is what it's called . join the dsa contingent at embargo center at noon. look for details and a link to the signal chat at and the who in the channel on their slack. so it's a well organized effort to disturb this important event. and unfortunately, you're going to have to deal with that, it looks like. thanks to some of our sitting commissioners and supervisors who might participate. thank you. commissioners. that is the end of public comment. just for

members of the public line. item six has been pulled from tonight's agenda line item for 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. director hawkins. good evening. commissioners chief scott. members of the public. i will start with a couple of stats that i really want to focus on at this time. last year we had opened 201 cases and at this time this year we have 689 cases opened. that's quite a big increase and it represents at least two full time investigators. we are having the same staffing and budget issues that other departments are having and it is starting to kind of take a toll on our staff. so i just want to highlight that on the bright side, even with that increased caseload at this time last year, we had 23 cases past the 270 day mark, and this year we only have 22, of which 18 are told. so we

continue to meet our deadlines and work diligently. we currently have 317 cases pending at and at this time last year we had 245 cases pending. so an increase in all of our opened and pending cases. so i'm sure we will kind of keep talking about that as we go through our next budget phase. we currently have eight cases pending with the commission, 88 cases pending with the chief. in the past week we received 19 new cases. the again, as a reminder, these are just new cases with allegations. but the breakdown of the allegations is 17% conduct unbecoming an officer which represent complaints for officers behaving or speaking inappropriately or displaying threatening or intimidating behavior. 12% for neglect of duty, which includes failure to investigate or take required action, and 12% use of force. we don't have any thing to report

on this week with regard to audit, but we do look forward to providing the full misconduct audit out in a future commission meeting, hopefully in early january and i just learned recently that our youtube channel has been relaunched. i don't have the direct information right now, but i will make sure that that is available at the next commission report. present today is senior investigator chris chisnell, who is available for any questions that the public or commissioners might have. thank you. thank you for that report. seeing no names in the queue. sergeant, could you take us to public comment, please, for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item for the directors report, please approach the podium. i actually just have a question and i know that generally when you tend to ask questions, they don't get answered, which is i know you don't have to answer the questions, but is there a way for the public to find out

how many of the reports that have been initiated were initiated by the dpa itself? are you even allowed to do that? i can answer process questions. i feel comfortable doing that. if i can ask the city attorney if that's okay. okay. i'm just wondering how we can figure out how many were actually in are from the actual public and how many are from coming within the dpa itself. i'll ask the city attorney if it's okay for me to answer the process question. it's best if you can talk to her one on one. and also report back when we put it on the agenda. that sounds good and i'm happy to. you can actually also speak to senior investigator chris chisnell and if he's unable to answer your questions, i'll be available after the meeting. but there's nothing on the website. like you can't just go on the website. you can look at our annual reports. okay um, i wanted last time i was here, we talked about trying to get more investigator to solve the

unsolved homicides, and then it was brought up that we can get da director henderson on to get some of their investigators to solve these unsolved homicides, to get some witnesses to come in, to come through, you know, to pay the witnesses, find other ways for others that other cities for other cities to find out how they're doing to solve these unsolved homicides. so i'm still waiting for the agenda the next time that it's going to be put on the agenda about ways to solve these unsolved homicides and get new investigators to come in and solve these. and if it's going to come from the dpa directors to get them involved because we have nothing. i have nothing. i've been coming here and asking ways to get these unsolved homicides solved. so if we can get other help from the d

dpa directors on you guys, investigators to come over and help solve these homicides, that would be a good thing. so i'm hoping next time i come here something is being said about that. are finding other ways, the way other cities have done it. also so that we can pay witnesses to solve these, you know, just a little bit of money . money talks. you know, this needs to happen. i get this from you. you bring this up to me. so i'm just bringing it back to you. what i've been told, i don't want to be pacified and saying, okay, miss brown, we're going to do this, miss brown, we're going to do that. and it doesn't happen. and we all have to be accountable. you pledge to protect us. you pledge to. i'm just asking. thank you. and that

is the end of public comment. line item five commission reports, discussion and possible action commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission presidents report commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. just one announce moment for the public, which is that we will not be having our normally scheduled meeting next week on november 15th. it appears that there is not a quorum of commissioner who can attend the meeting and it does fall in the middle of apec. so just wanted to let folks know about that. commissioner yanez thank you. vice president carter

oberstein chief chief, quick report. i just i stepped out to go to the juvenile probation and commission hearing as they've asked me to provide an update about our work towards a pre booking diversion program. i did that. they are introducing a resolution endorsing and supporting thing, encouraging the city to create an establish a pre booking diversion program with the san francisco police department. it seems like the resolution is going to pass. they will go on into a vote, which i was not there for, but it seems like they are overwhelmingly in support of this direction that we're taking. and in addition to that, the department of police accountability, we submitted their community, their feedback into the community policing manual. i expect to receive some of that information soon so that then i could look at the updated draft and provide some of my

feedback. since that is one of the goals that has been assigned to me, i believe that there will be a presentation in january on the updated community policing plans, which i believe were posted on the district websites or the district station websites on november 2nd. correct? chief i believe so, but i will verify that. got it. and then my last update is regarding, 07.01. we received some clarification about. it is posted on our website and it is open for people to give input and feedback. 07.01 is our juvenile policy for interfacing with young people. it will be open through the 13th of december for public comment. so please log on to the website and provide your input into that ego. thank you. that's my report. commissioner benedicto thank you, mr. vice president. i'll start with the

same issue that commissioner yanez just mentioned. so just reiterating that 7.01, which governs the department's policy with respect to juveniles, is currently in the public comment phase. so you can go go to the san francisco police department website to review the draft and submit a comment and all comments will get a response from the sfpd and dpa. i do really want to thank the various community stakeholders who put well over a dozen hours of time earlier this spring and this summer to work on this dgo it's a significant modernization and update to the dgo we already have and is and some of the changes in it will hopefully lay the groundwork and be the first step in the process to a pre-arrest diversion program for juveniles. so i do encourage people to make that public comment and we hope to have that before the commission sometime early next year. and then second, yesterday, along with

commissioner walker, attended the what was dubbed the solutions conference, which was organized by the san francisco chronicle. the chronicle trying their hand at a think tank, a convened ten working groups with various subject matter experts who worked for the last six months on ten pilot program proposals for san francisco. all top picks, including affordable housing, homelessness and public safety, and presented those ten pilot programs at that conference and the ten pilot programs will also be published by the chronicle later this week. there were a lot of interesting ideas. it was a great cross-section of ideas and a good exchange, including a very interesting idea on public safety, reached out to the authors of that pilot program, which included community stakeholders, as well as a retired sfpd commander. as that program looks a little bit more finalized to have them present a version of it to the commission

early next year as well. thank you, commissioner byrne. thank you. i just wanted to make sure the public was aware that the meeting on december 6th is the award ceremony that commissioner yee and, and chief scott and myself worked on. so as so that the public is aware we're going to be not convening here but convening at the ceremony is that. i think that's that's accurate. i guess i would just add that the commission staff also worked on it. so shout out to the commission staff for their and for their hard work. retired sergeant kilshaw, who is not here, but sergeants reynolds and sergeant youngblood. and i'm sure christine over there had her hand in it too, although anyway, thank you for that. vice president. so that way the

public knows that not to yonder fourth year on the 6th of december as we will be somewhere else. yes thank thank you for that, commissioner brennan. that will be up on our website. thank you, commissioner walker. thank you. um yeah, i just want to mention a little reiterating what commissioner benedicto was talking about, the conference that was held yesterday. it was really very interesting to hear from the public and hear some ideas for solutions. so it really tied into what we're all discussing about alternatives on the front line of how to how to support the officers out there in fighting crime by finding other ways to avoid crime and i really look forward to presenting those. it really is a lot in line with what we've all been discussing. so i really

appreciate that. i've also had the opportunity there was a couple of carjacking events that ended up right in my neighborhood and i think one and a break in right across out my window and we all participate in in watching the training of officers and to see it in real life. if you haven't watched a like a town hall, it's really informative to watch how how we fight crime in the city. i mean, it's a it's a dangerous situation and it's really i just applaud the officers who respond. so thank you, chief scott. thank you. vice president stone. i just wanted to address commissioner young diaz's question about digital 7.01. it was posted on october 27th. so the public has until december 13th, which is the closing date. thank you, sergeant. could we go

to public comment, please, for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the commission reports, please approach the podium. there is no public comment line item seven public comment on all matters pertaining to item nine below closed session, including public comment and item eight vote whether to hold item nine in closed session. if you would like to make public comment regarding closed session, please approach the podium. and there is no public comment. line item eight vote on whether to hold item nine in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10 action a motion to go into closed session for item nine. a second on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes, mr. walker is yes. commissioner benedict. yes. commissioner benedicto is yes.

commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner janez is. yes commissioner byrne. yes. commissioner byrne is yes. commissioner yee yes. commissioner yee is yes. vice president carter overstone yes. vice president carter overstone is yes. you have six yeses. we are going into closed session.

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action motion to not disclose item nine. second for members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item ten, please approach the podium. seeing none, commissioner walker, how do you vote on the motion? yes commissioner walker is yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto was. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner janez is yes.

commissioner byrne. yes. commissioner byrne is yes. commissioner yee yes. commissioner yee is yes. and vice president carter was still. yes, vice president carter was. stone is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 11 adjournment.

>> today preezentation is a overview how to file a compliant about the dpa. any questions can be e-maileded at sfdpa at sfgov.org. independent of the san francisco police department. investigating

allegations of police misconducting recommending disciplineitary action to the chief police and police commission and suggesting policy provisions when not meeting 21 century policing practice. if you speens or witness police misconduct we have several ways to submit a complaint. file with dpa online asfgov.org/dpa or (indiscernible) in person at the office located at 1 south van ness on the 8 floor or any district police station. there are key pieces of information that anyone filing complaints should provide, including your contact information, so we can ask for follow-up questions, the location, time and date of incident. officer name and star number, and specific details including words and actions by all involved parties. it is

important to remember anyone can file a complaint and you do not have to be a witness or victim to initiate a complaint. this next slide provides a overview of dpa mediation division. mediation is alternative to dpa investigationing a complaint. the goal of mediation are improve the relationship between the community and sfpd. mediation allows both parties toprint perspectives that resulted in a complaint. may request mediation when you file a complaint or referred to the mediation team. mediation is voluntary for the person making the complaint and officer. both must agree to resolve through mediation. unpaid volunteers not dpa employees trained and experiences in helping people resolve differences in a conductive manner. because mediation is voluntary, there is a greater chance of parties want to resolve the problem

mutually agreeable fashion. not every complaint is eligible for mediation. cases can go to mediation include those involvingcocts and not (indiscernible) that concludes today's [music] maintaining fire safety is everyone's responsibility. for your safety, if you see an active fire or fire safety hazzard, report it immediately. here are tips on reporting fire safety hazards in san francisco. depending you may call 911 or 311 the city 24/7 customer service center. when to call 911. call 911 when you see a fire or open flame source in public. call 911 if you bench a person using open flame device you believe will result in injury or property damage.

call 911 if you bench an open flame in public location including situations involving flammable materials like wood, paper and cardboard or liquid fuel propane or gasoline used for cooking recreation or other purposes. call 911 if you see smoke inside or outside a building. call 911 if your smoke detector sounds here hear a fire alarm. be sure to provide the location where this is happening. >> fire safety concerns that don't involve an active or immediate threat to life or property it is best to contact 311, submitting a request on sf3 lon or the sf upon 311 mobile app. reported built up of trash blocking a sidewalk or a structure. 311 to report encampments that don't have criminal activities associated with them.

contact 311 to report a fire safety hazzard, concern that does not involve an open flame. 311 to report lost or blocked exits paths out of a building. contact 3 thrown report a malfunctioning or out of service fire alarm in your building. and contact 311 to report fire safety concern or complaint that does not involve an immediate threat to life or upon prosecute. >> remember, your reporting can save lives you can report unanimously. if you need to ask a fire inspection question call the san francisco fire department 415-five 58-3300. to finds outer more about the san francisco fire department visit our website. and learn more about the 311 customer service

>> the city of san francisco is invest nothing resources to care for people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis on the streets. is this includes new programs and the expansion of successful pilots >> worried about you lying on the street here. >> we can take them to other facilities like mental health facilities or shelters or offer resources and connect them to social workers and follow up. we try to provide safety for the public and for them to let them know than i are not in trouble and we are here to offer them many resources and service they may want and takes buildinged the relationships with the

public president people we contact with. takes time and trust. the city street team include mental health clinicians, community paramedics, emt's, social workers and councillors train in traumatic care u most vagzal interviews. cultural competence and he deescalation. >> san francisco 911 when is the emergency? >> san francisco trained 9 leondis patchers operate inspectly from the police department. through investments and alternatives to law enforcement, the city ruled the police sponses to people experiencing mental health emergencies. >> now that we have a team that is geared toward mental health that helped dispatchers able to assist the public when call nothing for common they don't think needs an ambulance or fire or police they think they need help. i wanted to be that social worker what wents the extra mile

and figured out how to navigate the system. joy feel great when i help someone that's why i got in the work if you are experiencing an emergency or worry body safety on the street call 911. for nonemergencies use 311. you can learn more about the street response program at chinatown. >> (music). >> welcome to san francisco japantown. >> san francisco japantown is the oddity downtown in the united states. >> it was founded in the late 1800s by japanese immigrants for

construction over the jars japantown has become a home to a japanese community with restaurants and shops and a popular tourism decision in the heart of san francisco. and san francisco and japantown is quite unique it is one of the three remaining chung's by the states and how i explain japantown we're a city within a city to taste and experience the japanese culture but really be a community what is all about and one of the best things about japantown is the food. there are dozens of shops in the neighborhood serving from modern deserts and go with friends.

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ice cream and sun disingenuous. >> japantown is a variety of culture contributions with the community center the eight amendment association of north california. >> (speaking foreign language.) >> this tearoom is designed by the tearoom art (unintelligible) and then they built everything in jpa that is a a he ship it to the united states. with the carpenter and this is one of the public only two in the united states and the japantown takes you on journey sdlts neighborhoods and the history was a self guided tour you start

by japantown center west mall and work your way and learn about the history what made japantown had say is today. >> what as young people; right? what to make sure this stays here for the future. speaking of future you can enter the world of augmented reality created we adobe in a phone stand under which of the store we call that the tree ar experience a great opportunity to do something completely different that will take you to the future with a immersion of an experience? incredible. in addition to the culture and ar contribution japantown hosted festivities and

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>> (music). >> the ferry building one of san francisco most famous that as many of 15 thousand commuters

pass through that each gay. >> one of the things that one has to keep in mind regarding san francisco is how young the city we are. and nothing is really happening here before the gold rush. there was a small spanish in the presiding and were couriers and fisherman that will come in to rest and repair their ships but at any given time three hundred people in san francisco. and then the gold rush happened. by 182948 individuals we are here to start a new life. >> by 1850 roughly 16 thousand

ships in the bay and left town in search of gold leaving their ships behind so they scraped and had the ships in the bay and corinne woods. with sand the way that san francisco was and when you look at a map of san francisco have a unique street grid and one of the thing is those streets started off in extremely long piers. but by 1875 they know they needed more so the ferry building was built and it was a long affair and the first cars turned around at the ferry building and picking up people and goods and then last night the street light cars the trams came to that area also.

but by the late 1880s we needed something better than the ferry building. a bond issue was passed for $600,000. to build a new ferry building i would say 800 thousand for a studio apartment in san francisco they thought that was a grand ferry building had a competition to hire an architecture and choose a young aspiring architect and in the long paris and san francisco had grand plans for this transit station. so he proposed the beautiful new building i wanted it wider, there is none tonight. than that actually is but the price of concrete quitclaim two how and was not completed and killed. but it opened a greater

claim and became fully operational before 1898 and first carriages and horses for the primary mode of transportation but market street was built up for serve tram lines and streetcars could go up to the door to embarcadero to hospitals and mission street up to nob hill and the fisherman's area. and then the earthquake hit in 190 six the ferry building collapsed the only thing had to be corrected once the facade of the tower. and 80 percent of the city would not survive the buildings collapsed the streets budges and the trams

were running and buildings had to highland during the fire after the actuate tried to stop the mask fire in the city so think of a dennis herrera devastation of a cable car they were a mess the streets were torn up and really, really wanted to have a popular sense they were on top of that but two weeks after the earthquake kind of rigged a way getting a streetcar to run not on the cable track ran electrical wires to get the streetcars to run and 2 was pretty controversial tram system wanted electrical cars but the earthquake gave them to chance to show how electrical cars and we're going to get on

top this. >> take 10 years for the city to rebuild. side ferry use was increasing for a international exhibition in 1950 and people didn't realize how much of a community center the ferry building was. it was the center for celebration. the upper level of ferry building was a gathering place. also whenever there was a war like the filipino war or world war two had a parade on market street and the ferry building would have banners and to give you an idea how central to the citywide that is what page brown wanted to to be a gathering place in

that ferry building hay day the busiest translation place in the world how people got around transit and the city is dependent on that in 1915 of an important year that was the year of our international exposition 18 million living in san francisco and that was supposedly to celebrate the open of panama differential but back in business after the earthquake and 22 different ferry boats to alamed and one had the and 80 trips a day a way of life and in 1918 san francisco was hit hard by the flu pandemic and city had mask mandates and anyone caught without a doubt a mask had a risk ever being arrested and san francisco was hit hard by the

pandemic like other places and rules about masks wearing and what we're supposed to be more than two people without our masks on i read was that on the ferry those guys wanted to smoke their pipes and taking off their masks and getting from trouble so two would be hauled away. >> the way the ferry building was originally built the lower level with the natural light was used for take it off lunge storage. the second floor was where passengers offloaded and all those people would spill out and central stairway of the building that is interesting point to talk about because such a large building one major

stairway and we're talking about over 40 thousand people one of the cost measures was not building a pedestrian bridge with the ferry building and the embarcadero on market street was actually added in and in 1918 but within 20 years to have san francisco bay the later shipbuilding port in the world and the pacific we need the iron that. as the ferry system was at the peak two bridges to reach san francisco. and automobiles were a popular item that people wanted to drive themselves around instead of the ferry as a result marin and other roots varnished. the dramatic draw in

ferry usage was staggering who was using the ferry that was a novelty rather than a transportation but the ferry line stopped one by one because everyone was getting cars and wanted to drive and cars were a big deal. take the care ferry and to san francisco and spend the day or for a saturday drive but really, really changed having the car ferry. >> when the bay bridge was built had a train that went along the lower level so that was a major stay and end up where our sales force transit center is now another way of getting into the city little by little the ferry stopped having a purpose. >> what happened in the 40 and

50's because of this downturn we were trying to find a purpose a number of proposals for a world trade center and wanted to build it own the philly in a terrible idea objective never gotten down including one that had too tall towers a trade center in new york but a tower in between that was a part of ferry building and completely impractical. after the cars the tower administration wanted to keep americans deployed and have the infrastructure for the united states. so they had an intrastate free plan the plan

for major freeway systems to go throughout san francisco. and so the developers came up with the bay bridge and worked their way along embarcadero. the plans were to be very, very efficient for that through town he once the san francisco saw had human services agency happening 200 though people figure out city hall offender that the embarcadero free was dropped and we had the great free to no where. which cut us off from the ferry building and our store line and created in 1989 and gave us the opportunity to tear down the free. and that was the renaissance of ferry building.

>> that land was developed for a new ferry building and whom new embarcadero how to handle travel and needed a concept for the building didn't want- that was when a plan was developed for the liquor store. >> the san francisco ferry building has many that ups and downs and had a huge hay day dribbled adopt to almost nothing and after the earthquake had a shove of adrenaline to revise the waterfront and it moved around the bay and plans for more so think investment in the future and feel that by making a

reliable ferry system once the ferry building will be there to surface. >>

>> long it was in fashion, o'shaughnessy water system has been sustainable. in addition to providing water for the bay area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. and more recently, some san francisco homes and businesses. >> satellite electricity is greenhouse gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. we really are proud of the fact that, we've put our water to work. >> even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, climate change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. and requires new thinking about where and how we use water. >> we have five hundred million gallons a day of wastewater being dumped out into san francisco bay and the ocean from the bay area alone. and that

water could be recycled and should be recycled for reuse through out the bay area. >> we're looking at taking wastewater and reading it to drink watering standards. we're also looking at our generation and looking at onsite water reuse looking at the technology and strategies we have available to us today. >> the very first recycling plant in the state of california for landscape irrigation was built in san francisco. we've just developed a new recycled water plant in the ocean side wastewater facility for irrigation purposes in golden gate park, lincoln park and the panhandle. >> a century ago, san francisco built a dam to create bunched znswer of fresh water to ensure the future and ensure the taps will flow for future generations, it will take as much vision when it reflects a fundamental change about how we think about water. >> i think we recognize there's going to be change in the

future. so we're going to have to have the flexibility and the creativity to deal with that future as it's presented to us, it's a matter of how to see it and say, okay, let's make wise use of everything we have. >> this o'shaughnessy centennial moment is made possibbbbbbbbbbbb

>> i'm san francisco's first drag laureate and the first one in the world. the drag laureate program and

the position is one this celebrates an artist for being the best in their craft and i'm proud to have received that xroel it it is afternoon ambassador role. a role that represents the lbgtq+ community in san francisco the focus on the drag performers and trans-activists and performers in san francisco as well. when i heard the city was creating the drag laureate role i was so excited because it did foal like they were paying attention to us. and cared about when we gave culturally and economically to the city >> here is your new drag laureate for the city and county of san francisco! i'm getting the call from the mayor i was chosen was fantastic day. i will always remember. i thought that it would just be

about the bay area. because of what happening in the world it became a national story. i hope it can shine a light on san francisco and how they take care of the drag community and the lbgtq+ community. i hope that i can help carve out this position and create a role with programs and events this can be passed down to future drag laureate this is come after me and can set a stage and standard for what this program is in san francisco and national low and inner nationally. there is a rich history in san francisco. that the drag community has been part of. i'm very proud to follow in their footsteps and able to maintain what the drag community has done in the past and move forward with creating a bright

future. my job is to elevate and celebrate >> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down

the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment.

go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings.

>> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you

feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help

everybody in san francisco. >> quarter low officer of the month recognition ceremony we are so very excited be here and as i look around, with all of our community partners and sponsors and command staff and fellow san francisco police officers we are so grateful to have this ceremony right here on the mayor a balcony at city hall. today is a very special occasion. we recognize the great work our police officers do. and it would in the be possible had not been for our supporters and sponsors. i want to start by thanking our

sponsors this made today possible. starting with vxp, bob kiester. steve colvinful road dale. greg sir and john laught us. and i would like to thank the hyat. parks hotel. hilton hotel. gci construction. jp morgan chase. mc call's catering events and the san francisco police officer's association. we have a variety of supporters here i know chris larson is here, thank you, chris. biome at hotel council. the union square alliance. neighbors for better san francisco and the poa. now i would like to thank start off with 2 people, first the mayor of san francisco mayor

breed. i want to thank you for the support that you provide the san francisco police department. it does in the upon go unnoticed where you go you talk about the police officers and how be important our job is we ever thank will thankful it would not happen with you you mayor, thank you. i would like to thank your chief scott our leader and when supports his officers and manned staff through the challenge this is we have now. and the things we are dealing with. chief scott at the fer front of everything going on supporting his people and today is another example of the passport we have by our chief. all right. so. as we go head and start this i like it recognize other people, first. the pedestrian our board of supervisors aaron supervisor

peskin is here. the commissioners. walk and are benedicto. thank you very much for your support today. [applause] i would like to thank our command staff. i know everybody is busy. but we realize this is the most important thing we can do all day is come and supporter officers and i thank the captains here as well. and thank you to the community that are here. so, thank you for this ceremony that we are about to have. today, we are going to honor some police officers. it is irrelevant challenge to make selections our officers do great work limp is a police officer now in san francisco doing spectacular work an upon henlding a burglar or catching a thief suspect this happens every day to make the selections are irrelevant challenging.

today i'm confident that we have med the right selectionos the group of receives in the front reyou will hear about from your captains about whether they pursued sense that were armed. weather app henldzed an autoburglar or grapped a retail theft suspect than i all did great work you will hear about it in a moment. all right. with that, i would like to call up our mayor of san francisco mayor london breed to say a few words to kick us off. thank you, mayor breed. >> thank you, chief lazar and thank you to the officers the families, friends pokes here today. this is the third time that we have hosted this ceremony. and the person had gave me the idea to do this not only came from our current chief bill scott but our former chief greg

who is joining you today from bxt. thank you very much, chief, we are glad to have you. >> san francisco has been experiencing a challenging time. and has been receiving a lot of criticism. but what we know that happens every in and out despite in the political westerlied or in other parts of san francisco, every day our police officers are working in various stations across san francisco putting their lives on the line to ensure the public is safe. and some of the examples that you will hear about today are examples they may seem as though they are above and beyond the call of duty. which in many cases they are but this is what our officers are out in the streets doing every day and not always getting the support and the credit they need. we have seen a bit of's change

and shift in how the city and county of san francisco and residents and the political lead eshs have upliftd and supported the department. in ways we have not done in the past. in fact. we are working on those ways to make changes to policies to ensure that we are not just focussed on making changes to the policies especially political leaders like me or the commission who may not understand what it means to be out well on the streets. what it means to put your life on the line to deal with life or death situations. but these officers do and despite the challenges and sometimes confusion in general orders, they still step up every day. and we appreciate that. we appreciate your service and your work and we appreciate the fact that today as we honor their work. so many companies in san francisco and leaders in our world have decided to step up

and to really be advocates for the police department. whether it is the commercial that talk about the verse stories that our officers, thifrngs to lares an and avenue green light and their w to elevate the actual individuals who are the front line officers of the department. stories than i tell, why people have decided they want to be a part of this department. or whether again the changes to policies in the thing this is we are trying to do here, for increases in saul row. recruitment bonuses and changes to general orders we know this work guess hundreds in hand in restoring morale in the department and making sure that you know the leader of the city and leaders of the city support the work you do skoal you can roll up slows and get the job done. despite so many of the challenge s persist the department has

been doing amazing work we are starting to hear about. some of the various retail theft prescriptions that occurred billed on i grant from the state. those arrests have been phenomenonal. we have seen our bay car operations yield extraordinary results. we are seeing the numbers finally start to decline and people are getting the message. that you cannot come to san francisco and expect to get away with crime. yes. we will help and you we will support and you give you a second chance but, no, you will not get away with it once you cross the lines. that's whattor officers are demonstrating with actions every day and why we have to take a moment to pause and to reflect on this extraordinary work. of you don't always hear about the stories. you don't always hear this san francisco has one of the lowest homicide rates that we had in decades in our clearance rate

for the homicides are extremely high compared to other major cities across the country. you hear about the crime and you see the videos but you don't always hear about the results this our officers including the ones honoring today, they bring the results daily with their investigations, with their diligent work and with the arrests thymic in order to make sure accountability is the forefront of everything we do here in san francisco . today, we say thank you. we recognize your store and hes elevate them so this people understand how have you been it is to have folks like you out on the streets thank your families and your friends community of people who are here because we also know that you know it is part of not just you doing the job but also them. who live with you daily competence keeping you in their prayers to ensure when you go

out you are coming home safe and appreciate and you the work do you and today it is is irrelevant a small token of appreciation for all you have done and will continue to do to serve and protect the people of the city and county of san francisco. thank you so much for your service. [applause] okay. thank you very much, mayor breed. now like to call up the president of the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin. >> thank you, assist an chief, mayor breed and the honorees this afternoon, let mow say, chief scott, this we are seeing the results on the ground. i like to say that the 11 districts are all created equal. but the northeast corner of the city that includes china town,

the wharf, north beach. knob hill and russian hill it is ground zero for tourists from all over the country and the world. in the cents roll district now under the command of eric kim of thank you for being here. i can tell you member who walks the streets every day we are actually seeing the rubles, receive mont ghoul. people are coming and up saying things are getting better this . it is i direct result of the work that each and everyone of you do every day for going above and beyond the call of duty every day. i want you to know that this supervisor and the board of supervisors sees it. we appreciate it. we want to support it. and we will ton do so to increase the quality of life for residents and for our visitors. to the honorees, today, from the

bottom of my heart thank you for going above and beyond the call of duty. [applause]. >> thank you. president supervisor peskin i would like to call up our chief of police bill scott. [applause] good afternoon, everybody. i'm not going to be long winded i will star out by saying thank you to so many who made this happen. and i know the mayor acknowledged chief sir and greg, thank you. you know folks like us as we go higher in organizations we live through the work of the police officers. and you all probably can't appreciate this had i'm at my desk at 10 at night and i get a text with great police w it enginizes me. thank you for that. and thank you for everything you do and the families. the mayor mentioned it but we

know how hard the success fois is when you have i police officer in your family. the scheduling, the unpredictability. missing of events and family mile sdpoens all the things you have to put up with to allow you to do what we do. to all of the families, thank you for being here and thank you for your support. and thank you for allowing these recovers to do when they do. mayor breed, thank you for everything you have done. there is a change. i foal it, i hope you all foal it there is a change in the city there is a change in the way people see us and i change in the way people appreciate us. and -- every community that i go in we can't get enough officers on the beat. that's a good thing. that is because you are doing the work. if we were not doing the w this change would not happen. we have support from the mir and support from our elected officials and then all the village of people here to

support you. enjoy it. appreciate it. know this it is real. and hopeful low that motivates us to do more. we have challenges in the city. and we have to doeen more. let's get this work done. so -- to the officers. officer mont gue, again. your work i just can't say enough about what it upon means for what you all do. you know. this is difficult w. it dangerous work. and sometimeis don't think people get what we do. in terms whf it takes to be successful. you are are getting it sergeant buckley. and officer jackson. chasing down armed suspects. putting your life in dangtory make that arrest and make sure the folks don't hurt anybody else. i know you don't get the thanks

you deserve but you are getting that now by the way of awards and officer decks and conway. retail theft plagued the city for a long time. we make alegality of rests your arrests stood out. and it is just really an example of what can be done when you have had you need by way of support when you get the support you need. you will do the work. so, 15 thousand dollars recovered in property and that's the tip of the iceberg not only did you arrest those folks when we see the rests and partners see it makes them want to go out and do it we know how police are we are competitive and all want to make the next rest. so with that, i will turn it over to the commanding officers and you will hear from them more details about what the officers did to earn them these grit, wards and thank you for makeing happen and thank you, chief

lazar, for your leadership >> thank you very much. chief scott. more recognitions i like to make. first acting commander parat community engage am they w on this full time. to get this up and run and make things happen. thank you for that. and second low, i know our poa president he was tracie mc crea, thank you for everything from the poa. and last to the families. i want to point that out what we do not this work without our families and it gives us joy to see the loved ones here supporting us i know we come home and tell the stories in way we can get this done without we are thankful you are here. applaud for family members here. before i hundred everhundred it over to captain kim. today's ralph officers recognized and get some awards

and mayor breed, last at the last ceremony reminded me are they supposed to get something. and i forgot. today i did not. i want to let everybody know and thank you mir for this prompting left time. today everyone will get a nice plaque but they are thanks to our sponsors getting a one night stay at the hyat. and a 500 dollar check from the san francisco police officer association community service fund. but is donated by the sponsors we mentioned today. congratulations on everything you are about to receive and thank you to the sponsors. and with that i like to call captain kim mandzing officer of central stagsz to read the first award. >> thank you. chief. good afternoon, everyone.

i have the privilege in talking about officer montgue hard work and dedication to the city of san francisco. this is one case he is involved with that shows his dedication to theion and the people of the community. this was a lengthy autoburglar investigation by officer monthgue of street crimes unit from may of 2022. officers central street crimes conduct an autoburglar near the wharf saw a gold lexus in the parking lot. surveillance was conductd and passed the car committed an autoburglar at front and green the gold lexus was followed where the occupants discarded the bags and lost in the area. the officer inspected the discarded item and found blood

on a luggage tag. receive submitted the blood to be processed by the crime lab. approximately a month later the officer received a dna hit on the blood evidence identifying a suspect. based on the surveillance from the day of the burglary and the dna evidence the officer identified the suspect as the autoburglar. this investigation was on going, officer montgue kept notes on vehicles seen used to wrak in vehicles in the city and realized 2 of the vehicles were registered to the suspect as well. the suspect was later arrested by oak land police officers for outstanding warranty and during this rest the suspect fled and discarded a firearm. receive montgue requested niseize the suspect's felony for further investigation. using the suspect's cell phone

history the officer was able to match the suspect's location with the location his vehicles were seen being used to commit the additional burglarys. through the course of investigation he was able to accept cause the support committed not just one burglary but 7 which he was arrestd and charged the officer should be commended for his months long investigation he shows attention to dedpal did in the let the fact that the suspect got, way hinging the objective and holding criminals acounselable for breaking the law. congratulations. [applause] [applause]

>> thank you, captain kim. you in i like to call up commander eric vin tero if the golden gate division. officer jackson and sergeant nic list buckley from bayview station. officer jackson a 7 year veteran

of the sfpd and bayview station for approximately the last 6 years. where she is a full time field training receive. left year officer jackson awarded the field training officer award for bayview station show is voted on by all of her pierce and the supervisors at the station. great job. sergeant buck low a 17 year veteran to the sfpd the majority of career on patrol. 9 years at mission station and bayview for the last 5 years as a sergeant and runs the entire fpo program at bayview. being an fto is a demanding and importantion and both memberers role models. what makes these members special in exceptional and stand out is the fact that they have their full time jobs and on their days off they volunteer to w over time together. push the radio car in the

bayview patrolling hot spots for violence and shootings. this over time is necessary due to our staffing shortages. i want to share with you an incident sum rises the type of work officer jackson and sergeant buckley dom september 18 of 23 at about 2:30 p.m. officer jackson and sergeant buck low working as violence reduction officer in bayview an over time assignment. they noticed a white sedan and gray sedan driving, speeding reckless low through the quiet neighborhood. officer jackson ran the license plate of the white and realized the car was stolen. the officers med a u turn and attempting to locate the vehicle to do a traffic stop. the officers located both vehicles several blocks away

after both of the vehicles collided with each other and all the occupants fled both on foot. no other vehicles were involved in the collision the officers were rolling up to the collision, they saw the last some exiting one of the vehicles and -- flee the area on foot. officers gave chase after ordering him to stop he did not. they caught up to the suspect and engaged in i long extended struggle with an extremely large man when based on report was listed 5-11, 321 poundses. after successful low detang the suspect policing him in cuffs and under rest the officers discovered this he had a loaded semi automatic land everhands gun in his hahns pock and he a loaded magazine in the other pocket. in addition, both of the vehicles were reported stolen.

for the proact of work, dedication to duty. sergeants buckley and officer jackson are the officers of the month for bayview station. congratulations. [applause] [applause]

>> thank you. commander. you in like to call up for our last presentation acting captain john casper from tenderloin station. the >> good afternoon. it is my honor to speak of an arrest officers kayedo and conlow made on september 20, 20 tea. at 5:40 p.m. these officers from tenderloin station i like to mention one thing, 2 of the go to officer this is we have at tenderloin station. we do have many. but i had to call upon them to stay late or in in early to help out with calls for service and help out with regular patrol duties and they are very

resource and will easy to work with. officer cado and conway lefshed a car occupied by 3 people commit traffic violations they conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of mc calster and market in the tenderloin. officers conducted an investigation during the stop. finding cause to identify all of the occupants of vehicle. the statement time, northern station officers upon responded to the lululemon regarding an organizationed retail theft that just occurred the officers discovered i large amount merchandise had been stole sxen broadcast the the information of the suspects and their vehicle. it needs to be mentioned this northern radio channel is on a different channel and he's officers proactive low listen to neighboring stations to police regular traffic.

the officers heard this broadcast on the other channel and recognized the suspect vehicle information broadcasted was the same as the vehicle which than i had stopped. the officers successful low detained the occupants and alerted the officers at northern station. witness to the theft identified the suspects who were placed under arrest in addition with the help of sfpd organized retail theft investigator sarjt marino the suspects linked to a retail lest at the location in walnut creek. a search of the car rekosovoed 136 parris of leggings and other clothing were located as result of their proactive police work. with the awareness and thorough investigation the receives had i learning part in recovery of over 15 thousand dollars worth of stolen property. in addition, the sense were arrestd and charged with numerous felony in both

counties. thank you very much. for your hard work. [applause]. [applause] okay. thank you acting captain casper. all right. this concludes our officer recognition ceremony. i have a couple of anouns ams.

first, we like to take photos with the honorees today. mothera will put together this -- put together this nice back drop. chief sir reminded me that the chronicle will have a half page display either this sunday or the following sunday of the recognition. so mayor breed and chief scott, join up there for the photo and please, enjoy the refreshment this is have been laid out and mix and ming and he will thank you, mayor breed, chief scott. chief sir and everyone being here today. enjoy your afternoon, thank you. [applause] clear clear

>> welcome. i'm carlo the director of mission for st. anthony foundation i want to thank everyone.for joining us in this special celebration. blessing and dedication of this facility which moving forward known as the caplisten family oasis shelter. [applause] >> i want to extend a warm welcome to our mayor, thank you

for being here. supervisor preston who i saw, thank you. and executive director of homelessness and supportive housing. thank you for being here today. thank you for everyone for coming. you know we are here to honor the people all of the people involved in transforming motel to a shelter. to support the families that live here and also to celebrate had the facility stands for. jot oasis protect demonstrates that is public had the city, private sector and faith based organizations all come together to work around a common goal. that goal is to support our neighbors in need especially the most vulnerable. as you know, since the height of the pandemic, the founz agsz with the city operating the oasis as a shelter for families. in june, when michael and elaine heard about the challenges associated with keeping the shelter open, they stepped up in

a major way. if not for the generosity of the family trust, backed by the board at st.an thon and he commitment of providence it continue this good work and of course lodgist cal and financial support of our city; we would not be here today. jot oasis is here to provide a place of shelter and transitional housing. more importantly, a safe place for women and children had they have nowhere to turn. to speak more to that i invite the executive director of providence tah patricia doyle to share thoughts. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. providence foundation of san francisco believes that true change begins with compassion and collaboration. and prior to getting started i

would like to introduce the board of directors and executive staff. chairman of the board mr. james blanden, please, [applause]. lanita williams. bernadette anthony and canisha roads. thank you for joining me. providence foundation has proudly operated the oasis facility here as the emergency family shelter center since the start of the pandemic. march of 2020. providing a safe, secure resident, case management and support services to women and families. providence was introduced to the oasis by supervisor dean preston >> who not only assist in the

obtaining the oasis hotel and also acysted in securing funds to operate and stay at the oasis. we have been here for over 3 years, a long time and the shelter in place contract will be here for the next 9 years. [applause] had the previous owners first expressed the intention so sell the oasis that meant that the shelter in place was at risk of closing down. st. anthony stepped up and st. anthony foundation is a testament to our unwaivering commitment to address homelessness and improving the lives of our most vulnerable population. here in the city. together, we have built more than a shelter, we have created

hope and opportunity for those in need. our homeless families with children and women who are at risk of violence. to tell you more about our partnership, i would like to bring forward st. anthony's foundation ceo neil. [applause] [laughter] thank you. >> good morning, everybody we are here to celebrate and we want to celebrate that is right and good about our world and san francisco and about the good work of so many good people. we are here today because we are on a mission from god. this mission is not only to support those who are most vulnerable and in need of our help, but also to help them to sustainablely find a way out of

that cycle of poverty, homelessness and abuse that too many experienced for generations. and we are here to help these most vulnerable people because -- we have decided and have a vision to bring together the best that we have to offer. providence foundation the operator of the shelter. the city of san francisco and st. anthony to provide the services with the focus on the person so this we can help people to get out of the situation. and we are here to help 300 more people every year to exit the cycle homelessness and poverty and abuse every year. we are here today because of the good work of so many people of good limp we are here because providence our friends and partners set up the shelter on the very difficult circumstances in covid times and run it extremely limp and they will continue to do this, thank you providence foundation for this.

[applause] we are here because the good work of providence foundation was supported by the good work of elected officials starting dean preston and his team who helped setting up this shelter. as a first step, thank you to them as well. and we are here and we are here especially we because of the caplin's they had vision andien officersity to step and lay the ground work to prevent eviction, thank you very much you are an inspiration to us. [applause] >> and we are here the board and staff of st. anthony got inspired bigenerosity of the caplin's and put their money and work behind that and create a vision and stretch to make that happen. thank you at this time board and

staff of st. anthony. and -- i'm coming to the end there are men to thank. moved by the spirit but not longer than 90 seconds. mayor. gone over. so -- we are here because the mayor and her team at hsh supported this vision. and they found a way of supporting us in a very creative and nonbureaucratic way how to put the best of everything together that is something what we are grateful for which thank you, mayor and thank you to your team for that support. [applause] you know what, most of all we are here because we have a job to do and our job is to really serve the people we are called to serve. and to make the change happen. we are bringing things together in a now way that is now to all of us it is ditch, but the price

is worth it. thank you for starting long journey with us we know we can be successful. thank you. [applause] and i would like to turn it over to our mayor. [applause] >> all right! let me say how excited i am to be here. and in bureaucratic years this went pretty fast. things take long to do things with the city and county of san francisco and i gotta say, how everyone came together to make this possible was extraordinary. i am really honord and grateful to st. anthony for the w they do in san francisco all over the city to help families and help people in need. i'm especially grill for the partnership with providence foundation and i want to shout out to patricia dole for hard work in helping to take care of

this shelter and other family shelters throughout san francisco. [applause] thank you. for in the only always stepping up but also the job opportunity you provide to so many african-americans in this city. we know that after can americans represent almost 40% of the homeless population and the work that you do to help make sure they are housed and provided with opportunity to work in the same facility system irrelevant extraordinary work that needs to be recognized. we appreciate our relationship with providence foundation so thank you very much. >> i want to say to the caplin family and your generosity, we would not be here were not for the lord puting project on your heart through st. anthony to make this possible. i money this is how god works. in is how we make magic happen

for people and families. and i want to give perspective here because -- i have been you will be hearing from others who will be talking a bit about their various experience. living through this place and being able to exit into permanent supportive housing opportunity. i want to just put something in perspective. this city does extraordinary work. there is a lot of criticism but since 2018, we helped over 10,000 people exit homelessness in san francisco. and we have never had even a point in time count with 10,000 on the street in the city that is some perspective. i heard a few claps back that. [laughter] [applause]. every single night we are housing almost 15,000 people in

our shelter and permanently supportive housing developments. doing extraordinary work. in our last time count san francisco was the only count in the bay area that saw a reduction in homelessness. 15% in unsheltered homelessness and 3.5% reduction over all in homelessness. the thing is, we are investing we are doing the work, and fortunately for us, we are blessed to have extraordinary partners to help us achieve goals especially sometimes when the city is not able to step up completely and provide the necessary resources and the capacity to dot work. and this is where st. anthony come in the fear of loseing as a shelter they're supported families and supported people who are escaping situations of domestic violence and supporting folks to turn their lives around, this place was be

threatened. and shafereen mcfadden and her team because of when we were dealing with jorge reasonable doubt up their sleeves and made sure not one family was displaced. in fact, they helped to get people in a more permanent, stable position. worked really hard to do this. and when the opportunity came, and neil reached out and said we can pull something together >> a great he hold me unanimous donor i'm grateful the family agreed to allow us to recognize them for what they are doing here today. but if were not for them this would not be happening now. this is a big deal. the city will provide the resources for the operational expenses related keeping place going. the steal pay for a number of other repairs and other thing this is need to occur. so we are doing something bulled not do it without the support of perking this building and in our

housing portfolio for families who need it the most. this is extraordinary. and i'm so proud of everyone involved in this project and makeing possible. in sees this as a beacon. home and life and dh space is a place of light and a place of hope. one that will be open and visible to families who need it when they do need it. because this city has done extraordinary things to help people and i'm proud this is just another opportunity to ensure that families have a safe, affordable place to call home as a transition to something permanent in san francisco. i want to thank each one of you for being involved. this is a game changer and we will continue to do all the amazing work we are doing. no, we are not where we want to be. but working together with our private partnerships and our

religious institutions and including the inter~ faith council i see michael thank you for joining us. working together, we will get there. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce myself. i'm shafereen mcfadden director of hsh. homelessness and supportive housing. so, i am so excited be here today and i want to thank supervisor preston for your initial advocacy ongoing advocacy on this building. certainly, patricia doyle and the work your team has done this is an exciting space for us. i think the first time i came here as canearbya said it was 13 months ago. i was struck biby the sense of the community.

women, children special fathers here. everyone i talked to said we want to retain the sense of community. we feel safe here and we are concerned this place will close before we have a chance to move into permanent housing. at the time, i think we were really trying desperate low to figure out how this would happen and you know i think we put it in the winds. i agree with the mayor that god works in mystereius ways. thank you to the caplins for your amazing donation and neil to spearhead this to make sure we were able to come together and figure out how to support families at the oasis. you know this is the way we are going. thinking more about noncondition agreeigate shelter. families need privacy and community this is a good location for that.

. i want to thank my team at hsh. also providence and your teams. and neil's and everyone at st. anthony this was in the easy. part of the reason is because we have 2 different organizations with 2 different cultural identities. and so coming together and trying to figure out how we make that work with all of the services and programs that providence offers, and all of the service that st. anthoniments to bring in was not, it was a challenge. i thank everybody for continuing on that vision and able it say. we know we will get there in the end even had it is hard. appreciation to all of you. and i'm excited to bring up -- she is going to tell her story but somebody when has been at the oasis for a number of months. her daughter and you will speak,

too. i believe after, so, i just they are good examples of what the oasis means for families. means for women and children. and what we realliment to see is people to leave places like the oasis, go on in housing and be the great people and the san franciscans they will be. looking forward to hearing your words. thank you. [applause]. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for having mow. a special thanks to providence and patrish why and everyone here at providence. thank you so much. thank you for the staff you have here. i would like to say thank you to providence issue st. anthony the mayor and everyone who made it

happen i was not sure what would happen or where i would go or that the future would hold. after losing a child to suicide last year, i became homeless and hopeless. since move nothing providence i gained permanent housing at city gardens in san francisco. now i have hope they can do anything the support my family and provide a safe and permanent housing for them. a thanks to the staff in the case managers here at providence. they encourage me never to give up. and to also put me and my children first. thank you for supporting my son and encourage him to play football. he is now playing football at galileo high school and he is the honor roll student. i hope that -- [applause] i hope this future family who is in to

providence utilize the services and the support than i have to offer. thank you so much. [applause] >> i will translate. >> [speak spanish] i would like to thank everyone for being here today. it is not easy for some of the families that arrive here for the first time to get a head start. [speaking spanish] >> thank you for projects like this. my family can come with a safe, welcoming and warm place for mow

to be. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. >> all right. now going to be time for blessing st.an thoen is fran civic an ministry i like to invite father ma sada and michael the executive director of interfaith council. they will be joining us on stage and lead us in a blessing. >> good morning, everybody. you join me in blessing this beautiful place. god, you are beauty, you are faith you are hope you are love. you are everything that we have. we ask to you bless this place. this beautiful place. that everybody was here is feel safe, peaceful and be welcomed. as a community.

we thank you for everybody who make this happen. we thank you for the heart this is came together to help people in need. we praise your will and timing and love, for your people. i bring the love and the prayers of the 800 communities of faith and religious institutions in san francisco. moles and pat have been part of a round table of ceo leaders and i have been hearing about this and many of you who travel up franklin did in the pay attention to it before. now i look at it in a different life it is an oasis. a respite from struggle as people gain the strength to move on. the place is blessed. it blessed by the generosity of the caplin's and response. it is blessed by the good people of faith here and add to that. thank you for giving hope to

people in need. they are not forsaken and you brought everyone together through faith and love. to make our assistant district attorney a better place, amen. [applause] now like to invite tim dunn the chair of st. anthony, forward. >> good morning everybody. delighted be here. want to thank all of our donors for everything than i have done for us including the caplin family and the city for being a great host with us on the project. it is pretty phenomenonal to see what if we get people together wheno can accomplish, so. i'm not going to speak long, i

wanted to say thank you and thank you for joining us and it is grit to be a part of this. [applause]. >> short and sweet. i want to thank everyone for coming and being a part of this special blessing. and dedication to what this facility means for the families living here. this will conclude our ceremony but before that on behalf of st. anthonies i invite to you max's opera cafe to join us for lunch. all right. thank you. [applause] [music] san francisco developing programs specific low to increase the amount of

affordable housing throughout the city. >> the affordable housing bonus program provides developers to include more housing for i have low, low, moderate and middle income households. this program does not rely on public subsidies but private developers who include it part of their project. under california density bonus law. housing prejudices that include affordable on site may be request a density bonus. it is an increase in the number of housing units allowed under zoning laws and based on affordable units being provided. >> however, the state law does not address all of san francisco needs does not incentivize middle income housing. associating the city is proposing an affordable housing

bonus program for higher levels of development including middle income u firsts providing a stream lined application review and approval process. >> how does the program work in it applies to mixed use corridors in san francisco. and offers incentives to developers who provide 30% of affordable in projects. to reach 30%, 12% of the units must be affordable to low income household and 18% per minute nap to middle income households. >> in exchange developers will will build more and up to additional 2 stories beyond current zoning regulations. >> 1 huh human % affordable will be offered up to 3 additional stories beyond current regulations. each building will be required conform to guidelines ensuring

meets with the character of the area and commercial corridors. this program is an opportunity to double the amount of affordable housing and directly address the goals established by twenty 14 hosing element and prospect k paddled by voters last year. pacificly, prop circumstance established a goal that 33% of all new housing permanent to low and moderate incomes this program will be the first to prosecute void permanent affordable projects that include middle income households. to learn more about the program visit >> hi. i'm prihere at the gorgeous san francisco precylinderiel tunnel p. i'm here with ceo and president of chamber of commerce rodney fong. tell us about the chamber and when make its and in san francisco. i great diversity of san

francisco businesses from cars to mall businesses and hospitality and instructs. so the chamber of commerce hen here for 173 years and represents them as 1 ecosystem. tell us about the tunnel top this is is i beautiful new space create in the the left year >> it is beautiful and this was an army base convert today a park. but i chose this location for you because to mow it is a coninfluence of nature readaptation and men a ship will in to port with goods and trades. and important it remember this san finish sitos the edge of the west coast a great per city and important piece to the economic vitality of the pacific rim. we have an initiative here, too, to green our city as much as possible. it is an exciting time. come out and check out san francisco and the presidio tunnel top when you are in our

per of the world. rodney thank you for being here and thank you for showing us. >> thank you.please stand by the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting of november 8, 2023. >> the meeting will come do order. well to november 8 budget finance committee. i like to thank matthew from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. doia have announcements? >> please make sure to silence