department and executive director paul henderson from the department of police

accountability. thank you. welcome, everyone, to our march 6th, 2024 meeting. happy women's history month! i am so excited for this month, we have a phenomenal first agenda item. i'm so excited about it. that's why i was outside. so i apologize for the ten minute tardiness. so with that, let's go ahead and call item number one please. line item one weekly officer recognition certificate presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties. recognition of sfpd's homicide detail and support staff, including lieutenant kelvin sanders, sergeant domingo williams, officer anthony talarico, sergeant scott warnke, sergeant john hallisey, retired officer dominic celaya, sergeant kira delaney, sergeant ryan jones, retired officer daniel cunningham, lisa maria varney, secretary sergeant brant dittmar, sergeant brant sullivan, retired officer daniel dedet. sergeant francis feliciano. sergeant brian burke,

retired officer tom newland. sergeant gregory scott and sergeant eric wang, and retired lieutenant michael philpott. hello. come on in. that's like the size of my whole department. i think there's more outside. yeah, there's more coming. yes the more the merrier. go ahead and crouch in because we want you in camera view. come on, don't be shy. let's get it together. come. do we have everyone? lieutenant just a couple more. there we go. okay okay. that's everything. okay. thank you for having us. we're here to, present the officer appreciation awards to the entire homicide unit, they've

done a tremendous job this past year. 85% clearance rate, they work tireless hours around the clock. they're always on call, they never turn down a case. they take every single case that's presented to them, and they've done an outstanding job over the last year. so we brought them all in to recognize them. so first off is, lieutenant kelvin sanders. he's the oic of the unit. then we have, sergeant domingo williams. we have officer anthony talarico. did he make it there? hi we have, sergeant scott warnick. we have sergeant john hallisey. we have retired captain dominic celaya of the cold case unit. we have sergeant kira delaney, we have sergeant ryan jones. we have sergeant brett dittmar. we have sergeant brant sullivan, we have retired

officer dan dedet of also of the cold case unit. we have sergeant francis feliciano. did he make him? no, we have sergeant brian burke. we have retired officer tom newland, also of the cold case unit. we have sergeant gregory skow. we have sergeant eric wang, and we have, retired lieutenant mike philpott, also the cold case unit and, a special person we have here is, lisa marie vanny. she's a secretary. she's been there, i think longer than everybody. yeah, she replaced lily. could not talk to me without her whatsoever. thanks, lisa. thanks for everything. thank you. and if i can just say it's lisa's birthday saturday. oh, she wants us to know. see what we do for you. yes. thank you. 25. wow. that's right. and we have two new, police service aides here. they just started a couple of weeks ago. come on. part of this

. come on. we have anne dixon and eric heenan. they're new to the family. great. well, first of all, thank you all for coming . i really appreciate it, a couple things i want to say is thank you for your service. an 85% clearance rate is phenomenal . it's probably one of the best in several counties surrounding counties. i know we're ahead of oakland, and san jose and some of the other counties. so that is really something to be proud of. secondly, i want to thank your families because i know that without them, you probably wouldn't be here, while you're doing the your job and protecting the city and getting this clearance rate to where it is, they're at home taking care of the home front. your children and everything else that you aren't there to be. also i recognize that the one, two, three, 4 a.m. calls that you have to get out of bed to go and answer these calls and really do your job. and so i want to thank you for your service, because i know that it's not easy. and not

only does it take a toll on you, but it takes a toll on the family unit as well. so i want to thank your family. thank you for your service. and i want to thank you, lieutenant, for including the cold case division as well, because i think that the that unit also goes unrecognized. and, as i indicated to you in the hall, you know, it's like the unsung heroes you appear in the middle of the night or any hour of the day to go and respond to calls. and you see some of the most horrific, traumatic things that people see. and you are there and you do your job. so i want to thank you. i also want to thank you, madam secretary, because as we all know, you are probably the real machine of this operation. and, you know, i'm sure they just facilitate paperwork. i this is my second family. yeah, i love all of them . great. i've been with them. well, not all of them, but like 37 years. so i love it. wow. yeah. so you started when you were like five, like. yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. yes. and

i'm so happy. sergeant jones you know, when i first joined the commission, he's the one that raised me. so all my bad habits. you can thank him for. so with that, i'm going to turn it over to the chief. thank you, president elias, i just also want to say thank you to this, to all of the homicide unit. i mean, the amount of dedication and commitment that it takes to just to work that unit is beyond what a lot of people would believe, but they do it. and many of them have been doing it for years, they don't complain. they just come in and do the work. and i know i wish we solved every case. we don't solve every case. but as you said, their clearance rates, for the last several years has been extremely high. and for the ones that don't get solved, they don't give up on these cases. and i've seen it time and time again. i also want to thank our retired members who came back to work these unsolved cases,

because we definitely need their expertise and their support. and again, for the people who have cases who have not been solved, they don't give up. and it's just a relentless unit and, you know, nothing but high praise for our homicide unit. so thank you all for what you do. and lisa and the new two psa's. we know that, you know, we can't do our work without help and support. and you've been with the department almost 38 years and, it's really great to congratulate you and thank you for your work as well. so thank you. and thank you to the commission for bringing everybody in and supporting the entire homicide unit. so thank you very much for that. thank you, chief director henderson. yeah, i just want to say so two things. the 85% clearance rate is you're not getting enough credit for that. that is huge. the national average is i looked it up, 52.3. i mean, the fact that this is what san francisco is doing and where we are right now for our rate is really important. i just think it's a

very big deal. so i hope you guys are proud of the work that you're doing. but the secondary thing is i think it's really important. i know so much of the work is behind the scenes, and you're not frequently featured on tv and at commissions for the work that you do, but just as a sign of how relevant the work is that you do, we talk about some of the cold cases and unsolved homicides literally every week, and paulette brown is here in the hearing room today. she's here every week talking about not just her case, but the work that gets done that all of you do every single day. so i think it's extra relevant that you guys are here for police commission to come and talk about the work that's actually being done and the work that still needs to be done. and so thank you all for continuing your work, and thank you for being here tonight. it's really appropriate and really relevant to the conversations that we have every single week. so thank you and continued success. thank you. director henderson. i think you bring up a great point

because it's not the cases that you solve, but it's the ones that go unsolved and that probably haunt you. and i think eat away at you, that are very stressful. and you carry with you no matter where you go. i mean, even if you get transferred or move on to a different unit. i think those cases stick with you, and sort of are burned in your memory. and they're the most difficult because they're the ones you can't solve or can't prove. so commissioner benedicto, thank you very much. president elias, i want to echo what everyone has said, and thank you all so much, for all that you do and recognizing that exceedingly high, high clearance rate. i do also like president elias did want to take a moment to call out lisa and wish you an early happy birthday, and thank you for coming today. my own mother has spent her career as an assistant, and just as i know that the men that you work for would be would be adrift at sea without her. i'm sure the same is true of this entire unit, so thank you for your work there. i also want to echo something that director henderson said, which is about the work that you do

that is unseen in. we've had a lot of we've had a number of high profile homicides that have been solved and that the unit's done tremendous work and gotten recognition for that. but i think it's the homicides that don't make national news that don't get all the attention that you work just as hard as the ones that are, and that you don't see your work as trying to, to, to solve the ones that are high profile, that you treat all those cases, and work them relentlessly, like the chief said. and so i thank you for doing that. i do want to acknowledge, like director anderson did, that we have paulette brown in the room who has been a tireless advocate for calling attention to, her own son, aubrey, as well as the many unsolved homicides. and i know that that's something that you all care deeply about, too. so thank you for all you do and all you continue to do. you're an exemplary part of this department and have our recognition and thanks. no one else on the dais. thank you very much. thank you. come down for the photo. we have wine or champagne or you stay there. i

just. you know, we got to get it for the gram, so get in. get in together. might need to come up. up here, out. i'm sorry. commissioners. no, no. you're fine, you're fine. do you want us to move? no, i think you're good. you want to center? thank you. doctor president. while you're there, alex, that will never happened. commission staffs in the photo two. they don't realize it. just are. yes. thank you, thank you. all right. thanks to.

members of the public who would like to make public comment regarding line item one. please approach the podium. good evening, president elias and commissioners, i'm jim salinas, a native san franciscan born and raised in the mission district. i lived in san francisco my entire life. commissioners, i'm here tonight to ask that you take on one more obligation, one more responsibility, and i fully appreciate the fact that you are all volunteer citizens and you don't get paid to do this. you do it because you love the city, and you know that there's some good that comes of it. so, commissioners, i'm here because. excuse me, sir, i just paused your time for one second. this is going. this is not general public comment. that's the next line item. this is just on the officer recognition. if you want to make comment on that, my apologies. i didn't hear you say that. okay. no problem. thank you. go ahead. since i'm here a lot and i see these

commendations a lot, i just wanted to say thank you so much for doing this and giving these commendations. it's wonderful to see the excellent work recognized. so thank you. thank commissioners. that is the end of public comment. if you would like to make public comment regarding line item one, yes, but it's not line one, general public comment is next. thank you. so sorry. no line item two general public comment at this time. the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission. rules of order. during public comment, neither police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. email the secretary at the police commission at sfpd. commission at sf gov. org or written statements may be sent via us postal service to the public safety building located at 1245

third street, san francisco, california. 94158. if you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. good evening again. i think every other week for me is enough for you because you need to release the pressure which is over everybody's head and it's obviously a all right, to be. are you okay, chief? i hope so, i mean, do not resign no matter what. keep in mind, are you going to manage to pay for the situations? you know, you we pay for what we do. there is no escape. it's no way. but do not resign. just wait to be fired. it's different because then you make the person who fires you pay a little more. it's difficult for when you have responsibility as a, for example, as a in the police, because you pay for your your functions and you pay

individually for your own self. you see. so it's tough, it's tougher, which don't waste too long before finding out a way. are you going to pay for what happened and what it's still going on anyway? specific the reason why you should go push sort of against autonomous cars. i'm talking about that. it's because it's, basically it's in the hands of a sort of unintelligence, an unintelligent is dangerous no matter what. at some point, something they can't do, you can do because at some point there is okay, remember that one. just try to fight against this autonomous cars. i don't think it's going in the right direction. 25 seconds, where should i say, i'll be back. try to help, basically, my mission is that it's for happiness for everybody. i remind you that i want nothing, just that happiness for everybody. but we have to pay

attention before i go, nothing can stop me. you can't stop me without basically committing suicide. i'm serious. but let's be honest. thank you for being here. we've missed you these past couple weeks. does he look tired? i think we are. hi, everyone. my name is daisy aussem, and i wanted to just report on something that's going on in the community, which is the use of several technologies that are being run by different space satellites and floating points coming from outer planets. so there's a specific technology where you can upload somebody and you can put sound into their ear. they call it synthetic telepathy, and it's a technology that deloitte and all the big consulting firms have talked about and helped to build out and it's been causing a lot of chaos because they're uploading people and then

there's racial chanting, or they're trying to get information because there's an element of neuro monitoring to this technology. i've worked a lot in behavioral health. i used to work at dcyf. i've done a lot of advocacy and work with the police, and i feel like this is like one of the biggest issues in our community. i know you see that the crime spree that's been going on, as a part of this suite of technologies, it's chemical servers that can go ahead and override the electricity, aka mantissa that you're coding in your computer and bring in outside databases that you can go ahead and use to edit like anything, any part of a database that you want to edit. and this is where we're getting a lot of the data breaches. i've been doing a lot of coding tutorials on my page. i have a small developer community where we're basically trying to close this hacking down. that's been causing a lot of problems because essentially they created an entire copy of all of the banks cash app, everything, everyone's bank account and people that are working in city and county, state, san francisco, city and county of san francisco, working in the assembly, working in the senate, are using this technology to move people's

money around. and we figured it out. and now everything that we've been putting on our youtube has come up in the news. so we can clearly say that we've been having a major effect. i know you've been hearing about the outages. a lot of that is in our small developer community, and i'm going to release a specific tool to the community where they're going to be able to get access to everyone's public information. if the police do not take the situation seriously and start handling business. and that's a very powerful weapon to put into the hands of black and brown people that were oppressed. a specific computer program that allows you to legally overpower environments and access any type of data that you want. and i just want to talk to some people here on the police commission about that. and i have a handout. if someone could pass it around. good afternoon, police commission. my name is chris ward klein. thank you for the opportunity to speak in front of you today. i wanted to talk about technology. today. i just passed out some police systems used by sfpd and one

used by hrsa called sherlock. these systems are supposed to be automatic, sending appropriate signals to people, machines, computers and collect data. that is like an ongoing circle. december 30th, 2023. for police officers hurt in crash. same day three firefighters hurt in crash december 23rd, 2023 suspect and four bystanders hurt and a police chase crash. what caused these and others? it is called a man in the middle attack and one or more agency placing too many people on their systems. digital surveillance someone not important who plays sizable portions of the city and county on hsa. sherlock. what is important that the police commission and police department need to ensure that all of these people are taking off immediately. hsa does investigations for things like adoption, substance abuse, mental health disorders, illegal gun ownership, and sometimes they place people on it simply because they don't like them. i do believe the police should have access to tools and technology to assist them in investigations. however, until we can effectively mitigate and set the boundaries between departments and outside

interference, we need to reduce the number of people on digital surveillance and insist only assigning credentials to people who need access, prosecute illegal usage, relieve delhi, review delhi to ensure no access control issues or man in the middle attacks 813 overdoses in 20 2366 more in january and february. numbers due out any day. if you place every single person on digital surveillance, you will have a substantial increase in overdoses that can lead to poor morale in the police department and officer burnout. i respectfully ask the police commission to make this a priority. i'm available to assist in any capacity requested by the police commission or the police department. thank you. hello, ladies and gentlemen. i was kind of mean to you last time i was here. i was a little too dramatic. i apologize for that. i just want to say that the fbi has a wonderful plan that will greatly, tremendously help police conduct. first, all all officers that are presently

on the force will be given a very intensive, thorough, psychological and psychiatric evaluation to see who's a, who's a crackpot. and they will go. and the second thing is that all of you, all cops will be given a, their own, therapist that they can a nurse practitioner, they can call every day to say, you know, i had a horrible altercation when my buddy i had i had to beat somebody up today. it was a horrible. i need help, i need some counseling, some help. there will be group therapy for cops to get around with their buddies and say, yeah, yeah, this happened to me. there will be therapy, yoga classes, everything to keep you guys cool so that basically we don't need the commission anymore. that does not mean that you guys are fired. you guys are wonderful. the fact is, is that you're going to have better jobs. and that's i'm going to have to give you that later. and we don't have time right now. but i also want to say that she's got who's running the task force that they're forming for the in order to ensure that no cop will be ever reprimanded for

snapping for simply doing his job and, you know, sorry he does that thing right. you know, it's on youtube, right? and so simply, he's going to run this task force, which will give each one each police officer a his own boss, who will literally review every, every second of the footage of his body cam of that day. he will they will interview his his buddies to see what did he do today. and it will be documented. beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. and he will be praised for what he does. so we must nurture and the congress is going to have to pay for this, because if they don't, they're not they're not promoting the general welfare, which is very, very terrible. this is a crime against the constitution in the preamble. so, so congress and we can arrest congress simply when they're on the. yeah. thank you. so i have to go home because i just did dialysis. i have to go to bed. i love you guys. and i

was really mean to you, and i apologize. i, i get kind of crazy sometimes. thank you. okay but we've got better jobs for you than what you've got sitting up there and doing nothing. you're going to do. you got a lot. thank you. ma'am, i appreciate it. i'm ready. thank you for your time. thank you sir. went over. well, it sounds like you guys have a better future ahead of you, i'm here tonight. hello. i realize i don't think anything's actually going to be done about this or come of this, but i at least wanted to put the question on the record of whether the vote. well, any of the votes, but the one that i'm most interested in is the vote last week on dgo nine or. yeah, dgo 9.07, as i have read the requirements of the city of california of san

francisco, you are required to be in person unless one of three exceptions is present, but that those exceptions are not a policy body, on parental leave or or disabled. and if you want to claim that you're not a policy body, that would be awesome. because we could just undo all the policies that i don't like that you have done. but i think it's clear you're a policy body. so that exception does not apply. parental leave and disability are the only two exceptions left out, one of your members was not present in person last week. despite the very clear requirement that everyone be present and of course, if you want to participate remotely, just so you can listen and maybe share your views, but if participation is required to be in person. and by the way, the, human relations director for giving a pass is

not one of the exceptions in the rules that are, published for citizens to, be aware of and for transparency, unless. so, that is not an acceptable excuse. so unless one of those two other excuses was present, i don't think the vote on the dgo was actually valid. i think it would, or his vote would be void. and then the vote was 3 to 3. so i just wanted to put that on the record as a. thank you. good evening, commissioners, alan burdell here, something really astounding, happened a couple of weeks ago here in a desperate act to effectively ban pretext stops, which are the cornerstone of proactive policing. in a desperate act to

ban them before voters could say that you can't for members of this police commission voted to do something no other county in california has done, in something that was rejected in sacramento recently, and that is to restrict the use of pretext stops the decision of four of you. just two weeks ago was a gross display of your raw contempt, raw contempt for voters, and who was huffing and puffing the hardest to get this done. just a week before voters were to determine how much power we want this police commission to have over our sfpd, it's the commissioners smirking at me right now. it's commissioner vice president max carter oberstein. that's the huffer and puffer. and also to his left, commission president cynthia elias. so san francisco, if you

ever see the name max carter oberstein on a ballot or you're running and if you ever see the name cindy elias on a ballot, i urge you, don't fill in that oval. they are grinning with contempt for you as they superseded your voice last week, and they're seething with contempt for all voters at this very moment, after they thwarted the will of san francisco voters, voters who just yesterday clipped their wings big time with a 20 point margin of victory to support mayor breed's prop e, any future mayor otto right now say that they're going to bounce these two. thank you. commissioners, 25 years ago, latino community leaders established a thing called the san francisco latino steering committee. one of the things

that they, these sisters dealt with, and i was part and parcel of it was the fact that latinos were not being recruited in what we thought, an appropriate manner. we brought it to the attention of the chief at the time that we felt that the screening process was a pretty lily white, operation. and we and i remember saying to him, i said, chief, it's what i refer to. what they're using is the fbi system, meaning friends and brothers and in-laws and the rest of us can go, so when cops, latinos, joined this department, one of the things that has been inspected is that they put that brown stuff in their shoe and keep it there, that they're blue, meaning they're not white. so as you see the ranks today, we're at 19, there are the rest of it is about 45% white. and it's important for me and my children and their children and the children of the people in my community to see themselves reflected within this department. i'm going to give

you this one scenario that happened to me a few years ago. i live, behind molly stones, and it is my custom to salute all uniform police officers, wherever they are. i always thank them for a job well done. it's a thankless job. and i approached a white female, officer, to say the same thing that i've said to a thousand others. and what she. when she turned around, she looked at me with such great disdain and spoke to me with such great disdain. it's important for us to see ourselves here, everywhere, up and down the ranks, it's insulting and offensive not to. we're just as capable and talented as anyone else is. so i asked, especially the two latinas. and i'm sorry that commissioner larry yee is not here. and, commissioner walker understands the issues my community has been dealt with. so i appreciate all of your hard work. thank you very much. thank you. police officers in the

room. greetings assistant chiefs. greetings. my name is leticia flores, and there was an initiative on the ballot yesterday to have less reporting duties from police officers. well, i'm a victim of police brutality. and also negligence by tenderloin precinct headquarters of san francisco police department, where i've been a victim of crime not only by police, but citizens of san francisco. and every time i walk into eddie and jones precinct at tenderloin headquarters, they say i'm crazy. i'm 51, 50, and i just want to see, more accountability. and i want to know and a question for the commission. how will you raise, accountable for arrests and reporting requirements and having your staff as police officers do their duties. and i wouldn't know against having the

citizens, you know, have these town hall commissions, what the initiative was something to the effect that there would be less reporting if there's citizen coming in and describing something or other in involvement with commission hearings, stuff like that. so anyways, another thing is the fentanyl crisis is not what it is. it's called fences or an open air black market of latino men that stand there even before covid, even before fentanyl came to san francisco, there was an open black market at ten un plaza, and these men stand would stand there from seven in the morning to 11 p.m. with bucket loads of money, wads over thousands of dollars more money than the honduran gentlemen that are mules, would even gather more than the wool block. african american teenagers

selling legal marijuana, to help pay for the rent. these kids are not the problem. it's these grown men that found out work for the city. thank you so much. you guys want fed? i also heard from urban alchemy. says you guys want, the feds to come in for federal indictments? thank you. do your job. start with san francisco, san francisco pd. okay, i grew up in a neighborhood with many police officers. retired officers, active chp, the then police spokesman for the sfpd, and a police officer, widow and son who lived up the street. none. none of these persons were anything like the other. in fact, they didn't even know one another, even though they all live really closely together. all the children attended the same schools. so yeah. police. i

don't see police as one. you know, homogenous group at all. but onto the issue, i believe that it's necessary for the police department and our prosecutors to, reduce, if not curtail, which would be the near ideal, the long standing phenomena which has become ingrained in police enforcement and our legal culture, specifically in criminal law of, well, it's called up charging and example of up charging might be as simple as arresting a suspect on a felony, booking them on multiple misdemeanors in an effort to pressure the suspect into accepting a single misdemeanor charge. on what? and the most egregious circumstances would rest on a crime that might reasonably be defined as an infraction. so, from a felony arrest, a felony being so severe a crime that one would lose the rights to vote, run for

election, or bear firearms to immediate right down to multiple misdemeanors in an effort to gain leverage over a defendant who might reasonably be cited on an infraction. so this is where we as a community, as a collective society, lose our sense of justice, ethics and morality. good evening. i'm here to talk about my son, aubrey. i do want to thank you. that did acknowledge that i come here. sometimes i need to hear that because sometimes i just feel like i'm not being heard. but i know you hear me. so thank you for acknowledging me and my son, i come here every wednesday. i was so glad to see all of the homicide detail people down here. i didn't expect to see that, but. and collectively, i'm

hoping that all of them can get together. i went out there when they were all standing out there and brought these pictures with me and asked them, please don't forget about my child. don't forget about my baby. i've been coming here for years and they all know me. and i just ask my homicide inspector, when are you going to call me? he said he's going to call me tomorrow at 10:00. i'm hoping he does. and i'm hoping that he has some answers for me instead of saying, there's nothing else, there's nothing going on now. there's nothing we can do, no one's come forth. this is all i've been hearing for years and years. what are we going to do to solve these unsolved homicides? instead of hearing good of me hearing there's nothing, there's nothing, there's nothing. this is what i hear. i want to hear something. instead of taking these pictures out there. and showing them my

son's body. i want people to see how i'm feeling. not just talking about it, but to see it. those of you that are mothers and fathers, you wouldn't want to go through what i'm going through. i'm not over this and i will never be over. the body keeps the score. the body keeps the score. i'm not coming here to entertain. i'm coming here as a grieving mother and i'm still hurting. i want my son's case solved. give me some kind of closure. thank you. for members of the public that have any information regarding the murder of aubrey abercastle, you can call the anonymous 24/7 tip line at (415) 575-4444. commissioners, that is the end of public comment. next item please. line item three. consent calendar. receive and file action. sfpd's. fourth quarter document protocol memo and dpa's fourth quarter document protocol memo. i'll make a motion to

receive and file. second, members of the public would like to make public comment regarding the consent calendar line. item three. please approach the podium. 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. yes. commissioner yanez is yes, commissioner. burn. yes, commissioner. burn is. yes. vice president carter. yes. vice president carter auberson is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item four adoption of minutes. action for the meetings of february 7th, 14th and 21st, 2024. i get a motion. motion to adopt the minutes. second, members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item for the adoption of minutes. please approach the podium. i believe

the minutes for february 21st should be revised to reflect that one of the commissioners was not at present, as is required under the rules and therefore their vote was void. thank you. alan braddell and i would also make the same request that the prior speaker just made about correcting the minutes to show that yanez was not here last week during that vote. thank you. two weeks ago. thank you, sergeant on the motion, commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes, commissioner walker is. yes, commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is yes, commissioner. burn. yes, commissioner. burn is. yes. vice president carter. yes. vice president carter. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item five. chief's report. discussion weekly crime trends and public safety concerns provide an overview of offenses, incidents or events

occurring in san francisco having an impact on public safety. commission discussion on unplanned events and activities a chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. chief scott, thank you. excuse me. thank you, sergeant youngblood. good evening, president elias. vice president carter, commission and executive director henderson and the public, just a general, update on crime trends to start off violent crime down 15, property crime down 33% year to date for a total part one crime reduction of 30. that's a difference of about 2600 crimes fewer than this time last year. in terms of violent crimes, our homicides are down actually 50. we had eight this time last year for our, year to date. as of tonight , shooting victims are down 22% and total gun violence victims are down 30, ghost guns. we have seized 40 ghost guns. i'm sorry.

zero ghost guns this year, as opposed to 40 this time last year. by by the end of january last year, we had 40 ghost guns seized. so there has been a reduction in ghost gun seizures, but our total gun seizures are at 141, which is about 20 or 19 different or fewer than this time last year, a couple of significant incidents. over this past week. there were two shootings in the city. both resulted in, two victims that were non-fatal injuries. one was at the 2100 block of revere in the bayview district on february 27th. the other one was on february 28th on the on junipero serra boulevard. both victims were injured, but no life threatening injuries, and those cases are still under investigation and no arrest at this time. there are also three stabbings that happened over this week. one was on the 800 block of ellis on the 26th february at 12:35 p.m, the

second one was on 24th and mission or at 24th and mission on the 29th of february, and the third was at willow and willow street and van ness avenue on the 3rd of march, at 11:24 a.m. the common theme in these three stabbings is they all, resulted from arguments and arguments led to stabbings. no arrests have been made. all of these cases are still under investigation as far as other significant events, there was a protest that happened this past saturday. it began at harry bridges plaza, and it culminated, on montgomery street near the israeli consulate. now, it was reported by several media outlets that the sfpd officers involved use force on peaceful protesters. during this protest at the 400 block of montgomery street, the crowds attempted to breach the barricades, and in the process, one officer was spat on by a

protester and other protesters threw bottles and other objects at officers. some of which struck the officers. all of this was captured on the officer's body. worn cameras. during this exchange, pepper spray and batons were used and there were no serious injuries, two officers were injured and at least one person, on the involved in the protest was reported to have an injury, but none of them were serious. so, there is a there is an investigation on this, but i just wanted to point out that what was reported on saturday that that peaceful protesters had forced use upon them, the body worn camera actually indicates a different story. so i just want to make sure that that is put out there as well, we had a chance to review the body worn cameras and actually, what i just described was captured on the body worn camera , last couple of items to report . the narcotics unit had a very

successful week this past week, which led to the seizure of approximately 46 pounds of narcotics. of that, approximately 10 pounds of that was fentanyl. that's quite that's quite a bit of narcotics. there were numerous search warrants served. all of them were outside of the city. but this was all narcotics that would have ended up in the tenderloin, the people that were being investigated or connected to the tenderloin narcotics trade, there were a total of seven arrests that were made. and there's still more investigation to be done on this case. so i just want to give a hats off to the narcotics investigation. this investigation has been going on for a couple of months, and it's not over yet. so really good work there. and again, part of the goal and the objective is to disrupt this market by taking narcotics off the street, of the other, 10 pounds of fentanyl, as i reported, and the other approximately 45 pounds, 35 pounds was meth. so a really

good, good job. by the, by the officers in that case. and that concludes my report for this week. thank you. thank you chief. mr. young thank you, chief, for the report. thank you, president elias, with regards to the enforcement and the tenderloin, i know that, you know, the numbers of overdose deaths have stayed pretty consistent, right? as far as we understand. and, even after this enforcement has had been initiated, my understanding is one of the objectives of this approach is to get drugs off the streets so that people aren't overdosing. so we should be making an impact on that. but it doesn't feel, i mean, evidence is demonstrating that we have not reduced the number of overdoses with this new intervention. and when the intervention started in may of last year or april, may of last year, i you know, i on an ongoing basis, i've been asking what are the tangible

objectives, what are the outcomes, what are the metrics that we're looking for success and if overdose deaths are decreasing, the number of deaths isn't one of those outcomes, what are those numbers? what are those approaches and what is, going to inform the next step that we take when, after eight months of this intervention, we have not improved the outcomes when it comes to overdose deaths in the city? yeah. well, for as far as the police action, i don't definitely we all want to see fewer overdose deaths, but part of our objective from the policing standpoint has always been to disrupt, to remove as much as we can remove as much narcotics, particularly fentanyl, off the streets as we can. and then the other thing is disrupt the open air, sales and usage of narcotics. i do think we have made some definitely made some impact. there the night market is still a huge

challenge for us. but as far as the day market, which is where we started in may on the on really the focus was on the day market things. things have gotten much better. and if you look at some of the areas where there used to be, 1020 drug dealers selling drugs on the streets in the daytime, in the broad daylight, not so much anymore in the daytime. now, night time is still a challenge, and we're we've shifted a lot of our resources tonight, so hopefully over time, we will hopefully we'll see some impact on the overdose picture, but from a policing standpoint, really the objective is to disrupt, to seize as much as we can to help disrupt that market, to definitely focus on the dealers. i mean, the majority of the investigations have focused all of the investigations are focused on the dealers, not just the street dealers, but like some of the arrests that i just mentioned, where it goes above the street dealers. so i do think there's been some some impact and some success there, we need everybody on the team,

public health and the service providers to really hopefully impact this overdose picture. and they are on the team. so i think we just have to keep working, you know, we're what, ten months into this now, 11, ten months, not even ten months, nine months into this. so i do think there's a lot of work to be done. and we still need to figure out some things in terms of how we're going to address this overdose market. is it department anywhere close to considering the cart program or funding the cart program that, has been, you know, extensively evaluated or at least researched and we participated in this. we have a resolution on, it is a plausible potential alternative to this approach that we have taken. and, i believe it's still on the table. i mean, we had a resolution last year that says we support launching this program, but we haven't taken steps to actually activate this. yeah, i believe that funding for the cart program. so the funding, was approved by the

board and then i believe an rfp dem from the department of emergency management actually is responsible for managing, but the program actually is, part i can't remember exactly what the acronym stands for, but part heart. right. so that has been implemented and it's not heart is not cart. no. let's be clear. heart is not cart. it's what the program actually ended up being. was heart not cart. i think with some i don't know if it's all of the concept, it's from the cart program. but i do know that it was modeled from that program. so that is up and running, that's a dem managed program. we have been as far as it's not sfpd program, but we definitely support it. so that is up and running and it's been up and running for, probably about half of the last year up until now. and so the department does fund programs. i mean, there's this

you know, i know that, vice president carter oversaw agendized the sf safe resources and the and the fiasco that happened there around oversight. there were about my understanding is $5 million in question that we don't have invoices for that could have easily funded cart itself, the actual program. and so i'm just pointing this out because, oftentimes i've heard you say that there are that we have to just try something different. and what we're trying is not improving the outcomes when it comes to overdose deaths. and yet we have the ability to fund an evidence based program that we know can have an impact. yet we're not making those efforts or we're not, extend the support to that effort. and i wanted to make sure that we are clear that what is being funded is not cart and that there is still a very clear program design that's based on evidence based models that has training and capacity building as embedded in the

development of the program that is still on the table as a resource. yeah. so just a couple of things, commissioner, on that. there was never a desire or an ask for cart to be funded by or through the police department. i met with the cart people, several meetings with them, and that was never, ever even on the table as far as the police department funding that program in terms of where the funding went. like i said, the concept was funded and it ended up being put under dem for management, and that process ended up with this heart program. so that was actually outside of anything that the police department had control over, we work with them with as much as we can in terms of making sure we support what's happening with this heart program, no matter what it's called. i think it's our duty to help try to make it happen and make it work for the betterment

of our city. but that was beyond our control as the point here. and i did meet with the folks who organized the cart, many times. there was never a desire or a need by that group to have the police department sponsor that program. those are my only questions. thank you, chief commissioner burke. thank you, president elias, chief, with regards to the demonstration, was the body worn camera released to the public, yet? it has not been. is there a plan for sfpd to release the body worn camera? we. my understanding is there's probably going to be a. i don't know if it's gotten to dpa yet, but the way it was reported that, for use on peaceful protest will trigger an investigation. so we have watched the body worn camera, i have watched the body worn camera. and at which time we can release it. we will. and when do you think you'll be able to release it? i need to follow up and see whether there's actually

an investigation going with dpa. i'm not sure that that has been. it's up to dpa. no, no, i'm just saying we don't want to release. we typically communicate about releasing these things if there's an ongoing investigation. so that's all i'm saying. so you have no no date as to when the body not not right now, but i definitely will communicate. and if there's not anything that prevents us from releasing, we can release it. definitely. so when we come back in two weeks, we have a date, then. yeah. by then. sure. yes. okay thank you. my next question. there were 19 officers sworn in last week. are are any of them going to the tenderloin in the evening shifts where you just talked about the shortage? i just signed the transfer. if you give me a minute, i can look at the transfer and tell you where they're going, but i have to look it up. so i don't know. do you know if any are going to the tenderloin? i can look at it. i mean, i have it, i have it

here, i can i can look at it and give me a second to, well yeah, i mean i it's partly rhetorical. is there any plans on increasing the swing shift in the tenderloin? the regular officers, not the officers that are, that are out, you know that, you know, the patrol officers, the ones that are there, you know, at nighttime when you walk around, is there any plans on increasing those numbers with the 19 new officers? i don't know that. let me check and see if we send any to general. i can answer that question right now. i mean, it's and if the answer is no, i mean, the only we just had signups. so we may have had a shift in day versus night deployment, but i can definitely answer the question of whether any officer are on the right. but the point is, is there going to be an increase in the evening, in the evening, down in the tenderloin and the swing? say that that that will be right now, commissioner, because we, you know, trying to balance the department, i understand, right. but to be fair, you even brought

up that there was a shortage, right? there's shortages all over using this to entrap you. chief, i'm just pointing out you brought it up. i'm following up. there's 19 new officers. i'm not sure whether one of the 19 goes down, but will it allow for an increase? in other words, can you commit to the city that there will be an increase? you spoke about the shortage. can you commit to the city that there will be an increase in those officers? as you freely acknowledge, there's a shortage in the swing shift. so can you commit now to increase it? let me give you an answer. i'll wait in two weeks. when we come back. yes, i would prefer to do that because their shortage is all over the city. that's all. i understand that, but you know where the need is the greatest, right? okay. thank you chief. thanks thanks. good evening chief. thank you for the report. i wanted to follow up on something that you said to commissioner yanez, which when he was asking you about the tenderloin operations, you said

that the focus of the operations are on or the focus of the investigations. i think your words were were on drug dealers and i did want to that that did strike me, given as we've spoken about many, many times, that we have eight officers and a sergeant full time focused on drug users, not dealers. and what i estimate roughly to be another three fte officers, also focusing on users. so how do you square that? that staffing choice with the statement that the focus is actually on dealers? yeah. the investigations like the one i mentioned. i mean that's a months long investigation. yeah. we still do have a street enforcement team. the youth team. they're still out there. but these investigations i mean those aren't those are observing open air usage. they make the arrests and then that is off to the next one. when i speak of investigations, i'm talking about the actual narcotics investigations, the spotting

operations, the search warrants, the actual investigations. the focus is dealers. and that's what the narcotics officers that are assigned to work that side of this equation. that's what they do. fair enough. so that makes sense. so you're saying the investigations piece of it is focused on dealers okay. because the staffing doesn't reflect a focus on dealers. right we still have a narcotics. well i understand we have one. i'm just saying the relative staffing doesn't reflect a priority on dealers, because the other thing you said was that, you know, one of the key goals is to get drugs off the street and arresting users isn't obviously the most efficient way to get drugs off the street. right yeah, we still are. to answer your question, yeah, there are still a dedicated group of officers to do that, to disrupt the open air drug usage. so yes, that is, but we also have i would say, the majority of the resources in that effort actually goes toward the dealer and the investigations, because

the pretty much the entire narcotics unit, that's what they do. they're they're doing those types of operations. what would you say? it's the majority of the arrests or dealers. i think it's probably only, i think there were two, about 2500 arrests since this effort started and probably about a thousand or so were dealers. okay. so 60% of the arrests are users. correct? is if i understood what you said. correct. right. okay so that's pretty surprising, chief. i mean, when you talk about how we're choosing to allocate our resources at a time of understaffing, given the statistics that that i and brought up in the past that commissioner yanez just raised tonight, don't you think it's time to reallocate at least some of that towards dealers? 60% of arrests being users. and the results being street conditions not changing as a result,

overdose is skyrocketing to record levels, isn't it time to maybe focus a bit more on on dealers at this point, we are focused on dealers, but i would not agree. the street conditions are not changing. i think there have been some changes and definitely changes in street conditions. and, aside from more people dying, street conditions with open air usage and some of the, the areas that we've been focused on to disrupt that behavior. yeah, there have been some changes there, definitely. we have more work to do. and like i said, the night market is a challenge. but, you know, when this was rolled out, it was rolled out in phases. and that first phase was really the u.n. plaza, market street, basically from sixth street to eighth street, seventh street, seventh and mission. those areas are much, much better. much better. so i do think there are changes. and look, i'm not saying that there's not still challenges because there are and disrupting that market of open air drug usage. i still think is something that we have to do now

at some point, maybe there will be different strategies to deal with that. but we have to get to that work as well, because that is also an issue for us in the city. all right, wanted to ask you about you raised the protest related to the war in gaza. it was i didn't catch this in your report. it was also reported by at least one news outlet that, one protesters hand was broken as a result of a baton strike. is that correct? according to your understanding? well, yeah, we believe that that person was a protester, might i say we believe because the report was made at the station and that person did report that they were at the protest. so we do believe that that person was injured in the protest. i did mention that one of the protesters were injured. injured? yeah, i did catch that. okay. and, if i recall at the time that the article that i read at least was published, sfpd declined to

comment when asked whether, force was used in terms of pepper spray or batons. but you are now confirming that that that that did occur just to be perfectly clear. yes. pepper spray and batons. okay and then last follow up on something commissioner byrne asked. i just wanted to be clear what what would be the conditions that would need to be met in order for sfpd to release the body cam footage? i want to make sure that the if there's not an investigation and this doesn't interfere with the investigation, it's okay to release it. so if dpa is investigating this case case, then you you might still release it. if it wouldn't, interfere with their investigation. is that is that is that correct? the criteria and the policy, one of the three criterias is if it doesn't jeopardize an investigation. so that's a check that we do before we release a

video. and if that's the case, it's free to be released. i mean, there are two other criterias, but that's one of them. okay. thanks, chief. that's everything for me. members of the public that would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the chief's report. please approach the podium. i like to use the overhead. the $0, has been paid out concerning, unsolved. unsolved unsolved homicides in nearly a decade. and i had brought up to the police commission that, you know, neither city officials nor their families are allowed to receive rewards. neither are those who help in a case part as

part of a plea bargain. our settlement people with people wanted by the law who are who are. i'm sorry. over information so that their rivals can go to jail. so what i'm what i'm trying to say is we're trying to find other ways to solve these unsolved, unsolved homicides. there was another one that these are two articles by the same reporter, that the police chief is, you know, trying to highlight about unsolved homicides. this was a this was a report that you guys brought last time about the unsolved homicides. but it doesn't it doesn't say anything about the new thing that we're trying to do about unsolved homicides. i know my son's picture is on one of these. i don't have time to

talk about it too much. you can bring it back to me. the. i'm waiting for april for dpw and the police to come together about solving how to pay tipsters. to pay. you could bring the camera back to me, how to pay tipsters to, to solve these homicides. the paying some of them some kind of money to solve the unsolved homicides. so i'm still waiting to find out some information so that i can let other mothers so they can come here and voice their opinion about that, too, because we need our cases solved. it's been a long time. thank you. there is no further public comment line item six dpa director's report discussion report on recent activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calendar, any of the issues raised for a future commission

meeting. executive director henderson thank you. so currently we have 106 cases that have opened so far this year, and we've closed 110 cases, we still have 307 cases that are open and pending. and again, that number is up from the same time last year, we have sustained 14 cases, and we have two cases that we've mediated so far. we have 30 cases that, have investigations that have gone longer than 270 days. again that is still before the 3304 deadline date, and we have not had any of the cases go beyond that date to have lost jurisdiction, of those 30 cases, 19 of them are told ten cases are still pending with the commission. pending a resolution. and we have 96 cases pending resolution with the chief's office, this week, we received 20 cases, came in and

of the cases that came in, the top allegations that came in were 22% of those allegations were for conduct unbecoming of an officer and 16% of the allegations were for allegations of neglect of duty, the largest divisions or precincts, came from southern, where three of the allegations came in, from that precincts. again, the full 100% and a breakdown of all of those, 20 cases can be found online at, sf gov forward slash dpa, also this week, an outreach, we were able to restock the brochures and complaint forms as a reminder, that information is at every precinct that you go into. you can see and have information on

how to contact dpa directly, without having to contact the police department directly. we also attended, this week, the richmond station community meeting as well, to answer questions and to make a presentation about dpa and how the organization works, in terms of our audit, we received our responses that came from back from the department, the initial audit information and so right now, we're in the process of reviewing that information. and preparations for our conference with the department. i believe we still have the, the, secondary inquiry out to the commission as well. so we'll be looking forward to those, from the commission specifically. we are currently in closed session. we have one, two, three, four of the cases that are in closed session this evening, present

and the audience today in the hearing room is senior investigator chris chisnell, also our new director of policy, jermaine jones. and also our chief, deanna rosenstein is here in the courtroom, is here in the room with us today. oh my god, for folks that want to get in contact with dva, they can contact us on the website at sf gov. sf gov.org/dpa, they can also contact us directly at (415) 241-7711, i will reserve my comments on the subsequent agenda items until they are called and reserve my comments for that. that concludes my report. thank you, director henderson. sergeant members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six. please approach the podium. there is no public

comment on line item seven. commission reports discussion and possible action commission president's report, commissioners reports and commission announcements and schedule of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting. thank you. i wanted to address the likely passing of proposition e. the commission has reached out to the city attorney, and we are meeting with relevant agencies in the department to create a comprehensive and sensible way to implement the prop e. in the meantime, we will do our best to keep the public informed of next steps and progress. since we have some time to implement the proposition and the other announcements. o commissioner benedicto, thank you, president elias, a couple of things, for my report, i joined the sfpd contingent for the lunar new year parade for the year of the dragon, which was a really tremendous turnout of members of

the public, and a great contingent, it did not rain, which was also an added bonus as well, additionally, i, along with a number of other commissioners, was present at the last academy graduation. commissioner byrne noted that we had 19, graduates that an academy graduation. that's the largest graduating class of the academy. and a number of years. and i've been told that the class following them is larger still, so that was nice to welcome those 19 officers, to the department. and good to hear they got their assignments. tomorrow i'll be having my quarterly meeting, with steve flaherty as part of my role as the dpa audit liaison, i believe at that meeting, we'll also discuss whatever that new audit related responsibility was that i apparently volunteered for, but can't recall at this moment, but looking forward to that as well, i know, yes, i know it was something award winning a war with our award winning audit team, i know that commission

staff asked on behalf of the audit team, the commissioners, to fill out the audit survey, the dpa prepared as your audit liaison. i'm going to also add that reminder to please do that. it will help determine what i raise with the audit team and with the audit team brings to the whole commission. so thank you. yeah, i'll resend it. commissioner byrne. and thank you, president elias, in the recently, the election last night, property refers to, particular dgos that this commission has enacted, go 3.015.015.03, 5.05 and 5.06, do i understand, that the commission will agendize those items, fairly soon as to what action to take as the as proposition e gives us a drop dead date, later on. you have

your blue folder. fill it out, you're not going to make any public commitment tonight. blue. purple. purple oh, yeah. that's right. well they're actually purple, but that's okay. okay. thank you. but are you going to make any public commitment tonight as to agendize those items? i think i made my announcement so put it in the purple. so you're not going to go any further tonight. okay is am i correct in saying that i've already given my statement. thank you, commissioner walker, thank you, president elias. i just want to make a couple of announcements. i did a ride along in the richmond station. captain kenny was great in hosting me and introduced me to the staff out there. and rode

along for a couple of hours, i recommend it highly for everyone. if you haven't done it, i think, commissioner benedicto and i are also scheduled for later this month to do a ride along in the tenderloin overnight. so we'll report back and, let you all know, but i encourage all the commissioners to do that because i think it gives you an idea about what the chief is talking about when he's talking about things improving. because i think that, my experience down in the tenderloin and walking, and spending a lot of time there, i meet a lot of folks down in the tenderloin and, it really has gotten better during the day. so yeah, i did the lunar new year parade, too. it was pretty amazing. very well coordinated, and one of the most crowded i've seen throughout the whole route, it was great, a lot of excitement, and everybody really loved it, let me see.

i've also met with a couple of folks from who are who were working with the patrol specials, the last patrol special. you've all seen the tv show, and i wanted to just get a sense of sort of what their concerns are going forward and explained that we're in the process of reviewing that program and will be, putting it on the agenda to discuss it within the next month or two in the next few weeks, they're really concerned because they really had a good relationship with the existing patrol special . alan buyer, i think, is his name. i also want to thank the chief. i think the station there gave a really good, going away party to alan. his retirement date was, march 1st, one of the really successful patrol specials, partnerships. and, he

was totally not expecting it. went to sign out at night and the whole station gave him a going away party. so it was really touching. so i want to thank you for that, chief, march. march 1st. thank you, president elias. quick report from me, still meeting with the community assessment referral center about, the pre booking juvenile diversion program, i know that commissioner benedicto has agendized a dgo 701, conversation. do we have a date for that? commissioner benedicto i think based on when they expected it to be up for a vote, we were trying to find a date. if it made sense to put it on there, if it would just come up for final adoption. so i don't think there's a fixed date. okay then i'd like to agendize. i wanted to see if, as a part of

that conversation around the dgo, we could also, include our an update around the pre booking diversion program, but it seems like they're very separate items . chief, would you have a preference to how we proceed with scheduling, another conversation around an update for prebooking diversion. no, i don't have a preference. whatever whatever works for the commission. okay. because i think we're approaching a year since we had that last conversation, and i would love for us to. i'll make sure to fill out the purple binder folder and that we have a presentation on that, just to see what progress we've made and to, hopefully get closer to agreements with the community partners on this effort, the other update i have is around our investigative social media. dgo, dpa has been hard at work. i thought i saw jermaine here earlier, he might have stepped out, but, they have done a wonderful job, just kind of gathering best practices,

meeting with community experts in this field to recommend a draft of the dgo that we're going to present to the department pretty soon to begin to, figure out what the next step is in order to adopt an investigative social media dgo. and then i did have a question. i mean, there was an article around, around, that cj put out around clearance rates chiefs a few weeks ago, i think it indicated something, about the fact that even though there are fewer reports, being made for violent crime, you know, our clearance rates continue to plummet outside of our homicide detail, which is doing a wonderful job, did you read that report? do you have any comments on, any of the, any of the data that was presented there? i did

read it, and i don't have any comments, but i did read it. yeah i just wanted to make sure that, you know, obviously, i brought up clearance rates not too long ago. and today we honored, one of our better, teams at that in that area. and i would love for us to have a conversation about the ongoing efforts of the department to improve our clearance rates in those areas that are of concern, so i'll make sure that we fill that document out and we can agendize that down the road. thank you. sergeant. that's purple to some of us members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item seven. please approach the podium. there is no public comment. line item eight discussion and possible action to adopt department general order 9.07. restricting. restricting the use of pretext. stopped. as to the other bargaining units. discussion and possible action. colleagues, we enacted this policy last week,

only as to the po, this week before us is the exact same policy, and today i'm going to make a motion to enact dgo 9.07 only as to the mayor, with a delay of implementation for training, so that it goes into effect at the same time that the policy will go into effect for the poa subject to the terms outlined in commission resolution 24, dash 34, second. sergeant for members of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item eight. please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? no, mr. walker is no. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes yanez is. yes, commissioner. burn. no, commissioner. burn is no

commissioner. i'm sorry, vice president carter. yes vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes. president is. yes. you have four yeses and two no's. thank you, officer jones and miss preston for being present. next item. line item nine. discussion and possible action to adopt revised department. general order 9.05 citation control discussion and possible action. did you, sergeant? did you? yeah. there was none. none. sorry there's no public comment. yes, sergeant jones. oh, officer jones sorry. thank you. sorry. is that binding you just promoted? i'm making a motion. sergeant jones. yes, i'll second it. thank you. officer jones, traffic company, san francisco police department, and i'm here to submit geo 9.05 citation control for possible, adoption there. this policy i

believe i presented it before about a month ago, there's been no changes. we're still looking at the 30 day or. excuse me, the 45 day implementation period. we've already just drafted a department notice, so we're ready to roll this out, and i'm submitting it to you for possible adoption and approval. thank you. i see no questions on the dais. can i get a motion to accept motion to adopt, 9.05, second 45. yes he's fast. sergeant. he only needs 45 days. 45. all right. for any member of the public like to make public comment regarding line item nine, please approach the podium . there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes. mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto was.

yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes commissioner byrne. yes. commissioner byrne is. yes. vice president carter stone, yes. vice president stone is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. next item. line item ten. discussion and possible action to adopt. revised department general order 9.04. seatbelt policy discussion and possible action. hello. good evening, president elias. chief scott, commissioners. director henderson. officer wolkowitz traffic company, san francisco police. i'm here to bring back 904, it went to the poa and went to meet and confer, there's a couple items that were lined out , but it is, i think, ready to roll out at this point with a 90 day implementation period. perfect. okay. can i get a motion motion to adopt general order 9.04 second? second. yell

it out. sergeant, for any member of the public can make public comment regarding line item ten. please approach the podium. seeing none on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes. commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes she is. yes. commissioner byrne. yes commissioner byrne is. yes. vice president carter overstone. yes. vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes you have six yeses. line item 11. discussion and possible action to adopt. department general order 5.25ft pursuit discussion and possible action. all right. good evening, captain sean perdomo from the training division. i'm here for the foot pursuits dgo. item 11. how are you? all good. hungry? great. tired awesome. thirsty. a little

warm. we're almost there, though. almost across the finish line. okay okay. keep going, we have commissioner benedicto. thank you, this has come before us before i assume training doesn't have any issues with the changes that were made out of meeting. confer no. i reviewed the changes with lieutenant meehan at the field tactics and force options unit, and he has no objection to any of the proposed changes. great, i will make a motion. i do want to note, i know we spoke more at length on this when it was first brought up to, approve and send to meet and confer. but i'm really glad that this department is taking the lead with the foot pursuit policy. and i think that the way this policy was drafted was is also a model of collaboration. i want to acknowledge director caywood at dpa, the training division, the fto division, as well as our fabulous dpa interns. i think that was two intern classes ago that they did their foot pursuit, presentation, if any intrepid two years ago dpa

interns are still regularly watching commission. thank you for your tremendous work. but this dgo, i hope not. i hope they found something better to do, but i do want to acknowledge, the, the that this is, a policy that came out of collaboration, that it came out of multiple pieces of the department and dpa collaborating. i'm glad to see that happen. i'd also like to acknowledge the poa. i'm glad that we sent this to meet and confer in october, and it's back to us right now, i would love it if all of our egos came in and out at that speed. so if lieutenant macrae is watching, i'd like to make that request as well, with that, i would like to make a motion to adopt. department general order 5.25. director henderson. thank you, i just wanted, to say as well, i think this came back with so few edits, but i think the fact that the process was so efficient and happened at the speed that it did it is a reflection of the collaboration that you were alluding to and having, dpa come to the table to work so collaboratively with the department is honestly the model

of what we should be doing with the dgos exactly how this one went forward, you did reference the, folks, and this was a project from the interns that brought up the issue when they did their year presentation again, it came from them. a lot of that work was done by gabriel navarette, one of the law students at. hey, i'm not going to say it because i might get it wrong, but one of the law students that, worked diligently on raising the idea and trying to get this added to the agenda so that we could all work on it collaboratively and it really is just the model of how efficiently we can all be, when we're working collaboratively like that. i do want to acknowledge the work that janelle put in janelle caywood from our office, and pulling this together, and we look forward to working with the dpa, the field tactics and force options units that was instrumental in creating this draft and engaging with us

through all of these several amendments that went into making the current draft that we have now, that's it. thank you. i get a second to the motion. second sergeant, for the record for the resolution, is there an implementation window, it's already being implemented in the sense that this has already been incorporated in our training. i was able to sit in last week's field options class on wednesday during our advanced officer continuing professional training, and there were already training to this standard using a current slide show. yeah. so do you still want the 30 day or 45 day leeway? yes, 45 days would be okay. yep for members of the public, i'd like to make public comment regarding line item 11. please approach the podium seeing none on the on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? commissioner walker. yes, commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is yes. commissioner. burn yes, commissioner. burn is. yes. vice president carter. yes vice

president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes. president lias is. yes you have six yeses. item 12 discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 10.02. equipment for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law. discussion and possible action between chief commissioners. director sergeant joseph venmo of the administration bureau here for 10.02 to move into meet and confer. i don't see any, commissioners on the dais. can i get a motion, i'm sorry. go ahead. thank you. president elias, to the city attorney. if property if property when property comes into effect would be we'd be allowed to vote on this without it going through the requirement of the new public and with the requirement of the new public engagement. and, this is a dca maneuver that

i'm filling in this evening. yes. i understand, i'm sorry to put you on the spot. no, that's okay, could you just clarify? so in in proposition a, there's a new community engagement process . yes. right. okay. so i understand the previous dgos that were here tonight had already been had already been voted on and approved this sego has not been voted on and approved. so my question is when the new when proposition e goes into effect will this commission, when it's going through the process, will it have will they have to go back and do the community engagement? requirements in section g of proposition e? i am unfortunately not prepared to answer that question today. so then i would ask that's being discussed. that's one of the issues that i raised. it doesn't

go into effect till october. so if you have that question i suggest you reach out to the city attorney beforehand instead of putting the temporary city attorney on the spot, so we've noted your question. if you have any new questions, please ask. otherwise i'm going to ask to take a vote, thank you, so could somebody from the city attorney's office report back to us at the next commission meeting publicly? i can i can take a note of your question, and make sure that is prepared to discuss it with you, confidentially before the meeting or as appropriate, during the meeting. i would prefer it during the meeting so the public can hear. okay i'll pass on that. thank you. sergeant, did i get a motion? no. can i get a motion? you didn't get a second, i don't think. all right. can i get a second? i don't have a motion either. oh, i'll make a motion to approve. department general order 10.02, subject to our labor relations. resolution 23 dash 22nd, for members of the

public that would like to make public comment regarding line item 12, please approach the podium. there is no public comment on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes, mr. walker? yes, commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner. benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is. yes. commissioner. burn. yes commissioner. burn is. yes. vice president carter. overstone. yes. vice president stone is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. thank you, thank you, thank you. line item 13, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 15 below. closed session, including public comment on item 14. a vote whether to hold item 15 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 14 a vote on whether to hold item 15 in closed session. san francisco administrative code section 67.10 action. motion to hold item 15 in closed session. second on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes. mr. walker is. yes. commissioner benedicto. yes. commissioner benedicto is. yes. commissioner yanez. yes. commissioner yanez is yes.

commissioner. burn you're up! burn yes, commissioner. burn is. yes. vice president carter. yes. vice president oberstar is. yes. and president elias. yes president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. we are going into closed session.

stacey. i think that's if. well, no it's not. it's stacey's job. if he just had. all right. go ahead. finish all right, commissioners, we are back in open session. you still have a quorum on line item 16, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on m 15 held in closed san francisco administrative code section 67.10. action. motion not to disclose any discussion on item 15. second, any member of the public like to make public comment regarding item 16. please approach the podium seeing none on the motion. commissioner walker, how do you vote? yes. commissioner walker is. yes. commissioner. benedicto. yes, commissioner benedicto was. yes. commissioner. janez. yes. commissioner janez is yes. commissioner byrne. yes. commissioner byrne is. yes, commissioner. i'm sorry. vice president carter overstone. yes. vice president carter is. yes. and president elias. yes. president elias is. yes. you have six yeses. line item 17. adjournment.

>> the city of san francisco invest nothing resources to care for people experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis on the streets this includes new programs and the expansion of pilots. >> paramedic and street crisis. you all right?

>> when we receive a call on 911 when someone is experiencing a mental health crisis, the street crisis response team would be sent out for that person. more people are looking at 911 for the medical or police or fire response this is actually a response that is needed on 911, mental health is a big issue. >> we are like another tool in the box. because sometimes people call 911 and will not want to go to the hospital. >> and other times people are afraid of safety or worried about the person and -- sometimes they will send pd out which may not be the best resource for that person. jot street crisis response team assists and stabilizes many experiencing crisis on the street. >> sometimes people have more complex needs. behavioral health clinicians from the team or best, provide follow up care after the initial 911 call response.

>> best provides street behavioral health support over dose follow up and linkage to appropriate mental health treatment and medical care. >> behavioral health starts with us and the coalitions that can relate. and build the friendships and the resource this is go with that. >> if you are experiencing an emergency, or a worried about someone's safety on the street, call 911. for nonemergency, use 311. you can learn more (laughter). >> hi, i'm pilipinas chi chai mateo and am the artist here.

i'm current working on a title meaning together and the reason why i choose that theme because celebrating the legacy of some of the latin tennis especially with the power that put us together as formed when he come together and before us putting for our recognition and housing. but through our art culture and we see that today which we're together and it is always a hope for the generations after us. >> here in this district where we revising the languages and culture but in yes or no answer why we do this i get to see kids come out of this kind mr. ryu

rattle where they came from and we are here. such an honor to be part of this legacy of togetherness and those opportunities have painting a mural such as this but teaching different skwashgs and learning more about my culture i thought i already knew but so much more to this is beautiful we have so much to give each other and we're also willing to work i'm chanel joyce i'm a firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i currently am the station 4. in the mission bay districtism

lived in san francisco in noe valley. grew up with my mom and i went to high school in san ma te'o. after high school i went to mississippi where i played volleyball in university of southern mississippi. what got me going after college was i was applying to place related to fire and police i loved my experience but my family is home. i grew up here and could not be far from my family anymore i came back. >> i have been a firefighter for 4 years the transition to the fire department has been seam tells is the same. team work and coming together. transitioning to the job med me comfortable that i made the right decision to come become and work for a fire department that is big in diversity and

equality and becoming a fell. i got to be a member at a few different fire stations. each station has their own culture. i worked in places that are xroem and with a young crew and had the most seniority have 3 or 2 years in whatever it may be. learning stuff when people have been in the job for 20 plus years and learning from people got in it grew me to adopt and work with everybody. >> a lot of people will come up to mow and say, thank you for your service noise to see a woman in the fire department. you are doing it. it is nice to see kids waiving look a woman firefighter. they get excited i love that part of the job seeing the excitement that people see. you are a woman you can do this job. every person has a good

experience with the fire department. no one ever spokous they say, they are here. they're do this work and everybody loves them. not everybody gets that in their job. i don't do it for the recognition but niez nice to see people that respect had you do and know you did a lot to get here and you still do to work and you set your life on the line for other people. it is cool.

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moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids. nathan jessica. going 90 charlie. go ahead. we moved to san francisco in 1982. we came from the philippines. i have three kids nathan, jessica and iva. i was really young. when i had neat, i turned 19. and then two weeks later, he was born. so when he was fine, i used to watch cops all the time. all the time and so he would watch with me. he had his little handcuffs and his little toy walkie talkie. and then whenever the theme song came on, he would walk around and he just thought he was the baddest little thing. i think he was in kindergarten at sheridan because he and i

attended the same elementary school there was an officer bill. he would just be like mom officer bill was there then one day, he said, mom, i touched his gun. and he was just so happy about it. everything happened at five minutes. i would say everything. happened at 4 to 5 years old. it's like one of those goals to where you just you can't you can't just let go. high school. i think you know everybody kind of strays. he was just riding the wave. and i mean, he graduated. thank god. one day i think he was about 20 or 21. he told me, he said mom. i want to be a cop or a firefighter, i said. no you're going to be a firefighter. but that's really not what he wanted to do. his words were i want to make a difference. and that was a really proud moment for me

when he said that my dad was a cop in the philippines for 20 years. i think a lot of that played a role into his becoming a cop. my dad was really happy about it. my mom. she was kind of worried, but i just figured i can't stop him. he can make his own decisions. stu. i just want to say what's up? how you doing? good. good. no i'm trying to look good for us to looking good for us to so when he was in the police academy, mind you this kid was not a very studious kid. but i've never seen him want something so bad when he was home. he'd be in his room studying the codes. he really fought for it. hi. what's your name? i'm nate. nate is great with kids, and he would give them hugs or give them stickers.

i think that that's a positive influence on the kids, and then the people around you see it. once he makes that connection with people and they trust him that foundation that respect people look at you and see your actions more than your words and so that i think will reach people more than anything. you could say you later, brother. thank you. all right, see you. it's a really hard job. i know you. you see a lot of the negative for me. i would not put myself through that if i didn't care. you know, you have to be the right kind of person. you have to have the right heart to want to do that. when people ask me if you know what my son does , um, i just tell him he's a cop , and i just feel like i'm beaming with pride. i always told him when he was young that

he would do something great. and so to see it. it's i have a moment. i'm very proud of him. >> so i'm linda i'm part owner and manager of the paper tree in jeopardy an town. >> paper tree opened by my parent in 1968. so we other second oldest business in jap an town. at 55 years this year. we have beautiful papers from japan, thailand, italy, korea and the biggest selection of

orgami. i do it because of my grand father and he wrote to the first english in it in the early 50s. he had an import business to import japanese goods and of course we had our line of paper. to go with the books he produced. it is something i have been doing since i was 5 and i'm happy to say i'm a designer now and of course having paper tree. it is grit. >> during the pandemic i wanted do something to make a statement to help combat the asian hate that was prevalent at that time. and so i put a call out to have a thousand hearts. this is a spin on the tradition of holding 1,000 cranes when you have a wish. well, a thousand cranes does not make a statement enough why not

change it and a call for a thousand hearts? i created a website dedicated to the project. a video and fold heart instructions. people sent them in the first mont was 1,000 hearts. they kept coming in. and the next goal was 7, 698, which was the total number of case of reported hate by the ap i website. those were the reported case of hate. there are more not reported. that became the new goal. we achieved 2 months later. the hearts were coming in it it is a big project, we have it part of our store. anyone can come and fold an easy heart. keeping that part of the japanese tradition of this in that way here in japantown is pretty special. its great.

>> 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. >> (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. >>

>> the journey of becoming a firefighter is no easy feat, it requires navigating and overcoming challenges to protect and serve the community. established in 1866, the san francisco fire department has evolved and grown to represent the

community and meet their needs along the way. the division of training is responsible for training all new members entering the department, as well as develop, and provide corchlhensive fire suppression and emergency medical service instruction to all members of the department. this video provides a glims into the 130 recruit academy class 21 week training program. in preparation to take on one of the most challenging and rewarding professions in the world. to become a firefighter in the san francisco fire department. >> [whistle] >> i oknow there is going to be a lot of shoveling and it will not come easy. i know it will not be given to me. >> am i going to be able to keep up and do all

the physical a pects of what the academy will request of me? >> on the hand you have been given a opportunity you worked so hard to get to, but on the other hand you don't have the job yet and have so much work you have to do to get in the field so it is double edge sword. i need it but this is just the beginning. [music]

>> we are entrusted with people. our job is (indiscernible) we want people to be firefighters. the chief picked the people. our job is train them. we make sure that we are challenging them, but at the same time supporting them and that is a fine line, because we want to see how these people react. it is imperative for

the training academy and training staff to make sure we are getting the best out of these individuals. i always tell them, we will challenge you, but also going to support you. we are not going to trick you into certain things but we want to make sure we make it difficult and make it so that you are performing at your best when somebody is on their worst day. >> the process is grueling, however, the reward at the end is what it's all about. we have 21 weeks to form this group of 51, and to functioning individuals on a working engine or truck company in the city and the challenge there is that when you walk through the door, you should be able to take care of business right away. when i first got on the job and hit the streets and got my first fire, which is 4th alarm fire which they throw a lot of people in the big building, happened in the first 30 minutes of me stepping in the fire house. >> we hire a vast

group of people with different backgrounds and experiences, which is kind of interesting as well, because it makes up our department and we have a kind of hodgepodge of people, but they all get taught the same thing. we have people from-we have a guy in the class whoofs a social worker. we have a person who was a firefighter, multiple firefighters. san francisco does things different then most fire departments but they have upper hand so we try to pair those with some sort of experience with people who don't in study group said. we tell them the first week get in a study group and that is a group for the rest of the academy so you will be the support group for each other. >> my name is julian martin a recruit in the 130 academy for the san francisco fire department. the fire department what drew me to it to begin is a concept you are always learning. you

are always learning something a92. now fire or situation is alike. no med call will be the same, and that aspect is something that is always changing is what drew me to it. when i was 19 i enlisted in the united states army and was in college at the time, so i was enrolled simultaneous in the reserve officer corp training out of leehigh university. i was (indiscernible) and lee high university and completed by bachelors, but commissioned out of lee high university as a officer in the california national guard. when i graduatesed i immediately went to fort (indiscernible) missouri to complete training for being a chemical officer which is (indiscernible) i think my background in chemical hazmat with the army was beneficial and the department as well. >> high energy,b that is how i categorize julian.

high energy and ability. she is very capable. >> she is one of those people pretty much anything she tries she can do well. she is a musician also. she is a artist. >> she is the kind of person that push other people to be the best version of themselves, just because she also wants to be the best version of herself. she is a very dedicated individual, and it was a treat but also a challenge because that is the way she is. very competitive and ambitious. >> emily-i am a recruit with the san francisco fire department. i remember how do i become a firefighter in a major city? i typed that into google and a lot of things came up. getting certification like

firefighter 1, emt, paramedic jz these are things i knew nothing about so a lot of research. for me having lived in california and visited the bay area many times i said to myself, i decided the pentacle for me of being a structure firefighter, being a city firefighter which coming to san francisco. i am originally from new england. i grew up in a traditional town in new hampshire. when can i was a kid i never had fire fighting on my radar. never something i thought about doing. when i in college i studied environmental conversation. i always appreciated the outdoors and really cared a lot about protecting the outdoors, so for years after college i worked with kids in the outdoor education, so taking kids on backpacking trips, takes kids on hiking trips, and

just helping them develop appreciation for the outdoors. it was basically a opportunity to not have a desk job and for years i was chasing that job that didn't involve sitting at a desk and be outside with people which makes sense it leads me to firefighter. next thing i knew i was heading up to alaska to be a firefighter. that was the switch and never looked back. >> emily is a person that very much someone who cares about other people and will put other people needs before her own. she is extremely caring and thoughtful. i also think she is extremely adventurous as well. i remember when we first met, when we were living in yosemite being in ah of her adventurous side.

>> my name is jenna. everybody called johnny for short and i'm a recruit with the 130 academy for san francisco fire department. city girl, born and raised in san francisco. literally my entire schooling has been right here in the city of san francisco, and so that's part of me and part of my identity, and what keeps me so grounded to the city i was raise d in. my brother is a firefighter and he has been a firefighter many years. he is absolutely-he loves his job and always has tried to bring people along with him. those he loves and that he thinks would be fit for the job. >> i told this lady about this service and about this career path back when she was

22 years old after graduating from usf, i tried to put in her ear, i think you would be incredible at this profession and she said i'll think about it. >> that is always something in my ear, but to be honest, my encounter with the fire department that kind of sparked that interest and the reason as to why i wanted to become a firefighter, because at the age of 15 i lost my mother to gun violence and it was the fire department when they came to my home, it was the reaction of the firefighters that i felt cold. their reaction to my situation. i didn't feel support. that is just my perspective of the instant it happened, but that is something that stuck with me. i don't want someone like me to go through what i went

through because i know how that felt. i took the leap of faith and i said i'm going to change my career entirely, but now i see for myself just within my recruit class that there is a lot of diversity. it was really comforting to me to see that and know that these are the people who are going to be my first family, because we share a special bond. >> she was ready. she was hungry, and she-every drill we did, every practice we did, all the exercising she was doing, she was hungry for it. i couldn't possibly be more proud of her. >> a real basic building block is just like crawl walk run. our crawling stage is like just putting your gear on. we have our ppe, which is

about 20pounds, the packs are 20 pounds. just those two alone you throw on 40 pounds of weight and by the end of the academy we have your ppe on, go on (indiscernible) breathe through the bottle, climb up a ladder, crawl through a window, search fwr a victim, bring the victim through the window and extricate through the window. the progression of the testing ramp up pretty quickly. in the 10 week cycle it seems like a long time, but for the recruit you can ask them i'm telling you it is a rigorous academy and keeps on getting harder. >> academy starts at 8 o'clock. we do our pt. whatever it may be, whether it is running in a circuit or amazing raise, and are that lasts anywhere from a hour to hour and 30. from there we go to a

class room. we learn about the different chapters, whether it is (indiscernible) hose appliances, building construction, whatever it may be. that usually takes us to lunch and from there we get separated into skills groups. >> (indiscernible) how many victims. >> which we have typically about 4 rotations of the different skills we get touches. >> it is still very early in the process. if you envision each class like a bell curve where most in the middle, if you have a class with really long tails those are harder to train, because you have people at the back end who are really struggling. this class seems to have small tails. i don't see anybody struggling yet. i dont see anybody truly standing out. but again, it is early. we haven't done any testing yet. >> i am learning a lot

with fellow class mates. they need me and i need them and the really difficult evolution and training and the first couple days are crucial to understanding like how people react to certain situations because not everybody is the best under pressure. not everybody is the best tying a knot about there are some that are super fast with hose lines. finding everybody strong point and emphasize those and use to our advantage is important in the first couple weeks. >> something that challenged me probably the most and has been probably the biggest learning curve is really focusing on the ability to let go of something when it doesn't go well in the moment and move to the next thing. that i think has been one of the biggest challenges in this academy, because the realty is you make a lot of mistakes every day. you do a lot of things well

too, but you make a lot of mistakes and if you hold on to each one of those mistakes it is just going to snow ball into more mistakes and it will lead to more stress and being hard on yourself. >> i had to learn a lot of different new skill sets. things i wasn't familiar with like chain saws how to hose lines and so getting the technique because a lot of the job is about the technique. it is not about having the brute strength or anything like that, it is using your body mechanics to your advantage. >> when my body cools down (indiscernible) [music]

>> we have the academy set up it gives everybody the opportunity to practice the skill set they need to. san francisco is its own entity. we pride ourselves on the traditional fire department in the sense we still use brass fittings, wooden latters, surrounded by three sides of

water so all risk fire department. you can go downtown busy high-rise, out to the coast for surf rescue. we have a mix of everything and we all have to be well-rounded firefighters and that is our entire job to make sure that we are profeshant. >> as we train our roles will be to evaluate along the way. the role we have is to get them ready for fire house culture. to be a firefighter requires a fair amount of discipline. you have to understand the rules of the game. understand how to behave, how to appear, how to interact with the public and one of my roles is to make sure the recruits understand that and adhere to the codes of conduct and behavior the department lays out. >> okay, today is monday. the monday after my first big week of testing. two double day testing thursday and friday. we had to do a ems

skill, take a written test and 8 different fire suppression manipulatives. we got our report card back today and if you can't tell by the way i'm smiling now, i passed every skill that we had to do. your girl got zero deficiencies, so i am very proud of myself of being able to pass. >> you know, our saying is we dont fail people, they fail themselves. we give them all the information they need. we allow them extra hours prior to the start of class and stay late after hours, and we hope they take advant nl if they need help. they vocalize when they don't know something and part is ego. if i want to pass the class i need to ask for help. there is no slowing

down. once the training is moving it isn't stopping for anybody. you are on the training or off. we don't have time to stop. we want them to pass, but they have to have their heart into it. if they think it will be easy that isn't the way it works. >> i want to speak about what happened on september 22, 2022, which was week 14 i believe. week 14 or 13. there was a big moment for me, because it was the week that i got injured. i had the ladder not completely fall on me, but it put my body in such a way it basically injured my shoulder. i had a little nerve damage coming from the top of my right shoulder radiating down. from what i remember, the ladder was coming

down and a sudden movement it swerveed one way and swerved back and i remember i couldn't feel my right arm. i tried to hold on to the ladder and it just basically just hit me in a certain position, and i fell over, and i remember feeling a combination of so much pain and honesty nothing at all. >> she had a pretty good scare of a injury, and her determination and just the way she goes about things. she is not very demon struative or outspoken but works hards and puts herinose nose down and just works.

[music] >> so, today is our last day in the academy. i think there is a lot of things going through my mind right now. on one hand, i feel incredibly

relieved to be at this point. it has been a long 5 months. it has been great, but it has been really challenging and definitely really tiring, so it feels really relieving to have reached this mileston. >> we graduated friday and just feels really exciting. you know, speaking for myself, i think i'm preoccupied worrying about starting work soon, but i think for my family and my partner, i'm excited for them to be at graduation. this is not just a journey i have been on, but a journey they have been on as well. especially my partner. she has been immensely supportive of me throughout this process. on the other side of the coin, it is nerve-wracking we go out in the field and do the job. it is mixed emotions for sure.

>> super excited. it has been a long long 16 weeks, and at the end i finally get to graduate, get to be a firefighter. i'm looking forward to most is taking our time at treasure island and bring into effect to help people. >> so many things that are going on in my mind at the moment because of the fact today is the last day that we are actually on our training grounds on treasure island. i cant believe i'm actually here and i made it these 5 months. getting in here doing the best i could possibly do, but now it is graduation is just so close. i'm just nervous. i created this family within the 130 academy class where we have gotten to know each other and gotten to do skills together, but now when i go to my probationary home, now i will

get to know those people and learn so many more skills and just get all the hands on experience and you know, create that second family. it has been overwhelming. just the amount of support that i have received. my family is my core and is my biggest support system and they have been there and have just expressed unconditional love and support every step of the way. [music] >> good morning 130. i know this is a exciting day for you, and this is just one of the many milestones in your career. i am really proud of the division of training and i'm proud of you, 130.

you took the lead and you worked hard. you worked as a team and that's how we always do it in the san francisco fire department. this is a proud department with a proud history. we fight fires like no other fire department. we are community paramedicine and alternatives to policing. we are firefighter emt, firefighter paramedics, but we are so much more as you are going to find out during your careers. i do solemnly swear, that i will support and defend, the counsitution of the united states, and the constitution of the state of california, against all enemies

foreign and domestic. >> today i graduated from san francisco 130 recruit class, and i became a san francisco firefighter. i feel absolutely amazing. i thought about how i feel graduating, but feeling it is crazy. i'm so so excited to get started. i will be in station 9 in the bayview. industrial part of the city and i'm extremely excited to do everything the truck does. learn how to raise and lower the aerial. get to all the different ladders and practice them in real life and apply them to situations that we are seen in the academy, but to see them in real life will be a brand new thing. [applause]

>> going up to the stage to get my badge, i was thinking about how sweaty my hands were. i was trying not to trip, and but in realty i was just thinking about how special the moment it was, and to be honest, it felt like everything stood still for a second, and it was a special time to reflect on the journey. i feel proud of my class mates making to graduation. i feel a lot of love towards my classmates and lot of respect and admuration towards the instructors. it feels good to be at this point after 21 weeks of hard work. >> i would say i felt an immense amount of pride for what she accomplished. having been along the ride, before academy, being a part of the journey that lead up to interviews and then academy and getting to this point.

i know how much she has overcome and accomplished. so proud. i'm so proud of you. [calling out name] >> to be honest, i am had a ball of emotions just running through me right now. it is like electric energy. to have all the overwhelming support from my family, from my friends, from everybody in the department, and from oakland department as well is truly just overwhelming and very emotional at the same time. >> hoping e-the whole thing is surreal to me. she pinned the badge on me when she was 15 years old and coming to today and seeing where she is at now, i couldn't possibly be more proud. she has a

heart of passion. she has a lot of heart . >> when i saw him up there, it was just overwhelming. i was like, i will not cry, i will not cry. i tried to hold it back, it just couldn't. >> the chief says, who will cry first. >> who will cry first? okay. (indiscernible) >> i'm supposed to be tough. man-- >> the last time i like to introduce the newest bravest san francisco firefighters, 130! [applause]

>> so, i'm now at station 9 on the truck. in the bayview. junk yard dog. the day before graduation was to ask questions what we are supposed to do and probationary firefighter instead of recruit. my first day was november 22. it was i was one of the lucky ones. i had my full weekday. i had 4 days after graduation to get my mind right, get ready to go to work. our instructors complaint us in the dark so we wouldn't know what to expect so when we got here, it's how we adapt to a situation, not so much-this is what will happen. this is what you need to do. i was kind of freaking out before i really haven't been in a fire station before, and every single member was super

welcoming here. i think the most important thing is being yourself. knowing when to contribute and when to kind of sit back and listen, because there is a wealth of knowledge around you everywhere. everywhere. i could talk to any person in the station and learn so much. i think i have been able to hold on to what people have been telling me a lot more here and learn a lot more in a lot less time. >> transitioning from graduation to being a probationary firefighters coming with a lot of changes. you learn the tower and skills and information and once you get thin field you realize how all those people come together in real time, which has been super cool to see how it all unfolds in the field. i have been super lucky. i got placed at station 17 on

engine 17 and i have just been super fortunate to have a really great group of folks to work with, who put in a lot of time and energy to help get me up to speed. >> i say with i first started the academy and was nervous and excited. there is a element of nervousness with being a probationary firefighter because you are trying to keep up and learn as much as you can. i say from the academy till now there is also a lot of confidence building that happened. the first two months what really stuck out to me is just how tight nit the station is and how much people really care about the work that they do and really pushes me i think to be better at the job. >> apparently i'm a probationary firefighter for the san francisco fire department, so the last 5 months i was in the tower in the academy lead me to here of drilling, testing, requiring all the basic foundation skills to become a

firefighter. now i'm actually actively doing it, but more specifically at the current house i'm stationed at, which is station 10, i am also the role of emt because we are on a als unit where there is a paramedic so i'm the paramedic backup providing them whatever they need as their assistant, but when it comes to fires i'm the one with the nozzle to put out the fire. me and my main concern is getting through probation because i don't have job security at the moment, because you can be let go any time if you are not meeting the expectations of what it is that they require from you. i want to be good at what i'm here to do in the position i'm in now. the call volume i have seen during my watchs are 7 to 10 calls within a day,

which is pretty moderate. i'm just waiting for my first fire. [laughter] >> (indiscernible)

step on it and measure at the shoulder. >> we talk about being a model to other agencies, again we hire very diverse group. male and female. as long as you meet the standards and are able to take care of the business of the fire department and public safety and being able to get along with your coworkers and all these stressful environments is key. you are not a individual here. we are made up as a team, so you have to be willing to listen. you have to be willing to learn, and you have to be willing to push yourself all the way to the end and you'll be successful here in san francisco. >> people ask, you just go to fires and-no, we go to everything. anything and everything 911 is called. it depends on the person and where they are at. we invite everybody to come try if they think they can get here, then by all means, we are a great department. large department. busy department, and we have a lot of things to see

while working here. best job in the world to this day. >> we prep them as best we can. all the experiences and instructors and myself, we again our job is to see them-we want to see them be successful. we want to hear good reports. it is like being a parent. i are want to make sure when they leave we want to hear good things and if we don't want also want to check and make sure, what happened? i want to hear from now the probationary firefighter what happened and how we can best support them, because they are not recruits anymore. they are professional probationary firefighters and just because they left the tower doesn't mean we are done with them. i'm more invested in them now now that they are my brother and sister then a recruit because i could be working with them in the field. i found a career i absolutely hundred percent love. it is very rare that you you

can find a profession that you can love that much. i'm a public servant. i never want to forget the roots of what we do. we serve the citizens of san francisco. i'm serving the citizen of san francisco now by training new firefighters. by job is best prepare them what they will be going to into the future. >> in the community whether we are driving around, we are on a call, or shopping, the way that the community looks at us and looks at me is kind of surreal, because it hasn't fully sunk in. sometimes i have to reflect and say, you made it here. be proud of yourself. be proud of your accomplishments because for me i want to strive and do more and be better. [siren] >> i would say first of all, we dont just employ

firefighters, we employ everybody on the ambulance. emt and paramedics. firefighters and ems is a great opportunity. it is really important we have people who look like the community we are serving and that's part of the reason many joined this department to create change from the inside and we have done a lot of that and we will continue to do that. there is a place for you here as a ems, as a paramedic, as a firefighter. you just need to be able to put in the work. this is a big deal being in public safety in san francisco working for the san francisco fire department. it is a commitment. what better place if you want to serve your community then the san francisco fire department? [music]

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>> making to may grandkids a program all about pop ups, artists, non profits small business in into vacant downtown throughout the area for a three to 6 months engagement. >> i think san francisco is really bright and i wanted to be a part of it revitalization. >> i'm hillary, the owner of [indiscernible] pizza. vacant and vibrant got into safe downtown we never could have gotten into pre-pandemic. we thought about opening downtown but couldn't afford it

and a landlord [indiscernible] this was a awesome opportunity for us to get our foot in here. >> the agency is the marriage between a conventional art gallery and fine art agency. i'm victor gonzalez the founder of gcs agency. thes program is especially important for small business because it extended huge life line of resources, but also expertise from the people that have gathered around the vacant to vibrant program. it is allowed small businesses to pop up in spaces that have previously been fully unaccessible or just out of budget. vacant to vibrant was funded by a grant from the office of economic workforce development that was part of the mayor's economic recovery budget last year so we funded our non

profit partners new deal who managed the process getting folks into these spaces. >> [indiscernible] have been tireless for all of us down here and it has been incredible. certainly never seen the kind of assistance from the city that vacant to vibrant has given us, for sure. >> vacant to ibvooerant is a important program because it just has the opportunity to build excitement what downtown could be. it is change the narrative talking about ground floor vacancy and office vacancy to talking about the amazing network of small scale entrepreneur, [indiscernible] >> this is a huge opportunity that is really happy about because it has given me space to showcase all the work i have been doing over the past few years, to have a space i can

call my own for a extended period of time has been, i mean, it is incredible. >> big reason why i do this is specific to empower artist. there are a lot of people in san francisco that have really great ideas that have the work ethics, they just don't have those opportunities presented, so this has been huge lifeline i think for entrepreneurs and small businesses. >> this was a great program for us. it has [indiscernible] opening the site. we benefited from it and i think because there is diverse and different [indiscernible] able to be down here that everybody kind of benefits from it.

♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> the two largest bridges in the road, symbolizing pioneer and courage in the conquest of space and time. between these two great bridges, in historic san francisco bay, here's tribute to the achievements of our time. he's a dream come true, golden gate international exposition on manmade treasure island. >> the 402 acre artificial island was build by engineers

from 1936 to 1937 on the neighboring buena island. 300,000 tons of rock was used to build a seawall around an existing sand ball then followed by filling the interior with dredge material from the bay which was consistent of modern sand. the federal government paid for construction ask three permanent buildings which would serve as a potential future airport. treasure island was constructed at the same time as the bay bridge and it was a project of works progress administration to construct this island, which was initially used to host the golden gate international exposition. >> carnival gone big. it was busy. >> it was going to become an airport after the exposition but it was turned over to the navy and turned over to a military base for the next 50 years. >> 1941, the united states army

moved to treasure island as america prepared for world war ii. the island was a major training and education center with 4.5 million personnel shipped overseas from triangle. after the war ended in 1945, treasure island was slalthed to be an airport -- slated to be an airport but aviation changed and the clipper were no longer in regular service, and the island was never developed as an airport. the navy continued their presence on treasure island. during the cold war years, the island was a myth training center and for military efforts throughout the pacific and asia. personnel trained on and shipped from treasure island and supported military activities in korea, vietnam and the persian gulf. >> the base was listed for closure by the navy in 1993 and the city began a process in 1994 under the redevelopment agency, forming a citizens reuse

committee to look at potentially plans for the island, island's future. after the base closed in 1997, the treasure island development authority was created to develop and implement a reuse plan. >> the navy has completed their environmental cleanup in that area and last week, the california department of public health issued a radiology unrestricted recommendation for that portion of side 12. it's a big milestone for the project. >> the treasure island development facility was setup to implement the master plan that was adopted by the board of supervisors in 2011. >> given the importance of housing in the city, both the affordable component and the market rate housing, we felt that it was important to review what the housing plan is at

treasure island. >> the development facility and (indiscernible) that oversees the implementation of the master plan to make sure that the master plan, which was adopted by the board of supervisors and adopted by the city and after meeting, that's plan that the city approved. the members of the board was appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors. [multiple voices] >> the (indiscernible) is very detailed plan. looking at the ecological aspects of the island, looking at the geotechnical aspects of the island, but also making sure that there is an ongoing of development that's in keeping with what the original plan was, which is that we have up to 8,000 rooms of housing and there's retail and hotels. but

also that there is open space that's created so it's an overall plan that guides the whole development of treasure island and the buena island. >> materials used during the construction of treasure island severely compromises the integrity to build structures. in today's geotechnical engineers standing, treasure island soil is being readdressed for soil stabilization for future development. a mechanical stabilization process is being used to consolidate the liquid fashion of the mud and sandy soil. >> because treasure island is a manmade island, we have to do a significant amount of soil improvement before we can build new infrastructure and new buildings on the island. in the foreground, you see here, it's a process called surcharging we we import additional topsoil to simulate the dead weight of the future buildings to be constructed at that site. so

this is causing bay mud that underlies island to consolidate over time and we can monitor that and as that consolidation primarily consolidation is complete, then this soil will be removed to the intended finished floor elevation of the new structures. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> in the 1989 loma earthquake, the ground level of this island dropped by four inches. pretty much uniform across the island. loose sand material used to build the island, whether it gets hit by a seismic forces, the sand moves and consolidated. >> one of the processes to further stabilize the loose granular ground, a dynamic rate is used to densify the soil by high frequency mechanical vibrations. >> the rig in the background has four h-piles that goes down

through the upper 50 feet of sandy material and as they vibrate, they vibrate causing that san material to consolidate and settle so as we do that process, we observe about 18 inches in settlement so the ground level around that equipment will drop by 18 inches, so this causes that same type of event to happen through mechanical means rather than through a seismic event. >> the dynamic vibrant compaction rate vibrates the soil every four square meters and moved along to the next section. to further assure stability, tamping is followed around the site, compassion takes approximately three to four months to complete 12 acres. once the compassion and tapping is done, it's settled ask using laser alignments to assure a level service to build

on. >> i think that every city when they have the opportunity to do something that is as large as treasure island because treasure island is five hundred acres and it depends on their needs at that time and in 2011 to now, the most important are thing for the city is housing. there's two aspects to that master plan. one, was the new district for san francisco. 8,000 units of housing, which is all levels of stability. the other (indiscernible) is 300 acres of open space and parks. and actually, it's the largest addition to the park system in san francisco since (indiscernible) 300 acres and this is a tremendous gift to the public, both the housing, which

we desperately need in san francisco as well as an open space and park system which really is going to be worm class and it will attract people in san francisco but attract people locally as well as internationally. >> cmg architecture was brought to the project once they award the agreement between the city of san francisco and the united states navy. cmg has earned national recognition and numerous awards for merits and design, social impact and environmental stewardship. >> we were a part of the project in the beginning when the developer initially was awarded the exclusive negotiation agreement or the ena with the city and they partnered with the planning and architecture group and we joined that team to work with the developer around the city and community to come up

with a plan for treasure island. >> so there's quite a lot of open space in the master plan and there's a couple of reasons for that that's pragmatic. one is that the amount of area that could be converted for private use on treasure island was very limited, actually it wasn't allowed at all because treasure island was previously public open waters and protected by the tidal and trust act to be redevelop for public use. but there was a land swap that was allowed and approved by the governor of california, governor schwarzenegger to be put on a public trust for a one to one swap to be taken out of the trust to be developed for private use such as residential and that amount of land was 89 acres which leaves a bunch more space that can't have housing on it and the question was, what to do with all of that space? there could be other public uses that allowed such as conference centers or museums or

universities or things of that nature but what made the most sense for this location was to have more parks in a really robust parks and open space plan and that's what led us to the plan we have now. >> planting strategies for treasure island and buena island are to maximize habitat value in the park areas wherever appropriate and where we can to create comfortable at the pedestrian scale. there are these diagonal lines that go across the plan that you'll see. those are wind row trees like you see in agricultural landscapes where they are tall tree that's buffer the winds to create a more calm areas down at the pedestrian scale. so of course, we do have some areas where we have play fields and surfaces where kids need to run around on and those will be either lawns or like you see in norm at sports field. >> related to where the housing is on the island and its convenience to the walk to the

transit hub, i mentioned we're trying to create high-quality pedestrian -- and the innovations of treasure island is called the shared public way and it's a road that runs down the middle of the neighborhoods. it's a curbless street, cars are allowed to drive on it but pedestrian can walk down the middle of the street and the cars are to yield the right-of-way for pedestrian and it's intended for streets where there's a low traffic volumes and the traffic speeds are low so while car was allowed, there's not a lot of reasons for cars to go on that street but it's to create a social street that's much more pedestrian-friendly and prioritizes pedestrians and bikes. one of the interesting things is working with all architects that have been designing buildings in the first phase to encourage them, to create architecture that welcomes people to sit on it. it's wlm like sticking its toe out and asking someone to sit on its toe so buildings integrate

public seating and places for people to hang out at their base, which is really, the opposite of what you see often times in this city where there's defensive architecture that's trying to keep people off it. this is architecture that's trying to invite people to come and inhabit it at its base. >> incorporated in the landscape architect of treasure island are wetlands, which are designed to factor in coastal erosion control from incoming sea level rise and natural animal habitation and stormwater runoff treatment. >> there's different kinds ever wetlands planned for treasure island and they have different purposes. they are stormwater wetlands that's treating the runoff from the island and filtering that water before it's released to the bay to improve the water quality in the bay and the ocean and the first phase of the large wetland infrastructure is built on buena island to treat the storm water from buena island. we might see that when we go out there. there are tidal

wetlands plan for the northern side of the island where the sea level rise adaptation and flood protect for future sea level rise is held back away from the edge of the island to allow sea level rise to come onto the island to create future tidal wetland which is helpful for the bay in the future as we see sea level wise flood out existing wetlands and there are some natural vernal pool in the wetland that's captured rainwater and capturing certain habitat so there's three purposes of the wetland primarily around water filtration and habitat creation. >> consumable sustainability was incorporated in the redesigning of treasure island. innovative urban farming is included in the plans to foster economic viability, conservation of water, and to promote ecological

sustainability. >> the urban farm is 20 island. and it's a commercial farm to produce food. it's not community where the volunteers and neighbors grow their own, it's commercially run to maximize the food production and that food will be distributed on the island. and interestingly, the urban farm is tied into the on island wastewater treatment plan which creates recycle use for water on the island so water used to grow the island will be a sustainable force and we're trying to close the loop of water, food, and create a new model for sustainability. >> part of the design for sustainable landscape was incorporate natural form water garden filtering systems, the first of three natural stormwater gardens is here on buena island. and a total of ten will be on treasure island. water from storms, street runoffs from neighborhoods has the possibility to collect toxic materials as it makes its way back into the surrounding bay.

this garden has been a model for future, natural filtering systems through out the bay area. >> whenever a storm comes through, all of the water, you know, it lands on the streets, it lands on the top of the buildings, and at times it often collects a lot of heavy metals and greases and it needs to be cleaned and before sent back into the back. it goes into the pipes and stormwater drainage and put into our stormwater basin and then all of the plants and soil you're seeing in there, they are acting as a filter for all those oils and heavy metals and greases and all things that's coming off the roadways, coming off the development and so it's treated here in the storm water basin and then it's sent out into the bay as a clearer product and cleaner water which increases our water quality here and throughout the bay area. so the structure in

the center of each basin is what we call the for bay. that's the point at which the stormwater exits out of the storm drainage system and into the stormwater basin itself. so the for bay is shaped as almost a gate to kind of push all water out through the pipes, all of those rocks help to disburse it before it's sent into the stormwater basin itself. the storm water basin was designed to fill up to the height of the berm of the side you're seeing here. so this is juncus and these are well-known fresh water grasses found in any place around the bay area that you find standing water or in a drainage channel, you're going to find a lot of these junket species. this is a leave a lifter in the bio treatment. it soaks up a lot of water, to soak up the contaminants and heavy metals, so it's kind of our

backbone species. this one is called douglas siana and the common name is mug war. it's a beautiful plant but doing the heavy lift and pulling, those contaminants out of the storm water and pulling oil to help treat the water before its sent back into the system and back into the bay. this plant is known as salvia or hummingbird sage. it has a lot of habitat value in that it's a strong pollinator plant. obviously, you can see the pink and purple flowers which come up in the springtime and attracts a lot of hummingbirds, a lot of bees which help to pollinate the other species within the garden and throughout the rest of the island and all of those native plants. all of these plants are designed to be able to take a heavily inundation of water over a several day per like standing water for a long time. all of the plants can withstand that and honestly, thrive in that

condition. so all of these were selected based on the ecological and habitat value but also their treatment and functional value for stormwater. >> this is super tiny. >> it's very much a big part of our design and master plan for the development of the island. it was a navy base and a lot of navy housing on this island specifically for around 80 years and during that time, a lot of innovative species were introduced on the island, eucalyptus, a lot of different european and algerians plants were on the island. we wanted to bring in the native eye college here on the island before the navy started to redevelop it and introduce some of those invasive species so the species you're seeing in this stormwater garden in the basin and the upland area was a part of those types of

ecology s that's trying to be returned to this side of the island but different other spaces through out the islands development. so whenever we started this process, we identified a number of species of native plants that seem applicable to the ecology that we're trying to grow. there's 45 species, so a -- there's 15 species so they are hard to find in the nursery trade so we needed to grow it ourselves to achieve the biodiversity that's in the design here. as a part that have process, we brought on a nonprofit group called ledge, l-e-g- which is literacy for environmental justice. they grew those plants and put together the plant palates you see. >> most of landscape was

inundated with invasive plant species eradicating species and having the plan on buena island and treasure island. literacy for environmental justice, a community volunteer educational program involved with restoring local habitats and preserving san francisco's unique bio tie varsity, teamed up with the redevelopment group to grow the 50,000 native plants to -- to repopulate treasure island. >> the city of san francisco set up meetings between leg and they came in with high expertise and urban design, and architecture, and green infrastructure, but they really hadn't worked with flytive plants -- worked with native plants at scale and they were also kind of scratching their heads, like how are we going to grow 50,000 native plants from remnant native plant

populations. it was a unique partnership of figuring out what plants can grow, what plants will function in stormwater gardens. not all native plants are ascetically pleasing to landscape architect, so we kind of worked around what plants are going to be pleasant for people, what plants are going to provide habitat, what plants are going to actually be able to sequester carbon, deal with erosion, preserve the island biodiversity as well as be able to manage all of these stormwater treatment on the island. >> there's about 33 naturally occurring native plant species that survived the last one hundred years on yorba buena island. we were able to go in and get the seed and salvage plants in some cases, some of the development work that

occurred was actually going to destroy native plant habitat and we went in before the bulldozers and before the roads were build and the new water tanks were installed and dig them up, divide them, hold them, of the 50,000 plants we grew 40,000 of them in-house and the other ten, we had to rely on our partners to do it. with the 50,000 plants we did, we did 100 species and 95 of them are from the county of san francisco. about the other five are from the state of california. but the other 95 species really are the native plants that have been here for thousands of years. we used collection sites such as angel island, the presidio had genetics for the projects in san francisco. we used remnant plant

habitats at hunters point and we used a lot of genetics from san bruno mountain. just to collect and process all of the genetics was a two-year process. and then it was about a two or three year process to grow all the species. >> this is the infamous -- it's a low, growing sprawling native herb and it's in the mint family and i'm rubbing my hands on this and it's extremely aromatic. it feels like a flush of peppermint just came across my face. it's edible. you can make tea out of it. it's a great digestive plant for settling your stomach. it has been cool to introduce yerba buena to yerba buena. this plant

is called dutchman's pipe. when in bloom, the flower looks like a dutchman's pipe. and another thing that's unique about this plant is, it's the whole specific plant for the pipeline swallow tail butterfly. so some butterflies are able to adapt to other species and can use larva and food from different species. in the county of san francisco, there's only about three or four healthy populations of this plant. these particular plants were going to be destroyed because of the green infrastructure project needed to put pipes in and needed to demolish all water tanks and build new water tanks for the island, so we were able to go in, dig them up, cultivate them, extrapolate dozens of plants

into hund hundreds of plants and restore it through the restoration process. one day one of my nursery managers was down here and she found the pipeline butterfly have flown over from yerba buena island and came to our nursery on treasure island and was breeding on this plant. and successfully did its life cycle inside of our nursery. so, it? how that butterfly knows it's out there and find it, this is one of those unique things that we can't explain why butterflies can find this species but if we grow it and put it in the right location, they will return. so the plants we're looking at here is faranosa known as just dedlia or live forever. the construction is it work happen nothing that

area, it's likely to be destroyed. a unique thing about this plant and the unique succulents we have in california and the live forever plant can live to be 150 years old. recently, the state of california just did special legislation to protect this plant. i think in its intact population on the island, there's less than 50 of them, so to be able to grow several hundred of them and have them be a part of the plant palate of the stormwater gardens that was installed recently is an increase of biodiversity and a step forward towards protecting the natural legacy of the island. >> i moved to treasure island in 1999. i believe i was one of the first residents on the island. i have seen how the island has been destroyed and reconstruct

since its beginning to restore the island to its native form is extremely important to me because that will help all the animals come back to the island and make this place even a better place to live. >> i want to be here because these are people i know, so that was my first thing is just, like, i wanted to come here to help out and be with (indiscernible) and to actually put my hands in dirt. i feel like we as people don't work in army -- we don't see the benefits of plants, like, but i just learned about a plant that if you rub it enough, it turns into soap. that's cool. and we need those things. we need to know about those things. >> one really unique thing about this project is the scale. to use 50,000 native plants over 7

acres is a scale we have never seen. it really is trailblazing when we think about the 350 or 400 acres of open space that is planned for treasure island, it sets the stage for what is possible. there's a way to use nature-based solutions at scale to meet the needs of climate change, sea level rise, the crisis of local extinction and create natural environment. the first phase of the project sets a stage for what is possible and i just feel really blessed to have been a part of it. >> one of the main focus on triangle is keeping vehicle traffic to a minimum. for residents and visitors, public transportation is highly encouraged and will be the center point of keeping the island pedestrian-friendly,

retaining an open space sent and providing an eco system that reducing carbon emission >> we need the transit to be successful because if we had 8,000 homes here and everybody was trying to use their car to access the bay bridge every month, it will overwhelm the system. new on and off-ramp are being constructed but all over the focus of the development is to be very transit oriented. triangle itself is very flat and very bikeable and walkable as a result and so there's a focus on using both bus and ferry service to get from the island to san francisco in the east bay. there will be a number of transit demand management tools that will be employed of the two new ramps to and from the -- to the island and allowing a limited number of cars to access the

bridge and there will be a management toll to encourage the use of transit. >> all the market rate housing on the island, the price for residential unit whether that's a rental apartment or a for sale condo, the price of the unit is decoupled from the price of the parking spot. so people can buy a condominium without paying for a parking spot. they choose to have a parking spot, they would pay an additional price. market rate residents are required to purchase take transit pass each month through their hoa fees or through their rent so the residents will begin the decision of driving or taking transit with a transit pass in hand each month. that transit pass will function as a muni fast pass allowing people to take muni and transfer within the muni network and function as an ac transit allowing people to take ac transit to the east bay and transfer within the ac

transit system and it will also provide unlimited access to the treasure island ferry. >> treasure island is going to take decades to be fully build out. it's going to take some time for it to reach the envelope that was passed by the board of supervisors and maybe there will be changes to it as well. we don't know what is going to happen in 50 years but i'm confident by the fact that the plan that was adopted was fully, fully thinking even for its time and the building the island to a way it's sustainable, it addresses sea level rise, but also gives the public the open space and parts that are so necessary to fill treasure island. there's

economic, certainly, challenges and whether we're going to be able to build out all of what was desired in the master plan, it will -- time will tell, but i think that the last ten years, we've been coming to this point. we are seeing incredible progress and the infrastructure is being finished by the island. market rate housing is being finished. affordable housing is being finished. and so, we feel within the next five years, substantial part of what we had envisioned is going to come to

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up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to

keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors.

i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. >> [music] you are watching golden gate inventions with

michael. this is episode exploring the excelsior. >> hi i'm michael you are watching golden gate inventions highlighting urban out doors we are in the excelsior. pickleball. let's play pickleball! pickleball is an incredited low popular sport growing nationwide. pickleball combines tennis, bad mitton and ping pong. playod a bad mitton sized court with paddle and i plasticic ball. starting out is easy. you can pick up paddle and balls for 20 buck and it is suitable for everyone in all skill levels you see here. the gim is played by 2 or 4

players. the ball must be served diagnoty and other rules theory easy to pick up. the game ends when i player or team reaches a set score 11 or 21 point bunkham win bright 2 pickleball courts are available across the city some are and others require booking ahead and a fee. information about the courts found at sf recpark. org if you are interested in playing. now i know why people are playing pickleball. it is so much fun you play all ages. all skill levels and pop on a court and you are red to g. a lot of fun i'm glad i did it. all right. let's go! time for a hike! there is i ton of hike nothing

excelsior. 312 acres mc clarin the second largest p in san francisco. there are 7 miles of tris including the there was fer's way this spreads over foresxeft field and prosecute voids hill side views of the city. and well is a meditative quiet place in mc clarin p you will siendz labyrinth made of rock:now we are at glen eagle golf course special try out disk golf >> now disk golf! so disk golf is like traditional golf but with noticing disks. credit as the sport's pioneer establishing the disk ballsorption and the first standardized target the disk ball hole. the game involves throwing from

key areas toward i metal basket. players use different disks for long distances driver, immediateerate. mid range and precise shot, putters. players begin at the t area. throw disks toward the basket and prosecute seed down the fare way. player with the lowest number of throws the end wins the game. disk golf at glen eagle cost 14 dollars if you pay at the clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate

adventures. franciscans. >> (bell tolling). >> wow. >> (clapping) welcome, everyone. here we are high on a hill. little morning fog, no rain are we lurking or not we're san franciscans. we're here to celebrate a beautiful man in our beautiful cable car cars what better day to do it in valentine's day can you