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hall one doctor carlton b goodlett place, room 244, san francisco, california 94 102. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of december 17th, unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements much. mr.u please call item number one? item number one is an ordinance amending the administre uarterly reporting requirements by the mayor's office of housing and community development to the board of supervisors and the mayor regarding development of 100% affordable housing and to establish new semiannual reporting requirements. beginningy 31st, 2025. thank you so much. would you like t say anything first? supervisor roanoke and supervisor ronen is also joining us this meeting. good morning. i believe we have a presentation just a short presentation. good morning. i'm

sheila nicolopoulos with mayor's office of housing and community development in 2018, permitting was a significant barrier to affordable housing. the city had fragmented, permitting systems that were delaying important, affordable projects. so, supervn brought forward legislation that required reporting quarterly reporting from ocd that would increase transparency around where permitting was causing logjams and development of affordable units. that legislation became administrative code section 109.3 that requires most cdd to report every three months on four areas. the report must include one. a list of every 100% affordable housing project that is applied for approval of permit or other city authorization from dbi public works fire department, mayor's office, and disability or the planning department. two information regarding the deadlines for each 100% affordable housing project. three any approval permit or other city authorization, each 100% affordable project is waiting to receive from the department or office, and four

the date of any application and current status of each pending approval permit orí5 other city authorization for 100% affordable projects. since these requirements were codified six years ago, permitting for affordable housing has been streamlined through ministerial approvals under state bills like ab 2011 and sb 35. creation of a central permit center, creation of an online database, appointment of the director of housing delivery and other efforts. permitting is no longer the issue that it was, fortunately permitting for affordable housing is now an efen and coordinated process. it now takes less than five months to complete, permitting compared to more than 13 months a few years ago. working with supervisor ronen mohcd developed the legislation before you today. it will remove the requirement to report on permit status and require reporting every six months instead of every three months. we are confident that this modification will continue to provide useful information to decision makers and the public, while reducing administratives,t two places where you and the public can find reports and data

about affordable housing production. one is most cities web page for reports and plans,, the annual performance and evaluation reports required by hud, the five year consolidated plan action plans, and all of the reports that are required by the board and the second i want to highlight is our mchd affordable housing dashboard. that's a mapping tool that provides current data about complete and pipeline projects. this mapping tool, you can sort by housing programs, supervisorial district, neighborhood construction, status development and type and more. so those provide both of those provide lots of resources on reporting. thank you for your time and i'm available for any questions. and oh, do you want to do a quick can we bring up the screen again. we were just going to give you a quick look at what the that dashboard looks like. right there. so this is our dashboard website that's available to everyone. and that's where you can do all of

the sorting by different categories. and then it'll generate a map and it'll generate a list of all of the projects. thank you. thank you so much. i don't see supervisor ronen. sure. i just wanted to thank the department for doing the quarterly reporting for all these years. it has been very helpful to figure out where there are roadblocks in the way of allowing affordable housing to be built faster and the most efficiently in the city. i know pga, for example, historically has been a real big delay problem, and we were able to, you know, figure that out by by watching these reports. and as supervisors intervene where we thought were appropriate. but it it makes sense to me that twiced of four times a year. now that

it's been in effect for a while. and now that we do have more streamlined regulations. so i thank you for the work and i'm happy or am proud to be a co-sponsor. thank you. supervisor ronen. it is nothing wrong with being more efficient. i will now call for public comment on item number one. yes, members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any speakers who would like to comment on this matter? there are no speakers. seeing no speakers, public comment is now closed and i would like to make a motion to move this item forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. supervisor peskin, are you trying to speak? no. would you like to send this out as a committee report? yes. as a committee report. thank you. on the motion to recommend as a committee report, vice chair, safaí safaí, member. peskin, a, peskin i chair. walton i walton i that motion passes without

objection. thank you. motion carries. mr. clerk, please call item number two. item number two is an ordinance amending the administrative code to change the sunset date for the mental health sf implementation working group from september 1st, 2026 to the effective date of this ordinance. thank you so much, supervisor ronen. yes. thank you. colleagues, this item just had to sit for a week when we made the amendments last week. just to remind you, are sunsetting the mental health implementation working group as soon as this ordinance goes into effect and in our next item, we are going to conduct a hearing to learn about all of the positiveal health. s.f. and whas left t

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and a 46% increase in buprenorphine prescription filled at our pharmacy this year compared to the same time period in 2023. and then finally, we have seen a 35% increase in residential treatment admissions for substance use in fiscal 2324 over the. so both looking forward at our challenges, opportunities, undone work, and our and our thinking about that. so much has been accomplished. and i really want to acknowledge the incredible d.p.h b.h.s tea both within dhs, but also really across the department. our colleagues in human resources, in real estate, in operations have been extraordinary. supporters of the very important

content work being driven by dhs. so next steps for m.h.s. msph envisioned, as you know, the office of private health and insurance accountability. this is an area that we've not been able to tackle. we don't currently have funding identified, and at the same time, we know that having behavioral health access to people with commercial or private insurance is extremely important to our city workforce. while we have seen enormous hiring successes and enormous changes in our operations to identify candidatean, there is e shortage of behavioral health professionals, especially behavioral health clinicians and case managers, and we are conscious that we are competing with our colleagues not only across the bay. but really this is a national issue. we are pursuing a number of staffing improvements, using recommendations from the

controller's msph staffing and wage analysis, and will continue to work on that funding needs to be mentioned. the revenue from the prop c business tax used to fund the implementation of msph is volatile and below dfw's spending plan by about 30 to 40% annually. we have sustained or in the near, near and medium term sustained plan programing by relying on one time reserves and this will continue to be a challenge. some both challenges and opportunities. real estate acquisition is continues for us to be an area that we work on. there are lengthy timelines to acquire, renovate, construct sites. we are incredibly grateful to the board for its competitive solicitation waiver for bed procurement, additional building purchases are in

process for the upcoming year, including an additional residential care facility. both challenging and huge opportunity. we launched within behavioral health epic, which is the common electronic health record of d.p.h. we launched this in may of 2024. we are on a pathway to improved integrated data and analysis, and this presents enormous opportunity, though it has been certainly a large hurdle to come to the other side for this body. federal confidentiality laws limit integration of substance use services into a single data record, and this will continue to be an obstacle until those laws change. for us, having full integration. i want to make you also aware that we are we are always operating in external contexts that shape our work.

first proposition one from the from the state is providing opportunities for further expansion under the bond act. and that has been enormous. and we were ready for that because we had good data, a good assessment of need, and we were able to act in the very, very constrained timeline that the state has presented us. we are also in the process of evaluating the requirements under the behavioral health services act funding. so you'll know this as mental health services act. this is state money that comes to the county. it has a new allocation requirements that will need to be implemented by july 2026. so we still have some amount of time, but this may require shifts in what we fund and how we fund it. medi-cal reform specifically, cal aim is driving

many other system wide change in behavioral health. and there i'll call your attention to specifically the work that we are doing across the department around connecting people who are incarcerated with services upon discharge. there are enormous requirements that are coming with this, but enormous opportunities to do better coordination and care. as you also know, overdose is really has been a crisis for us nationally, statewide and in the city. we were fortunate to be able to begin a number of our opioid responsive projects with mh, sf and prop c funding followed with mhsa funding and then settlement dollars. these programs have enabled us to respond by increasing access, increasing accessibility of a number of high impact services.

but there's a lot of regulations in particular around methadone that slow us down. and we are trying to take advantage specifically of a new state law, ab 2115, that will enable us as a city and state to come in line with the new federal flexibilities. finally, just want to highlight a couple of msph specific programs that are coming. mental health service center. we are undertaking site acquisition in part financed with state infrastructure dollars. we are constructing our stabilization unit with intent for it to open in 2025. we are continuing to expand dual diagnosis treatment, expanded residential care facilities and transitional housing for unhoused people with behavioral health needs. some of that has

been funded with our bridge state funding as well. and regardless, we for all our programs, we are continuously doing quality improvement, refining both our. programs and our and assessing our metrics in order to get better. just to say thank you, i'm joined here with a number of people from my team and some who are not here. i just want to very quickly name them if that would be okay. heather weisbrod, who is first director of office of coordinated care, could not be here. eunjung kim and david padding david is here who co-led our new beds and facilities team. chet valentino, our director of data and analytics. and then from the occ team who are here, karen lancaster, maureen edwards, robin candler, who are leaders in the occ,

kelly kirkpatrick, who has been our lead administrator and operations for msph. and valerie kirby, who has importantly served as our department liaison to the implementation working group. there are many, many more to that. i have not named, but we are very all grateful to be here. thank you, doctor koonings and thank you to your team as well. supervisor ronen, thank you. you know, i just want to start off by saying how extraordinary it is, the amount of work and the amount of progress that we've had in the past five years, given that we were basically delayed a year or more in implementation because of the covid crisis. and then on top of that, having the fentanyl and overdose crisis has thrown a wrench in the works. and, you know, we had a the experiment with a tenderloin center. i you know, that's a whole other topic in and of itself. but that took the bulk of your attention, i

know, for an entire year. so to think we've really only had sort of three years focused on implementing mh msph. it's just it's really extraordinary what what the team and you have been able to accomplish. so i just wanted to start out by giving you my immense gratitude. i wrote mental health sf because i was so frustrated by hearing after hearing at the board of supervisors and the street conditions that i saw in the mission, where it felt like a hamster wheel of individuals that were suffering so greatly from mental illness and substance abuse, usually both would just kind of go from the emergency psych services to jail, back to the street, maybe to the shelter, then to the

street, then to jail, then to emergency psych services. and it was just it was just nobody was getting better. no, there wasn't coordination in the treatment. we didn't we didn't have much data available to us. most of the records were inputted by hand. and so you couldn't even get access to any analysis of where was the problem in the system that we needed to correct in order to create an actual system of care, instead of a hodgepodge of services? and i just remember having hearing after hearing that were so incredibly frustrating because we couldn't the right hand wasn't talking to the left. we couldn't get the information we needed as policy makers in the city to even begin to put together a system of change. and so we sat down for a good year with people in the field, people

who were doing the work. and we said, imagine money wasn't an object. imagine that you could start from scratch. how would you reform the system and we put together mental health. s.f. with that, with the, the, the different components of it and to see it continue to come true to a great extent, and to see that it's going to constantly evolve because this is the one of the hardest issues that we have as a country working. you combine mental illness with drug addiction with homelessness, and it's extremely challenging to solve. and one of the most expensive cities in the world. so i just cannot thank you enough. the whole team for the extraordinary work, for your, you know, dedication to really, really understanding the legislation and bringing it to life. i mean, that does there's

especially with legislation like this that sets out a policy systems change and is so big in in its nature, it could its implementation happens or doesn't based on the buy in of the department. and, and the administration in charge of government. and so it was a very highly political process getting mental health support passed. six years ago, we were able to reach consensus on it. we had all 11 members of the board of supervisors and mayor breed buy in to the vision. but but actually seeing it become a reality was never a given. and so i have to say, this is one of the proudest, my proudest achievements having, you know, sort of guided this process and put it together. but i haven't

done the hard work that you all have done day in and day out, in the streets, in the jails, in the shelters, in the hospitals, in the, in behac, you know, making sure that that individuals don't fall through the cracks. so again, my just extreme gratitude. i'm excited by what's more to come. i'm not going to get into the nitty gritty details. i think you provided a really, really good overview of what's happening, and i mostly just wanted to have the chance since i'm turning out to sort of provide a summary of what's happened, and then also to make sure that the implementation working group is able to end with a real feeling of satisfaction, because that work really has produced a, you know, one of the better systems that we have in this country, if not the best when it comes to behavioral health. so thank you so much, and i really appreciate

the great presentation as well. thank you. supervisor ronen. supervisor safaí, thank you. supervisor ronen, for all your hard work. i know this began right when you came into office, and here we are eight years later and we've made some progress, which is an accomplishment when you're dealing with, you know, in many ways a very entrenched way of thinking and bureaucracy. and i agree with you. very happy to have doctor cunnings and such a wonderful team of people, kelly and anna and therk that they've done to help to advance this, along with all the other people that you mentioned. the one thing i just wanted you to say, just a tiny bit more, and i know we have a long agenda today, but i do think it is important because governor newsom spent a significant amount of political capital, energy and money, along with the legislature, to pass reform of prop one to open up a whole new bevy of potential dollars to create new facilities. and i know that from sitting on the budget committee, we do have contracts that are out of county. many of them are locked facilities. and i know that then

there ends up needing to be stepped down residential facilities. so i just want to give you an opportunity to just say a tiny bit more about what prop one could do for the mental health delivery of services, and also opening up more residential and treatment facilities out of county. and i'm sorry i didn't hear in county or out of out of county, out of county or both or both. definitely. i want to hear a little bit more about out of county. so prop one has provided prop one. bond specifically has provided the county an enormous capital opportunity to think big, go big. specifically, that bond funding allows is very specific. at the same time, it is only available for medi-cal reimbursable services plus locked, subacute or mental health residential mental health rehabilitation center. both are available, but for example, what

is not eligible is recovery housing. just for example, what is not available is transitional housing. that is not medi-cal reimbursable. so there are some constraints to those bond dollars. we applied for a total of six programs, and kelly kirkpatrick has been holding the baton on that application, which is due this week. we will not find out about the results of our application until may, and money is not available until next summer. and what is the application? the application is for the six projects that include. i may ask kelly to come help me. the application is for approximately 100 new locked subacute beds. really trying to meet the unmet need of the city demands. it is. do you want to come up? i'm going to ask kelly

kirkpatrick to come help me with the other four. hi, supervisors. kelly kirkpatrick, director of administration operations for mental health, sf. as the director has mentioned, we are applying for additional funding for dual diagnosis treatment beds. 16 additional beds, a project on seventh street. we are applying for funding for psychiatric emergency services. that funding is eligible under the behavioral health portion of prop one bond. we are additionally applying for funding for the mental health service center for capital improvement, funding for a potential site as well, and additionally a project to expand additional residential treatment, substance use beds. about 40 of those in our project slated for treasure island that already has residential step down. so we would improve the

continuum. so we are applying for, i think it's about $140 million of projects. we'll see what the state awards us. this again is for the behavioral health portion. so there's $6.4 billion total under the prop one bond projects, 4.4 billion for behavioral health projects, 2 billion for permanent supportive housing for people with behavioral health challenges. that's being administered under homekey plus, which h.s.h and mchd in partnership with us, are developing proposals that rfa was just released about a week ago. thank you so much. thank you, mr. chair. thank you sir. thank you. and again, thank you, director cummings. i do just want to thank supervisor ronen for all of her work to coordinate mental health services. with the myriad of issues that we do have here in the city. it was a heavy lift getting to this point, and i know we still have a lot of work to do, but i know there's a lot of hard work going into mental

health, sf and of course, obviously to realize the dream, we have to get the resources. and so we are going to continue to commit to the work of mental health sf. i do just have one question. when we look at the challenges and opportunities slide around data modernization. can you just talk a little bit more about the confidentiality laws that limit the integration? yes. happy to. and just want to extend my thanks also to you all. i mean it really is this kind of work can only happen in my opinion, through lots of political and department level leadership. and so we have very much directly felt supervisor ronan's influence, as well as all of you to really to sort of carry out the promises, federal confidentiality. so there is a

federal confidentiality law that is known as 42 cfr part two. that is a specific confidentiality law related to substance use treatment. when a program holds what is called holding itself out as substance use treatment, we need to get special consent from patients or clients to share their medical information and to share their medical information. in the case of epic, with other parts of the health system. so it is possible that somebody would consent for treatment for their substance use disorder, but not consent to have their information shared in other parts of the health care system, like their primary care doctor, or like their gastroenterologist. for example. and so if the person says, no,

thank you, i want to get help but not want my information to be shared. but these other parts of the health system, we can't have the information all in one electronic health record. we have to partition it. got it. that may be more detail than you wanted, but that is something that we are really struggling with. no, i definitely appreciate the response. thank you. supervisor peskin. thank you, chair walton. and i said it at a couple of other meetings, but i really wanted to say on the record again, that i am very proud of the work that supervisor ronen, as a member of the board of supervisors, has stuck to now for more than a half a decade. and to the team led by you, doctor cannons at the department of public health for making, i think in the 20 some odd years that i've been in and out of this building, the most progress on this very, very

complicated, very tragic, very expensive set of issues that i've seen. and i'm particularly proud because that push actually did not come from the chief executive's office. it really came from the board of supervisors. and i just profoundly want to thank supervisor ronen for sticking to it through two terms to the end of her term and to all of you for bringing it to fruition and sticking to it. thank you, president peskin. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment on item number three. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time, each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this matter? there are no commenters at this time. thank you. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. supervisor ronen, any closing thoughts or anything? then i am going to move that this hearing be heard and filed? yes. on that

motion, vice chair safaí safaí member peskin a, peskin i chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. thank you so much. supervisor ronen. mr. clerk, would you please call item number four? yes. item number four is amending the administrative code ordinance, amending the administrative code and labor and employment code to move certain employment related provisions, including, among others, certain prevailing wage requirements, apprenticeship requirements and hours and days of labor requirements from the administrative code to the labor and employment code. thank you so much. supervisor safaí. thank you, chair walton and i'm going to be brief. i know we have a long agenda today, but i just wanted to take a minute or two to say, talk a little bit about this legislation and hand it over to director mulligan. really want to commend him for his tremendous work working with my office through two legislative aides, first, with bill barnes and then jeff

buckley and our city attorney, david hostetler. for all his effort for putting this piece of legislation together. colleagues, if you remember, we made san francisco the first city in the nation to have its own standalone, comprehensive labor and employment code. back in january, it covered things like lactation, access it. it worked on all different aspects of our labor code. what it did not get in there this time. and this is trailing legislation, is our prevailing wage laws. and so it consolidated 40 existing labor laws, including some of the city's most and in many ways in the country's most progressive and pro-worker policies into a single accessible labor code that we're all over the all over the city charter and ordinances. this move is designed to simplify public access. it's truly good government and worker protections and better enforced wages and benefits. and i would

imagine, based on the information that director mulligan has given us, people average approximately 30,000 visits to the office of labor standard on on a monthly basis, which is extraordinary. so there's obviously clear public demand for easy access of information. so this legislation will not only meet this need, but significantly enhance worker rights and protections. so just want to thank director mulligan again asked him to come up and say a few words and then also let colleagues know we did have some other substantive amendments, but we're not going to introduce those today. i'd like to duplicate this file and send the duplicated file over to the budget and finance committee. my co-sponsor, supervisor chan, is going to take up the new piece of legislation in the upcoming session. so she will work on that. and those amendments will be heard then. but so i'd like

i'd like to duplicate the file and send that duplicated file over to the budget and finance committee, and then we can vote this legislation out today as a committee report, if that. mr. chair, through the chair, director mulligan. thank you. chair. walton. president. peskin. supervisor. safaí. as noted, this is trailing legislation to the landmark labor and employment code policy that was established last january. again, that was the first labor and employment labor code, municipal labor code in the united states. a testament to the 40 plus different labor laws passed by the board of supervisors and by voters in san francisco. i think the importance of it is that the labor policies were all over the police code and the admin code. this consolidates it into one location. easy reference for

workers, for employers, hr professionals, and also city policy makers and city staff enforcement staff. the reason the prevailing wage was not included initially is because there were some modest changes necessary before the transfer. all of the other labor policies that were transitioned over to the labor and employment code were basically cut and paste. there was no text changes, but there were some minor changes that were necessary here. basically, for the sake of clarification and consistency. but again, i commend the board of supervisors. thank you. supervisor safaí and the entire board for your dedication to labor policies in the next few days, you will be receiving copies of the office and labor standards enforcement annual report and again, thank you for this matter. thank you. thank you, director mulligan. seeing no other comments from colleagues. mr. clerk, please call for public comment. yes, members of the public who wish

to speak on this matter. should i speak at this time? each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any speakers on this matter? there are no public commenters on this matter. thank you. seeing no speakers public comment is now closed. supervisor safaí, what is your wish to send this to the full board with a positive recommendation? thank you, mr. clerk. on that. yes. just to clarify, this matter will be duplicated and referred and the duplicated file will be referred to the budget and finance committee. and on this original matter, we will there is a motion to recommend it as a committee report on that motion. vice chair safaí i safaí member peskin a peskin i chair walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. mr. clerk, please call item number five.

yes. item number five is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the office of citywide food coordination within the human services agency, charged with coordinating citywide efforts to address the food insecurity among san franciscans, san francisco residents preparing a food security report every five years that examines the scope of insecurity among san francisco residents and seeking the input of community organizations and other city departments to inform the food security report and the ocfc efforts, and resolving the food security task force. thank you so much, mr. clerk, and let me just say on this item, i think there's some components in here that might be useful for us as a city, but most certainly want to make sure that a change like this is vetted and worked through with community and make sure that community and the department can be on the same page as to how best to move forward. so i am going to motion

to table this item. there was going to be a presentation from the department of human service. but unless susie smith, who is representative, wants to come up and say a few brief words, there's not it's not going to be a necessity for a presentation today because i hope my colleagues will join me in tabling this item. but if you want to say something very briefly. thank you. chair walton susie smith, deputy director for policy, planning and public affairs at san francisco human services agency and i just want to say that i think part of our interest in moving this forward at this particular moment is knowing that we have a federal administration that's going to be very much against the safety net, and we wanted to be unified as a city to be able to coordinate and advocate together. and i think the only other piece that i want to mention is that we did take a

number of amendments from community, and we built into the legislation several opportunities for community engagement and presentations and convenings and community research. so this for us was not the end of a community process, but the beginning of a community process to really coordinate and advocate for food security and justice in the city. thank you. and it'll be great when community and department come in here together singing kumbaya. i appreciate that. thank you. with that said, we will take public comment on the motion to table this item. yes, sir. members of the public who would like to provide public comment on the motion to table this matter. i know the motion is to table, so let me know if i don't speak to that. i hope i do. good morning. my name is honest charlie bodkin. i'm a resident of district five. in 2019, the task force reported that 1 in 4 san

franciscans are at risk of food insecurity. since then, according to the 2023 biennial food security and equity report, the mayor and this board have cut from the budget over $32 million in food related funding, including millions slashed from the sf marin food bank, one of the city's most vital food resources. compounding this was the ending of the emergency food programs provided during the pandemic. the federal level and the need for food assistance remains high. i understand the very real concerns of the budget deficit and the choices this board must confront, but it's unclear what the need is for a new coordination office. while existing programs go underfunde, what additional overhead will this office create and how will it improve food security in a tangible way, given this ordinance does not have a co-sponsor from a supervisor? i believe we must also ask whether this change is aligned with the

incoming mayor's priorities. i also encourage the board to carefully consider how this restructuring will impact the city's ability to meet food needs, and these are some things that i hope you consider during your tabling. thank you. thank you. good morning. committee chair, president and supervisor. as you know, my name is marshawn tadman, associate director of policy and advocacy at the san francisco marin food bank. i would like to start by saying we hopefully respect everyone up here and all the work you do to serve the community. we commend the efforts of the creation of the food coordination position, but we also feel something of this magnitude should follow the established and agreed upon process set forth in the recommendations document. sunset in the san francisco food security task force and the normal process of the participatory process in san

francisco. unfortunately, we must oppose this legislation, and we second that you table this legislation. participatory process was not undertaken, a budget analysis was not completed. and this is absent from community input. and to be candid, this legislation is being fast tracked before a new mayor take office before the holiday season start. our ask is simple more time is yielded for people to analyze this legislation, more community involvement and input should be paramount to the process. per the county process, and that we should continue to this work in the new session so we can have ample time to listen and explore the pros and cons of this legislation. so i second that we table this to the next session. thank you. hello, supervisors. i

wanted to also just bring back context because i'm hearing from community as well. is that the civil grand jury report stated that the food security task force was duplicated and the mayor's office issued a letter to this body. it stated that they would not move on any of the civil grand juries recommendations, and that she put out an executive order for this to be more of a collaborative issue, and in more so, president peskin's prop e that passed all of this has been done that we understand that the city is in a budget crisis and that you're maybe purging some resident commissions, but the food security task force should not be that one. the food security task force has been around for 20 years, and its origin is in the southeast. it was founded by supervisor sophie

maxwell of district ten, for which chair walton serves. supervisor safaí was the legislator of this bi annual report, and at the time i was his aide that worked very closely to get the information that's in the bi annual report that we have here for real data that we could use in the community. and we need to also think that this is not also a goal for the human service agency. it is a public health goal. we not only want san francisco's to be healthy, we not only want them to be full and not sleep. one night in this city hungry, but we want them healthier. and this is all from the movement of healthier school lunches and everything. and there's many organizations here from the southeast. some of the poorest sides of the city here in opposition to this. and i just commend you, chair walton, and the rest of the body of tabling this to make them come to the table and talk to us, and

we will be reaching out to the new mayor. hello, committee. my name is haley nielsen. i'm with farming. hope we are a food security and job training nonprofit and we are part of the food and agriculture action coalition towards sovereignty. and one thing that we know about this city is that we have one of the highest densities of michelin stars in the world. food is a huge part of our culture, and yet we're majorly behind on coordinated food efforts to ensure that everyone in our city has equal access to food. the food security task force has been around for 20 years. that's all correct. they have been for the last year, working with the subcommittee to figure out what should be next for the food security task force and an office of food coordination citywide office was

one of those recommendations. that recommendation has been a year in the making, and it has included community at every step of the way, so that this process maybe didn't have community in the last few weeks, doesn't mean that that process wasn't taken into account when this legislation was created by the mayor's office. there's a whole report about what the food security task force did recommend on coordinated food, citywide food access. so i think it's really important to keep that in mind. and we don't know what's going to happen with the next mayor. as people are saying, we don't know what's going to happen with the next board enshrining an office like this means that food security will be at the top of the mind, and who knows what the food security task force will be. it's sunsetting in 2026 anyway. so this would be enshrining food in san francisco. and i think it's really a disservice that we're not passing this. good

morning supervisors. my name is jade and i'm with the food and agriculture action coalition towards sovereignty. and i'm here to express my disappointment that the legislation to establish an office of citywide food coordination will not be continued. other major metropolitan areas like new york, boston and los angeles county already have dedicated offices on food policy and coordination, and they have already demonstrated success in addressing food insecurity and engaging community and adapting to challenges such as federal policy shifts and climate impacts. san francisco's office of citywide food coordination could have been the city's critical step forward to a similar infrastructure, but instead we are passing up this opportunity to protect existing investments in community food programs, leaving us vulnerable to local and federal administrative changes. and for what every passing this up for? what's the plan? instead, how will we prepare ourselves for the threats outlined in project

2025? how will we ensure we're able to feed our neighbors in the face of an $876 million budget deficit? budget shortfall? we've been asking for an office that would break down silos within city government and an office with teeth that could influence policy and finally develop a long term food strategy. this office could have been that step in that direction, but now it's dead. so again, i ask, what's the plan? good morning supervisors. thank you so much. my name is shakira assembly. i'm here on behalf of booker t washington. we serve about 2000 folks every week and also on behalf of facts. and so today we were supposed to hear about an office of food coordination for san francisco. and i want to amplify my colleague's comments on this is a missed opportunity to be more responsive, organized and coordinated in our food security investments, which are now at risk to the tune of $30 million in our san francisco city budge. it's also troubling, given the future and inevitable attacks by

the trump administration, when our social safety net will be attacked. so that's medicaid. snap, our national food programs, and a community task force with a sunset date without any teeth. and now it's lost. its major staff is not going to be able to be responsive or hold other city departments accountable. and we also agree with our colleagues and our community members that hsa needs to be better and more inclusive with community engagement processes and intentional, including voices from our black, indigenous, asian, pacific islander and latino communities. it's important that we can also understand that this office would be a bridge to a bigger and better solution, which would be a san francisco strategic plan for food and also a true office of food and agriculture like we have in philadelphia, denver, new york city, and other major metropolitan areas. and so that's my question as well. what is the plan? what will we do? i want to thank each of you sitting in front of me who have

worked hard to invest in food security in your specific districts over the past several years, but we may not have any time. so thank you. good morning. my name is katie jackson. i'm the chief nutrition officer at project open hand. i want to just commend my colleagues for coming up here and speaking this morning. i think it speaks to the fact that the community is very interested in this topic, and i appreciate the idea of creating an office within the city. i do want to just encourage the idea of leveraging the years of expertise on the food security task force as a tool for that office to use going forward. so now is not the time to ignore or shy away from the food access issues that we have in the city, but to keep them front and center. thank you. good morning

supervisors. president peskin shamann safaí. thank you for allowing us to be here. i want to start by saying a very famous quote, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere by doctor martin luther king jr. what i stand here representing as a san francisco african american faith based coalition, as we are serving almost 900 households a week and our upcoming feeding 5000, which you all have participated in. so hunger and food security is very important to us. what troubles me is that hsa is fast tracked this conversation and that all of the communities that people have said they have talked to, we were not talked to, and we touched lots of households. i reached out to our pacific island task force, our latino task force, our bayview community advocates. they were totally unaware of this going

on. we heard of an announcement on wednesday at the food security task force and then already on an agenda here today and on an agenda tomorrow with the board. what's the hurry? if you're really concerned about all of us, then let's all of us come to the table and have authentic, transparent conversations about hunger and who all is impacted. it's impacting us all from. as i heard our sister jeffrey say, from our health and our wellness to every part of our being, we need this delay. it's not about the new mayor. it's about what's right and what's fair and what's just. we have a strong voice in this community and it has not been heard. so we're asking, please delay this to give us all ample time to talk about what's real, what's effective, what's feasible, what's respectful so we can be authentic to the populations we serve. we need

your delay so we can all have a voice and that it doesn't just affect a few, but many. thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment on this matter? there are no additional commenters. thank you. seeing no other speakers public comment is now closed and i do one. definitely want to thank everyone for coming in today. i think that there is an opportunity for us to demonstrate what this office could look like with coordination could look like, but most certainly it has to happen with the involvement of community. and we know best policies are adhered to and of course, created when everyone comes in on the same page and talks about how excited they are about how we move things forward, that's not the case right now. but most certainly the plan is to bring everybody together so we can come up with something to where we're all in here on the same page. so with

that, i want to make a motion to table item number five and supervisor safaí, my know, you said everything. yes. on that motion. vice chair safaí i safíi i member peskin, i peskin i chair walton a walton i the motion passes without objection. thank you. motion to table passes. mr. clerk, would you please call item number six? item number six is a hearing to consider appointing one member. term ending march first, 2025, to the sheriff's department oversight board. we have one seat and two applicants. thank you so much. i know we have one seat and two applicants and just want everyone to know, not only just for item number six, but also item seven eight, nine. when you come up to present and talk about your credentials, everybody has two minutes to do that. this is going to be a pretty lengthy meeting, so just wanted to make sure everyone knows and understands that. and

i'm going to call for item number six. the candidates and applicants up as they are presented on the agenda. and first we have estella ortiz. thank you so much. good morning. supervisor walton, supervisor safaí and president peskin. first, i'd like to thank supervisor walton. thank you for creating the office of inspector general and the oversight board to build transparency and accountability in the sheriff's department. my name is estella natalie ortiz. i was born and raised in san francisco, california, specifically the mission and the bayview district is where i grew up. since the age of 12 years old, i have had to visit family that was incarcerated inside the sf county jail for my brothers, my sons, dad, and friends. i grew up with. seeing black and brown men be put in jail has impacted my life greatly. i have sat front row as a witness to the mass incarceration of black and

brown boys and men. through all of this, i chose to be resilient and proactive in getting to youth and child development work to prevent my community from falling victim to the system. i have dedicated my life to serve, teach, and empower young women and men to and expose them to life outside of our hoods. advocating for literacy support in the schools at all grade levels to combat school to prison pipeline facilitated violence prevention groups inside of middle school high schools, youth creative arts as a form of healing, past traumas and constantly providing resources to youth needed. i've co facilitated groups in the bayview district fathers groups in the bayview district to fathers impacted by the justice system. i am currently working as a family case manager and shelter at a shelter and have advocated for clients who have been arrested for over 15 years as a community provider volunteer, i have worked to provide an off ramp from system impact. this work has been focused on supporting survivors who find themselves trapped in the criminal justice system. my

work has brought me close to children who have been incarcerated, parent and family member. unfortunately, i have met young people who need interventions to help disrupt cycles and push them out of schools and safe environments and into systems of state supervision and incarceration. i am deeply committed to enhancing the public safety and accountability within the sheriff's department. i believe that amplifying voices of marginalized communities, particularly women individuals who have been system impacted, we can work towards more equitable agency. thank you so much for this opportunity. thank you. and i know we have another candidate, mr. neil hallinan, who is actually in trial. and so he is unable to attend this morning. so we will go to public comment. yes, members of the public who would like to provide comment on this matter can line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. good morning supervisors. my name is joshua jacobo and i'm here on behalf of

the latino task force reentry committee. i serve on the reentry committee as a co-chair and on behalf of the committee, we strongly support mister ortiz for this seat. miss ortiz is the ideal candidate to represent the community perspective on such an important committee. her collective? yeah. her collective experience of the interpersonal nature of being system impacted and dedication of work and collaboration over the years with community to make make her the right candidate for this crucial committee. we look forward to continue working and collaborating with this, with this committee. and lastly, we have mission street vendors association present and echoes our message as well. thank you for your time. are there any other speakers on this matter? there are no no additional commenters, thank you. seeing no other speakers public comment is now closed. i do just want to say that this our sheriff's department oversight board is a very important body here in the city recently, really just

getting up and running the board is going to be tasked again with picking another inspector general, as we just had a current resignation. so there's a lot of work ahead of us to make sure that we're working with our sheriff's department to address issues that are happening in our jails, and i am excited about both candidates, because there's a level of experience that is important and needed on this body. but i do agree with this being the time where someone like estella ortiz should be serving on the sheriff's oversight board, not just your advocacy and the fact that you come from community and you've worked across different communities addressing so many different needs and issues with our communities. but i'm also excited about the fact that we have young people willing to serve and willing to step up, and having the credentials to do so. so i want to move that. we

appoint estella ortiz to seat two of the sheriff's department oversight board. yes. and we can do this as a committee report. this one was not listed as a committee report. okay. so on the motion to recommend miss ortiz to seat two, vice chair safaí safaí member peskin a, peskin i chair walton, a walton i. that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. congratulations. mr. clerk, please call item number seven. item number seven is motion approving. rejecting the mayoral nomination for the appointment of joanna goodman to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1st, 2028. thank you so much. is joanna here? thank you. are you going? you have two minutes. sure. hi, i'm joanna

goodman. i'd like to share that my three year old daughter just had two seizures in the past 18 hours, so it's not easy for me to be present here with you right now. i want to thank you for being present with me and taking the time as the year winds down, to consider my qualifications for appointment to the board of appeals. i've lived in san francisco since 2007. i love this city and i am excited about the possibility of contributing to it by serving on the board of appeals. i've spent many years in government at the california public utilities commission as an analyst manage, commissioners, advisor, and administrative law judge. and i've learned that laws and regulations have profound impacts on people's lives. i've also seen how they don't always work for those who need them most, like the woman who called me in tears, deathly afraid that her power was going to be cut off. her hiv positive son needed

that electricity for his medical care. i also saw our programs deny free appliances to low income families for well-intentioned yet curious reasons, like claiming that a washing machine on the second floor of a building is a safety hazard. i believe it is crucial for government to listen and to use its power thoughtfully. if appointed to the board of appeals, i will help san franciscans navigate our city's processes within the confines of the law. as a judge, i received extensive legal training and across my government service, i learned how to engage transparently with the public balance. conflicting policy priorities, and collaborate to find solutions. i know that sometimes laws don't feel just especially in edge cases. while it remains essential to uphold basic rule of law, i appreciate the role of the board of appeals in shining a light on those gaps

and inviting legislative remedies. finally, i bring years of civic engagement and commitment to building effective organizations. as a sierra club san francisco group executive committee member, board member at the bicycle coalition, and more. i also speak intermediate spanish and beginner cantonese and russian, reflecting my desire to authentically connect with people from all background. thank you again for considering my qualifications. i respectfully ask that you send my nomination to the full board of supervisors with the recommendation for approval. thank you. thank you, miss grubman. mr. clerk, we will call for public comment on item number seven. yes. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this matter can line up to speak. at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. thank you. my name is

raynell cooper, speaking in my own capacity. thanks to the mayor for nominating joanna. and thank you to the chair and the committee for hearing the nomination. i serve on a nonprofit board with joanna, and i've known her for several years and known her to be a great candidate for this position. she's a former public servant, so understands the role of government in serving people fairly. as someone who works in public service myself, i understand that oftentimes, oftentimes it can be hard to separate yourself and separate your own opinions from what's right and what's fair. but it's a muscle that you learn doing this work. and i think it's something my experience with joanna, i know that she's very good at at taking in this input, taking in what she hears from the public and being very deliberate in her decision making. she also asks a ton of questions, more than really anyone i know in terms of talking about policy, talking about the issues of the day and the issues of the city. and i think that attitude of questioning and trying to get to the right place and trying to

get understanding where people are coming from is, is going to be extremely valuable to have someone like that on the board of appeals and she definitely doesn't come to an opinion until she's heard, heard, done all the research and heard everybody out. finally, i think she's got, as she mentioned, just this great joyful exuberance for the city and for serving the city and a love for the city. and i think we need more, more folks with love for the city in roles like this. so respectfully ask you to send her nomination to the full board for approval. thank you. hello. good morning. my name is owen velez. i'm here to speak on behalf of my support for joanna, for the commissioner of the board of appeals. i've known her and her family for the last three years. i run me and my wife, we run a child care home where we've cared for her daughter for the last three years. she's always been a very

active member of our community. she's always raised up issues that affect family and children in the city, within our community, and has always gone the extra mile to take time to make sure that we and the other members of our community are informed about the things that are happening in the city and their rights as citizens and voters. she's always willing to, like we said before, always willing to listen to all sides, and has a very comprehensive approach and being a member of this community also for the last eight years, i understand the need for centering the needs of children and families as they inform policy. the standard that is required for a society to serve the needs of the youngest and most vulnerable members of our community. it benefits

really everyone, all the way across the strata. and i myself. i'm a former vice chair of the child care planning and advisory council, so i've been involved myself and i believe she will be a truly an asset for everyone in this position. thank you. good morning supervisors. my name is anthony colbert. i'm here in my personal capacity. i'm assistant chief judge at the california public utilities commission right across the street. i've worked with joanna since 2015, when she was on advisory staff with me on our proceeding for low income individuals, for energy, for energy programs. i also supervised her when she was an administrative law judge in 2020 and 2021. she brings, as

the previous two speakers said, i think what you need on the board of appeals objectivity, curiosity and a belief in process. so i've seen her do this firsthand in the advisory role and the judge role, and i believe she would be an asset to the board of appeals. and i urge you to move her nomination forward to the full board. thank you. good morning, supervisors. my name is charles whitfield, and i'm the chair of the san francisco sierra club's executive committee. i'm here today on behalf of the sierra club to state our support for joanna goldman's nomination to the board of appeals. joanna is a fellow sierra club member, and she joined the sf group executive committee at the beginning of this year. from her

very first meeting as a committee member, joanna impressed me and all our colleagues on the committee with her attention to detail and her collaborative approach to decision making, including an instinct to talk through disagreements and make sure all parties feel heard and understood. whether or not we reach consensus. since then, joanna has sustained these practices with apparently boundless energy and shown a welcome focus on aligning our organization's processes with our goals. the sierra club believes that these skills and attributes, which have made joanna an invaluable member of our leadership team, would also make her an excellent commissioner on the board of appeals. and we urgeou once again to support her nomination. thank you. thank you. good morning supervisors. my name is vijay raghavan. i live in the inner sunset. i'd like to briefly express my support for joanna goodwin's nomination. she is, of course, deeply qualified as many of the other speakers have mentioned. i just want to briefly add that just based on my interactions with her over

the past few years, she would make a very compassionate and thorough and fair member of the board of appeals, and i support her. thank you. good morning. committee members cyrus hall live in the sunset. i want to speak very briefly about my support for joanna goldman. i've recently gotten to know joanna when i worked with her on prop l this past election cycle. her dedication, her passion, her breadth of knowledge around policy, all sorts of policy, both transportation, housing, environmental impressed me greatly. and the board of appeals needs a steady, even handed member like joanna to bring all of that. plus her objectivity, her desire to collaborate, and a belief in the power of positive process. i'd ask you to move the nomination to the full board. thank you so much. good morning, alan

burdell, district eight i'm a small business owner and 30 year resident there, and i just have a brief comment about why we're here, reviewing these nominations from the mayor and for this particular position right now, it's a very important board of permit appeals. the voters said no to mayor breed. okay. she's gone. so why are we entertaining her nominee here? this is a big middle finger to the voting public. setting aside the qualifications of this person. i don't know this person. okay. thank you. are there any other speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no other speakers. public comment is now closed. i do just want to say that i am always grateful and excited for someone wanting

to step up and serve. i think that it's very important to have folks who want to be in leadership roles, folks who really care about our city. and so i want to thank not only miss gutman, but all of the folks who have been appointed today. i also am of the belief that the city had an election, and there was a mayor who was voted for, and i think that mayor should be afforded the opportunity to make appointments per their duties and one of their mandates of the charter. i also just want to say, i don't want to set anyone up to be in a position where they may be removed by a new mayor, so i just encourage folks to continue to want to serve and to have conversations with the new administration. but i can't in good conscience support an appointment, and the qualifications for me are not even issued. but i know that the city did elect a new mayor. so i'm going to motion that we move

this item forward without recommendation. supervisor safíi yeah, thank you. chair walton and i concur with your comments this morning. i don't intend to judge any of the applicants. i think many of them are. and i've actually worked with one of the applicants before as the chair of the rules committee, and believe that they're immensely qualified. but the timing of this is it coincides with the change in leadership from the appointing authority. and these appointments would last far beyond the transition that's about to happen. so i believe that all all three of the commissioners today should resubmit their applications to the new administration and look forward to working with them. and i will support the chair's motion to reject as well. thank you. i would just add so yeah, these appointments would last almost to the end of the new mayor's administration. so i

concur with that. sounds like all three of us at this moment of transition are on the same page and in some ways concur with the last public speaker. but i would respectfully suggest that rather than sending it without recommendation, that we send it with a recommendation of reject. right, right. let me change my motion. i do agree, a motion to reject. yes, i believe we will need to amend the motions to delete approving throughout the motion to effectively make the motion reject the recommendation for appointment. correct. mr. clerk? yes, on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí. member. peskin a, peskin i chair. walton i walton

i the motion passes without objection. thank you. motion seven i mean item seven. motion carries. mr. clerk, please call item number eight. yes. item number eight is a motion to approve and rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of sarah barge to the municipal transportation agency board of directors for a term ending march 1st, 2027. thank you, miss barnes. good. good morning. supervisors. thank you. my name is sarah bars. i'm a transportation professional, and the mayor's nominee for the sfmta board seat vacated by amanda eken. i'm a mom and a district seven representative to the sfcta citizens advisory committee. my family leads a truly multimodal life here in san francisco and in my free time. i am very active in my community in sunnyside. for the past decade, i have worked in transportation in both the

public and private sectors. i graduated from uc berkeley in 2015 with my master's in city planning and a concentration in transportation planning. i have worked at the city of oakland, the sfcta, the mtc, and now i work with transit agencies around the world in my role as a product manager for transit payments at apple, i would like the opportunity to bring my community passion and my professional expertise to the sfmta board. if appointed, i have three top priorities one. the agency's fiscal crisis, two making our streets and busses safer for everyone, and three building trust with the diverse communities of san francisco. since i became a parent, safe streets advocacy has been my focus with my volunteer time. while i have been an advocate, i am not an ideologue. i have worked in this field for long enough to know that there are usually several possible options to a transportation problem, and community support is a critical element to any street change.

the city charter calls for two members of the board to have the board. the sfmta board to have professional transportation experience. and much like amanda aiken, i would be honored to contribute my professional experience and expertise to this board. i ask you to please consider my qualifications for this position at face value and not delay this decision. sfmta's needs a full board to help the agency face its significant challenges. thank you very much for your time and i'd be happy to answer your questions. thank you, mr. barnes. we will now call for public comment on item number eight. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. thank you. supervisors. my name is peter belden and i live in district ten, and i'm speaking today as the political chair for the sierra club in support of the nomination of sarah barres

for the sfmta board. two reasons that i'll highlight one. sarah has a strong commitment to sustainable transportation, which is critical in the fight against climate change. the city has declared a climate emergency, and i and i think many residents of san francisco believe scientists that we truly have an emergency. and so we must act to seize this opportunity to appoint someone who's so committed to sustainable transportation and would serve for four years. and this is also about clean air. we probably many of us remember that day recently when the sun didn't come up and the sky stayed orange, and just two nights ago we were going to go out to downtown san francisco, my wife and i, for a date night. we looked at the aqi and it said over 150 unsafe for all groups. and so i think that fighting climate change, taking that action for cleaner air really is urgent. and then the second reason, as sarah mentioned, she's a transportation professional, which i think makes her a great fit for the job. the last thing i'll add, just in a personal note on a separate topic, because this is the most wonderful time of the

year, i would encourage folks to check out super bowl supervisor walton's book from juvenile hall to city hall. and the reason i mention that is we're just here in a professional capacity, but it just gives you some depth and some background of someone. so that's an aside. but back to the topic. the sierra nevada strongly supports sarah's nomination for this board. thank you. good morning supervisors. my name is janice park and i'm a resident of the mission district. i've worked in public transportation across both public and private sectors for the last ten years, including at sfmta. i went to uc berkeley for my master's in city and regional planning. that's where i met sarah bars. i followed and admired her career since then, and i, as a resident of san francisco, fully support her nomination. sarah has proven proven dedication on improving the transportation system in san francisco. her passion, expertise and tenacity is unparalleled and we would be so

lucky to have her on the board of sfmta. thank you. hello, my name is zach brown. i'm a resident of district eight. i've lived in san francisco for almost 12 years now, and i'm here to speak on in support of sarah. i've worked in the transportation area at a at a firm working on fair payment for transit systems across the country. and so i've worked with sarah, both at the mtc and at apple, and she's extremely qualified in the transportation space, and i can't think of anyone more, more qualified to navigate a lot of challenging bureaucracy at large organizations and moving them forward in very innovative ways. i've also had the ability to work and see what sarah has done on a community level, supporting safer streets, working with families with children to make san francisco a safer place to live. and i walk and bike and take muni all over the city. and sarah sarah's work to make the

streets safer and more livable in the community, and also on a professional setting with mtc and apple is really unparalleled. so i think she's a phenomenal choice, and i and i look forward to seeing that. thank you. good morning supervisors. my name is bob esfandiari. i'm here just in my personal capacity and as a capacity of a friend of sarah's, whom i've known for several years now. i first got to know her when she hosted some seamless event and pulled me into the massive push to try and get our bay area regional transit agencies to be better about coordinating payment and so on, and so forth. i was going to come here and speak more directly to why i like sarah, why i think sarah is a phenomenal person, why she's dogged about demanding and understanding, like what is the most effective thing that we can be doing to actually achieve results? but based on the comments from the last nomination, it seems like this

is a foregone conclusion. so all i'll say is this people know when a principal is touted. that is, maybe you actually deeply hold this principal, i don't know, but we all probably also are desperately hoping that president biden jams through as many appointments as he can right now, while he can before the next president comes in and so, i don't know, i feel like i don't fully understand whether you all think the next mayor should have a chance to nominate who they want, or whether you just don't support this nominee for some reason or something else. i just find it disappointing and i feel like it's inauthentic and i'm saddened by it. so i'm hopeful that my friend will get a chance before the new board. and with the new mayor, if she's able to get in front of him. thank you. good morning again, supervisors. my name is sri vijay raghavan. i

live in the inner sunset. i support sarah barrett's nomination to the mta board as a former wheelchair user and spinal cord injury survivor who still faces some difficulty walking and especially crossing some of our streets. i hope we're all in agreement that vision zero will continue to remain the policy of san francisco, and based on sarah's support for safe streets, i hope there's no need for this confirmation to be delayed. thank you very much. hello once again, cyrus hall. i stand to speak in favor. sarah barr's appointment as sarah talked about her experience. she's worked in transit and urban policy since 2010 and includes time in paris, one of the cities that is leading the world in sustainable transportation solutions and transformation today. she would come to the

board with a master's in planning and work across the region, including in oakland, our own sfcta and regionally at mtc. i've worked with sarah on a number of issues, including public transit funding and making streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists. her expertise has always shown through, and i want to mention one experience that she did not bring up when she was talking about her experience, and that is being one of the founders of seamless bay area, who has worked tirelessly on the regional level to advocate for better public transit, healthier public transit, transit. that's easy to use, that's actually affordable, where when you change transit systems, you don't get nickel and dimed by the agencies. and bringing that to the board when we're in a moment of critical financial crisis is important. this is one of two positions on the board that has to have transit expertise, and it's vital that we have someone who understands the regional landscape as we seek funding, both regionally

and at the state level. we do not have time. we do not have weeks to wait. those issues will be resolved over the next six weeks, both regionally and at the state level. and we need someone like sarah in place during that time. i would urge you to move this, whether with recommendation, without recommendation, or for a rejection to the full board, for full consideration of the entire board of supervisors. thank you very much. good morning ellen. adele, again, and i would just repeat my last comments simply that it's just reject this, please. today this mayor was voted out. we need the new mayor to make the appointments recommendations. thank you. are there any additional speakers for this matter? thank you. seeing no speakers, public comment is now closed and i do just want to state that. miss barnes, i think you have an amazing resume and your credentials are great. however,

you can refer to my comments from item number seven and i move to replace approving with reject for item number eight. yes. on the motion to amend in order to amend the motion to reject on that motion, vice chair safaí safaí member. peskin a, peskin i chair. walton i walton i that motion passes without objection. thank you. motion carries. mr. clerk, please call item number nine. item number nine is a motion approving or rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of james bain to the police commission for a term ending april 30th, 2028. you have the floor. mr. okay.

thank you. i'd like to thank the opportunity for coming here today. i understand the board's position, and i know the board is aware that my nomination is a replacement for somebody that resigned from the commission after the election, and it was a term that was initially appointed by mayor breed during her term of office. so it's merely the completion. i completely understand the board's position on that. having said that, when i first got the opportunity to serve on the police commission, i wanted to focus my efforts on the tenderloin district. it's not just the fact that his most dangerous area in san francisco, it's not just the fact that it's hurt. in san francisco's convention and tourist industry. it's not just the fact that its streets are filthy. and it's not just the fact that san francisco's most vulnerable residents, including many

children, live there. what is the most important fact is that too many people are suffering and dying of addiction. as a native san franciscan, i've always been familiar with the tenderloin. but what i have become intimately familiar with it was when my wife started working as a public health nurse at the tom waddell clinic. i saw the great work that the city of san francisco was doing. my wife, maureen, has since retired, but she continues to volunteer at the healing well, a nonprofit group that helps people in the tenderloin. the important, the important observation that many of i have noticed is the under deployment of police resources in the tenderloin. the under deployment was made apparent to me one friday evening when, on a ride along with sfpd, as i had done on a number of occasions, i observed two incidents, one involving a mental crisis incident crisis at an sro and

the other a potential domestic violence violence altercation occurring in another part of the district. the sergeant i was with told me that evening that as a result, there were not any police units now operating on the streets of the tenderloin on a friday night. san francisco, despite what many outside observers say, is one of the most safest cities in the united states. but the tenderloin is not safe. the police commission has no authority over deployment of police. the police department cannot solve alone solve the problems of the tenderloin, but they cannot play their role unless they are properly deployed there. as we approach the new administration in washington, i've had the privilege of representing a number of former addicts who face deportation proceedings. all of them have told me of their struggles. the next four years are going to be a challenge to many san francisco residents who are immigrants. i

believe that i can stand as an example to our immigrant brothers and sisters that one of their police commissioners has devoted his entire professional career to helping them. thank you. thank you so much, mr. byrne. mr. clark, would you please call for public comment for item number nine? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line up to speak at this time. hi there, alan burdell. again, i would just say that i support the argument that commissioner byrnes just made. that would give you a reason to put him through today, and i appreciate commissioner byrnes for his work and i totally agree with his rationale. so thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? i do not see any additional speakers. thank you. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. mr. clark, i'd like to repeat the

motion for items seven and eight. yes, the motion is to amend to delete the word approving in order to make in in order to effectively make the motion, reject the mayor's nomination for appointment on that motion. vice chair safaí safaí. member. peskin a, peskin i chair. walton, a walton i that motion passes without objection motion to object i mean to reject passes. mr. clark, do we have any more business before us? there are no additional items on today's agenda. thank you. we are adjourned.

>> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleanng thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪]

>> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt

more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of

homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things,

people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us

ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have

seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more

exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out

>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable

units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years.

i was born here in the hayes valley. >> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also

required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference.

>> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019. the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for

someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between

now and 2025. we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]

5 o'clock. >> (music). >> co-founder. we started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens and so we this is - many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband we're the owners of you won't see ice cream in san francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going

together and we - we provide the job opportunity for high school students and i hired them every year and . >> fun community hubble in san francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. >> and i'm alexander the owner of ice cream and in san francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke o'clock but the flavors more than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. and my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and what can i do

why not bring this ice cream shop and (unintelligible) joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. >> we're the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background and a lot of interaction and we're fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also

>> driver, bye. >> hi. i'm will b. mixture weltake a walk with me. >> i just love taking strolls in san francisco. they are so many cool and exciting things to see. like -- what is that there? what is that for? hi. buddy. how are you. >> what is that for. >> i'm firefighter with the san francisco fire department havings a great day, thank you for asking. this is a dry sand pipe. dry sand pipes are multilevel building in san francisco and the world. they are a piping system to facilitate the fire engineaire

ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that homes upon bundle to the floor

the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] 18. >> if you're anesthetic think

about a career with us in the sffd stands up a remarkable force to save lives the step forward we're not just looking for firefighters but people with the mind to tackle any exchange and oats heart to serve the public. >> i'm p from california and firefighter and paramedic basically grew up at the beach surfing in the wilmar a lot and once i got into clerment i start to compete. >> my name is a ryan i was with the step forward and comprehensive swimming and from there went it school when my

career took off. >> minimum miller a little you firefighter with the university of california berkley and played football for 4 years and after that, i was a undrafted free agent for that they played in the glamz and then after that signed with the chargers. >> are you someone with a passion for pushing your limits do you thrive in high pressure situations ready to transform both a new career and my name is jay i grasp in san francisco and remembered with engine four i knew i wanted to nod do not an office job but a firefighter from a young age a athletic is like that in general working towards a goal and being goal

oriented and this job, you know, are constantly learning and practicing i wanted to job where i used my body and could be part of the team so the firehouse and planning on team priorities on a team are different conditions and have breaks firehouse on is an engine or truck have a place you can be together. >> i tried it done with football and didn't time to do football i choose this and found elevators between sports and athletes and the fire services a college or a professional team you represent something burn yourself and other people want to maintain a certain level of professionalism and i understand

you have to have a higher standard. >> joining the san francisco federal, state, and local is making a difference in light lives of others. >> i thought through the fire department i thought under pressure the biggest one you fell in love with our medication and enjoyed the medical side and helping people. >> my favorite job putting anti fires and helping people were put that many situation so getting them out and this resources they need and then having them at their homes. >> so i have come across my favorite part of the job i'll say show up to work and run calls and knowing that each day will be different what is the best part of this job. >> i'm on a side of paramedic.

>> i'm an athletic and i'm a professional football and now a firefighter. >> i'm a firefighter. >> are you ready to answer the call and combooshg on a call >> some of the neighborhood in d8 are the castro and glen park and noe valley and diamond heights and coal valley. >> hello, i'm supervisor mandelman the supervisor representing d8 the board of supervisors. >> i had also been interested in politics and puck life and group in san francisco and when i was in high school i had a 13wrir78 with periphery on the

board of supervisors. and as i got involved in um, in local affairs hi was grown up at the some point make sense to run so i did. >> so you had i was running in no charge back. focused on homeless and the mental health issues as priorities for me and the district. my mom suffered from mental illness for a big county executive of hero adult life got sick when us very sick my was 10 or 11 years old i move to san francisco she was not able to take care of of me by my grandmother i followed her life and try to help her anti she on the other hand, she lived institutions and board cares in homelessness shelters for a period of time and i thought there are folks with those sits

needs have informed my governance and priorities as an office official. >> last year the governor newsom and senator egg that man and the pushed proposition one on the ballot in march this is a big involvement in um, in housing and treatment for people with serious mental illness proposition one it is a very large bond 6 nature billion dollars for housing, and bed placement and wake facilities for people with severe mental illness we have utilized to have stated hospitals we closed those for this is the most significant involvement california made in

replacing the state hospitals with something better and more community-based organizations and anyone on the streets of san francisco schizophrenia see folks with really needs and i hoping that prop one with implementing it in san francisco will help us to better meet the needs of some pretty sick folks i think the country clubhouses the castro is known for a number of things a place where camera shops and where the queer civil rights movement and the political rights started in the decades and known for a study session for queer people a lot of that is about bar the great night life that's great a darker side to that there is a lot of addiction in the queer community. and overflow room when we were founded in 198

three were a coffee house was helping folks to recover from the especially department of defense of aids crises over time the last 41 years has changed and now we are be a nonprofits have the focus on the queer recovery community that's our focus but the center is on to everybody. we hosted 46 in-person board groups a week raping if crystal clear collaboratives anomalies and overeaters and undocumented children of alcoholics recovery and smart recovery we try to cater to the entire community and all the things they meet needs welfare from folks need a community of support to heal from substance abuse given the

circumstances folks will need a place to go and meet forensics and hang out and get supportive services and then have a place where we can just be that's the magic that happens here the magic of san francisco community-based organizations small and mighty are doing work to help people move forward. >> i benefit from this because when i have questions about substance abuse disorders or tilly chang the challenges i can turn total folks at the country club have lived the experiences with the addictions and will tell me what will work or likely to work.

>> with variety is another great castro institution. 1ur7 commitment for the neighborhood. at a time when retailed is struggling not only in san francisco but around the country a beloved it store provides jobs for folks in the neighborhood a if a family has seen is transitioned in the neighborhood were here when it was, you know, more issuing working class a neighborhood and then they saw and welcomed all the queer folks coming into the neighborhood and really changing the neighborhood

and embraced now- >> (multiple voices). >> we started it was started in 1936 by my grandfather and evolved with the neighborhoods over the years my great grandfather in the tenderloin and while i was recovering fixing stuff in the back of his hardware store and the, fix anything. >> when you walk into my store you're walking into the most fantastic you've ever been in creative by board games and toys and when all of a sudden you're in hardware and hours ware and you're greeted by ice lashes and

fabric and every gift. >> (laughter) a throw back to a time a general store go to one store for anything ranging from our drag state you multi-family dwelling unit need for some party or performance to um, something you need for 6 to fix our sewers or walls or to repaint. or maybe just a gift to thank someone for a holiday or birthday all the stuff and (laughter). >> we are an improvement of we don't have if you don't need it limiting we have everything except for food and cloths and every neighborhood in san francisco is struggling somewhat with the impact of our failures to successfully address the millennials of our people i look 10 or 20 years into the future i

think it will be right is about e will be brighter to the extent we found a way to meet the needs of people with addicts to the mint mental health that impacts people walking around the neighborhood and i hope today, i think walking around in in san francisco neighborhoods people have to been, you know, why are we not doing a better job of caring four those people my hope that 10 or 20 years in from now my work and others would have to constantly ask that question that will now allow for a flushing of those neighborhoods. >> those are beautiful neighborhoods with beautiful buildings and views and we just have to might the needs of human beings kind of left behind on the

sidewalks and in the carrier >> thank you [meeting adjourned] good afternoon thanks for being here we're excited this morning and with us we have our mayor london breed and don't and sheriff paul and our assistant chief david lazzaro and our acting deputy chief rachel moran and sanity and others we have let's see -

sector and daily from the sheriff's department we are here as a team to announce the progress we've made on too things homicides and gun related violence in for for this past year and you'll hear from everybody in a second it is huge accomplishment before i go further let me and that we have many of the people in the room who were responsible for the work from the future land use map and our partnering department our um, can partnerships autonomous vehicle shuttle pilot helped us to track the strategy and have our community members who without them none of this would be possible. acknowledge to go into a little bit of details about i i'm going to turn it over to my colleague i'm excited about our progress but begin with our mayor london breed to the stage to reduce the violence we are

hearing oftentimes well crime is down across the nation homicides and this is strategic it takes into consideration years in the making and describe what that entails but started with mayor london breed. >> we're on track to have the lowest rates of homicide in san francisco and through one homicide is too many that's not just a cliche we're creativity you are shootings are down our gun related violence and homicides the firearms are down this year and in deed was a effort we know the drivers of homicide and our city by many other cities is case for many, many years. our strategies is a

data driven evidence strategy and basically we want to get to the causes of the shootings to drive them down if we do that we'll be better the results of 31 percent decrease this year. our homicide related shootings this time last year we're at 10 more than we are at that time this year and on top our homicide unit has an 88 percent year to date had a 80 percent clearance rate so has been phenomenal work across the board by the member of sfpd and many of the other partners. i want to thank the entire investigation bureau for their tireless efforts working closely to evan

capture the dangerous and violent people in the city in the area. these units include the community team many are here and our crime investigation center. our citywide planning and our technical service team services unit. the officers assigned to the market coordination center and our tactical unit who oftentimes called upon to serve as one of the most dangerous conditions with the people we come coa and thank you, every officers in the district who helps do the work. >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. to keep our city from violence. as i said you'll hear from one of our partners the california partnerships save communities mr. encouraging ham

here and california partnership is in the communities has been involved in the work with us for almost 5 years now and this was due to the mayor london breed leadership to get the money to engage in the will contacted what them and craft the strategies they have here today. like i said earlier, we use the database andove this strategy we can be stand before you with the reduction in homicides and homes in general we love this work in district 10 that is a 50 percent reduction in homicides shootings compared to last year and compared to the rest of the city i'm going to thank you to a few people that made this happen and first of all, you are policies and public affairs and this is our non-sworn professional units

that is managing the silence production and they've explain instrumental in making this happen the mayor's street intervention program that is f pi t people that they are on the front line day to day and they work with us from everything from patrols to retaliation to yellow protocols making sure we can keep things to make sure the families are supported and in retaliation and violence at the hospital tells they play a crucial role and instrumental to stop this type of violence in the city and i have to say thank you, to the district attorney these cases when they happen they're another part of this i

know is circle important that is prosecution we want to see people held accountable and get them whatever closure and that didn't happen without the partnership of the district attorney and the district attorney's office. lastly let me say this in terms of what this is all become, you know, homicides and gun related violence have a tremendous cost to our city not only about the hurt they caused the families and everybody associated with the homicides but also a cost to the city and this is a study says had it costs what does is a life cost if a one up to $17 million for the cost of homicides in our city. this time last year what is your name at 50 homicides year to date we had

33 homicides. >> just this year alone that is $20 million cost savings to associate and just this last year alone had work didn't start this year we have been working on this for several years and other than the pandemic year we see shootings and homicides are down when we look at that if that aspect this pays tremendous dpvdz thank you and now i'm going to turn it over to mayor london breed for comments. >> (clapping). >> thank you, chief and first of all, let me start with something a heart of the condolences too, so many of the famsdz the moms like paulette brown and others have lost their children to gun violence here in

san francisco and pushing for justice and wanting to see people held soluble but more importantly to make sure it didn't happen in the first place the reason owe got involved in public life has to do with we my he experience growing in san francisco in the midst of gun violence and that destroyed my community people i love there were killed and sadly not coming back this is something to understand when we're talking about that issue the love of one life destroys a community whether those point family or the people who love them the friends, i think about so many of the people over the years we lost wish they could be here but port of what makes san francisco so special and why is many of those programs were started 234ish with the f pi b the tonight nicked was a way to

combat a lot of the violent crimes were tearing the community apart using people part of the community bust within those situations and rifting their lives an ongoing challenging effort and i'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to bring those teams of police officers and community-based organizations working together with a number of initiatives starting to get to the roots of this is problems they never happen in the first place this is what that is will not about just a response to violence but making sure the violence didn't happen in the first place and you'll read about it in the newspapers there is a shopping center i hear about those things loud and clear what hay don't hear will have the phone calls they make to michael or others in the community asking for help asking

for support for something that shouldn't happy because they're urge to helping to see that young steer that young person in the right direction it is significant today it means that moms and facilitates wouldn't have to deal with the phone calls and running to san francisco general hoping this they're schmd is not lost to gun violence in the city. this is the work that i came in office to do this is the work i - i wanted to see happen and this is why today is so significant. because it is so much incredibly progress. and that progress happened when we work together. it happens because our san francisco police department loads on the investigation we have 90 pictures clearance rate of homicides in the city and it is about 50 percent throughout the entire cry we're leading the

nation and using the technology and tools to combat those issues that was not happening many years ago hi was grouping brake to 1993, 1 hundred and 33 homicides the year after i congratulated from high school that was a time in the city and something we lived through for so many years and the fact we're in this place is amazing. and it is because we work together. if is because we focused on prevention and we provide solutions we work together and when we get us there and see progress that what today means seeing violent crimes to a lower number no over a decade being a homicide rate decline lower than 19060 that is the work we're doing here in san francisco that is how we are changing our city for the better. and when i think

about change i think about neighborhoods. not just hunters point but sunnyvale i ask you to see it - pouch the hill that was the violence that is tearing communities apart we have one of the first things i became anywhere to transform that community working with the community and to see the hub with kids and teenagers with families with seniors and to see that we're going to be opening up is a grocery store and building units work with the community and that people feel so save especially people that grew up in the community that is

the work we are doing that is the work we'll continue. >> and speaking the work we'll continuing i'm so glad we have a district attorney that focuses on accountability here in to we believe in second chances and making investments to support and the community. but when those lines are crossed has to be accountability. which i served as a member of the board of supervisors i remember when this was a homicide. i know every kid was killed i knew the mother and families which one of my friends and recently our district attorney fm got a conviction helping those

families and their structure and sorrow please welcome our michael jefferson. >> thank you. >> mayor london breed and chief scott and thank you, everyone has been a tremendous partner over the last two years years we made a difference on the streets of san francisco as a former homicide prosecutor i know first hand what that means to hold the objectivity of trying to deliver justice to a family um, who is grieving. to a mother has to bury her child as a mother i buried one of my own so everyday we carry the district attorney's office has a responsibility to make sure that we don't leave families in a

position where they have to carry that pain alone and what they don't feel a need to get justice out on the street and that is what often is unsafe we contribute to the violence and as law enforcement don't do our jobs and i was condemned for my job from my predecessor but after the loss of one of my on in san francisco which came the day after a 6-year-old was killed it was important to elevate the voices of people that felt they were holding and bag at the worst possible moment in a lives i know as i've come across mothers like paulette brown struggled they may never gets justice with a adequate

rebuttal homicide waited 10 years while that los angeles wished in the court walton for accountability it is uncumbersome to move the ball forward and today, we all know we lost too many lives that is compared to last year 17 fewer families have to bury they're loved ones this year and 17 few mothers are held up in bed feeling like they can't keep up it's what is key here. i would like to over a a few for status more importantly keeping the homicide rate down in 2024 any office resolved 27 homicides

with a 92 percent conviction of those 27 cases 8 cases went to trial all 8 ruled in a conviction. not including one we're waiting on a deliberating jury we've gone conviction every single murder trial this year the numbers today are currently we're moving in the right direction like i said the life-saving from a critical pitcher with the community members and organizations and law enforcement. and that's not something can be taken for granted we're talking about community so often have trouble trusting law enforcement and so what it takes for them to step up and willing to work together with us is so important and they need to be acknowledged all need to be acknowledged for that i

also decided it was incredible for my office not just to be reactionary not after violence but work to make that process just as the mayor and police chief have talked about from a citywide perspective i said my department starting a non-probationary with the units that dedicated to intervention to work with the youth to making sure we're having a career pathway supporting them and this is move though school and pushing them tarnished a bright future and not just left to careers on the street i want to continue to push forward that work in my office and they've for the staff in my office it decade their time in uplifting the kids something we don't so to see them spiral in a be

careful and conduct we're here talking about and i'm grateful part of the vision many are here take on a lot of secondary terms working with families of a victim has been lost and everyday are working to help to support them oftentimes a trying delayed your 2 minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. and we'll getting get them the justice i'm they've for the partners it takes dedicated homicides people that oftentimes miss their families and miss in their kids and when those calls come out we want to say thank you to. so many have made investments in the work on at the expense of their own personal lives working hard to make this progress and hopefully next year, we, see 3 number is

lower and now pass it blink to our sheriff has maid his office is part of this partnership as well and (clapping.) good morning, everyone. i'm very happy to be standing here we everyone up here and out there i having proposed remarks is one thick by in the room it is special especially, after you talk about this topic especially we talk about the successes we have and the work will be done. and not just about doing the work that everyone in the room but how we had had work i've been fortunate in my career to see see dedication of the men and women of the sheriff's office and of the police department and district attorney's office people in the community working out working together in variance stages this

is the first time in a past years without that dedication that commitment and collaboration the sense of the community and i work that resulted in these numbers that resulted in with what we're talking about i want to say that it is made me proud to be part of that and the people have had that commitment and the results of that commitment and the work we do happy to say that through there is a reduction on the streets the individuals we peculiar about held accountable have to go someplace into custody outside of community and we have to always focus not just on holding people accountable but mentioned something about limitations about second chances that is what we're also committed to that's something we cherish the partnerships of the community in trying to create a

sense of rehabilitation and accountable and look at the numbers the only number i see aren't the good numbers but the numbers we have to deal with through we have a low count in the jail system three hundred and 60 are members of gangs or whatever you time to label them and need help need to be held accountable is part of our process we don't just presenter the collaboration in public but a lot of the collaboration that related in the staff part of police department team and things were mentioned our staff are assigned in the jails starting with deputy here happy is 1257b8dz in front of you all because of the work they do within the system to share the

resources and collaborative on keeping places safe inside with our deputy population and want to thank them for 3 personally today and we continue to talk about this i want to talk about our continuing commitment to making sure we continue that collaboration and continue the coordination that we continue our participation and cv r t all the acronyms led to the commitment of continuing commitment of all of our resources keeping everyone safe and i ask and plead we continue that with the community as well and celebrating something with paulette later than this week i think that is collectively we still to have to do but resist of good work we do and like to

at that time bring to come up we can't do this without the help of the community reagan (clapping). >> good morning, everyone my name is reagan cunningham the co-director of the california for safe community we've been having partnership since 16 thousand when technical assistance means we help the city to implement the c r strategy we've been working with sfpd and adult prohibition and is da's office to implement the dr i two reduced the gun violence this is not the thirty year strategies but in the near

term and reduce the recidivism rate not about to take everyone to jail by making sure people are held accountable we talked about earlier and making sure that individuals who need a seconded change get that and the third strategy to build the trust. this is about building trust in the community. sense the implementation we've focused in district 10 and specifically the neighbor focus hesitate been disproportionately impacted by the gun violence talking about the bay area. and one of the things we see the implementation has of the strategy is that we've seen 50 percent reduction. and something that definitely

happening at the time in those neighborhoods not but president but design we're tiven with the sfpd and with prosecution and the sheriff's department all the partners and what it means to make changes. so through this collaboration we've been able to focus on saving lives one of the things i want to mention has been mentioned actually want to not just thank everyone up here but the folks one of the individuals that to be thanked the young men in district 10 not to engage in gun violence we do this work because that district 10 is safer. thank you. (clapping.) >> thank you reagan as we close i want to reemphasize a

couple of things those strategies they're working. they don't work without the people. doing the job and those people ma have by no one room my left and behind you all i mentioned are are realtime and we got off the ground initiated unit and their leadership as well as the people that or operating on the streets or in the room but also communities all the moms and uncles and aunt and cousins and brothers and sisters out through walking the street and the mayor and district attorney raising awareness and like to instructions handgun violence with wouldn't happen without all of you all it needed but things happen and the people in this room i want to close by thanking

all, all of the people that have gotten us to where we are now and have a lot of work to do and won't stop until we get this down to zero. that work about gone and for the lifetime thank you and company up for a few questions (clapping) [off mic.] and time for a couple - >> the numbers go back potentially (unintelligible) people made things don't feel the numbers how do you (unintelligible) feel safe. >> well, part of it is doing thing likes this we have to let

the people know what is actually happening out there i know the way people feel based on is trenches and when somebody, however, the work is being done and have to highlight get the truth out there but the work that being done one of the few really can't, you know, we talk about unreported crime and homicides are reported so we know that the work is being done i'll say we understand. we totally understand you're experience your perspective and to decide what you feel everyday in and out we work on that by getting the information out there and by partnerships and cunningham mentioned one of the goals to dollars this work.

strategies of the past and on a community and you see cops everywhere we are ways past it now we have people like people in the room reach out to the people who are at risk of being shot and reach out to the families 450e we're here to help but hold people accountable this is real i think that helps people reduce their amongst levels with the police department should help not to make things worse we need to continue to do that that's a long answer but it is real and necessary and very thorough answer. >> yes. >> i'm i wanted to add to that because what the chief said is one thing to have this data and another thing to feel safe i

think one of the challenges that we have is when something happens that's given a lot of media attention all over social media but when something good happens or quite the opposite (clapping.) no attention like i'm still waiting for the press to go out to see sunnyvale and talk to the people that live there but their experiences to talk to even the folks here from the street violence interference program what necessary stopped from happening and the stories sometimes get out but the numbers don't lie we have more work to make people feel it but look at san francisco over the decades and look at our violence crime rates overall whether car break-ins or property crimes or anything it is the laboratory numbers we've

seen over the decade and more importantly look at other cities around the country in america i think what we want to be able to side is send a strong message i think that the data is helping us to send that message if i want to do noticing something 3 impacts someone else's life in san francisco there is a law enforcement team of the folks will make sure you're held accountable and not to mention the technology with drones and assistance and license plate reading would goable to came bat crime we have combating we have more tools we have to so many support and we are all working together. so get 3 message out the message you'll be held accountable differently than

before and what the press gets out people took advantage of the san francisco will notice a challenge i think that the young people grouping in the neighborhoods are getting a lot more support and help and resources to help change they're lives and works that is hand in hand and we need to also elevate and talk about more than just something reacting to something (clapping). >> any questions? >> congratulations america is watching you. >> i'm pretty sure every one of i [off mic.] sheriff's department has been behind the scenes on

the block for many, many years collaboratively with all of you (unintelligible). >> i feel we have to dispute put the spotlight the work we've been around for many, many years we'll continue to be around for many, many years not a task for one agency and one person one organization, um, it is truly about community. and not just community of the public safety but mentioned by every single person representing all the players without that support across the board and the support of mayor's office the overarching support of the city government the support of our public safety partners and bringing people into the process

as the chief mentioned before the old strategies of coming in to a neighborhood and having a preservation is not just about being in uniform by about the emotional connections with the community with people we scroll down to the basic strategies as mentioned by reagan not just about the work we do but the decision the people in the community make and see those kinds of results and appreciate we recognize that and we need to continue with the program that's what we wanted to emphasize we want to continue that work. and partnerships. >> (clapping) what's your question over here? >> mayor london breed

[off mic.] >> yeah. the efforts of our vastly improved since 2021 have a 50 percent reduction as far as i, tell i'll give you some specifics own that. in 2017 at the end of department that was 31 thousand car break-ins and now down this and have less than 10 thousand that's a significant significant reduction we know that not all were supported in the property crime is down thirty percent around thirty percent that is product crime is our biggest category for numbers

in san franciscans. by down across the board and robberies are down and again, because of people and because of technology the mayor mentioned we've been able to not only implement at the speeding at which people have been around here a long time but implemented as quickly. that's great but people that you see in the room and the people in the field put that technology to use and it is helping us solve crimes and catch people we may not have came out without the technology and block cameras that someone sees in the city they're getting their license plate it is reported but the car itself and so when people try to out smart us by changing license plates. the cameras help us

capture people. and things are going in a really, really good direction but again fighting that crime is humbling and as it continues to go down have a city that as mentioned we want to rewrite our narrative. and taken some loss sometimes and sometimes not but get to get the truth out there and tell them the removal and that will help also when we get - you know, we don't do things we used to do but make no mistake when people see cops in the neighborhood in uniform and gave me that helps with the perspective but the work is being done and now i can't argue with the um.

>> i mentioned has been is most intensive with our loss of children i go to the police commission every wednesday (unintelligible) and focus on the children and homicides. bringing hire investigators to come back for mothers like ourselves. so crime is down and now the joke is on us i want to thank every one of you for coming out all of you thank you, every morning to a [off mic.] i'm glad that the

community is we can - we can um, freeze the gap between community and law enforcement. i want to continue to do that as as not that lots of my son didn't deserve to die and we'll continue to there is other mothers out there all of us have lost our children i can't name the names of all of you and we're here representing - i need everyone to come out tomorrow support us and want to say thank you, mayor london breed and thank you and all of chief lazzaro and all of you please

(clapping). >> thank you, everyone that concludes the conference and now that end the

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turn it over one quarter turn. so in on holler orientation in turn off our gays meter don't turn it back on get a service call from >> i am supervisor melgar. i am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us

security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms,

people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our decision making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where

for generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as

like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or (indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small town feel for a big 28city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north,

you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and (indiscernible) i love they bring their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic.

>> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate

the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the

outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. (indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too. >> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]

>> good afternooning. welcome to the december 9 regular meeting of lan use and transportation of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm chair melgar join bide the board of supervisors president aaron pes kin and vice chair dean pti