for them to love themselves again. although the lives stay on 24/7. their place is dark. i hope this program is shining a bit of light in their histories and minds to wanting to stay alive and free. . okay good afternoon. welcome to the sheriff's department oversight board special meeting for today january 24th 2025 in the united

states of america in san francisco we are now in session and the meeting is now called to order at i believe 2:08 p.m. on behalf of the sheriff's department oversight board we would like to thank the staff of s.f. gov tv for providing technical assistance to broadcast and record this afternoon's meeting. this is a special meeting of the sheriff's department oversight board individuals wishing to make public comment may do so when the line item is called each speaker will have two minutes to express their comments. dan please call the roll. >> thank you. roll call vice president proctor president proctor is present. president sue present who is present member wynn present when is present member palmer president obama is present madam president we have a quorum thank you. >> please call the first agenda item following line item one budget presentation informational item nicole armstrong chief operating officer at the department of police accountability will present and budget for the office of inspector general

and the sheriff's oversight board for the fiscal years 2025 to 26 and 2026 2027. >> good afternoon. >> okay so we will be going over the budget. >> so my name's nicole armstrong and this is going to be the budget for the usda office inspector general. next slide please. >> and we're going to focus this slide just talks about the different responsibilities of the sheriff's office of inspector general, the investigations policy reporting and conducting hearings. these have been given out by the charter. the investigator ones are being done by dpa at this time. next slide going on to the

budget priorities. >> we will be doing this is the first meeting we will be doing a second meeting. >> i believe at your next board meeting on the seventh. we'll be going over in a bit more detail about the budget and about different things that we're going to be proposing for next year. all right. so the mayor's budget instructions this year was maintaining core city services and continuing significant progress decreasing unsheltered and proposing opportunities for operational efficiencies. the main things that we're been asked to be able to meet is a reduction of general funds by 15% for the usda, oig this is going to be $200,000 that is the requested amount to be able to reduce from the current budget as well as all city funded overnight travel has been prohibited and hiring has been frozen at this time. >> as of right now what you can

see on the screen we are proposing a flat budget. we're not asking for no changes on here. you'll see that we have no cuts at this time. we just have the proposed flat budget. so the 200,000 is not in this budget. so this is what was agreed upon last year with the mayor's budget office with the base budget of 1,000,417 530 with the fte. but as you guys are aware there's only two positions that are available for filling at this time and that is the ig or one positive filling and then dan is in the other position as the 8173 clerk of the board. >> so the impact of the current budget is it's going to reduce the ability of the department to really function. it's going to extend the resources of the oig to be dependent on dpa to continue doing the work, the investigations policy, not having the ig you know will reduce the impact ability to do a lot of the additional things

right now and will prevent the usda from adding services to the community. it's really going to focus focus only on those core functions that the dpa provides at this time to be able to meet the charter mandates. next slide please. overall, as you guys can tell from just the budget, you know we're the major majority of the budget that the usda has is pretty much in salary for positions and then in the work order for epa and the work order for i guess i've got to be as well as 84 computers you know the basic services that are done for the city it's pretty much been reduced to a small amount of funding that's available to be able to really hire or do anything with the budget at this time we're not sure what's going to happen with the budget in the future. >> we're still waiting for some additional instructions from the mayor's budget office and as we get that information we'll be able to relay it and hopefully we'll get some more information as we go on for the next budget hearing or the budget presentation on the seventh. >> but primary budget really is

the work orders and the two positions that are on there right now. do you have any questions? i will go to my colleagues first. >> do you have any questions? nope, no questions. >> seems pretty straightforward and i wanted to ask a question just to make things clear to the public. the department of police accountability has really been shoring us up and we've been able to use their investigators under an mou for certain complaints with the sheriff's office. my concern is will there be cuts under dpa to staffing such that it puts an almost impossible strain for you to do your job as well as support us under the mou as of now the way that we've inputted the information into the budget is that the funding will be in there for the next two years. so i think if you look at the line items, the work orders that i was talking about includes the dpa so no there

shouldn't be any changes in the support that you're receiving from dpa. only reason would be if we receive different instructions or if we're not able to access it because for some odd reason they don't let us. but other than that no we are fully supported in helping and supporting all of the cases. we have zero changes planned at dpa and i guess this this brings it to me to maybe discuss with the mayor because i think this is part and parcel of his vision of stronger law enforcement serving the city so i consider the oversight the independent oversight a crucial part. i just want to make clear that the inspector general's office is fully independent from the sheriff's office. it's unfortunate that proposition e renamed it again and i think i had already been we had talked about presenting a charter amendment to clean up from the charter establishing the charter amendment, establishing us to make clear

that we're we're wholly independent and so now i think we need to go back and yet again and said this i don't want the public to be confused but we are acting independently and we don't we're an advisory body to sheriffs and because he's an elected official he can choose to accept or reject. but i'm proud of the work that we've done in like the 13 months with the inspector general terry wiley. we were able to, you know, make some i think positive changes and i think deputy wynn can really attest i think we do have good services for our incarcerated. of course it could always improve but given the short staffing, the short funding i think overall there have not been any out of the ordinary complaints and on our jail visits most of the incarcerated seemed happy with the services they were receiving and they also had the opportunity to speak with the inspector general or some of the investigators in private to

address other issues. >> i can also confirm just that dpa is also continuing to use some of those functions that were going on before when inspector general wiley was still here. so i know there's still a i believe it's marshall still working on all of the tablets, still working on different policies and still moving forward with a lot of the things that were the legacy items of terry inspector wiley so we're still moving forward with those. it's not just the investigative services but still supporting all the additional projects as well and i think probably the more important part is just even the ability to have technology overall with the sheriff's office. and so i'm hoping that with director paul yap of public safety and as well as patrick blair who moved from the police department to to our to the sheriff's office as the fiscal officer we'll try to i guess combine maybe combine it especially when it comes to things like checking license plates and licenses. i mean something like that.

i don't think it should be separate if we can actually save money and be more efficient and i fully support the name updates because you could see how many names the department has in just the systems internally for the city . so i apologize for messing up you know like i see zweig now and i'll see the the new one and i'll see all the other ones so i am all for cleaning up the names so that way it's one so i don't have to figure out which which system i'm using and which organization to use and then and then we will the board will be making, you know, official recommendations based on inspector general wiley's report. so and i guess just to be more transparent, i'm the vice president. i will be will we be supporting or submitting our letters of intent to the mayor that we are willing to serve another term i have to determine want to see yes. yes. but but nonetheless i will make sure that if there is a

transition that it's smooth and that we continue on the positive momentum. >> thank you very much for your report. no problem and we are always here to support. so if you guys have any questions me and my team are available to answer anything that you guys have to be able to moving forward. so please don't hesitate to ask and now do we have any general public comments on this from members of the public who would like to make public comment on line item one your presentation please approach the podium. >> how are you doing? i'm it's fine. >> everything about it so so it's green you can mr. quincy kind of duck first thing you see the un no good. >> it's a building that helps the building and then if you

get a city hall with the rumble i mean you don't miss it. >> so it's no good. >> and then at the end chris catches are all well everything else you have to pay attention and then you to the golden gate bridge with the city in the fog you know we are in the fog to be careful there's been some poisoning of the fog is not here yet you know okay i will be back to your regular oversights board meeting. please try to pay attention. you know, try to catch up on a stack of tv when i'm talking. i did it on the fire department's last when was it? >> wednesday. and i'm going to do it again against the board of supervisors. >> it's important to you if you want to be alive in six months you better listen.

have a good day. thank you. thank you. and at the final agenda item ten in calling line item two adjournment action item all those in favor. all right, all right. >> any nays this meeting is adjourned at 2:18 p.m.. >> thank you, keisha

>> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manors. today's special guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors, and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest today is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu.

>> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in the city and how art installations are funded. >> the arts committee was funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleries. projects we have are funded by the city's art enrichment ordinance which provides 2% of construction costs for public art. >> so art is tied to construction. there's been a great deal in the southwest of the city. can you talk about some of the

projects there? >> sure. our city has some exciting projected in the bayview-hunters point coming up. one artist created a photo collage. in the picture pavilion, one artist formed a collage of her one-year residency coming together with residents, and anchoring the new center is a landmark bronze sculpture, inspired by traditional ivory coast currency which the artists significantly enlarges to mark that it's a

predominantly african american community in bayview hunters point. >> are there any art installations around town that uses light as a medium? >> yes. the first is on van ness between o'farrell and geary. it's funded with the m.t.a.s van ness geary street project. another project is for the central subway. it is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. it's over 650 feet long, consists of 550 l.e.d. panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that

commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with nationwide. following the removal of early days in 2018, there was a toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the public to develop guidelines to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and evaluate the

removal of a monument or statue but also installing new ones. >> finally, it seems like the weather might be nice this weekend. if i fancy taking a walk and seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go? >> well, i would suggest the embarcadero. this work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. this suggests the bow of a boat and the glass panel surrounding the structure depict the history of fireboats in the bay area. >> and where can i go from there? >> then, i would walk up to the

justin herman plaza to check out the work of the art vendors. then check out the monuments like the mechanics monument. also, be sure to check out the poster series, installed in bus kiosks along market street, which features four artists each year. >> well, thank you. i appreciate you coming on the show, miss chu. thank you for your time today. >> thank you, chris. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another sho

>> i think there would be a lot more suffering. >> if i imagine san francisco without animal care and control, i know there would be thousands of animals every year who just wouldn't get that chance. whether that means going home with a family, being released in the wild without this concerted thoughtful group focused on all these animals. the big picture view and daily care. so many animals would be lost. >> but i don't think people

understand what goes on. they don't know how hard the staff works taking care of animals. >> it is just two people. one upstairs and one downstairs and the cleaning is total, 6, 7ish. one side starts off doing chemical, i close these all off so the dogs can't come in the back, and then i'm going to spray the back, (indiscernible) >> all the magic to rehome and work with a rescue network and all the medical care and behavioral and enrichment, socialization enrichment, volunteers are amazing. so, i think if i had a waish wish, i wish that san francisco knew more about what we do.

>> san francisco animal care and control is a vital part of making sure animals in this community are protected and are cared for. we deal with those domestic and wildlife. one of the primary suction is serve as a shelter. when animals have no where else to go, here is where they come. we take in about 9,000 animals a year and the care they receive here and the ability to move from here if domestic on to permanent homes somewhere else, or if you are wildlife you come here and we figure which wildlife rehubibitator to send to. that is the shelter aspect. we also have animal control officers who are available from 6 a.m. to midnight. >> ask them to give us a call, that would be great. the

number is 415-554-9400, and you can just ask for rebecca. thank you so much. bye. >> we receive approximately 20 thousand calls a year for assistance, so a lot is wildlife rescue, lost dogs, dangerous situations. we also investigate animal abuse, animal neglect. got a lot going on here. >> without us, there would be a lot more (indiscernible) a lot more animals suffering. who would people call? the police? fire? they have their own jobs and don't have resources or knowledge. they don't know how to help animals. so much hoar suffering. >> we took in 2800 animals last year. without a shelter where do the animals go? i think the community would suffer if we were not here.

>> whether living on the street or (indiscernible) animals are very important to people, so we are helping humans also, and we are alleviating a lot of suffering by doing our jobs. [music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry

standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now! wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this?

these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine.

>> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage. [music] >> mr. will.

mr. will. will! >> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music].

>> there we go. good morning and happy monday. welcome to our january 27th, 2025 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor walton. i'm joined by committee members supervisor cheryl and we are waiting for president amanda