>> 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

men who will be here in a little while. >> our clerk is victor young and i want to 100% thank james kawana for making sure that this proceeding is covered by s.f. gov tv for the public. >> mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes. public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda when your item of interest comes up and public comment is call please line up to speak on your right. alternatively may submit public comment in writing to either of the following ways. email them to myself the rules committee clerk at visy to your dot y o u and g at s.f. gov talk if we submit public comment via email it will be included as part of the file. you may also send your written comment by us mail to our office at city hall one dr. carlton v good that place room 244 san francisco california 94102. please make sure to sign into all cell phones and electronic devices documents to be included as part of the effort should be submitted to the

clerk items act upon they are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of february 4th, 2025 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you so much mr. clerk and we are going to take a couple of these items out of order. >> we're waiting for president mendham in and we are also waiting on sheriff miyamoto. >> so mr. clerk, why don't we start with item number three. item number three ordinance exempting midtown apartment parking apartments located at 1415 scott street from construction contracting requirements and administrative code chapter six but requiring compliance with the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements of administrative code section 23.61 affirming the planning department's determination under ceqa and making findings of consistency with the general plan.

>> thank you mr. clerk. and we have sheila nicholas gillis from mossad for a short virtual verbal presentation. >> yes, you have the floor. thank you. good morning, chair walton and supervisor cheryl. i'm sheila nicholas, director of policy at mossad. i'm here to present a request to exempt the midtown apartment park apartments from administrative code chapter six chapter six requires the property owned by the city comply with contracting procurer rules for public work or other improvement projects built in 1964. the midtown park apartments is 140 unit family housing development that includes six separate buildings and is located in the western addition at the corner of geary and de visit arrow originally constructed by a private developer, the city acquired midtown park after the private developer defaulted on a hud insured mortgage. midtown park is one of the few affordable developments owned by the city. most affordable buildings are owned by nonprofit developers on land that's owned by the city but under long term lease midtown families are predominantly african-american

and senior heads of household no major repairs have been made to midtown since the time of construction for example, the plumbing for the heating system still uses 1964 pipes. these old pipes have a buildup of sludge that impacts the boilers boilers typically have a useful life of ten years but due to the old pipes going into the boilers the useful life of the boilers is cut in half and property replace management has to replace boilers every 3 to 5 years currently the property has 3 or 4 vacancies that are being held to allow for any required on site relocation of tenants while repairs are being made. so the reasons for this ordinance so midtown has critical urgent repairs and capital needs that include replacement of those boilers and the plumbing installation of a new roof installation of life safety improvements including a fire sprinkler system replacement of windows to address water intrusion and addressing the city staff soft story code improvement requirements the 20 2220 three budget included funds for upgrades to affordable properties like midtown. certificates of participation

bonds have been issued to fund this work and imo city is expediting the process in order to address urgent repairs at midtown typically major city funds, repairs and upgrades to its affordable housing portfolio through loans and grants to the owner of the building which is usually a nonprofit affordable housing developer. the building owner then contracts for construction services as well as tenant support services including relocation moving assistance and translation. but because midtown apartment is owned by the city, we we need to request an exemption from chapter six requirements in order to contract with various vendors who have expressed specific experience working on tenant occupied rehabilitations with vulnerable communities. the waiver will allow the city to complete a broader scope of repair work at midtown more quickly than under the chapter six framework and note that all work will be performed using prevailing wage and overseen by licensed construction manager. so we are requesting that the board approve this exemption for midtown park apartments from the administrative code chapter six. thank you.

>> thank you so much. sheila, do you have any questions? sheila i do have one question. how will this provide for opportunities for local contractors? >> project manager will help address that question. >> good morning, supervisor walter. good morning, supervisor. it is that we still have to do our folks rfp and have and meet the sba contractor requirement. even with the the even with the rehabilitation work occurring under the property manager got thank you so much and seeing no other statements from colleagues we will call for public comment on this item yes. >> members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up at this time. each speaker will be allowed

two minutes. >> are there any members the public would like to speak on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. thank you so much mr. clerk. no public comments. so this item public comment is now closed and i like to move that we move item number three to the full board with recommendation. >> yes, on that motion. >> vice chair cheryl sorry we do not need a second at committee. i cheryl i management naps absent chair walton i want in i the motion passes with member in being absent. >> thank you item number three moves for recommendation mr. clerk we are now joined by our sheriff. >> would you please call item number two? item number two is a resolution accepting the san francisco sheriff's military equipment use policy 2024 annual report

and inventory approving the requests for purchase and use of additional equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in state law. >> thank you, mr. clerk and thank you for your flexibility. sheriff miyamoto, you have the floor now. good morning, chair walton and steve. member of the rules committee. happy to be here and thank you for the accommodation of moving this forward on the agenda because i believe that it is very important that you have a full understanding of all of this related to our military style equipment usage that we've had and what we were asking for upcoming in the next fiscal. presentation is being assisted by captain khabib here who will also be available for any follow up questions on the items that we are showing right now in our presentation and try to be as quick as possible. however, please feel free to ask any questions as we go along this again is to seek approval for the following continued use of existing equipment from our original mi up from 2023 additional

equipment to replenish that which has been used in 2024 and additional equipment to supplement that that is in limited quantity right now of our current inventory. we do have a request for approval for one new item that will be presented as well if we can go forward with this again these presentation moves are to just give you a visual and to get you an understanding of the different items that we have on ami up list. i will go where there is applicable information be able to provide you with how many times we've used it throughout the past year. we're looking at calendar year 2020 for for usage up on the screen right now is an example of our unmanned aerial drones deputies who use this are actually required to pass fcc remote pilot certificate which is a license to be able to fly these we do this in conjunction with an auxiliary unit. our air squadron and for our

deployments i believe our most recent one was the apec conference that was our largest event that we've covered with our use of our drones in conjunction with the law enforcement efforts of the san francisco police department and we have had numerous training exercises but no other deployments since then. next slide our mobile command vehicle speaks for itself. it's an item which we are able to get out to a site whether it's a planned event or a spontaneous event and make sure that we have command and oversight of that with the use of this vehicle. we also have what we call a rapid response vehicle those are the two vehicles in our inventory for emergency response and emergency preparedness right now we have in 2024 three events which we call them out to and ten training events and exciting police.

the following items i'm just going to go through just to give you an idea of the different things that we have that we use most of these have been used only in training context. this first item here breaching shotgun with the requisite ammunition was only used on one day of training throughout the year. next slide this next item here are 5564223 caliber rifles and ammunition. these are deployed both with our special response team as well as our patrol units that are out there a total believe the total for that is 21 and 24 for the deployments and these are deployed several times they have not been discharged throughout and yes, to confirm we have 21 total srt and 24 patrol rifles currently in our stock. in addition to those types of platforms, we also have our sniper rifles and ammunition all of these have been deployed on two separate events total

ten training events by just the srt police diversionary devices otherwise known as flashbangs are part of our inventory. we have a number of high risk situations that we may or may not deploy these in. our only deployment for 2024 has been in training exercises. we did not deploy during any of our other call outs. we do take into consideration when we use these items additional considerations for the presence of elderly individuals children flammable or explosive objects. anyone with physical, mental or intellectual disabilities medically compromised people or non-speaking non-english speaking persons those are very careful considerations in our deployments which occur outside of our custody division as well as what happens inside of our jails as well as part of our planning process. and again we did not use any of

these in any operations last year. next item please. >> chemical agents and launchers. so in addition to the pepper spray that all of us carry on our belts, we have the ability to deploy chemical agents through these devices. they're called launchers. we have different types which are all listed in our inventory list. there has been no field deployment of these in the past year. these are used only during training. and i will touch upon that further down in the slides. in addition to that next slide please. we have what we call impact weapon launcher and less lethal impact munitions. these are basically rubber bullets that are used to make sure that we have intermediary use of force steps other than firearms and lethal to and potentially life threatening situations. the irwin is one of those items that we use.

i believe that we use them in our training and we've deployed them in the field many times but they have not been fired at all in 2024 not currently in use or the items listed here as well. heckler and koch mp five and glock 18 both of these items have the ability to go fully automatic and we do not currently deploy them or have used them in the past year. next slide please. kinetic breaching tool is an item that we have that's an alternative to other breaching methods the ones that we showed previously was the breaching shotgun. this is a tool that is specifically designed for breaching a locked doors or hinges. it's on order not currently in our inventory. >> and these next items here are items that we use to make

sure that staff remain safe and we can get an idea of what's going on in a certain situation without having to send people in. one of one of which is called the recon scout. this recon scout that you see here in the image is an item that we actually phasing out of our inventory but it's currently in our inventory. you'll see what we're phasing it out for in the next slide. but this item is basically a throw robot. we can throw it into an environment and get visuals through the use of video surveillance to know what's going on inside of that area. they have not been deployed throughout the year and i believe we've only used it for training in the past year. >> so our requests what's coming up now is going to be our equipment request for 2025. we want to make sure we replenish items used during the reporting period and we also want to make sure we supplement our limited quantities that we currently have. these equipment requests do include one new equipment request which is a chemical

agent launcher which is a pepper ball viscous pro and ppc breacher. you can see both items pictured here. and these are basically platforms designed to launch an irritant similar to pepper spray from up to 150ft away. so instead of trying to get very close to an individual who may be in crisis or a threat to the safety of others or themselves, we have these items which will allow us to deploy from a safer distance safe for both the individual and for our staff. excuse me. they're designed to break upon impact when hitting an impacting the body or target and they are designed to disperse the chemical irritant in a way that centralizes on the individual and not on the environment around them. definitely used to stop violent individuals people in crisis making sure that we have a tool which is more capable than our

current inventory to disperse chemical agents. i know this is the newer item and it may be time to take time to take a look at that. so if you have any questions about that please feel free to ask. just as with our other platforms there'll be a required training. >> sure. can you just clarify? it strikes me that this is a more targeted launcher than the other one. i think you said specifically you could target one person instead of an area. do i have that right? over why you're using this new chemical launcher versus the existing one. yes. this is as you can see if you can see on the platforms there's actually a targeting system there. a red dot system for us to be able to focus on one individual as opposed to dispersal of chemical agents to a larger area. it does help us with distance as i mentioned. so these items are this platform is something that can allow us to stay about 150ft away from somebody as opposed to having to get closer. thank you.

again, certified training certified platform for only limited use of specify that individuals in our emergency services unit special response team people that have the training to use these items and next slide. i want to take a few moments just to go into the complaints component of our process in regards to complaints and internal audits we rely on to a great extent on the department of police accountability. we partner with them to help us in regards to investigation of complaints. although we have an office of inspector general, they currently do not have any inspectors or investigators assigned to them. so we still rely on dpa to help us with that. for 2024 dpa did not receive any formal misconduct complaints regarding the use of our military equipment. the department itself did receive complaints numerous complaints from several community members in san bruno, california regarding an

incident that occurred on may 21st of last year. that incident was a training exercise where members of the special response team were conducting chemical agent training out at our site at the san bruno complex. the dispersal of the chemical agents was affected by wind currents and carried over to a school in close proximity to our to our location and we are in the middle of completing our investigation on that incident. we do have some preliminary reports that were generated by our administrative division but they are not completed as of yet. we have been working with the bay area quality management district in regards to follow up on that and we are also working on making sure that while one we stopped all of our training after that occurred we revisited our procedures and processes. we currently have a directive not allowing for any outdoor chemical dispersal for training usage anymore and we are not

doing any of that training at the san bruno complex at this time. next slide this slide here just gives an idea of how we actually do process and accept complaints on any usage or any activities that we have to include usage of military style equipment and as you can see from my previous report out, it was used very vigorously after our last incident on may. that's everything i have. hopefully i've covered all the information that you need and if you have any questions please feel free. thank you, sheriff momodu and you have any more questions? summarize here. i got a few questions. sheriff one i know you mentioned using certain weapons while sheriffs are patrolling. what areas of the city is the department patrolling right now?

right now we have to our primary jurisdiction extends to well, it's county wide but specific to department of public health sites and facilities. so we operate on the three campuses that they are in control of as well as all the clinics throughout the city. we also have our field training program which takes care of the civic center footprint here which takes care of responses to the clinics and other areas and our secondary operations right now that have our people in the streets is our operation safe streets which is in conjunction with the with the dimock operations, the drug market allied coordination center. we have currently one squad out for that performing patrol functions. >> and then how are the unmanned remote piloted vehicles any different from the robots that some of us at this body fought against previously ? two considerations on our

inventory now and the inventory that we have requested in the past. they don't have any quotable abilities. we have live feeds from our current inventory not the ability to record and in addition to that they can't deliver anything. there's no there's no consideration for them to deliver less lethal items or anything of that nature. they're strictly for observation and i believe that they have the capable lety to broadcast or issue public. speaker announcements. other than that though those are the only two things that they they currently do and then obviously i serve on the bay area air quality management district board and it was definitely disturbing to hear reports that we were training with chemical weapons outside and of course that elementary school was affected. where is the training happening

now? >> previously during that incident the training was happening on the san bruno complex grounds. we had actually a training identify training area which is basically a connex box self-contained, had open doorways. the dispersal during that day on may 21st occurred when they discharged the chemical agent. items and the doors were open as opposed to close as they normally are and that's why the cloud dispersed and went downwind to the school. >> and then how how does it happen that the doors were open? that's part of the investigation that we're looking into. i believe that what we are the investigation isn't complete. so i'm trying to be cautious but i believe that our investigation will find that it was an open air dispersal and that's the reason for that.

usually we do open air dispersals with smaller amounts . i believe during that day there was a large amount of chemical agent that was actually used for the training exercise and that's what led to the effects on the school where we're doing the training now. we ceased all chemical agent training right now and we're looking into in closed areas with h back systems and negative airflow capabilities so that we don't have that affect anybody on the outside anymore. >> thank you, chef. i don't have any more questions. >> seeing no other questions from colleagues. >> let's go to public comment on item number two. >> thank you. yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will allowed two minutes. are there any members of the public who like to comment on this matter? >> hello, my name is leah mckeever. i live in d6 which is actually part of the us the apec zone

that was all fenced off and militarized and as a resident i felt it actually made my personal safety as a trans bisexual person living in that area even worse. so me and my wife left town actually so i am not in favor of any further militarizing of any policing type departments for starters because they are not the military. with the military you have an enemy that you're using your weapons against and i feel like i am the enemy of the policing departments here especially given the long, long history of the policing departments and how they use violence and brutality against people like me and many other people living in the downtown tenderloin. so my areas and beyond but i'm just talking about where i live as a resident.

>> it makes for very stressful living. >> i have seen the further policing and militarization and clean street cleaning of the area where i live and it's just horrible. it's horrible. it has police everywhere. there's camouflage, there's guns, there's weapons flashing lights all the time from vehicles parked where i live with the incoming i'm sorry the current federal administration. it also raises concerns of how these weapons are going to be used and maybe when orders are given that are in conflict with our constitution and city charter. >> so i would like that to be taken in consideration as well . >> are there any other speakers or so i'm just wondering about

the new equipment request for the chemical agent launcher. >> would that be any chemical agent that the sheriff's office wishes to have or would that be limited to pepper spray or certain just like riot control agents or beyond right control agents? >> also perhaps it dismiss something but if there is an ongoing investigation with damages from the chemical agent training, why would they be allowed to have a new equipment request that involves chemical agents actively? >> that's all. >> good morning supervisors. my name is on mickey. >> i'm a resident of san francisco. >> i am a civilian volunteer with a speedy for 14 years and

i earned my masters in criminal justice at university of southern california and considered an academic expert in criminal justice. and i would like you to support our request of sheriff miyamoto because having tools and having training are the safest way to keep sheriffs safe, officers safe and the public safety and having options and having training in advance of incidents happening is the way we can keep our entire communities safe. >> thank you very much. are there any additional speakers? there are no additional speakers on this matter. thank you. >> no additional speakers. public comment is now closed. >> mr. clerk i'm going to move that we continue this item to

next week for a few reasons. >> one i don't think it is fundamentally appropriate to approve items when we still have an investigation in place. but i do want to allow for a full committee to be in place before we actually vote on this. so i move to continue this item to next week's meeting. >> yes. and the motion to continue the matter to february 3rd to rules committee meeting on that motion vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember management on the continuance amendment i chair walton i want deny the motion passes without objection. >> thank you so much. item number two is continue to. >> next week's rules committee meeting. >> mr. clerk let's now call item number one and welcome president madam.

yes, item number one is ordinance amending the administrative code to create the cavalli entertainment zone on cole street between frederick street and parnassus street parnassus avenue and on carroll street between schrader street and clayton street. to delete the requirement that an entertainment zone event be a special event permitted or licensed by the california department of alcohol beverage control and affirming the planning department's determination of california rental quality act. >> thank you president gentleman. thank you. chair walton welcome vice chair cheryl to to the committee. i apologize to both of you for my tardy arrival. >> the ordinance before you is simple but we're excited about it. it would establish a new entertainment zone in cole valley. we have seen what we saw during the pandemic. san francisco activated public

spaces in new ways and in some ways i think this is a legacy of that experiment in california in san francisco and other cities in california and around the world we have now seen two entertainment zones established one on front street and another in the thrive city area area again to to allow act more activation on the street and better a better bigger events to let folks enjoy themselves in in public spaces. this would be i think the first entertainment zone in more of a neighborhood commercial district we have and i think we may be hearing from some folks from coal valley we've we've talked with folks from the coal valley improvement association, coal valley merchants association. >> they are excited about allowing allowing an entertainment zone there, particularly for street festivals and night markets. >> and so this as easy as the

entertainment zones do this would allow for the neighborhood to work with the office of economic and workforce development to come up with appropriate rules for for the for the for those events it would allow restaurants and bars to sell alcohol alcoholic beverages again at night markets and street festivals and that's another sort of post-pandemic i don't know if learning or desire but to try to support these businesses that have continued to struggle since the pandemic and give them a way to benefit from the street activations that are that are going on and bringing folks so much joy. we have a few non substantive amendments that that we worked with deputy city attorney victoria wong on. thank you to her and i think those have all been circulated. i think our clerk has the maybe and i think members i've not i have copies and i will hand them out and then i think ben

van houten, our director of nightlife initiatives is is at ewg is going to talk a little bit more about this. i want to thank ben for his work on this entertainment zone and others as well as kelly varian also at ewg. and then i want to thank calvin and my office and i want to thank the merchants for being here as well as for their support. and with that being said, ben van houten great. thank you. president mandolin good morning chair walton vice chair cheryl ben van houten from the office of economic and workforce development. i'm going to do a short presentation on entertainment zones.

this is i think the third or fourth piece of legislation before the board on entertainment zones. but it's going to provide a just a little bit more background to supplement what president mainland said. again, entertainment zones are areas designated by the board of supervisors through ordinances like this that allow adjacent restaurants and bars to sell open to go beverages for consumption in shared outdoor areas such as on a sidewalk or a street or in a plaza within that zone. and again, as president allen said, these are tools to help activate streets with entertainment and really support community businesses in supporting community events to accelerate economic recovery and help our neighborhoods thrive. under state law only restaurants, bars, breweries and wineries can sell to go beverages for consumption and entertainment zone. this is not for liquor stores to sell to go bottles for consumption in the zone beverages must be served in a nonmetal or non glass container and there has to be a process in place to identify patrons

that are over 21 and finally open beverages in the entertainment zone can't leave the zone and must also not be brought inside any business locally we develop a management plan for each entertainment zone that can have additional layers of operating requirements that are particular to the zone. so this ordinance kicks off a process and actually the process that's already been underway with community stakeholders to talk about considerations around the zone and the management plan is is designed to align with other required permits street closure permits, other permits that are required. so we're not trying to reinvent the wheel here really just trying to add this entertainment in its own layer to support thriving events. and again this would propose the cavalli entertainment zone in the boundaries described in the ordinance that could only operate in conjunction with the street closure permit issued by mta again for the night markets and other events happening in

cavalli and then also just a technical fix in the legislation to conform with state law prior to january first state law required that an entertainment zone event operator had to also acquire a one day abc event permit under sb 969 that senator wiener authored that is no longer a requirement in state law and therefore this ordinance proposes to remove local references to abc event permits. this was a really duplicative layer of permitting that that required a that was not necessary and not aligned with the goals of entertainment zones. happy to answer any questions here but we appreciate this technical fix that will benefit all entertainment zones as well. and with that happy to answer any questions and thank you for the time. thank you so much. >> colleagues, any questions or statements? i don't see anything. >> so with that we will call for public comment on item number one. yes. before i call for comment i like to ask if the department

rep can send me a copy of your presentation. thank you. 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. >> good morning supervisors. thank you for your consideration of this important matter. my name is dan sarratt and i'm the president of the coal valley merchants association. i'm also one of the owners of finnegans wake bar and coal valley and you know we know through our experience over the years finnegans has been on coal valley since 1989 along with many long standing businesses on the street. we know we activate the street . it really brings the community together. it enhances business. it's good for our employees, it's good for our community, our children. and this legislation just gives us the option that if we have an event that we feel is appropriate for open container to be allowed, then we can activate it with you know, the passing of this legislation and then permission with ewg and all the permitting departments at city hall we performed

outreach to the community in the form of we had a booth set up for about five hours during the holiday market we had on cole street on december was it december 5th december 5th and we had tremendous support with all the people we interacted with. we have support from the coal valley improvement association which is a homeowner's association that was formed in 1987 and they have about a 600 person group of members who they have a newsletter that they submit every quarter in their winter newsletter. they had a piece about the entertainment zones and we speak with the improvement association all the time and they attend our merchant meetings which we have once a month in coal valley. >> there's been no negative response from any of the community members. if anything their support. >> i also have a letter from the coal valley improvement association that should have been submitted. if you put it in the box in the site i will pick it up. thank you. okay. just to make sure that the supervisors have a chance to to see that that letter. >> so thank you for your

consideration. >> good morning. my name is jim angeles. i am the owner of cavalli tavern and owner of bacon bacon and vice president of the cavalli merchants association and president mandolin. congratulations. thank you for your support. supervisors president and we hope we still see you at our cvm meetings. we appreciate the work your office has done and calvin has been great in support and attending the meetings and i'm also a resident of cole valley. i've lived there since 2009 and i'm here in support of the activation. you know it's these events have been really impressive for the businesses of cole valley and with this legislature we think it'll be even have a greater impact. the businesses are struggling. you know we had a little boost

in 2023 coming out of the pandemic but things have really tightened up. we still have some open we still have some spaces still for rent that are still sitting there and by giving the neighborhood and these blocks an extra boost would really have a significant impact. so i'm here in support of it. >> so thank you for your time. >> are there any additional speakers at this time? there are no additional speakers thank you. see no other speakers public comment is now close present amendment any other comments statements? well i've handed out copies of the amendments. >> maybe i'll just walk through them for the record so we have that on page two line 17 to 19. the amendment would strike and all establishments holding permits or licenses from abc that are located on either side of said locations and then add and all premises specified in

section 94 b point to see that are adjacent there two comma and then the other place where we would make a change again non substantive would be on in line 23 striking receive and adding instead take place in conjunction with so i guess i would move move that those amendments. >> mr. clerk on the motion on the motion to adopt the amendments. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember madam and madam and i chair walton all deny that motion passes without objection amendments adopted unanimously and chair i would like to move this item forward as a committee report would oppose recommendation as amended. >> yes on the motion to recommend as amended as a committee report. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember amendment i amendment

i chair walton i while deny that motion passes without objection. >> thank you adam one passes unanimously without objection. >> mr. clerk let's move to item number four, please. >> yes. item number four is ordnance. many of the administrative code to add the bay area law enforcement assistance fund to the list of organizations to which city officers and employees may make donations by payroll deduction. thank you. and i believe we have sergeant ari howard or art howard art howard with the police department. my apologies. no, no worries. good morning. morning. good morning, supervisors. my name is sergeant art howard with the san francisco police department. i am the officer in charge of the behavioral science unit which is basically our peer driven employee assistance program. our responsibility is to help our members and their families access mental health resources both active and retired. i'm also part of i serve on the

commission as a commissioner with the health service board and i'm the executive director of bay area law enforcement assistance fund, otherwise known as bay leaf. and today we're here to see if we can become a payroll deduction like the san francisco firefighters cancer foundation was made a payroll deduction about a year or two ago. like the firefighters cancer foundation, we got a significant portion of our funding from combined charities and when the city stopped doing combined charities with the employees a couple of years ago that really dried up our funding. and so you know, bay leaf was basically formed by our unit in the 1990s. our unit started in the 80s and then in the end it's recognized as a best practice in law enforcement in terms of mental health practices. in the 90s we realized we needed some extra support. there were some gaps that we needed. we filled so bay leaf was formed with active and retired law enforcement survivors and some really good friends of law

enforcement to basically fill in the gaps of mental health resources especially for our widows and orphans. what happens is when you're no longer city and county employee you no longer have access to certain mental health benefits. and so this was designed to fill that gap and then we've expanded the bay area wide on nine counties in terms of support. so if there's an officer killed in the line of duty anywhere in the bay area, a check's cut immediately for that family within a week. so you know they can take care of some immediate financial expenses. one of the things that i think is really brilliant about bay leaf is that the board funds all the administrative costs themselves through their own donations. so 100% of the administrative costs are taken care of by the board. we have no employees. the hundred percent of the donations go to help people since 2000 since we started with combined charities till 2024 we've given away $2 million. so it's been really a great

resource. all right. we're in good standing with the irs, the franchise tax board, california attorney general's office and the california secretary of state. we're 5a1c3. i would really appreciate your support to move this forward. i thank you for your time and attention. if there's any questions i'm here. >> thank you sergeant howard. colleagues, any comments, statements seeing none. >> mr. clark let's go to public comment on item number four. yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line would speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> good morning supervisors. my name is john mickey. i'm a resident of san francisco . >> i was a civilian volunteer with s.f. pd for 14 years and i've been a board member at bay leaf for the last couple of years. i was recently elected the vice president and i'm the only civilian not affiliated with law enforcement sitting on the board. this board is run with integrity and this board

supports law enforcement individuals, their families and civilians who work for law enforcement agencies. >> and i think the appeal for me was to really start building a bridge between the community and law enforcement so we could understand each other better, understand public safety issues ,understand the challenges of being in law enforcement and as art said, fill the gap. >> san francisco's at the cutting edge of solving the challenges of law enforcement issues. but there's still work to be done and we really need your support. thank you very much. >> hello, my name is liam mckeever. >> i live in d6. i just think it's really sad that even the widows and families of these police officers and other officers who are injured or killed in the

line of duty have to be here begging for money to take care of their widows and family members and the gaps in mental health services. >> i think it's indicative of a general failure of our society to just provide that in general for every resident of san francisco. that's my take. my name is john erlich. i'm the secretary of the bay area law enforcement assistance fund. i just want to make clear that we are not asking for money. we are asking for the ability to have employees from san francisco donate through charitable causes to our 5a1c3 or just asking for that possibility. thank you. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers. thank you. seeing no additional speakers

public comment is now closed and i would like to move item four forward to the full board with recommendation. would you like that to go forward as a committee report? it's not in my notes but i don't see an issue with it. i don i believe it's on our agenda with the recommendation for committee works for me. >> yes. item number four the recommendation to be recommended as a committee report by cheryl. cheryl i remember amendment. all right. and i mean i chair walton. all right. well, tonight that motion passes without objection. >> thank you. item four moves forward as a committee report. >> mr. clerk, please call item number five. item number five is a motion reappointing supervisor joann gaudio to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district board of directors term ending january 30th 1st to 2027 or the conclusion of the term as a member of the board of supervisors.

>> thank you. colleagues, do we have any comments on this? seeing none we call for public comment on item number five. yes, members of the public wish to speak on this matter should speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> eileen bogan speaking on my own behalf as a long time district four resident. on monday january 13th i was in city hall during business hours. i went to the district four office. the door was locked and the lights were completely dark. >> the same was true today and i took an image. >> there appears to be an issue with core functions in the district four office as mondays are prepped days for full board meetings. i would strongly urge the district for a supervisor to focus on these core functions and strongly urge him to reevaluate his seeking reappointment to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors. >> i would also strongly urge the board president to evaluate the district for supervisors

appointment to the board's budget and finance committee. this committee alone is a heavy lift not to mention members of the budget and finance committee are also budget and appropriations committee members do their project. projected deficit of up to $1 billion. this budget cycle will be more challenging than ever focusing on district for current core functions. not to mention being distracted by the recall would make it even more challenging for anyone to effectively serve on the golden gate bridge. district as well as on the budget and finance committee. this is the equivalent of putting country over party. thank you. >> are there any other speakers? there are no additional speakers. thank you. see no additional speakers. public comment is now close and i would like to move to move this item forward to the full board as a committee report. >> yes and motion to recommend

as a committee report vice cheryl cheryl i member amendment. i. i don't mean i chair walton i want tonight the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. >> item five passes without objection and mr. clerk. >> i am going to have to recuse myself from item number six. >> yes, i want to go over one of the other members like to make a motion to recuse a member madam in makes a motion to recuse. >> chair walton. >> yes. and that motion to recuse vice chair cheryl cheryl i member my momentum and i madam and i walton recused are excused recused. that motion passes without objection. >> item number six motion reappointing supervisor sherman

walton to the bay area air quality management district board of directors term ending february 1st 2029 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> if i can ask for your patience and your guidance here and guiding me through this first session as public comment, is there any public comment on this issue item yes. >> are there any members who like to make public comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter seeing no public comment i would like to see if any of my colleagues would like to speak on this issue. >> i would like to make a motion that we forward item six to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. yes on the motion to recommend the matter to the board as a

committee report on that motion. vice chair cheryl cheryl i remember madam high management i walton excused that motion passes without objection with chair walton being excused. >> thank you vice chair cheryl . mr. clerk do we have any more items on the agenda that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you. we are adjourned. >> of course

>> [indiscernible] it was something i remembered learning in middle school, but it was a far away concept. >> i go to the beach a lot. a lot of plastic on the shoreline and it made be sad to see what is going on and wanted to make a change. >> i have many [indiscernible] and i would say it is hard to change the mind. especially of those who do not believe in climate change. >> i feel learning about the environment through my a p science courses and i think that made me to not only have the [indiscernible] also help the community. >> hello everybody.

>> many interested in the climate action fellowship, i care for the environment and want to make a difference. >> when i had the opportunity joining the climate action fellowship, what made the program special is i could collaborate work with a small group of high schoolers and on sfusd and they are all passionate about certain topics. >> i decided to join the climate fellowship. i wanted to build my project on my own and contribute to the environment. >> a project is called reducing food waste and school cafeterias, accept not only focusing on food waste, we are focus on the package the food come in and what makes it appealing to students and what doesn't and why kids are throwing it out. so, we are trying to figure out a way to number one, reduce food

waste, and figure out ways to reduce plastic coming in, so it doesn't end up in landfills and the ocean which again is very harmful to the environment. >> my project focuses on water conversation. in the design i'll introduce about water resources in san francisco bay area. also suggest ways to protect our water resources, not only at home, but outside the house and with our community. >> our project called the bridging cultural generational divides and this refers to sort of the knowledge gap between the asian american community and the environmentalism movement. >> what made we want to work on the project is our personal experiences >> we come from a chinese household and found it deaf cult to talk

about--i felt relatable what we are trying to do with this project. >> i would like to see reasonable materials, like a set of plastic forks, forks you can bring back and they wash it and you can use it again, and food that hopefully isn't moldy and soggy. something fresh and vegetables for sure, because a lot of food is very unhealthy, which is bad for the students. >> i would say we should [indiscernible] education and raise public awareness. >> i want people to know maybe your actions can have a impact on those not interested and help get interested in the topic. >> i think we should use a more hands on approach when we want to draw in youth. >> if we bring it to their attention and show the entire picture, maybe they'll start to figure out what they are doing is wrong and one less person is already a change, so maybe

everyone will follow them, which is what we hope would happen. >> we have certificates for everyone. >> my favorite part about the program is making a change in the world. i am saying to others and doing something about it. >> i think i was surprised the connection after the program. i have to realize that i actually can have a impact. >> we really do bring perspectives to this group. >> my parents they would like--i feel happy because they are adopting sustainable lifestyle with me. yes!

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