h. ronen: sure. i wanted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v.l.a. on the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. i didn't read it in the report itself. i may not have gotten to it yet. >> staff: it was at the end of the report. >> h. ronen: i was halfway through it when the meeting started. >> staff: it's okay. and the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late '90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100% shifted over to puc. some of it stayed at dpw. a couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and that's why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. and move over to puc. i believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work they're doing through a work order is sufficient. and there's rates on work orders from dpw to puc. we weren't able

h. ronen: sure.anted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v.l.a. on the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. i didn't read it in the report itself. i may not have gotten to it yet. >> staff: it was at the end of the report. >> h. ronen: i was halfway through it when the meeting started. >> staff: it's okay. and the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late '90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100% shifted over to puc. some of it stayed at dpw. a couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and that's why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. and move over to puc. i believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work they're doing through a work order is sufficient. and there's rates on work orders from dpw to puc. we weren't able to c

h. ronen: sure. i wanted to hear a little more in person but it would be good to here from about your thoughts or from v.l.a. on the different points of view between puc and dpw on the question. i didn't read it in the report itself. i may not have gotten to it yet. >> staff: it was at the end of the report. >> h. ronen: i was halfway through it when the meeting started. >> staff: it's okay. and the puc was was previously part of the department and in the mid to late '90s that function was moved out and moved to puc but not 100% shifted over to puc. some of it stayed at dpw. a couple things that stayed, hydraulic engineers stayed behind at dpw and they have skilled brick layers and the smaller constructed pipe is made of this and that's why they contract for bricks instead of hydraulic engineering. and move over to puc. i believe dpw staff and they can speak for themselves but the work they're doing through a work order is sufficient. and there's rates on work orders from dpw to puc. we weren't able

ronen: i am going to just keep going for now if that's okay. but i appreciate you giving a clear answer. did you vote yes on proposition h? it was in june 2018 that would have removed a police commission's role from future oversight over tasers? >> no. i voted no. >> supervisor ronen: okay, thank you. did you support prove proposition 47 in 2014 which reduced the complication of most non-violent property and drug crimes from a felony it a misdemeanor? >> i supported it. and you froze again. >> supervisor ronen: great, did you actively support 83392 in any way which tightened the rules upon which police officers can use deadly force? >> i am not that -- i would have -- i believe that i would have supported it. i don't -- i'm not wildly familiar with that right now. >> supervisor ronen: okay. did you support the legislation of the board of supervisors to close juvenile hall by the end of 2021? >> so my -- i think they should close juvenile hall when, frankly, when juvenile hall was built my heart sank when i went up there to see juvenile hall and i saw this essentially prison for young people. my issue is generally with the

ronen: i am going to just keep going for now if that's okay. but i appreciate you giving a clear answer. did you vote yes on proposition h? it was in june 2018 that would have removed a police commission's role from future oversight over tasers? >> no. i voted no. >> supervisor ronen: okay, thank you. did you support prove proposition 47 in 2014 which reduced the complication of most non-violent property and drug crimes from a felony it a misdemeanor? >> i supported it. and you froze again. >> supervisor ronen: great, did you actively support 83392 in any way which tightened the rules upon which police officers can use deadly force? >> i am not that -- i would have -- i believe that i would have supported it. i don't -- i'm not wildly familiar with that right now. >> supervisor ronen: okay. did you support the legislation of the board of supervisors to close juvenile hall by the end of 2021? >> so my -- i think they should close juvenile hall when, frankly, when juvenile hall was built my heart sank when i went up there to see juvenile hall and i saw this essentially prison for young people. my issue is generally with the

ronen: i am going to just keep going for now if that's okay. but i appreciate you giving a clear answer. did you vote yes on proposition h? in june 2018 that would have removed a police commission's role from future oversight over tasers? >> no. i voted no. >> supervisor ronen: okay, thank you. did you support prove proposition 47 in 2014 which reduced the complication of most non-violent property and drug crimes from a felony it a misdemeanor? >> i supported it. and you froze again. >> supervisor ronen: great, did you actively support 83392 in any way which tightened the rules upon which police officers can use deadly force

plans about h -- thoughts about how you're planning to tackle those needs over the next months and years given that we can't allow the current status quo to continue. so with that, supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, chair mandelman. when this crisis first began, and d.p.h. was monitoring the situation extremely closely, well before the three months that we went in place, dr. colfax, the director of public health gave me a call and said hillary, i don't want to have to do this, but we're going to have to delay the push and implementation of mental health s.f. because we have a crisis. i said of course. this is the biggest crisis of our lifetime, and we need to get a handle on it with all our resources in the city, and that's what we did, and that's what we continue to do. that totally made sense. but i want to remind everyone that mental health s.f. is the blueprint for mental health reform in san francisco. it was passed unanimously by the board of supervisors with the cosponsorship of the mayor, and it is the way that you take hundreds of disconnected, disjoined, oftentimes really fabulous services, and you create a system out of them, where nobody falls

plans about h -- thoughts about how you're planning to tackle those needs over the next months and years given that we can't allow the current status quo to continue. so with that, supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, chair mandelman. when this crisis first began, and d.p.h. was monitoring the situation extremely closely, well before the three months that we went in place, dr. colfax, the director of public health gave me a call and said hillary, i don't want to have to do this, but we're going to have to delay the push and implementation of mental health s.f. because we have a crisis. i said of course. this is the biggest crisis of our lifetime, and we need to get a handle on it with all our resources in the city, and that's what we did, and that's what we continue to do. that totally made sense. but i want to remind everyone that mental health s.f. is the blueprint for mental health reform in san francisco. it was passed unanimously by the board of supervisors with the cosponsorship of the mayor, and it is the way that you take hundreds of disconnected, disjoined, oftentimes really fabulous services, and you create a system out of them, where nobody falls

plans about h -- thoughts about how you're planning to tackle those needs over the next months and years given that we can't allow the current status quo to continue. so with that, supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, chair mandelman. when this crisis first began, and d.p.h. was monitoring the situation extremely closely, well before the three months that we went in place, dr. colfax, the director of public health gave me a call and said hillary, i don't want to have to do this, but we're going to have to delay the push and implementation of mental health s.f. because we have a crisis. i said of course. this is the biggest crisis of our lifetime, and we need to get a handle on it with all our resources in the city, and that's what we did, and that's what we continue to do. that totally made sense. but i want to remind everyone that mental health s.f. is the blueprint for mental health reform in san francisco. it was passed unanimously by the board of supervisors with the cosponsorship of the mayor, and it is the way that you take hundreds of disconnected, disjoined, oftentimes really fabulous services, and you create a system out of them, where nobody falls