i'm almost done, president hirsch. >> president hirsch: all right, please. because we have a lot of questions and a lot of commissioners. >> commissioner hamasaki: well, i think this is a good point that the chief raised. there are people dying on the streets, and they're likely to die without shelter. so i'd like to reinforce the idea that we do need to address this issue, and i do understand the citizens' concerns. i share these concerns, but as the chief said, we need to make sure that this is done in a humane way. >> president hirsch: commissioner dejesus? [inaudible] >> commissioner hamasaki: i understand, bob. do you support this policy of taking away tents from unhoused people? anybody that supports this policy of taking away tents from unhoused people, just raise your hand. okay. thank you. >> president hirsch: thank you. commissioner dejesus. >> commissioner dejesus: i know i wanted to say, we're taking a long time, but we waited four or five months to have this scheduled. i know we may be taking a little longer, but it's our opportunity to have bot

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] >> all right. good morning, everybody. is this working? what a beautiful day in san francisco. you know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. everybody is celebrating 8-8. we're here and going to be celebrating this new project. i am the director of public works here at the city of san francisco. i want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. this facility will be a facility that will serve our first responders and we are very excited about it. just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. that project a

. >> president hirsch: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is paula williams, and i'm homeless in san francisco right now. i've been homeless since december of 2018. i've made numerous police reports. i've been harmed numerous of times by staff in the shelters. the police have did me no justice. i've went to the city attorney, i've went to the d.p.a. it's just plain corruption. it's five police officers that don't want to take a police report, made false statements in my police report. didn't want me to file a police report and just was lying. i liked when miss taylor said they wanted to take a look at the shelters. every morning, i walk-through t.l. and encourage them, tell them to get up, all to -- it's numerous of stuff that whatever hsoc and all of them is talking about, i just called the police yesterday in front of walgreens and had the police come up and pick a lady that was laying on the ground. sometimes i just do field work all day and call 911, can you please get this person up, can you please -- so i don't know what they t

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] . >> good morning. so i'm mary ellen carol, the executive director at the department of management. welcome. we're here to talk about the 911 which is so going to help us from a technology perspective to bring our 911 system to what we call next gen, next generation. so i've been the director here for a year, and it's just amazing how much we are able to accomplish, but with technology that is literally decades behind. we're so grateful to leadership, of our mayor and our governor, to help us to bring forward this funding that honestly is going to help us come to technology that most people in their day-to-day lives in their personal techno

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] >> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador. we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individua

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] >> it is nice we can do this outside. it is so nice out. >> it is 110 degrees in sacramento. >> we have this weather ten days a year, maybe, but now with global warming, it is 30 days. we are here to talk about affordability. it has got to be one of the number one issues for you. housing, homelessness, cost of living, it certainly is for the state of california. thank you for hosting us, thank you for allowing us this opportunity to dialogue with some people who have beneficiaries of your leadership and the work that has been done at the local level to address the issue of affordability. not just as it relates to the issues of rent, but als

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] >> hello, everybody. i am london breed, mayor of the city and county of san francisco , and i'm really excited to join you here today, but i tell you that no one is more excited than the parents of the kids who will be returning to school on monday. and today is an opportunity to us to really get the word out to people all over san francisco that we have thousands of kids who are returning to school on monday. we will see kids walking, we will see them by king, we will see them on buses and yes, some of them will get dropped off by parents in their car. but ultimately, we want everyone will get around this city safely because there will be

>> so moved. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in >> clerk: commissioner hirsch, we are back on record in open session. you still have a quorum. line item 11, vote to discuss any or all items held in closed session pursuant to section 57.12 a. >> move not to disclose. >> second. >> all in favor? >> clerk: item 12, adjournm t adjournment. >> president hirsch: is there a motion? >> move to adjourn. >> second. >> president hirsch: all in favor? [gavel] >> people often ask me if i had a favorite tree in the city as the urban forest are, and after this planting today, i can say that i do. [♪] >> we have just completed planting a signature tree in honor of an individual as part of our annual celebration. he was the founder of the first poet laureate. he was considered by many to be the grandfather of the beatnik movement and he will turn 100 next weekend. >> it is a local treasurer and an international treasure. the defender of freedom of. >> speaker-10: defence. >> we wanted to under him today with a beautiful olive tree which is a symbol of peace. it is also a native to the mediterranean,

>> yeah. >> president hirsch: really? it's a start. >> so i think the commissioners have said it tonight. when it comes to addiction, it's not an easy solution. i think for the department of public health, we want to do as much as we can in dealing with aix did, but we want to meet people where they're at. addiction is a lifelong journey. it's a lifelong journey to be able to come and detox, to learn some new behaviors, maybe a nexus with just unhealthy conditions. so for us, i think it's really important to continue supporting and funding our groups outreach, knowing how to deal with the population, going ahead and meeting people where they're ought, going ahead and creating job fairs, and creating opportunities where people can come in the door and feel comfortable so that they can actually receive treatment and join us with that journey. >> president hirsch: okay. most intractable problem. >> the most intractable problem is the lack of supportive housing for people who need a long-term solution? we used to be able to r

. >> president hirsch: thank you all. so i'm wondering -- there are several commissioners who have questions. i don't know who's going to address them, but i think it'll be easier if you're all ready. i'm sorry about the air in this room. i guess it's august and they shut it off. >> they turned it back on. >> whoever that is, it was nice of them. >> vice president taylor? >> thank you very much. we all know as a nation, we're in the middle of an epidemic crisis, especially in san francisco. it certainly takes collaboration and coordination to do what we can in a compassionate way. one of the things that we have heard as a commission kind of on and off is that the police should not be involved in dealing with homelessness at all. so what i would like to know, perhaps conveniently, commander lozar is at the podium. what kind of training do you receive in it's not a policing job and shouldn't really be a policing job. give us more background about what it is, how you're trained? >> well, my thought process has actually evolv

. >> good evening president hirsch, my name is ms. thompson, i'm an attorney with the department or police accountability and a supervisor of our fellowship intern program. our structured intern program has been full of showing the intersections of government, community and the private sector. we have a legal aspect of focus, and our interns engage in a variety of interviews that lend to the workings of dpa. our summer dpa intern program 2019 consists of -- [reading notes] we were honored and privileged to be given the opportunity to be a part of opportunities for all. it is initiative started by mayor london breed to address economic inequality by assuring all young people can be be a part of san francisco's thriving economy. led by executive director, cheryl davis of the human rights commission. it allowed the majority of our interns to have a paid internship. this is a tremendous opportunity and a blessing for the students. as we all know, internships are unpaid. this allowed to alleviate that burden of going this summer and allowi

shop last in the central cheer cotton district is hirsch studio and shop in one she displays her creations like works of art classical whimsical or extravagant but where of all that sphere owner bennettsville. pad current collection is inspired by vintage kimonos. burners on only clients christina aguilera also was fiona bennett's creations so does not yet our money and hollywood star brad pitt he discovered her caps when he visited bella in in 2008 it had to die. i was lucky enough that he picked out the malcolm cap and then or nothing else but that for years and ordered more of them in pretty much every fabric. stuff and the state. of bennett was born in 1966 in brighton england her 1st years in the elegant seaside resorts have stayed with her even after she moved to berlin with her family at age 6 as a little girl fiona bennett already knew she wanted to be an artist she trained as a millionaire in 1902 she started her own show jude. you know in downtown palin and right used eyebrows with off the wall fashion performances. later she provided film productions with creations and she's on

. >> i sort of have an announcement, working with president hirsch in the office on the department, we are finalizing the working group regarding warrants, privilege and journalists. i do want to announce we have some experts that are willing to sit with us journalist privilege on et cetera. looking forward to setting up our first hearing on that. the second thing, i would like to see if we can schedule the resolution for the juvenile resolution i mentioned it many months ago to have a juvenile -- september 11, there is no way we can have it in august. >> this is it for august. this is our last meeting. >> okay. all right, thank you for that. i think that is it. >> line item in 3d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings. action. >> any items? next item. >> as a reminder, the commission will be dark for the next four weeks. the next commission meeting will be september 11, 2019 here at city hall room 400 at 5:30 p.m. the public is now invited to comment on items three a through 3d. >> public items on the items we have

hirsch. mr. hirsch: thank you, chairwoman mccormick, and commissioners and staff for hosting this event. i think we all agree that cybersecurity and the security of our elections is a primary concern for the public right now. with good reason. it is something that voters have been concerned with throughout our history. we are not new to the table of trying to protect our system. in the past, the way we have done that and most of the vendors have done that is by complaining -- complying with the certification program that locks down our system in a way that is configured correctly, tested, and then isolated from the surrounding world. we consider each individual vote gathering device as a separate empoweredhat we are to help our customers to protect. we are essentially protecting tens of thousands of elections leading up and including the election day. thatve several initiatives we have taken up in the last few years in response, including -- i think i am a diamond member of a hotel chain now, tra

one of the questions that was posed by dan hirsch as well as some of the other community members were the questions around chemical elements and isotopes that may be beyond the chemical table that may not be able to be picked up on your current methodological process. >> so the investigation we did was a scanning and walkover survey of the site that could only find gamma radio producing n nucleotides. there are elements on the periodic table that are associated with the nucleotides that if they were thrown in on the gamma survey, would not detect it. that would require laboratory analysis, soil analysis. we were there to do going to ask our commissioners if we can take another item out of order and hear the workshop and the annual certificate of preference and marketing outreach before now, and then, we'll go back to our schedule. is that okay? thank you. >> okay. >> so if you could read that item. >> the next order of business is agenda item 5-e, workshop on the annual certificate of preference and marketing outreach report from the mayor's office of housing and community development

hirsch. mr. smith, welcome. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, mr.vice chair and commissioners, thank you as well for the honor for coming before you today. security election security drives from many sources but today i'm going to confine my remarks to things like providers, they can get in direct design and maintaining their own infrastructure. vigilance over security threats and threat evolution and continued agility in developed by the providers followed by faster and faster cycle times through certification, which is aided by the administrative capability and capacity here at the eac. i am covered with provider preparation, better inputs makes your job easier and generally allows for better and faster output. that all required some changes as i built on some earlier comment to the certification process. today's certification is monolithic. mr. dearing made the comment that the time capsule and that's more a better way putting what i'm saying in terms of monolithic. it requires longer cycle times although the eac has improved that over the past f

make it a bit messy but there is the example of france i talk about in the book which i owe to ed hirsch talked about in why it matters and they have a very national curriculum and still does to a large extent, that in 1989, they departed from that and encourage them to adopt a more american approach and different focuses for different schools and marketing skills focused development on critical thinking so they moved away from the at the elementary school level. they had pre- schools that were still doing that and what happened after that switch in 1989 was the overall level of the stupid san fran fell in the international tests and the gap between lower income and higher income students widened. it's certainly suggested the content of curriculum. >> host: the challenge and you raised this in your book is that we have to classroom or sometimes even school proof points but seeing this scale is elusive. if your book does everything you wanted t it to do and has people from them differently about this, what kind of result would you expect to see in the coming year? >> i hope that there wou

chief hirsch will be coming out with a video shortly, as well, clarifying some operational directions. you know, this is a good way to reach out to them. we have met with several of the employee groups. we met with united fire service women. we met with the chief association which has started up after a dormant time. they are excited and energized to do some things with us. we met with the veterans association, black firefighters association and the asian firefighters association. we have not met with ems officers. interviews for our support services assistant deputy chief are this week. chief rivera will be leaving us in august, we have begun those interviews yesterday, today and we will continue through the week. we should have a decision hopefully very late, on friday. once you complete that there is another position that needs to be filled in support services, the water officer. we will do interviews for that as well. i am currently working on i will follow-up up with you all on my department head performance plan. it goes to the mayor, they can't really do an appraisal of being o

that with me here is retired rear admiral john kirby, a cnn and diplomatic analyst as well as julie hirsch feld-davis. julie, let's start with you. you heard pam summing up beautifully this back and forth between the chinese and american sides and what i can only describe as whiplash in just the span of a few days. we heard the president call xi jinping an enemy and a few days later a great leader. what do you make of that? >> well, i think what we saw just now at the g-7 was the president really trying to sort of apply some sort of rationale to the whipsawing that we've seen the last few days as if it was deliberate, that he was going back and forth and he's gotten somewhere. he's trying very hard to take credit for what he says has been progress in these talks in the last couple of days, when what the rest of the world is seeing and the rest of the people around that table at the g-7 are seeing are very concerning signs of unpredictability and uncertainty with where these negotiations are going and a sort of reckless sort of style from the president that gives them pause about where this

messy, bit noisy but there is the example of france which i talk about in the book which i owe to ed hirsch. france is to have a national curriculum. still does to a large extent by the 1989 elementary school departed from that and they encourage elementary schools to adopt an elementary approach. they still focused on critical thinking and they moved away from that knowledge building curriculum just at the elementary school level. they had preschool they were still doing that and secondary schools and what happened after that switch in 1989 with the overall level of achievement in france fell on international tests and the gap between low where it income and higher income widened. certainly suggestive of the importance of the content focused elementary in grade school. >> host: i think the challenge in the race it in your book is that we have classrooms proof point in time is -- sometimes we have school proof point but it is elusive. if your book does everything you wanted to do and has people thinking very differently about this what kind of results would you expect to see in the coming y