as well z as an increase in minimum staffing level to take population growth as well as the staffing in pier cities into account by any measure you can look at it a number of different ways by any measure our police department is under staffed over the past decade san francisco has grown by 100000 people. we have neighborhoods as supervisor cohen mentioned that did not exist 10 or 20 years ago. we have low density neighborhoods that are now high density we have many more people during our city during the day as we have record employment in san francisco and economic activity has picked up we have more cars on the road more people walking more people on transit and traffic safety needs than ever before with the unacceptable number of collisions happening on our road ways despite all of that growth despite having 100,000 more people neighborhoods that didn't exist more activity during the day and night in our city despite all of that growth we have 250 fewer police officers than we had five years ago we have lost officers as our city has gotten bigger when you compare us with pier citi

>> we could be lower staffed -- say it again? >> so we're looking at population density so if we were to say that this pier average is the way we would compare ourselves we are less dense staffed per square miles for the population density we have. >> just a question maybe you talked about it before what makes the pier cities this report of pier cities? >> sure >> some of these are very, very different in terms of population size and economic conditions as well. >> sure we have a methodology we use to select pier cities for our studies you can imagine we use different pier studies for the ones that are offered in this case we looked at daytime and resident population we looked at staffing levels we didn't want anybody too low or low and we looked at crime levels we tried to get piers in a number range from us we also add more california cities san jose and oakland not in that immediate range compared to local piers and in chicago that doesn't normally in the range but we were curious to compare against chicago. >> it's curious on

we are focused on police staffing. if orelt members of the board of supervisors want to [inaudible] that is their choice and look forward to that discussion. by focusing on this issue i want to remind you we are no way limiting or dismissing all the other work the city is doing. [inaudible] >> thank you supervisor cohen, supervisor avalos >> thank you president breed. colleagues all of us are united by the fact that we want our residence and neighborhoods to be safe. what we disagree upon is the path way to get there. in this next years budget our funded 5 police academy classes with additional 3 classes the falloge year. i don't believe there is opposition to these classes going forward. there could be discussion about how these classes are trained that i think is still in process but those classes are actually going forward and because we are trying to get to the 1971 number of minimum staffing that is elusive for us since 1994. there was a time when we achieved the staffing level in 20 o9 i that was a year we were a

and public safety working collaboratively on police staffing should be. what are the result of increasing police officers going to be in terms of justice in courts and san francisco and the people getting into our courts sn are we going to see a huge increase of not only rests that happen but people get locked up in our jails what cost is that to the city to do all that police and judicial work and incarceration and probation that is a huge cost we can't expect to have if we put more officers on the street we have before us this next year the next two years eight academy classes i believe that the 1971 number that has been in practice is actually a charter amendment that should be at that number in practice it's a guideline we have reached that 1971 number rarely the last time we were there in 2009 for a few months before we were hit with a large number of retirements since we have had those retirements we should be filling the ranks to make sure we have adequate number of staffing we haven't been there in a number of years let's get to the adequate numbe

again the staffing going down. there is an anominee you will see it on the b and the c priority when it pops up there say significant up tick to 2013-14 that is when the new some pewter dispatch kicked in 911 captured the data significantly. we're trying to figure that significant up tick you can can see property crime is up and the b response times are up a minute half those are lesser accounts that just occurred need a police officer we're still under nine minutes that's a long time waiting for a police officer. as you can see on c priority calls we sea another up tick significant up tick from 13-14 >> i'm sorry to interrupt you -- can you define an a priority call from a b and c.? >> a priority called just a aoccurred with a suspect maybe there is an injury that call will get you a call less than five minute a b priority call hey i just returned to my car something is gone i can't find somebody. somebody's missing whatever then if the question is

if you look at seattle, seattle had staffing of 1273, half of what san francisco staffing was and seattle had 502 civilian employees in 2008 recollect twice the numbersuch had. baltimore 2900 officers, 721 civilians, again just a few officers more than san francisco but 3 times the number of civilians. the reason i say that is that i think it is important for members of the public in san francisco to know that we are talking about hiring more police officers when we haven't done a good enough job making sure the officers we do that they are patrolling the streets and not behind a desk. i think if the public notes that a lot of the same people saying more staffing will say before you do more staffing can you make sure police officererize patrolling a street and not sitting behind a desk >> okay. with that colleagues-supervisor avalos >> just to reclarify the motion, it is a duplicate file and do it as a whole and send to committee and want to specify can goes topublic safety >> thank you. on the duplicateed file as amended to send to committee- >> madam president we have to take a roll cal

>> for an event the station is staffed at 80% which is what we have determined is the base level of staffing officers are not allowed to take any additional time off. say you need a saturday or sunday for an event that is not allowed then any officers above that which is usually beat officers as supervisor weiner referenced would be put together to work a cultural event where there is no cost recovery the rest of staffing goes to overtime. >> what do you think is the imbakt of the large events on the neighborhood and the the ability for district stations to respond to calls and continue the same level of service and do proactive policing if you are pulling resources >> the impact of our ability to respond to calls is not impacted we safeguard that as our priority. what doesn't get the same sort of attention is the engaging officers on the foot beat they're sent to the event then as soon as it's over they go back again. >> so increase in staffing would help balance that out so you wouldn't have to pull from your beat officers they would remain in place for resources for special events >> yes

requirement and with minimum staffing requirement when we don't have the appropriate level of staff because of disability the number under the column of non-net positions hundred and 34 requires us to compensate with over time i think the offer time number is higher it is no whereas high if not for our fiscal year savvy and our staffs savvy in coping the number under the $18.7 million we're looking at the overtime million dollars but that can be affiliated from the board of supervisors entertains what we've been push putting us in a multi year hiring plan until that we are properly funded over time and our ability to fill positions that have been essentially vacant we're to be trying to catch up and exceeding our allotments i'm hoping this conversation yields the push we get the sufficient funding that combines over time and attrition next slide, please as you can see 2013-2014 the new hires of 29 this year 2014-2015 new hiring 29 new sprargz that is point blank we're and why we're at a deficit and that continues compound it's the multi year proposed not accepted yet is on the right

staffing is believe this is needed. i spoke to members of the police commission now that said they didn't know this was happening and were not consulted on whether or not this was the right move so i thipg is a mistake. before i talk about had merits of what is being presented, i would simply ask the authors of this resolution to please don't move forward. send this back to committee, continue it, whatever we can so that we can have a dialogue that includes everyone. i would encourage the mayors office because i know the mayor cares about the relationship between police and the communities it serves especially communities of color. mr. mayor, you have the ability to step in and say that this is not how we are going to address policing issues as a city. we want to be unit jd we are not going to let something as strongly as people feel in the end is deviseive. that is my ask and so i would make a motion in that spirit to send this item back to committee so we can have enough time to have this discussion and conversation.

this is about above going above and beyond that our city charter institution puts us at minimum staffing of police officers we haven't been there since 2009 i understand when residents ask for better quality policing and beat officers that the resources aren't there because we're well below the staffing levels to do that the last time we had consistent beat officers i know what i'm saying is not universally accepted we got to the minimum staffing level prap ever and that is the only time we had consistent beat officers in san francisco i have a lot of residents calling for beat officers i'm calling for that if we have policing that say better way of having policing where it's done effectively and done right with relationship building we are not there to have the staffing to do that and i believe that this resolution is increasing the size of our staffing level of the police department after we get to the 1971 level that is not only that should be done starting a process where we later have a charter amendment to lock that in to me it makes much more sense we engage as a city overall how

levels and this didn't i'm not speaking to the staffing level with san francisco general hospital and other things but more importantly the jail population do you have information that helps me to understand the capacity versus the needs for a sheriff's deputy like maximum and viruses the number of deputies i have. >> in terms of the anytime staffing requirement we're more than happy to brief you if you like come to your office or i to ours we'll show you the requirements of minimum staffing and our obligations especially, when someone is out on long term disabled military leaf non-productive time and they're not going to be returning any time soon we can't fill that position except on overtime if somebody is out wore stuck and that's where delineated in terms of the positions where we have people out for awhile. >> okay. and i want to ask about the city grant program you have the funding you have for grants balboa park i know that i guess there are a lot of departments that have programs for reentry i think one of the things we've talked about in past hearings was the fact that fundi

the answer is to have adequate police staffing. we are not even close to being there and we should be looking at the numbers and we have looked at the numbers and we need to increase our police staffing goals. i want to respond-i appreciate supervisor kim's analysis about the fact that with the smaller police force we have less violent crime t. is true violent crime is down and that is because the police department understand preventing violent crime is job number 1 for the department so we see increase focus on violent crime and they have done well but it is that expense of property crime and traffic enforcement, it is at the expense of officers walking beats in neighborhoods. there is a price to pay for the great work that they have done with inadequate staffing to reduce violent crime. so, colleagues we absolutely need and thank you sfr visor kim for acknowledging that we support increase invesment and housing and education and health and as a member of the budget committee for the last 5 years every single year i have advocatee

it puts us at 2200 officers in long term staffing goal it makes sense in many ways i know we have been asking a national discussion about policing and we know we need accountability we need to improve relations between police and our general population and community policing is key to that. it is unbelievably chancing to do community policing when you don't have enough police officers we know response times are up we know crime is up we know we have many problems in this city including lack of traffic enforcement beat walking resulting directly from the lack of staffing there are people that see it every day that there are not enough police officers in the neighborhoods, and the response times are not where they need to be this say good resolution madame chair i move that we forward item two the resolution to the full board of supervisors with a positive recommendation and we file item number one the hearing. >> okay there is a motion that's been made let's do a roll call vote. >> i will say a couple of things i know this motion will move forward and go to the full board again there is

basis police staffing on population is bad policy. disadvantage of a per capita approach to staffing include failure to address how officers spend their time, the quality of their effort, and community condition needs and expectations. given these disadvantages and others expercents strongly advisece using population rates for determining police staffing needs. this is out of the department of justice. colleagues are we really approaching this in a sound way? we excloud the police commission members, we actually don't have a real strong process that involves other departments that are doing a lot around public safety. this seems to be a singular iproach that is about responding to possibly what the police captain and police cheech say and not surprised about saying they want more officer all while we look at bringing in police academy classes that will go forward uncontested. yesterday in the budget committee we tried to put on reserve still allocating the mun a for the classs but putting on reserve [inaudible] and that wasn't support

in mid-2017. >> using this staffing it will get us 50 additional officers on the streets before the f l experience is in february of next year we'll have using less over time we'll have a hundred additional officers as we head into the apparently election year that bring a certain b amount of officers on what this allows us to do pretty much gives all the members of this body what they need more beat and bicycle officers and better community engagement especially with our young people fully staff the staffing community towards vision zero and decade officers to task force go option like burglars and robberies that are on the rise in san francisco an additional staffing to special victims and elderly abuse and staff up our fraud unit with the electronic because it should be in 2015-2016 in demonstrates scott wiener we have been doing the best we can to hold the line in 2012 we bargained with the po a so get the officers on front control to a work schedule they shouldn't have been off on to a 8 hour day from a 10 hour a day and civilians went back to the 8 hour day in a specific unit

concerns but i couldn't g we're really about 3 years into that kind of staffing shift and a cultural shift we're taking on in the district the belief that every student that walks into a classroom is a general education student that happens to have an i e p that's a big shift i'm not trying to be disrespect i'm keeping it real keeping it real that's a shift in the district there are places not every student is treat as a general education stated first that's part of the capacity we're undertaking the board of education will see coming from the staff in the fall a proposal to have phase 2 of our evaluation our audit 5 years of our original audit bring in a third partyimpartial where have we come and some suggestions in terms of staffing nevertheless of fiscal management the entire program from soup to bolts what a third party says to drive our strategy working going forward i'm thrilled to here vice president solomon talk about an in house mp s she's absolutely right we can capture students that are sent to non-public schools extraordinarily to the district provide quote/unquote cadil

high as of today, the medium caseloads of after eject is 28 cases within the eject in 2014-2015 staffing was constrained by judgements and nutrition and longtime staff absence this current staff vacancies are two journey level investigators and one senior investigator the senior position was vacated by deputy director eir when he was appointed by me to the deputy director position. >> we will be able to fill one journey level investigator position on june 29th that individual was scheduled to start. >> investigators caseloads has been a huge issue at the eject we have on our staff 15 journey level investigators seen to be 16 but two are acting as senior investigators current medium caseload is 27 cases with 13 investigators as of the close of 2014 the medium caseload was 24 cases with 13 journey level investigators also at the end of the year a major push to close cases that explains why at that moment in time 24 and now 27 as i said to the journey level investigators was has been acting as a senior investigator for two years. >> as i stated 16 cases per investigator what what do they do

you have this year is inadequate and i'm sorry. >> the staffing for this fiscal year is inadequate. >> it takes us awhile to catch up with the volume so, yes those are it is almost entirely fund through the vice president fees through the general fund. >> thank you. >> okay colleagues any further questions mr. rose can we go to our report on planning please. yes classroom and members of the committee on the items we consider that to be a policy matter for the board and on the budget on page 71 our recommended budget total 563919 of that amount 250s plus are ongoing savings those reductions will allow an increase of one million dollars plus or 5 that is o .1 percent in the 2015-2016 and for 2016-2017 recommended reduction or ongoing savings we're working with the department we'll report back to the department next week. >> thank you, mr. rose any questions we have item 10 first of all a motion to excuse supervisor wiener in the middle off o our land use commission open up for public comment is there anyone that worries about to pubically comment seeing none, public comment is closed.

supervisor avalos mentioned the basing police staffing on population is total inappropriate. yes, it may make sense to link fundsing of transportation or education based on population size. arguebly a larger pop ulation may need to more riders on muni assuming all the residence don't decide to drive or walk. crime doesn't grow with population. it isn't like there is a consistent number of a population that commits crime. as the population has grown in san francisco so thaz the number of property crimes, but at the same time violent crime went down. crimeerate isn't link today population number. we can grow another 200 thousand residence and crime rate may not go up at all. now let's address the approach to how to make the city safer. i said at land use committee it is easy for me with term limits to promise i will fund more police officers. this is a promise i can deliver on during my time, had you ever it is far more difficult to state i will make the city stairf. the statement i'm about to make can be misconstrued so want to say this careally, police aurfer do not prevent c

mayors directive on housing for the housing crisis everything under affordable housing sites to staffing to policies and procedures that streamlines the projects and looking at to legal supplies illegal dwelling units where they can be legalized and obamacare on other microcosms on the short-term rental i know this is near and dear to my heart the late we have 6 hundred plus applications and approves 4 hundred and 25 of those denied 23 of those and reviewing 25 to thirty no about 80 as of right now numbers are slowly going up but the applications the rate is dropping we have a large number unfortunately of no shows when people make appointments a quarter of them they do shut up but we are having that issue and we went live with the new online schedulingystem people don't have to call to make appointments can make appointments online on the restoration we've looked at the goldberg and the swedish-american on the street and other nominees that are currently in the cue and finally last year the department went live with the permitting tracking system a system we've been working on with dbi

i understand the issue around staffing levels at stations as i said i'm supporting the eight classes we're going to see the next two yeared when i hear about the discussion not having adequate levels of staffing i look that we still have eight classes to put forward before we get to a level we can start looking at okay what are the overall staffing issues in san francisco based on the number that's been hard to get to we will finally get to for a couple of years from now it's hard to conflate what we're going to need after reaching that threshold to 2200 officers that is hard for me to put those together i believe what we have in terms of reaching the threshold we have been trying to reach since 1994 is most important. >> i would just say we look at redistricting every ten years it has been time since we looked at it. 1971 to 1994 it's smart to look at it at the same time we're looking at redistricting going forward >> thank you supervisor avalos thank you very much. chief. okay sheriff makrimi if you would like to address the committee we would invite you to do so. >> supervisors go

model is different that we will probably need to have some kind of double staffing for a while but not permanently so i think this is the same question i've asked last year and probably will every year i want to be able to see that we will eventually be drawing down some of the positions if this is not going to happen we need to know that the growth of the programs support of the budget support is urban sustainable i don't think you know think that that according to my back of the envelope of arresting tisk has surpassed 15 hundred and moving towards $2,000 per student we have more money but that's not the purpose of it and anybody thinks that's the purpose that we raise the investments in california and simple a large percentage of that for the support of special ed and particularly because i was convinced and remain convinced i'd like to have assurance we were spending money under the old model we had that was not being well spent so i don't want us to keep on spend that amateur of money to do things you know that the staffing model has us still doing understand we're not doing that

requirements needed staffing to be the directed back into the custody of positions that's the reason why that transfer unit was ceased seconds wore now at a historical low of our jail population hoover at 12 hundred is why i enclosed a deplorable jail on the 6 floor of the hall of justice and redistrict the population to county jail 4 it needs to be shut down and toward the san bruno fault next slide, please. >> we are becoming a county jail system that is the custodians of a more complicated and severe inmates in the dark green bar between 2010 and 2015 when a grouping of our sort of minimum to maximum severe population looks like the dark green bar in 2010 had 7 hundred and 71 of the a maximum clarification ma'am, security highest risk population and 5 years later we haven't dropped far at all to 6 hundred and 88 unlike our memory and anytime security the drops have been significant and so in 2010, the memory security was 9 hundred and 94 and now 3 hundred and85 and now the memory 2 hundred and 6 to increase hundred at 83 and the rest unclassified the fact we don't have many progra

i have would be pertaining to the pedestrian safety as you ramp up our staffingship in terms of staffing the traffic company and within the districts stations assigned to enforce the traffic violations. >> so the himself obviously the traffic improvement will go way up we're down 3 hundred offices those 3 hundred officers work 3 thousand shifts the company will be full staffed approximately 60 percent of the traffic ask that is decentralized they'll have traffic officers in addition inform all the staffing being bumd up most of them by more than 10 to 15 percent. >> i have a question around how are you insuring that your equipment and vehicles budget is adequate? and you may be more specifically motorbikes. >> we have a certain amount of motorbikes it will go a long way to get us where we need to go. >> what would it take to i guess i'm asking this question because there are in particular 10 hours a day and this is difficult for a police vehicle car to get from point a to b to a scene and it seems like a motorbike is more practical. >> yeah. you can get places more quickly on a motorbike

ftes counts after years of reductions of ftes the departments is projecting a net increase to the staffing levels over the next two budget years this is due to the hiring plan for the ems and fire suppression we had 42 new hires on the streets and already we've seen a improvement in our overall ambulance times they were concerned and in addition the two academy classes schedule do will help boost the number of ftes and certainly match the retirements and grow the overall fte count wore projecting in year two because of the hires a reduction decrease inform your offervertime. >> so in order to get into the budget i wanted to highlight you on the overall changes allocated by the mayor's office under the direction of the budget director kate howard for her assistance on the job the fire department anthony i am sure we've received criticism related to our response time we're certainly not immune with the growing population and call volume so the mayor's office is supportive and helpful in our fire department committee we have 15 members of our department step up and really work collaboratively

the population in the jail and we've been working with the sheriff's department to monitor their staffing level as well as their ability to backfill retirements that's certainly our addressing this year we addressed the need for the department of public health and in terms of capital facilities and it this budget includes $4.8 million over the next two years for those needs and certainly needs beyond what were fund in the budgeted that's in front of you just like any department has needs beyond when is funded we'll continue to work with the sheriff's department and make sure they have appropriate staff to manage the population. >> i'm sorry, i didn't hear an answer of the body cameras or vests and deputy sheriff to be vulnerable with the people they're coming into contact with make a purr scuff argument with you can't deny the argument for our deputy sheriff's department. >> any other comment seen thank you sheriff we see you on monday then. >> next our fire department and madam clerk. >> the tax regulation covet to increase the fire department licenses and making environment finding. >>

chairman at the chief for the presentation today i have a couple of comments on the staffing level i know wore in agreement anything we can do to make the use of current staffing levels whether it is having help if it ain't broken, don't fix it from the sheriff to watch in custody of the prisons at san francisco general hospital more officers other than that this is terrific i think someone if an officer moves back from a deck job that goes up towards 1971 all those things are terrific i think it is important to really keep a broad prospective how deep in the hole we are in terms of police staffing and that even i know there is some civiliantion to do more getting the she was involved with watching people at the hospital that's a piece of the hole we're in this one thousand 9 hundred number plus was set in the chapter in 1994 by the heard about this in monday but it was frrmentd in the early 80s. >> it was in the early 80s. >> not a 20-year-old but a thirty-year-old number we were actually 2 hundred thousand people in terms of the population so san francisco population has gone up by

departments arson unit had it's levels reduced it ruled in workload and as well as decreased the staffing from two to one that educates safety issues and work-related issues its bureaucracy reduced to a low of 5 the department was appreciative last year being allocated two additional investigators that was added during the ad back process and worked out well, for us definitely into this rebuilding mode and this year, the mayor's office has added two investigators that binges our staff up to 90 we have two investigators working together every shift in the past two years given all the construction projects that have been coming down the pipeline it is restored the staff needs to be helped so the projects what precede we'll not be preserved as the bottleneck from the fire departments plan check review we've allocated additional staff to assist in the blag those positions i'm going to turn it over to are fund by foe revenue and don't represent an increase to the general fund but we're grateful for that. >> i just briefly wanted to touch a on a number of other go things to formalize the relati

a significant portion of the staffing is for the hospital that is about hundred and 18 ftes that are associated with the operation of the new hospital and then in addition we have growth in our primary care staffing and the public health department that is our function and it infrastructure associated with the electronic health records budgeted under the height division the 3 major budgets for the san francisco general hospital for information technology projects and in primary care and okay. thank you >> you're welcome. >> colleagues, any further questions mr. rose can we go to our report. >> mr. chairman should i comment on a couple of the items. >> i'm sorry madam clerk. >> the resolution authorizing the sense and expenditures of reoccurring state grant for the 2015-2016 years and item 5 ordinance amending the health care for other services provides water toy the distributing effective july 1st through june 1st, 2017, and item six the administrative code for the public health to participate in group participation for the commodity information technology products and related servic

. >> thank you can you say a little bit more about your increase in staffing for the proposed budget versus the volume of work. >> because the volume of work your projecting not really increasing but you're asking for i guess about 15 more staff members. >> right that's right it is directly co-recommending to the staffing i guess i lost over this chart glossed over this chart we're anticipating we're being conservative with the projections that the volume will stay at the high-level over the next two to three years we don't anticipate that will increase in vacuum but anticipate it will stay at the high-level we're trying to catch up as well as the work with the major policy efforts from affordable housing the pdr to transportation and so on. >> so, so i guess in converse the staffing you have this year is inadequate and i'm sorry. >> the staffing for this fiscal year is inadequate. >> it takes us awhile to catch up with the volume so, yes those are it is almost entirely fund through the vice president fees through the general fund. >> thank you. >> okay colleagues any further questio