Transcripts For SFGTV Board Of Appeals 72215 20240622

Community meetings ask people sit down and talk to them and get a good idea what is like to join the police force. My name is angle and my recommendation is to do at least one bbq every other month. Angel, i think we all agree as long as we are all invited [inaudible] my recommend is to use social media to make the police more positive word. Thank you stefon. Hi, my name is [inaudible] my recommendation for the Police Department is have a little and big brother mentorship program. Thank you. Hi, my name is tray von and my recommendation is to see more Police Officers doing Community Service whether that starts with [inaudible] because that is what i work on and [inaudible] i figured that is one of the best ways. Thank you travon. Mike [inaudible]. Mine is follow windup qualified candidates and thank you for watching and hope you take all this into consideration of what me and my colleagues said. Thanks mike. Thank you jerry. Thank you jerry and your cohort. Thank you gentlemen. Mr. Wilson you are up and your crew. Good evening, hope everything is good and thank you for taking into consideration all the projjects before us. My group is working on a documentary and took [inaudible] wanted to do police and Community Relations so we created the same thung, a documentary. It is a little lenty, there are 2 sides, one side is giving the Police Officers constructive s criticism and the other is what the community can do. How long is it . Like 13 minutes, is that okay . Ya. Greg suhr, doesnt have anywhere to be. Hello. My name is [inaudible] im part of [inaudible] and in the beginning of the summer we were present would the topic of Police Officers and the community and how the relationship recollect there was a lot of tension and hatred, so we thought of ways to improve this between the community and Police Officers. We went to different districts in San Francisco, fillmore, bay view, Richmond District and while doing that we interviewed pipeal of all age groups and different races. Sorry, i lost where i was. I guess that is pretty much. We did a bunch of interviews and you will hear lots of good advice the people will tell you about and Police Officers that feel accepting to the criticism so hope you enjoy the video. Thank you. [unable to hear video]. Before we started the project our cohort wanted to create a documentary on a issue not a is prevalent in San Francisco and the United States. The negative tension that occurs between Police Department and communities we entered several different neighborhoods around San Francisco and spoke with [inaudible] our objectives is find positive and negative [inaudible] when we asked them what the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word police, here are their reactions. [inaudible] they dont like black people sometimes and [inaudible] i hear police and the first thing that comes to mind is stress. [inaudible] a little bit of safety. Tension. [inaudible] somebody getting shot. We can see there are all most positive thoughts when people hear the word police and that shouldnt be the case. In order to solve the problem we need to dig deeper. We want on to ask people what Police Officers are doing poorly in the neighborhoods and what can they do to improve on. [inaudible] they judge. Improve on their word, they can improve on [inaudible] there should be a way to communicate. Instead of doing more problem solving and [inaudible] i dont know who i would go to. [inaudible] i feel they are unequipted to bond to communities and dont understand. [inaudible] Police Officers frole the neighborhood a majority of people relate to people in the neighborhoods. We felt more people would be open to [inaudible] bridge the gap between Police Officers and people in the community. [inaudible] we need somebody to work with us and not be against us. We need Police Officers who are trained to use their weapon. [inaudible] active effort to engage in the community. [inaudible] every Police Officer should come outside and [inaudible] at least get a feel of it. People want to do something to help. People dont want police to come in and swoop in and try to save the day. [inaudible] makes it more difficult [inaudible] as the bad guy which they hate. [inaudible] every room they walk into [inaudible] there are the police like i dont want to be around [inaudible] i think the person to talk to believe [inaudible] on foot rather than in the squad cars the Community Relationship improves between Police Officers and locals. [inaudible] before we started doing it [inaudible] they got to know us as people versus just the uniform. It made a huge influence on the people [inaudible] we can walk for a hour at a time and you are just out talking to regular joe blow citizen another issue that needs to be resolved is who we choose to be Police Officers. People woo choose to be Police Officers are background in the military and so on and i think to a extents one of the challenges we are facing is it hard to transition from the [inaudible] if you take a young Police Officers that for example has been in the military for 3 or 4 years fighting for their life and in iraq and they choose to become a Police Officers you need to acknowledge the last 4 years of their life their reaction to danger is use their weapon however thrrks is one Issue Community and Police Officers think need to be improved if we do a better job training the officers than issues about profiling and so forth we believe will [inaudible] military training that they get, the first thing they are told is if you show up in all your gear you are already escalating the situation and guaranteed a violent outcome and dont think that is [inaudible] it is about teaching the officers that you are reacting to [inaudible] the activ ity and not the color of the individuals skins however it isnt just the Police Officers that need improvement, the Community Needs to do their part as well. People said they need to start changing their sevls in order to see change in the community. In order for San Francisco to change lets have police and communities work together. [inaudible] we do need a lot of education, but at the same time the Community Needs a lot of education. Selling drugs, [inaudible] we have a red zone and [inaudible] nobody respects the children. We as individual citizens [inaudible] nobody cares. We need to give our kids and young people [inaudible] we need to get them to understand [inaudible] as a community this is something i like to tell everybody, we got to come together to work things out. Just because now there is a huge divide between the police and communities. I think we start at a very young age teaching kids how to handle problems. We all have problems [inaudible] but it is the way you interact. Sit down talk about it. Dont necessarily go get a gun and shoot somebody. That wont solve anything, it just creates a continuous circle. [inaudible] Community Relations and relationship with the police, about the time we see them as outsiders [inaudible] we need to hold them accountable as well as hold ourselves accountable as far as what is going oon in the [inaudible] it doesnt [inaudible] abuse their power. [inaudible] they look like a suspect and approach them and look like they are reaching [inaudible] understand this is [inaudible] not necessarily a murderer trying to kill a black person, it is both ways. It is a really difficult shot. Right now i think the job isnt necessarily meeting the expectations that society [inaudible] i used to do [inaudible] [inaudible] in the communities talk about [inaudible] dont be afraid to talk or ask questions. We are human [inaudible] i think just say hi, how are you doing, you will bridge that gap. There is only so many of us and cant have eyes on everything that goes on the city. [inaudible] we p you cant accept criticism from the public then we are in the wrong business because sometimes we deserve criticism. [inaudible] start at a young age the idea that police are all bad people with hopefully deminsh. [inaudible] it never likei got to know the Police Officer [inaudible] this guy aint doing it for the camera, he is helping out all the time. [inaudible] closer to them so when issues arise that may be problematic we have a better relationship established already so we get better communication. [inaudible] we have a number of other programs [inaudible] as a African American who grew up [inaudible] the reason i got into the job is because [inaudible] i still cant remember his name helped me out. [inaudible] out doing what kids do, breaking windows and stuff like that and [inaudible] you cant keep doing what you doing. I always [inaudible] there is a lot of work to deeinate only in San Francisco but the United States as well when it comes to community and police relationsism hopefully as san franciscans we can come together with this change. I [inaudible] known for a lot of [inaudible] i love our community to see we are friends and [inaudible] building better relationships in communities of color and the police. I think any city can do it, we can. [music] [applause] how are you doing . [inaudible] my name is leroy [inaudible] a few of my colleagues and i came up with associations with the community [inaudible] one of suggestions that parent come together with policeman and they trade ideas how they can help their kids get up off the streets. Thank you, leroy. Hi, how you doing . My name is Rickey Johnson and i recommend the police to have more big brother and Little Brother Program and big sister and Little Sister Program for the community. Thank you, rickey. My name is [inaudible] and my recommendation is take classes on how to be a more [inaudible] be respectful to one another as well as learning general respect. Everyone should be respected as a individual but no one should be [inaudible] thank you, zang. Hi, my name is novel. One of the recommendations that i have is to have Police Officers should commit to a certain amount of Community Service hours. Thank you novel. Hi, michael [inaudible] i recommend more Police Officers parole foot. Thank you, michael. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. My name is [inaudible] my suggestion is that [inaudible] for the Police Officer s and the community. Thank you thank you [inaudible] my name is con rad lee and for my recommendation is for more Police Officers to approach us in a more passive manner. Thank you conrad. Hello im daniel. Just to wrap everything up we want to thank you for watching the video and hope you take everything into consideration that we worked on and that engagement and communication is a key to best relations so thank you very much and have a great evening. Thank you, daniel. [applause] that was the final group to present tonight. Again, tremendous grat frud the opportunities to work with you all this summer and just in that short time frame of 8 weeks you can see they were hard at work. I do want to give a shout to commander sullivan and commander manx. Commander ocell vun is amazing helping organize the visits and the visit to the academy and tactical and the department made a huge impact just going to the crime scene unit at 850. Understanding it is more than just the officers in the car and getting the connections and getting to knew folks first hands maigs a difference. I want to thank president loftus and chief suhr and also want to acknowledge paul hendertion. He had a cohort that did work around prop 47 and have 1 thousand followers on the social media, so you need to step it up a bit. I would like to ask the commission to gave round of applause to these young people, they did an amazing job. I will let mr. Miller [inaudible] thank you so much. Bl dave us, i know the challenges facing the communities are not solved over night. I want to thank cheer shirr z commander osullivan. We had a middle school group of young man. Commander osul vun thank you so murch. We thank you the partnership of inPolice Department to pry to make the communities safer so thank you all very much. This is justall in all we had close to 70 or more than 70 and that is a picture book to share and take a look at the folks participating and dont know if mr. Hendserson wanted to say anything. Since i vamicrophone. I just want to congratulate the kids. It is great we are hear list toong this but want to congratulate them because i know how hard they worked all summer. I remember summers, it wasnt necessarily what i wanted to do is do work and to be this focused all throughout the summer and come consistently to work with us adults on something i think is important and something they think is important and that is reflected in the idea s we see today, it is a a big deal. I want to thank the kids on the work they did and supporting us and i loved they had thousands of followers already on social media. Hopefully we are friends with everybody and facebook friends and hang out. I think the ideas we got here are really powerful and impactful and will change what Public Safety looks like for the city and communities that they live in, so thank you all so much and the kids. Thank you, mr. Henderson. I want to open up to my fellow commissioners to ask questions or share thoughts. Before i do that i want to thank cheer sure for his leadership, commander osullivan and commander [inaudible] officer jason johnson, shareal davis [inaudible] this literally was such a Family Affair and theo, in particular the kids that you brought to us, the recruitment efforts you did and the way you thought to give had kids the opportunity and the courage it takes. Not everything Police Department in american will welcome youth most ravages with violence and say can you give ideas how we can do better so im very grateful for the courage it takes to ask that question and listen to the results and they have been stunning and know my colleagues probably want to Say Something or ask questions along those lines. Doctor joe. So, i want to thank all the young people for getting involved and the one thing i dont like is whenthis gives you a chance to see the other side, you know . Malcome x once said find out for yourself. When you get involve jd find out for yourself you can make informed decision squz this process is giving you information and allot of folks get into trouble because of misinformation or lack of information so now you know more than before and that is great. I assume it will influence your thoughts and actions and then you will be able to tell somebody else something when they Say Something because they dopet dont have the information you have, but you got to get involved to do that and that is why im proud of you. The process of this tooks you to the next level because that is the process it took me to so congratulations for getting in there and finding out for yourself. [inaudible] i want to thank the groups. It is fun meeting with you before the Commission Meetings and you all learn one thf first lessens why the Police Officers we want to recruit. You want to help others. The ability and desire to help others is what i see come out of the group. Great videos and good to hear what the people are saying. I made this invitations, people have been by the law firm and want to encourage you to become a lawyer so if you want to become a lawyer come to my law firm and ill introduce you to lawyers. There is a lot of competition. Commissioner hwang im so impress would the product you put on today. I have been on this commission about the year and shared with the chief, every week we have folks come here and point the finger and point blame and this is a group that dug deep and looked for constructive criticism and [inaudible] what is going through the back of my head is what is the next step . I think what you have done is kbround breaking for our entire country. This is a problem facing the entire nation so what can we do to take your recommendations and move it to the next step because dont know if anyone is talking about this stuff now in the same way you talk about the issue so really commend you for the important work you have done and moved by the stuff you put together. Can i say to thatchief suhr i will reach out to roena orrisa to see about meeting you because i said specifically to the young ladies if they do a good job and impress the commission there is a look how to keep this going through school year jz move on the recommendations, the bbq and [inaudible] young people to help ororganize and get the right people in the move so hopefully this doesnt die in committee but move forward. Shirly stold my thunder so i would say the old saying is the first outf of the jar is hardest is that a saying . Has anyone heard that . If it isnt than are made it up. Im so impressed how smart and talented this group is in putting together what you put together in the time. I see old friends in the room. One och the offers i make to all young people that finish a summers work is anyone that apply for a job now anywhere you want and want a chance and want a reference from the chief of police, i will give you one. And im accountable to that. Im not saying it will get you the job, but it shouldnt hurt. But for sure i have written down and taken a ton of notes, we would love to keep this going and take it city wide, so one of the things that is suggested by other groupicize to have ambassadors around the city that already have [inaudible] i would love to commission this group as ambassadors to convene the forums and get the bbq and Community Engagement going on all around town and use you as point paired with cops so that again, we can just do the whole friends thing and get better connections. I tell you, really impressive and thank you and to president loftus and chairal and theoand everybody es, better than anybody would have imagined and we were hoping for a lot so, great. Thank you, chief. I just wanted to thank you for doing what you are doing. One of the things that one of the recommendation i heard was being a big brother, big sister concept, but beyond the Police Department, you need to support each other and you need to insure this is just the beginning of a real long relationship because by supporting each other, you are going to insure no one is going to tell you you cannot do this. And, i really encourage especially the young women to think about a profession in the police force. So, congratulations and look forward to seeing you one day here. My last comment, i was hoping to put michael car the new director of Work Force Development on the spot. Chief suhr maybe we can work with him on the Ambassador Program and the notion that young people are ambassadors in the community and taking the knowledge they learned this summer to recruit or make people aware of both sides of the badge. Great idea but you will have to be on the spot. The chief feels strongly it isnt a badge, it is a star so that is a exchange moment. He corrected me infront of hundreds of people. It is muni not moony. I am totally saying moony from now on. So, is the last thing well wrap it up, i just want to say when we started talking about the program because when the chief said throw it together, we did. We have been in a conversation about how to do the most and remember one thing that was said to me is what will these kids do like 8 weeks, isnt isnt that a job . It was really, we took a chance on all of you that the 8 wook squz what you were paid to do under mrs. Dave us and theoes tutelage would have results. You blew me aware. There are videos and things on the community and narratored and there was the funny thing with the moony thing even though it was a accident, but there are people that discounts youz because of the age. You just blew us away. It was honest, it was fair it was thoughtful and there is absolutely nothing more that i could ever ask for as someone who considered policy and does this every wednesday and sometimes hears the hard stuff but rarey something as thoughtful you put together. This is how they really are and just dont get a chance for it to be show cased, that is why this is important. That is how they really are. When they have a chance to become involved with the process and give them the opportunity so kudos to everybody for giving the opportunity so we are not one and done, the chief agreed to sit down and work with the commission, what we want to do now is get back to you all about what we do with your recommendations. You have my commitment and the chief will write a letter of recommendation and this commission will take your recommendations and look at them and work on them and report back to you on what we do and do hope the process continues in the way that this continues to be a relationship as we move beyond and you guys all go back to school. Thank you. [applause] so, now is the part where i say sergeant call the next line item. We didnt take action. My City Attorney wants to say any Public Comment . Hearing none, Public Comment is now closed. Sergeant please call next line item. Kevin. Hello. I just want to say thank you for giving these young people a opportunity. I had a chance to be a part of the whole process and being behind the scene squz being a part of their whole engagement, it was interesting for us to go to the new Police Department on 3rd and just sort of interact with some of the technicians and other people that are behind the scene and i was sort of new for me too but just to see them interact with all the Law Enforcement activity and community. More importantly how to [inaudible] about Law Enforcement and what that means and some of the young people are bright. They are amazing. I had a chance to know these young people so im looking for some really bright thing tooz come forth and think this experience sort of is part of that foundation to grow and have a whole different perspective on the work that needs to be done and do it in a positive way so thank you very much and i appreciate this whole process. Thank you. Sergeant. Item 3 c, reports and announcements. 3 a, chief report discussion. Review of rent activities and presentation of Second Quarter 20 [inaudible] findings and recommendation and ois summary good evening commissioners and public. Ill be very brief because i know that everybody is still celebrating that. We did have a sad incident occur on thursday morning about 5 30, we had a collision at lum bard and richardson where a one vehicle rear ended another. It wasnt known at the time why the second vehicle was acting the way that it was. The 2 drivers got in a pedestrian pursuit around the block and then the second driver walked off. When officers encountered the subject he was a very large man, he beat both the officers into the hospital. One of them suffering from a concushion. He continued east bount on lum bard and other officers responded and took the suspect into custody. Some time after being hand cuffed he went into medical distress. [inaudible] the suspect was not able to be resusitated and passed at the scene. One officer suffered a concushion and is recovering, the other officer suffered injuries to arms and legs. It was discovered the suspect committed a homicide in Sonoma County about a hour before the incident. We will wait for a toxicology report and cause of death. It is a very sad situation but the person ciltded in sonoma was in his mid90s. I wish i had a happier note to follow up the other item on but will leave it to that but go to the presentation Second Quarter f fdrb findings. Do we have a presentation . Ya. Thank you for your patience. Okay. Thank you. President loftus, commissioners chief suhr, director hicks my name is Sergeant John [inaudible] assigned to officer involved shootings vgzs. Im here for the Quarterly Report which includes the [inaudible] and then an update on open investigations. You should have received i believe reports were distributed prior and you have those. Um the last fdrb had convened the first quarter, 2015 had convened march 31, 2015 so this was the Second Quarter fdrb convened tuesday june 23, 2015 and reviewed 4 caizs. The board reconvened wunz day july 1, 2015 to review a 5th case. The 5 investigations reviewed by the Second Quarter were officer involved discharge, oo 115. Officer discharge oo 215. Officer [inaudible] officer involved shootings oo 9. [inaudible] oo 4. As i said, the quarterly board convened twice so first convened tuesday june 23, 20s 15 with the numbers shown here deputy allah and redman and schmit and [inaudible] commissioner dadajesus [inaudible] lieutenant dur aunt ozand sergeant [inaudible] when the board reconvened to consider the 5th case the voter members with alee, redman, commander and manx for special operations. The other members were commissioner hwang, director hicksen perena [inaudible] and officer [inaudible] from the range. Ill go ofern over the cases reviewed and findings. Officer avaurfbed discharge occurred 1304 hours february 22, 2015 on the 200 block of hal day avenue and in this instance a officer following upen a complaint of illegal imcampment approached some subjects in high thick weeds. As he iproached a pit bull not restrained charged the officer growling and snarling. He retrated falling down and as he fell he fired twice. The animal was not struck but [inaudible] it is one of the two subjects in the field were able to catch the dog and tie it up with a shirt. Was restained, animal control took the dog in position and the owner was sited for the unrestrained dog. The discharge was found to be in policy. Discharge oo 215, this occurred at a priveant residence in the city near [inaudible] and 35th avenue on april 22, 2015. Approximately 1650 or 450 in the afternoon, a officer who is off deutaat home with personal weapon was [inaudible] to put a trigger lock on his weapon and accidently discharged it. He attempted to do the same thing and discharged it again. [inaudible] unintentional discharges and this was found to be not in policy. [inaudible] considered by the board, officer involved shooting 13006 occurred april 17, 2015 on the 900 block of [inaudible] in this particular instance a officer responding to a call of a deadly assault and assaultthe caller self reported he attacked his brother with a mu chety and requested a ambilns. There was a bleeding person outside, the officers were not sure if it is subject or victim at the time as they were conducting a initial investigation within a few seconds, the second subject ran out of the house carrying a large object the officers shot it was a knife or mu chety and turned out to be a claw hammer. The subjecktt [inaudible] fired the weapon. The subject was struck and deceased. That use of fire arm was found to be in policy. There was a issue that was discovered in the course of the investigation related to equipment and that was also addressed. The otherthe second shooting that was considered was one that occurred at 19th and tear vel street december 30, 2015 at [inaudible] 2 uniformed officers from tearville responded to the area of the intersection. They heard oorlth unit vaurfbed in a pursuit that got caught in traffic. The officers believed a foot chase was about to ensue. Got out of the cars, the subjectthe driver of the suspect vehicle instead worked his way through traffic, basically wedges between cars. Drove towards one of the officers who fired his weapon one time, struck the vehicles, the driver is note hit, he continued on his flight and was crashed near Golden Gate Park and taken into custody. This was determined to be in policy. 14004 occurred at bruno heights march 24, 2015 at approximately [inaudible] 4 uniformed officers assigned to ingle side responded to the park [inaudible] person arm would a gun. The officers located a man matching the description and held him. The suspect responded drawing a laser weapon [inaudible] the officers fired at the suspect fately striking him. It was learned that the weapon is a electronic control weapon or taser device. The shooting was determined to be in policy. The recommendation of the fdrb is the chief review and approve the recommendations. You have the letter from had chiefs aufs as well as the reports submitted by internal affairs and believe you received those as well. The next fdrb is scheduled for tuesday september 22 and that is the status of the last fdrb. [inaudible] shooting investigations i will tell you this report was prepared before the occurrence on july 26, 2015 so we vanew case not on the report and paperwork you have and that is because it was completed prior. The Previous Report to you was presented may 6 and since that report 3 of the investigations were presented to the fdrb, i just described them to you and they are now closed and signed off by the chief, presented to you, you received the reports, and these cases are completely closed. In the middle of july we did receive 2 new charging [inaudible] for officer involved shooting 13005 and 13007. We received 2 from the das office mids july so those will bepresented at the next fdrb. As of this report, this report there were 15 open investigations, 16 at the time. 2 of the investigations as i said the department received the District Attorney charging kiz in 2 of the caiz cases. Those caseerize being concluded. The internal Affairs Investigation is being concluded and presented next fdrb. That leaves 13 crimial investigations on going and all in revie by the office of District Attorney so the new case which well talk about tonight in closed session, but that case is an active and ongoing investigation. Well talk about it later but that one is being investigated criminally in san mateo county. Just in summary of where we are at year by year date, 2013 investigations, two will disappear from this list, 006 and 009. That leaves 003, 5, 7 and 8 open. They are on the same status awaiting discharging decision afor from the District Attorney. 2014, 14004 was closed at the last fdrb, all follow up is completed. That is a closed case and will disappear from thelace. That leaves 14002 [inaudible] awaiting a charging decision. Sergeant can i ask you a question because there is a lot of zeros and want todoes that mean that there was 15 open cases, 2 we got a letter from the da, declining to file criminal charges that means that officially closes out the process and the 13 remaining are they all at the d as office . We have done all our works is t is just the 14 open caseerize awaiting decisions . We are in a Holding Pattern awaiting the final decisions. Everything is cued up based on what we understand from the case. Once we get a final charging decision well finish the criminal investigation that is a matter of a couple weeks or days and i will finish our investigation so it will be presented athe 2 we have all eter for will be presented at the next fdrb. Anything else it if we get it a couple weeks before well present it and it will be ready togo thank you 2015, same boat with 4, 2015 cases in the report. The 15005 criminal 5 well talk about later and that is active and on going investigations both administratively personal investigations and also criminal. Questions . Colleagues . Um, i do. The only question i have has to do withi know we talked to chief about part of the concern i talked about for a long time, i know commissioner [inaudible] and my colleagues on the commission for some time said there is improvement for the amounts of time for the case tooz be resolved. Is difficult on the officer and potentially families member frz someone they lost. I see smf thocases are 3 years olds so chief i know we talked about sometimes what comes out is a policy recommendation or training issue. I know there was discussion in there and dont know where we are it. If there is a opportunity to have a preliminary analysis recognizing we cant control how long it takes the District Attorneys office to [inaudible] based on that conversation that happened at the fdrb and dont recall where we are in advancing that conversation. I spoke to [inaudible] about putting in awith regard to any training or policy issues not to make a final determination as to policy and discussed to convening such a body great the bottom line is it is in progress and being kicked around and we are getting it worked out so it is something we are trying to do. Good, i look forward to hearing more about that. There were policy recommendations and it is just great that those come out of it and the sooner we can get those in place the better understanding what is frustrate frg me and all of us is we wait for other agencies to complete something that would otherwise be complete. One thing we have done and have been able to do where we see we are able to bifurcate something or send somebody to training so the individual has a defixancy or something we can improve or get better at, we can take care of that. We bifurcated cases where we said there is a issue we can deal with internally much quicker on a policy issue separate that pursuit case for example that had a officer not involved in the pursuit is one we talked about. Not involved in the pursuit was the [inaudible] learn from the pursuit and deal with issues from that. We are trying to do what we can in that way and trying to set something up that works and maintains the officers rights and Everything Else that works so that we can identify these things and get direction and quick feedback where we are able to i notice we are going in the right direction, the first case is stwo and a half years old, the second 2 years and the last is one year old. The 13 open oiss are the pieces we can involve and the ultimate fooinding is testament to your work sergeant so i think for take thg same questions from me every time. Colleagues, any other questions . It is better than it used to be he says the exact same thing every time. [inaudible] pass the resolution thank you sarge ergeant any question frz the chief . Okay, sergeant call the next line item item 3 b, occ directors rortd discussion, review of recent actirfbties. Good evening director hick jz president loftus, commissioners chief suhr, memberoffs the audience. Last saturday Deputy Director [inaudible] gave a presentation on the functionoffs the office of citizen complaints to aclass of cadets at the academy. Last night occ staff attended several National Night out activities at San Francisco Police Department locations. To date this year the occ opened 46 case squz closed 392. Between jan 1 and august 5 last year the occ opened 426 case squz closed 415. Through july 30 of this year the occ mediated 30 cases compared to 33 mediated between jan 1 and july 30 last year. August 19 Commission Meeting ill provide with statistical reports and that concludes my report thank you drether hicks any questions for director hicks please call the next line item item 3 c commissioner report and discussion. I will just begin with saying there is a few things the Law Enforcement appreciation night, i was proud to represent the commission with the giants and other Law Enforcement leaders. There was a tribute to officers who have been cilded in the line of duty. It was beautifully done and got feedback for the Police Department and tupt for families who lost a officer to come together and have a night and a number of officers from the department thrrp so that was great. There was a graduation, happy to be there and see other yuj people getting engaged. I was happy to attend bod acamera working group committees. They are run by member thofz command staff, commander mogesier, commander osullivan rfx deputy alee are doing a artful job. Director hicks is represented. It is a Diverse Group of stake holders discussing and balancing a number of interests. [inaudible] acknowledged the policy has to balance a number of competing priorities and i was grateful to observe the discourse and dialogue so colleagues you will get the minutes from the meeting and will know who was there and what was asked and hope this will happen at the onedf august. Well do 2 Community Meeting where the public weighs in but it is good to observe. I dont play a formal role other than watching deliberate and think they will give food for thoughts. Thank you chief and members of the commands staff for handling that. We had a good meeting with the parole special. As many know the Police Commission basically supervisors the parole special program. We are involved in their discipline, the rules and procedure, picking the uniforms, the handling and background check frz hiring. President loftus was great, she met with myself and member thofz command staff and had a line frup the parole officer squz discussed issued about compliance and had them at the newplice head quarters, i think a lot of them enjoyed being there. We told them this is a Important Program but they have to follow thg rules and the city tone was present with us to explain the same thing. Thank you president oft us. Im the liaison and try to make the Program Better to insure they are trained. Prior to 3 years ago the Commission Voted to let them go to the range and now have them do advanced officer training at the academy. It is a long standing effort and thanks for president loftus for being there. Itb met a lot for the parole specialist to be the attention we gaichb it doctor marshall i wasnt at the last Community Meeting so chief, did you report on our trip to he wasnt there. I wasnt there either. This is our opportunity. I just want to say that the chief and i took a trip to washington dc, i guess it is about a month now, 3 weeks to the conference on Police Community relations and it follows what we are talking about here. It was 80 Police Chiefs from around the country, big and small jurisdictions and the interesting thing is each department brought a Community Person with them. It wasgave a pretty good snap hp shot of how people feel about what is going on in the country and got to [inaudible] for putting the conference on. They have done conferences i have been to before but there is nothing more timely in the relation between the police and community and take that topic on. It was a unique format, the Community Members speak first which took a while and then had the chiefs of police chic second and the third is a meeting of the minds. I thought it was great and i was everything i heard was indicative, we want toeverybody wants to make things better. The one thing that does come out in a session like that iswhat im going to say is makes sense to everyone, but whatever happens with regard to policing the community in a area of the country effects everywhere in the u. S. Nobody looks at jurisdiction, all they see is uniform. It is what happened in South Carolina or chicago or baltimore. [inaudible] and [inaudible] put together a report, which would be great for folks to take a look at when it comes out squand i think oakland chs there, sacramento and stauckten and bart was there. As a follow up, the chief and i talked about host agregional sort of piece to follow up. Lastly ill say the chief is a great traveling companion. He is fun to be on the road with. He is fun for me, i dont know about the rest of you. It was a great trip, but it was alsoit was notthere were uncomfort moments. It was by no means like a puff piece. There was raw feelings and anxiousness, but it was good conversation and hear thg kids talk tonight, it really is a situation that is playing out all over the country and regardless where it is going on it is all the same thing, there is just greater need for staying in the conversation, so i look forward to following up and having a more regional discussion. The bay area was well represented and california all and all. La was there too. It wasnot a lot of people always go to those things but the fact this was this well attended demonstrates it is a priority as it should be for everybody there are about 170 people from the department of justice there. It was a huge huge gathering and the fact he got all the voices in the room, he is very skilled with getting everybody i have never seen [inaudible] he got called out by a couple people in the room when they didnt think he was facilitating it right and he gave it. I donts think he had much choice. We did highlight a number of things we are doing in San Francisco and talked about this group there, so we put our 2 cents in to things we are doing here to make thijs better thank you for representing us there dr. Marshall and chief. Anyone else have reports . Okay. Sergeant please call the next item item 3 d Commission Announcement squz scheduling of 50i89 items identified for future consideration we have scheduling things we need to work out. Colleagues this group asked for us to change the meeting schedule so we go dark on the 4th, wednesday and what we suggested is have the Community Meeting on the second wednesday. That doesnt work for our partners at sfgtv so we need to move to the 3rd wednesday. I checked with my source squz think it will work. We apologize we missed that step in the first place and should have consulted. In terms of this month, august is the month the board of supervisors are in recess. We are one of the few bodies continues to meet so we were going have a Community Meeting next wednesday but there were problemwise that and it is augand people are gone so well go dark next week and well be back on the 19th and sergeantat city hall. September we move to the new schedule can you remind us of what the new schedule is while im choking . The first and second wednesdays of the month will be at city hall. The third will be the Community Meeting and then dark the 4th and if there is a 5th, dark the 5th september we leave it open we will have a Community Meeting that 3rd wednesday. If the body camera policy is in a place where it is presented to us we may slot in the first meeting in september to that slot and decide where we have that location. Any questions about scheduling . Did i miss anything, sergeant . Just Public Comments on items ad. I got swept up into the kids and did want to comment we had National Night out last night across San Francisco. It went from some very modest gatherings to over 1 thousand gathered in north beach im told by chief [inaudible] there were excess of 500 at ingle side and know bodecker park and [inaudible] were very significant as well as the tearival. We have all our summer jobs graduation, tonight was the momagic and the future grads and garden project, our Cadet Program which is owngoing and full staffed by the end of the month so all these things we did with the young people over the summer, i dont know if we are just overthat but pretty close to engage about a thousand young people since we started doing this a few years ago. We just started 5 sfpd and 5 oakland recruits and graduate the 244 recruit class a week from friday. We are hiring for anybody that is watching and interested, please apply thanks chief. Is there Public Comment on items 3 ad . Hearing none Public Comment is closed. Line item 4 Public Comment on all matters pertaining to items below inclouding whether to hold item 6 into closed session we areigate about the to go into closed session. Any comment whether we are going into closed session . Hearing none Public Comment is closed. I move we go into closed session item 5, vote on whether to hold item 6 in closed session including whether to assert the Attorney Client privilege with regard to 6 a, San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10 do have a motion to assert the attorney clineant privilege . All in favor . Opposed . Passes unanimously. We are in commissioners we are back on the recorderment just for the record we do still have a quorum. Um, thank you sergeant please call next line item iletm 7 vote to disclosez any or all discussion on item 6 closed in closed session San Francisco administrative code 6 avenue. 12 a do i have a motion not to disclose . Second. All in favor. Opposed. Motion passes unanimously. Item 8 adjournment action itedment as i started off the meeting i said i would ask for a molegz to ijourn the commission in memory of scott lungger and had the fortune of attending the Funeral Services that had had to be held at the oracle arena. He has a beautiful family and will be a loss to the haward Police Department and community so ask to adjourn this meeting in his memory. All those in favor. Opposed. We are adjourned. When you cast your vote in San Francisco, you may do it through city hall or vote by mail. Ever wonder when to cast your vote . How is your vote counted. Lets follow your ballot from the moment its officially certified by the department of elections. First well look at what happens to your vote at a polling place. When you cast your vote, your ballot is fed into a voting systems machine. It reads your ballot and the data is stored inside on the memory cart cartridge. It provides San Francisco with voting machines. High speed ballot scanners and software used to cast votes. When the memory is pulled from the memory. The cartridge is stored in a bag and sealed then a San Francisco parking officer takes official custody of the cartridge to deliver it to city hall. The custody of the actual completed ballot is transferred to the sheriff who takes it on Election Night. On Election Night. Pier 48 is a hub of activity. Sheriffs bringing ballots lineup outside waiting to deliver inside the pier. Its a long night for these election employees. Staff unpack and sort all the ballot bags and account for all the rosters for those dropped off at polling places. The inside ballots are counted by a machine and there is still more to do with these ballots. Well get back to them a little later. Meanwhile at city hall, the department of elections sets up a one night only upLoading Center. Staff and City Employees ready to handle delivery and processing. On Election Night we set up the Loading Center here at city hall so we can process the votes as quickly and accurately as possible. First the election bag is placed on the reader to record it. Next the cartridges and transfer papers are checked by our staff. Then the cartridges with the votes for each precinct are fed into readers which are fed in the dominion software. These are results directly to the Department Computer for tabulating. Back at the polling place you might have cast your vote using the edge screen which is a screen touch system sch which allows others with disabilities to fill out an official blot. Its attached to the edge machine. I also need the edge printer. At the end of election day, a Deputy Sheriff takes custody of the sealed container from edge machine. You only have one edge printer, right . Yes. These deputies transfer the container a lot with the ballots to the warehouse on pier 48. The department of election staff opens the sealed container from every edge machine and reviews its printed record. Here at the department warehouse, teams of two people remove the record from each edge printer and check and double check to confirm whether or not those were cast. If votes are recorded on an edge printer, a team of two people remake the vote onto a blank paper ballot from that precinct. Then a different two people confirm the votes and correct any errors. All the edge printer records are are archived. They transport to city hall and then fed to the machine for counting. That way all the votes cast on the machine are included in the election. Voters are encouraged to vote at their assigned polling place. People who cast their vote at a voting place other than their polling place are called provisional voters. They are taken to city hall for verification by staff. Verification is to check to see if the voter is registered in San Francisco. If the voter is registered in San Francisco, their votes are counted for the correct contest they are into. More than 60 of San Francisco voters cast their votes by mail. Ballots cast by city hall are also by ballot. They are processed at the Distribution Center at the largest Mail Processing facility in San Francisco. So, its quite a large operation. About 1500 employees throughout 3 shifts. It runs 24 7. 365 days a year and today we have all the ballots for the city of San Francisco and today they will be processed for delivery. Today we have a truck that has already come in. We are expecting about 218,000 ballots to come on 15 trucks. So far we have received three of the trucks and you can see there is a lot of mail here. Right now we are getting raid to run the mail on digital bar code order. First we put it in carrier route sequence and walk sequence so its real efficiency for the ballots for our constituents. Voters registration are dropped off at the polling boxes and its transferred to a Deputy Sheriff who transfers them to pier 48. At the pier, ballots are collected. The number returned is noted and quickly transported by two Deputy Sheriffs and two Department Employees to city hall for processing. Before any counting of any vote by mail ballot can happen, the voters signatures must be verified. First the unopen vote by mail ballot uses a scanner that picks up the bar code signature and the bar code identifies the voter and precinct and that is sent electronically to the voter for verification. We have the signature on the Voter Registration file t voters name, precinct and signature is entered into the election Information Management system. Staff reviews the voter information and signature on file and visually compares the signature. Then we challenge the validity of the ballot. If the ballot is accepted, the voter is noted they have been accepted in the election. Then its send back electronically to the scanner. The envelopes are run through the scanner again to sort out any unverified ballots. On the second scanner pass, the ballots are also sorted by precinct. It makes extra effort to correct the system so the ballots can be verified and their votes count. Although accepted vote by mail ballot envelopes, used to be open by hand, they are now open by an extraction machine. It helps open the envelope on two sides and these on the machine you can pick up the ballot. Its probably twice as fast as a manual process. The ballots are then scanned by a dominion 400 c high speed scanner for each ballot card. At the same time employees check the dominion tally sheet and compare it to the printer. The scanner sometimes cant read a ballot due to damage or light marking by a voter. These are transferred by hand by a 2person team. These new ballots are returned to the scanner and the votes are added to the final tabulating. You can confirm your ballot was received and confirm your vote was counted at sf elections. Org. At the end of each day which transfers the data from the scanners onto this laptop and we tabulate the votes. On the server these votes are combined with the votes already transmitted with the cartridges. Once the data is loaded on this laptop, the server tabulates the votes and we generate a report and post it on our website. Along with the report, it also includes a precinct by precinct breakdown and posted by mail and a neighborhood turnout report. We are very proud of our data tool. It includes a lot of information about voter information with the voter district and party. We will continue improving. You would think thats the end of the story, but there is still more work out of pier 48 that needs to be done. California Election Code requires the manual tally of ballots in the precinct which is chosen by an elected official. For the 1 manual tally, the ballots selected are counted by hand at the department warehouse. Basically teams of four election match the ballots to the tally. There is a team for each ballot. Two people tally the vote that is called and the two people confirm the votes and finally they are compared and compared to the electronic vote. This 1 manual tally is the last step for declaring the final results of the election. So from your home or neighborhood polling place, to city hall, by memory cartridge, high speed scanner or even manually, your vote is tabulated and declared by the San Francisco department of elections. clapping. good afternoon, everyone good morning; right . Good morning, everyone laughter thanks everybody for coming out it is not everyday that we get to no matter a new muni line let along a rail line on which the historic streetcars will be operating we couldnt be more excited to be out here we have a lot of folks without whom we wounded be here so a special day for muni and special day in the history of transit a great day for the city ill start by saying a lot of people have to work hard for a long time to make Something Like that happen but at the top of the lard is the mayor from the time he took office and really the decades in the city supporting infrastructure in supporting good Capital Planning the kinds of things to have p in place to get to a point like this the mayor is a supporter and couple of years ago we convened a task force that land to a 500 million bond that was approved last year this week he signed the city budget among many others great things that is bring to the city included service increase which the t line is a part this is the kind of leadership we need to bring the kind of Transit Service to the city to have it grow in the future please carry on conversations out in the hallway. Please join me in welcoming our mayor, mayor ed lee clapping . Good morning as well thanks east side for our leadership if i can thank you you and the commissioners of the sf Transportation Agency and our county Transportation Authority working together with the city and the board of supervisors and really glad to be here today with supervisor christensen Supervisor Scott Wiener and supervisor jane kim joining us were dedicated to improving expanding our Public Transportation it the best example i god got to ride on the newest edition to the streetcars and ike thank you, again rick from the historic streetcars history he provided that connection we were talking about dolores park all the mayors if feinstein on to that have really led the effort i know that from me, me to art to senator feinstein so many people wanted to link the entire embarcadero well, this morning im here to dispel rumors the e line is to be the ed line it is the embarcadero and f is not the fine line but all the alphabet but there are names here i want to say i know senator wanted to be here and representatives from feinstein and boshgs that have begun fantastic not so many other things that helped our city to be successful i wanted to ride that with senator feinstein i know this is in her heart to get this done shes a great leader in the past and the cable cars and all alternative things that hopefully rick will have a chance to talk about the history this is a remarkable day to exemplify an additional 10 percent of services means in one part weve got extensions of line and in other be neighborhoods of the city but for this embarcadero to have this e line go all the way if at t park to Fishermans Wharf and have an open air approach to it and then have muni drivers like robert parks and others working for muni since 1997 i think enjoying every year to serve the popping public a whole system mr. Their pcos or Police Department or management or commissioners working with the federal commissioners and board of supervisors and state and local agencies working to improve thats why we have confidence that our muni can have a one billion dollars operation that really cares about getting people around this desire city we can manage and certainly manage all the things to get people around the visitors and people working here friends and families safely and efficiently through the rest of the city this is one of the most enjoyable rides both cars are historic that car comes from england i wont mess with all the details but ill say that we say an uncovered vehicle that has a lot of history to it riding along the embarcadero it is fun it is exhilarating and another kind of cable car experience in San Francisco and i love the history of the city ill work and continue to work to make sure those things can happen and that services will increase that we reduce congestion and work hard on that by the way, make sure that vision zero is all part of everything we do this 500 million bond our public passed were working very hard attorney general make sure those vision zero projects are done and i know that muni is in the lead and other agencies public works and everyone else has to work with high levels but lets celebrate this new service and line lets link to the history of the car and the fun but all the appreciation that i have thought marries and the leaders and confirmations before us and the supervisors all working together to make sure that is part of the great Public Transportation system we want to have in our great city making history and celebrating that past but moving forward as the coincide phrase from muni it is all about forward muni how we serve more of the public the pride in the system for everybody works with each other congratulations sfmta and congratulations county transportation thank you everybody for being here hope you get a ride on this as much as you can thank you clapping. thank you, mr. Mayor certainly we wouldnt be here without our leadership the leadership at city hall extends to the second floor the board of supervisors has continued to provide the policy and funding leadership to support things like bringing the e like to fruition but the mayor made reference this is a longstanding demand for the people that ring the bell for the embarcadero for this kind of services this provides the connectivity from the caltrans to the ball park all the way up to pier 39 and Fishermans Wharf and the northern part of the bayer the supervisors that represent the policies are are here and instead voices for better transportation in San Francisco and better Transportation Service i was called into a meeting three or four years and the institutional leaders from the corridor demand or expressing the demand for this kind of services and the grassroots leadership that manifest in the supervisors it represents that is part of why were here first representing the northern half of the e line i want to bring up someone before they got into office was an advocate for the transportation for the northeast part of the San Francisco shes been in office and focused among things on transportation issues and saving transportation so ms. Marcason district 3 Julie Christensen clapping good morning my first thanks are to rick and bruce and the leaders and the volunteers of the Market Street railroad i was out the advocacy it is a 20year project so congratulation to the Market Street rail way determined effort to make that happen im perspective to mayor ed lee and the volkswagen of leaders for Dianne Feinstein for supporting this crazy idea and tilly chang and others that made that happen i this is a great thing for the city this is going to be a lot fun riding along the waterfront i want to focus an district 3 my district includes some of the density neighborhood in the United States we have a typography a roll call top great most of my constituents dont own cars were trying to improve the Public Transportation for district 3 im thrilled that soon our district will have the first subway in San Francisco and the first Rapid Transit in San Francisco and im delighted to welcome the e line as charming and fun for my constituents this is Serious Business not only do we have those are o those dense neighborhood but welcomes tens of thousands of shoppers to union square tourist that are visiting Fishermans Wharf and chinatown and other places in the district they need to get around and this transportation on the east side is virtually important not only to get people back and forth but to make sure our city runs smoothly were excited about f this edition in service ive been quoting from of the follower leader of bothering talk the market is a great city not one poor can bribe but when rich people takes massive transit that puts on and on us on that thank you. Thank you supervisor christensen and representing the southern end of the e line is supervisor jane kim thats been as most folks know one the leading voices that was behind vision zero to San Francisco and vision zero being our goal to eliminate traffic faults by 2024 but representing the folks that have among the lottery levels of car ownership and transit ridership the highest but a voice to improve leadership to pushing up to engage the east side of her district and to think extend and approve Transit District for the east side including the. Rightone lynn line please join me in welcoming jane kim. Thank you. I was going to that supervisor christensen and i have some things in common absorbing 60 percent of the Residential Construction in San Francisco taking place be here for years your residents have been asking for more Public Transit lines to make sure we have to the infrastructure to make sure our neighborhood is connected to others i want to recognize our residents that have for years been advocating the chair bruce he couldnt be here he he is going to jury duty heart broken and coauthored from the cracking and dr. Many me me for the foundation that push for the e line to make sure it happened and it makes me proud were delivering on that today director reiskin not often you have a new line our district has two the 55 which is connecting the Mission Neighborhood and bart to mission bay along with the ucsf Medical Campus and the average Office Building and the e line it connects Fishermans Wharf to the bart and caltrain station transit is critically important as we grow we know that everyone cant continue to drive we have to make our streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists but make sure we have option for the residents not only to get to the do you only core but were also crisscrossing and connecting neighborhoods this is a huge effort and it is nice to not just talk about is it or promise it but say were going to be openly it today congratulations to the Market Street roadway and sfmta and the Mayors Office and great to have a line it connects into districts thank you supervisor christensen. Thank you, supervisor kim as many of you know the board of supervisors also sits as the trpgs Transportation Authority the coming Transportation Authority and i wanted to acknowledge the executive director tilly chang and the da is currently chaired if i supervisor wiener it sits on the metropolitan adrenalin Transportation Commission a strong voice for the transportation particularly looking at San Franciscos needs but locally has been one of the stropth voices for transportation for the advocacy in 2011 for the streets respond up until last year supporting both the geobut bringing prop b that increased the general fund that goes to muni wouldnt have been there without his leadership been a strong supporter of systems constructive critic i rides it everyday and like us he experiences both the exchanges but seize the opportunities please join me in welcoming from district 8 supervisor and chairman of the Transportation Authority scott wiener. clapping. thank you, ed and my district is not including the e like line but the end of the f line one integrated system for the streetcars sometimes in San Francisco we have this tension between the citys past and historic where we are moving into the future the e line really in my mind is a Perfect Blend of the fast and the future it is wonderful to be able to preserve and use those wonderful historic streetcars i want to give all the creditor it in the word to the Market Street railway and others for saving those streetcars and saving this system along with the cable cars to make sure as the city changes and grows we dont just jet son some of the treasurers we have as a city but this line is not just about cherishing the past it is b also about moving us to the future as a city we good and talking about the impacts on housing and the costs of housing but the congestion in the city and the wear and tear and strain on our Public Transportation system as we good by 10 thousand people a year weve not been focusing on enough were growing in this part of town and need to have more and more more and more parts of city that are connected by transit and particularly the Mission Bay Area supervisor kim has mentioned is an area that is supervisor breed and didnt have nearly enough transit the fact we have those tracks in the ground and vehicles and have this line and were not making the best was was a shame to activate this entire ear and utility those vehicles to connect noib to the northern neighborhoods is just tremendous it is only the beginning i know we have more and more transcript h transit systems and the voters have been clearing about the sfaiks to eveningly passing the muni bond last year and passing unanimously the voters get it and city hall gets it were going to keep doing this i want to note our county Transportation Authority was administered through the statistics as invested 19 million in historic strrts that is a team effort so congratulations to everyone and particularly congratulations to the residents and everyone else who will by the people from this service thank you clapping. thank you supervisor wiener and the rest of the board of supervisors it really is a team effort we couldnt have done it without you a little bit closer to the ground in order to make the streetcars available and in order to be able to find the the resources to be able to expand the services to open the line there are a lot of tough decisions in terms of the overall mta budget in terms of of the execution of our strategy plans theyre made by the board of directors were governed by a 7 member board the folks that are appointed empty the mayor serve would the compensation but weve been very lucky over at least certainly from my tenure in having great leadership with the board of directors it is with great pleasure i welcome up the chair and vice chair please join me in welcoming tom nolan and concerning. Thank you, mr. Mayor the board of supervisors is happy to be here on behavior the board of directors were numerously proud 7 thousand people move around the city that is a wonderful thing i want to mention two people one is not here i never think of historic vengeance without thinking of cam beach who died several years ago and also i wanted to say ed reiskin were so fortunate to have a man of his dedication and lots of great things are happening thank you vice chair. clapping. year and a half i think the chairman said it all i will echo nothing in the city happens by the result of one persons actions or organizations this one example i look forward to riding the e line it was some of the most fun ive had in San Francisco thank you clapping. thank you. The Political Leadership behind muni and behind the e line expands far and wide the mayor made reference to senator boxers and senator feinstein was one the chief architect and part of what makes that possible were joined could i by formerly supervisor and board president supervisor david chiu staff and justin a muni alumni want to acknowledge him and Assembly Member the support we get increasing a recent hundred and 40 million cap trade is how were continuing to grow service in San Francisco weve heard from a lot of the folks in government but without question next to Dianne Feinstein there was no person who is as both peppering and professionally responsible for us being here today than rick this is a passion of his both in his professional time and a lot on his own times over decades that is part why were here today please join me in welcoming the president of the Market Street Railway Association rick clapping. well, we know this is a team sport in fact, San Francisco is a team sport and i could spend all day talking about everyone that is involved in the activity its all true you dont do anything alone in this city and the listener of the mayor and ed reiskin and tom nolan and Cheryl Brinkman and sfmta are important for the betterment of the Transportation System i want to acknowledge the Market Street raul railway past and present your surrounded by them those folks have given thousands and thousands of hours of volunteer time over decades to help make what you see here happen if you sit in this spotlight thirty years ago we have had been directly under a double freeway the entire waterfront you know had trithsz away from its mairment history but didnt know what that was going to be a few people had the vision to see a worldclass waterfront i want to acknowledge one in particular he cant be here he passed away one year and one day ago doug right that served mayor feinstein and served mayor agnos as the deputy mayor for transformation tra transportation that is part of douglas lying lillian widow i hope youll give her a round of applause also anothers important few minutes is me, me the president of the delance project she got those tracks put in to connect the f line up there what the n and t line to the south the e line couldnt have taken place if it wouldnt have gotten done she lobbied city hall she cant be here but id like a hand for me, me delanys street is a gift to our city the original vision so for the e line that mayor feinstein and doug started was to go to Fishermans Wharf and continue to for the mason the e line has been a tragedy dream for a looked at and connected the parkland and provides walking and bicycle successful assess and serve the Nonprofits Organization that were at for the mason the past director of mason alex it is here a Guiding Light in retrofits this idea along with the Fishermans Wharf organization theyre the who helped to get the National Park to do an Environmental Impact report not paid for by the city by the feds with help from then speaker peelings office were ready to engineer and fund that as soon as we get through the remaining hurdle to senator feinstein has pledged her hope we hope the city family makes that a reality the effort mason makes that longer and astrologer when she was mayor Dianne Feinstein support made the first streetcar possible in the 1980s i was in her office as a wet behind the easier volunteer and said is this not a mayor we can do this. She would ill do it but i dont want to see new junk she had high standards he knew that every Street Corner had to be beautiful and reflected well, in the city she loved to see the original muni streetcars in fact the one that the mayor piloted for the mayors coincidental they still run and she loved the streetcars from around the world and a can new from back in the 1980s and she loved to drive that car and she actually grove it several times well, today besides openly the e line were to double our procure mark Street Railway has been from england we depended upon r donated it from muni we started the First Official run with passengers and has its original sign reading the Pleasure Beach we dont have a Pleasure Beach but have a promenade and it is embarcadero so muni shop workers and ill shout out to lee and mike ellis and the other carl johnson retarded if muni did a great job restoring this car clapping. we cant do this without our city workers ballot wouldnt have sailed our way excepts for two generous by michael thorstein who under wrote the costs of the car michael put your hand up please clapping. and to get it here we got a lot of help from ed ford explicit represented by cassandra clapping i bet you didnt know that fedex ships streetcars ear thankful to both of them and everyone associated with the boat and the e line thank you all so have much clapping. thanks rick and finally as i said before there was a Strong Community demand for the advocacy to get service on to the embarcadero so i want to invite up a couple of Community Leaders one from the north side and south side starting with john a Third Generation Fishermans Wharf guy and the president of the festers benefits district please join me in welcoming in welcoming john clapping. thank you, ed also like to thank ed and supervisor christensen formally assemblyman david chiu and denying for helping to make it possible the Fishermans Wharf association is happy for the e line service to begin my family has been a part of the Fishermans Wharf for a a long time and watched the waterfront transform back then the embarcadero was beginning its transition to the incredible use any questions of the uses today back then the what if was an island between the maritime and the embarcadero and fort massachusetts so that to the west west people like to use the cable cars but the locals used their cars today, the wharf is more important than ever we weve got the moratorium and the cruise ship and at t park just to name a few automobiles cant handle the demand we rely on the f line it is transforming travel we thank senator feinstein for her lunar new year. Thank you to her for connecting the designations and taking the pursue off the embarcadero and thank you to the sfmta for making that a reality and looking forward to the full 7 day service we urge the city and National Park service to move forward for fort mason our past leader was responsible for reviving the plan through the historic tunnel and saw the exhibitions were a natural fit with our restaurants and attractions we needed that extension soovrn and bend to having attractive streetcars to the Jerry Dell Square and the hiding and the muni pier and fort mason we hope youll all join in supporting it. Thank you. Thanks john and representing the southern end were pleased to be joined by katie the president of the rincon hill mission Bay Association shes been a unifying voice in government and other organizations to improve the quality of life many evenings down pier 40 where the group has its meetings and shes a great advocate and critic when need to be but a great partner in improving things in that part of town please join me in welcoming. Good morning neighbors i see a lot of the familiar faces im so excited to be here on behalf of the rincon Hill Association welcome to the e line finally weve been advocating for the e line for a number of years . A tree special day for us who live here thank you, mayor ed lee and director reiskin and rick and bruce of Market Street railway our eastern neighborhoods if youre not familiar going set were the most dynamic part of the city were adding residents and businesses every single day but the option in transportation have not kept pace were happy to have the e line but now now we need to look at the future and make sure that the e line gets extended to fort mason and the dog patch thank you. clapping well thank you. I want to close by anglo the many people within the sfmta who have been working not only to make this event and day happen but the e line up and happening john halley our transit dork and his staff lee and julie and others our communication director candice sue who is responsible and thank you to the riders that know how to use the e line and were joined by our rail director the difficult task of getting people from safety and a lot of folks working together to make that happen so thanks everybody 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow well start our weekend 10 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. If this point forward and next year extending 7 day service so well really excited to be at this milestone and thanks everyone to be coming out well cut a ribbon and Service Starts tomorrow morning thank you. Also want to acknowledge one last time our board chair bruce is serving the city on jury duty it is all for him he played a huge well role we all appreciate it. Hold this with one hand 1, 2,