Your time is up. Your time is up, sir,. Sir, sir,. [speaking spanish] your time is up. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Are you going to translate . Yes, i am. My name is louise who is a family man, a mayan indigenous man being murdered of the San FranciscoPolice Department april 7th, 2016. The names of those officers are nate steger and Michael Malone. Our family has looked fought for all legal means to demand consequences for those officers and so far we have been ignored which has deepened our trauma and despair. At the end of june, my family and i learned from a newspaper story that the department of Police Accountability found the says that subjects broke s. Fpd policies that are there to protect citizens from police abuses. Imagine our surprise and hope to learn that there will be consequences, but it means the d. P. A. Is a brief and temporary discussion for each one. We also understand the chief of police can ignore this recommendation. More importantly, my family and i believe that we can raise the bar and Police Accountability and fulfil a longstanding demand of communities of colour in San Francisco. That is why i speak before you today to employ you to take your duties seriously and defend the fulfilment of the policies that you approved to safeguard life. How is it possible that the only consequence for these two policeman for violating the law and killing my cousin is a simple suspension. Enough easy enough. Fulfil your duty and order that these irresponsible men be fired if you refuse every once and for all that you are a commission that does not take itself seriously and that you are really there to ensure the murder of incident sit ins go unpunished forever. I think this was general public. General Public Comment. I dont think this relates to something that we address. Next speaker, please. This is on items iiia through 3d a response for the d. P. A. Report that is also about louise by murdering this individual, less than 36 after they arrival at the scene, the officer Michael Malone and the sergeant showed blatant wrist does disregard of the life, date blatant bliss regard to the basic and simple rules of the use of force policies. Time and distance. Callous disregard for the suffering of the family and community. They should be held accountable for your restless acts of violence. I am asking that Michael Malone and Nathaniel Steger be fired because they are a threat to the public, especially to people of colour. As a nurse armed with only a stethoscope, i have had training in deescalation and always use those techniques with the commitment to do no harm. Michael malone and Nathaniel Steger had crisis intervention and other trainings as s. Fpd hammered home the basic principles of time, distance and establishing rapport in a crisis since 2,011. They have violated every basic principle and killed a loving and generous father, son, brother, cousin, friend, someone who was particularly vulnerable because he was homeless after an eviction. There has been known just as already for family or for any of the families for Police Violence in San Francisco. The very least that San Francisco can do is take away their weapons and fire them from their jobs. Thank you. Thank you. Next. This is regarding the d. P. A. Report. The officers murdered them in 29 seconds. They should have been indicted and in jail, short of that they should now be fired. All of this talk of 21st century policing, deescalation and creating time and distance is meaningless and b. S. If theres not the wait of accountability and punishment behind it. The ultimate bad behavior by cops will not be curtailed otherwise. And the case suspension is a slap on the wrist it is disrespectful and unjust and they must be fired to send a message. [applause]. Any other Public Comment . Good evening, commissioners. I am an episcopal priest and i have lived and worked in the mission for many years with my family. I want to speak to the d. P. A. Report as well. As a gay man, i remember how i felt when i learned that dan white, after murdering harvey milk and the mayor would spend only a few short years in prison at that moment, the lives and struggles of gay people seat team trivialized. Deemed unimportant. But our pain could somehow be placated and brushed aside by giving dan white such a lenient sentence. Many of us feel that way today as we hear about the leniency shown to Jeffrey Epstein after all the lives he has destroyed and many of us feel that way hearing that the killers of this man may only receive a few weeks of time off for what they did. If this were simply an administrative concern, a failure by these officers to meet Certain Department standards or follow certain protocols not showing up for work, lets say are failing to submit the necessary reports, then an administrative moment and measure like this might make sense. But this is more of a failure to follow xmen and ministry have expectations, not just a management issue. It requires weightier consequences. Comanche life was taken. His wife and kids will have a hole in their hearts, the trauma of those bullets that riddled his body will now be theirs to live with for the rest of their lives and the Wider Community of the mission where i live which is no stranger to excessive use of police force. These two have been traumatized. It is not just rhetoric to say all our lives are still diminished by what these officers have done. None of us will ever be quite the same again. Please do not think of this as an administrative matter. It has profound human and moral implications and these must be considered in determining consequences. Time is up. Next speaker. I have a few of my own words to say in response to the department Department Police accountability agenda item. I am a 12 year resident of the mission district. I am a provider for the School District for Good SamaritanFamily Resource centre and the felt in statute. I have worked with the family in the past and there was they are respected members of the community. When i am doing my job, if i were, at any point to violate the policies of the organizations i worked for to the point to which it led to the death of one of the members of the communities i serve, i would no longer be working in any of those organizations or any organization of any Similar Organization in the city. The bay area, california, and probably anywhere. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. I also speak on behalf of justice for luis. He will recall that at the time that s. Of p. D. Rolled up and killed luis within 29 seconds of arriving on the scene, it was after the panel had been in panel to determine the depth of racism. After the shooting of mario woods, after the u. S. Department of justice was here investigating s. Fpd, there was so much heightened activism. I will never forget the january Police Commission meeting here in the tenderloin when the p. O. A. Showed up to show their defiance. They did not care. In front of their own commission , their own oversight, they have no respect for all of the communities that are engaged in activism. Your role as their oversight. You showed up with their guns, they will lead to their way to the front of the podium, and it was just unbelievable to me. That with that many layers of oversight that they would feel that they could just roll up on this man and kill him within 29 seconds of arriving on the scene who do they think they are . It is so important that we have accountability. We can have 272 recommendations, we can have the forward meeting, we can have all these different things. If there is no accountability when people defy these things, why are they going to stop defying it . I urge you to fire these officers, send a signal, assert myself. You are their oversight. They must respect to you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is chase, i am a candidate for San FranciscoDistrict Attorney. I want to take a moment to reflect on the fear that Police Officers may experience when responding to a 911 call about someone carrying a knife. The fear that they would understand and experience when they get out of their car and not knowing what they are confronting that they are any day on the job. They do far more in this city than the agency was designed to do, responding to a homelessness crisis, Mental Health crisis, and drug addiction crisis. It is because of those fears that would polite just provide the police with overprotection, funding, tools, man and woman power to do the job. It is because of that fear and the risk that officers face in the line of duty that we have rules to minimize the help of violence and loss of life. And those rules are essential, not just to protect people like him, but to also protect officers themselves from being hurt in the line of duty, to ensure that we have trust between the communities that officers swear to serve and protect and the Police Department. Trust that has been tremendously damaged by racism, by theft, by dishonesty and by murder that goes unpunished. It is essential for Public Safety that we have meaningful consequences for a Police Officers that failed to follow rules and regulations put in place for all of our safety. Thank you. Thank you. I just want to make one comment for the public so they understand think something. This commission does not have the authority to issue any penalty in a disciplinary matter that is greater then the penalty that is being sought for the charging agency. Were prohibited by law from issuing a greater penalty in the penalty that is sought here. I just think that is important for you to know. Next item. Line item four. Do you have Public Comments now . Correct. All right. Do you notice the disconnect between all of you and the public . Until the public started to speak, all of you were commending each other on everything that you have done and here is a family that is grieving. Here is a community that is afraid of their own Police Coming to speak to you and this idea that we cant talk about what the chief of police doesnt say or the d. P. A. Doesnt say, even though it is all over the press is absurd. That is why we can talk to it like the braking into the journalists house. That just disappeared. It was all over the media. Nobody says anything. All i hear is commendation. When are you going to call the Police Officers association on the carpet here and tell them to stop advising their officers to say they fear for their lives, to stop saying that the d. P. A. Wasnt brave like the District Attorney to not press charges . When is there going to be any accountability because when Police Officers can kill with impunity, no matter what you train them, they know they can do it and they come within 30 seconds and kill a human being who is no threat, no threat at all. I knife next to them. Many people have knives because there is no safety out there. There is no housing, there is no care. When will this change, one of the officers going to have to look in the eyes of the people, the families that are grieving, that they have killed . When there will be any Restorative Justice . We dont want the police in our community. We dont want to. We want to take care of ourselves. We dont want you to come and kill us. We are done with this. We dont want police at all. We dont want your guns, we dont want your beanbags, we dont want your tasers, none of this. Public comment is now closed. Next item. Line item four has been removed. Line item five, general Public Comment. The public his welcome to address the commission guarding items that do not appear in tonights agenda but what are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. They shall address the commission as a whole and not to individual personnel. They may provide a brief response to individual commissioners and police d. P. A. Personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comments. General Public Comment although i think we have had it, but we will have more. I have general Public Comment chiefs got, my name is ruben david goodman. I am a retiree of the San FranciscoAssessors Office. During my time in the Assessors Office they held him to be the elected assessor. I had the pleasure of helping him give the endorsement about various democratic clubs and voluntarily drove him around his lint lincoln continental. I like to dedicate my reports to richard. It was my pleasure to know him. He was a real gentleman, he did not last long as chief, unfortunately, but i think the assessor would have been a very secure job with a good paycheque , but he rose to take the challenge of police chief and unfortunately that did not last. I want to give regards to his exwife, elizabeth colton, and his children rj and ashley. The father was a great man. My mother was muriel schapiro, born february 26, 1920 in chicago, a nice jewish girl who sang italian opera. My father settled in india. [indiscernible] they risk their lives to form the c. I. O. My uncle, may he rest in peace, was known as the chicago kid. I have a brief poem that i dedicated to the men and women at the sfpd. And in love and memory of our fallen comrades. Ashes to ashes thank you. Your time is up. Can you submit the poem, if you would like . God bless the men and women of the sfpd. Next speaker, please. Hello, district 11. Usually i am more afraid of s. Of p. D. Today, weve got probably a poorly vetted and undertrained deputy over there who will interact with a member of the public in that fashion. I was very offended about that. There is an order that i know you take seriously. The website, lets talk about that real quick. Not surprising. We have infrastructure. It got shouted out a little early. There is the number of things. Yes, it needs some Quality Assurance work. Best thing you can do right now, it is not indexed, it is not indexed to internal or external search engines. You will do an old webpage. It will give you a 404 error. If anyone who does this that is a professional, it is the first thing you do. It is easy, it is a button. Maltres matrix staffing study , this will be a joke. They will come out and say, you need to bunch more. Because they will compare with all of the other Police Departments. Arent we better than that . Arent we betterthanaverage . Wont we figure out a way to fulfil the tasks, and get the ends that we seek as opposed to, hey, lets put more cops out there and give them every job that nobody else wants. That is not good for anybody. When they have too many of those things to do, then they are taxed then the tasks that do involve security and weaponry, then those are the things that they have less acumen at. I appreciate in the commissioner noting commissioner hammers work. I thought it was well presented. I think the commissioner was baiting these sometimes back when he has commended the commissioner. And said i was president , i let her do it with the train. Thank you. I dont thank you were being debated or any other Public Comments. Good evening. How many minutes . Two minutes. Can you start me over . Please. I would like to use the overhead. I am here concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006 next month will be his anniversary, august 14th. He was shot at 3 00 p. M. In broad daylight from a semi automatic gun, 30 rounds of bullets left. I am still coming here as usual every wednesday to bring awareness to my son and other children that are dying senselessly. You just got to talking about all the other homicides that recently happened. I said last time that i was here that homicides were going to happen again because here is the summer and they are happening. Three of them, one of the boyss family members are in our circle we are expecting them on this thursday coming up, the boys that were with the young boy. So we talk about families suffering. These families are suffering and we are talking about Police Killings. I just wish that the intention that they give to the Police Killings they give that same attention to the community violence, but it is not there and i dont know how to make it happen. But there is nothing i can do about it. I know that august 14th, i just want to let you guys know that my son did have a father. He was not a single son. He had two parents at home. This is what the perpetrators left me of my son. I see i show this because they want people to see what i am going through. Here are the perpetrators and the murderers of my son. They are walking the street to kill again. What do we do . I am asking for help. Thank you. You still have a quorum. Line item 9 whether to disclose discussion on item 8. Code section 67. 12a action. Is there a motion. So moved. Second. Is all in favor. Public comment . There is no public. All in favor. Opposed. I assume the motion was not to disclose. Yes, that was my motion. Line item 10 adjournment action item. All in favor. Aye. Public comment. Thank you. They tend to come up here and drive right up to the vehicle and in and out of their car and into the victims vehicle, i would say from 1015 seconds is all it takes to break into a car and theyre gone. Yeah, we get a lot of breakins in the area. We try to i just want to say goodbye. Thank you. Sometimes thats all it takes. I never leave anything in my car. We let them know theres been a lot of vehicle breakins in this area specifically, they target this area, rental cars or vehicles with visible items. This is just warning about vehicle breakins. Take a look at it. If we can get them to take it with them, take it out of the cars, it helps. 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. Cut. We are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. A place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and its beautiful and its been completely redone and been a Gathering Place for this community. I have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. That is not a joke. I live in an Apartment Building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. Let me tell you handout you how to build a community garden. You start with a really good idea and add Community Support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. This is great. Its about environment and stewardship. Its also for the we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. That is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. I dont know how they do it. There is acres and acres of parkland throughout golden gate park, but not necessarily through Golden Community garden. We have it right in the meeting will come to order. Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the thursday, july 11th meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. I am supervisor gordon marjoined by supervisor brown and peskin. We are also joined by supervisor fewer who is here to speak on the first item today. Thank you to the committee clerk, john carroll and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Those standing with no seat you need to go to the overflow room, the main Board Chambers across the hall. You can watch the meeting from there and also come over to speak when you have a opportunity to speak during Public Comment. It will be open in a few minutes. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk mplease silence cell phones and have your speaker cards to the clerk. Items today will be on the july 23rd meeting. We have over flow seating arranged for the Board Chamber room 250. This room we may not have anyone standing and present in the room. If you are standing please move to the Board Chamber. Chair mar thank you. Before we begin i want to thank the members of the public who have joined us today. We have four important items before us, and Community Members here to speak on each one of them. We also have a very limited window of time to move through these items. We lose quorum at 5 00 p. M. Please keep time constraints in mind when giving comment. To ensure every item will be heard today we will enforce strict time limits. Members of the public have one minute for comment on items today. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. Clerk ordinance to create an office of Racial Equity as division of the Human Rights Commission with authority to create a city wide Racial Equity framework and action plans, analyze and report on the impact of ordinances and care reit out various other policy and reporting functions. To provide annual updates on the plans, to require city departments to designate employees as Racial Equity leaders and to require the department of Human Resources to produce an annual report concerning the Racial Equity in the city work force. Supervisor brown. I am excited to address Racial Disparity in San Francisco and move with the First Ever Office of Racial Equity. I want to thank my fellow sponsors superis visor fewer and her aid and my aid for your hard work and digging in the weeds to bring this forward. I thank the commission of human rights and the director davis for working with us every step of the way and thank you to the hr staff. We appreciate your work. Our office has worked with dozens of Community Members, labor and nobod nonprofit to cop with a accountable way to address systematic racism. I want to thank the Community Special thanks to the community that have met with our offices, all three offices. Myself, supervisor fewer, hrc office to really work with us to get this right. It is not easy. It wasnt easy, but we are here today. I will start by making an important distinction to ground this conversation. Equality means treating everyone the same. Equity means ensuring everyone has what they need to be successful. Here in San Francisco, we need to fight for equity. For over two centuries our black, latin x and native american and asian and Pacific Island communities have not had what they needed to be successful. This is not accidental or mistake. This is a structural and institutional racism in housing, education, employment, healthcare, causing real racial harm. By harm i just dont mean our feelings are hurt or trauma. I mean devastating impact on community of color. Ongoing segregation and displacement, Voter Suppression and lack of representation, Bad Health Outcomes and Educational Achievement gaps and mass incarceration. Lastly, this inequity is deeply rooted in the land we stand on. This land we stand on. Throughout this country and including california, it has had a violent history with native and Indigenous Community including genocide, loss of land. This history was made possible by the states laws and polici policies. This city was built on that history and those policies. For years, the city we have done reports, we have had working groups, commissions and policies to try to address this harm. We have made some strides. It really is not enough. We o an incredible owe a debt to the black, native american and asian and Pacific Island communities that built and sustained the city. No single policy is going to undo this harm. My hope is that we can Work Together to take the first step. Now, i want to hand this off to supervisor fewer for her comments. We will also hear from the Human Rights Commissioner director cheryl davis as well and then i will read the amendments to the legislation before supervisor comment. Supervisor fewer i think this legislation establishing an office of Racial Equity in San Francisco is one of the most important pieces of policy i have introduced. As a chinese American Woman raised in San Francisco i can attest to the discrimination. As director of organizing children and youth i bore witnesses to the painful experiences with interpersonal racism in the schools and Housing Market and Justice System and Health Care System and more. These are emotionally painful and leading to barriers in ability for residents of color. This country has a long history of Racial Injustice. Beginning with enslavement of africanamericans. Ristor rick race historic discrimination like obstacles from chinese residents to own businesses and red lining and destruction of black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal. Now Racial Injustice is not ex clusnary but inaction of the government to correct past harms. It is more dangerous and harder to address. We now see incredible Racial Disparities in areas of life impacting the black residents of San Francisco but la latin communities. In 2016 the black income was 46 thousands for latin x it was 70,000 in comparison to 107,000 for white households. We see the children in San Francisco in the over representation of children of color in poverty and African People homeless. We see it in the black city workers who come forwar forwardo eliminate the discrimination. We need to take responsibility for these disparities not only collect and analyze the day take but close the gaps and hold ourselves accountable. We know this is not a silver bullet. We know we will not be able to immediately address the Racial Disparities over the course of generations across San Francisco. This is a critical step to take and acknowledge the history and current communities to address those conditions. As legislator this is a tool to request a racial Impact Analysis before i vote on legislation is not only helpful and informative. It is imperative if you want everyone in San Francisco to succeed. I thank supervisor brown and her aid and big thanks to Human Rights Commission cheryl davis and hrc staff who were critical in the drafting process. Supervisor brown and i have worked to make sure this legislation is real and not just in name only. To this end we center also worked on amendments that supervisor brown will review to ensure we have the feedback of the community as well as departments and city employees. Thanks to the stakeholders who emailed or called with feedback and thanks to members of the public today. I want to recognize my staff chelsea for her hard work. Before i was even elected and while we were running this is a dream of both chelsea and mine to start this office. We have worked together. I was shocked when i came to City Government when from wasnt a racial analysis given with other reports. Race wasnt a factor in determining many decisions and primarily that was up to the board of supervisors. I think this is lacking in the City Government. I think it is way beyond time we have done that. I am shocked that San Francisco the self proclaimed most progressive city in the United States would not have an office of Racial Equity. Thank you very much today for coming out. Thank you to my partner here, and now, i will hand it over to you. Thank you. Thank you. Director davis could you please come up with the presentation. Thank you for this opportunity. I am cheryl davis. I am the director of Human Rights Commission. You know, as we go through the process there are a couple of things i want to say before i get to like my formal words. I am grateful for this, but to supervisor viewers point a lot of people are working on this over the years. I think i would be remiss if i didnt acknowledge that i feel supervisor brown when you were alleging this is a conversation we had with supervisor breed. What is sad i dont think that the two africanamerican women on the board would have been able to push this forward. I think that in some ways if they had led the Initiative People would have seen it as selfserving and not able to hear what they were saying. I think that when we talk about racism and talk about disparities and the issues and challenges, it is hard to also admit i love to share the story i visited the lighthouse for the blind onetime with a group of young people. They asked one of the women what it was like to be blind. She said i have not been blind all my life, i have been black and black is harder. I just want as we do this to understand, yes, we are building this office of Racial Equity for everyone. To understand from the numbers and statistics that we see. We know there is one group worse off. That is not to say we dont need to be and i dont want to say equal. We dont need to be fair in how we do this. I am grateful the office is created. I am grateful for the leadership that pushed this through and the conversation you have had that have been difficult to have. I am grateful for the opportunity to have it fit in the hrc. I am by no means perfect and am flawed as we all are as people. I am glad in the hrc in the three yea years i have been thet is the sense that i only care about black people which is not the case. The fact you would put it there without fear it is focused only on black people i am grateful. Also, the knowledge that you understand we know where the greatest disparities are and as we roll this out we have to go in this work with that lens. Racism is a distinct form of discrimination that has lived daily and the experience across the nation. What i am grateful for is that this office signals San Francisco is coming to the reality San Francisco is not beyond racism. It lives and exists here. We need a mechanism to hold people accountable to that reality. Decades of not only failing to address but i would argue in most instances worse senning social inequality through systems through leadership and it has resulted in disproportionate Health Outcomes and unnecessary interactions with Justice Systems and lower wappings and homeless necessary for communities of colors. I see the goal a few key things. Acknowledging the rolling that institutional racism has had on our city. I would drill down institutions are made of people. One of the things that we continue to believe that because San Francisco is progressive is that it is not racist. I would argue it is far more racist than we see in Southern States because we hide behind the shield of progressive and behind the shield of liberal and in many communities they believe liberal and progressive is the same as racist. I want to own and understand whether we believe that, the perception of that reality. This acknowledges that. I am happy reof w rewe are goino consider the city budget are contributing to disparities and racism. Collecting data where it is important as this legislation moves forward the board and Mayors Office understanding the hrc does not have power or ability to do anything. If you do not stand by what gets put forward it will be the same. I do not want the hrc or staff responsible for sharing the policies or budgets are racist and you dont respond or react to them. The other piece is looking at the city as an employer. I think for me one of the challenges is the city as an employee and the folks who work for the city and county. The subcontracts the city has and folks are getting grants or doing work and perpetuating the disparities. Understanding the role the millions of dollars is city puts out contribute to and sometimes worsen those disparities. At the moment the city is going i am grateful for the bold leadership and political investment. I wonder if the folks moving this forward look differently if we have the same support and movement. This is not a silver bullet. There will be tough conversations and angry people all along the way. Part of this is giving people that are angry and frustrated a space to say what they want to say and to be heard and not just to be heard but have it acted on. That is requiring we put money where our mouth is. The Human Rights Commission is founded in 1964, 55 years ago. The same year the Civil Rights Act was signed. In San Francisco is hrc was founded to address antiblackness. I have been challenged by many people we have gotten away from that. That is still the heart and core of what we realize and see. We want to work on that. As the city has grown and challenges have changed. One fact is that antiblackness is still felt strongly in the city. As we do this work, we acwilling the office of Racial Equity is meant to address racial inequities across the board. Lastly, we have grown in mandate to fight discrimination in the many forms it takes. This office formizes some of the work we have been doing. Remove the discretion of city departments and requiring they share plans for improvement. Them sharing the plans alone is not enough without the will and power of the board and Mayors Office to hold people accountable. If there are instances where things keep happening that the board can make decisions to impact budges and play it out financially. Grateful for the work. Acknowledge it is difficult to move forward and hope we all recognize that there are pockets of people who have been impacted more often and higher levels than others. We cant sweep that under the rug. Thank you. [applause. ] thank you, director davis. What this legislation does, this ordinance will advance city wide agenda for Racial Equity through creation of office of Racial Equity within the Human Rights Commission. For those interested, we provided copies of the amendments for everyones preview. I will review the amendments for generally. This legislation the following is the accomplishments. We have updated findings and definition section to be more inclusive about the history of Structural Racism and more data on the impact of this history. It will mandate Racial Equity action plans for city departments and annual reporting about both city workers and contracts. It mandates a report card every two years on how San Francisco as a whole is doing with regards to indicators by race including housing, income, wealth, transit, health, environment and policing and criminal justice. The report card will be on the progress in City Government and private sector. It creates a Racial Equity policy analysis tool to be applied to legislation at the board of supervisors to illuminate the impact of policies on communities of color and force a public discussion about such impact. Our amendments create greater accountability and transparent to make sure the city departments are providing for Public Access to any plans. It designates at least one staff person to seven as Racial Equity leader by Department Division to coordinate the Racial Equity strategy, action plan and program. We also clarify to make sure this responsibility is not in addition to existing duties without adjustments of work responsibility and added a clausclause to prevent be retaliation. The board of supervisors can remember hiring freezes should certain amounts not be met. Annual data by work force including hires, promotions, disciplinary action and complaints and if they investigated and more. It mandates reporting on data regarding the contracts by race. Lastly, to mandate creation of Racial Equity to oversee the work and we clarified the role within the Human Rights Commission. We amended the legislation to allow the controller to make independent review of this office in five years to determine its capacity for growth. I would love to go to Public Comment now. Chair mar before Public Comment. Do any of my other colleagues have questions or comments . I did want to express my thanks to supervisor few errand brown and the aids for the time, work and consideration you have put into this very thoughtful and impactful system. These are not artifacts of the past but live on with us today. I am impressed with the scope and substance of the proposal and happy to support it today. Zoie had just a small presentation before Public Comment. Good afternoon, supervisor. I am the Department Director and city wide lead for Racial Equity initiative. As you may know San Francisco is a proud participant. This is a National Network of state governments working to achieve opportunities for all. The Public Utilities commission and Planning Commission we are now part of 150 cities and 30 30 states. We have worked with 25 city departments to recognize that racial inequity exists across all indicators, education, criminal justice, jobs, Public Infrastructure and health. Hrc supports employees and implementation of action plans and advices departments how to address the racial equities. In addition we offer training on structural and institutional racism in the city. We have trained 500 city employees. There is a city wide hunger to achieve Racial Equity. The history of this city the war on drugs, school expulsions, public art and foreclosure demand action. There is a strong need for institutional systems designed to disrupt the programs and practices. I am grateful to supervisors fewer and brown for creating the office. This puts in place for the work scaled up for the communities of color those include one integration. This requires departments to create action plans to ensure the equity is throughout the department. Employees who consulted with the Human Rights Commission have served as the need to support the work and this provides that. Infrastructure. We appreciate this needs the leader and support systems. This not only puts departments in the best place for areas and models the trend in the private sector. Finally, uttil option utilizatif data. This will require the assessment on the communities of color. Wellintentioned laws and policies have a detrimental impact. This will ensure the outcomes the community needs. Thank you to director davis for ongoing support of this initiative. Chair mar we are going to move to Public Comment. I have 40 speaker cards. There is a lot of interest in speaking. Again, speakers i will call the speaker cards. When you hear your name, please step up to the side of the room. Speakers have one minute. State first and last name and speak into the microphone. Those presenting written statements are encouraged to leave a copy for inclusion in the official file. No applause or boos is permitted. Avoid repetition. First group. Cheryl shorn eve gus, larry, cr. Please step up. Get in line and do you want to be the first speaker . Hi. I am brenda barrels. I work at the San Francisco general. I am so happy about this. I know it is not perfect. I know it is going to be a work in progress. I think it is progress. To attest to that, you know, our Human Resources director and me are both here to agree about this. We have done a lot of work at San Francisco general. It has not gone all the way through the department of public health. I hope this will help us to move it even further