We heard from the sheriff there arent any alternatives except to send people out of county and thats not true. Theres a peoples vision to closing a 50 bryant and we will be going over that right now. And just a little bit of background, we are Community Organization and Community Members, folk whos are formally incarcerated people who sense 2015 hav2015 who have been calln the city of San Francisco to shut down at 50 bryant immediately. We represent more than 80 organizations and institutions that have united to demand the city take immediate steps to close a50 bryant. 850 bryant. At the core, its not just about closing but counseling the jailing in San Francisco by addressing the problem at its root through housing, Mental Health care and decriminalization. So first, we want to be responding to the mayors proposal to close 80 bryant and we appreciate this and were excited about the mayors investment in pretrial division. But there are a few aspects of the proposal that we are rejecting as a coalition, to wait to close until june of 2021. And also to construct a new jail in 2029. We cannot delay the jail by two years. We know that since 1996, its been deemed a seismic threat and over 300 people will be in serious danger. It needs to be closed now and we cannot be expanding jail beds. Were rejecting the proposal to place Mental Health beds in a Law Enforcement jail setting rather than in the community. We know that Mental Health services and Law Enforcement is dangerous for those seeking Mental Health treatment. In the past, the Previous Police killings in San Francisco involved people who are unhoused, as well as people with Mental Health conditions. We are rejecting her use of 400 million from a capital plan than investing of what we know the Community Needs which is housing and healthcare. We are also this plan leaves open the option as they were saying earlier santa rita is one of the most dangerous places in alamena counties surrounding deaths, sleep deprivation and suicide. The Sheriffs Office supports ice to arrest immigrants when leaving jail custody and this also makes visitation difficult for when family and loved ones want to be visiting folks. It leaves open the option for expanding jail beds in san bruno and we can successfully reduce the jail population and we dont need more beds. Today we are asking you to close 850 bryant through reducing the population to commit to nonew jail construction and reject transfers out of county. Again, diverse stakeholders have developed a plan to close the jail and its been deemed seismically unsafe over the past five years and there have been a dozen concerning the safety of the jail and the work group to reenvision publics the deficient jails three and four without a new jail. There were 72 recollections out of that work group, many of which have not been implemented due to budgetary needs and a lack of commitment by the city and a lack of oversight and accountability for this process. What were talking about closing 850 bryant, its not about Public Safety but a lack of accountability from the city to close this jail. Im Angela Jenkin jenkins ane by the group called interrupts racial profiling. Ill introduce a term that we would say is in the dialogue or encyclopedia and this is when something has someone against an individual and they use the police to launch their own effort against them. Its a false report. Currently, San Francisco is looking into changing its poli policy. Its my belief it doesnt seem to be going on in this. The San Franciscos general orders allows for people to be biaseddebiased. It doesnt look into not liking someone because theyre white, because they just dont like them in their neighborhood. They will then phone the police and instead of doing whats righteous saying its a lowlevel climb, they will escalate and say that individual has a weapon. That individual has a knife and this, in turn, can lead to greater citations, Greater Police force. A little bit that i understand about the healthy streets operation center, it was designed to lead by services, not to lead with an armed response which someone who uses biased by proxy can evoke when they escalate something without real data. I do recommend and believe in Going Forward the city itself is going to look into doing ordinances similar to whats done in state of oregon when a 911 call is used irresponsibly and i hope the city brings out ordinances, possibly through rsfpd are here itself to sanction this type of behaviour where someone is misusing services and escalating things unnecessarily. And we see a lot of biased buy proxy from two of our most vulnerable populations, those sleeping on the streets of San Francisco and those with Mental Health conditions. Housing and Mental Health are two huge topics, all of the time, but particularly at this point in time in our city and we know that jailing is not the answer to either homelessness or mental illness. Statistically, 40 of folks are homeless at the time of arrest and 36 are people with a serious mental illness. That means 850 bryant is the largest homeless shelter in the city and the largest place that people are getting Behavioral Health services. We also know that with every engine pangs oexpansion of polie streets, we have seen a rising in jailing. There have been a number from 20 to 40 . In that same period of time, there has also been a doubling of the number of Police Officers that are assigned to homelessness. That statistics is no coincidence. We are seeing doubling of the rising of Homeless People in the jail because of the number of Police Officers that are quote, unquote, addressing homelessness. Not that people are doing more crime but they are being assigned criminality. And so, there must be an investment in permanent affordable hodding and Behavioral Healthcare instead of criminalizing these populations. Lets talking about a way to shut it down in a way thats dignified to the community. Close 850 bryant without increased electronic monitoring and without moving incarcerated individuals to other counties. As we saw with the strong commitment to close the juvenile Justice Center, it is possible to close 8 850 bryant. So we want to create eligibility for an appeal that occurs for a fraction of the cost and 93 of the people are, again pretrial and to expand Behavioral Health service. We know at the root we need to be giving People Housing and the services that they need. Number four bee to work towards eliminating bail so that people are not locked up for not being able to afford a way out. The decision and other bail reforms should result in people being released pretrial and we shouldnt before understanding that impact and to end the enforcement of life citations. There are over 26 homeless laws on the books that criminalize Homeless People for existing in public space and several of those quality of life laws are misdemeanors and lead to peoples arrest, for example, the tent ban and illegal lodging. So in closing, we are asking you to make a commitment towards actions that closes the jail through reduction of the number of people in it and without expanding any beds. Thank you so much. Thank you for that presentation and for all of your advocacy and leadership. I would like to open it up for public comment. I know many people have been waiting for a long time, if thats ok with you all. Before folks get up. One have cards. So ill call cards for the folks who submitted them and if there are other people who want to speak, they are welcome to. And ill sort of reiterate the speakers have two minutes. We ask you state your first and last name clearly and speak into the microphone. If you have a written state, leave it with our files. You have to avoid repetition of the previous statements. Sucati shaw, sarah lee, jordan davis, roma guy, alexander post, Steven Naylor, Courtney Hansen, diana black, jose bernall, megan swartz and if folks could line up at the right side of the chamber from your perspective. Megan swartz, carrie lambrecht, marty jay. Weve been doing this for a long time and we think the new supervisors who are joining in in. Roma guy from taxpayers and were a member of the new jail coalition. So one of the surprises of today, and not to repeat what everyone else said is this renewed polarization from 2015. So i just want to point out that some of the alternatives like pretrial or whatever have really been effective. One that wasnt effective was one of the partners who should be here who isnt here today is the police. Because they do the arrests. And so, you know, theyre really important in this on whats going to happen in terms of what your decisions are and what policies have to be developed so they arent the front line of alternatives and or incarceration. This is a key element that hasnt been brought up today and i think its true. The other thing is that you well know is one of the failures of the jail replacement projects for which i was a cochair with the sheriff and department of Public Health, barbara garcia. So when we made a unanimous decision which you agree to that we would develop an alternative around the seriously mentally ill, with a bond, a health bond, that bond investment has disappeared. At least to the knowledge that we know of. And so, the renovations at San Francisco general is for the expansion of the Navigation Center which we agreed to, but now, the Navigation Centers dont include people released from the jail. All of that has disappeared. We need thank you. Next speaker. Santa rita is in an egregious place. Now in the last five years in alameda county, there have been 43 in custody that we know of and 30 plus women in the last four years that have come forward with lawsuits alleging abuse, neglect and all kinds of horrific stories coming out of there. So if you want to talk about any transfers, the transfers need to be transfers from 850 back into the community. We should be talking about transfers into Sustainable Living wage jobs, into housing and into opportunities that make our Community Grow and make our community safe. The other point that i want to get across is, as a San Francisco resident and someone who spent a significant amount of time at 8 850 bryant, im tid of hearing this. Ive been hearing this my entire life, since the closure of 850. Weve heard enough and enough talking. You cant incarcerate the population. If your own family was there, think about your brother, sister, mother, this would have gotten done already. So weve talked about this long enough and time to put real weight, teeth and real legislation. The community has come forward and offered those solutions. So its not like were talking snag istalkingabout quote, unqus spirational. Im megan swartz a member of the coalition in conjunction with jose. Its shocking that were talking about a facility. Deemed uninhabitable for human beings and it is still open after years and years of knowing this. You could move all of the people out of there and be done with this. Thats first of all. With respect to alameda county, you should be in no way be considering transfers to santa rita jail. The place is an inimaginable house of horrors. Our coalition has uncovered so many egregious violations, 43 deaths that we know of, in addition to the fact sheriff ahern is known to cooperate with ice and allow ice into his jails and numerous human rights abuses documented through lawsuits after lawsuits, millions of dollars in settlements, is that something that San Francisco wants to get involved in . I should certainly hope not. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Im sarah lee with the Free Sf Coalition and this is my colleague, kotia. Well have two minutes for each of you to speak but you will not be sharing the two minutes. Two minutes with one didnt then the other. Ok, great. Ok, please start. For both of us, were proud of the Free Sf Coalition advocating for pro immigrant policies in San Francisco including the tree ordinance and we wanted to share the immigrant rights site is the site to close down 850 bryant and completely together, because i think, as many people have said, that the idea to transfer people out of county, completely endangers the it community. Immigrant community. Last year alone, the Sheriffs Office turned over 102 immigrants to ice and this is one of the highest in all of the counties in california. So we wanted to make sure thats clear and that endangers and exposed immigrants to his policies with ice. Thank you. Im a expect rights director. Our organization was a part of the Free Sf Coalition and the coalition that passed legislation in 2013 and in 2016. And this legislation actually is stronger than the california one to protect the immigrant families and individuals in our city. Sheriff ahern has a way to collude with ice despite california sanctuary law. He persists in allowing ice officers into nonpublic areas of the jail, as well as transferring people who are detained. So you cant send any people to santa rita jail because this would violate due process legislations, the legislations that were passed by this board of supervisors. So you need to make sure that when closing 850 bryant which should happen immediately, immigrants are protected. Sheriff ahern is not someone to trust with immigrant communities or anyone, actually. And so if you are going to be transferring people, again, transfer them back to our communities, not into ice custody, not into another Sheriffs Department that is going to violate the rights or kill them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is tacati shaw and im an organizer with a project of Legal Services for prisoners. My deepest concern is that each of you sitting here, if im not mistaken, got here through being appointed as an officer or something of the such, correct . Youre voted in. It is our responsibility as voters to make sure that we Pay Attention to the things that you as Public Servants are not doing. 850 bryant should have been closed a long time ago because if you did have oh, say, me who owned a house and seismically my house is not up to par, you would have condemned my home and not given me a penny. So my question to you is, and im sure i wont get an answer, how are you sleeping at night knowing that the blood will be required at your hands for anyone who possibly dies because of an earthquake which could happen at any moment . The next step is homelessness. Homelessness is the greatest factor for prison. Most people who go to prison, including myself, homelessness, homelessness, homelessness leads to Mental Health and all kinds of certain things. I heard the supervisors say someone in her area was robbed homelessness, change that and recycle that and reuse it for a homelessness center and i bet you crime will go down. Great day. Thank you, next speaker. I remember in 1978, i was housed in Santa Clara County and they had me sleeping on the floor and had a contract with San Francisco and sent us to san bruno and you be creating safety issues for other people, bringing them from one county to another. I think the money should be spent to more resources, to educate people coming back into the community so they dont be a recidivist. Like i said, transferring people from one county to another, that wont solve the problem. We need to try to reduce the jail population and come up with other alternatives and it wouldnt be crowded in the first place. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Im alexander post, with the democratic socialists of network of the nonew jails. I work on behalf of people sentenced to death, challenging their sentences from inside san quentin and i bring that up because my client stories are similar, growing up in poverty, abused as children, with families unequipped to help, bad schools overwhelmed teachers and no councillors and learning disabilities and kids get punished for acting out, end up in juvenile hall. They are treated harshly, they lash out and suffer harm. Maybe you can understand when i hear were considering a plan to improve Public Safety by building a new jail whether its called new justice jail or whatever, that sounds absurd. I am willing to bet or residents serve less jail time than people in other districts. Is that because were better people than district 10 . I dont think so. Its because were whiting and d riching and the city serves us better. We have good housing, good schools, good healthcare, including Mental Health, good parks, Street Lighting and the system works for us, basically. Thats Public Safety. We dont need the threat of cages to act lawfulfully because the system is working for us. Dont double down on 19t 19th Century Solutions rooted in racism. It wont include Public Safety. We know what works, its investing in communities. Maybe the system work not just for us but everything. Thank you, next speaker. My name is Steven Naylor and the city has fallen so far short for providing the basic services and care that the People Living here need to survive and the reason that we cant see this is because our most Vulnerable People are locked away, out of sight, trapped in endless pretrial processes and on account of laws and enforcement policies that make it a crime to be in public while poor. Incarceration invisiblizes the scopech our cityscope of our cd will be true in a crumbmy building or shiny new one. The hard work of solving social problems has been outsourced as a default by the police and jail system for far too long and you must not allow that to continue any longer. Thank you, next speaker. Hello. My name is carrie lambrecht. Im a paralegal and investigator. Ive been working on the cases against santa rita jail for conditions, including the morbochr case and upshaw case on sleep deprivations. This is not something you want to send people to. As a resident of 25 years to the city, this is not an approach you should consider in any way whatsoever. I am echoing the former speakers around the death rate which was reported by fox news on october 1st, as being within of the highest in th county jaif its size. The cases inside i am investigating, women who have lost their babies, deaths, a woman who gave birth in an isolation cell alone without any medical support in santa rita jail. These types of conditions are not anything that i think we need to be considering sending more people to and i think that we need to consider what many of the speakers today have outlined as nonew jail and we need more resources for people to remain in the Community Without monitoring and we also need more Treatment Options which i dont think have been outlined or presented today. So thats what i would like to have you steer your attention towards and i am strongly in favour of you not considering santa rita jail as a direction you want to move in, thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Courtney Hansen and im a member of the coalition for women prisoners and we have worked with women, trans and conforming for many years. As weve been discussing, a truly number of people we have worked with, over 80 are incarcerated before trial and stuck there for months and years. We cannot reiterate the pretrial point as much. These folks should not be touching a precarc system, period. That does include, electronic, shackles and ankles. We learned how making this finding jobs impossible, not to mention the stress of trying to care for your child with a shackle on your leg. Im speaking of someone who has experienced house arrest, and incarceration is not an alternative. It is shocking and unacceptable that San Francisco has increased the use of electronic monitoring by 300 since 2018 while the jail population has also increased and while crime rates have stayed stagnant. There are nonprofits that can be utilized in this community that have the skills and are the experts like own recognizance project is secondlook program. And it is possible to deincarcerate all people at bryant without tro transfers and someone locked in santa rita, that is an extremely, dark and dramatic place. Im worked up just hearing people talk about it. And to supervisor stephanie, i understand where youre coming from, but we know for a fact that cops in jails do not prevent innerpersonal harm but exacerbate harm. He do not stop instances from happening and they dont create healing and solutions after they occur. Its an illusion. Thank you, next speaker. Hello, board. So the jail at 850 bryant is falling apart and needs to be closed. The building is parke marked for demolition since 1996. To illustrate that, ill bring in people weve been communicating inside the jails. please stand by . We have people incarser rated. The worst thing i would want for anything to make the situation of my people worse. I dont know if closing 850 bryant down will make it harder for a mother to have access to her child that is incarcerated, right . I want to make one thing clear, too. You know, people talk about the criminal element. I dont like it either. I am black. Blacks dont get along with the killers any better either, right . I am on the fence until i find out more information. We need more talks between the city officials, the community, and the people that is working for the solution. It is an opportunity for that engagement because they are civil servants. We need that connection between the people and civil service. What they did right here is a good example of community interaction. The people need to grab the power back. I am not sure if this is the correct lane. I am on the fence with that. Thank you. Next speaker. In regards to the population in the jail. The sheriff wants to be a bag matest. You have heard the pragmatist. 111 people have been granted release regardless of charges. If they could afford 500,000 bond. We need to talk about those. 40 of the people in the jail are house less, 46 are black. Again, why are the conditions of policing and jailing and lack of Mental Healthcare causing those populations to be targeted. Lets address the root causes, lets not transfer. We have a plan with 72 recommendations. I will read a couple. Create cooperative custody for those homeless but do not need residential treatment. 73 approval. In bed wraparound services. 85 approval. Increase housing capacity for shelter, 92 approval. Create small residential behavioral based centers. 92 jrp approval. What only had 27 jrp approval was the new jail. Only 4 approval sending people outofcounty to alameda county. Today we have heard a lot, and you have talked about this. There are 14 hearings in regards to the jail. We all know the jail needs to close. You are admitted to that. We ask for a commitment to today to take action on that. Thank you. Next speaker. I am shirley leslie, part of the no new sf jail coalition. I have listened for four years. I have been faced with the reality the city has wasted too much by criminalized the most vulnerable and i believe that 850 bryant embodies that. The jail system criminallises the poor, unhoused, people of color and people who need mental and Behavioral Healthcare. The conditions inside 850 and for loved ones visiting are dehumanizing with violence and fear. This jail population must be reduced and this facility must be closed immediately with no offshoots. We reject relocation, expansion of electronic monitoring, renovation or creating a justice campus. Invest in open Community Run programs, invest in Supportive Housing, support and invest in people. Thank you. Next speaker. I am an immigrant Youth Community organizer with just cause. We know incarceration is not the answer to healing communities. We see the San Francisco jail system representing economic disparities. Weep need to invest in community resources, not jails. I would like to address the proposals for outofcounty transfers, specifically in reference to santa rita jail. They are not ideal. This are unacceptable. The board of supervisors passed legislation to protect immigrant families and individuals. The sheriff has found ways to continue to colluding with ice despite the california values act. He continues to allow ice in nonpublic areas and publishes release dates of prisoners online to enable ice to detain undocumented prisoners upon release. You cant send people to santa rita jail. 850 bryant must be closed the sheriff has over seen the Sheriffs Office for 13 years. In the past five years there are 43 in custody deaths. According to data from the california attorne attorney gen were awaiting trial. The death rate in santa rita is 50 higher than lr county and they are the largest jailer. This is an extreme Public Health issue. We cannot send people where they will die. We ask for pretrial diversion and exhaust all avenues for release rather than incarceration. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I work with Community Housing partnership. I want to thank you for having this hearing today. The issue today is about safety and how it has been talked about today. Everyone agrees we want a safe San Francisco, but the question is safe for who . Our communities are not just made of people who have never been to jail. Incarcerated people need safety, too. We have had so many hearings expressing the need to divert people from jail. The effectiveness by not jailing people and creative alternatives to jail. I was two years old when the steep started speaking about closing 850 bryant. Here we are today. Today the public is in a different place around the failure of the criminal Justice System and we cant log people up more to uphold justice. It is about adequate housing, it is about providing people with behavioral treatment access, justice is about stopping criminalization of the poor. I am happy to have this hearing about Public Safety. Incarcerated people are part of the public. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am joyce. I am a member with senior and disability action. I am here also today to urge you to close 850 bryant immediately. Not to build a replacement jail and not to vote for a plan to rely on electronic monitoring or transferring detainees to santa rita jail. People with disabilities are harmed by the criminal legal system at every step in intersections with the police, local jails and in prisons. More than 50 of People Killed by police have a Mental Health disability. The more beds to fill the more people will be shot by Law Enforcement before they go to jail. 70 of the people in homeless shelters are disabled and using drugs, which are the only medication. They are denied medical care to worsen their health and Mental Health conditions. The top cause of death in jails is suicide. Many of the disabled people in jail are awaiting transfer to the overcrowded hospital. We formed the voluntary First Coalition to expand conservatorships to lead to Police Intervention for disabled people. We oppose Behavioral Health, judging by the conservatorship five to 10 years. Even then there will be no housing for Outpatient Services to transition into. We approach the Justice Center for the same reasons. Criminalization is to treatment and. Next speaker. Thank you. I am representing district 10 straight out of hunters point. San francisco native and community organizer. Also a member of the no new Jails Coalition for San Francisco. Building a new jail is not a solution. Investing in reallocating funds is what we need. Jails, prisons, de tension facilities are physical structures. People are indirectly affected by the lives of their families. This is a time for Healthy Practices to help the lives of folks impacted directly. I want to add in 1996 where it was for the molition i was visiting the loved one. My loved one is o on the other side of the window. It is disrespectful to have your colleagues to support the folks here fighting in this war for better care, health for the black and brown people of this city. It is time to shift the way San Francisco gets down on taking care of each other. Whether you are in the richest parts of frisco it is time to work toward better healthcare for all of us. We all want to live equally. Thank you. Next speaker. I am a reentry member at the Justice Project, which is transgender intersects Justice Project. I did just get out of prison, and only three months right now. I have been at santa rita, at bryant street, and i want to say, sure it is a state of emergency. What i have seen happen in dade county in florida what hurricane andrew hit, the judge ordered people out of prison. You had a state of emergency, sure. You had people in all these different organizations willing to help. Even the Justice Project in less than two months got me out of Halfway House and gave me a job and placed me in safe housing for transgender out of prison. You have people who are experienced and familiar with the city and organization. They have the resources. Give them the opportunity to take that responsibility and pull together as a community because you have it right before you. Even the Justice Project. What do they do . They put people in hotels, taking the money donated to them and place them in hotels to get them proper placement. Take that millions of dollars for bryant street and put them in hotels and give them resources here. People do for Mental Health services, not homelessness. You can give them counseling even in hotels. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I am with the senior action. A few things to say. One is that those presentations only the one from the community took us somewhere. All of the other presentations were empty. I didnt see any advance, you know, the plan is in stagnation if we go with that. You want a solution . Safer streets, safer communities. How about redistributing wealth. We live in the ric richest cityn the world. We have so many people eating from garbage. You want to put them in jail just because they dont have money. Just get rid of that. 850 bryant even you guys know, all of you know, even the sheriff, that she doesnt know how to proceed. She knows it is the righty to do. If you want more, think about changing the Justice System because from the presentations i saw today is very white. Only the Community Shows people of color here. Thathat is not acceptable. That is so much diversity. Please change the system and get rid of 850 bryant. Thank you. Next speaker. Just a reminder about board rule 1. 3 and prohibition against applause and other cheering. If you want to show support do so with raised hands or thumbs up or down. Keep the audible interruptions to zero, please. Thank you. I am a native from San Francisco who spent teen years between hospitals and locked psychiatric facilities. My Close Friends were incarcerated. I am about to graduate from medical school. The communities affected by the violence in our struggle for help, dignity we need to demand immediate closure without a new jail, if it is called a jail or Mental Health facility. No transfers to santa rita or any other jail incounty or out. Incancersation worsenses the mental illness. It is a risk factor for chronic diseases for asthma. Formally incarcerated individuals are 10 times more likely to be homeless. Lack of housing is a major threat to any health condition. Jail is a source of unthinkable stress and trauma, which fuel disease. We need to invest in expanding appropriate Mental Health services, hiring and training local Community Members who lived experience that resonated with the jail population, up routing the way the Police Department is run. Holding the large tech corporations accountable for the harm they are creating for those here before them and supportable housing. We need to heal our communities and not make them sick. Had kenny not been in cars cars incarcerated he could be in my position today. I am jordan davis. I am a d6 resident. I have about a couple hours ago the vice chair of the working group and i say close 850 bryant and dont create a Mental Health jail or a rainbow jail and dont send people to the santa rita death by midnight release center. I am a formerly home less transgender wom. Woman. 850 bryant does not create real Public Safety. It only serves to cage back and brown folks. We need real living wage jobs, Supportive Housing outside of cooperative housing and other life affirming programs. That keeps us safe not fucking warehousing people. Most people are pretrials. We need to get rid of every bullshit homeless law since fine teen was mayor. I did my duty and voted on tuesday. I rode i wrote in under sheriff to close it. I will pause the speakers time and remind everyone we are less than 100 feet away from a polling place right now. There is a prohibition in the law against electio elections fe microphone. Continue. Listen to no new jail coalition. Redirect funds to life affirming services and close the jail. Next speaker. I am andrea, social worker in San Francisco and resident of d8. It is the height of incompetence after 6 years. Hearing we failed to adopt the needs of individuals. I sat on the working group for months advocating for Public Health programming, nones of which was created or implemented. We are led to criminalization. There is no body of evidence to support course of treatment leading to decreased poverty, homelessness or substance use. Let me provide you aframe of reference. We do have local data of effective policy. The Mental Health services act which funds Mental Health, Substance Abuse services, vocational services, capital facilities and Information Technology is right here in San Francisco. Individuals at the programs experience the following. There was an 88 of decrease in arrest within the first year. Psychiatric. In adults 67 decrease in days of homelessness. Arrests 53 to 7 per 100. Mental health 79 . This was 10,125 per jail. Saying this is the cheapest option is false. We liver in the city with the live with the highest concentration of the millionaires. We should be able to Fund Effective programs at the drop of a hat. We have a mayor and supervisors representing the interests of those. Next speaker. I am ed de hernandez to support no new jails. I have been to county jail 4. The building is seismically unsafe marked for demolition since 1996. I remember the faces and i am here to be the voice. The employees and visitors dont want to die there. They want to know what the hold up is and who is responsible in the event of an earthquake. I am here to reject the mayors inadequate proposal and to commit to closing down the jail. No new jail construction and to reject transfers outside of county. Thank you. Hello. I am melissa hernandez. I join comrades in rejecting the plan to keep the jail open two more years. She announced this on the 30 Year Anniversary of the earthquake. This is slated for demolition for 20 years. We must close it now. Once we close it we have an incredible opportunity. We as the community can demand investment in the collective wellbeing instead of maintaining cages elsewhere. The system much incarceration is not working. The great news we can do better if we rethink incarceration. A large majority of those held are not convicted of crimes. Why are we keeping them behind bars . I urge each of you to be brave and take this moment to set the city in the right direction. One that does not double down on the system that tears families apart and puts people in cages and invests in uplifting communities. We are purr pet waiting the same problems. Mental Health Crisis and people of color is inconsionable. 56 of those in the james are black. It is worth noting sending people outside of San Francisco can put them in danger of deportation. We must oppose any plan that does not include transferring people out of the county. There are lives at stake please invest in communities not cages. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am the district 10 youth commissioner. I could easily say everything that everybody else just said. That would be kind of annoying. The transfertive Justice Committee supports closing 850 bryant. The city should restore harm done in communities. If you think about the idea of jail its, it really doesnt make sense to put the hurt and damaged people in one place and expect them to heal each other. You have got to support them in doing that. With that said we do not support the displacement or pushing them out of the city, putting them in other counties as said before, and we would hope that the effort be centered around community and helping them get to a place where they can live a sustainable life in the city they grew up in and hope they can stay here and live alive that makes sense and push them away from the needs or wants to commit crimes. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I
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