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Second, it is not condition. Therefore, there are no conditions restraining its action. It is there for the sole purpose to protect society from abuse, danger, or harm, the e. P. A. , the f. D. A. , c. D. C. , the courts, consider wifi a pollutant. Inappropriately, electrical and he wi electronic engineers measure harm. They do not measure the body or cells. They do not measure exposure over time. Scientific authorities recognize the danger and state it must be reduced a thousand fold and would still be able to enable communication. San francisco in its wisdom passed a precautionary principle and can now mandate and enact it, allowing policy to catch up with science to protect us, the residents of San Francisco. 5g is not tested, even under specific absorption rates. So much of it goes on. Im sure therell be another hearing which im sure youll allow us to stay more. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon good evening, president yee and supervisors. I want to show a picture of my mother again, meter maid, grace murray, checker 111 back from 1975. I remember shed work hard. Nobodys perfect. She gave my father a ticket once, out at fishermans wharf. She signed it with love. She gave George Moscone a ticket at west portal. He was having an ice cream. Ive got it on my wall. I told Kriss Moss Tony about it, too. Im going to ask him if he mentioned it when he came home. So i hope youre protecting yourselves from an earthquake because it shake, city, shake. Shake, city, shake. In case theres a shake, city, shake, in case theres a shake, rattle, and roll, i said shake, rattle, and roll, youve got to do something to save yourself from an earthquake, your soul. And cheers. Heres a meteorite. They also say it could hit us, but its a graphic right here. Its a very slim chance, but it brings me to my Public Comment. If i were the mayor of San Francisco, id sure let you know id hold a meeting that i did all cause im stone in love with you. I did it all cause im stone in love with you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Im leslie, and im from district three or i reside in district three. The implementation of 5g Technology Demands mass coverage throughout the city with wireless antennas. Current nonindustry funded scientific studies absolutely show harm, biological harm from electromagnetic microwave radiation, which is wireless. The roll out of 5g is in opposition to San Franciscos precautionary principle. 5g is harmful. The public must be allowed to continue to speak about any proposed site for antenna installations. Please rescind ordinance 19019. There are cities in europe which are ae posing 5g, and if you would please keep in mind that the f. C. C. Is an industry f. C. C. Is an agency thats protected by industry. So please, protect the city, not the industry. Thank you so much. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. I am speaking on behalf of the taxi medallion holders. [inaudible] and San Francisco City Government functional hierarchy, enabled lyft to destroy taxi business. [inaudible] we have dedicated 25 years to San Francisco public. You never allowed us work without medallions. More than 700 taxi medallion owner families turned into poverty by San Francisco City Government. We did not choose to buy it. S. F. Forced us to buy. [inaudible] we are trying to kill two birds with one stone, like their job securities and products on the fronts. Without funding money to us. But these arent our concern. Our concern is we want our money back. Our taxi business is down to 10 . We have no equal rights, something that is irregular, dishonest, conducted and never made corrections. Why are you enforcing medallion loans . It is extortion [inaudible] no make your decision and notify us of our specific times of our money [inaudible] thank you. President yee next speaker. Good afternoon. We came here at 2 00. Now its at 5 00 p. M. No, 7 00, 7 10 and almost five hours, and i dont think im going to make any money today. But my expenses are still there. Its 100. 45 was the cab company. They are not serving anything for me today, but i still owe them 45 today. Bank gave me 250,000. I have to pay them 50 a day. But i request that you can smash the 45 i am paying on a daily basis. 20 goes to insurance, and thats fine, but the 20 to the cab company, what do they do for me . I look for my customers on the street, fishermans wharf, or the airport. I wish that you would take that burden off of my back. You can do that. You are most intelligent people of San Francisco. You are dancing the city on your fingertips, and we hope that you can do the same thing to the sfmta. Make them dance on your fingertips. Give us our money make and find some other birds so you can give us our blood. Let us go, pay us 250, and grab your new birds. Thank you very much. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, sir. My name is hachi, and i drive taxi cab since 1992, and i was living in sacramento, and i have i lose my business standing, but i have to still drive. Im not able to drive taxi anymore in the city of San Francisco. Sfmta, they promised to take medallion back. Theyre going to give us our money back when were not able to drive, and i dont know how long they have to punish to us. Thank you very much. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is robert johnstone. Im here to express my opposition to your recent 5g lemgs latio legislation, but i would also like to voice my support for the taxi drivers. It sounds like they got a bum deal. So i appreciate supervisor mar and supervisor peskin and supervisor mandelman for asking for new hearings. I will skip over my part of the statement about your betrayal of public trust, but for those of you who have tenants in your district, i want to tell you just what a bad actor verizon has been for years. Verizon has never wittingly noticed a single tenant pursuant to article 25 ever. They claimed ridiculously that your legislation claimed they could notify owners or tenants but not both. The City Attorney was aware of this, or at least the deputy City Attorney was. I imagine the d. P. W. Was, as well. To me, this just encapsulates whats been wrong with this system. Your recent legislation made this worse, so i hope you can make this better. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. Audrey rume with new neighborhood council. Ill be brief. I just want to point out the San Franciscos ordinance on precautionary principle and urge you to stop implementing this technology until we know better. Heres what the precautionary principle of San Franciscos precaution principle states. Where sets up irreversible damage to people or life exists, damage or certainty to cause and effect hadshall not used [inaudible] so if this is a technology that we know so very little about and implementing it in a city of 800,000 over 800,000 people could be catastrophic. So its not too much to ask you to stop implementation until we have that data that tells us the health of the residents. And also, like the previous driv speaker, i think its reasonable to pay the taxi drivers back the medallion many. I think in a city with 12 billion budget, we can afford to do something for these folks. Good evening, supervisors. I urge you to proceed with caution and not rush into implement 5g. Many Northern California cities have taken steps to protect their residents with respect to the objective standards public works is proposing. The objective standards will lead to a proliferation of 4 and 5g cell an tents with up to five antennas per pole and bulky boxes everywhere. In addition, fiberoptic wiring can go to homes and businesses instead of antennas and facilities of 4 and 5g. Rushing to promote 5g standards will result in the loss of local government control, insight, and will have direct environmental impact. Cities have traditionally negotiated with providers on issues like location, appearance, and size of wireless structures. These bills severely limit the ability of cities to ensure that infrastructure suits the neighborhood around it and the ability of cities to decide whether or not to allow private use of public property at all. The f. C. C. S order requiring fixed rental rates for municip municipally owned poles and rightofway forces taxpayers to subsidize private commercial development and violates the fifth and tenth amendment. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello. Im sarah, a teacher at School District unified School District. We are concerned that antennas will be located as close as 6 feet from a bedroom window. The process requires our city officials to not knowingly put the residents in harms way. San francisco has flagrantly failed to enact its ordinance by allowing scientifically tested cell phone tours and antennas with clear evidence of d. N. A. Damage and cancer. It was yesterday published, showing a definite increase in d. N. A. Damage, such as the small cells that the ordinance would be putting in front of childrens high schools. Lowell high school already has a small cell in front of it where parents pick up their children. One of my students waits underneath that cell tower every day and it just breaks my heart because this is an unknown, untested thing, personal wireless facility. They didnt even know what it was. So San Francisco should be leading the way. So im going to ely marks from the California Brain Tumor Association mentioned sacramento. She has a letter to you. She wrote small cells have been activated in areas of San Francisco and los angeles president yee thank you. Next speaker. Hi. Before i start, i just wanted to voice my support for the taxi drivers. I understand its a very complex problem, and theres not a clear solution yet, but its something that should be given a lot of attention. That said, my name is ryan and im a thirdyear student at the university of San Francisco. As future health care providers, we understand the great gap in care for those affected by Mental Health disorders. Wed like to acknowledge and support the efforts of budget and finance committee for the Mental Health program. In addition were in support of sb 1045 which provides additional Mental Health services to San Franciscos health population. However we would like to advocate for greater expansion for efforts to all members of the community. In addition, utilization and out come studies must be conducted in order to determine additional unmet needs. Our San Francisco community is incredibly diverse. This form of response can be valuable at increasing the overall productivity and affected life of individuals. The consequences affect not only the patient but the community as a whole. Thank you so much for your time as well as the opportunity to comment on this unmet need. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is kieran jackson. Im a biology student at San Francisco state university. Im here to talk about the 5g cell phone tower ordinance . Theres not a lot i can say that hasnt been already said, but a fun fact or not so fun fact about the cell towers. Recent Health Studies from kaiser have revealed that exposure to Magnetic Fields in women have resulted in an in in pregnant women have resulted in an increased health risk. Were experiencing a lot of detrimental environmental effects that are not due to the cause of this generation and its kind of been dumped on us from the previous generation . And i dont think that its fair to do that and contribute to that with the 5g cell phone towers for our babies in the future. Thank you so much for your time. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hi. I just wanted to talk about my personal experience with electromagnetic radiation. Im an engineer. I moved to San Francisco three years ago. I started getting headaches, i started getting multiple headaches a few times a day. I lost hair and lost weight, and i didnt know what was happened. I happened to hear from a podcast at that time about e. M f. I also had arthritis in every joint of my body. I never got tired, but when i fell asleep, i would wake up with arthritis and hangover headache although ive never drank the night before. All this stuff went away when i turned the power off in my room, so ive become an avid activist as much as i can for e. M. F. S. And its not that it hasnt been studies, theres thousands of studies showing effects. Theres d. N. A. Damage, neurodegeneration, lower sperm count, causes cancers, insomnia, headaches, depression, fatigue. Ive experienced a lot of these things, and i have to live in San Francisco. I have to commute on b. A. R. T. , and i do it while watching people watching videos on their cell phones, and i dont think i will be able to do that if its 5g. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good evening, supervisors. You know, have you thought about the safety hazard thats created by this Medallion Program . Were all working long hours, doing anything to meet our goal just to break even. Its pretty disgusting. Really disgusting. Down right pathetic. The profit margin is pathetically low, and this medallion is not even worth 125,000 and were paying 250,000 plus interest. Pretty terrible. You know, as far as im concerned, the m. T. A. Ended this Sales Program a long time ago when they chose not to lower the price and reimburse us the difference. This program has been dead for a long time. Its time to keep up your end of the bargain, and i say your because you guys are the city, and you guys are hand in hand with the m. T. A. In one way or the other. Dont blow smoke up our you know what. Please. Im sick of it. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good evening. My name is marcelo fonseca. Ive been a fulltime taxi driver for 31 years. I take a lot of pride in what i do for a living. The rise of the medallion and ride share such as uber and lyft has brought great financial hardships to taxi drivers. Medallions acquired through the waiting list are forced to drive until they drop dead, and medallions acquired through the medallion Sales Program are trapped with unpayable loans. Late mayor lee and the m. T. A. Had to know that uber and lyft posed a great threat to all medallion holders in the taxi industry as a whole, and yet they carried out the program masterminded by gavin newsom. They made millions of dollars on the backs of drivers at the same time they welcomed unfair competition. We would not be here all these years if it was not for the investment we made in the medallion system. Our careers and lives are being destroyed. The m. T. A. And the city of San Francisco have failed us. So the city of San Francisco and the m. T. A. Have a moral, ethical, and very possibly a legal obligation to bail out the taxi industry. I hope this board will look into this matter sooner rather than later. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hello. My name is carolyn kahn. I live in potrero hill in San Francisco, and i wont take a long time. I think youve heard a lot of eloquent statements with many facts. I happen to be a ph. D. Cell biologist. Im not going to go into it. Youll hear the facts at the next meeting. Im very proud to live in San Francisco and i support the liberal policies in this city. And im having a hard time understanding why just some of these cities have already not supported 5g and are protecting their citizens and among them are berkeley, piedmont, monterey county, lot altos, sabastopo sebastopol, and the list goes on. I think this is just an issue of greed. I think that, you know, many of us have cell phones. I havent been anywhere in this city where ive not been able to use my cell phone, and i dont see the need for 5g at all. I dont know that we canty it out, but i think you should really seriously consider the implications. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Oh, i enjoyed the obvious portability of the obvious pop up clinic proposed by supervisor mandelman, particularly if it operates throughout the night. The 129 rescue wing of the California Air National Guard is based at moffat field. Im wondering if and also whether theres an understanding with the News Agencies as regards where they might be permitted or restricted from operating helicopters following a substantial earthquake or fire, and also have valves and certain specified pump stations been auto mated as recommended in a 2014 awss report produced by acom. Theyve estimated that property insurance homeowners might decline by 34 million annually, and collectively if you carried out all of their recommendations and lobbied for them alongside interest groups. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, dear member supervisors. I did google for what were going to be using tonight. I found one, were hungry, thats correct. Everybodys hungry. Were out here five hours. You, me, everybodys hungry. But the second work, m. T. A. Promised along with San Francisco credit union, were going to help you make money when many of us are taxi drivers supposed to have our free medallion. I found the Pilot Program. Mr. Lee, mr. All the member of this staff, sfmta, go into any company, brother, youre going to make money. Youre going to be rich guy. Youre going to make the kind of money you needed. Well, what happened when the Pilot Program fail . They return the money. Why are we waiting . Please do something for return our money. Thank you and good night. President yee seeing no other speaker or Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, i think we have one more item. Can you call the adoption without Committee Reference calendar. Clerk yes. Item 25 was adopted without reference to committee. A unanimous resolution is required for passage today. Clerk i guess, why dont we just take roll. Roll, please. Clerk on item 25 [roll call] clerk there are eight ayes. President yee the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please read the meemoriam. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of annemarie garvin, mr. Leslie michael silverman. For the late simon migdon. For the late reuben good man, richard e. Stewart, and daphne dorman. President yee okay, colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee we are adjourned. Good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 24th, 2019 regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am not valemount and, the chair of the committee. To my right i am raphael mandelman. The chair of the committee. I want to thank San Francisco government tv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, are there any announcements . Thank you. Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death in the tenderloin, which i know there have been many across our city. We have lost 15 pedestrians and cyclists to preventable violence on our streets this year. In light of the lengthy and informative hearing on tuesday at the sfcta, i will keep my comments brief and described the Emergency Actions called for in the resolution. The city has set bold goals to get 20 traffic deaths by 2024 and yet we continue to see avoidable deaths and serious injuries happening on our streets. Every day, on average three people are hit by cars across the city. The injuries and fatalities are happening on just 13 of our streets, many of which are in district six. This resolution is about taking Emergency Action, but these are not new ideas. We need the board of supervisors , and sfmta, and the mayor and other agencies to meet the urgency this issue requires. We have to Work Together to identify the funding and do whatever it takes to implement these Emergency Actions before more lives are lost. Here is what we are calling for with this resolution. Number one, double the red light cameras at major high injury intersections. Currently there are only 13 red light cameras across the entire city with a handful more planned just a few years ago there were more than double in operation but because of changing technology, most of those have been removed and not replaced. Well recorded recorded crashes are down, we have to use every tool we can and red light cameras are a tool. Specifically we need to identify which intersections would benefit most from these cameras, identify funding plan and install new cameras by the end of next year. Number two, expand parking control officer enforcement. They have many competing needs but we have to prioritize enforcement of behaviors that are making our streets deadly. Cars that are blocking the blocks and preventing people who are safely crossing and cars that are blocking on blocking off bike lanes. Sfmta should be giving scorecards in conjunction with the reports that sfpd is already giving doing and present a plan for expansion. Number three, increased enforcement by the sfpd to 50 focus and that the level consistent with past enforcement numbers. This directive came from air breed earlier this year with the support of supervisor if you are there more traffic officers on our streets, but there is still work to be done. Sfpd shall produce an immediate action plan to get to the goal of 50 specifically on hi injury corridors and an adequate level. Sfpds quarterly reporting to the committee should be disaggregated by highend record doors to make sure the efforts are targeted. Number four, identify solutions to lower speed limits and actual speeds to 25 miles an hour lower on the hi injury networks. We have some constraints placed on us by the state, but we can be creative. Sfmta recently agreed to lower the speed limit in front of an area where a young boy was hit a few years ago and that is great news. What about the other streets where we are not taking advantage of this single opportunity . Where else can we make changes immediately . Are there streets on the Entry Network where speeds are over 2 . Can we put in speed bumps . Speed kills and we have to use every tool in our toolbox including advocating to state leaders. Number five, pedestrian blocks. Certainly this is something that i have spoke out about and the sfmta and the board has been a partner on to look at what streets can actually be made for people entirely and i know that a number of my colleagues have also expressed interest in studying these opportunities in their districts, certainly in the tenderloin we are very willing and prepared and supportive of moving forward. Our goal of this resolution is for the mayor, the board, the sfmta and other agencies to take Emergency Action and set us up for a clear plan. I have a set of amendments to the resolution that incorporate language requested by sfmta as well as language that identifies specific Emergency Actions. It also reflects that unfortunately as since this resolution was introduced, we lost another life of a pedestrian on our streets. I would there are no planned presentations. That is probably a good thing, especially after the long conversation about this at the c. T. A. This week, but the sfmta is here if there are any questions. Great. Thank you, supervisor haney. Thank you for the expedited process this morning. I dont see any comments or questions from my colleagues. Okay. So we will open this up to Public Comment if there is any Public Comment on this item . Seeing non, none, Public Comment is closed. There was a lot of Public Comment when they all came when we were going to hear it before. Supervisor walton . Thank you so much for bringing this resolution. I just wanted to go on record and state that we have seen an increase in car and traffic deaths in district 10 as well, and along with homicides we want to see we want to see an end to all of these avoidable deaths i would like to sign on as a cosponsor as of the resolution a everyone know we are currently working on neighborhood safety plans in district 10 and a pre neighborhood that includes strategies to avoid strap traffic deaths, along with our vision zero plan on homicides and violent crimes. Thank you, again, supervisor haney for bringing this resolution forward. Thank you. And for not calling the cavalry. [laughter]. Thank you for the cavalry for being here. Thank you, supervisor walton. I appreciate the amendments and would like to be added as a cosponsor as well. Vice chair stefani . I want to say that i appreciate the resolution would also like to be added as cosponsor. Supervisor haney, our first move is to accept the amendment. I will make that motion. We can take that without objection. I will move that we forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Inc. You very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. Now our second item. Clerk, please call the next item number two is a hearing on Police Staffing levels, the Police Departments recruitment strategy and process, attrition and retention of officers, progress towards civilian isaiah and of appropriate positions and details regarding the demographics of the department including age, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability and others. This is president yees item so i will recess this for five minu we are reconvened. President yee, the floor is yours. Okay. Did recall the item already . We did. Thank you. As many of you know, i have been raising the issue of adequate Police Staffing for several years now. In june of 2018, almost a year ago, the budget and legislative analysis analyst provided the board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how to put the police are deploying police staff, that is funded by the general fund, and number two , how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. One major finding and recommendation of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, with public demand for more officers on the street, the San Francisco Police Department should put as many administrative positions in as possible. This is best practice is recognized by major Law Enforcement associations including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country, but San Franciscos ratio of sworn officers to civilian staff remains higher than the National Average over its peers. While there is a need for sworn officers with certain administrative and nonpatrol positions, there are also opportunities that we have not taken advantage of to produce cost and operational efficiencies for the department. That is why i asked the Controllers Office to provide us with the analysis of the civilian efforts made so far. That is the sole focus of today s hearing. We will not close this hearing, but we will continue it and it will be called again for the full Police Staffing analysis that i requested that will be completed by the end of this year. This Police Staffing now is one that i have tossed the department to conduct with experts in the field to provide the board and the public with the report about their staffing needs and the manner by which the San Francisco Police Department determines its Staffing Levels throughout its different divisions. Again, we will be holding a hearing specifically about this topic in early 2020 when the analysis is complete. At that hearing, we will also be asking the presentations from the citys Human Resources department and Police Department regarding a bunch of things including how they are recruiting new officers, Graduation Rates from academy classes, attrition numbers, demographics of the department versus the city, and our departments rate of retention of trained officers. Every year during budget time, this board is asked to support the departmental budgets. We rely on the departments to tell us what they need in order to carry out their assigned responsibilities. This is important when it comes to the nuts and bolts of running the city smoothly. For example, if public works doesnt have enough resources, that impacts the level of quality of the services that we are providing to our residents, businesses, and visitors. At the same time, we have to be vigilant. That we are being efficient with taxpayer dollars and making the very best use of these resources to get the most value possible for our residents, businesses, and visitors. As we seek to increase the number of officers serving the city, the San Francisco Police Department should have a plan in place as a key component of the effort to maximize the number of Duty Officers providing direct Public Safety Super Services and it should give us a basis to determine if we need to adjust the charters mandate of 9,171 fully Duty Officers. I want to add that another piece of analysis i have asked for is, again, its very exploratory at this point, but we know that we have many, Many Police Officers assigned to the airport and whether or not that makes sense to the city when some of these police officers, or many of them , or all of them could be deployed in our city streets instead of at the airport. I want to thank you, my colleagues, supervisor stefani for cosponsoring this hearing request and we are really looking forward to the discussion. Supervisor stefani, would you like to make any comments . Okay. Who is presenting . Good morning, supervisors. My name is peggy stevenson, i am the director of the performance unit and the Controllers Office by way of background, we have been engaged and looked at Police Staffing and multiple analyses over the years including prior civilian analyses and just to refresh everybodys memory, there have been a series of studies of civilian over time. We engaged an Expert Consult with the Police Executive Research Research forum back in 2008 that produced the study was published in 2018 and then last year, we worked with the Police Department on a command staff review of civilianization in their department where we validated their work, compared it to the prior recommendations that had been lined up by all the prior expert studies that i just mentioned, and compared it to some industry best practices so that a new set of civilianization proposals could be made for your last years budget process. That was done in response to the request by supervisor yee. A memo went out from our department to all of you that was published on our website well in advance of your budget hearings last may, on may 13th if youre curious about any of the detail, it has appendices which list civilianization recommendations that occurred in each of the prior years and how well the Police Department had done on fulfilling those. That is available to the public on the controllers website. May 13th publication date. By way of summary, i will say that if you look over that period of time, there has been a lot of progress on civilianization. About 60 positions from fiscal year 1213 until 1718 when we were looking at it again. These civilianization came from a variety of studies listed above and changes that were occurring in the organization at the time. Most notably the sfpds civilian the civilian eyes to research and analysis functions, technology functions, permits, property management, facilities management, contracting, and fleet management, the bulk of all of those things were done over that period. I will just say, at the same time, and leading into the last budget process, theres still a lot of functions as supervisor yee noted you noted that can be civilian eyes no further study is necessary to move forward on these so just put another way, the department specifically in fiscal year 18 19, the sfpd received 25 new positions for civilianization. At the time of your budget hearings in may, many of those were complete and others were underway. The sfpd can update you on progress on those positions, same concept for fiscal year 19 20. I mentioned the analysis that they had done working through their command staff. They identified an additional 50 positions that could be civilianized. My office reviewed and validated their analysis. Some of the functions that were identified there included records management, media, police commission, legal bureau, professional standards and community engagement. You will recall this discussion from your budget hearings, and then during your budget process last spring, they received approval for 25 of those 50 positions. Again, these are broadly agreed, approved, and budgeted. The challenge is a realistic staffing plan in hiring and the sfpd can update you on their progress. Lastly, they have an Expert Consultant currently at work doing staffing analysis to inform staffing and organizational design broadly speaking. Civilianization is part of that, including civilianization and bureaus where we know it needs review including investigations, special operations and administration. We will work with them as the findings come out from their consultants, to validation, and be prepared to validate and comment on any civilianization proposals that come forward for your next budget process. Finally, just as a point of interest, my office has been engaged with staffing studies and workload studies with the Police Department for many years , during most of the years i have been director of this unit. At the moment, last year we finished our Culture Service analysis that took cab data, did a lot of cleaning and review taking out outliers, working with the sfpd to understand what you can observe and data about the time they spend on calls for Service Versus administrative time, versus officer on duty time and understand how those things are varying by time of day, day of week, and geographically, and build a series of dashboards so that the Police Department, captains, and command staff can look at those things on an ongoing basis. We did a lot of years of studies it was a oneoff, a snapshot of data and analysis. Then we have to do the whole thing over again a couple of years later. This is continuously updated and is available for use by the captains and helping them with their deployment decisions. That is a piece of work that was done last year, and then in the current year, we are in the next phase of that with them when we are looking at response times and how response times are affected by the decisions they make on deployment and understanding that broadly, and again, building interactive dashboards that they can use to try and improve their performance on response times. That is underway. And the next few months, we will hopefully be wrapping that up and we will look forward to sharing the results with a broader audience. The calls for service analysis, in case you wanted to look back, our presentation on it was published on the controllers website on may 8th, 2018. I will stop there. Im happy to answer any questions you would have for me and i know the sfpd is here to update you on progress. Just a quick question in regards to our there i forget the total number that we looked at from three years ago, was a 200 or so . Have you done an analysis at all on those or do you still need to do further deep analysis of some of those positions . We reviewed everything that had been done in prior studies and the appendices are in our memo. We reported progress on the sfpd s filling of all of those. In the aggregate, i would say that the 60 positions that have been filled between fiscal year 1213 and the start of our last analysis, and then i would have to check back, which i can do maybe while the sfpd is updating you to see how many remain unfilled. I would have to look it up in the appendix. Just in regards to the process of the analysis, im just curious, where there certain civilian jobs or certain positions of the 200 or so in certain departments that were easier to analyse and whether or not it was consistent in terms of the departments sub departments sub departments that would have organizational charts did they all have organizational charts or can we get them to get a better sense of why those decisions were made in the first place . Yes. They all have organizational charts. Many of the functions were quite straightforward. I think it is typical of Police Departments with detention between using uniformed officers and civilians, and for a lot of years in my observation, the Police Department had uniformed career Law Enforcement people trying to manage technology projects, managing basic Administrative Functions like records and property. They have mostly successfully transitioned out of that, and their analytical staff is the same. I have experienced much better dynamic where they now have professional analytical staff doing statistics, stat, staffing analyses, so there are a lot of functions like that that i think we would all agree were pretty straightforward. I think now part of what you will hear from the Police Department in the Current Study is there having to go more to a task level, so there may be departments were even though the bulk of the work is done by non foreign people, technology, for example, they believe that you still should have a uniformed person as the director of that. It could be for a variety of reasons, not necessarily because they have technology expertise, but because the relationship with other command staff is better managed by someone with a Law Enforcement career. I can see both sides of the conversation like that. The task Level Analysis i think will yield more opportunities for civilians where once you really jewel down into some of those jobs you will be able to identify tasks that should be performed by a civilian and those which really require Law Enforcement backgrounds. In your own report, thats why i asked that question. I dont know the exact words, but it didnt seem to be consistent in terms of the different departments and the Police Department. Is there an organizational chart i guess im not sure what you are asking. We can and have had complete organizational charts from the Police Department. That has never been an issue, but the task Level Analysis is timeconsuming and so maybe if you were thinking about positions in your chart, youre looking at something where there is a uniformed person working there, the function is understood to be something that has many nonuniformed tasks to it. The drill down, there is they are timeconsuming. We didnt do that for fiscal year 1920 budget process. There just wasnt time. I think we will see some of those results from the work that is undergoing with their current consultant. Okay. Thank you for your update. I guess, who will come up . Is it miss mcguire . It is you again. Morning, supervisors. I am available to answer any questions you have or provide an update on the staffing analysis and commander ford is here also to speak on our hiring progress with respect to civilians. Give us a highlevel update in terms of the numbers because right now there were a lot of numbers thrown out and we started at a certain number and then from two years ago, how many