Corwin cooley. Please ensure youve silenced your phones. Any documents to be included as part of the file should be included to the clerk. Items will appear on the february 25th 2020 agenda unless otherwise stated. Please call the first item. To consider the issuance of type 57 special onsale beer, wine and liquor doing business as shack 15 at the Ferry Building will certainly the public convenience for necessity. We heard from the alu last time and i want to see if the applicant has any additional words you can speak or dont have to and we should take Public Comment. So if there are members of the public who would like to speak, line up or i will call some names. Bl lotty ben davis and anyone else. If you have prepared a statement, leave it with the clerk for review in the file. We ask that speakers avoid repetition and come on up. Im the founder and ceo of jar world wide, a california nonprofit bringing quality education to children. Aim in the bay area working to change the world and theres been very few spaces i felt belonging. Shack 15 is one of the first spaces i felt empowered to follow my dreams and change the world. They took me in and gave me a home against a community who has changed my life and provided me with a workspace. This is a space for people from underrepresentatived communities, unparalleled. Im able to bring my friends from all backgrounds, such as musicians, artists and more as guests and we attend the amazing events that shack 15 puts on. I dont even drink and im in support of shack 15 serving alcoholic beverages because i know how impactful this will be for galas to support initiatives to galleries focused on artists from underrepresented backgrounds. Have this license will ensure that all can succeed. Thank you. Next speaker. Im clark supreno, a founder of the Arts Alliance, which is a new nonprofit bringing cuttingedge art to San Francisco. Shack 15 has been one of the earliest supporters and theyve made Space Available for our Speaker Series and fundraisers for our nonprofit. Holding events in the historic and iconic Ferry Building has such a profound impact on all attendees and shack 15 has offered their space for free to keep our production costs low and to build our community and support our mission. Continuing this work with the help of shack 15 will allow the public to learn about organization. Immersive Arts Alliance is in support of alcoholic beverages that will only add to the events only taking place in this Magnificent Space to support art artists and producers like us. Thank you, next speaker. Thank you. Im ben davis, founder and ceo of illuminate, an organization in San Francisco, our flagship project is the bay lights on the side of the bay bridge which live in beautiful juxtaposition to the ford tower view. Ive had a great pleasure of working with the team at shack 15 from early on and have found that the space is incredibly inspiring for us to bring people together and this includes Civic Leaders dreaming big for the regency wanregion imagine and it the location. I know from working closely with the port and others, theres a little interesting tidbit that few folks now. It has more multimodal transit connections than anywhere west of the mississippi. Every muni comes through touching sanfrancisco and the bart system brings through with every line and the f line and e line pass in front every bus route to Market Street comes right by it and the petty cabs and bicycles and Everything Else that rolls in the city. It is an amazing place that has accessible transit to complement bringing people together inside this space and i think theres an extra special measure that whthatshould be given. And that includes the ferry system, as well, of course. Next speaker. Thank you. Im katie vandyke, the Event Programme manager at shack 15. Shack 15 is a coworking space created for entrepreneurs of all kinds and we are working coworking space with a focus on events and programming to engage with the wider San Francisco expect and we look to share the space. The Ferry Building partnerships book buildings and our goal is to support their mission by attracting new consequences and Opening Doors to provide a complementary place in sf to gather and share ideas. We aim to provide a workspace for those in San Francisco to gather around by offering day passes, longer term coworking passes and programming open to the public. Shack 15 intends to be is and intends to be a place to bring people together, where different backgrounds can interact, learn and support each other. We look forward to the opportunity this mission. Any other members who would like to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and colleagues, i understand that supervisor peskin is in support of this request and if there are no comments or questions, i wil thk we can direct our clerk determining this license will meet public convenience and necessity and i will move that we forward that to the full board with positive recommendation and we can take that without objection. Mr. Clerk, please call our next item . Number 2 is an ordinance submitting the police code to require the Police Department to obtain gun violence restraining orders in some circumstances. Vice chair stephanie, this is yours. Tell us about it. Thank you, chair. And im really actually very excited that we have this ordinance before us today. I just want to take a moment to explain what gun violence restraining orders are, also known as gvro or red flag laws. They empower families, household members or Law Enforcement officers to petition a court in order to temporarily remove a persons access to firearms before they commit violence. This is under consideration in four others including virginia which took an legislation last month which is notable since this is the home of the nra. We know in many of the Mass Shootings that occurred in this country, Family Members or friends noticed signs that the shooters were dangerous and at risk of hurting themselves or others. Californias law passed. It was passed in response to the shooting on may 23rd, 2014, on a disturbed and angry young man, shot ten people in ila vista, california before turning the gun on himself. The killer displayed behaviour that the parentbased on existins guns or take him into custody. This ordinance, the one before you today creates a gun violence restraining Order Program in San Francisco and it also propertied the San FranciscoPolice Department which im very thankful for, to create a gvro policy. Law enforcement and the public need to take advantage of every opportunity to disarm those who present a threat to themselves or others. Whether thats homicide or suicide, this ordinance gives Law Enforcement and Family Members the ability to intervene before a crisis occurs. Law enforcement and members of the public are left with too few options to stop these tragedies. While 5150s can prevent gun violence in some cases, Law Enforcement cannot always use a temporary psychiatric hold to take weapons away from an individual. The gvro is another tool, a civil, not a criminal one, to prevent tragedy before it occurs. A uc davis study found in the first three years since the passage, the law may have prevented 21 Mass Shootings. However, today, sanfrancisco has not implemented a robust program. We can only find evidence in two instances. Broward county whether the parkland county o occurred filed 250 petitions and seized 212 guns that same year. Law enforcement has described them as indie indispensable ande need to make that case here. In april of last year, a young man suffering from serious Mental Illness was in possession of five guns, including one next to a window overlooking a school in my district causing much alarm and claimed that voices in his head were telling him to commit a mass shooting. Law enforcement correctly placed him on a psychiatric hold, but we also need to make implementing a gun violence restraining order Standard Operating Procedure when incidents like this occur and this was the incident that galvanized me to draft this legislation and the need for it remains as strong as ever. Because in this case, Family Members knew that this person was a danger to himself and others. And Law Enforcement had been called out to that home several times. Family members, before a psychiatric hold was necessary, could have pursued a gvro with Law Enforcement or petition the court themselves before, like be said, a psychiatric hold was necessary. Also, in october of last year, a 21yearold woman was shot and killed by her boyfriend near a high school after months of increasing violent abuse. The people around this individual knew he was unstable and dangerous but did not have the tools to successfully intervene, even though this law has been on the books since 2014. According to the most recent support from the medical examiners office, there were 51 gunrelated deaths in 2018, 31 homicides and 22 suicides. Every time theres a gunrelated death or injury, theres an opportunity for a gvro. Theres no single way to win the fight against gun violence, this epidemic plaguing our nation but we will not win unless we pass this legislation and swiftly implement the policies on the books. So the final step to insuring this policy has the maximum impact, is to work with all our Community Partners and the public about the availability of gvros and i know that our Police Department will work on that and, again, i thank them for our willingness and everything theyve been doing since weve. Working together. Wee must educate hospitals, our Community Benefit organizations and our departments in the city about the new policy. I look forward to passing this at the full board as soon as possible and i want to thank deputy chief lazarre and the sanfrancisco Police Department who helped draft this, that will be used, actually to implement this ordinance. More importantly, i want to thank chief lazarre for enthusiasm for this program and everyone for championing it within sfpd. I believe we have officer raj viswani and then ill wait and say a few things. Thank you. With me is lieutenant lou, in charge of our cjic, they do illegal firearms, working with federal and State Government and they also are responsible for gun violence restraining order and theyre a lee yeah amazo lie officers, and the federal government on that. For gun violence restraining order, we put out a Department Bulletin just recently in december of 2019, informing our officers of the steps to get the three different types of gun violence restraining orders and also being able to educate Family Members and careworkers of the availability of these gun violence restraining orders. Currently, the officers do know that they can get a temporary emergency onsceneorder and they also know they can get the exparte order per an investigation if theyre not at the scene. Our investigators know that and were expanding an Education Program that deric derick lou wo out and advise the officers on how to get the different orders in situations and give them examples. We did give them several different examples of when these orders would be critical to try to get and well expand that outreach. I read 36d and i understand we are in the process. Quickly, sorry, can you give one or two of those examples . So some of the examples that were given to the officers thats actually in the general order is like an elderly father who has dementia and has made threats and a Family Member can remove the firearms. Somebody who legally owns firearms and illegally discharges the firearm in their backyard. The other one is someone who legally possesses firearms and starts showing signs of Mental Illness but does not meet 5150 criteria. And i have reached out to our mental crisis unit that does outreach and they have secured gun violence restraining orders last year and i know lieutenant lous Unit Lieutenant lou, his unit has secured gun violence restraining orders and also, srd has done it and these are all at the ininvestigative level. And we do realize that with a ab12 and 61, well modify our orders and make this a more permanent from Department Notice to a department policy. And i know deputy chief lazarre is working with the City Attorney and Chiefs Office and thats in the final draft phase. And in addition to this, we also educate the officers on some of the domesticviolence type of dpo orders and well make that a part of the training so they understand the different options from removing firearms from homes where someone can use them in a dangerous situation and is there anything that you would like to add . I think in practise, it closely reflected the examples that we put out there on the Department Notice and so some of the ones we secured were threats involving firearms and we had another realworld incident of a negligent discharge in the city that would have endangered folks and that gvr was put into effect. So the ones obtained will match the ones we put out there. Could the previous speaker please identify himself. Your name . Derick lou. Thank you. And then, in talking to the mental crisis outreach unit, some of the examples they gave is the person who walked into mcdonalds in the bayview with a dead raccoon, followup was conducted and we did remove firearms we did seek a gun violence retraining order against him. Another one was a guy who had come here and was shooting in the air recklessly, and i think thats the one you had mentioned. We did do an investigation, get a gun violence retraining order against him and another one was that was experiencing mental crisis and we removed because he had threats to Family Members and neighbors and we did remove guns from his house. Supervisor walton. Supervisor stephanie did mention the case of Mental Health expert and family, saying someone was dangerous and had the opportunity to be harmful to themselves and others and we know as a result, there was a mass shooting. What about incidents like that, where people around or associated with someone says theyre either a harm to themselves or a harm to others . Yes, i think in a situation like that, where there didnt meet the 5150 after the officers responded, they could use the restraining order if the person did have access to firearms and the ability to get firearms. Thank you. Will this be taught in the academy, as well . At this point, what we were talking about is doing outreach at lineups for active officers on patrol and i could definitely relay that, if thats something you think would be beneficial. I do, actually. I think that right out o out ofe gate this is a tool because its so necessary. I want to make sure people know that its not like a Police Officer or Family Member thinks someone is a danger to themselves or others and guns can easily be removed. I mean, this goes through a due process hearing in the courts, in front of a judge and the person has an opportunity to present evidence, and evidence must be presented and proved to the judge that this person is actually a danger to himself or others, and, of course, there are always penalties for preventing false evidence to a judge and this is not a situation where anyone can just falsely claim someone is a danger to themselves or others. Because i hear this all of the time from the gun lobby and a lot of people, this is just a tool to take peoples guns away. It is not. It is due process in front of a judge and, obviously, we know that anyone who pros false evidence to a judge will then face their own penalties. So one question, too, about gvros last year, we know that in 2018, i believe, that there were two issued. Do we know how many were issued in 2019 . I understand it was fewer than ten. I know at that time well be educating our program and the police can then interact with those groups to let them know that this is the tool. Is that on your radar, as well . That definitely is. So when that goes into effect, i think in september of 2020, well make sure that our policy reflects that change. Ok. And do you have any ideas about how we can better educate the police force and Family Members about the availability of this tool . I know you said youll go to lineup switch, which i think is great, and youll take my suggestion that we began training in the academy on this. How else do you think we can get out the information to the department of Public Health . Does the Police Department have any ideas about how they can better work with all of the departments they serve . So we already work with advocate groups within the Domestic Violence arena, elder a lot of the Adult Protective Services is a good avenue to get outreach for people that might have dementia or advance alzheimers, where some of the symptoms of alzheimers is anger, if somebody has guns in that avenue, and also, our unit that actually goes out and does a lot of the mental crisis evacuations, theyre a good tool because they work with gph closely. So i think those are avenues for the Police Department to look at avenues for education and from what i see, the ordinance itself, im sure youre going to be doing outreach through social media and those avenues. Thank you, and i know weve worked together on the Family Violence council, as well, on this. Yes, and also our sros work with the different Public Schools in the city so thats another avenue, because i know the program does allow gvros under that. Right, thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Vice chair, stephanie, do you have any closing thoughts . Thank you, chair. I want to thank, again, the San FranciscoPolice Department for working on this with my office very diligently and i thank you so much for your work and your service and i want to encourage my colleagues to support this legislation. I think you know how much it means to me and, you know, this is something that is so important, not just to the state of california, t but to our nation. 85 of the American People believe in red flag laws like these and 78 of gun owners do o and its time we take back the country from our gun lobby and this is one tool to could it and i encourage your support. Thank you, vice chair stephanie. I would like to be added as a cosponsor and supervisor walton. And thank you for your ongoing steadfast leadership on these issues. Would you like to make a motion to forward this to the full board with full recommendation . I would, so moved. I think we can neighboring tt without objection. Mr. Clerk, any more items before us today . There is no further business. Then we are adjourned. Welcome to our first meeting of the Transbay Joint Powers AuthorityDirector Special meeting today. Roll call, please. [roll call] we have some directors absent. You have a quorum. Thank you. Before we dive into our agenda this morning, i want to take a moment to make a couple comments unfortunately, earlier this week we had some news from the media reports that was very unfortunate. Specifically that a former member of our board of directors was arrested and charged with public corruption by the federal bureau of investigations. It is our