Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20240712

I am joined by committee members. Also joining us today is president yee. Our clerk is miss linda wong. Madam clerk, any announcements today . Yes, madam chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employee exposes e board, th members will be participating remotely. This is pursuant to state and local orders. Committee members will attend through Video Conference and participate as if they are physically president. Present. Sfg tv. Org is streaming across the tv. Opportunitpair call 415 65500. Again 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions and you will be muted and in listening mode only. When your item comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practises is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment to the budget and finance clerk at linda. Wong sof. Org. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as a part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 23rd unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much. Can you please call item number one . Yes, item number one, resolution authorizing and approving Telecommunications Facilities on a portion at 260 golden date avenue with new Singular Wireless for a tenyear term at 92,000 or monthly base of 7,600 indiscernible . Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items call 415 6550001. And then press pound twice if please dial 3 star and that will indicate you have raised your hand. Thank you very much and today, we have with us claudia goram, the Deputy Director of real estate. Good morning. As the resolution before you is for a renewal lease, at t has been on the site since 1996. Theyve been in a holdover situation for many years. It was a first initia initiatede former director and then the building was under the jurisdiction of the Fire Department and did not know if they wanted a Telecommunications Site on top of their building. Then jurisdiction switched to department of homelessness and negotiations continued. We fine clai finally came to ant in 2016 on the cost of the lease of the base rent, which stated is 7,969 a month and thats based on their square footage, and they added three antennas and basically updated their equipment that stayed within the same footprint and you still cant see it from the ground and now they would like to enter into a new lease with the terms as stated. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madam clerk, there is no report on this and lets open this up for Public Comment, please. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there is anybody ready. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue. Are there any callers wishing to comment on item number 1 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Thank you very much. Public comment for item number 1 is closed and i would like to move this item to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a role call vote, please. role call supervisor walton is absent. There are two ay session. Yes. Will you please call item number 2. Resolution authorizing the department of Public Health to expand monetary gift in the amount of 105,000 from an epic Charitable Fund as safety net prior for february 28th, 2020 through february 27, 2021. Members who wish to provide Public Comment call in and press pound twice. indiscernible . We have eri soup supervisor c health. Im here to represent a grant to the department of Public Health that comes to us by way of the supplier of our Electronic Health record platform epic systems. Annually, epic reviews customers who work in the safety net and makes determinations through their Charitable Fund of who might be worthy of annual gifts and in this case, we were selected. We probably were selected because we are new to the platform and were a significant safety net customer of the organization and just as a reminder, we went live on the epic platform not even a year ago, august 3, 2019 and weve actually made extensive use of that platform here in our covid19 response. I would also just like to make a note that we expect to use the funds from this gift to continue enriching the training and learning of all of the analysts and clinicians who use the epic platform. So we hope to reinvest this directly back into what were doing with regard to the use of this new information system. And i do want to make note that i believe this action is retroactive and my apologies for that. We obviously have had a lot of things going on. Im speaking to you from our covid19 Operation Center at the Mosconi Center and will be more diligent in making sure these things are attended to within the appropriate time frames. Thank you. Any questions or comments from my colleagues. Seeing none, there is no indiscernible . Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Would the queue please let us know if there are any callers wishing to speak on item 2. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for item 2. Item number 2 is closed and i would move this to the board lin to move this to the clerk. role call . There are three ayes. Please call item number 3. Resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and extend a monetary gift in amount of 79,000 from the friends of laguna honda for the purchase of equipment, materials, supplies and services and laguna honda who are unable to obtain them through april 5, 2020 to june 30, 221. Members should call 415 6550001 and access code 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, dial star 3 to speak. Thank you very much and today we have with us william frasier, Program Manager for the l laguna honda hospital. Thank you, supervisors, for allowing me to address you today and im sorry im not on camera. The friends at laguna honda is a Nonprofit Organization Whose Mission is to benefit the general wellbeing and quality of life for laguna honda residents through supporting nonmedical programs that otherwise would be unavailable. Theyve been supporting the laguna Honda Community for over 65 years and until recently, they supported our Community Via direct purchases of services, equipment and supplies and we recently changed their funding avenue to go through the laguna honda gift funds. Our friends have made a generous donation to the laguna honda gift fund and 4,553 will pay for one year of an existing contract with the arc for elders program. This provides art classes to the laguna honda residents. 36,800 has been donated for our centers of excellent wish list and this is a longstanding tradition that they have funded this program for many, many years. Program allows hospital departments, nursing units and other hospital programs acquire equipment that will directly be available to our residents and otherwise benefit them. Examples of purchasing made in the past or tech devices such as ipads, homelife furniture and additions to our animal assisted therapy program. And i can answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much. Seeing no questions or comments for my colleagues, madam clerk, please open this up for Public Comment, please. Operation is checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been muted. That dachair, there are no cs in the queue. Public item for number 3 is closed and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can we have a role call vote. role call . There are three ayes. Item number 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 1 million from the California Department of health for participation in the program entitled covid19 Crisis Response of march 1, 2020 through march 15, 2021. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001, access code 145 2541827 and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin comments. Thank you very much. We have mr. Douglas walsh with us and dre drew morale. Are you mr. Walsh or mr. Morale. Im mr. Walsh. The floor is yours. F. M. Ithank you. Im with the responf the Population Health division in the department of Public Health and ill be providing a brief overview of the cdc response grant. San Francisco Department of Public Health was provided two aloeallocations and the second n april 13, 20, for 270, 232. And the period of this grant award is march 5, 2020 to march 15, 2021. isdiscernable . This is the cdc and award funds for San Francisco and a larger sum passing through the state of california, department of Public Health, Emergency Preparedness office and that is awarded to our local health jurisdiction. Local Health Jurisdictions are providing apo with a spend plan and detailed work plan. The initial spend plan was provided to epo on april 17, 2020 and initial work plan was provided on april 23, 2020 and san Francisco Department of Public Health is responsible for submitting quarterly expenditure reports and work plan progress reports beginning june 15, 2020 and this was this past monday. This outlines an proximate 90 of covid19 grant funds that will be devoted to personnel with the remainder, approximately 10,000 for the procurement of personal protective equipment and 50,000 for other activationrelated costs, such as lab courier services, afterhours Answering Services for Disease Control and prevention and information translation services. As stated by the cdc, this is meant to support the greatest response needs to prevent, prepare for covid19. The more covid19 work plans are comprised of 67 activities spread across six domains defined as incident management for early Crisis Response, jurisdictional recovery, counter measures, surge management and biosurveillance. So personnel includes those for activities such as emergency operations, coordination, responder safety and health, identification of vulnerable populations and information sharing, emergency Public Information and warning risk communications, nonpharmaceutical interventions, quarantine and isolation support, use of medical material, surge management, Public Health coordination, infection control, Public Health surveillance and realtime reporting and Public Health laboratory testing. It will be directed to the area of quarantine and isolation support. The public Health Emergency preparedness and Response Branch will work closely with dph finance colleagues, state, local and federal partners to ensure accurate reporting and documentation of the expenditure of the covid19 Emergency Response funds and associated workplan activities. Thank you for your time and im available for questions. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . I have one. The work plans, are they public viewing . Yes, they are. Where are they posted . We can have them posted to the public Health Emergency to the link on the it would be the Communicable Disease site under Emergency Preparedness and response and this is their website there. Thank you very much. Seeing no comments or questions, can you call for Public Comment. Operation, please let us know if there are comments ready. Please press star 3 to be added to the queue and if youre on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been muted. Please let us know if there are any callers wishing to comment on item number 4 . Madam chair, no callers in the queue for item 4. Thank you very much. Public comment is closed and madam clerk, i would like to make a motion to move this with a positive motion. Could we have a role call vote, please. Please. role call . There are three ayes. Thank you for your presentation and madam clerk, can you call item number 5. Item number 5, resolution authorizing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to expand to community indiscernible . For the coordination of assessment of the community performance. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001, code 145 2541872 and press pound twice. Dial star 3 to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin comments. We have del rosario with us today. Good morning, supervisors and thank you for being here, for listening and i am representing the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and supporting the Soma Community Stabilization Fund, cac for the last 14 years. So as you know, the fund was created in 2005. We didnt get any funding until the 2010 because of the recession and now we are almost at ten years and our intention is to do a comprehensive assessment of the funds to date. As you know, the soma fund was primarily funded through impact fees coming from linkcon hill and we were also added to the central soma plan and we will be receiving additional 45 million in fees from that plan and before we receive those monies, the plan is to conduct a new Strategic Plan to guide the expenditures that will be coming from the central soma plan and before we do that, we feel it is important to do a comprehensive strategic assessment of what weve done so far. Its including the investment and the role in influencing policy and also including how well weve been able to foster coordination among communitybased organizations to mitigate the impact of the development thats happened in the neighborhood and prevent the displacement of residents and small businesses. Ok, any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, there is no report on this. Madam clerk, can we open up number 5 for Public Comments. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue and if youre on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers commenting on item number 5. Yes, i have three callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Thank you. Hello caller. This is dr. Rowinna from the San Francisco state university. I wanted to talk about the Stabilization Fund and support it partnershi. I think its important to document how the city, Mayors Office and cac has supported the market and its residents. The community has in the past and continues to experience destabilization and due to real estate speculization, it will be how they stabilized this expect, mostly of immigrants and it is encouraging collaboration. I believe they will gain insight from their residents. indie indiscernible . Next speaker, please. My name is Melody Hernandez and im a part of the proposed Assessment Team executive want o make myself available to answer any questions you might and provide information about the reason why im excited to become involved with this program. Ive had some involvement with the Summer Community fund through a periphery role and have developed some relationships with some of these organizations that have provided me with the opportunity to really see this is kind of the perfect time to do an assessment like this. Theres a lot of knowledge within the community that would be helpful to be shared with the Broader Community and especially when considering to continue programs like this on a Stabilization Fund. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. Im with the united players and i am soma respect. Resident. You urge you to support this request. How could we not stop and ask how did we did. As we receive another 45 million, its important that we look at what has happened to improve upon the processes, the investments to make sure that we are getting the most impact as possible. Thank you so much. Madam chair, there are no other callers in the queue. Public comment is closed. I would like to make a motion with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, a role call vote, please. role call . There are three ayes. Can you please call item number 6. Resolution approving modification to contracts, project Management Support Services for the San Francisco international airport, three connector projects with pgh, long and partners to increase the amount by 7. 5 million for a new indiscernible . Members of the public who wish to comment should call 415 6550001, access code and then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand approximately please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Thank you very much. Today we have Kathy Weidner from the San Francisco international airport. Good morning. Good morning. Im behalf of the San Francisco international airport. Item number 6 requests approval of modification number 5 to an existing project Management Support Services contract with pgh wong and partners for the airports courtyard project to increase the contract amount by 7. 5 million. The services includes in this contract are design and construction management, project controls, contract administration, cost estimating, lead commissioning, yield inspections and that Materials Testing and this contract is the result of the 2017 competitive request for proposals process. The budget for the project Management Support Services has increased from the original budget amount of 11. 5 million to 17. 25 million for an additional which includes infrastructure requirements, a new elevator cap, Net Zero Energy initiatives, special systems room, infrastructure relocation and an upgrade of selected systems. This also includes the interim relocation of the Airport Security Operations Center and communions center. Communications center. As with other projects before this city, the airport has evaluated the courtyard project that it will not be suspended due to the name of this facility. The airport staff have identified 35 of the remaining Capital Improvement Program Budget and this 35 will be suspended for six months while we look to a Financial Recovery as a result of the influx from the covid19 public Health Emergency. The Budget Analyst Office has reviewed this in modification and recommends approval and i would be happy to answer any questions you might have. Thank you. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, could we please have a vote. Good morning, can you hear me . Yes, we can, thank you, miss campbell. Im with the Budget Office and following up on what miss weidner said, this includes an existing agreement with the airport for services for the courtyard to reconnect their project. It does not change the term but increases the amount by 7. 5 million from 9. 5 million to 17. 2 million and the reasons for the increase are co due to an increase in the overall scope of the project management services. We do summarize on page 3 of our report, the total budget over the remaining term or over the total term of the agreement of 17. 2 million is shown on page 5 and details on the increase of 7. 5 million are on page 6. Based on representations of the airport is in need, we do recommend approval. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added and for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates. Please let us know if there are callers on item number 6. Madam chair, no callers in the queue for item number 6. Public comment is now closed on item number 6 and i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a role call vote. role call . There are three ayes. Can you please call item number 7. Resolution of approving number one for the International Terminal and Luxury Stores between dss group and the city for the base rent under leaseforlease ending on december 31st to commend board approval. Members the public who wish to provide Public Comment call 415 6550001, access code 145215647 and if you have not done so, please press star 3 to speak. Please wait until the next has indicated you have been unmuted to begin your comments. Thank you very much. We have, again, miss Kathy Weidner. Thank you. Kathy weidner for the San Francisco international airport. This item seeks approval for the first modification to an existing lease with dfs group to suspend the minimum annual guarantee rent of 42 million and allow for payment of percentage rent equal to 33 of gross revenues for the remainder of lease year one which is through december 31st, 20. This is the result of a competitive request for proposals process and originally approved by the board of soup stores in 2018 for 12 facilities totaling 46,295 square feet with an initial term of 14 years and a minimum annual guarantee rent of 42 million a year. Dss is a partnership because the dss group and five federally federally certified airport, disadvantaged business enterprised owners. Dss has been operating under an initial Development Period during which stores are renovated and rent is held at 30 of gross revenues and this ended on march 31st, initiating the base year, 14year term rent with the full rent of 42 million a year. Prior to the declaration of the covid19 public Health Emergency in the united states, dss was seeing a significant decrease in passenger traffic in sales and china dealt with the financial impacts of the global pandemic. Under the proposed amendment for lease year one, dss would be temporarily suspended and would pay a percentage rent of 33 of gross revenues. At this time, we do believe that for lease year two, dss group would revert to paying the greater of the mag on gross revenues. However whe, there may be a time when a rent release payment for all airport professions is appropriate given the projected Financial Recovery timeline for some of the financial impacts. If that were to be the case, we would return to the board for the lease year two, if there was any modification. The Budget Analysts Office has reviewed this modification and recommends approval and i would be happy to any questions. I see supervisor walton in the queue. indiscernible . Are there other vendors that are looking to renegotiate the same terms with . So at this point, all airport tenants are paying a percentage rent. There is boilerplate language in all concession leases that if it falls below 80 , mags are suspended. The percentage rent included in the contract with 45 of gross revenues which we do not believe is financially feasible given the numbers that were seeing. So were coming to you because this is lowering that boiler plate language in that 33 . Thank you very much. And could we get the report please, miss campbell . Yes, members of the committee, this is the First Amendment to a concession agreement between the airport and dcs group. It suspends the minimum guaranteed rent of 42 million for the term from april 2020 to december of 2020 and as miss weidner pointed out, there is a percentage rent from 45 of gross revenues to 33 of gross revenues expect reason fo and te percentage rent are summarized on pages 11 and 12 of our report. Actual revenues anticipated by the airport during the suspension period is about 11. 3 million and based on representation by the airport, we are recommending approval of the propose the resolution. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can we open this up for Public Comment. Operation is checking to see there are any calls in queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers that are ready. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have. Unmuted. Are there any callers on item number 7 . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for number 7. Thank you. I would like a motion to make this with a positive recommendation. Can we have a role call vote. role call . Thank you very much. Can you please call items 8, 9 and 10 together. Resolution approval and agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health for thirdparty services for the San Francisco program for an amount not to exceed 35. 3, from july 5th, 2022020 through june 30, 2025 ad item number 9, agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health of private Provider Services for the San Francisco program and for a total amount not to exceed 24. 9 million for a fiveyear term through june 30 of 2025. A resolution approving an agreement between the San Francisco Community Health authority and the department of Public Health for a thirdparty add minutthirdpartyadministrata total of five years from july 1st, 2020 through june 30, 2025. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 415 6550001, access code 145 2541827 and press pound twice and if you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. It will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you became begin comments. Thank you. Today were have michelle wiggles with us and i think that you cannot access your video, is that right . Thats correct. That is fine. Do we have the director of dph, office of manage care . I see her on my list but maybe she isnt here. So michelle, please, the floor is yours. Thank you. And im sorry i cant make my camera work. Miss wong, are you able to pull up that one visual . If you have a copy of the memo you received yesterday, the attachment has graphic. indiscernible . The healthy San Francisco Program Allows access to comprehensive Health Services in San Francisco for enrolled participants and then the San Francisco City Option Program provides benefits to employees whose employers are subjected to the healthcare and meet their spending requirements. The healthcare ordinance allowed the department of Public Health to go out to bid im sorry, not to bid, but well, to contract out for thirdparty Administrative Services. We opted for the city program. And the reason that we did that is because they were already back since 1994, operating the sanfrancisco medicale plan and they had all infrastructure in place to to enable the operations and administration of the Third Party Administrative services. So the three contracts before you today are the these are ongoing services. Theyre new contracts the first one is a healthy San Francisco Administrative Services and in that respect, theyre doing all of the management. Theyre enrolling people into the program, checking eligibility and theres a Customer Service. Its listed here and alice c coniadi, the office for the Public Health is on the phone and can ask lots of specifics. So thats one contract. Its the thirdparty for the health San Francisco program. Within that program, enrollees have an option to have different Providers Networks and so and being served in those different provide networks that are not just in the department of Public Health and the healthy San Francisco program reimbursing the private providers, the providers of care. If youre enrolled and participating, your employer can make the ordinance which has three options well, they can buy insurance for you, just as we have through our own jobs here with the government. Also, theres three programs and they can go into a reimbursement account providing contributions into the mra, medical reimburse account that the employee uses for their eligible expenses or opt into the healthy San Francisco program and your employer would contribute to support the cost of your participation and then the third option is newer. It wamayor lee amend the ordinas a result Affordable Care act. The third contract before you do is 30 million, 357 i is for opg all managing the accounts, enrolling you and just enrolling you and employees move around, and so if you enroll or go to a new job, youll have a new enrollment, but i think the report the budget and legislative analyst did a nice job collecting all of this information and so, it essentially for the Third Party Administrator services, theyre doing enrollment, Customer Service and theres a lot of Information Technology that goes along with managing the account. And so thats the overview. I will leave it there and if you have more specific questions about how the programs work, or what the contracts are funding, ill turn that over to alice. Could we have the reports on 8, 9 and 10 . Each resolution approved three new contracts between dph and the community by Health Authority for health San Francisco and the city option. Item number 8 is for 35. 3 million over five years for thirdparty Administrator Services and item number 9 is 24. 9 million over five years to administer provider payments and then item number 10 is 49 million over five years to thirdparty Administrative Services for the city option, which is to summarize some of these programs. Tables 13 on our report on pages 17 and 18 give the budget to these contracts. Because these contracts are consistent with the healthcare ordinance, we recommend approval. Thank you very much. Lets open this up for Public Comment for 8, 9 and 10. Operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Please let us know if there are callers that are ready and if you have not done so, press star 3 to be added. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on items 8, 9 and 10. There are no callers in the queue. Ok, thank you very much. I just have one question and i think you can probably answer this. So are these contracts identical, pretty identical to the prior contracts and have the Health Authorities always been the thirdparty administrators . It sounds like that is so . indiscernible . So the contracts have been very similar to the past contracts and some of the activities are slightly different because every year we do Different Program initiatives, but the overall structures and the Overall Services are identical to past contracts. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions . Seeing Public Comment has been closed, lets make a motion to move items 8, 9 and 10 to the full board with a positive recommendation and madam clerk, can we please have our role call vote. role call . Any other business before us today . There is no other business . Thank you very much. We are adjourned. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. Now in terms of essential workers and whats available. What we plan to have this summer and what people can do to either sign up or what other programs to do to prepare under the new guideline for the programs that they want to make available to people. So, lets get started. Phil, you we hit the ball running, both you and maria su got together because we knew the schools were going to close. But we also knew that there was an essential workforce out there. People who were driving muni, people who were working at hospitals. They had children. They needed child care. They were concerned about taking their children to their elderly parents. They couldnt leave them at home. Tell us a little bit about the program that you established that is available currently and will potentially be extended once programming starts for june 15 during the summer. Thank you, mayor. Yeah. You asked us as soon as the schools closed to start thinking about our kids and working families, particularly our Health Care Workers and First Responders and people who were needed to help in the citys response. And so the department of children, youth and family and Recreation Park Department are working closely together under the guidance of department of Public Health, set up an emergency child care system that is now in its 12th week. We, over time, served over 475 kids, 19,000 hours of child care offered during that time and we served over 4,000 meals at over 25 different sites. The program runs between 6 30 in the morning and 7 30 p. M. And kids have been involved in Distance Learning and a little bit of recreation and its really been, you know, wasnt what we were used to doing and we had to stand it up pretty quickly, but it has been an amazing experience and im really grateful for my partner in runing this thing, maria, and the department of youth and family who have been terrific. And i want to just add because i know that, you know, sadly, you had these kids and these pods with limited number of social distancing. These are kids coming together on a regular basis. Something similar to what were going to be doing this summer. And, unfortunately, there have been people who have made nasty comments or complained or even yelled at, you know, the kids. And so what i want to say to people is to back off and mind your own business and to leave kids alone. Because at the end of the day, these are kids whose family members are putting their lives on the line to help support this city. So, i cant reiterate enough that its important that folks really just stay in their lane, mind your own business. Were providing essential service. And we want to extend this and make this available to more kids. So, lets talk a little bit about phil, can you just talk a little bit about june 15 . Sure. Were going start programming and were going to extend the number of kids that were able to serve. Not just in our park system, but our overall Summer Program so i want you, phil, to touch on what will be available for our park system, both for our young people and our teenagers and then were going to jump into maria su to talk about programming in general. Sure. So, our child care operation its summer, and child care was intended to operate while during the school year while the School System when the School System was closed and what families and kids are used to during the summer is camp. Youre right. The truth of the matter, it will look somewhat similar in that were going to have pods of 12, but beginning june 15, rec and park between rec and park t private sector camp providers and our nonprofit providers we expect that there will be over 200 different camps available to kids can. We are going to prioritize. Kids of parents who are working in essential businesses, who are part of the citys response, who are, you know, in allowable businesses and, frankly t kids who need us the most right now. Many of our kids in the city have been without their coaches and mentors for going on 10 weeks and we want to reengage and make sure that these kids, above all else, have something to do this summer. So, starting june 15, camp providers will be allowed to operate. Theyre going to need to certify that theyre going to comply with the health order and guidance coming out of Public Health, which means kids still need to be in pods of 12 for older kids. The minimum session for camp providers will be three weeks and the boll rationale behind that is to keep kids from normally during a normal summer kids go to one week of this camp and one week of another camp and the health and our Public Health officials have asked us to keep kids together in a consistent pod. So well have three threeweek sessions beginning june 15. At rec and park, were planning over 25 different camps. We expect there to be another 40 to 50 private camp providers operating in our park system. I believe that maria is estimating nearly 100 nonprofit camp providers will operate around the city and then there are some other muscle private providers that will be operating on, you know, nonpark property in different spaces. Were going to start working with camp providers as quickly as possible, right after were done speaking with you. And for our camps, for rec and park camps, well begin priority registration on may 26 for all of the participants that are currently in our Emergency Child Care Program and our kids in our Scholarship Program who are a little bit more vulnerable and who really, really need us. Were going reach out to those populations first and then citywide, registration for rec and park camps will begin on june 6. All of this information will be laid out on the department of children, youth and familys website, dcyf cares. Org. And ill turn it over to maria to talk about the other providers and program staffing. Thank you, phil. Thank you, mayor, for this opportunity to share with our residents of the work that were doing right now. So, like the mayor shared, we are in the process of expanding the opportunities for families, particularly for summer. Were really excited about this because, as a parent myself who has two children, this is going to be great opportunity for our young our young people to go out there and engage with others and just really address the social isolation issues that we know is happening in our families right now. So dcyf is really excited to be partnering with rec and parks and the rest of our summer providers in the city to stand up all of these programs for the dcyfspecific agencies, which are the nonprofit agencies, that our department provides supports to, we are going to be working with them to open up camps and programs that they will then be made available for all of our families. We are looking at around 100 programs that will be available for families starting june 15. We are asking all of our nonprofit agencies to follow Health Guidelines, which still has shared, restrictive groups of young people in consistent threeweek programming at a minimum. We will also put on our website, dcyf. Org care. More information around the health order, around the drexives and the guidelines, with how private camps are also fulfill all of those requirements and then document that they are going to open up. So look for that website to go live actually the website is live now. But look for the forms to go live soon. Great. And over time, mayor, i think were going to try to inventory try to provide parents with as much information as we can about all of the camp opportunities because we have to think about it as a network this summer because of the Health Guidelines. So, we hope to be able to have a list and some reference materials for not just rec and park camps, but all of the private camps happening around the city, too. Yeah. And i want to touch a little bit because, you know, child care has been important because we have allowed that to continue for essential workers. Can you talk a little bit, maria, what we can expect as it relates to the 0 to 5 age group and what might be available during the summer . Yes. So, were really excited that this new health order that you have authorized with our Health Department to allow the expansion of Child Care Services for more families. So, there are child care programs for children 0 to 5 right now that are providing services for our essential workers and other allowable businesses. Under this new health order, we are now opening that opportunity for more families. We have hear that there are families out there who are working, who need care, who really, really need care for their children. And for children to need to need opportunities to be with their friends. So, this health order will allow more families to have access to these slots, these child care slots. I do want to caution folks that we are still following Health Guidelines and so the slots are going to be limited. We are restricted to a Smaller Group of children per site. So i just want to set expectations for everyone that its not just usual child care as we remember how it was a year ago. Yeah. And i do think its great that, you know, this is providing an opportunity for kids to come together. So were talking about pods of 12 within the course of a summer camp or preschool or in other arenas so that not only can kids can parents get to work, but also it gives these children an tounlts interact with one another because im sure, especially if it is a child who doesnt have any siblings, to be able to play with another kid was like i know everything for me as a kid and i just feel so awful that these kids cant go out there and enjoy one another. This is an opportunity and a great opportunity. But i also, sadly, know it is a very limited opportunity. But do want to touch on, you know, teenagers because i know one of things that happens often times they are always left out. So i am commited to making sure that opportunities for all is available so that we have paid internships for kids during the summer. And that we make that available, especially for our teenagers. Because, you know, already theyre missing their graduations and activities and events. And we want to make sure that they have a productive summer as well and theyre not left out. So, maria, make you can touch on what might be happening with opportunities for all and i know that with rec and park, we have a number of teens that are going to be working and helping with these camps during summer. Lets talk a little bit about, you know, how kids who are teenagers can sign up for some of the programs. Thank you, mayor. So actually a lot of our programs are doing a lot of connections to young people now but theyre doing it remotely. Theyre doing a lot of wellness checks and followup on what academic support these young people need. So, once again with this health order, were now allowed to have facetoface and inperson connections with these young people. So, were going to work closely with our nonprofit agencies to help young people connect to internship opportunities or actual Job Opportunities at some of these Summer Programs or at offices that are slowly opening up. So, theres great opportunities for private sector folks who are now interested who are opening up and would be interested in being a mentor for a young person this summer. That would be amazing. However, if that is not available, our young people are actually engaging in projectbased learning right now. So a lot of our young people in our Workforce Program will be doing Small Projects that are that is remote for the agencis that theyre assigned to. There will be engagement but it is so much better if the engagement is in person and not remote. I do how do they sign up . Like a teenager that wants to participate and have access to a paid internship . For now, were directing everyone to go to dcyf. Org care so they can find out whats available in the community and make sections there. I also do want to say that, for young people and for families who are struggling right now because there are young people and familis who are struggling right now we do have a website that is available and under the mayors leadership, she wanted to prioritize mental Health Services for families and for our essential workers and other service providers. For those who are struggling and who need support, please go to fieldSan Francisco. Org to learn more about different resources for parents, for young people and for adults and service providers. And also can we call 311 and be referred if we dont have access to the internet . Yes. Well definitely make sure that thats possible. Great. Great. We want to make it as easy for people as possible because i know sometimes you jump on a website and trying to figure it out or if you dont have Internet Access but want to ma you are that your friend knows that this might be available for their family. Talk about what some of the teens are going to be doing in your program this summer. Sure. For the last 607 years, San Francisco has had a program called workreation, where we actually fund teenagers, kids between the ages of 14 and 17 to work in our camps. And because of your leadership and focus on getting these camps opened safely and getting kids an experience, were hiring approximately 200 kid this is summer that will be counselors in the camps that we just talked about. I also think there is an amazing opportunity, mayor, for those private camp providers that want to operate this summer to hire teenagers. Heres why. The health order and the Health Guidance requires a minimum of two staff for every pod of 12 kids. And for private camp providers used to operating with a ton of kids and a few staff, you wont able to do that this year and staff wont be able to move around between pods during the camp session. For private camps to operate, they need to be very wellstaffed and we highly, highly recommend that private camp providers hire teenagers to help and provide some support in making sure that your camps operate safely and smoothly and gives these kids a great experience and opportunity to make some money. I want to provide an example because, for example, we have been providing a camp at well, i guess it is called a camp, i dont know what it is called, but we have been providing support for young people whose families are essential workers at Hamilton Rec Center. So Hamilton Rec Center has several rooms that could be used. So, i know that the plan is there is going to be probably two or three pods of 12. And each of those pods have their own rooms and their own activities around their rooms and they are also able to go outside and enjoy the field but not in the same pod, although they have their workers that are assigned to their pods. So, it provides for more opportunity to support more young people. So, the good news is even when theyre in these situations, theyre social distancing, but you know how it is when youre a kid and youre out playing, most likely youre going to somehow have some interaction where you might touch or be next to each other. So that is really why the importance of keeping these pods to what they are is significant in preventing the spread of the virus and giving these kids a chance to have their community of people to hang out with. Yeah. I think that is what were going for. It is super important for kids to first of all get outside and reengage and, yes, there will be indoor spaces. But a lot more emphasis on being outside this summer for children. And as you know, mayor, for them to be together and hang out and a under the Health Guidance to your very early point for those who are concerned about the health of our children, under the Health Guidance, kids within the same pod can play sports. They can do certain activities. So, k they play basketball together . Can they together, within the same pod. They can do those activities. And that is why this whole pod concept is very important. Our Public Health officials have been focused on minimizing risk. It is impossible to eliminate it 100 . But minimizing it. And that is the whole premise of these long threeweek sessions and these pods of 12. Depending upon which spaces a camp uses a camp may be able to have only one pod of 12 kids but may be able to have two pods or even three pods. As you know in hamilton or season seth rec center where the richmond or jolie, some of our buildings have multiple spaces, some schools where camps might operate have have multiple spaces. And then weve got the best park system in the country. So, we have plenty of outdoor spaces as well. For each pod, each pod requires a minimum of two staff people and staff cannot circulate between pods. So, again, for all you private camp providers out there, hire kids to help you this summer. All right. Well thank you all so much for the insight. Im sure a lot of parents are excited about this. I am hopeful that, you know, some of the in addition to the private the public camps that well provide with rec and park and a number of rec centers and nonprofit partners will be able to provide a sufficient number of locations within the Public Sector and hopefully in combination with the private sector, many of our kids can have an enjoyable, effective, fun summer. So, we appreciate that and for more information, make sure that we reach out to department of children youth and families on the website or call 311 and before we wrap it up, i do want to talk a little bit about this weekend because its memorial day weekend and typically everyone first of all, the weather in San Francisco, even today, is gorgeous. And most of the time people want to go out and have barbecues and hang out with friends and family and i really like the idea of what you did in terms of circles in park to make it clear like you have to stay away from each other. We want to be next to each other so bad. But at the same time, were doing so well. We still see the numbers of infections going up. But we see the number of hospitalizations going down, the number of those who are in i. C. U. Going down. San francisco is doing well. And the last thing we want to do is get too comfortable and all of a sudden go backwards so we still need people to keep their distance. We still need people to wear masks. We still need people to wash their hands regularly wash your hands but phil, tell us a little bit about what we can expect with the parks this weekend because we are, as much as we know people would want to use the parks, well be out in force regulating during memorial day weekend. Again, we dont want to shut down any parks but if it comes down to that point where things are out of control and arent following the guidelines, we wont have a choice. We really need people to be on their absolute best behavior. So, tell us about what we can expect with our parks this weekend. Sure. I mean, mayor, you covered it perfectly, which is that, look, our parks are super important right now. They are the one place where people can get outside, get some exercise, connect with nature and you have been amazing at making sure that these spaces are open and accessible. But for them to stay open and accessible, people need to do the right thing and over the last 10, 11 weeks, most people have been. But we need to focus and not ease up so you can be outside but you have to socially distance. We still recommend that you wear a mask. No partying, you know, no big events, no big picnics. Just enjoy nature and enjoy a little time with your own immediate family or your own roommates. We will have park ranger, San Francisco Police Department, Police Officers. Well have sheriffs cadets, fire cadets, Police Cadets and the neighborhood Emergency Response team, all doing education and outreach. There are over 1500 signs in all of our parks indicating what you can and cant do. Just do the right thing so we dont put the mayor in a position where she needs to take more drastic action. It is amazing, mayor, in a lot of cities just threw their hands up and say, oh, parks closed because we dont want to deal with it. You havent done that. Youve kept parks open for people. So, you know, were all asking the public to do the right thing this weekend. The weather will be nice. You will want to get outside. If you have to get in a car, its too far. So go to your neighborhood park, enjoy it. But socially distance. If youre deloris or jackson or the marina green or washington square, weve offered a little bit of popup behavioral art to inspire you to claim your own space. That is the circles that are in some of the parks. And, you know, theyre intended to be joyous and inspirational, but intended to remind everyone that we need to be mindful as we continue to fight this virus. And i just want to say that please dont get offended if, you know, our park rangers or someone walks up to you and asks you, you know, are you guys in the same household just to, you know, make sure that people are following these orders. We have a responsibility. And the other thing is, if youre not the police, then please dont act like youre the police. We dont need you to walk and regulate and tell other people what to do because that creates more drama. It creates more tension. So we are doing the very best we can. We want to make this park and open Space Available to you because we know how challenging this has been. For the most part, san franciscans have followed the order and we are so fortunate that we have amazing residents in the city who are taking this seriously, even though not everyone is complying which has made life difficult in some respects. But please let us deal with that. Were doing our very best to try and reduce this curve to the point of it being nonexistence because i know how badly we want to get back to being out there, to going to work and allowing kids to play. But the fact is coronavirus is with us for some time. It is not about getting back completely to normal. Its about adjusting to our new normal in a responsible way. It is going to take time. Its going to take ai, patience. We appreciate everyone for what you continue to do to help San Francisco be a leader in this effort. Thank you, phil ginsburg, thank you, maria su for your insight. For more information call 311. I know there might be a lot of questions also about the schools and other things. Were happy to continue these conversations based on your feedback. Based on your questions. Because many of us are doing the very best we can. This is not like anything any of us have ever expected. So, were all in this together. Were going to get through this together and that requires us to continue to be patient, get information to you as soon as it is available and just really try to come together, lift one another up, enjoy the memorial day weekend. And thank you all so much for your cooperation. Have a great weekend and well see you next week. The goal is simple. Its to raise womens voices. Learn a little bit about what you should be thinking about in the future. We had own over 300 over 300 people who signed up for the oneonone counseling today. I think in the world of leading, people sometimes discount the ability to lead quietly and effectively. The Assessors Office is a big one. There are 58 counties in the state of california and every single county has one elected assessor in the county. Our job is to look at property taxes and make sure that we are fairly taxing every single property in San Francisco. One of the big things that we do is as a result of our work, we bring in a lot of revenue, about 2. 6 billion worth of revenue to the city. Often, people will say, what do you do with that money, and i like to share what we do with property taxes. For every dollar we collect in property taxes, about 68 cents of it goes to support public sstss, our Police Officers, our Fire Departments, our streets, our cleaning that happens in the city. But i think what most people dont know is 34 cents of the dollar goes to public education. So it goes to the state of california and in turn gets allocated back to our local school districts. So this is an incredibly important part of what we do in this office. Its an interesting place to be, i have to say. My colleagues across the state have been wonderful and have been very welcoming and share their knowledge with me. In my daytoday life, i dont think about that role, being the only Asian American assessor in the state, i just focus on being the best i can be, representing my city very well, representing the county of San Francisco well. By being the only Asian American assessor, i think you have a job to try to lift up and bring as many people on board, as well. I hope by doing the best that you can as an individual, people will start to see that your assessor is your elected leaders, the people that are making important decisions can look like you, can be like you, can be from your background. I grew up with a family where most of my relatives, my aunties, my uncles, my parents, were immigrants to the united states. When my parents first came here, they came without any relatives or friends in the united states. They had very little money, and they didnt know how to speak english very well. They came to a place that was completely foreign, a place where they had absolutely nobody here to help them, and i cant imagine what that must have been like, how brave it was for them to take that step because they were doing this in order to create an opportunity for their family. So my parents had odd jobs, my dad worked in the kitchens, my mom worked as a seamstress sewing. As we grew up, we eventually had a small business. I very much grew up in a family of immigrants, where we helped to translate. We went to the restaurant every weekend helping out, rolling egg rolls, eating egg rolls, and doing whatever we need to do to help the family out. It really was an experience growing up that helped me be the person that i am and viewing Public Service the way that i do. One of the events that really stuck with me when i was growing up was actually the rodney king riots. We lived in Southern California at the time, and my parents had a restaurant in inglewood, california. I can remember smelling smoke, seeing ashes where we lived. It was incredibly scary because we didnt know if we were going to lose that restaurant, if it was going to be burned down, if it was going to be damaged, and it was our entire livelihood. And i remember there were a lot of conversations at that time around what it was that government to do to create more opportunities or help people be more successful, and that stuck with me. It stuck with me because i remain believe government has a role, government has a responsibility to change the outcomes for communities, to create opportunities, to help people go to school, to help people open businesses and be successful. Make sure to be safe, and of course to have fun. And then, i think as you continue to serve in government, you realize that those convictions and the persons that you are really help to inform you, and so long as you go back to your core, and you remember why youre doing what youre doing, you know, i think you cant go wrong. Its funny, because, you know, i never had thought i would do this. I became a supervisor first for the city under very unusual circumstances, and i can remember one day, im shopping with friends and really not having a care in the world about politics or running for office or being in a public position, and the next day, im sworn in and serving on the board of supervisors. For many of us who are going through our Public Service, its very interesting, i think, what people view as a leader. Sometimes people say, well, maybe the person who is most outspoken, the person who yells the loudest or who speaks the loudest is going to be the best leader. And i think how i was raised, i like to listen first, and i like to try to figure outweighs to work with out ways to work with people to get things done. I hope that time goes on, you can see that you can have all sorts of different leaders whether at the top of City Government or leading organizations or leading teams, that there are really different kinds of leadership styles that we should really foster because it makes us stronger as organizations. Take advantage of all the wonderful information that you have here, at the vendor booth, at our seminars and also the oneonone counseling. I wouldnt be where i was if i didnt have very strong people who believed in me. And even at times when i didnt believe in my own abilities or my own skills, i had a lot of people who trusted and believed i either had the passion or skills to accomplish and do what i did. If there was one thing that i can tell young women, girls, who are thinking about and dreaming about the things they want to be, whether its being a doctor or being in politics, running an organization, being in business, whatever it is, i think its really to just trust yourself and believe that who you are is enough, that you are enough to make it work and to make things successful. The hon. London breed good morning, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us. As civic demonstrations continue around the world, we are emboldened by the protests and the calls for action to address the racial injustices and inequities in policing and Law Enforcement. These protests come at a time when our communities have been struggling even more because of the coronavirus. For too long, black people have been subjected to abuse at the hands of those in power. Now is the time that we can make sure that the demonstrations that we see are translated into real action. As has sadly been demonstrated by the death of george floyd, black communities are also disproportionately represented in our criminal justice system, so reforms go hand and hand both around Police Reforms and criminal justice reforms, as well. Weve seen in San Francisco a lot of real change but also knowing that we have a lot more to do. So we are really excited with this panel here today to talk about the work that San Francisco has already done but also our commitment to doing even more, including using the police in response to noncriminal activities, addressing police biases and strengthening our ability, and promoting economic justice. If were going to make real change, we need to fundamentally change the nature of policing itself. Here is an incredible opportunity, and so todays conversation will discuss other paths, criminal justice reforms that have been made in San Francisco, and joining us today, i am so excited to have van jones here. Now people know about his work around criminal justice reform, environment justice, and other things, but i remember when i was living in public housing, that was a time when African Americans would not always standup to the police. You would see this black man, van jones, on the news whenever there was an injustice, calling it out and pushing for a change. Hes been doing this work for over 25 years, and just imagine, at a time when it was not popular, that he especially as an African American man was a target, he had the courage to step up to fight, and hes still fighting. Thank you so much to van jones for joining us today. We also have board of equalization chair malia cohen, who when she and i were on the board of supervisors, we led so many Police Reforms. She was instrumental in banning the chokehold and other policies that we are now implementing in San Francisco even when others attacked her, when they came after her, she stood strong, she stood tall, and now, as a result of her work, we have a separate office of Police Accountability that she brought to the ballot, and we worked together to do some Amazing Things in our Police Department. Welcome, malia cohen, and finally, we have police chief bill scott. Chief scott has also been a partner for pushing for these Police Reforms here in San Francisco, and we all know that change is not easy, but hes been committed to working with our communities and working for change because we want better not only for our Police Department, we want better for our community. So thank you all so much for joining us here today. Im really excited to get us started on this panel, and i want to really start with you, van. The fact is i mean, the fact is youre still here, doing this work, and now, you have more people who are doing this work. And when you were doing this work, you were criticized, you were discriminated, you were threatened. At that time, there were a lot of beatings because i remember seeing them my he have personally. There was no Police Accountability then. Tell me, what does it mean to see it right now . First of all, its a crazy experience. To see you the mayor, its just that, its a whole word. To be looking at you, malia, and to be looking at chief scott, i dont think people understand what it was like just in the 90s in San Francisco. I mean, we literally had a shoot first ask first, ask questions later policy. I look back to when i was a kid, and i thought, what was i doing . In San Francisco, we had a policy of shooting, pepper spraying, and beating African Americans to death. Sean williams beaten and pepper sprayed to death by a Police Officer named mark andaya. We finally rose up and said we had enough. I remember that. We would go to 850 bryant, and we would use that, we would use that Public Comment to turn the Police Commission meetings into public rallies, and we finally got rid of that Police Officer. That finally put me on the National Stage because no one had gotten a Police Officer fired in 30 years. I cannot tell you how important it is, what youre doing. It is very hard. People need Law Enforcement. We just want Law Enforcement. We want the police to obey the law, and we want them to play their lane and let the counselors play their lane, let the yoga instructors play their lane, let everybody play their lane. But when the Police Officers are given too many jobs to do, and too little oversight, thats what were going to have, were going to have homelessness is a police issue, drug addicts are a police issue. When kid throws an eraser, its a police issue. Everything is a police issue. I just want to say that i cannot tell you how important it is for you to create a model, a reinvented Police Presence in San Francisco, that that can license people across the country to do the same thing. I dont want to go down memory lane. Weve got too many problems right now, but at this time a trip, 25 years later, to see people like you and the chief talking about things we were talking about 25 years ago. The hon. London breed yeah, it is amazing. And when you think about it, 25 years, and sadly, we still see African American men, for the most part, losing their lives at the hands of Law Enforcement. The hon. London breed and the question i ask myself is, why is it always African American men . We have a lot of wonderful officers out there developing relationships, trying to work with the community. I grew up not trusting Police Officers, and to bridge that gap was important, but we also know that there are racist cops, there are cops that dont see African Americans as human beings, and thats at the core of what we need to dismantle. So its not just the policies, its how do we completely rid our departments of people who have a problem with black people, with lgbtq people, with chinese people, with folks who are different than they are . Im trying to figure out what to call you, chair cohen, because im used to calling you supervisor, but im so glad that you could join this conversation because you were so heroic. I was focused on police reform, but you took it to a whole nother level, and you just ran with it. As a member of the board of supervisors, you didnt have to attend Police Commission meetings, but you sat there for hours. And the time you invested in getting rid of the chokehold and the attacks on the Police Officers association, and all the stuff that you pushed for, you see what were implementing. As you support policies, we used to have seven officer involved shootings, and then, over the past two years, we have seen three officer involved shootings, which none have resulted in death. What do you think about the work youve done, and what do you think we have to do . Because we definitely have more to do. Good morning, chief and van and mayor. Its good to be with you on this panel and be part of this incredible moment in time. You know, mayor breed, i really its a mixed emotion, right . So in many ways, im proud that we have the foresight to start these processes. We used the board of supervisors, and we also used the Police Commission, two very, very important systems that are complementary to each other. But also, i feel like we still have a lot of work to do. I feel like we need to continue to roll up our sleeves and to better our best to continue to have thoughtful conversations on police matters. When we are talking about Law Enforcement, i want to focus on at least in our city, we focus on San Francisco Police Department, but we also need to focus on those in custody and the San Francisco sheriffs department. I think one of the entities that deserves the highest credit to our citys success really has to do with civilian oversight. Weve got a great Police Commission, and we need to continue to strengthen that commission. I am proud of the department of Police Accountability that we that got passed in 2016 that voters approved with over 70 . So there is a lot of things to be proud of. But looking forward, and looking into the future, theres still much work that needs to be done. So im delighted to be on this today with you and chief and van so that we can continue to talk about and make these changes. Im an instigator. You are, van. You are. And i appreciate these conversations. Theyre uncomfortable, and its time to be uncomfortable because now, were having an honest conversation about the changes that we need to make for black people in this country. I talk about this as mayor and when i was supervisor, and its not just because im black. African americans are less than 6 of the population in San Francisco, but almost 40 are homeless. And almost 50 are involved in the criminal justice system. The kids are dropping out of high school. Everything you talk about, were disproportionately represented, and everything that we talked about, we cant congratulate ourselves until theyre a part of the success, and that success means a reform of policing. Chief scott, youve been a member of the department for a few years now. Youve been criticized about the implementation of the reform. The obama administration, in 2015, issued recommendations around 21 century policing, and we committed, in San Francisco back then, that we are going to implement those recommendations. There have been a lot of criticism because out of the 273 recommendations, San Francisco has only been able to implement 61. Now its not about checking a box. We want to make sure people understand when theyre doing antibias training, when theyre doing deescalation training, that they get it. So tell us why things are moving so slowly, and what can we expect moving forward, and how are we going to get to a better place around policing in our city . Yeah, thank you, mayor breed. Let me start off by answering your question about reform. 272 recommendations, that process was a longtime process in terms of what got us there. And really, what got us there are the officerinvolved shootings that san franciscans were outraged about. So of those 272 recommendations, 58 of them specifically deal with use of force, and i am happy to report to you all that we were in compliance with according to the department of justice on over half of our use of force revisions. Ill back up a step further in terms of the time that it takes. Reform is not like you just said in there, a checked box process, it is not that. Even with the 61 recommendations that we have completed, one of the things that we had to work on was whats the Continuous Improvement loop . So weve completed the recommendation, but what we had to put in place were systems of accountability so we dont rest on our successes and say were done. And when the california d. O. J. Looked at our work, you know, a lot of our work got kicked back for just that reason. We had cannot the work that we needed to do, but its whats next on the forefront. We had to go back like our officer involved shootings, we had town hauls. Its good for the communities to be transparent, to get the community have a say in letting us know what theyre thinking, feeling, but that recommendation, even though we were doing town hauls before i got here. What they found was we didnt have a feedback loop to converse with the community and each other after the town haul to say what can we do better . So we had to go back and institute a feedback loop to make sure that every time we have an incident, that we continue to look at it critically, and we continue to get better. Let me say this, and not to be too long winded, for all of you on the call, i and many of you applaud your leadership, because somebody had to step out and be the first one. Often times im not a biker, but i know a lot of bikers. They always talk about the first one in line, everybody goes behind them because its easier to follow. You were the first one in line, and strathat was instrumental get us to successes. Mayor breed, you had the same experiences in terms of being a leader. What youre trying to do in terms of redirecting our resources, thats leadership. Other people jumped behind you and said were going to do this, too. But what mr. Jones did back 25 years ago, thats not easy, but it makes it easier for people to stand behind you and push, so i just want to say, its a challenge, but were making progress, and we will continue to go. The hon. London breed chief, i just want to say that San Francisco is one thing, and we still have our problems, but when you look at whats still happening and i try not to get emotional, but what i saw in the video with george floyd, and even mario woods here in San Francisco. And when i see these things happen, im thinking about my brother, im thinking about my cousin and others and even those that i helped raise in this community and the fillmore, all black men, right . And then, i feel like why . Why is it always us, and how this conversation now, what people saw, weve been forced to live with it. Weve had no choice. But now, others are starting to emerge and look at this incredible opportunity. So i wanted to hear from you, you know, what do you think is going on nationally as to why were here, and do you think its going to lead to national change with Law Enforcement in our country . I think it is, we have the opportunity here. Listen, in the past two weeks, youve seen the emergence of a conversation on race. Most of the time, were getting gaslit; people saying oh, well, he was running, the police had to make a quick decision, and so people were getting desensitized to what we are seeing. But this was a lynching, a lynching. A white man strangling a black man to death, and his face looking peaceful the whole time. The only threat was the cops. You have to watch it one minute, two minutes, three minutes, four minutes, hes calling for his mother. His mothers been dead. Five minutes, urinating on himself. People screaming, youre killing him. Five times, he said he cant breathe. Weve been lynched for 400 years, but youve never seen it on a billion cell phones at the same time. Youve never seen it on 1 billion cell phones at the same time. In the 50s, a generation of black people, when they got to campus, campuses in the 50s, they took off. The picture, the Television Pictures of those dogs being sicced on children in birmingham in 63, the whole world moved. That young child who held that video camera put a shard of glass into every video camera in the planet, and so now, they are a part of that, they dont know what to do, and that creates an opportunity for people to say hey, we have ideas. Weve been trying to tell you, and we have a perfect video of a perfect murder in daylight with cell phone cameras and body cameras on. I know you get it now. What do we do . Im part of a National Movement matt haney your good friend matt haney and i created something called cut 50 several years to try to get some bipartisan support on that movement. We now have republicans and democrats trying to Work Together in congress right now to try to do something right now, to try to get a bill passed. All of these steps that weve been taking along the way have brought us to this point. I believe that you have 30 to 40 million white people in america right now who maybe believe three things. Number one, racism is real or more real than we thought, somethings wrong with the system when it comes to police and criminal justice, and what can i do . Im going to tell you, as an old guy, thats a miracle. Ive never seen that, and so i do think more is possible. We have to be very, very clear that at the end of the day, we have to reimagine and reinvent policing itself. The kids are saying defund the police, defund the police. Everybody is mad at the kids for saying that. But if you double click on that defund the Police Slogan i understand that people dont like that the ideas are about reinventing and reforming the police and giving them the right resources to social services and everything so the police dont have to do everything. So theres something now out there that can do that. But what i say to you is this no longer being gaslit every time we Say Something is happening thats racial, and having to climb a 1,000mile mountain of proof when we know what the hell is going on and everybody else. When nascar says you cant bring confederate flags anymore, when the nfl supports people kneeling, theres something happening. Y the hon. London breed you have people stepping down from boards, saying put a black person in my place. You have juneteenth celebrations, and a lot of folks dont even know what juneteenth is. Ive got to say, part of it is i pray that this is not a fad for people, you know . I want this to be real, and i also dont want people to keep treating this, you know, in some ways, like a joke. Theres a lot of blood, sweat, and tears that have gotten us to this moment, and so i want us to be active in this energy for getting change. Eric garcetti in los angeles was one of the first to say im going to redirect funding for the Police Department to programs in the African American community, im like, how did you do that . He said hed already been working on it. He already had an amount, hed already been working on it. Im, like, not trying to jump on the band wagon, but at the same time, when i look at the police budgets, and i look at the African American community, and weve been talking about reparations and the need to invest in the African American community in this city, this is a need. This is not about a fad, this is about we have to be deliberate. And were not saying the Police Department were not saying we dont need Police Officers. Thats exactly what youre talking about, reenvision, reenvision. So when barbecue becky is saying, im in the park, and youre not supposed to barbecue in the park, and theres some black people barbecuing in the park. Is it a dangerous situation . Are people getting hurt . Why should police have to go out there in the first place because that could escalate things. Because being theres a tension and a lack of understanding and a breakdown, and that could escalate to somebody black getting killed. It could. So we have to be mindful of these things and, you know, i want to go back to chair cohen because, you know, like i said, the policies some of the policies that weve been pushing for are now being implemented along with more that needs to be done. So, for example, one of the things that you pushed for was around, you know, antibias training and the goal of trying to make sure that people who have, you know, some sort of disciplinary issues around biases on their record and those who have certain complaints and other things, that were able to basically hold them accountable and we make sure that we hold people accountable in their department. Tell us about what you have worked on and also more that you want to see here in San Francisco which hopefully could translate to other departments in the country. Chair cohen so one of the things that i think San Francisco has done well has to do with crisis intervention training. I think c. I. T. Training is important for every single officer that is on the street, and i would even take it a step further, and in addition to kri s crisis intervention training, deescalation techniques to try to calm the situation down before tasers are drawn. Just knowing that the San Francisco Police Department does not have tasers, but thats always in the backdrop and always a discussion, whereas our sheriffs are armed with them. But when i think about bias training, bias training is really interesting, and i remember prior to chief scott serving, when the previous chief was serving, we had many conversations, and quite frankly, mayor lee would go round and round, there was an attitude that not everyone needed biasunbias training. The truth is we all have biases that shape every day how we all interact. And as government officials, i think its important for us to look at these biases and deconstruct them, not only from a Law Enforcement perspective but also you think about your department heads, how they allocate their budget. Which departments are receiving money and which are not . These are all critical pieces to the puzzle because the responsibility does not solely rest on Law Enforcement. What did you say, van . Im just over here having church because thats the basis for peaceful streets. Thats what we want, peaceful streets. Thats the ecosystem, peaceful streets. Go to the suburbs. You have a whole system that makes it happen, not just the cops, peaceful streets. Go ahead. Chair cohen thank you, van. Its a universal attitudinal change, and i applaud you for trying to make a policy change to pull out Law Enforcement officers in an educational setting. I also want to recognize that we talk about neighborhood response and neighborhood watch, being critical and mindful that weve got next door, and often times on next door weve got these successful neighborhood vigilante putting up racist profiles that cause problems. You talked about barbecue becky. We think of the bird watcher in central park about how police have been weaponized and called onto punish, quite honestly, when the person is African American and male. So we need to envision, maybe we dont need Police Response for every single problem. Perhaps we need to have a Crisis Intervention Team that is trained to respond to issues that take place at lake mary or issues that take place in places such az centrs central. These changes are not new, but theres a real commitment, and weve got fresh leadership think about it. These are changes that were discussing that you and i havent been able to discuss since weve been serving in office, and weve been serving for at least ten years. There was an issue in the legislature yesterday that got out of assembly for, and that was bill 209. It was around 25 years. It was the First Campaign that i worked on, works agained aga legislation to repeal. Now here we are, working to get it on the ballot. Now what does prop 209 have to do with police . Oh, it has to do with it. When youve got womenowned businesses, minorityowned businesses, theyre vested. Theyre making an investment in their families, making an investment in their communities, and have the ability to stand with an incredible sense of pride. Overall, how that relates to organizations, how that relates to businesses, were all interconnected. And i think the moment we stop realizing oh, this is a police issue, oh, this is a Mental Health issue, oh, this is a womens issue, thats the moment that we begin to move forward in a very thoughtful way. But i think about other reforms. If you want me to go on, i can. I mentioned Community Policing being incredibly important. We talk about foot patrols, what that looks like. We talk about increasing Mental Health organizations, funding for service providers. We think about luis gongora, unfortunate situation where he was a homeless man, shot and killed in the streets of San Francisco. Now another issue that may be controversial but i want to mention it, we are transparent about officers records, having transparency in two areas the collection of data and the analysis of data. So we understand that chief, i believe this is a is this in the administrative code, was it 90a . 96a. Chair cohen thank you, 96a, which we both fought for when i was on the board of supervisors that would change the way that data is collected. One thing that i believe in, and it comes from my days at carnegiemellon, until we review the data, we really dont know what the hell is going on. We rely on somebody else to interpret the data for us, but we need to start collecting data nationally. How many black men are killed at the hands of police. We need data on who is stopped and how frequently, what is the badge number and stars of the officer. We are looking for patterns of misconduct, and we can glean that out when looking at the data. So pivoting back to president obamas 21st century policy on policing, we can do that. We had 272 recommendations made to us, and that takes time. Were talking about changing not only peoples hearts and minds, band believes, but their hearts and minds. I believe that people that serve in the Police Department, Law Enforcement, the Fire Department, we have a calling to do good in every day peoples lives, to protect their rights. So there are good people among them and their very bad people. You know, the code of silence, of protecting those that are bad, weve got to change that also because its making all of us in Public Service look poor and unresponsive, and i think that the protesters have really nailed it. I think new york just recently passed just yesterday some legislation to increase transparency on Law Enforcement officers on their background. If youre fired from the San Francisco Police Department, why the hell should you be hired in antioch, in the Police Department . Theres always loopholes, and theres gray areas. The hon. London breed and hell say, chair cohen, a lot of the things that you were talking about, the issues around, for example, their records and other things, those are things that were implementing, those are the next steps, along with the responsibility for an officer to intervene when they see Excessive Force being used. So when you think about it, the fact that those officers in George Floyds case, hey, man, get off his neck, and the fact that they were so cavalier and passive, i just it just baffles me. Theyre hopefully going to be prosecuted, theyre hopefully going to be held accountable because theyre just as much guilty for the death of george floyd. Heres my issue the fact that any Police Officer would think what they saw is okay because its a procedure, its all in their procedures is a problem, and so i think what we are getting people to understand is you can no longer hide behind procedure. Were changing procedure, we want to see change of hearts and minds, and so this is difficult. Chair cohen in addition to changing procedure, we need to change policy, because i think policy and procedure go hand and hand. If you remember, lawyers that are defending officers that are going through the the the process of their cases being heard hide behind laws, so we as policy makers need to be cognizant and aware of that and change that. Something that shirley webbers law was predicated on what we did in San Francisco, in that when you actually pull your weapon and actually fire. Were running out of time, and i dont know if the chief wants to Say Something before i do. Ive got a fourminute hard stop. Chief . Yeah, i was just going to talk about what chair cohen was saying about the reform. The part of our reform was to work with academic researchers and partners to take that data and run with it. You know, for a lot of people, who do we associate with crime and why . As a black man, i cant tell you how many times ive walked by a car and heard the door lock. And this is im not alone. I know many people but the point is rethinking policy and what the things that we are doing to add to that association of whos a criminal, whos not, whos dangerous, we need to rethink that, too. Ill tell you, with our Police Department, were doing just that. We heard a lot of people talk about our policy on releasing looking photos, and were looking at the policy probably in the next couple of weeks, well be changing our policy on releasing booking photos. This is the benefit of working with actual scientists who know what bias is and what feeds into stereotyping and all that. How do we perpetuate that, you know, when people are asking for booking photos of certain individuals, people start associating those individuals with being dangerous which changes the whole idea of Police Officers and society in general. We need to reel that back. Thats something in the next few weeks that well be doing. Ive got to tell you, my thinking has evolved based on the data involved and some of the scientists that were working with at ucsf and cal berkeley who are all telling us the same thing. Dont perpetuate the problem with your policies, so weve got to pull some of this stuff back. Its really basic to me. Im sure all of you have experienced those types of things, as well. But we associate certain people with certain stress. The hon. London breed yeah, and chief, we have to wrap it up, so i want to give van the last word. This has been a very insightful conversation. I appreciate all that youre bringing to the table, so i want to bring it over to van for the final word. I just want to say how important this conversation is. There might be people who might be watching this who feel that hey, San Francisco might be better than it was, they might be on the right path, but theyre not where they need to be. I have homeless issues, i have Mental Health issues, i have needs that arent being met. Be encouraged. Be encouraged because i think what youre seeing is a process by which were reimagining policing and maybe reinventing policing in San Francisco, and if we can continue to expand the circle, expand the listening, listen to everybody, theres going to what we want is peaceful streets. We dont want law and order. You think of law and order, wheres the disorder . I hope youre safe. Dude, wheres the threat . We just want peaceful streets, peaceful streets, and it takes a lot to get this. Were going to have to learn some things, unlearn some things, start doing some things, stop doing some things. But if you feel this conversation hasnt come to you yet, stay on the train. Its going to get this. All these different groups that are saying hey, we want reform, it is possible if we stick together. San francisco can lead the way, like we always have done. We got some little reforms, too, but more reforms are coming. Any way i can be helpful, let me know. Thank you. The hon. London breed thank you, chair cohen, van, and chief scott. Im mayor london breed. Lets take this opportunity at this moment to push for real change. I want to thank all of you who have been out there on the frontlines, doing everything you can to make sure that there is justice for all of us, that we are all seen, that we are all heard, and now is the time, more than ever, to make real change. We appreciate all of you for joining us again. More to come in some of our future conversations, and please stick with us on pushing for these reforms. It wont be easy, but its necessary, and it will change and save lives for the better. Thank you all so much. Thank you