Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 20240712

Good morning, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 26, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, the chair of the committee. With me on Video Conference is the rules vicechair, stefani and member jordan mar and our clerk today is victor young. And i would also like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 health emergency, and to protect the board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors Administrative Chamber and Committee Room are closed. The members will be participating in the meeting remotely. The Committee Members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available at each item on this agenda. And both on channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org, and they are streaming the numbers across the screen. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period and are available via phone by calling 1 415 6550001. And, again, that is 1 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1464986060. Again, that is 1464986060. Then press pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star, 3, to be added to the speaker line. The best practices are to call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and to turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment to myself at the rules Committee Clerk at victor. Young sfgovtv. Org. And if you submit by email its forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the official file. That concludes my comments. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item number one. Clerk item one is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending march 1, 2021, one member, term ending march 1, 2022, and two members terms ending march 1, 2023. To the Inhome Supportive Services Public Authority. Chair ronen thank you so much. And if alexander madrid is us today . Alex madrid . Yes, i am. Chair ronen good morning. Thank you so much for being with us. I was wondering if you have any comments for us about your interest in participating in this body . No, i just want to say to the committee that i thank you for considering me as a member of the board members. Chair ronen thank you so much. We really appreciate your willingness to serve. Thank you. Is there any other questions for mr. Madrid . Nope. Okay, thank you so much. And next i want to see if sascha bittner is here . Miss bittner here . I see s. B. , which im wondering if that is her. Clerk she is logged in, however, were just waiting for her to turn on her microphone. Chair ronen okay. Well wait a sec. Clerk miss bittner, if you can hear us, we are calling on you at this time. Chair ronen and i do want to say that Daisy Mcarthur who is an incumbent is unable to be here today. So were not going to hear from her but she is an incumbent and has been a wonderful member of the board. And ill just say that. And if miss bittner maybe shes having some technical difficulties. So dont we see if robin wilsonbeattle is here. Hi. I am robin wilsonbeattle. Im here. I dont see my name, but chair ronen we hear you. Okay. Chair ronen thank you for being here. Do you have any statement or comments for us . I am just really excited. I have been on both sides of the i have been a consumer of the services but i have also worked in disability advocacy, you know, about these services. And worked as a personal care attendant. So i get both sides of whats going on. [laughter] im excited. Chair ronen thats fantastic. Thank you so much. And thank you for your willingness to apply and to serve in this really important capacity. We appreciate it very much. I want to make sure that none of my colleagues have any questions. Thank you. That that is it for now. And i wanted to just see if miss bittner was able to join us . Clerk she is logged on with us but she is not responding at this point and it may be technical in nature. Chair ronen okay, okay, no worries. Ill just sta state for a momenn miss bittners behalf, i dont know if she remembers me, but i remember her. Shes worked a lot with the Domestic Worker coalition and with handinhand, which is an organization that of employers that helps to advocate on behalf of Domestic Workers, including inhomecare support services and has just been such a leader in that movement. So im very excited about her application to this body. But if she is unable to join us, well give her a chance after Public Comment. But why dont we open this item up for Public Comment while we are waiting. Clerk excuse me. [clearing throat] yes, the members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1464986060. Then press pound, and pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star, 3, to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Do we have any members of the public to speak today . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair ronen okay. Thank you so much. I just wanted to give one last chance to miss bittner to speak if she has any comments. Hello. This is indiscernible . I do want to speak. But i think that actually chair ronen covered it. However i feel in short i feel that i bring as someone that has worked with ihss and have worked with clients to the Public Authority governing board and you have my recommendation and i hope to be considered for this. Thank you so much. Clerk ronen, i believe that you are muted at this time. Chair ronen so sorry. Thank you so much, miss bittner. And i just want to thank you for all your years of advocacy and work in this arena. And im a big fan. So thank you for applying to this seat. And with that do any of my colleagues have any comments . Yeah, i do, thank you, chair ronen. I just wanted to thank all of the applicants for your commitments to serve our city and the ihss Public Authority. And just for all that you do to ensure that seniors and people with disabilities are able to continue to live with dignity and thrive in our city. You know, we know that the incredibly vulnerable communities are facing just great challenges right now, so i think that the work of the ihss Public Authority is more important than ever. So, thank you so much. And i also just wanted to really thank sascha who i have known for many years and worked with on campaigns for supporting seniors, people with disabilities, and also the care workers, the people who provide the care. So im so excited, yeah, to hear from sascha. And i have known Daisy Mcarthur for years. And a leader in seniors and homecare worker issues. So what a great group of folks stepping into this important role. Thank you so much. Chair ronen thank you. Supervisor stefani, do you have any comments . Supervisor stefani yes, thank you, chair ronen. I just want to echo what both you and supervisor mar said about miss bittner and knowing her work over the years. I want to also thank all of the candidates. This is such important work and its always so good to see such good people willing to serve San Francisco and to really give of yourselves to help others. So, thank you for being willing to serve and im very excited about being able to confirm these appointments and these applications. Chair ronen thank you so much. And i just wanted to add that during the time of covid that the work of being able to ensure that seniors and people with disabilities are allowed to stay in their homes and live and thrive in their homes is so important. And thats the preferred way almost all of the time but weve seen during this crisis that its also very important for health reasons. So the work of ihss is so important, now more than ever, and your willingness, all four of you, to serve in this capacity is so appreciated and so important because we need to make sure that this system and this institution continues to be strong and thrive and that all parts of it work well. So to do this, and to alex and daysing daisy and sascha and robin, we appreciate you and we appreciate your service. I would like to make an official motion to forward the appointments alexander madrid to seat nine and sascha bittner to seat 11, and Daisy Mcarthur to seat 12, and robin wilsonbeattle is it bettle . Or . Beattle. Chair ronen thank you. To seat 13. And to the full board with recommendation. Can we take a roll call vote. Clerk yes. On that motion [roll call] the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen thank you so much. Thanks again, everyone, and congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, please read item number 2. Clerk yes, item 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending september 6, 2021, and two members, terms ending september 4, 023, to the assessment appeals board number one. We have three seats and three occupants. Chair ronen thank you so much. And is miss robinson here . Im here. Clerk shes here. Chair ronen good morning. Nice to hear you and wondering if you had any comments for this committee . Yes, i have been on the board for a long time, probably the longest member there. And i have always gotten a great deal of satisfaction from lending my real estate skills to the city. And i have a background as a commercial real estate appraiser, which makes the board a very good fit for me. And i enjoy working with the people at the assessments appeal board, its been a very great experience. Chair ronen thank you for all of your years of service. We appreciate it and i just want to see if any of my colleagues have questions . I dont think so. Thank you so much. Thank you. Chair ronen and next we want to see if Elizabeth Zareh is here . Good morning, everyone. Elizabeth zareh here. Chair ronen hi, good morning. Do you have any comments to share with us . Sure. I am an attorney. I have been practicing law for the past 24 years and one of the areas which i work in is real estate. In addition to that i am a Real Estate Broker and so i bring in both the legal background and the real estate background to the commission and this will be a second term. Previously i worked as an alternate, served as an alternate in board three and now im trying to switch to board one. Chair ronen fantastic. Thank you so much. And i dont see any questions. I love to see where an alternate is moved to the main seat. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Chair ronen and is mr. Lee here, for alternate seat 7 . Yes, good morning. Chair ronen good morning. How are you . Great, how are you . Chair ronen great. Yes, thank you. Hello, supervisors, thank you for all of your hard work and taking the time on hearing from the potential appointees. So, yeah, my name is richard lee and have been enjoying my time working as a board member on the estimates appeal board. I believe that i would bring valuable expertise to the board through my daytoday work. I work in union square representing several commercial buildings, retail and office, and i have also had i had a background in residential, including rent control, some project management, and i feel that i would be a fair and analytical member to the board. I would continue to be diligent in my role here if i get reappointed. Im a short skip away, you know, to and from my day job, down to union square and back. So im accustomed to the route. I miss coming to city hall. I know that 2020 has been a very volatile year, not only for our lives, but revenue too, and how thats going to impact our cities and states. And nationwide, and just for the local board, yeah, its going to change how 2020, and 2021 and 2022 is going to look. So im willing to continue to lend my services to the board. And i know that its going to be a very different year. I know that the Tax Collector and the assessors office, were all gearing up for whats to come. So now i have seen a few recessions and this one coming up, yeah, i look forward to staying on and contributing. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. I appreciate it. Seeing no questions, can we please open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, the members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1464986060. Then press pound, and pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star, 3, to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Mr. Coe, do we have any members of the public for Public Comment at this time . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair ronen okay, thank you, and Public Comment is closed. I just want to thank you all for your service as mr. Lee said, that we anticipate were going to be very busy. And so we appreciate you spending your time and lending your expertise to the city in this voluntary role. Thank you. Any other comments from my colleagues . Supervisor mar i just wanted to thank the applicants for your willingness to serve on the assessment appeals board. Yeah, and the work of the board is going to be incredibly important. Looking ahead with the impacts of covid and the economic crisis, and the dramatic changes to how and where we live and work. So i think that having really experienced and fair and committed members of the assessment appeals board is really important. So thank you, all of you. Chair ronen thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor stefani, did you want to mention anything . Supervisor stefani just a huge thank you for being willing to serve. Its amazing that theyre willing to give so much of themselves for this, because it takes a lot of time. So, thank you. Chair ronen so with that i will make a motion to forward the appointments of Diane Robinson to seat three, and Elizabeth Zareh to seat five, and richard lee to seat seven to the board with recommendations. Can we have a roll call . Clerk yes, on that motion [roll call] motion passes without objection. Chair ronen thank you so much, and thanks again to everyone. Congratulations. Mr. Clerk, please read item number 3. Clerk yes. Before i make that announcement i would like to let the members know whose items we have already acted upon that you need not to wait on the line. Thank you very much for attending. And item number 3 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending september 4, 2023, to the assessment appeals board number 3. We have one seat and one applicant. Chair ronen thank you so much. And is mr. Jeffrey lee here . Mr. Clerk, is mr. Jeffrey lee on the line . Madam chair i was informed that we had been experiencing some technical issues, and perhaps he got bumped off. Chair ronen i see. Okay. Well, why dont we open this up for Public Comment then, so he has a chance to get back on. Mr. Clerk, can we please hear Public Comment. Clerk yes, the members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1464986060. And then press pound, and pound again. If you havent already done so, dial star, 3, to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. Do we have any Public Comments for item number 3 . Yes, i have one caller in the queue. Clerk hi is that you, mr. Lee . Caller yes, good morning, my apologies. Chairman ronen and members, i am, unfortunately, unable to get to the Microsoft Team but i can see you on sfgovtv, and i am happy to testify by telephone if that is acceptable. Chair ronen thats perfect. Thank you so much. Very creative. Go right ahead. Caller okay. Well, first of all, thank you for having the meeting this morning and inviting me to speak. So i am an applicant for assessment appeals board number 3, seat number 3. Under ordinance 39398. And my qualifications to serve on the assessment appeals board include 19 years of professional experience as a practicing attorney in california in 2001. And 27 years as a trial litigation attorney. I have appeared both in and observed the proceedings. Currently i live and work in San Francisco, where i have my own law firm. J. K. L. Law consulting. Previously i was a partner at g. C. A. Law partners, a silicon valleybased law firm. And i have served as a temporary judge on the superior court of california while i was practicing down there in santa clara. And i graduated from law school and worked for a federal judge and also spent five years with the department of justice and worked for an International Law firm and various firms here in the bay area. So i am very happy to serve and its considered an honor. And my goal for serving is to ensure to improve the public trust and confidence in our San Francisco government. I also believe that it is the assessment appeals board function as an historical and crucial part of californias Property Assessment and Quality Assurance program. So if appointed i would seek to serve and to live up to the highest standards of judicial and professional conduct and to make the board of supervisors and our county very proud. Thank you very much. Chair ronen thank you so much. And thanks for finding a way to get into this meeting. We appreciate it. Is there any other callers . Clerk madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair ronen okay, thank you very much. Any comments from my colleagues . Nope. Then i am happy to make a motion to forward the appointment of jeffrey lee to seat 3 to the board with recommendation. Can we please have a roll call vote. Clerk yes on that motion [roll call] ronen aye. The motion passes without objection. Chair ronen thank you so much. Is there any other items on this agenda . Clerk that completes the agenda for today. Chair ronen then the meeting is adjourned. Have a good day, everyone. Thank you. Bye. We continue our celebration, our Community Celebration here for bubble upper yard. I would like to introduce our executive director from Mission Housing, and hes joining us via video. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone, i want to say thank you for letting us to share this fantastic day with the community. My name is sam moss, from Mission Housing development corporation. One of the developers for the balboa park upper yard. Were standing on the future site of 130 lowincome family units for the community and throughout San Francisco. I really want to thank supervisor safai, the Board Directors of Mission Housing, the bart board of directors as well. Were also standing on land that will eventually be a Brandnew Community center and new bart station and plaza. And its things like these, collaborations like these, that are the most important work that we do in the Affordable Housing community. Its important to take advantage of sites like this. They dont come up very often. With the construction that is as expensive as it is and the Uncertain Times right now, im honored to personally to be able to say thank you for allowing to us help to deliver this Vital Community center. Most importantly, cuhj and the community for sticking together and working together throughout the last five years to make this a reality. Without the tireless work that cuhj has put forth since 2008, i dont believe that wed be here. Its important for everyone that is watching to realize that the standard for affordable Housing Development and Community Organization has been set at the balboa park upper yard. This will be the new norm, engaging everyone that will benefit from the property, and not just those that live at the property, its at the heart of Mission Housings mission and im honored to stand here today and to say how awesome its going to be. And, finally, i want to thank the Mission Housing deputy executive director. I know it looks like i run the company but without marcia, Mission Housing would not be where we are today. Thank you, marcia. And im honored to welcome mayor london breed. Thank you so much, sam. Im mayor london breed. Im so excited to be here with all of you today for the balboa park upper yard groundbreaking. Now this is really a groundbreaking project for the lake view o. M. I. Community. Its one of the second 100 Affordable Housing projects in the lake view community. And that has no small part to do with the people of this community who have fought for years and years for their fair share of not just housing, but 100 Affordable Housing. 131 units. Right here at balboa park. And let me just talk a little bit about how amazing this project is. Not only will there be an onsite child care, there will also be wrap around services for families. And whats so amazing about this project is that we will be using neighborhood preference. So the people of this Community Get the right for the units built in their community. Its time to change how we provide Affordable Housing in communities. It cant just be that we build this housing and then no one who grew up and was born and raise in regard this community has access. We have so many incredible leaders who are going to be working with us to make sure that the people of this community apply for the Affordable Housing and that they get in. Its going to be up to you. But let me also tell you about some of the great amenities of this project because this is how housing should be built. Very close to transit corridors. And were lucky to have a bart a partner in the sfmta, so i want to thank sfmta and i want to thank bart and thank all of our transit agencies for the work they have not only done to work so we could use this property for 100 Affordable Housing, but the work thats going to be provided around reimagining what this plaza looks like. There will be additional bart trains. There will be traditional resources. 30 million from the state invested in this project. Which is just one of the many things that we know that we need to do as a city to make sure that we are building more housing along transit corridors. Its not only efficient for the people who rely on Public Transportation every single day but its good for the environment also. And let me just take an opportunity to really thank Mission Housing and sam moss for the work theyve done on this project. I want to thank bill white and related for what they have done and our sfmta department for working with us to transition this property for Affordable Housing. And i want to thank bart for their partnership. I want to thank our Mayors Office of housing and the work that they have done. It really does take a village. These projects are so expensive. Because its not just about building housing, its about building the infrastructure to maintain this housing for generations to come. Its about redoing the plazas and making it work. Its about the fact that there will be families moving into this particular development and we want to make sure that children have a safe place to play. So so many incredible things. Such an amazing project. And let me also just give credit to where credit is due where credit is due. The leader of this community, supervisor safai, when he first stepped on the board of supervisors, he said that it is really unfortunate that no Affordable Housing has even been built in this community. And he wanted to change that. We are breaking ground on the second affordable Housing Development in district 11 since hes been in office and thats an absolute amazing accomplishment. We are so grateful for his leadership, his partnership, and the work that he has done, not only to provide Affordable Housing but the job center, the library, and the parks, everything that matters to people and families who actually live here. Because of this supervisor, the Lakeview Community is no longer the forgotten community of San Francisco. So, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce supervisor safai. [applause] thank you, madam mayor. This is an historic day and were really excited to be here. I want to start off by saying that rather than keeping this site and just as an empty parking lot or used as parking, we went she doesnt like when i say this but we marched into the Mayors Office but we marched slowly and we said what can we do creatively on this site while were waiting for Affordable Housing to be built. And we came up with a plan for safe parking. There are individuals in this city that are unhoused and that are living in their vehicles and she did not even hesitate. She supported us, myself and the supervisor brown at the time and we were able to create something that has never been done in San Francisco. And thats safe parking for those that are unhoused, living in their vehicles. Were coming up on about a oneyear anniversary of that work and it has been extremely successful. So i want to thank the mayor for supporting us and believing us and allowing us to do something positive with this site while we waited for the housing to get built. Another thing that the mayor did when she was on the board of supervisors that i dont want to i want to underscore, is neighborhood preference. Neighborhood preference says that if you live within proximity, if you live within the radius of this site, you will have first crack at getting into these apartments. That is something that had never been done in San Francisco before, and that is extremely important to the Lakeview Community. About 20, 30 years ago this community was over 50 african american. Today its down to less than 20 . But the children and the families of those families that have grown here and been raised here and prospered here are still connected to this community. They will have the ability if they live in these homes and their families and other neighbors will have the ability to apply for these. And i want to give a special recognition to miss gwen brown who runs our job opportunity center, shes also going to be working on our Employment Opportunities for this site. Shell be someone that we work with at Mission Housing and the Mayors Office works with to ensure that we do the outreach in this community so people apply. Thats a very important thing. Another thing again to thank the mayor, this project would have not been at the top of the pile. We came in and we made the argument that this district has never seen any family Affordable Housing built on any scale. Mayor breed put us at the top. She listened to us and she heard the community and she heard our voices and filled that gap, an additional 20 million to 30 million, first out of the eraf funds and now out of the propa Affordable Housing bond fund. That is what closed the gap for this project and were here celebrating today, a major grant, a transportation grant, that was awarded to this site. Another 20 million. This site is special. This site is important for this community. And we would not have been able to be celebrating this without mayor breed and her leadership and support. So thank you, mayor breed. [applause] Mission Housing related have been wonderful partners. I dont know how many times i had to pick up the phone and call bill witty and work through problems to make sure that this project is going to stay on track, that its going to be built, that it will be family. And then let me make one last point before i end. Another thing that the mayor and i worked on together when she was board president and along with supervisor jane kim, along with supervisor aaron peskin, we updated the conversation about what is affordable. And affordable for whom. So many times in this city people are talking about housing and Affordable Housing just for extremely lowincome families. And you know what, we do a pretty good job of that in San Francisco. And we need to do more. But what we havent done, and what this community has always been has been a community of working people, a community of working families. Im talking about nonprofit workers and im talking about teachers and im talking about muni drivers and educators and im talking about people that get up and to make this city run every day. And because of the work that we did, we have been able to expand the definition of affordable. We have been able to ensure that working families will also be included in this conversation. So that when a janitor applies or when a nonprofit worker applies, they will also be able to qualify for this housing. Now thats not at the exclusion of lowincome families, because what we did we expanded the pie. Instead of having 80 to 100 units we went up to 130, and we did that with a community process. So im very proud of the results here today. Im very happy to be here. I want to thank again related Mission Housing, mayor breed, the Mayors Office of housing and Marion Harris from the district 11 council, thank you for being here. Phylicia thibedeau from one of the institutions in lakeview o. M. I. And i see the folks from community, united for health and justice. I want to recognize all of the Community Work that went into making this possible. This is years in the making. This is something that will be special and lasting and thank you very much, everyone. [applause] oh, sorry, and, yes, our other partner that is very important because were sitting on their land is bart. Bartd has been a partner bart has been a partner in helping us to solve the pusonl the puzzle n reimagining this plaza here. And sfmta was also a part of that, but i would like to bring up miss alicia trouse from bart. Thank you. Hello, welcome. Im alicia trouse, im the bart communications officer, and welcome to our bart station. I love this station. I love how easy you can jump off a train and get on a muni bus. Its a great partnership. And our business is moving people, right, but its also gaining lifetime riders. You do that by building housing right across the street from your station. I want to briefly talk about something that were very concerned about at bart. Its the mobility divide. Youve heard of the digital divide, right . Well, theres a mobility divide. And its perpetuating inequality and the way that you tackle is to build 100 Affordable Housing right next to transit, right next to bart and right next to muni and you make it easy to go to your job and Health Care Appointment and school by doing that. And this partnership is going to tackle that divide. And next i toss it to our bart board of director bevin duffy, who represents district 9, so lets roll the tape. Im proud to join you this morning virtually on behalf of the bart board of directors and my colleagues simon and director jantzidirectjanice lee. We are proud to be here to recognize the Community Leaders that i have known for so many years here in San Francisco who had a vision for what could be done and that we could take this site and develop homes for families that need them and to create a vibrant Meeting Place that brings the Community Together and also to recognize the importance of transit oriented development. What were trying to do at bart around the bay area, which is to build complete communities that have housing and retail and sometimes commercial and great bike and Pedestrian Access and Public Meeting and gathering places. And so i really want to congratulate the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development and also Mission Housing development corporation. And related companies. And sfmta and our transit partner. And so many great things will come as a result of this that well have better seamless transit access and that individuals, including bart at balboa park, you will find a Great Community space where we may have farmers markets and other things that really bring our Community Together. I really want to say that we are extremely grateful to the community and i also want to add to mayor london breed, supervisor safai, supervisor avalos, and the previous supervisor for this district, and really just to say that that the city has really come together to create an amazing t. O. D. Project. Thithis is an important milestoe and were gratified to be part of it and to show the bay area that we can develop muchneeded housing and help to have a more complete community. Thanks. Now id like to introduce bill witty, the chairman and c. E. O. Of related california, one of the Largest Developers of Affordable Housing based here in this great city of San Francisco. Everyone, please welcome bill witty. [applause] thank you, alicia. You know, as the mayor and supervisor safai said, i have been working both in government and in the private sector in San Francisco since the early 1980s. This is the first time the first year that i can remember a big push for Affordable Housing in this neighborhood, which has long been needed. And i think that whats really made this happen you have already heard is that weve gotten to work along with Mission Housing with two of the most Effective Advocates for Affordable Housing, not only in this city but in california. With mayor breed, if you mention Affordable Housing and are about to ask for something, she will typically say yes. Now the answer is yes. Now whats the question . You cant do any better than that. And supervisor safai who has become a friend and colleague over these years, working on this project, and every month i know that im going to get a call from him saying, whats going on. What can we do . Oh, we have this technical problem. Lets figure out a way to solve it. Oh, we have to lobby the state to get funding, what can i do to help. Hes really helped, along with our partners at Mission Housing, in bringing the community into this so that this is not just about bricks and mortar. This is about holistic housing, you know, and youve heard all of the components of that in working with the community. I would also like to thank our staff and silver berg and nick wilder here today for all of the Technical Work needed to work with our partners at bart to make this technically feasible. This is a very challenging site. We have to deal with barts legitimate questions. We have to deal with issues of inaggress and egress to have the services and the site work and the child care, all on a very complicated site. We have a great architect in methune partners and a great partner in cayhill contractors and its all come together to make it happen. And i would like also to acknowledge the Mayors Office of housing who on behalf of the city has worked with us throughout to make sure that all of the funding works together and that as supervisor safai said to close the gap to make the financing feasible. So i look forward to the day when we open this development. In a few years from now we will welcome the residents of lakeview and others for whom this housing was intended. So thank you very much. And now i will bring back marcia contrares of Mission Housing. Thank you, mr. Witty, thank you for joining us and thank you for your kind words. I would like now to introduce jesse fernandez, the Program Manager with Communities United for health and justice. Jesse . Buenos dias, good morning. Im jesse fernandez, im with Communities United for health and justice, were a multireliant program across the district. We are celebrating Affordable Housing, Community Serving here at balboa park upper yard station. This project represents the very best in collaboration between the community and the decisionmakers. And i want to invoke all of the Community Planners who for 10 years have rolled up their sleeves and time and again made the case to make this project possible and have done so guided by a heartfelt communityled process. Our success at the balboa park upper yard should set an example for peoplefocused planning for our ever changing city, to always keep people at the forefront of decisionmaking. I would like to acknowledge the hard work of our former Supervisor John Avalos for working with the community and advocating for necessary resources that are long overdue across our district. Thank you very much. Thank you, jesse. Well, we are at the end of our Community Celebrations. Thank you to all of the partners that joined us today and to everybody that joined us virtually. Thank you to cuhj, for [speaking spanish] the ymca of San Francisco, mayor london breed and supervisor safai, and all of the representatives from bart and their team for their support while coordinating this event. And, of course, our development partner, mr. Bill witty from related company for their understanding and being able to work with us and identify the needs of this community and the families of district 11. We also want to thank our team at Mission Housing for reaching this milestone and a special thanks to our board of directors for always supporting us. Last but not least i would like to send a special thank you to our Senior Communications manager for working on all of the logistics and to make sure that this event was a successful and safe one for everyone who participated. Thank you again for joining us and until the next one. If everyone could put their hands over their heart so we can do the pledge of allegiance. Michael eric dyson [plege of allegiance] please call the role [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] i am here. Great. Okay. As always, i would ask the presenters to give themselves on mute until you are allowed to speak. Members of the public, please do the same. Make sure any background noise is muted. The number to call in for Public Comment is for 156150001. Access code 1464888598. We will have two minutes for Public Comment. If you could please call the first one in. Line item one. Consent calendar. Receive and take action. Motion to accept. So moved. I will second, sorry. [laughter] called the vote. The motion to accept the donation from did we take Public Comment on that first . Im sorry. We will, yes, after the items okay. How do you vote . Yes. [roll call] you have five yes. Next is the Police Commission report for the report of 2020. I need a motion and a second. [indiscernible] i wanted to ask a question on that. Is that the one where they are resigning or quitting for septembers report that we read . Is that the same report . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] if this was on the consent calendar, why wasnt it a separate item, i guess . Can you put it up on the screen . Is that a option . I think it is the report where they were talking about the discipline cases and the outcomes. Three out of four the outcomes [indiscernible] i want to know what we are doing about that. Im not sure it should be on the consent calendar. [indiscernible] i am assuming this report comes before the commission. I wanted to make sure that what we are doing about this. Did we talk about how to flag it these charges will still follow them if they move. We talked about how we have the ability to remand to the chief and the chief pursues the investigation to make a finding. And that is all we can do, right . That is all we can do. At this point we are waiting on to schedule for when the chief can come back and report on these findings. We did not want a significant loss, which is we dont even though these are no longer within our jurisdiction, the chief coming back and reporting the findings so the public understands what happened what is happening [indiscernible]. I agree. Go ahead. John made a motion. Thank you, commissioner. Yeah,. I want to make sure this is just on for our acknowledgement. We are not doing anything with this. Can you explain what the purpose is for putting this on the agenda . Its a consent item. All we do is agree or disagree. This is why it should be a separate item so we can have these discussions and have the ability to follow up. We made it clear to the chief that we cant influence a decision one way or the other, but we would want followup on these cases and how the investigation is going. We wont get that information on a consent calendar. Thats all i mean. Lets put it as a separate item so we can follow up on it. Can we put it on the agenda when it comes up for january or december and that will give the chief enough time . And he can give us a status on it. Chief, we can talk about i agree that we need to get this back on calendar. I dont know where the chief is in any of these investigations. We can certainly put it back on the agenda depending on the status of the resignation. Absolutely. Okay. I think we have a motion and a second. Yes. Lets call the vote. [roll call] we need to have Public Comment before the vote. For members who would like to comment on line item one on the calendar, please call the number [indiscernible] commissioner, there is no Public Comment. Next. Im sorry. Im wondering if miss cabrera can give guidance if what happens if a consent item doesnt pass since the commissioner has voted no. Sure. It is the methodism to have items on the agenda. Anyone commissioner can act on this. You can take it apart for the consent agenda. It is just to have something. Usually its something you have already given us. If you want to take it out, you can definitely do that and have a separate discussion about it. Okay. The trend is kind of broken down here. Everyone can put their name in. If you could mute your microphone, please. I am not entirely sure of the purpose to have this on the consent calendar and what that does. What will we be voting on here . It is only meant for items that are routine. Something that will not garner a lot at all. It is a mechanism used by most commissions to give something back. However, if it is an item that one commissioner would like to take off the consent calendar because they would like to have a discussion about it, you can do that without waiting for the next agenda. You can take it out of the consent calendar and fully discuss it. I think that makes the most sense. These are issues that i think we all want followup on. There are things that show up on the agenda and this is one of them. Im not even sure what it is or what the purpose is. It makes sense to have a more full discussion once investigation is over. You can always put this on as you are needed, which is on a future agenda calendar. There is nothing stopping that from happening. Great. Lets do that. Okay. Call the next line item. Line a temp two. Report for the diminished commission discussion. [laughter]. We need the chat. We need to go to the chat. I thought we had already dealt with that. We are ready decided we would calendar this for january. Is that right . We have moved it from the agenda. Next line item. You have passed to accept the donation of the funds, correct . Yes. Call the next item. Item two a, case report. Provide an overview of offences recall happening in San Francisco. This will include a brief overview of any un [indiscernible] occurring in San Francisco and having an impact on Public Safety. [indiscernible] it will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future weeks. The presentation Monthly Update and the presentation of the collaborative reform initiative. [indiscernible] chief of staff hawkins is on the call. Good evening. I want to start todays presentation with crime trends and then i will go into significant events. We will present the presentation for the month and i will present the Monthly Update last to close out the chiefs presentation. Crime wise we are, for the week, down 30 . Yeartodate, we are down 24 . Let me start with the Violent Crime. We have had a very busy week with shootings and Violent Crime we are down for the week. We had a very busy weekend at a very busy week with shootings and a couple of homicides on friday. When comparing to 2019, we are down 21 . As i said, we had two homicides last week. It is equivalent of a 37 overall increase in homicides. We have we ended last year with 41 homicides which is a 50 year low and we are about to eclipse that this year. We have 41 homicides this year and 21 of them have been cleared i want to go into more detail about the gun violence over the past week. Friday we had two homicides. In total, there were eight shooting incidences last week which caused injury or death to nine victims. The district with the largest increase in gun violence are equals i, which is double there gun related incidents this year. Tenderloin, and the bayview. The bayview has nine more shooting incidences and the equivalent of a 29 increase compared to this time last year. The mission had six additional incidences. On the positive side, central has central has a 72 decrease. They only had two incidences this year compared to seven last year. Northern district at a 40 district. Ten last year and six this year. Seven last year versus six this year. The taradale also had a slight decrease. Specifically with this fridays incident, there were a couple of shootings that were very concerning an problematic. The first was a multiple victim shooting on the 200 block of Williams Street and ingleside district. A vehicle drove northbound and went past a passenger fired numerous rounds at the victims who were in the garage. They were having a cookout outside of their garage area. Officers were in the area and flagged down by witnesses. Four victims in that shooting received if anyone has any information, please call our tip line. It was 30 minutes before the one i talked about. The victim was standing near a vehicle when he was shot one time and hit the torso. Officers responded and located the victim. The victim did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at San Francisco hospital. In addition to that shooting, there was a block in the ingleside district were several people were hit. A victim was flagged down by a vehicle. They transported the victim to the hospital. Two other shootings were gangrelated. That is still under investigation and we are not, at this time, we dont have any suspects, although we did have leads that we are pursuing. In addition to that, there were there was a shooting in the tenderloin area. This one was a robbery gone bad related to narcotics, we believe the suspect approached the victim who was in the act of selling narcotics. The suspect robbed the victim of his narcotics, pistol whipped him, then shot him in the torso. That victim will survive or is expected to survive. He was transported to the hospital. This occurred on grove street in the tenderloin. It was at eighth and market. We had not made an arrest on that. It was a very busy week. Our Immediate Response was putting resources in the area, particularly where the homicides occurred in the bayview and ingleside. We called in officers on an overtime basis throughout the weekend to supplement our patrol resources. The captains were involved in the coordination of resources and it did appear to have an impact and after friday we did not have shootings in those areas. We will continue to deploy, but the longer term strategy is to do outreach to the community and get the community mobilized. We need to pursue and identify the individuals who are getting guns on the streets. Our deployment has been very robust since friday. We will try to sustain that as much as possible, but it is a very resource and overtime extensive endeavour. Its worth it if we are going to save a few lives and keep people from getting shot. We will keep that going as long as we need to. In terms of property crime, our issue is still burglary. We are significantly up and burglaries. We have made impact arrests. A few of those individuals are still in custody and some have been released. Its a matter of identifying the prolific individuals that we believe are involved in these crimes and to keep that strategy going and we can hopefully make a dent in reducing the burglaries. All other property crimes are down significantly, including car breakins which are down significantly from last year and the year before. Other major events, and this one that we are about to report on happened on saturday. We werent able to get it on the agenda. I will be very brief. It was a newsworthy incident. On saturday, october 17th, they had a freespeech rally that began at the u. N. Plaza. Individuals attended who were speaking on freespeech. The topic they were supposedly speaking on within minutes of the rally beginning, a group through glass bottles, eggs, plastic bottles at the permitted presenters and it quickly turned to violence. One freespeech rally was assaulted. At the time, at that time, the rally was being made a Public Safety hazard. They shut down the event due to the violence that was occurring. And as the participants left the area, several were aggressively attacked. Several people sustained non lifethreatening injuries, including one individual had a broken kneecap. There was also an officer assaulted in that an caustic clump chemicals were thrown at some of the participants and some of the officers were exposed to those chemicals as well. The officers were not seriously injured, thank goodness. It was a very tense situation. There was a man arrested in the city of oakland. Hate crime enhancement was also filed against this particular individual based on evidence uncovered in the investigation. That, thankfully ended up, other nobody else got seriously injured. It was a very tense and volatile situation. One other thing i want to address is that they are supporting the presenters and the people who are granted to permit on this particular event and it is a misrepresentation of what happened. What happened was you had people who were under attack and whose lives were in danger and our officers were keep people there to keep people safe and keep people in a position that is safe so they can extract individuals away from the situation and keep them from being harmed. I want to make sure that that information the record is set straight. Our department is there to protect everybody and it doesnt matter what the political affiliations or ideology are. We are there to keep everybody safe. That is exactly what our officer did. The post caused post caused quite a bit of a. Its totally misleading. With that, that is all for this portion of the report. Thank you. We have time for questions. The rally that you are talking about,. [indiscernible] everyone is familiar with them. Can you give us a sense, chief, because obviously i hear that the boards are coming to our city. That will be concerning to most citizens. This is not a group that advocates for peaceful nonviolence. They have a very inflammatory rhetoric about violence. So, can you explain what the standard is for folks like that getting a permit and if theres anything we can do my understanding is that, especially through the election, the plan is for these folks to show up in cities all across the country and intimidate folks to prevent folks from voting. There are reports of people, you know, with guns at polling sights. This is a group that has a very specific image, for lack of a better word. They are not your grandma and grandpa hanging around the park. If you can explain for us what the process is and how this stuff works . Yes. First and foremost, this event was a permitted event, so where individuals want to hold these activities, and if they do it the way that it is recommended to be done, they will request from the city and county of San Francisco a permit. Particularly in a public space such as United Nations plaza. That permit was granted. There is no, you know, what they believe in or whatever their ideology or philosophy is. That is not factored in. We dont make that decision. I do know about the process. It is First Amendment. Its freespeech. [please stand by] that usually leads to violence. All these things are put into motion. It even even on saturday, there was still a violence confrontation, so at that point, we need to make a determination if it was an unlawful gathering and shut it down to keep people safe. On saturday, even after people were extracted, there was efforts to keep it peaceful. Those situations are very volatile, but i think the main thing is, First Amendment activity is protected in this city. People have a right to express themselves and it, you know, what we dont tolerate is violence and people getting hurt, and well never tolerate that. So if people have an idea of having an event to have those things occur, were going to put them down, and were going to do our jobs in terms of keeping everybody safe and try to identify those that are violent and deal with them accordingly. Arrest them if we can catch them in the act, and if we cant, do our followup investigation in this case and arrest them at that time. Taylor thank you. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki yes. I think that commissioner taylor mostly covered my concerns. I saw a number of posts from proud boys about coming to San Francisco to revenge what happened last week or over the weekend, so i think its been an ongoing concern of this commission is these weird groups affiliated with White Supremacists and the Trump Administration that do pose a real clear and present danger, i think, to our city and our county and the people that live here. So i appreciate that you folks are keeping an eye on them, and hope that were equally prepared if they do decide to return and seek their revenge. Thank you, commissioner. We are we plan to be prepared for whatever whatever happens. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item or if youre done. I assume youre finished, chief. Yes. Commander osullivan will present the 1421 Monthly Update. Vice president taylor commander. Hi. Can you hear me . Vice president taylor yes. Okay. So good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioners, and chief of staff sarah hawk. I am here to present the 1421 update. As we usually do, we will begin with some background. Officer involved shootings s records relating to the reports, investigations, or findings related to an officers discharge of a firearm at a person. Number two, Great Bodily Injury. Records relating to the report, investigation, and or findings regarding an officers use of force that result in death or Great Bodily Injury of a person, Sexual Assault, records relating to a sustained finding that an officer engaged in Sexual Assault involving a member of the public or dishonesty. Records relating to a sustained finding that an officer was dishonest directly relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or directly relating to the reporting of or misconduct by another officer, including, but not limited to, any sustained finding of percentage, filing false reports, destruction, falsefying or concealing evidence. So with that said, since january 1, 2019, when the senate bill went into effect, the department has received 198 Public Record requests. For the period september 1 through september 30, which is our most recent reporting period, the department received five additional Public Records requests. The department produced 105 new released, and a release is defined as a production of records and or a determination letter that indicates to the requester that the department has or has not responded to a disclosure of one or more items to a specific officer. Two matters were closed, and one additional request was released. I believe that was the mario woods shooting. We have released 37,727 officer related shooting pages. And this concludes my update. Vice president taylor thank you. Next oh, commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you for the report, commander osullivan. Can you also just give a brief update where we are on the online portal for the 1421 . Yeah. So we have posted i was there most recently this afternoon. We have posted some items there, Great Bodily Injury items. We have also posted officer involved shooting related material. Commissioner elias thank you. Youre welcome. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item . Thank you, Vice President taylor, and thank you, commander osullivan. Next is the presentation of the monthly collaborative reform initiatives or c. R. I. Updates, and i will put that on the screen. And while were getting it on screen, i will mention to the commission, yesterday, the department was asked to give an update to the board of supervisors on collaborative reform, so myself and deputy chief yee and commander flaherty commander Denise Flaherty presented yesterday. It was about a 1 20 presentation, much longer than today. Todays presentation, based on our last presentation last month, the piggyback that we received from the commission, hopefully is very succinct. Some of the information is incorporated into this report, and it is the status of what has happened since the last report, and this report is as of october 15, so there has been some Movement Even since then, and that was six days ago, and there has been Movement Movement since then, but its not in the report, but ill describe the progress since october 15. So next first slide. This slide represents the four bars that you s represents four graph that you see on the slide represents where things lie, and then, the fifth category, which is progress, means were actively working on it. Of note, if you look at the trend line that substantial clie compliance, and this is from october 2019 to this october, you see an acceleration really starts in may, and as was stated in last yesterdays presentation to the board of supervisors, our cadence and rhythm has picked up. We believe were going to complete about 120 actually by the beginning of next year, which will put us at about 234, the majority of the recommendations. So as you see this first slide, in september, there were seven recommendations moved into the substantial compliance category. As of october 15, there were six additional recommendations moved into the substantial compliance category. As you move to the right, each category i described the prescreening process that weve developed with our collaborative partners, Hillard Hines, and the california d. O. J. And for those of you that might not remember, weve steam line what weve done to streamline the amount of time that it takes to get these reviews, the collaborators participate in a prescreening conference. When we think were ready to go and everything has been completed, well consult with our consultant, and theyll review it and give us their feedback. And rather than this lengthy process of r. F. I. That we were doing before, we take it back and we fix it right there. So what this has done is accelerated the process greatly, and once our experience has been is once they get to that review process, that external validation, we have not had any kickback with r. F. I. S because weve taken care of the concerns. We believe that this is a positive step to make this more of an expedited process. So 15 15 different recommendations prosecute prescreened this month. As you can see, one in use of force, two in community policing, two in recruitment, hiring, and retention. Next slide is the external review and external evaluation. So these are separate categories. We have 15 recommendations that are with Hillard Hines for general review, and thats the last step before they go to the California Department of justice to be found in substantial compliance if they kplee agr agree. So we have 15 with external review and 15 with the California Department of justice external review for a total of 30. And when you add the 15 in prescreen, thats 45 recommendations that we hope to have in substantial compliance once it gets through that external validation process. The next few slides, im just going to go category by category in whats just happened in the last month. Use of force, one recommendation since the last report has achieved substantial compliance. Checks either external review or external compliance. If you want to actually look at what those recommendations are, the recommendation numbers are listed there. Use of force is still our the category that weve made the most progress on, and we do believe by the time we roll around to next in the spring of next year, well have, in the upper 80 of the use of force recommendation is actually in substantial compliance, which is very promising. Accomplishments, this month, the i. A. D. Unit order, the internal Affairs Division unit order requiring an annual training and audit of o. A. S. Office be conducted by the officer in charge of o. I. D. The trent of the audit is to ensure completely, standardized o. I. D. Files are in place. Those are the highlights for use of force. The next slide, sergeant youngblood, is bias. As you can see, five recommendations since the last report have been put in either external review or external validation, and the recommendation numbers are listed there for you. Five additional recommendations, as i stated before, have been prescreened, so those are about ready to go to external review. We are at basically 20 substantial compliance in the bias category, and we are making Significant Movement on the between the runs that are in external review and the ones that have been prescreened. So we have a total of 54 recommendations. Very important category, as they all are. Revised, as they are, we need to move the needle on bias for being a bias free Police Department, and this category hopefully will get us well, it will get us going in the direction that were going, but hopefully, those recommendations will get us going to the other things that have been problematic. Next slide, community policing. Community policing, we had five recommendations that achieve substantial compliance since the last report. Theyre listed there for you. An additional five recommendations are in external review and external validation. Were at 55 is 65 recommendations, were at 20 . That cadence has picked up significantly under the leadership of commander darryl fong. So promising. 1. 08 adopt had a lot of recommendations tied to it, so really happy that the commission was able to approve that and move that forward, and that was a major accomplishment since the last reporting period. Next slide, accountability. Accountabilit accountabili accountability, 11 recommendations are in the external evaluation process. If you want to look forward into what those recommendations are. An additional two recommendations have been reported since the last reporting period. Commander flaherty has laid out a really promising plan to get her her accountability recommendation to substantial compliance. This one, were really looking good on because weve made a substantial amount of compliance. One of the things that ill take a moment to explain is the compliance measures. Theres over 900 compliance measures. Each one of the over 200 recommendations has several parts. As we move forward with Hillard Hines and the d. O. J. , is we get feedback on the measures. Hin theres a significant amount of work thats been done, and we want to now start putting things in that context so the public and the commission understand that, you know, there are recommendations that were not in substantial compliance, but theres a significant amount of work thats been done, and those compliance measures continue to get done and signed off. And once we get to the end of that list, then, we go to that external review, external validation period. So when we did an assessment, working with the consultants and did an assessment of our compliance measures, about two thirds of them have been completed. And some of those are wrapped up in recommendations that have already been found in substantial compliance, but others are already in progress. About two thirds of the 900plus compliance measures have been completed. So definitely, we have more work to do, but it just highlights the progress. As you all know, some of these recommendations take longer than others. But the sense of urgency is there. We are committed to the 120 that we believe we can get to, and hopefully, therell be a few more than that as we move forward, but theres those 120. The last slide is just an abbreviated timeline. Its just a timeline of this process, where we started, kind of significant milestones and where we are now. As i said, since october 15, there have been other recommendations found in substantial compliance. So as of today, were at 86 that weve heard from, the California Department of justice. 86 are in substantial compliance. And there are 122 inclusive of the 86, 122 that we have completed, so the balance of the 122 and the 86 are the ones that are in either external validation or external review. So again, progress is being made, and that progress is being separated from the first year of this work, and were committed to finishing every one of the 272 recommendations. So that is the report from this month. Ill take any questions that you have. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you for the update, chief, and i was able to watch your presentation before the board yesterday, and as i indicated earlier, you did a fantastic job. One of the things that im going to ask the next time you report is that i think you should also report to us what steps the department is taking to be selfsufficient, and what were going to do when Hillard Hines and the d. O. J. Are no longer here. Yesterday, the board was very concerned with the 1. 25 million thats been paid to them, and the additional 600,000, and they indicated they may not be able to be with us through the long stretch. So i think its important for us to show the public or the department to show this is what weve learned from the experience and this is what were going to do once theyre gone because theyre not going to be with us forever, so i think these are things that you should address during the next presentation. Thank you for that. That is really important, and i talked about that pretty extensively yesterday, but ill incorporate that into this report, as well. Vice president taylor thank you, chief. Thank you. Vice president taylor next item . Clerk next item, d. P. A. Directors report. Report on recent d. P. A. Activities and announcements. D. P. A. S report will be limited to a brief description of d. P. A. Activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future meeting. Presentation of d. P. A. S use of force data audit. [inaudible] ill start out with a brief overview of our stats. As of this point in 2020, we have opened 665 cases. That is in comparison to 598 at the same time in 2019. Weve closed 718 cases as compared to 518 in 2019. We currently have 377 cases pending, compared to 392 in 2019. We have 29 cases that are past the 270day point compared to 32 in 2019. Of those 29 cases, 16 are tolled, which means that there are pending civil or criminal actions involved. Other cases are delayed because they require extensive investigations. To date this year, weve mediated 32 cases. At the same time last year, we had mediated 27 cases. We currently have 36 cases that are pending before the chief, and 13 cases that are pending with the commission. Moving onto our 1421 update, with regard to officer involved shootings category, weve disclosed eight separate cases totaling roughly 17,500 pages of records. In the category of Great Bodily Injury or use of force with Great Bodily Injury, weve disclosed 51 cases, all of these are available on our website through our online portal. And members of the public can make requests there or review our previous disclosures at that location. In terms of outreach, yesterday and today, we participanted with s. F. Youth offenders in a virtual panel. On the 22nd, we are hosting a local Government Panel event. Also, on october 22, were hosting an oversight Investigator Panel series, which will include investigators were d. P. H. , park police, and oakland. On the 27, we are hosting mediation 101 for community members, and on the 29, were hosting our annual mediation conference that will involve our mediators involved in our program. Recently, we submitted a program for students in the master of Public Policy and master of Public Affairs to apply. If our policy proposal is accepted, we will have people working on starting in spring of 2021. We have up next our audit presentation, which will be handled by Steve Flaherty from our office. Flaher. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Steve Flaherty, and im the director of audits for the department of police accountability. [inaudible] with the office of city controller city auditors divisio this audit was conducted in accord jaens with generally accepted government auditing standards. These standards require we pla we believe that the evidence obtained provides a reasonable basis for the findings and conclusions in tonights presentation. Next slide, please. Issuance of the final report was preceded by the issuance of an interim report in december 2019. This report focused on the Police Departments 96a and Early Intervention system quarterly reports, their compliance with reporting mandates, and their alignment with best practices for reporting data. The results of the interim report were presented at the Police Commission on february 5 of this year. Tonights audit, the final report, is divided into three chapters with a total of 18 findings and 37 recommendations for the Police Department to improve and strengthen its use of force and reporting data complex processes, its analysis of the collected use of force data, and the reporting of the use of force data. It also contains six appendices, the results of an officer mindset survey concerning use of force, data from District Supervisor interviews, examples of how use of force data can be analyzed, and lastly, the Police Departments written response to the audit. Next slide, please. As an overview of tonights presentation, we will recap the scope and objectives of the audits, discuss the audits methodology, and our post audit follow up and address any questions you may have concerning the reports. Next slide, please. This audit was performed to fulfill t fulfill [inaudible] we selected this topic because accurate and competencesive data is necessary to provide transparent and he on use of force to the public, assistant policy decisions, and factors that contribute to the officers decision of use of force. Next slide, please. The overall objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the [inaudible] next slide, please this slide provides an overview of our audit methodology. The audit of review of data from 2017. Our analysis was based on a statistically significant random sample with a 97 confidence that reviewing the entire population would the same results within a 5 margin of error. To assess whether unreported force occurred, we reviewed a sample of 269 out of 188 incidents from 2017 with substance resistance but no reported use of force. We verified the incidents, discussed in the media, the use of firearms discharged by the firearms review board. We verified that all incidents in the statistically signature sample significant sample of use of force log pages for the departments ten district stations were in the use of force database. We selected a sample of 300 of 1,364 total incidents with reported uses of force for 2017 so assess the accuracy of recorded data. We also requested and received a court order from the San Francisco Juvenile Court e enabling the audit team to include juvenile records for testing. This includes that data is statistically diverse. We also interviewed 19 sergeants and nine lieutenants who supervise officers of the ten district stations and two Specialty Divisions on their understanding of use of force policies and procedures and experience in evaluating use of force. We issued a survey to all active sworn officers of the Police Departments. Of the 2,000 plus Department Members to whom the survey was sent, we received 428 responses, which is roughly 18 of the department. Next slide, please. This slide provides an overview of our audit find beings. The audit had three Main Findings that provide a basis for the reports three chapters. Our first is with the exception of a few errors, officers report force reasonably and accurately in accordance with their departments protocol. The next few slides, well go into further detail on each finding. Next slide, please. For the first main finding, in chapter 1, we report that the Police Department has an effective approach for collecting use of force data, but that the Department Needs to improve its guidance and processes to achieve better accuracy and completeness. Based on our testing, we found four sources of errors that led to force being underreported, overreported, or partially reported. [please stand by] insights drawn from the supervising officersshall of the officers the uniformed officers that responded to our use of force mindset survey, 61 disagreed that the use of force policy is clear. The audit also found that the Police Department does not enter 3 of the use of force incidents into the use of force database. The Police Department did not produce up to 6 of the required use of force documentation, including use of force evaluation forms, station force log pages, and force log entries. This is covered in finding 1. 4 on page 38. The department did not explain why it could not find any of the missing pages or log forms for the incident where the department reported a use of force occurred. For the missing log entries, there were no corresponding entries in the use of force database, however, it was impossible to know if use of force incidents occurred in these weeks. The question has come up however, when the Department Reports force brokendown by different demographics or categories, either could result in this misleading information. The low error rates only moderately detract from the departments external use of force reporting. Because use of force is an early indicator in the departments use of force reporting system, each trigger can be an early flag of an e. I. S. Alert. Underreporting could cause an officer who should have been flagged to be overlooked and not receive the guidance and supports that are needed. Conversely, over reporting could generate false alerts that then must be reviewed by supervisors, taking time away from their other duties. The record does not acknowledge that after our audit period, the Police Department did issue a new policy requiring officers to report the physical will control holds used to overcome any physical resistance regardless of any injury of faint or pain. Next slide, please. With that, ill hand it over to cat to discuss the next few slides. Sorry, cat. Are you there . Sorry. I was muted. So the Second Chapter of the report focuses on what the Police Department did with this data when its collected, and what was found is that the department can do more analysis in certain areas. So the first one im going to touch on is Monitoring Department wide compliance with policy. For example, theres a lot of different aspects of the policy that could be monitored through the data Department Wide. And through its evaluation process, the department does monitor compliance with these things on a case by case basis, but it doesnt but there is no way to report out that compliance to this commission or to any other stakeholders on a Department Wide level. The policy requires that the officer reports the force to his supervisor immediately, the supervisor evaluates the force, and then, it goes to the second in command at that station for review, and then, it goes to the commander. Then, it gets routed to various places, including the Risk Management office, where it is entered into the database. So the timeline on this affects how quickly it gets entered into the database, and it can impact whether or not it meets cutoff for public reporting and whether or not its included in the database for the Early Intervention system. So this is something that could be collected easily across the department because were already reporting the data. So the way that officers respond to the scene, in our statistical sample, only 1 oh, sorry. And the ratings with supervisors and rear superior officers review the incident. And the rate at which supervisors and officers and superior officers complete evaluations by the end of watch, which is set out in the policy. And our findings looking at our statistical sample is that 1 of the evaluations that we looked at did not have the two reviews. It did not have both a lieutenant and a captain signing the document. 22 of the reviewers signatures were not dated, so we have no idea of how much time elapsed between the incident occurring and the review happened. In our analysis, we were able to do that because we maamly recorded, as part of our review, the signature information, but the department would not be able to easily do this because that review and significant data is on the form, but it is not entered into a data basis to facilitate analysis and identify trends. Next slide, please. For example, a question a Research Question you might ask of this data is what relationship do levels of force and resistance have on subject analysis or injury . In spokane, washington, the Police Department worked with a company to do analysis on their data, and they developed a couple of measures that look at this issue. So one of them is a force factor. The force factors are score based on the proportionality of force to resistance. So a high force factor would be that higher level of force was used than the level of resistance would typically warrant and a low force factor would belower force was used than the level of resistance. They took this factor that they calculated based on the levels of resistance and force reported, and they also looked at how that intersected with the injuries a suspect sustained and the injuries that officers sustained. And logically found that more injuries happened when there was a high force factor with subjects. And this is a something thats important to point out because a lot of the information that gets reported out by use of force is numbers in total, but its not looking at intersections of what that data really means. So one of the barriers that the department has with doing this kind of analysis is staff that it needs it requires staff needing to code the data and analyzing the intersection between these data points. Next slide, please. The final area we wanted to discuss is to gain insights into the role bias plays in force. So some examples of questions that we could pose are disparities and severity of force correlate to subjects demographic. So not just looking at, is one population more strongly impacted does one population experience more force but also is the level of force applied in that population more severe than in other populations . Another example we found and these examples are in the reports detailed in the appendices of the analysis examples, and theyre coming from some National Agencies that do a lot of Statistical Research and reporting out on these issues. So the second issue is are officers more likely to use force before being attacked when faced with a subject of a particular demographic group. Where this came from is a study that looked at a few different locations. But one example, for instance, was in houston, and they looked at whether latinx officers and white officers were more likely to use force and did not find a statistical difference. But when they looked at when those officers were sent into neighborhoods that were predominantly latinx neighborhoods, that white officers were far more likely to use force. These are incidents that i talked about in the last slide that applied into the world of bias. And the final example i have here is what role do officers play in their use of force, and its kind of related to the last one in that not just looking at reporting out the rates of the officers and the rates of the subject but how do those play together . What are those intersections . And so the barrier system of this analysis is some of the data is not systematically collected. One population is the population with mental disorders, and the Police Department collects whether or not someone appears to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol but does not track Developmental Disabilities and that kind of information. And staff is needed to code data and analyze the intersections between data points as previously mentioned. Next slide. So in chapter 3, we discuss the Police Departments publicly issued use of force reports. The Department Found that the audit reports need improveme s improvements. The exhibit shown on the slide is from the interim report. From that report, you might remember that 96a met some of the best practices for reporting, but the e. I. S. Did not meet any of those requirements. Chapter 3 is largely similar to the e. I. R. Report that we presented in february, but theyre also different. It features different examples of how jurisdictions provide use of force data to the public. Some of these visual examples are seen on exhibit 26 on page 64 of the reports. We provide visual examples of use of force data sets made available through open data portals in other cities. Also include the incident dates, the call type, and the type of force used in the incident. They also include the subjects race, ethnicity, and these are listed on page 68 of the report. The third difference between the interim report and the final report, this chapter, the Police Department did not fully comply with its urequirements regarding use of force reporting. They do not contain any analysis of the data in the reports. Further, the Police Department has not provided an annual use of force report to the Police Commission as required by d. G. O. 5. 01. With regard to the monthly reports that were required, these were posted in 2017. An average of 74 days after the month of the report had ended. The monthly use of force reports contain only raw data of select few extracted from the database. Although not in the scope of the data period, it appears that the Police Department stops reporting the required use of force reports after 2018. So the audit made 37 recommendations to the Police Department. The Police Departments response to the recommendations is tached to the reports. The Police Department concurred or partially concurred with all 37 of the recommendations. D. P. A. And the Police Department regarded 27 of the recommendations as closed, meaning, they considered the recommendations and made the changes. In emergency ro in terms of next steps, the Controllers Office and d. P. A. Will work with the Police Department. The Police Department will be requested to communicate in writing the status of the implementation of the corrective actions to d. P. A. And the Controllers Office. Well be happy to come back in six month time and present on that if youd like. Vice president taylor yes, thank you. Sorry. I thought you were wed be happy to answer any questions you do have on the audit. Vice president taylor well be asking you to come back as the Department Reports back on the recommendation. If youd come back and report to the commission, that would be very helpful. Commissioner elias. Commissioner elias thank you. It is clear that this audit is extensive, and i appreciate the controllers efforts in getting this to us. I note this report was from 2017, and you were going to come back in six months and report to us, but im hoping that y when you come back in six months, the data that youll be reporting on is more recent. Would that be a Fair Assessment . In terms of the follow up, itll be on the status of the follow ups recommendations. In terms of the more detailed field follow up in the future, that is something we would like to do. Commissioner elias okay. And the i notice that when i read your powerpoint as well as the 100page report you had indicated, you spoke a little bit about missing data sets from the department, and im wondering what those missing data sets were and why they werent provided to you . Sure. Would you like me to skip to that page . Sure. I apologize. My camera is not working. It nearly crashed the presentation, but go ahead, cat. So they were saying that they could not provide them. At some point, some of these documents definitely existed. The evaluation forms are the source data for the database, so for the entry to be in the database, the evaluation form had to be completed and submitted to the information office, but at some point, it was moved and is not available. Since then, my understanding is that the Risk Management office now attaches the digital copy of those documents to the file to the record in the database so that cant happen again. As far as the log pages in the log entry film so when we say log pages, we asked for all the weeks of logs for all the stations, and some of them could not be provided. Some of them, we did find in d. P. A. S records, and they just had an x. For them to indicate that there was x through them to indicate that there was no use of force that week, so they were just sending a blank page. So we suspect that the majority of the log pages may be in that category of there was no use of force reported at that station, and one of the recommendations is to ensure that all stations indicated to the Risk Management office indicated that no use of force occurred, so theres an explanation as to why theres no use of force log pages for that week. The other ones that are missing, and the entries that we found in the database did not have log entry, we do not know why they were missing, but as far as the missing entries go, if you look in the department of justice recommendations, theres a recommendation to basically digitize this process and getting rid of the log because its dumb atiff. We do not recommend that because we were finding discrepancies of the system, and that digitizing of this process has happened yet. There was an indication from the department of justice that this log on top of the evaluation form is source of a duplication of efforts, and the evaluation form is the more important piece. The logs have very, very Little Information in them. Those are the only things that are missing. There were some places that did not have entries in the database. Is that the part you would you like me to discuss that in a little more detail . Commissioner elias no. I want to circle back to what you had initially said. When you said the realtiuation form, youre speaking about the supervisory forms after a use of force. When theres any use of force, the officer reports it, and then, that report goes to the supervisor, and the supervisor has to conduct an evaluation form regarding the officers use of force. Correct. Commissioner elias and that form, which i have reviewed, and i see that its on your powerpoint on page 6, it indicates that there are 1369 supervisor evaluation forms. And on that form, there is data that indicates whether the supervisor found the officers conduct to be in policy or out of policy or if it was appropriate or not appropriate. And so one of the questions that i had asked the department is out of those forms, how many times have supervisors found that the officers conduct has been in policy or out of policy . And unfortunately, they didnt have those numbers readily available, but i think that speaks to your audit and some of the concerns that youve raised in your audit, which is were collecting the data, but were not understanding it or having it in a centralized place, which is something that ive been working with the department on. I hope that the next time you come to report to us in six months, some of the changes that weve been working on will be implemented, and id like you to report back on those to make sure that were going in the right direction. Sure. I can also speak to that in. Our testing, the answer is zero. [inaudible]. Zero evaluation forms were marked as not in policy. However, there is a caveat. That mark off was changed through the course of the evaluations because it had a yes or no option initially, and the problem was that the timeline required for getting this form through the process is very, very fast. And in some cases, like, with bigger incidents, making that determination is not something that they can do on the fly. Its something that requires more people to be involved, so the form has an option of yes in policy, no, not in policy, and pending investigation. The ones that we did review with the subject Matter Experts aligned with that, but theres also thats not necessarily the best place to collect that piece of information because some of these investigations of the bigger incidents cant be done in the timeline of when that form has to be completed, and thats why its under the formal investigations. Commissioner elias and maybe, chief, you can speak to those missing data sets and the changes that the department is going to make or has made to address some of the issues that are raised in this audit by d. P. A. And the Controllers Office. Thanks, commissioner. So yes. The first thing that was just mentioned is the what cass mentioned about the three categories, on having the form under investigation, thats consistent with the use of force changes with the commission the leadership thats actually changed in the policy, as well. So that form will be consistent with the policy thats being to be implemented, which is a good thing. In terms of the the recommendation, i think its recommendation 5, which we agree with, and its just a matter of making it happen. I think it goes in line with the work that commander osullivan is doing through Risk Management so actually have not only to collect information, but to have a dashboard and database to be able to report out on that information. So thats definitely in progress, in the works, and subsequent reports by the Controllers Office, we can confirm that thats been done. Commissioner elias id just like to make sure when